I'm not a big TV guy... Actually, I used to be... until I realized that I was wasting my entire life. So my wife and I don't even have TV any more... We get DVDs occasionally, but we aren't even up on the latest shows.

EXCEPT The Amazing Race. I've never missed an episode, since the series began... Last night was the season premiere. We actually got a babysitter so we could go to our friends' house and watch... complete with popcorn and drinks! Now, as they have for the past several years, they'll tape the shows for us every week.

Anyone else watch?

Matt

I have only watched one season, but I really enjoyed it....

I missed the premiere last night...any idea if they will show it again?

*goes to check the website*

LOVE IT! I am so sure I like this one cause hey I actually know when it is on!
Last night!

Looks like they will be rebroadcasting the premiere Saturday at 8

YES!!
We were watching Nip/Tuck last night so we taped AR. I hope this will not be a conflict every week...but I guess that's what VCRs/DVD recorders/TIVO is for.
We'll be watching tonight.
Christine...(platypus)..according to the TV Guide, one of the contestants is from Shenandoah PA!

Yay! I love this show. it might be the best reality show ever. (sorry, Survivor.) This crop of racers seems a bit . . . dim, no? So many people fell/walked right past the flag/missed the clue box completely that it was pretty entertaining.

Best moment of the episode has to be the image of Charla (the dwarf) carrying that damn side of beef or whatever it was on her shoulders ...

I'm so glad other people are watching this

Warning...Stiv and Matt...SPOILERS!!!


OK, we watched it from tape last night.
Woo!!
I really like the cousins (with the dwarf). It seems they are the underdogs because of the dwarf's physical limitations but man they have spirit and determination! The cow part was hilarious.
My favorites are the two models...just cuz the guy is so damn HOT! Wooo!
I don't care for the two Texas creeps...sexist bufoons.
Too bad about nice guy...I guess they really do finish last.
Twins seem like bi*ches to me.
Felt sorry for Old military guy and daughter but they are keeping up.
I would have absolutely chosen ZIPS instead of CHIPS...how 'bout you? It looked like FUN.
Has anyone else chosen favorites yet?

I guess I'd have to say that my faves so far are Chip and Kim (I think that's their names - they were the ones who arrived at the pit stop first, but had to return for the route marker) since they're from this area, along with the ex-military guy and his daughter.

There are only two teams getting on my nerves so far: the team that's in 1st place so far (they're always arguing with each other), and the cousins (the dwarf is fine with me - especially since she's taking advantage of people's assumptions that she's helpless - but her cousin just struck me as incredibly whiny).

ZIPS instead of CHIPS, no question. I've bungee jumped off a 320 ft. high bridge, so taking a zip line into a pool wouldn't be a problem.

This is really a fun show. My brother thinks that he and I should try to get into next season's race.

I want to be ON this show!!! I have never thought that about another reality show, but this looks like it would be tons of fun!!!

Thanks for chatting it up guys!

That is the only reality show you could pay me to do. No, scratch that. I'd love to do The Mole. I'm an excellent liar.

I've watched every season of The Amazing Race, even though I hate it SO DAMN MUCH because it's so stressful. I don't even get all that involved and it still robs me of all my energy. I swore after season 3 I'd never watch it again, but then I stumbled across season 4's premeire and I'm hooked again.

I always root for the underdogs, and they always, well, lose. But this time I like pretty much everybody. Especially those cousins. They're hilarious.

That's funny, because I'm finding myself hating almost everyone. Except, I don't really hate the soccer moms or Chip and--Kim? I think that's her name. Oh, and the internet dating couple.
I was kind of rooting for the cousins before, but ... that whole 'I need a doctor' ploy to get on the flight in last night's episode turned me sour on them. Also? Their Spanglish is the worst thing I've ever heard! ("We needo el boato")

Such a great show though. Sometimes I'm distracted by how much work must go into all the logistics of setting up everything--all those challenges and travel and stuff in all those countries!

I'm kinda surprised that no one's commented on last night's caviar consumption. With the other things I've seen them have to do in the past I've laughed about it all, but I genuinely felt sorry for those people last night.


Anyway, for those of you who think you'd like to be on The Amazing Race, here are the details.

The caviar eating and ostrich egg eating as well as the chocolate tasting have really been relatively not too bad considering what they've had to eat in the past. Or, what Survivor contestants have to eat.
At this point I'm rooting for Chip and Kim...they seem to me to be the kindest and most all around even tempered team. His generosity bit him in the butt, though, when he didn't have enough money due to the tip he left.
Colin shows his true colors more and more. What a jerk! He seems to be a know it all and mean. Too bad he didn't just get his ace thrown in jail....
I like the new part about the teams that are spared from elimination get some punishment, now. It kinda weeds out those who are just coasting on luck.
I wonder how come some teams get bonus vacations at the end of legs and some don't?

The sponsors are cheap. I imagine it would be difficult to give away trips, what, 24 times? Plus when Colin and Cristy? keep winning we don't want them having all the trips...

I know what you mean by how stressful it is-it makes my mom and I so anxious, watching it and wondering who's gonna make it and who is going to be eliminated...I think I like Amazing Race because it is the only reality tv show where you really think about how you would/could handle some of the situations that the teams are placed in...I think, 'could I do that?' some teams are really good together under pressure, and some crumble down-it is fascinating to watch that, in addition to all the awesome places they are taken to-you just hope that the teams stop even for 30 seconds on each leg and really realize where they are-I mean, they are all over the world...how many times in a life does someone get that kind of opportunity?
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Bah! The one time Colin and Cristy come in last it is non-elimination?!?! What's up with that?

It will be interesting to see them get anywhere with no money though. Colin has such a winning personality, I am sure everyone around would love to help him out.

Heh... I'm convinved that Colin would've gotten himself tossed in jail in Tanzania if a camera hadn't been present. That guy's got some serious issues.

Very surprised they're concluding the season tomorrow with 4 teams still remaining - should be a fun two hours though.

FYI, I've been told that the CBS website indicates that the next season of The Amazing Race begins on October 2 and will air on Saturdays instead of Tuesdays.

*bump*

Reminder, a new race begins on Tuesday.

And I am SO PUMPED!!!

So who watched the 2 hour premier last night?

~SPOILER~

The guy in the yellow (Jonathan) is so obnoxious.
I think his wife is so mentally abused, she doesn't even realize it.

The Wrestlers at least banter back and forth.

I laughed when one of the sisters said she like heels and suits and lunches and stuff. Wait til she gets dragged through cow dung.

I like the sisters, the models, and the female best friends.

Hellboy is annoying me....pissy.

YAY! I watched it ...pretty fun...

As of right now I see several of the young couples self destructing before the race is over...

And what was up with the winning team completely turning the to two friends around and taking them out of their way an hour and a half...cruel!

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And hellboy's girlfriend putting the wrong gas in the car...too funny

I watched it too. Unfortunately, at this point none of the teams strike me as being exceptionally likeable.

That's how I felt. I was disappointed...and it seems there is more whining and bickering this time around....doesn't it usually start out where the teams are a bit more calm and they get worse over time....hmmmm

great show. it allows me a see a bit of places that i'd like to one day visit.

just makes me all the more antsy to get out there and see some of these places for myself.

though, last year's finalle came pretty close to my "home" area.

What has been a bit strange for me is seeing places on the show that I've already been to. Sadly though, more often than not, it winds up being the airports that I recognize more than their actual destinations.

I am in an Amazing Race pool with some of my old college pals, and the dating models are "my" team. (Teams were randomly drawn; in fact, the woman doing the drawing was the first one OUT!!)

I do not watch the show (I shy away from "reality TV" ... makes me feel as if I am not doing enough with my real life); however, I like being in pools!!

OK: I DID watch the first hour of the season premiere. And I laughed OUT LOUD when my team said something to the effect that, being models, they had traveled extensively and thus knew the "nuances" of major airports -- and then they promptly walked up to THE WRONG TICKET COUNTER at O'Hare International!!!

: )

Hey, give 'em a break: They're models!!

: )

~SPOILER~

Awwww.
I liked those girls.
It's too bad neither one knew how to drive a standard stick-shift.
Well...they were from NYC...it's not their fault.

Man...will that guy Jonathan hurry up and get eliminated?
Did you see him push his wife?
He is a total bully and she is a total wimp for taking it.
I feel sorry for her.
Maybe we will see a divorce in progress on national TV....hope so. That marriage is NOT worth saving.

i'm with you. i like the girl. but her man.... ick.


i'm rooting for adam and rebecca to get the boot. they annoy me.

Would it be mean of me to be rooting for them to go at it, and get divorced on national TV? Come on...that guy is an a$$...

At least they had seemed to be having some fun...They were one of the teams that weren't fighting in this weeks show.

thoughts/comments about tonight's episode?

i feel sorry for the girls....8 hours of rolling hay bales and no luck.

c'est la vie.

I saw them on the Early Morning show and they were okay with it, they feel like they tried hard and had a great experience. I thought they were in it for the long haul though....they didn't bicker much which I appreciate....

I was sorry to see them go.
So far, the nice guys ARE finishing last.
Now I'm rooting for either the long distance friends (Kris and John, I think) or the father and daughter.
The grandparents look like they are gonna have strokes...I hope they are careful.
The entrepaneurs are making me crazy. If they win I will lose a lot of faith in goodness.

I have lost major interest since most of the teams left do nothing but fight!

I am rooting for the father daughter team...

I think that the sister last night had to just overlooked a clue...8 hours is just crazy...

She either overlooked a clue or was extremely, extremely unlucky. I am going with the latter, because none of the others had *any* trouble finding their clues. I thought it was cool when one of the guys said something along the lines of "The clues are obvious" at a time when she was shredding the hay.

Jonathan...oh Jonathan....he is going to become the most hated reality personality *ever* if he keeps it up. Worse than Omerosa, or Richard Hatch....

i must say that i was offended by adam's comment about senegal being the worst place he's ever been. (and continued to ream on it throughout the show).

what an egotistical, self-centered, self-absorbed, ethno-centric *bum* he is.

ick.

and the old couple finished last today. it was bound to happen. i'm just glad they're still in the race.

Well, in fairness, it probably was the worst place he's ever been. That being said, I understand what you mean, but Adam's comment didn't bother me any more than those of several of the others. Frankly though, it's not uncommon for people to react in that way if they've never been to a third-world country before.

Or how about Jonathan screaming at Senegal's citizens to find someone to speak englifh for him...

You are in their country, deal with their language...

yeah some of the people just need to be slapped a few times. I mean who do these people think they are?

thoughts about jonathan's reactions to his wife lately?

i for one am appaled. what a jerk.

Jonathan definitely seems to manage to reach a new low with each episode. I'll be very happy when he's eliminated - though I'm sure he'll blame his wife for it.

I wanna see em booted off....not even given a chance to complete the race...It is not healthy for either of them and especially not their relationship...if they still have one...

so, it looks like things are tightening up. with the 'slower' teams out of the race, who do you think is going to be the team to win the money now...?

could be any team, imho.

If I had to put money on anyone it'd be Kris & Jon if for no other reason than that they seem slightly less psycho than the others who remain.

I like Kris & Jon...I want to see them win, but I am not ready to say they will yet. I think it is still up in the air.

that's who i'm pulling for as well.

how much longer do you think jonathan and victoria will last....?

I'm hoping not long....I think they will self-destruc in the next couple of legs actually...

I've been thinking for a while now though that they're ready to self-destruct, but they keep failing to do so!

Sadly, if/when they do get eliminated, regardless of how it happens and what the real cause is, you know Jonathan will blame Victoria for it.

I know we are all dysfunctional to some degree.
Jonathan and Victoria were about the worst case of dysfunction yet on this series that I have seen.
At first I thought it was all Jonathan.
Later, I saw Victoria had her own set of problems.
I actually felt sorry for them at the end, in a pathetic sort of way.
Not so sorry that I'm not glad they didn't win, though.
(How's that for a sentence full of negatives...?)
Hoping for Kris and John...the only couple that seems pleasant and not angry.
Betting on Freddy and Kendra, though.