this is the thread where we talk breathlessly about the best TV show on North American television: THE AMAZING RACE!

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oh shit, how much better was this week's episode than last? the confrontation over the carriages, the asthma attack--THE AMAZING RACE IS BACK!!!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Also it's apparently doing pretty well in the ratings, finally, which is good news for everyone.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, there was a lot going on! and it's official- I'm rooting for the n.f.l. wives as much as i'm rooting for anyone else. i even feel bad now for the one model who has to do everything. boy, did she pick the wrong friend to go with.the ending was good too. i didn't really like that one team, but getting the wrong train tickets...that was a nightmare.

― scott seward, Friday, 13 June 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that other model is just horrible. makes me gnash my teeth.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

it's like a bad dream where the one is doing everything she can and she has this whining crybaby chained to her across the world!

― scott seward, Friday, 13 June 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

It's Fuzzy and the Bitch all over again, man.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I've watched a few eps and have yet to have TAR's hooks sink into me. What do you find so entertaining about this? (ps I'm a medium-core Survivor guy.)

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, so I watched this last night also and marveled at just how asinine everyone was.

I'm rooting for the air traffic controllers.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

What do you find so entertaining about this?

About a race around the world?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Unless it's done in 80 days, I'm not wowed.

― Leee (Leee), Sunday, 15 June 2003 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

It's done in 30 days! Even more exciting!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 15 June 2003 04:47 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Revive!

It took a while, but I'm thoroughly hooked. I'm actually sad to see T&A lose -- what better entertainment than two blondes bickering pointlessly?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 11 July 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah. And one of them (the stoic-seeming one) I really liked.

I fucking hate the "engaged couple." they are so evil. all that mole stuff, fuck.

But you gotta have a team you love to hate.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The wife (or fiancee to be precise) I ~~like~~ don't hate, maybe it's just because she's a redhead, but her man is a complete jerkoff. While I did unfortunately laff, when he goosed her on the train he totally was out of bounds, a point that he avoided confronting with his slimy laff.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 11 July 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

They're both slimeballs. At least that's how I see it--smug and mean.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh well.

Go clowns!

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 11 July 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, they seem pretty good-hearted.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

So the show won the best Reality TV award at the Emmys! maybe we'll get another season!

CONGRATULATIONS AMAZING RACE! YOU TRULY ARE "AMAZING"!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

hear hear! this show is brilliant. been hooked for three years now. so glad they are showing it on oz tv!

― too much for my mirror (too much for my mirror), Monday, 22 September 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

still, not as good as the Mole. Which can only be properly hosted by Anderson Cooper, the man with two last names.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

OK! Applications are being accepted for next season. WHO WANNA BE MY PARTNER AND WIN A MILLION BUCKS!?!?!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 22 September 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Are Canadians allowed?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

reading upthread, I noticed that after the clowns were ousted, nobody much cared, huh?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No Canadians, sorry.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked the clowns! They had good hearts.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

OK I just scrolled up and realized I said the exact same thing about them two months ago.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I smell a statscock whore...

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Put that as your occupation on the application form. That way when you're onscreen it'll say "Statscock Whore" under your name.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil-Two
Statscock Whore, Delaware

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

PS, I didn't mean that nobody cared about the clowns, just the opposite. After they left, there wasn't much to cheer for.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Delaware? :(

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know where you're from (I just can't keep track), but Delaware seems to fit nice beside Statscock Whore.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil, me and you, we'll be the Asian Odd Couple.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

If you wear coordinated glitter shirts, I'll cheer for you!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to practice balancing things on my nose!

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey I'm pretty good. So far, I can balance a glitter shirt.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

I know I'm probably alone here, but it's still the best and i'm still watching. 3 shows in South America! That's a record, i think. Caviar, a dwarf, Christian models. What's not to like? No gay couple though!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

im watching. i hate the dwarf.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Emergencia! Need doctor-o!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Now they have adopted a russian accent. I was hoping one of the ruski's would have fired a 99 mph slapshot at her gullet.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

She brought it on herself. She went out of her way to say on the first show that she was gonna disprove stereotypes about little people and that they could do anything and then proceeded to play the helpless little person card over and over again. She's shameless!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

and her fuxxoring friend mirna, ugh. she reminds me of my friends wife. end-o

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with all of the comments made so far. I hate the dwarf too, but think that Mirna is far more useless than she is. And incredibly annoying.
I also hate how Brandon seems to throw his sexism on God's lap, as if God if forcing him to ignore his girlfriend. And like Scott, I was sad to see the lack of gay couple on this series as well.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

No clowns, either. :(
And Major Dad and Hot Daughter have alrady been eliminated. :( :(

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool twist!

Anyone else indie-crushing on the Twins?

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Brandon is also completely useless.

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone else indie-crushing on the Twins?
If you're into really annoying and bitchy women, then I could see liking them. But I just think they've been nasty, annoying and kinda stupid from the beginning.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Charla and Mirna are COMEDY GOLD.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The logic of shouting "Bellissimo!" to people in Russia still escapes me.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"MUY RAPIDO, POR FAVOR! RAPIDO, PLEASE!"

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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OK, this is kind of interesting, in a time capsule sort of way. At the end of the second episode there is a *19 month* leap forward. Some teams do not return to resume the race (with no explanation), some previously eliminated teams get to come back, some people have lost their jobs, some have had family members die of covid, travel going forward is on chartered flights but otherwise generally avoiding public transportation in favor of driving, people are wearing masks, we suspect challenges were re-considered with social distancing in mind ... kind of surreal.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:35 (four years ago)

two years pass...

i can't believe i've been watching this show for 20 years.

― scott seward, Monday, 18 March 2024 02:20 (two years ago)

one month passes...

I'm finally watching a new season while it's airing. Highlight is still probably Maya and Rohan getting their car stuck Austin Powers style.

― willips brighton the quorners (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:55 (two years ago)

four months pass...

the South America season was good! and my faves won. this show has still got it.

― scott seward, Saturday, 21 September 2024 14:22 (one year ago)

everyone is really nice now though. i mean they still have annoying dudes who yell at their girlfriends and you want to kill them but they really don't have big rivalries or hated teams. haven't seen one of those in a while. this seems like a larger trend. i just finished the latest season of Master Chef and everyone liked everyone else so much. it makes you wish that they had at least one or two shitstirrers. i've noticed this on other shows as well. maybe the pandemic made everyone soft. i might watch the new Survivor just to see if they have some traditional Survivor baddies.

― scott seward, Saturday, 21 September 2024 14:26 (one year ago)

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