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Archive through June 18, 2004

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Frogichik
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06-11-2002

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I forgot it started last night! Did anyone watch it?

Max
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08-12-2000

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 9:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I did (old habits die hard). Not too bad for a first episode. The requisite party-guy-who-can't-hold-his-alcohol-well is on board as is the gay guy. The rest of the character slots have yet to be qualified. They are in Chile. Not sure if they are going to do the entire thing in that country or if they will be going all over South America.

First mission was bungee jumping out of a helicopter over the top of an active volcano. To try and scare them more, they were told beforehand that no one had ever done this before and that if anything went wrong with the helicopter, they would be cut loose and "sacrificed". Yeah, right. I'd like to see the lawsuits then!

They bungeed in teams of two and once they fell, the helicopter flew (with them dangling) over a very populated beach, some homes, and some nice scenery before depositing them back in the field where they started.

Their 'reward' was a bag of Chilean money (somewhere over $1,000 bills -- I forget what the currency is called and have no idea of the exchange rate) and each received a VISA card (can you say 'product placement' and 'sponsorship'?) with $500 limits (I assume U.S. $$, but they didn't specify). They were told to budget wisely because if they money ran out, they wouldn't get any more.

Oh, the guy who can't handle alcohol made a homophobic comment right off the bat, before knowing that one of the other guys is gay, so that established another tension point. One of the girls speaks Spanish and Portuguese, so they're covered on that aspect, and she also said she just loves gay friends "to go shopping with and compare fashion" and stuff like that (can you say 'stereotypes'?).

As I said, old habits die hard, so I'll be taping and watching as usual. :-)

Broxi
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03-11-2004

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I forgot for some reason it was on. But I was able to catch the last 25 minutes.

I am like you Max..... except for this one wee slip... I have never missed an episode of this or RW since they started.

Amchess
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08-27-2002

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's on again today at 6:30. I remembered it was on but then fell asleep....

Frogichik
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06-11-2002

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Max for the recap! I hope I make it home by 6:30, but if not I'm sure MTV will replay it a 1000 times this weekend!

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 11:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Max, according to the exchange rate, $1 US is about 640 Chilean pesos....

I used to be a fan of RR, but I just can't seem to get into the show anymore, ever since they put in the vote-off rules...They've been rerunning the first season on the weekends on one of the local stations here, and it was the journey, not the conflicts, that was the fun part. It's just not the same anymore.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I started watching a movie on Lifetime so I had to finish watching it but I turned to RR during commercials. I also knew that if I missed it , I could see it about 50 times on MTV this week anyway. Jumping out of a helicopter over an active volcano, oh sure, I'd do that! I can barely jump off the curb!

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I intended to switch over from Love or Money to watch this but must have got lost in the Love show because LOM was over b/4 I realized I had forgotten all about RR. Oh well, like you Mamie, I'll catch it this weekend.

Amchess
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08-27-2002

Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 8:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, my grandson is still laughing at Mamie's jumping off the curb!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm glad I brought him a smile!

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Friday, June 11, 2004 - 7:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Those Lifetime movies can sure get you - gosh, I won't watch unless alone with my box of tissue.

Mamie, I'm watching this wk-end (you better too). I'm always anxious to see your opinion.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, June 11, 2004 - 8:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I totally forgot.. but seems like it is running early Sunday morning so I set it up to record..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Max.. LOL.. can we say stereotypes? I suspect with that belligerent guy who got angry drunk first night out.. can we say STEROIDS?? yeeeks!

I'd like that one to disappear, which undoubtedly means he'll last longer than I hope he will this season and become a cherished repeat contestant in the challenges for the rest of my life..



Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 6:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
These kids they get for this show are so stereotypical. It is like they are characters not real people. My kids have many friends and none that fall into such obvious categories.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 7:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know why MTV is so hung up on showing vomit. We get the point that he drank too much and he is throwing up. Do I need to see what it looks like? NO! Well, who gets drunk next week? The girls seem to have brains in their heads this time, I hope that doesn't change.

Tiernet
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06-07-2004

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dont you wonder that they give these people only X amount of money which they say is limited but yet they are drinking like fishes and that acohol cant be the cheapest thing. I would bet their bartabs are compd.

Amchess
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08-27-2002

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 11:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yikes when she flipped upside down in the waterfall! And the guy didn't even notice it at first. They have some guts - that would have blown my courage!

Max
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08-12-2000

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep, they had to up the ante. No longer is it enough to see the hapless drunk person hanging over a rail, a curb, or a hedge and HEAR the vomiting, now we get to SEE it, too. Whoopee! Gee, what's left for them to do next season? Diarrhea?

Yes, it truly seems that the girls are in charge so far. Hope it holds up.

I'm betting that the bars comp a lot of the alcohol. Otherwise, I don't know how they'd be affording all of it.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree, lots of free booze for the lure of the cameras and the draw of having the road rulers there.

And for the weeks that the season lasts, with cars and money for rewards, I wonder how difficult it would BE to, oh, maybe, drink less, smoke less, party less and sleep a bit more, run, work out.. and WIN?? Especially now that people get voted out and lose their prize.. but I guess I can't relate, at their age I'd gotten married and we were saving money so we could go back and complete educations and get jobs.. I know, boring..

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My life would be to boring for TV.
Can you imagine a group of 40 somethings on RR (or RW). They would for sure have to "change" the missions. Let's see - "if all six of you 40 somethings can walk up 10 stairs & still blow up your balloons you will win this wks piece to the puzzle". On the other hand, it might be pretty funny to watch.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think Rupert and some others on Survivor would argue a bit with you about that :-) Even Rudy..

Heck, I remember when I took backpacking. It was a night class. I was 34 then (imagine!) and many in the class were younger but some were older, including the teacher.

We had one high school kid, a rather rotund 16 year old smoker, who wanted to take the class.. he basically dragged down the whole group.. he got so winded and finally the teacher had to shorten the hike.. he gave people the option of hiking on but said HE would stay in that campsite and HE had in his possession the only fire permit.. so we all stayed there.

And no problem, people set up their tents and started breaking out their food.. that was a trip too.. there were two guys who often hiked together.. they had a tiny table top they set up on rocks with a little red and white checkered table cloth.. they broke out a bottle of wine and had a nice meal.

Then the kid, who had crawled into his tent as soon as we stopped and people helped him set up, emerged with a )(*& radio! It was made extremely clear to him that if he turned it on, the radio would be hurled off the mountain, and possibly him with it..

So the partying RR kids aren't always all that fit to go.. remember Donnell.. nevermind.. not fair to ask you to remember him when I refuse to..

Willsfan
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09-04-2000

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 10:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember Donnell. Not someone I would ever want to watch again! I felt he kept trying to stab the girls in the back to protect himself. (Cara and Mary Beth? - I think that was their names.)

Then the fight with Abe...as much as I dislike Abe I thought if Abe was kicked off the show then Donnell should have been too. But that's just me.

No way could Donnell have completed the final challenge - they did much better as a team without him.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, I like the idea of out of shape mid-lifers doing RR. I want to volunteer, my specialty is clicking through mulitple channels on TV while balancing pizza and diet coke on my knee....

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Snork!!

Mine is controlling reading material, a laptop, a mouse for a desktop puter, something to drink, something to eat and one black cat, all at once..



Ohiomobprincess
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11-07-2003

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 6:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So far this season looks like it will be interesting. Maybe it's just me, but I think all of them look way too much alike. Almost like brothers and sisters.