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I am wondering what the fuck is up with the O'Hare CTA person telling them to take the Blue Line in, get off at Chicago, and walk "2 blocks" to Michigan

They cut some of it .. I thought I heard her say take the train downtown to the Howard Train and take it to Chicago.. Which is also a bit wrong because does anything refer to the Red Line as the Howard Train anymore?

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Thank you, David A.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought Hayden and AAAARON! (I can't think his name without hearing her voice shrieking it) should have let Rebecca and Adam hit the mat before them. They were the ones who quit, but they made R&A hear Phil say "you're the last team to arrive". Then AARON!! had to steal R&A's thunder about making it into the final 3 by popping the question.
By the end, I liked R&A a lot more than before. They both seem to have grown up during the race.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, even though they were both kind of immature and dysfunctional I ended up liking them.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

They will be together forever.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race_application/

They're accepting applications for season 8 right now!

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Teams of four???

Oh drat, no Canadians allowed.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

They have never allowed canucks. There should definitely be a team ilx.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Canadians would have an unfair advantage, being geneticallly superior in every way.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

And they have adamantium skeletons.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

"You're worthy of having my children" -racist Kendra

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

the unspoken corollory of that was "now that you have half a million dollars."

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Why did she almost puke eating just a li'l deep dish pizza?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Everybody knows pizza is poisonous to racist androids, Maria.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Right.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

.. racist models have never eaten that much food.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe pizza is too ghetto for her

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

- Weird conversation about language differences between Kris and Jon: Kris decides that Chinese isn't Germanic, like English, and blurts:
"Babe, I love you"

Jon inexplicably says: "Can you please fetch me some water?"

dude this was the funniest exchange of the whole episode! jon was talking about how abrupt chinese is, and from there they started saying random english phrases abruptly. they were schticking.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 10 February 2005 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, yes.

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 10 February 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

dude this was why i noted it. did u miss my massively telegraphed disclaimer?

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 10 February 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i guess i don't understand what was inexplicable about it.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

so, um, is everybody ready? why it seems like just yesterday...

can you say 2-hour premiere 2nite? I CAN!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are there Survivors on this?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

CBS loves famewhores (and ratings).

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

They did that before with that icky gal from Big Brother. She lasted two seconds. I'm guessing Boston Rob will confuse directions or something. He's kind of dim-witted.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

And Adam was "kind of" obnoxious.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm loving this.

You will all bow to the awesomeness of Rob and Amber, who are vying with the gay boyfriends and the mother-gay son combo for the most entertaining team. The hillbillies and the blondes aren't far behind.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link

The hillbillies are very far behind now.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I watched this for little while tonight, during the zip line thing. I feel that I'm missing something. It was dreadfully boring. There's a an Ashlee Simpson kind of vibe to it, they're all dashing around through gorgeous and inexplicable terrain, going "oh are we supposed to get on that thingie? GRASSIASS." Maybe some of the other stunts are better/more humiliating?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, the part with the zip line isn't representative of the rest of the show.

A few of the teams are able to speak Spanish.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe it's because it followed so closely on the heels of the last and the big whiz-bang finale, or maybe because it was two hours long, but this felt awfully tedious.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link

For those who couldn't get enough of Road Rules.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link

You really should watch the whole thing, Traacer; you tuned in at probably the most boring portion of the show and missed all of the llama snot.

I am very sad that the hillbillies lost out, partially because of the potential entertainment factor and partially because of how evilly ironic it would have been for the POW to get cut on the very first episode. I am also intrigued that the two biggest "stories" (in-vitro Enron casualty couple and "help the troops" ex-POW) are at the back of the pack; I wonder if the producers allowed for this possibility when casting the race?

Also, imagine a celebrity Amazing Race with the proceeds going to charity! It's too bad MTV can't swing the budget to do a RW/RR Amazing Race (although they kind of had a mini-version with Battle Of The Seasons).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

That one hillbilly dude spoke the most fucked up Spanish I've ever heard! He still had a hillbilly accent! They were funny, it's a shame they lost, where the two blondes got through.

I love those two girls that came in first! They spoke Spanish very well, and even when they got angry at each other, they were sweeties.

That dude Rob is an ASSHATFACEJERKWAD and I hope he loses and they let his girlfriend keep going. Say "suck it up" one more time dillhole!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I love those two girls that came in first!

But they're evil! They're all kissy-kissy when things are going well, and then when they were doing the llama they showed no team spirit when it actually mattered. I suspect they're sort of a Chuck & Buck-style couple.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Sometimes evil is good, though! (See next week when Bianca curses out Rob, for example, or Mirna from AR5.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

When they were racing away from the starting place, the "come on, baby"s were flyin'. I hope that was a little joke from the editors, like the old lady saying, "Oh doggone it."

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm writing a paper on why evil is good on reality tv!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh wait, I'm confused, I thought Rob was the dude who was like "suck it up"x1,000,000,000 to his girlfriend when she was like "this thing's choking me!".

REAPPLY ONE CARRYING STRAPPY DEALIE

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Rob is half of the Survivor duo; you're thinking of Ray.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Did anyone else get the impression that the girls who came in first were more than friends?

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I did. I think they have a secret.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

The brothers were ALL OVER THAT! Did you see that in the airport? We larfed.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Did anyone else think the POW dude was lame-o when he was talking to karate dude: "i don't know if i'm gonna be telling everyone this, but here's my whole POW story and I'm gonna give the million dollars to charity and feel free to pass that along to everyone if you want". Um, i'm paraphrasing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Why would anyone (besides dude named Meredith and his wife [I can't believe there's a man named MEREDITH]) choose the llamas over the baskets? That was a grand display of RETARDOCITY on the parts of the llama choosers. And none of them even told any of the llamas to "come get some HAM"!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

The older couple were the only ones who did the llamas correctly (which figured heavily into their surprising-to-me 6th place finish).

Poor Bianca-and-Loveress are going to have difficulties when they hit a non-Spanish-speaking country.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

We thought there was a hard and fast rule that the first option (i.e. llamas) is always quicker and easier than the second one. Maybe the producers are mixing it up better this time.

I bet the producers were bumming that the hillbillies lost.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I think only one of them is in love with the other. The other seems to tolerate and manipulate those affections. I think we're going to see a full-blown meltdown of that relationship by the time they hit Helsinki.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the producers were thinking the altitude would be a bigger factor than it ended up being; it seemed like only Deana ws really hit by it of the people who chose the baskets.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

They called those gals "roommates" but when they did their little interview, one of them said "she completes me" - have you ever had someone who was just a roommate who completed you?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

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