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

and then at the end the dude [who i like] was all "Black people, im sorry you are the last team to arrive. go to the back of the bus"

that is fucked up.

Milo -- are you talking about the widow's family? They ditched the buggy and then went to the other half of the detour.

What I'm more surprised at is the Paolos not being penalized for forgetting their clue, which happened bunches of times in the past.

Bro: Sorry I didn't contribute.
Sis: Get used to it, dork.

Damn, she's cooler than me.

But yes, all the kids need to go.

The New Jersey mom has got to go. You can tell she's a bitch to her kids all the time.. and then the one kid who's constantly mouthing off is made out to be a disrespectful kid because he hurt her feelings and made her cry. Where do you think he learned to be such an asshole, you piece of shit?

I wondered how many production meetings they had trying to figure out how to get around saying things like "Black family, you're the last to arrive." Not enough, obv.

Every team that drove through the city as opposed to going up 9A deserved to get booted IMO.

let's hope they learn from this terrible mistake.

The G0dl3wski sisters had to beg because they were stripped off all their money. They go up to one guy in Panama City, who tells them, "I don't have any money. I only have... love."

The fatherless family wrapped in insularity, jingoism, fear & self-righteousness, a faith that makes them special and everyone else contemptible... it's all there with a twist of old-fashioned socially maladjusted weirdo-ism. They are America.

They're also a nice switch from the typical bad-guy couple: borderline abusive steroid-rage dude w/ boob-job doormat girlfriend - of course wife-beaters are easy to hate - but getting the audience to hate unhinged grieving Christians, now that's an accomplishment. Hats off, Brookheimer, hats off.

The other thing that's great about the unhinged grieving Christians is that they're still alive in the game despite having NO apparent ability or common sense. It's almost like God is on their side, but what God would want such hateful minions? could it be... SATAN?

Even my wife isn't watching this season, and she loves the show. Not traveling around the globe is also not terribly amazing. This is more like "Cannonball Run," with no wacky hijinks or uniforms. Or Burt Reynolds. That's what they should have done: thrown in the "Jackass" dudes and one of the "Cannonball Run" teams along with the families. Instant TV gold!

For whatever reason, finishing last in a non-elimination leg hasn't been much of an impediment in the last couple of seasons (much less so than it's intended to be).

It was obvious that the Weavers weren't getting eliminated because they kept showing all the other teams gloating about it.

This season kinda blows. It couldn't be saved even if the Bransen daughters stopped by my house for a foresome. Yes, I know that they all look just like their dad, and no, I don't really care.

And how quickly you forget KKKendra from the same season!

I meant that literally. Like with his teeth.

Oh, this is not even remotely true. The Weavers are on a serious "we are innately superior to everyone around us, ergo things like basic common decency are just beneath us" trip.

KKKendra was awful but even she had the ability to be nice to others from time to time despite her loathesome qualities; the Weavers think it's okay to:

- denigrate someone solely for being a garbageman;
- denigrate people who are being nice to them because they have fake breasts;
- throw trash at out of their car at other cars;
- shout and scream all throughout an overnight bus ride;
- rebuff every friendly or polite overture with sneering contempt;
- basically treat anyone who isn't in their family or in a position to give them prizes like dogshit.

Not even Jonathon was as uniformly and consistently awful and he was literally the end of the world. The Weavers are absolutely worthless human beings who basically represent every single thing detestable and undesirable about American culture; give me the Paolos and their virtually unwatchable bickering any day over their pious self-involved bullshit because, at the end of the day, the Paulos recognize that they're wrong and dysfunctional and each of them saw things that really impressed them and gave them greater respect for their family members during the trip, showing that they are capable of learning how to break out of their destructive behavior patterns. The Weavers, meanwhile, are perfectly happy to wallow in smug, insufferable ignorance and deserve nothing but ridicule shunning for the rest of their days.

Jonathan had his nice moments (i.e. the way he treated children at various points during the race) but he was essentially a schizophrenic, extremely unsettled person. Victoria kept saying stuff like "Jonathan is great around kids, but I'm not sure I want to have children with him." On a national TV show!

On a side note, I respected Jonathan for being a GREAT competitor -- he and Victoria were a dangerous team who eliminated themselves once J lost his head and made a dumb mistake by not reading a clue properly (this sort of mistake was inevitable, really). The Weavers are dumbasses who are still on the show because the other teams are that much more incompetent than they are. This definitely increases my hatred for them.

KKKendra called for mass sterilization of Africans. Surely this takes the cake for the "most detestable comment uttered by a reality show contestant in the history of ever all-time ever ever."

What's with the camera operators draining people's car batteries? That's twice now. They're lucky that nobody has been eliminated because of it (although the Linzes might be in danger of it).

The Weavers getting stripped of their money had virtually no impact on their race so far. WTF? I think the only time they needed money was to get into Yellowstone.

OTOH, the Weavers are more harmless in a realistic way, but as far as TAR is concerned, you want, in a banal way, the fat one and her sister to be thrown off their horses, yet when they avoid elimination, you're grateful that they're still in the race so you can tensely keep on rooting against them. Also, they've gotten farther than Jonathan, though that only makes them more successful in a retrospective way.

I also forgot to mention from the previous episode: "Miss Latin Utah -- even better!"

Uh, you're headed for an *indoor* rink, you fools.

I also liked how the driver basically told them to get lost when they asked him to go fast. Montreal cab drivers are insane, you don't normally have to ask them to take you on a near-death experience through downtown Montreal.