Was it the white girl who is paired with the girl with the Afro? Afro girl amused me with her “beast mode” comment.
What happened to no tears from athletes?
“We looked all over!”
Yeah, but you failed to turn your fricking head 90 degrees to the right while you were doing so!
I spend the whole show hoping that those two d-bags wouldn’t get a second week to reinforce Jersey stereotypes. Damn.
Man–I know I was congratulating the Amazing Producers on their picking hardbodies, but…
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Shouldn’t the tasks be…challenging? There was one “Watch while I’m gravity’s bitch” challenge and one “Fold dough” challenge. This is stuff high-school students could do. And what’s up with opening with a needle in a haystack challenge? Just poor race planning.
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I didn’t think there’d be so many people who were obviously dropped on their heads as babies as contestants on the show
a) The douchebag who’s “half-Mexican” and said he hated the border guards at least twice
b) The kinda gross “Guido” types who didn’t bother learning how to drive a stick shift
c) Team Cornpone who thought they were making “pinatas”. :rolleyes: and who’ve thrown up like 3 times in 34 minutes
d) Team Hawiian who…forgive me…were bubble-headed tomatoes.
e) The depressed clown chick. Lady, you’ve been on the Race less than 3 days…it’s too soon for killer fatigue. Also? The “The tears of a clown” line? Made me throw up in my mouth.
I’d love to be proven wrong, but I dunno. I don’t have really high hopes for this season based on this episode (and I loved last season).
Every episode TAR always uses editing to pretend it is down to the wire when it clearly isn’t and I thought for sure that was what they were doing here but wow, for once the editing wasn’t lying.
The girl who made the joke about her uterus seems like she has a good sense of humor. I may already be crushing.
Boo on the hot chicks going out first, but man did they deserve it. “We won’t be crying…” and then they cried twice in the first episode. They get their car stuck on the side of the road and need to be towed out. They didn’t bring their bags in with them. They can’t see Phil 20 feet away from them. Goodbye cute camel-toe bikini babes, you were clearly not cut out for TAR.
The half-Mexican guy who kept making the border patrol jokes is from Big Brother, as is his racing partner, and hooo boy were they ever annoyingly hatable on BB. Socially retarded drama queens through and through, and based on the “this season on…” montage they haven’t changed a bit. (Loved blonde Rachel’s comment on BB Rachel: “Sparkles is in front of us.” hehheh.)
My early favorite is Blonde Rachel and Army Guy. Loved her during the skydiving challenge, she seemed to be having so much fun. He seems JAWLINE like a JAWLINE pretty decent sort, but JAWLINE didn’t really get a JAWLINE good read on him yet. How about that jawline, though, huh? Friggin’ GI Joe.
The divorcees won me over during the empanada task, when he made a comment about how he wanted to eat them and she responds with “No joke, I want to stick my face right in there.” Or words to that effect. Just a nice chemistry there.
Already getting tired of the hicks.
Yeah, those are my early favorites, too. The army couple for their competence, and the divorcees for their likability. The Mississippi girls are cute and seem like fun. The Guidos can’t go home fast enough.
Is anybody doing the Taxi Assessment this season? I’ve got some time on my hands, if there’s an opening.
b) You shouldn’t leave for the Race until you’ve learned how to drive stick, even if you haven’t perfected your technique. It’s like heading to Survivor without being able to start a fire. Oh wait, that’s a different thread.
c) You shouldn’t go on the Race if you get carsick (unless, perhaps, you’re the designated driver of your team). You’re going to spend a big chunk of time every leg in the back seat of a car.
No one has yet completely annoyed me yet, although I do cringe a little at the Jersey guys’ accents. And their lack of manual transmission ability. And the redneck’s inability to keep from vomitting every three steps. And the clown lady’s morbid tension.
Really, everyone has annoyed me just enough to reveal their character flaws and make it interesting.
However, I loved the last bit in the season preview: “The Amazing Race is supposed to be FUN and GOOD!”, uttered through the thick choking of a good bawling fit. “Yes,” I said to the TV, “you keep telling yourself that, honey.”
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go eat an empanada.
You’d think if any team would be good at spotting something sticking out in a field of grass, it’d be some golfers.
I was thinking it was sort of good that there weren’t as many ‘gimmicky’ teams, but instead they just all seem bland.
I think you mean a piñata. 
Piñatas make me throw up. Can we pull over for a minute?
OMG, the look on Phil’s face re the elimination was priceless! It was one of those moments I nearly screamed at the TV – “HE’S FRIKKIN’ X FEET TO YOUR RIGHT! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU???”
As always, it’s too early to make any predictions, but a couple of observations:
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Team Big Brother = Sparkly Green Girl and the guy who doesn’t like Team Border Patrol?
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I think the Jerseylicious boys were cast for comic relief. I can’t think of any other reason.
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The good ol’ boys are the type to get on my nerves, but if they can make it through these first few episodes, I’m betting they’ll calm down somewhat. I’m hoping the vomiting was just a first-day fluke.
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I found myself cheering for the clowns. There’s something about them that makes me think they’re stronger than they think they are.
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I love the Border Patrol guys, Army and his wife, the divorcees, and the FBI agents.
Dammit, the hottest pair is out of first…motivation to watch remainder of season dropping…
Inasmuch as I like any of them yet, this matches pretty close with my list.
I wasn’t impressed with the Border Patrol guys handling of frustration in the empanada task, but otherwise liked them, especially since the guy who had to skydive had exactly the reaction I would have. 100% precisely.
The FBI agents were good except for the “This is for my kids” crap during the skydive where she mentioned her kids something like 2000 times in 20 seconds.
Army and wife were fine.
Which ones were the divorcees? The big beefy guy and the bland chick? The ones who said “I stalked him but he was married, then he got divorced and stalked me, but I was married…etc”? If so, yeah, I kinda liked them too.
The big brother cretin has to go, as does team cornpone.
Addendum–or if you throw up when you run. Because, yeah. Running is kind of non-optional on the race.
In contrast to last season, there was some definite mat-jumping this time. Phil was even encouraging them to do it. I wonder what happened there…last time they just came up to the edge and stopped.
The girls who went home are the golfers, right? Sisters, I think? It’s hard keeping everyone straight for the first few episodes.
I can’t imagine going on this, knowing you might have to drive a stick, and never learning how. Even if your partner can do it, and you plan on being the navigator, you really should take an afternoon and learn the basics, at least.
I loved the fake-out with the Roadblock. “Who wants to do whatever ?”
“I’ll do it!! Me! Me!”
Cool, you drive a couple miles down the road and wait there, while your partner, who thought they were sitting this one out, gets to skydive. Or, depending on your point of view, ***has ***to skydive.
I wonder how it will count on the ‘must do half’ part of the scoring? Seems to me the sky diver should get the credit.
I think we did. We, the internet, kept mentioning the ‘toe the mat’ concept and I heard in an interview last year that Phil said it was just coincidence. So this season he’s just righting something that wasn’t really wrong.
I want to name the twins, team soccer/rocker. But we haven’t really seen much of them yet and I may come to hate them.
Aaaand Team Brenchel just keep on giving us what we hated the last two seasons of Big Brother for…
I was kind of agog at Brendon’s “I’m half-Mexican. I hate the Border Patrol.” How anyone who was actually accepted to a doctoral program in any accredited university can toss off one-liners like that not only in public, but on national TV, is one of the great mysteries of Brenchel.
And I’m sure all of you Big Brother virgins will come to know the equally douchey wonders of Rachel before we’re done here. In a way, they’re perfect soulmates, if only because they therefore are prevented from making two other poor losers’ lives hellish.