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TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: The Amazing Race IV (ARCHIVE): The Racers: Millie & Chuck: Archive through July 18, 2003

Spear

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 12:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, they both wanted the carriage that was first in line. Anyway, here's the blow-by-blow:

Chip does get to the carriages first but either he forgets that he needs to pull the ticket or he overshoots the first carriage. Either way, the first carriage goes past him. Millie is about to go to the second carriage but then starts to go back to the first carriage probably because she realizes that Chip hadn't grabbed the ticket for the first carriage. Chip then realizes his mistake and goes for the ticket, too. That's when the jostling occurs and it looks like Millie has the inside track but Chip holds her back. Here's a picture from the CBS web site.

So the fact that Chip is "clearly" in the lead is irrelevant. He almost screwed up (again) by not immediately grabbing the ticket and only succeeded by outmuscling Millie.

Not1worry

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 07:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I had the feeling when Millie said "I'm still doing it" about the roadblock that this was something they'd agreed on before they even began the race. Sort of like, "Wouldn't it be cool if we got to go bungee jumping? I really want to do that. Chuck, if there's bungee jumping, can I please do it?"...or whatever.

I know if it were me and my husband I certainly would have made him promise before the race that I would NOT have to do it.

Since we see in the next episode that Chuck has a panic attack at the race cars, maybe sending asthmatic Millie to jump wasn't so stupid after all. Or passibly Chuck is just used to being overruled in that relationship.

My vote is definitely for gutsy, nothing stupid about it. We all deal with our problems, and it didn't look like her coughing slowed them down but a minute or two.

Tabbyking

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 09:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
bob, quit making coffee come out my nose!

Tabbyking

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 09:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
besides, i believe it might actually be n0-69.

Beachcomber88

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 08:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Millie gets asthmatic attacks and can't breathe.
Chuck gets panic attacks and can't breathe.
They're made for each other!

At least this time Millie was smart enough to tell Chuck to do the road block when she realized she couldn't breathe. Chuck's claustrophobia must be very severe if it causes him to react the way he did.

Crazydog

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 08:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am very claustrophobic as well but I don't understand what the problem was with the race car. I think I would have been fine there because it was open to the air. It's the cave-type tasks that I would have problems with. I guess he just felt like he was jammed into a very small space.

Still think he has very bad hair.

Hermione69

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 11:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't really care for these guys and I am not sure why. I sense a passive-aggressiveness about Millie that comes through in a lot of her confessionals that makes me feel sorry for Chuck! He seems to be the more compassionate of the two. Again, as with most of the others, none of my feelings about anyone, except Monica and Sheree whom I adore, are very strong. I could end up liking them a lot in another week or two, but for now, nah, not so much.

Chiparock

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 11:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not fond of UpChuck and keep hoping they'll be eliminated ASAP. Thought I'd spew my diet soda when one of the women called her "Millie the Mole."

Beachcomber88

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 01:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Let me get this straight...you've been together twelve long years, and now you're just realizing that you may have "serious compatibility problems"? HELLO?! Just how much time have you really been spending together this last decade+two? Apparently not enough.

Bobbie_552001

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 04:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I started out really liking this couple. But now..I almost feel sorry for them. After all this time (12 years) they finally get "it" that this is real life....

Crazydog

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 06:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Their relationship seems to have serious issues. It was very telling when they wasted their Fast Forward just because they were having arguments in the boat in the canal. I think they really are starting to resent each other. As Millie was freaking out when she was being strapped to the windmill, the camera cut to Chuck and he looked like he couldn't care less. I also thought it was great how he said "to Millie, trust is to do exactly what she says". I think Millie is bossy and shrewish and Chuck's got it right. So sad though. 12 years, you would think they'd have figured it out by now. Have they never taken a trip together before in 12 years?

Seamonkey

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 08:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not liking them.

Crazydog

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 01:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
She gets more and more annoying each week. I think she is very brusque with the local people she comes across. Whenever she asks anyone anything, she comes off sounding very impatient and demanding. Even when she was asking those Indian residents to show her where the train station was, to me it sounded like she was ordering them around. I really can't stand her.

I don't like him either. The way he just stood on the train platform, not even attempting to get onto the train... just pathetic.

Did anyone catch that half-hearted high-five they gave each other when they got to the mat?

I haven't seen any indication that these two are a real couple in love with each other. Hardly any signs of affection at all. Seems to me that they are severely incompatible. I think they are together just because they have invested so much time in each other already, and they're too lazy to start looking for someone else. It's just plain sad. I feel a little sorry for them.

Crazydog

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 09:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My hate for her continues to bloom. I thought it was very telling when she said that she and Chuck have made no attempts to befriend the other teams. So sad. I know it's a race, but at least try and have fun and get to know the people. Every past racer has said that they had a great time hanging out with each other.

She is SO serious and humorless. She needs to smile some instead of always having that grim face of doom. I think she is the pits. How funny that Tian and Jaree said on the Early Show that she has an unpleasant personality.

Seamonkey

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 11:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't care for this team, but with some of the mean, gradeschool taunting, I don't think I'd be befriending the others either.

Millie and Kelly seem to be competing for the Wicked Witch of the World title.. (Kelly's winning)

Beachcomber88

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
These two have become my least favorite team. They are so incompatible. How it took them twelve years to discover this is truly pathetic. They must not have gone on any trips together or spent a significant amount of time with each other. I didn't even really care when they were talking about their relationship and Millie (through choked tears) was saying how she just wanted him to be happy. I wouldn't be surprised if they've already ended their relationship by now.

One of the funniest moments of the year was when Millie fell into the fish tank with the whole basket of fish. I didn't quite catch it all. Why was she carrying the whole basket? Did they have fifteen? And then I thought I heard Chuckie say something like "don't fall in" and then she promptly made her splash.

I think it was quite fortunate for them that they ended up accidentally being brought to the fish tanks instead of the lobster crate. Can you imagine what would have happened? Asthmatic weak Millie and plodding deliberate Chuckie trying to hoist the crate?

"Charles" bothers me more than Millie. The whole road block scene when he was failing miserably was pathetic. His facial expressions, looking down at the ground, his attitude - ugh! I just wanted to inject some vigor and energy into this slow-poke numbskull.

Crazydog

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 10:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They have been my least favorite team for a long time now. At this point I would like to see anybody win except for them. I just can't stand her - she seems so impatient with everyone.

I thought she showed a great deal of disrespect with her comments at the Malaysian blessing ceremony. "Voodoo chant"? Give me a break. She was just plain ignorant. Add this to their obvious discomfort at Chip and Reichen's "we're gay" announcement and to me you have a pair of people who seem pretty intolerant of any religious and cultural differences.

And what was with Chuck's "And we're virgins!" announcement? I thought it was funny how everyone thought that was more odd than Chip and Reichen's news. Gay people, so normal, but dating for 12 years and virgins? Call out the freak police!

Millie's pidgeon English to the Malay locals was also offensive to me. "No break down?" and "Hey! Lobster boat?" was cringe inducing.

And why were they in the water in the first place? How does being IN the water with the fish make it any easier to catch them? Was she going to just grab them with her hands? If the water was murky, and you stuck your head underwater looking for fish, like Chuck seemed to, would you still not see the fish unless it was two inches in front of you?

Seamonkey

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 10:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, the voodoo thing.. not the right area.. I'm disappointed that there was nothing about the grandmother and her blessing on the site when I looked..

I also noticed the pidgin prattling..

And already soapboxed elsewhere about the straight couples needing to bring sex into their "confessions", which Reichen and Chip did not..

Not1worry

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 11:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Their body language at the dinner just screamed "We hate each other". What I heard when they revealed they'd been dating 12 years was a tone of "Yeah, can you friggin believe I've wasted all this time on him/her?" I didn't think it was discomfort about the gay announcement (everyone had figured this out by now, I'm sure). I thought it was discomfort at being around happy couples while they are rapidly realizing they are not one. When Millie was saying she wanted Chuck to be happy, even her half-hearted sob seemed forced. And Chuck was all but nodding his head emphatically.

Crazydog

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 12:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You can add to that Millie's attempt to give "Charles" a hug at the pitstop, and he just kind of backed away and took her hand. I think he is miserable with her and I don't blame him.

Beachcomber88

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 12:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Loved when he yanked her back by her ginormous backpack, and then to have her tell him how she hates that. Finally get to see at least one ounce of assertiveness by Charles.

These two are dysfunctional. If they end up married, that's one miserable couple. Chuckie is just one pathetic stick in the mud. I'm really curious to read their post race interview and see why all these compatibility problems never surfaced in their 12 years of dating.

Hippyt

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 01:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree with you Beachcomber,these two are so neurotic! So,under pressure,Chuck just basically shuts down???? What is that?? ,get some meds or counseling,Please!!!!

Beachcomber88

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 01:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Reread Chuckie's bio...
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Chuck, 28, a self-employed Tennessean, has most recently worked as a valet, hauler, construction worker and personal trainer.
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Considers himself more "slow and deliberate" than his teammate, Millie, whme he says is "more fearless" and "less thoughtful" than himself. Chuck tries to remain calm under pressure or if upset, but admits to having a "unique pouting manner."
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Self-employed? A valet, a hauler, construction worker, and a personal trainer. Don't mean to offend anyone out there, but these don't strike me as jobs of anyone with any type of ambition. OK, construction worker, maybe - at least that requires some skill. What exactly is a "hauler"?

What is Chuckie's "unique pouting manner"? Anyone who knows that they have a particular pouting manner is in serious trouble. This guy has problems. I agree, Hippy, not sure what the shutting down under pressure is. Sheesh, you can't shoot a bow and arrow if you're nervous? Aren't you the athletic one? I think Chuckie's plodding and methodical nature annoys me more than Millie. Chuckie, you need some Prozac. And Millie, find some Ritalin.

Moondance

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 02:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Private Trainers have no ambition??? I have been a trainer for over 18 years and own my own company. I make a great living and have a very rewarding job!

Crazydog

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 02:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I understand what Beach is saying. He's saying that Charles is just bouncing from odd job to odd job. Basically, whatever will pay him money. It's not the particular job which necessarily shows he has no ambition, it's that he has no focus.

If he wants to be a personal trainer, that's great, but why is he no longer a personal trainer? As I see it right now, "self-employed" is code for "I'm currently not working". He's just a body for hire. It's as if he was walking down Main Street and some guy in a trenchcoat pops out of the alley and says, "hey, how'd you like to be a hauler? Show up at 8:30 at the old junkyard."