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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 7:45 pm
P.S. Linda and her husband plucked all our nerves here. We want to know why Virginia is always so poorly represented on reality shows! LOL.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 7:49 pm
The cheese was SO funny. thank you TAR! And I'm not at all displeased to see that team Philiminated. They looked like the bickering couple and I can do without that.
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Flamingo
Member
08-19-2003
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 8:35 pm
I absolutely LOVE Margie and Luke. Also like Tammy and Victor and the father/son team. Very happy the bickering couple is gone. I also loved when Phil signed You are team #1 to Luke. And that bungee jump! Loved this episode!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 8:46 pm
I agree that was a great start to the season. I like the teams this year and I was okay with who got eliminated as they seemed to be bickering a lot. I was pretty surprised that Steve & Linda were able to finish as well as they did. I have to give him a lot of credit for figuring out how to handle that cheese task. Speaking of which that task was awfully funny. I felt for the teams because it must have been hard but it was still very funny to watch with the music and everything. Great scenic start to the race as well. Loved the first three teams. It was great that Luke & Margie finished first and nice that Luke felt he was able to show that he could perform well on the race. And Tammy & Victor and Mark & Michael were so classy there at the finish as well. They looked genuinely happy and touched for Luke. Nice to see.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 8:54 pm
when they introduced Mike and Mel one of them said he wrote..... and it was bleeped out, was it like that on the east coast? Anyone know why it was bleeped?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 8:57 pm
it was not bleeped. he wrote school of rock
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 9:52 pm
Nevermind my question. It is apparently my new cable box, the sound goes in and out periodically on the high def channels. Bill is going to exhange the box and see if that helps.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 9:56 pm
I knew Mike had to be an actor as well as a writer, his face was too familiar! He was Billy Balsam in Pushing Daisies, and was in Freaks and Greeks. He was also in the commentaries of F&G if anyone watched those. Loved the first groups doing the cheese task when all their carriers fell apart! So funny. I feared Mel was about to have a hernia though! I liked the filming style, where they showed little clips of the more boring parts in split screen. Is it very difficult to learn to lip read? I was surprised Luke hadn't learnt how to. I know it wouldn't be much use abroad but I'd have thought in day to day life it would have helped him a lot.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 10:21 pm
Kitt, who was he in F&G? I bought the DVDs of it and watched it all not too long ago.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 10:44 pm
He was Chip Kelly, Kim's brother. Remember when Kim took Lindsay home for dinner with her folks and they were a nightmare? He was in that episode. But Mike from TAR wrote several episodes and I remember him more because on either a commentary track or a "making of" kind of thing for F&G he was on it and really enthusiastic.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 10:50 pm
I had happy tears when Phil signed they were first. I like these teams. No one to dislike at this point. Good start.
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Vsmart
Member
02-10-2003
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 10:55 pm
Perfect TAR episode: not everyone on the same flight, nice scenery, scary challenge, funniest task ever, last two teams racing to the pit stop.
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Kappy
Member
06-29-2002
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 11:25 pm
Great first episode. At first I was appalled at the guys at laughing the poor folks trying to bring the cheese down the hill but soon, like Braveheart, I was doubled over laughing. I believe the ones who said it was the hardest thing they've ever had to do. Like Survivor, I'm liking most of the people so far. Linda will most likely get on my nerves but I have to hand it to her and her husband for catching up. I was predicting they'd never find the yodelers but they did. I wonder if she's related to Sandy? 
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 11:43 pm
Great Show! I'm liking that Preston/Jennifer are the first ones to go. Don't need to listen to the endless bickering and drama to put a damper on the show! I think Steve & Linda, well Linda at least, are out of their league. Hopefully, that's CBS misdirection a bit (with next week's 'lost in the Alps' clip) and they go further, just because it's not easy to travel outside the country for the 1st time in one's life and not feel overwhelmed at first. But she didn't stop TRYING!
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 1:25 am
Now I'm really confused about Linda and Steve because in their bio information is says this: "Both Linda and Steven are well traveled. The two had a very scary experience traveling through Guatemala where they were robbed of all their money and identification. Luckily they were resourceful enough and found their way back to the states without too much hassle." Sure didn't seem like it to me!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 1:48 am
Maybe that was years ago? I'm amazed that they did so well on the cheese and even then they blew much of that advantage going in the wrong direction. I have to admit, that while wincing for them, I ended up roaring at all the cheeses flying down that hill.. clearly the first ones were at some disadvantage, thinking they really had to walk down using the back pack setup. I'm fine with Preston and Jennifer gone, but Steve really needs to lighten up and be a cheerleader.. Linda.. I wonder if she has early emphysema the way she gets winded, but I could lose her soon with no regrets. I was so happy with the first four teams!! And loved that the brother and sister and the brothers were SO happy for Luke and his mom. LOVED that Phil signed!! Oh and I had to giggle when the flight attendants failed to find out which train ARRIVED first and took the one that left first.. so much for travel expertise.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 2:08 am
The Amazing Race XIV 02/15/2009 Los Alamitos, CA, USA - Locarno, Switzerland - Interlaken - Stechelberg
team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | avg | Road Blocks | FF | SB | E | Margie/Luke | 01 | | | | | | | | | | | 01.00 | M L 1 | | | | Tammy/Victor | 02 | | | | | | | | | | | 02.00 | T V 1 | | | | Mark/Michael | 03 | | | | | | | | | | | 03.00 | Ma Mi 1? | | | | Mel/Mike | 04 | | | | | | | | | | | 04.00 | Me Mi 1 | | | | Amanda/Kris | 05 | | | | | | | | | | | 05.00 | A K 1 | | | | Brad/Victoria | 06 | | | | | | | | | | | 06.00 | B V 1 | | | | Jaime/Cara | 07 | | | | | | | | | | | 07.00 | J 1 C | | | | Kisha/Jen | 08 | | | | | | | | | | | 08.00 | K J 1 | | | | Steve/Linda | 09 | | | | | | | | | | | 09.00 | S 1 L | | | | Christie/Jodi | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | 10.00 | C J 1 | | | | Preston/Jennifer | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | 11.00 | P 1 J | | | E1 |
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Freetimefinally
Member
01-26-2006
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 5:34 am
"Is it very difficult to learn to lip read?" It isn't difficult as much as what path is chosen in life. It is hard for the deaf community. Not only are they pulled in different directions from teh community in a whole but the deaf community has two differnt opinions. One first extreme side says use hearing aids/ have all possible surgeries/ learn to lip read and speak as clearly as you can. The other extreme side says never have surgery / do not use hearing aids /use sign language. There are many in the middle also who do a little of all. I had a roommate in college who was deaf and she knew no sign language. I had another deaf friend who only knew sign language. Freshmen year everyone just assumed they would be great friends because they were both deaf but it wasn't the case especially since their personalaties were so different and they were both stubburn and wouldn't give to eithers way.
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Freetimefinally
Member
01-26-2006
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:28 am
Phil's Blog on EW is up. http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/02/phil-keoghan-bl.html#comment-148704303
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 7:06 am
great first episode! I was fine with the first couple out.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 8:16 am
Kitt, lipreading cannot always be learned. Some deaf people can never get to where they can make sense out of a moving mouth. I'm lucky in that I never even had to try to learn. It was just something I could do from the get-go. I was such a good lip-reader from such a young age, in fact, that my mom theorizes I may have had some hearing loss before my bout of meningitis and that I was already reading lips before the major loss of hearing occurred. You are right, Freetime, in that we get a lot of mixed messages from the world at large.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 8:18 am
per lip reading: ds says it is a skill, and not everyone can develop the skill - there are so many words that sound alike - so you kinda have the jest of a conversation, but when he joins in, sometimes he is so far off what is really going on - that his friends will laugh at his contribution, which greatly embarasses him - so he often just doesnt join in unless he is very comfortable with the group.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 8:24 am
So many letters look alike when spoken, just like so many words sound alike when spoken. It also makes me crazy when people try to spell things out for me. Think of all the letters that rhyme! b, p, t, c, d, g, z .....
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 11:03 am
I love the relationship of Luke and his mom, they seem to share humor and love. I loved when she said 'so you are saying I am old and slow' and he was like nooooo!! LOL
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 11:05 am
I thought this was a great opening show. I like them all for now. Of course, I am a wee bit partial to the mom and son.
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