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Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 2:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
Great cast on this show. My only complaint?? The HOST sux.

He has got the most boring deadpan delivery. Its like he is reading cuecards in a zombielike state. Surely they could find someone who has a personality which stands out.

I found Anderson Cooper rather dull the first few episodes of the MOLE but then his personality seemed to come out. Maybe THIS host will warm up in future shows. I sure hope so.

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I sure hope that the teams arent neck in neck this whole race. There seems to be too much 'watching each other' and trying to steal info or get someone else to give you the answer.

Funny how no one on team Genius is REALLY a genius. I laughed when they said why they named themselves that.

Team Genius needs to muzzle Charles. He seems like a real mess. Wanting to break off the from the group to hike up Mt Roosevelt...then he is given the correct Combo for the box and STILL messes up over and over again.

If I was Francis I would have said "GET out of the way and Let me do it!"

The kid just gets too panicky. I wouldnt let him have control of any decisions.

He also was unable to grasp the fact that they MAY have been at the wrong location and was arguing with the others. I wish Team young Professionals made it instead.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 2:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Team Mullet was cracking me up when they were trying to crack the code.

I think this will get better as it goes along.

My complaint is when they showing him repeating the clue to each player, that should have been edited out. As a viewer I only need to hear it once

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 3:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I don't remember much about the host at all! I guess he was dull! At least he isn't an obvious Jeff Probst wanna be. So many hosts on these shows seem to be trying to deliver their spiel in exact JP style. So I kinda like the idea that this guy might be deadpan to start with, but will find his stride and own style as the show progresses.

Team Genius lost me pretty much for good when the one guy said they can't help but to overthink things. That they try to "dumb themselves down" but its just not possible because they're just too smart. OK, I really hate the puke emoticon, but it may just be appropriate here! Or, maybe there's a "gag me" type emoticon out there with a little smilie guy sticking his finger down his throat? Well, I'll just settle for this one....

I'd be like the Hanlon guys, and stop to look under every rock on the path just knowing there has to be a clue somewhere along the way, and just convinced the producers were just sneaky and underhanded enough to hide clues right under my nose.

I'd also be like the Brown guys trying to hike up that hill. Just a slight incline in terrain and my lungs just clamp up and say "forget it."

Is it editing, or are the USA women really that stupid? Lets all just stand around and look lost and dumb, and surely someone is bound to come along and spin us around and point us in the right direction, tell us how many steps forward to take, and just place the clues and things we need in our pretty little hands.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 3:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Pamy... I am so with you about the host repeating the clue over and over and over. I enjoyed the show, but that was really annoying and grating.


Marej
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09-20-2002

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 3:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marej a private message Print Post    
I can't wait till Margie Fogal melts down, she's to intense, practically ignored her daughter when she hurt her hand. Good show.

Konashark
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06-13-2006

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 3:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konashark a private message Print Post    
I enjoyed the show and I agree with Pamy, Team Mullet is a hoot to watch as they look for clues under every rock and in every trash can. Team Fogel sets a poor example and I am not liking them very much at this point. The cuts to the cell phones are a bit cheesy but I understand they have bills to pay as well.

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 4:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
Loved Team Redneck trying to crack the code.

"wayell, lesseee...." ::snickers::

"tryuh...4,3,2,1...thayat's thuh orduh ov thuh prezidentz."

I was rollin'.

Great show...I was positive it was a TAR rip-off...and it is...with so much more!

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 4:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
If anyone knows if this first show will repeat please let me know. My sil came over last night and talked the whole time. accck! She's not a reality show fan.

Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 4:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
I too got interupted watching. I didn't get a great feeling. It seemed too chopping and the filming was to disjointed for my taste. I'm hoping it was because I had my yackity yack mother drop by unexpectantly...especially since we had brunch together...how rude ;).

I'll give it another try but in the Chicagoland area it doesn't look like they are repeating it here tonight.

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 5:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
Miss America contestants that don't seem really very bright

They should have used all the scholarship money from all their pageants!

I loved the show. I liked the host.

The rednecks "I see two but their are four heads" had me rolling.

The Miss USA's "Who was the first president"

I never watched TAR so I can't say if it's a rip off or not. But I thought it was a lot of fun to watch.

I love SouthieBoys, AirForce and ExCia!!

Jan
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08-01-2000

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 5:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
The Browns have a pretty good looking website going for them Team Brown

PS they also have a forum (no posts as yet in case you want to be the first and a "hidden menu" they tease you to find.

Jasper
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09-14-2000

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 5:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
I guess I'm all alone, I was really disappointed. The host was awful imo, and having to hear his phone messages over and over and over and over again, was tedious. I am willing to give it another couple of eps to see if it comes into it's own though.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 5:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
Dear Sweet kind overworked Moderators: I hate to ask knowing how busy you all are, but...do you suppose we could get this area divided? I find it a bit confusing...(ok annoying) to have two entirely different conversations going on in the same thread.

Would it be possible to separate the conversation of those playing the game from the one of those watching the show before the next air date?

Jan
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08-01-2000

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 5:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
sure Mary. Let me see if I can figure out how to do it :-):-):-)

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 5:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
Here's what EW.com has to say about it:

Fools Rushmore In

In the premiere episode of the familiar but fun ''Treasure Hunters,'' the ten teams eventually find their way to America's most famous presidential monument by Michael Slezak



YUPPIES, CIAO! It was hello and goodbye for the Young Professionals team


Who says charity is dead? Not me, certainly not after observing how the folks over at America's No. 1 network, CBS, were nice enough to lend one of their hit reality series to their struggling competitor NBC. Oh sure, the Peacock people added some surface-level Da Vinci Code flourishes, including a claim that the show's secrets are protected by ''a secret society'' — like who? General Electric? Matt, Ann, Al, and Meredith? the background cast of The Office? — but at the end of the day, Treasure Hunters might as well be called The Amazing Race: Summer Edition.

Which is not to say Treasure Hunters isn't an appealing slice of summer entertainment. It's just got some labeling issues — much like several of the 10 teams of three who've entered into this far-reaching scavenger hunt in the hopes of taking home some kind of prize that, at this point, we can only assume will be worth giving up several weeks of their lives — and, potentially, their anonymity and the respect of their family, friends, and coworkers.

Take, for example, ''the Geniuses,'' who, among the three of them, have ''nine majors and one master's we're all working on.'' As far as I'm concerned, that doesn't make them automatic MENSA members; it just means they're indecisive. And anyhow, if the team's leader, Francis, doesn't know enough to take a razor to his bizarre facial hair, how much is his IQ worth, anyway?

Then there's the little matter of the moniker bestowed on the ''Miss USA'' team, a trio of generic beauties who all, at one time or another, competed for the Miss USA crown — and lost! Now I'm not suggesting the trio be saddled with a label like ''Miss USA Losers'' or ''Not Miss USAs'' for the duration of Treasure Hunters' run (though that would be more accurate), but how about something like ''Team Pretty!'' or ''Pageant-bots''?

The only colorful, accurate ID on Treasure Hunters — aside from ''the Brown Family,'' which flashes on screen every time one of the show's two African-American teams pops up (perhaps as a homage to The Amazing Race: Family Edition's Black family) — is ''the Wild Hanlons,'' bestowed on a mulletastic Texas dad, his brother, and his son. Whether you choose to root for or against good ol' boys who aren't opposed to wearing T-shirts featuring a trucker-flap gal emblazoned with the colors of the American flag, you've got to admit they make for good TV, particularly Papa, who seemingly has no use for the codes and clues provided by the show's producers. Leaving the Nebraska state capital by bus, he chose to ignore the Jefferson-Washington-Lincoln clues that pointed to Mount Rushmore and instead reckoned the next stop was Colorado, ''because we're near it!'' Later, when pointed in the direction of Rushmore's presidential path, he instead chose to dig through garbage cans, look under rocks, then lead his brood into a small cave. Trust me, it's about as close to the Three Stooges as you're gonna find on current network television.

(On a side note, did any of you notice one of the Hanlons sporting an Ask.com T-shirt during the final leg of the episode? Not since Tyra Banks saddled her America's Next Top Model contestants with Tyra talk-show tops has needless product placement been so blatant and unattractive. What next? Dubbing the teams ''the Wild Hanlons: Sponsored by Ask.com''? or ''the Southies: Brought to You by Orbitz''? Wait. Scratch that. Let's not give NBC any more bad ideas.)

In spite of the corporate shilling, however, I'm already hooked on the show, thanks to its relatively zippy pacing, its variety of scenic settings (Must. Experience. Black-sand beaches), and the presence of a handful of teams I could grow to loathe.

I started actively rooting against the So-Called Geniuses the second that Francis, discussing his Treasure Hunters strategy, noted that ''it's almost as if you have to dumb yourself down, but it's hard to when you're really smart.'' These are the same guys who ignored their busmates' pleas to head to Rushmore, refused to admit their mistake after arriving at Roosevelt Mountain, and got out-thunk by the Hanlons on the final code cracking to wind up ninth at episode's end.

I've also decided to arbitrarily root against Miss USA (for heinously acknowledging their own cuteness within the series' first 30 minutes) and the Southie Boys (only because team member John speaks in stunningly bland sports analogies like ''Ultimately the team in first place is gonna win this treasure hunt.'' Like, duh!)

And then, of course, there's the Fogal family, minister Brad, his wife, Margie, and their daughter, Kayte. You knew these folks were going to be trouble the second dear old Dad stated, ''If there's a point where we have to stretch the truth a little bit and ask forgiveness later, I don't think we're beyond that,'' but when he broke the commandment about stealing to tear a clue out of poor Grad Student Kat's hapless hands, it was on, people! Add to it Mom's hooting and hollering in front of her struggling competitors after opening the airplane-wreckage boxes on that Hawaiian beach — nice use of the phrase ''do unto others'' — and I'm kinda wondering where I might be able to sign up for the Church of Play Now, Pray Later.

On the flip side, I've already formed positive first impressions of the Air Force alumni, the CIA folks, and the Brown family (mainly after Terrance observed about his brother that ''Keith is going to be the first person to drown in the ocean wearing a life vest.'')

I'm just hoping that in subsequent episodes, Treasure Hunters will be more willing to tease the brains of its players and its viewers with its Dan Brown-flavored cryptology. Challenges like the Jeffersonian cane-umbrella-key puzzle and the Lake George cairn dig were so random in their solutions that you had to wonder what happened to the Da Vinci angle. Meanwhile, having a group of five or six teams wind up around a pile of faux time capsules and utilize laptop computers to solve not-terribly-complex clues not only felt unfair but drained the proceedings of any suspense.

Better to employ odd twists, like that two-starting-points gimmick, if for no other reason than seeing the stunned expressions on the faces of the players. I particularly loved Ex-CIA member Jacob's priceless comment after coming face-to-face with the five teams he hadn't realized he was competing against: ''For maybe one second I think, 'This is a mirror.' '' Yeah, I guess if you're, um, Dracula and your own image doesn't typically appear in a mirror.

And if Treasure Hunters can legally ''borrow'' any more Amazing Race conceits, I'm hoping it'll allow for players to navigate their own vehicles (always a source of delicious intra-team tension) and set them on foreign soil (a surefire plan to incite amusing bouts of Ugly-Americanitis). Sure, according to most religious texts, the Treasure Hunters producers might be accused of stealing, but for folks so eager to get their Da Vinci Code on, everything's probably open to interpretation.

What did you think of the premiere of Treasure Hunters? Did you notice Kayte Fogal gasping when host Laird Macintosh noted at the outset that one team would be eliminated at the final checkpoint? And were you sad to see Justin Guarini, the hot chick from Battlestar Galactica, and their semi-mute friend get eliminated?

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 6:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
Great article! Thanks for posting that, Nic.

Saggkl
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07-17-2002

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 6:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saggkl a private message Print Post    
Moderators, could you please delete the question I put up on the tv shows link? I couldn't find one for this show and started one over there. Thank you so much. I really liked this show. Hope it keeps its momentum. Be nice for NBC to have a hit for a change.
I really hope the Fogals don't stay long. They lost me with the diving for the boxes. But from the commercial's it looks like they will be there for awhile.

< Actually Saggl, if you don't mind, I left your post there, closed the thread to new messages and added a link to this site for the benefit of anyone else looking there for this show :-):-) Jan>

Saggkl
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07-17-2002

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 6:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saggkl a private message Print Post    
Thanks Jan

Shelb724
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10-20-2002

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shelb724 a private message Print Post    
i'm not thrilled with this show. of course, i'm going to be watching hells kitchen, so i guess this will fall by the wayside. my daughter will be watching tho. it is an amazing race knockoff all the way tho, although maybe more thinking involved with this too. i do NOT like that host. he's a definite robot. so i'll be keeping up on here i guess :-)

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Jasper (and Shelb) you are not alone. I really struggled to watch it. I will try to give it another ep or two, but so far it does not captivate me at all... Thumbs down at this point.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Mods, how 'bout puttin' the TV shows by date threads in the "Treasure Hunters-NBC" thread? The thread "TV Shows" is an extra unneeded step. Also that way you can see all the teams when you go into a Show Date thread. With my limited gray matter, I got a little confused at first.

Color, I purposefully did it this way , because the other way, the Game thread would get lost in the middle of the many TV show threads to come :-) Sorry about that extra step - maybe you could just bookmark TV show thread - or use "Check Messages" to try to save that step ?? - jan

ETA: I have left a message asking Jimmer if he can duplicate his banner on the TV Show thread :-):-)


Nancypj
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08-17-2001

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 8:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nancypj a private message Print Post    
For those that missed last night's episodes, you can view them online at NBC.com.

Spear
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08-06-2001

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spear a private message Print Post    
The comparisons to TAR are inevitable, so:

There's a good mix of contestants, with some teams to root for and some to root against. With three members per team though, I have a bad feeling that they'll mostly be ferried from place to place instead of driving themselves or even using cabs. The four-person teams in TAR8 really limited their transportation options.

I liked that the puzzles were more challenging, mentally. I wish they had shown more teams figuring things out. I know it gets repetitive but I get suspicious when teams suddenly get past a puzzle with no explanation.

The new twists (compared to TAR) are nice to see: teams separated at the start, teams forced to work together, intentional false clues. I hope they're careful about throwing in too many random twists, though -- it might start to look like a game with no rules where everything is up to whims of the producers. I like that TAR hasn't deviated too much from its Detour - Roadblock - Pit Stop structure.

I didn't like that there was no interaction with locals. I hope this changes when they go to other countries. Having laptops with Internet access is a poor substitute.

Oh, and the host was boring and useless. They might as well have the teams reading clues. Or text messages if they really need the money from Motorola. Phil is pretty low-key but at least he interviews the teams and you get the impression that he's a competent traveler and is not just reading lines.

Mizinvanccouver
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02-22-2003

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mizinvanccouver a private message Print Post    
For those who said they wished that "The Genius" group were eliminated instead of "The Professional", I AGREE!!! Genius's seemed so useless. It was the Professional's who started down the hill first and then were smart enough to call the Mullet group to find out where they were confirming they were definitely at the WRONG location.

The Mullet's are sure funny to watch, are they really that stupid? Also the U.S.A. Beauty Queen wannabees, are they really that stupid??

As for the host, he reminds me a bit of the Swarmy Host from Joe Schmoe. LOL I think he does a fine job, I think he IS supposed to be bland and just deliver a message. Just my 2 cents.

I'm enjoying this show so far.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, June 19, 2006 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
My problem with the host is how he delivers the same message after each puzzle is solved - 10 TIMES!!!!