Holy crap, you’re right. That’s fantastic.
One more…MoJo, aka Ken & Barbie – Barbie seems wound a bit tight. I swear she was bursting into tears because she was second in line at the airline ticket counter.
When Scott did the arms/head bob thing I cracked supervenusfreak up by saying, “No, honey…pull on your ears and stick your tongue out, because you’re about 500 times more Magic Mongo than you are Jeannie…”
Did anyone else notice that BOTH Lake and Michelle were wearing nicotine patches behind their ears? Heh! If they’re both quitting at the same time, and adding in the stress of the Race, this should be the couple to watch on the Meltdown Countdown…
Really? The “Glamazons” did it a couple of times, in between comments about bodily functions, and it wasn’t obvious that they’re joking. We’re verging on Weaverism with that pair. They do have to go, and NOW.
The Neo Guidos were pleasant enough, but just too damn stupid and lazy. I’d rather have seen a couple of other teams go before them, but face it, they were doomed. Catch the shot of the “just lifelong friends” holding hands on the platform? Why bother to kid us with that stuff?
Lake is not Jonathan or even Colin, because his missus doesn’t break down sobbing but gives it back to him. Still needs to leave the race and go find a counselor, but he’s not really scary, just a jerk.
Nice line from the Double D’s making fun of Eric and Jeremy’s cheesy pickup lines. It ain’t gonna happen, boys.
I’m up for some Wanda & Desiree mother/daughter sandwich action, too. But I’m going with Team Nerd - all they need are some decent glasses and they’ll look fine, and they’ve got the right attitudes and skills for this race, too.
Were they nicotine patches, or some kind of air-sickness preventers? Isn’t there some sort of sticky patch for that?
I may have made that up, but I could swear I read it somewhere.
Oh, yeah, I meant to comment on this remark. Meet my son, the Snarker-In-Training. When whichever one it was that said this, my son (nine years old) piped up and said, “Maybe in that story with the tortise and the hare, but not in The Amazing Race! You need to RUN!”
He is his mother’s child. 
I thought those were motion-sickness patches. They were small and round. The nicotine ones are bigger, aren’t they?
Scopolamine patches for motion sickness. Note to self: Google before submission next time. 
I could be wrong. I’m not as familiar with motion-sickness patches as nicotine patches, so they never occurred to me. Darn, though, if they are…nic-fits and killer fatigue put together would seriously turn up the volume around Leg 5…
We’re saving all the nicotine withdrawal for Survivor.
Heh…in reference to Dave & Lori, supervenusfreak must have said at least three times last night that Lori runs like Dawn Wiener from Welcome to the Dollhouse.
Why did you do that to me? Here I was, having a nice little Amazing Race discussion, and you have to go and bring up the World’s Most Traumatizing Movie.
FYI, Dollhouse was filmed in my hometown … and I’ll give you three guesses as to my last name–the first two guesses don’t count.
I am so happy Amzing Race is back and it seems to be off to a good start. My first impressions of the teams (in order of finish as I best remember it):
Frat Boys: Seem like nice enough guys, competent racers. Nothing really tilting the switch one way or the other on them.
Spin Doctors: I was hating them during their introductions, and then not minding them during most of the show. I have a bad feeling, however, that as teams get eliminated and more time is spent with them (assuming they aren’t eliminated) that they will rip out my very last nerve.
NERDS!!!: Are these guys nerds? Do they love each other? I hope these issues are cleared up at some point during the show. I actually am underwhelmed by their nerdiness so far.
Hot Tamles: Am I the only one who sees the daughter and thinks of Mila Kunis from That 70’s Show. I like this team, the daughter is muy caliente.
Lake and Wife: He was impressive in putting together the bike. He clearly gets wound up, we’ll just have to wait and see: 1) how close into psycho territory he wanders; and 2) how much his wife will put up with it. Not even close to Jonathan…yet.
Pray for MOJO! I am very worried that we have a Flo situation here. She probably is a more capable racer (it is hard to be less), but she may possess the same overly emotional, hissy crying fits that characterized much of Flo’s play. And her partner is not Zach, he does not seem like he will have the patience of a million monks, like Zach did.
Token Black Team: I might be mistaken, but it seems to me that there is always onlyone black team per season. Am I wrong? The baest I can say is that they are competent.
Team “We Couldn’t Se the Friggin’ Box Even Though We Walked By It Over and Over Again!”: They hope to get by on their brains do they? Good luck with that. Sincerely, every old team that thought they were smarter than everyone, but got eliminated because, well, they weren’t.
Team Eye Candy: I know tere is a tendencey to label the pretty girl team (and yes they are H-O-O-O-T…I did call dibs on them in an earlier thread) as vacuous. They did make a bad decision on the bike, but other than that they didn’t really do anything else to show one or the other. But the pink outfits must go, they must go, now! I like to look at the pretty girls, but my eyes get a little scarred everytime those pink outfits flash on the screen. (Tight is good, pink is bad)
The Harpies: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Oh God shut up… sutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup. I so wanted them to go…and not come back…and not bring pie.
Team BFF: Annoying, slow, whatever. Good-bye.
I am so glad the race is back. It’s been soooooo long.
BUT why o why must every team that decides to wear matching uniforms commit crimes against fashion in the process? Wearing matching outfits that say “I love pink” on your ass does not make you cute as you race around the world. Why can’t some team show up dressed like the Blues Brothers? Or Men in Black? Or even cowboy hats and trenchcoats?
They seem to have managed to get a whole bunch of tools this time around. It’s like they went for the extreme example of every “type” they could find, and its obviousness is a little off-putting to me.
Other than loathing those shrieking harpies and wanting to bitch slap them into the next universe, the other thing that totally bugged last night was the morons who couldn’t read. It’s Sao Paolo, not San Paolo, ya dumbshits (well, technically it’s São Paolo, but this isn’t about the spelling so much as the pronunciation). It was like fingernails on a chalkboard listening to almost every contestant mispronounce it. They can’t even read what’s friggin written right in front of their eyes. Who reads ‘Sao’ and hears ‘San’ in their heads?! Gah!
Speaking of which, the natives sure didn’t do much for encouraging tourism with their behavior towards the contestants. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a destination yet (though I’ve only seen about 4 seasons of this show, so I’m sure I could’ve missed a few) where the natives were more rude. My husband and I both said, “Remind me we never want to visit Sao Paolo, ok?”
well, the vowel sound is so nasal there’s almost an ‘n’ there. So it almost rhymes with “brown”, rather than “bran”. (Not that the contestants would know…these are the ones who said “Portuguese…Spanish…isn’t that the same thing?”)
Damn, I’m dumb. My kids went to bed at 10:00 and watched the second hour today after school. I did a big ole’ headsmack :smack: as I realized the meaning of the MOJO shirts. MO-nica and JO-seph.
Nope, you’re not alone. I commented on that when I was watching it, too.
Lake and Wife: He was impressive in putting together the bike. He clearly gets wound up, we’ll just have to wait and see: 1) how close into psycho territory he wanders; and 2) how much his wife will put up with it. Not even close to Jonathan…yet.
Yeah, “Maybe it wasn’t there before” isn’t that likely an explanation, Fran.
By the way, where has rockle been? It ain’t TAR without rockle!!!
Crap-o-la. Coding is wrong.
I’m partially responsible for that screw-up.
Yoo-hoo! Here I am, guys! My god, the freakin’ Olympics have wrecked up my life but good, because all my TV programs are back with a bang and my TiVo’s about to 'splode. I couldn’t stay up to watch the Race because 11:00 is waaaaaaaaay past my bedtime, so I watched last night on Tape Delay for the Ancient and Elderly. Believe you me, I will NOT be doing THAT again - I miss y’all too much! So next Wednesday I’ll be dragging ass, but I WILL be watching TAR “live” with the rest of you on Tuesday.
You guys all said the good stuff already, but I’ll pipe in with my usual random nothingness.
I thought that was Sarah Kozer… ? IIRC, MoJo was already off the show at that point. I’ll have to consult with the Fox Reality Channel and get back to you on this one.
My husband says Team Nerd is “painful” to watch because of all the PDA. (I think they’re cute as buttons and I want to keep them for pets.) When I asked him if he’s just a little bit jealous because Team Nerd is basically us, and he’s just too chickenshit to go on the Race with me, he refused to answer. Is that a yes?
I like the Hippies in general (and whichever one is the redhead in particular because he looks like Rafe from that other show whose producer owns 33% of my soul*), but they are trying so hard to be funny all the time that it bugs me. I don’t think they made a single comment the whole episode that wasn’t spoken directly into the camera. If they back off the cleverness a wee bit, I’ll like them better.
I didn’t expect to like Wanda & Desiree or Eric & Jeremy but they seem pretty OK to me. Ditto Ray and Yolanda. I find Ray to be strangely handsome and compelling – when Yolanda called him a “big black guy” and he had this serious look on his face, he looked like he was ready to crack up the whole time. And I strongly suspect he knew exactly what the crowd was saying about his lovely wife.
I wish that Frank and Margaretta from S1 would magically appear at one of these pit stops and smack the snot out of Fran and Barry. Barry seems OK (he looks like one of my college chemistry professors, except Barry still has his eyebrows) but Fran needs … I don’t know, about 40,000 Red Bulls or something. How can one already look totally and utterly defeated after only 24 hours on the Race? How do you expect to last until India, ferchrissakes?
Everyone else, I reserve judgement on at this time. I think the Glamazons have potential to be quite awesome (I’m a big ol’ potty-mouth with an only partially-functioning propriety filter myself, so I can empathize), but I have to admit that 12 feet of Texas-haired women scares the bejeezus out of me.
** = 33% of my soul belongs to Bruckheimer; 33% belongs to Burnett; 27% belongs to my husband, since that was the deal when he gave me traded me the Big Diamond; 6% belongs to the wicked evil bastard who invented Mountain Dew; and 1% belongs to Ian “Dolphin-Boy” Rosenberger. Call me, Ian!*