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Webchiq
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07-11-2005

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 11:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Webchiq a private message Print Post    
I didn't understand why the Lyns didn't get a flight to London from Orly and then get their US departure from London. Doh! They might have gotten there faster because of the options to fly to the US from London. There are a lot more options than the one flight from Charles de Gaulle. I guess I shouldn't give away too many secrets in case my husband and I get on the race.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I was screaming the same thing at the tv, Web!

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Stupid dumb football once again left me hanging midway through the show. I came here to find out the rest but I do have a question. How far behind did the Lynns come in?

Spoton
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09-16-2005

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spoton a private message Print Post    
I'm not feeling that there is an "imbalance" of teams who are competing and winning as some of you. I rechecked all of the past winners, and is breaks down like this:
1 Family team
5 Male pairs
4 Male-Female pairs

And they were not all 20-somethings. Some of the winning teams had some "seasoning". Two teams were African-American, one gay couple (male), and one set of hippies!! I think we are getting a nice variety!

Spear
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08-06-2001

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spear a private message Print Post    
From TARCon reports, Rob/Kim say Lyn/Karlyn finished about two hours behind them. Lyn/Karlyn say they were only an hour behind. The website has video of Lyn/Karlyn having a lot of trouble finding the News building so they at least had to do that task. I haven't seen any information about whether they had to walk two miles to find the sculpture but I wouldn't be surprised if they were told to skip that.

From The Early Show, Tyler/James said they were 10-15 minutes ahead of Rob/Kim.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

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Spear, thanks.

Laneesmom
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05-12-2005

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Laneesmom a private message Print Post    
Seamonkey, are you a figure skating fan? !

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 3:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Spoton, I don't think gay or race matters. I think age does. Also sex to a degree. Can you tell me the ages of the winners?

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
The finale was to put it mildly anticlimactic. The BQ's won I don't care what anybody says :-)

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Did Tyler & James get ignored on the morning show?

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 5:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
llink


On the season finale of ''The Amazing Race,'' models Tyler and James edge out Rob and Kimberly in a competition between New York cabbies by Josh Wolk



FRONT-RUNNERS UP The models' victory was a tad predictable


The tenth season of The Amazing Race could have ended one of three ways: annoyingly, improbably, or predictably. By its very definition, things ended predictably, with the models taking home the million. Usually the word predictable is pejorative, but not in this case: It's really the only outcome that anyone could feel comfortable with. If the 'Bama moms had won, I would always suspect that it was the result of some shenanigans by the producers to get an uplifting ending. (Like the way no one can talk about Uchenna and Joyce's victory over Rob and Amber without saying, ''Although there's no way in real life that a plane would come back to the gate to pick someone up.'') And if Rob and Kimberly had won, there would be a bad taste in my mouth that a flamethrower wouldn't be able to remove. So that left the models: They might not have been the most interesting of competitors, but they had the best record, so let's call it a congratulations with a side of feh. [Read Jessica Shaw's interview with Tyler and James.]

This was a crackling finale, though. I mean, it was no hall-of-famer like season 2's Chris and Alex vs. Tara and Wil delight, but it had plenty of suspenseful moments, and only a few of them were contrived. What's more, it showed us a different side to all the teams. First, we saw Rob and Kimberly acting calm — stopping even to snuggle — when they got the only seats on the first flight to Paris. I have to say, it kind of creeped me out. Watching Rob at ease was like seeing a priest flirt: It just didn't look right. And then the models, usually so even-keeled, had a nice little bickerfest when they had to take the later flight. James said he had suggested looking on the Internet for tickets when they'd first arrived, and Tyler...well, Tyler was just angry that James had allowed himself to be ignored by Tyler.

As for 'Bama, their new side was revealed later in the program. Well, at least it was a new side for Karlyn. Throughout the race, her facial expression has never varied from two settings: stone-faced gaze or angry scowl. But when she leaped out of a plane, she actually smiled. I didn't know her face could do that. Were it not for the loud rushing of air, we might have heard the sound of tiny muscles in her jaw tearing.

But I'm skipping ahead. Before Karlyn's brief flirtation with joy, 'Bama had a coup as they left from Spain on the latest flight but got to the Eiffel Tower first. I hate to diminish their achievement, as it was entertaining to watch them leapfrog over the cockier teams (the last time that they would be able to pull it off, sadly), but when Lyn said, ''Now that's thinking,'' after they pulled into first, I begged to disagree. They learned that Orly Airport was closer to the tower than Charles de Gaulle after they'd bought their tickets; it was more a happy accident than foresight. Taking credit for it would be like if the cameraman who happened to catch the delightful shot of Kimberly crashing into the clue box behind 'Bama took credit for setting it up. Oh, why am I dragging him into this? I shouldn't be questioning him; I should be praising him to the high heavens for giving me such a delightful visual. Watching Kimberly try to extricate herself from a metal pole made me realize how much funnier America's Funniest Home Videos would be if it only featured people who bugged me. Instead of some random guy getting hit in the balls with a golf ball, what if it were Andy Rooney? Now that's entertainment.

Meanwhile, Rob quickly reverted back to his tense self when he realized everyone had caught up to him. And it seemed like such a delightful kick in the pants when he and Kimberly left the train station to go change money, only to find out that their train had arrived early and left without them, carrying the two other teams. It looked like the greatest screwup in Amazing Race history, especially with all the ''We're not going to miss the train!'' foreshadowing. But after all the careful setup for that disaster, the couple got the next train and caught up with everyone at the transfer station, rendering the previous five minutes of tension moot. It really bothered me, like I'd had the ultimate tease and now was being sent back to the couch with a huge case of reality-TV blue balls. This was the equivalent of watching a porn movie in which a deli delivery man stops by a sorority house filled with nymphomaniacs who drop endless double-entendres about how they can't wait to wrap their lips around a juicy, foot-long hero, and after ten minutes of them tugging suggestively on their lingerie straps, the delivery guy hands over their order, they tip him fairly, send him away, and then actually wrap their lips around juicy, foot-long hero sandwiches, careful not to drip any mayo on their lingerie.

This mislead was unnecessary because there was so much legitimate tension throughout the episode. The challenges themselves might not have been that innovative: making a jacket isn't exactly gagging on bugs, and as for skydiving, well, when you're strapped to someone else who is jumping out of a plane whether you like it or not, it kind of takes away the fun of someone chickening out. But the closeness of all the teams and the constant flipflopping of leads made it quite exciting.

(One note: How about Rob moping that he didn't get to skydive? It's not like he didn't get to hang glide off the Great Wall of China or something geographically specific. He just wanted to jump out of a plane, a pastime that is readily available anywhere in America. This is like being furious that he didn't get to try a Coke in the Ukraine.)

The neck-and-neck nature of the race was reduced by 33 percent when the teams left France, though, after 'Bama didn't get on the first flight to New York. My disappointment in seeing them fall out of contention was offset by my gratitude that the editors didn't try to make it look like they were right on the other teams' tails. No, there was no more false suspense: 'Bama just vanished from the show, and it became a two-team race. But I have no illusions: If this had been the usual two-hour finale, the time-space continuum would have been tied in a square knot just to give the impression that they were right behind Rob and Kimberly.

I am wondering how Rob and Kimberly talked themselves onto that full plane. Unlike the Joyce-Uchenna situation, this turn of events didn't make me suspect the producers had pulled some strings. It would have been stupid for them to do so, as (a) Rob and Kimberly aren't a particularly popular team, and (b) there was no guarantee the models would get on, too; if they didn't, it would have been a dull finale, with Rob and Kimberly two hours ahead of everyone else until the end. So the two talked themselves onto that full flight legitimately, just by saying it was worth a million dollars? Do airlines always reserve two seats just in case desperate game-show contestants show up?

I wonder if this is going to be bad for airline ticket agents, who are now going to have to deal with people using the ''I'm on a reality show, and I could win a million bucks!'' gambit to weasel their way onto closed flights all over the world. Hell, I'll use it even when I'm already on the plane. ''Excuse me, ma'am, I need an extra bag of pretzels because if I can get my salt level up, it's worth a million dollars!''

In the end, after a thrilling car chase (leave it to a New York cab driver to actually be up for trying to lose another cab), it was the models who crossed the line first. After all that, though, I was less interested in their victory speeches than I was mesmerized by the odd parade of eyebrows. Of course, there was James' dad, whose brows looked like they were yanked off a wizard. And then there was coal-mining David. Am I the only one who freeze-framed his brief appearance because of something that looked off? At first I thought he had waxed his eyebrows and made them too short, but when I stopped the video and looked closer, it looked like he had actually had an extra set of brows sutured on. Yes, the man had four eyebrows. I had feared that once those two small-town folk got on TV, they'd get suckered into the showbiz life, and sure enough, Phil sent him to one of them fancy Hollywood salons — the one he takes Browsie to — and David got himself an extra set of eyebrows. I can't stop thinking about them; I know when I go to sleep tonight I'll have nightmares that they're chasing me. But I'll say this: If David and Mary do end up on the all-star Amazing Race, as has been rumored, and I find out two months from now that those extra brows were just an editing trick, I'll never forgive myself. Fool me once, Van Munster...

What do you think? How do you rate this finale compared to previous seasons'? Would you be happier if another team had won? And who do you want to see on the all-star edition?

Rehtse
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08-17-2005

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About the EZ Pass: too bad it came down to this, but it could have easily just been that R/K's cab broke down. That would have been hilarious (although not for R/K).

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 7:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
HILARIOUS:

Throughout the race, her facial expression has never varied from two settings: stone-faced gaze or angry scowl. But when she leaped out of a plane, she actually smiled. I didn't know her face could do that. Were it not for the loud rushing of air, we might have heard the sound of tiny muscles in her jaw tearing.

Nerovh
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06-11-2005

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
Julie-- she wasn't smiling, the rush of wind was just pushing her cheeks back like that LOL.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
That is a funny quote Julie!

I noticed even more funny though was the look on Lyn's face when that plane went into a nosedive. It looked like she'd just taken a huge bite out of the most sour lemon!

I'd never be able to do the race. Don't know which would have been worse, jumping out of that plane or being in the cockpit when the plane did that nose dive.

Nerovh
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06-11-2005

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 7:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
And maybe someone else said this, but wasn't that church they went to in Spain just the most beautiful place? I would have just stood there gawking for a few minutes if it was me. That's the one thing I would REALLY hate about being on the race: you get to go to all these amazing places that you'll probably never see again, but all you will really remember about them is where the clue box was.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Who, me and Dylan noticed that face and I said it looked like she had just smelled one of Daddy;s farts, Dylan laughed and laughed!

I give the Lyns much props, they did stuff I wouldnt even come close to doing and they never made it look too hard, they made history and can be proud of that.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 7:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Laneesmom, yep, I do like figure skating, but don't follow it as closely as I used to. I got to go to the 2002 US Nationals when they were in LA.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 8:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I'm happy with the winners but that couldn't have been a more boring final show. It's hard to imagine what the producers were thinking.

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Monday, December 11, 2006 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
Totally would have taken a flight to another city if there was a chance to get a connection that got one there earlier. We don't know if they asked about that or not.
'squeek'

Lizziedi
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10-05-2005

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I just ran my tape through again. David does, indeed, appear to have a second set of eyebrows. It's during the moments after Phil told the guys that they really won. (It's just a trick of the outdoor light, or make-up, or both)

I ran the tape through in slow motion to find this, and what it definetely shows is Mary & David with unhappy faces (David especially.) And the rest of the teams, even the Chos, smiling and gracious.

Nerovh
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06-11-2005

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
I did notice that David and Mary looked unhappy and didn't really seem to even try to be gracious about who won. But then I never was as big a fan of theirs as many others were, so I could be biased.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 11:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
When did the Bamas arrive at the airport? I thought there wasn't that long before the 8.25am flight. There's no way a connecting flight through London would have been quicker than driving to CDG and getting a direct flight from there. (Unless of course they were hours and hours before the flight, but it didn't seem that way.)

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Mary was probably thinking that Rosie would come along at the last minute and give her the million dollars.

Laneesmom
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05-12-2005

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Laneesmom a private message Print Post    
OT Seamonkey.....I see. I went to Nationals last year hoping to see Michelle.....of course it was disappointing for me.....

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 5:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
OT.. Ah yes.. my favorite moment in 2002 was during the Sunday exhibitions when Michelle did her "Fields of Gold" number.. wow!

As for the expressions, I did freeze frame and nothing really was that off in any of the expressions. I assume that David and Mary were still hoping to see Lynn and Karlynn win.. one of them was wearing one of David's Friends in Low Places T Shirts..

Heck, maybe Mary was worrying more about what new training she needed for the next race?