# Amazing Race 1/18/05 + DVD information! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406 "2005-01-18T19:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/1 "2005-01-18T19:05:12Z")
Thought I’d start this week’s thread with an interesting little news blurb from [TVShowsonDVD.com](http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=2706): > [@](#): > > _The Amazing Race - Season 1_ is headed to DVD at some point in the future, we’ve learned. This box set is _likely_ to arrive in 2005, but you should know that there are no guarantees it will make it before the year is over. Still, we know that a lot of you have been anxiously awaiting for _some_ word of this title, so we wanted to bring this info to you just as soon as possible. Stay tuned, and we’ll have official info from the studio (CBS/Paramount) whenever they provide updates. Sweet!! Oh, and here’s hoping \*&V go home tonight. (At least we know SOMEONE will!) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/2 "2005-01-18T19:31:46Z")
Yes, _someone_ will go tonight, we just don’t know who. From the previews, it looks like Victoria hurts herself in a Detour, is getting help from the locals, and Kendra (I think it was Kendra) was yelling at Jonathan to go help her, and he was just indifferent. “Oh, she’s screaming for some reason. Whatever.” What an asshole. I hope they go tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/3 "2005-01-18T19:50:04Z")
I give no credence to the previews at all. Remember, in the previews it “looked like” Kendra hurt herself in the bungee-jump task, but that turned out to be pretty far from the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/4 "2005-01-18T20:02:20Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > From the previews, it looks like Victoria hurts herself in a Detour, is getting help from the locals, and Kendra (I think it was Kendra) was yelling at Jonathan to go help her, and he was just indifferent. “Oh, she’s screaming for some reason. Whatever.” In that case, I’m splitting my bet on Lori&Bolo and Adam&Rebecca. The previews are tricksy. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/5 "2005-01-18T21:00:21Z")
Are you there, God? It’s me, **rockle**. Listen: I’ve been really good this week. I didn’t send any nasty emails or spit in anyone’s coffee or anything. _(Although of course you already know this, being omniscient and all, but I am doing this for effect, alright? Sheesh. You and your phenomenal cosmic powers. You really know how to wreck a melodramatic moment for a girl, you know?)_ Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnyway … look, do you think you could do me a favor? Well, not just me, but everyone here on the SDMB. I know all about how it is important for Evil to make its presence known so as to make Good look that much better and whatnot. So, do you think maybe you could do something about Not-So-Nice, and get rid of Aaron and Hayden? Or Harron and Aiden, or whaddayacallits. Please? That woman is a toxic harpy and a GODLESS HEATHEN SLUT. You know she is. She never wears a bra or anything. So, what do you say? I’ll give you my firstborn, if the doctors say I’ll ever get to have one. In the meantime you can borrow one of the cats. But not Owen, because he makes that cool screamy noise. And not Hallie, either, because she has that supersoft catshmere [sic] fur. And I think I want to keep Zoe, too, because she’s such an awesome badass. Um … so, you can keep my husband on retainer, OK? But he doesn’t do dishes or laundry. Or windows. Or much of anything, really. But he’s a total sweetheart, and he’s got wonderful hair. Deal? Thanks! Amen. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/6 "2005-01-18T21:22:51Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > Or Harron and Aiden, or whaddayacallits. That’s what I keep calling them! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/7 "2005-01-18T22:19:20Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > Are you there, God? It’s me, **rockle**. Listen: I’ve been really good this week. I didn’t send any nasty emails or spit in anyone’s coffee or anything. _(Although of course you already know this, being omniscient and all, but I am doing this for effect, alright? Sheesh. You and your phenomenal cosmic powers. You really know how to wreck a melodramatic moment for a girl, you know?)_ > > Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnyway … look, do you think you could do me a favor? Well, not just me, but everyone here on the SDMB. I know all about how it is important for Evil to make its presence known so as to make Good look that much better and whatnot. So, do you think maybe you could do something about Not-So-Nice, and get rid of Aaron and Hayden? Or Harron and Aiden, or whaddayacallits. Please? That woman is a toxic harpy and a GODLESS HEATHEN SLUT. You know she is. She never wears a bra or anything… > > Thanks! Amen. [Loud Booming Voice] Oh, my Daughter, my Daughter. Need you call upon Me to do what is right and holy? Have you no faith in the LORD? Did you not [call upon Me](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=272750) once before, before the turn of the Season? Did you not ask Me to smite Colin for his iniquities? And did I not respond by sending him an Ox that was Broken? Did I not turneth my face from him in the airport in the last episode, leading him astray from the path of righteousness? And was that not sweetness like unto the sweetness of honey from the comb? And now, my Daughter, considereth the sins of Johnathon. Are not his iniquities seven times seven the iniquities of Colin? Hath he not brought curses down upon his own head, and upon those of his descendants unto the seventh generation? Oh, my Daughter! Thou seest, and yet thou dost not believe! As I have done unto Colin, will I not do unto Johnathon, and unto Johnathon’s house, and unto Johnathon’s dog, and unto Johnathon’s gerbil, seven times over? Have faith in the LORD! [/LBV] ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/8 "2005-01-18T22:50:57Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > I give no credence to the previews at all. Remember, in the previews it “looked like” Kendra hurt herself in the bungee-jump task, but that turned out to be pretty far from the truth. That’s why I figure she got something dug into her palm. It looks like they are putting a mud/straw mix on the walls of the hut (or something like that) and I figure she just got a piece of wood/straw or something dug into her hand. She’s screaming like a banshee, but IME it does kinda hurt and since you can’t _see_ anything (she has to wash away the mud) you start freaking out and wonder what the heck you’ve done. Of course on the other hand she could be really hurt. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/9 "2005-01-18T23:08:47Z")
Damn, rockle. You need somewhere to hide? ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/10 "2005-01-19T02:45:30Z")
::Passes out from joy!:: ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/11 "2005-01-19T02:47:28Z")
Squee! ::faints with delight:: ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/12 "2005-01-19T02:48:52Z")
> [@Amazingrace](#): > > ::Passes out from joy!:: I hear ya. I kept thinking it couldn’t be true; it couldn’t be true. They’re just leading us on. Then … woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/13 "2005-01-19T02:57:27Z")
_dances like a munchkin_ Ding Dong the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding dong the wicked witch is dead! ---
**Author:** ![solasscc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@solasscc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solasscc)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/14 "2005-01-19T03:00:01Z")
Ok, so I had to work late and I totally missed the episode. Can someone post a spoiler box with the names of those phil-iminated? Pretty please?!? Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/15 "2005-01-19T03:01:05Z")
**solasscc** \* & Victimia ---
**Author:** ![solasscc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@solasscc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solasscc)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/16 "2005-01-19T03:03:39Z")
YOU’RE KIDDING ME! I missed that!?! Was it spectacular? I hope it was!! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/17 "2005-01-19T03:09:43Z")
Sadly it was not a Colin-level blow out. They were done in by simple lack of clue reading. Did anyone else thing that they would have been fine continuing on? I mean they did have two jackasses. Great news on the DVD release. I only saw two episodes of the first season and I can’t wait to watch the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/18 "2005-01-19T03:10:52Z")
I didn’t see all of it because I was switching back and forth between TAR and American Idol, but this is what I caught: - - & Victimia misread their clue that said to take two donkeys to the next clue box. - When they realized they’d screwed up, they asked Adam and Rebecca to Yield Freddy and Kendra to try to give them a chance to go back and get their extra donkey and catch up. - A&R did Yield F&K, but \*&V were too far behind…F&K’s timer ran out before \*&V got back with the second donkey. - \*&V were actually fairly gracious on the mat with Phil. But I’m still glad they’re gone. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/19 "2005-01-19T03:13:16Z")
One more thing, was anyone else terrified that this was going to be another two non-elim legs in a row situation? I was scared it was going to be like the ox-broken incident and my cheers would be immediately shattered by Phil saying “However…” ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406/20 "2005-01-19T03:20:09Z")
Rebecca: “Never send a woman to do a man’s job” [spoiler]as Adam goes off in the completely wrong direction. Ouch. The one time she needed to yell at him she was silent. Do you think Adam wet his pants when he was jumping around like a three year old at the end?[/spoiler] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-1-18-05-dvd-information/285406.md?page=2)