The Amazing Race 26 - Death slot, schmeath slot!

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Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I hate the blind date gimmick but that was still an enjoyable first episode.

Man, don't do the dance on Amazing Race if you can avoid it.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2015 22:57

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 16:40

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I think with a weaker cast all the gimmicks would probably put me off but the cast is strong enough that I'm enjoying this more than stuff in years.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 00:14

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I'm ok with good choice bad choice at this point in the season since it tends to harm people who aren't familiar with the show or very smart early on.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2015 20:08

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Baddog posted:

Cant believe they blurred the statue's naughty bits.

This was hilarious. They blurred something you could see in a grade school classroom.

I've really enjoyed this season so far. Kurt was lousy but he was gone quick enough that it didn't drag on the season. Haley would be amazingly difficult to race with but his hilarious in my living room, and she actually is quite likeable when she's being positive.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2015 11:33

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I haven't watched every season but the hip hop challenge might be the most dejected the people putting on the challenge show have ever seemed to me.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2015 21:56

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

The Green Team checks off a lot of the boxes that usually make me not like a team on this show, but I dunno, I really dig them. I'm glad they were able to survive. I'll miss the cheerleaders though.

And as recently four weeks ago, I said to myself "hey who's that guy with the beard?" because I had just completely forgotten the paparazzi existed. I'm kind of surprised they're here at the end for as weak of an edit as they got basically until they ran out of other teams to talk about.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2015 10:44

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Factor Mystic posted:

I like it when racers are upbeat and try to engage the locals. It really beats the "ughhh get all the dirty brown people away from me" vibe lots of racers have given off in the past. Meanwhile Justin is high fiving everyone in sight and Diana is giving out temporary tattoos. I like that.

Ha, ok that explains a lot

Don't forget the middle-aged super dorks Diana handed out temporary tattoos to as well.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2015 22:08

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

This was rough. I'm not normally an anti-youtube type, in fact I respect the medium quite a bit, but they found some aggressively bad people. I'll put up with it a while longer because it's not the first or second time I've disliked most of the teams out of the gate but usually I come around.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2016 11:46

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

The second episode was a lot more tolerable to me for whatever reason. Colombia looks amazing.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2016 23:03

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I got like half a panic attack watching those teams run around looking for the bags and the vendors.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2016 12:44

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Blair looks like a completely different person with a hat on.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2016 11:21

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Normally the dancing shows give me half a pani because I could never do choreographed dance thing but I liked this one because they basically just put everyone through who didn't go "aww shucks I suck" and stop dancing.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2016 05:03

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Eltoasto posted:

Although it is amusing that Brodie is apparently super dumb and he can't be protected from doing tasks any longer.

I am enjoying this subplot.

And much respect to the Amazing Race editors, they usually do their job of making me like almost anyone after a long season and I'm mostly on board with all of these people, flaws and all.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2016 22:57

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 16:40

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Could be budget cuts too. Like, Survivor clearly has had its budget slashed but when that happens they can just make every other challenge a balance challenge of some sort and call it a day. You can't really do Amazing Race on the cheap I'd imagine. The show is well made, and I think even Sheri and Cole have finally grown on me through the power of television editing, but I don't really care who wins at this point.

# ¿ May 8, 2016 10:40

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