I think he’s talking about the flight line they show when they explain what the flight plan is. The Aer Lingus flight was lined in orange.
Karma donkeys. Awesome. Ari was just about as annoying as any AR contestant ever and Staella wasn’t much better so this was one of the best first Philiminations ever.
Brother-Sister give off incestuous vibes (seriously, when they were first shown I assumed they were dating) and I don’t care for such anal-retentive perfectionist types. And Azaria has a forehead like Alien, so that’s going to get distracting after awhile. The Goths and the Hippies seem okay, as do the lesbian ministers and Father-Daughter (though that’s probably not going to last, given the previews). But the other teams are too cliché. I mean, we already know what’s going to happen to the whiny girlfriend/mean boyfriend combos. And the token Blonde Skinny Self-Appointed Hot Girls are already played-out. They look too similar to be anything other than clones. I like teams with mismatched people, not twinsies who aren’t even real twins!
The preview showing the grandfather trying to pole vault across the creek made me giggle uncontrollably. I’m so evil.
I think they should just have a challenge of a huge muddy pit of donkeys, camels, and water buffalo and the first team to herd one of each into a corral wins.
Intercourse the airport drama.
I totally agree, on both points. These two were the team I hated immediately upon seeing their intro.
I think my favorite so far is Ronald of the father/daughter team. He totally reminds me of my dad–singing Danny Boy badly, referring to himself as an old fart, etc. The daughter…well…she seems like she’s way into the emotional/relationship thing, and he just wants to race and have some fun. We’ll see how it plays out.
I thought the goths were going to be super annoying, but they seemed pretty okay.
I liked “the hippies.”
The grandson/grandfather have potential to be entertaining.
And a very satisfying Philimination. That guy Ari was just painfully annoying. And mean to the donkey.
Overall, it seems like a good bunch of teams. I’m very much looking forward to the rest of the season.
Except, they referred to themselves as “goths” eachtime they were on camera.
Yeah, if they keep up that “Oh, my Goth” thing it’s going to get annoying. However, while I expected them to be about an 11 on the “Annoying” dial, they managed to keep it down to about a 1 tonight. We’ll see how they do going forward…
Exactly. Which is why it surprised me that I didn’t hate them.
And the name was in orange when flight info was on-screen.
I do have a question, though. It’s mainly about Goths in general, but it affects these Goths in particular, so … what’s the deal with the bad spelling? What kind of world are we living in where K-Y-N-T is pronounced “Kent” instead of “Kihnt”? And, really, does Vyxsin really need to spell her name with an X and an S, not to mention the gratuitous Y? The affectation of their names makes the Goths seem much more annoying than they actually are (although Kynt does look like he’s straight out of a John Waters movie, especially in their bio picture, with those freaky eyebrows). I think they’re pretty OK so far, too, even though it appears that they were hand-picked by the producers to deliberately annoy me.
I HAVE A PLAN. Someday I am going to make up my own game show (The Amazing Farce, perhaps?) and it is going to consist entirely of teams of two getting clues (e.g., a picture of the flag of Cambodia and a piece of paper that says “Where Maddox Jolie-Pitt was born – go there!”) and all the tasks are going to involve animals, robots, mud, ridiculous modes of transportation, finger paints, and/or Carissa Gaghan. For example, Farcers will need to fingerpaint a chinchilla and a monkey and then try to get them onto a commercial airline flight out of Phnom Penh and into Istanbul (not Constantinople), where they will meet Carissa. It will be genius. Or maybe I am still looped from roofing glue fumes.
Sorry, babe, but the dumbest statement from last night was during the intros when Shannifer (I can’t tell the blondes apart) said, “We’re not above using our body to get ahead.” As though they have only one body between the 2 of them—another good reason, I guess, to call them Shannifer.
They stole the taxi from the folks who had pre-arranged it.
I think the biggest advatage that the goths have is that they are in surprisingly decent shape. I think most people who see them assume that their only exercise comes in the form of shuffling dejectedly down to the corner store to buy more cigarattes, all the while complaining about how plastic and average their city is. I do want to see how long the make-up lasts.
Good point. That was pretty stupid.
I don’t need any more TV to watch! I was fighting myself all Sunday. Ultimately I failed my Saving Throw vs. Phil and now I’m in again.
Is it me or did Mean Boyfriend talk about God several times? I think that’s the first time I heard “God Bless” as a euphamism for “God Damn”.
Goodbye Ari and Staella. You suck.
Well, flirting with the donkey seemed to help.
It doesn’t have quite the same cachet as “Flotillas or Chinchillas”, but I’d watch it.
I heard it as a non-Southern variant for “Bless her heart”…
Maybe. To me his tone made it sound like he was really saying “God damn”, but perhaps he always has that tone.
I had forgotten another scene that made me laugh like a fool. When Nate kept screaming “Gosh! GOSH!” and clapping his hands to his face like the kid in Home Alone. That struck me as hilarious.
And girl goth in glasses is cute as pie.
Oh and is anyone else a little disturbed by the fact that the teams we don’t like are the same teams the donkeys don’t like? We’re two-footed pack animals!
I forgot to mention that the married ministers look like they are going to cry every episode. Either joy or sadness, or whathaveya, they will cry.
Of course. After all, The Amazing Race is a love letter to the planet earth and not a corporate run reality based television series full of disfunctional idiots as we all originally suspected.