Post by babybear on Oct 19, 2005 10:57:54 GMT -5
The Amazing Race FE
Episode 4
Chairs and Bikes and Trailers OH MY
Subtitle : Toto I have a feeling we're not in Louisiana anymore... oh wait yes we are. Then why are we losing?
The families, who to be honest I can barely tell one whining group of dumb-asses from another (4 people teams suck!), are off to find the largest.... office chair? Ummm OK, what kind of weird artifact is that to find? It's almost as bad as my old hometown, home of the World's Largest Ax.
So we're barely off in pursuit of the huge chair when the Paolo boy starts screaming about a paper cut. Now if this were the team with the small children I could understand but he's like 16 or something. This kid is never gonna get a date when he gets back home and his classmates see him acting like a 2 year old in the throws a good old fashioned temper tantrum.
I really don't think that looks like an office chair. It reminds me of the chairs in my old church's basement growing up that we used for Sunday school and fellowship, which consisted of a pot luck type snack of sandwiches and sweets after Sunday night services. I'm not sure why we had them but I remember always having to be woken up from the pew to go downstairs to participate in said ritual. What can I say, it's hard to focus on what the preacher is saying when you're 6 and he's using so many big words and it gets boring when you run out of paper in your doodle pad that you smuggled in your purse along with a pen. What else would you need a purse for when you're 6 anyway? Not that this trip down memory lane has any direct relation to the show.
The poor Weaver family! How insensitive of the producers to make one of the tasks take place in a place similar to where their father/husband died! That had to have come out in the application interviews. Tell me that wasn't a preplanned "tear jerker" moment. I can almost see the group of CBS execs wringing their hands together in pleasure and laughing devilish echoing laughs. Muahahahahaha
Those party bikes are weirder than duck nuts! They have this odd ride on lawn mower/circle act going on. Wait, circle act? WTF does that mean? I can't even read my own notes..... oh circus act! Ride on lawn mower circus act is what I meant to say.
Why in God's name are these people letting that child climb the giant chair? I get nervous if my son climbs on a normal sized chair. You may call me overprotective but I worry that he's inherited my accident prone ways. You know the kind of accident prone where you simply step off a deck and wind up having surgery and stuck in the pediatrics wing in the hospital for 9 days. Sucks being 21 in the pead wing but at least the nurses babying you makes up for the constant noise.
The next clue is in a trailer park.... can't tell we're not in Europe can you?
That poor little blond girl can't even reach the pedals. How is this a fair challenge? If there are going to be children in this race shouldn't it be made to be fair to those with the kids. But her tiny legs are probably too tired from climbing up on that d**n HUGE CHAIR anyhow.
Do the Paolo family ever do anything except pregnant dog and whine? I think they even annoyed God judging by the storm a brewing as they ride their bike on acid. What? God can't be a fan of the Amazing Race?
Next we have Girls Gone Wild on the daughter/daddy team. Mooning another team. Wow, I bet daddy's never been so proud.
I don't remember who thought to right away use the phone book to find the location of the trailer park but it was brilliant!
And on the flip side we have the dumb-butt in the dog collar (aka Toto. you know, like in the title) who not only refused to stop and look at a phone book when it was suggested but also didn't take the directions from the local police officer. Can we say LOSER! #30#
.... By the time his screeching daughter finally convinced him to stop at a gas station and look up the clue in the phone book they'd already lost precious time and ended up one of the last to reach the clue box. Which of course caused the mouthy, bratty daughter to cry and complain to another team. Guess what honey.... they could care less. They're laughing inside like Gargamel who finally caught an MFing Smurf and was sitting down to a lovely meal of Smurf kabobs. I mean her father was a complete spaz, but get a grip girl!
Now we're searching for a man named Les... I'm assuming there must be more to it then this but I'm distracted by the news ticker of the breaking news of a dam being sandbagged.
Now they seem to be in a state park. But what about Les? I'm confused.
Oh there's Les, at a gas station. That is the weirdest random clue ever. Can you imagine if they went to the wrong gas station and some guy named Les just happened to be in there paying for his gas and picking up some Ding Dongs for the drive home and he keeps getting harassed by impatient, screaming people looking for a clue?
LOL The little girl's pen song is in such true form to a child. Only a child could find such amusement and song capabilities out of a pen. Well perhaps aside from someone who's been hitting the bottle a little too hard.
The Detour is a choice between sawing logs and winning 3 hands of 21 against a professional dealer on a casino boat. WTF? Saw the logs people, saw the logs!
If I were on that boat, trying against seemingly all odds to win against this card genius, I would have to throw the little band players off the freaking boat. Hats, little striped shirts and all. Splash!
The Paolo family make it through the logs quite quickly. Why do the not a very nice persons always seem to get ahead?
On the commercial break I ponder something. This show just isn't the same in North America. I miss the fun that not speaking the foreign languages brings and the pleasure of hearing people's bad attempts to communicate. Also we're without the token "prissy princess" looking down on the poor people and the different cultures while coming across as a moron. Some of the appeal of the show before was learning new things about far away countries and watching them flounder to try to get better flights then everyone else.
At times like this I miss Jonathan yelling at Victoria. The man has more restraint then I, her screeching drove me nuts. I really would have hit her. Did you see them on Dr. Phil? I think they have too many issues even for him.
I have no clue who it was but some blond girl is having some "get the men with the butterfly nets and straight jackets" moment over her backpack. Why in the name of all that is good and holy is this woman having a meltdown over her backpack? Take a Prozac and get a grip lady.
How can the dog collar man family be from this area and be so freaking behind? They should be completely ashamed of themselves.
It's very bittersweet to see New Orleans the happy, beautiful place it used to be. My thoughts and prayers right now are with all those that suffered in the wake of Katrina as so often they have been lately.
Kind of scary that the Amazing Race filmed in both Sri Lanka and New Orleans right before the disasters hit. I think I'd think twice about letting them into my country/city. Next thing they'll be responsible for bringing the bird flu to North America. Right now those that know me are groaning at my mention of the bird flu. Hey, a girl can be concerned!
Well the d**n Paolo's made it to 2nd place, at least they didn't get first but still.
But whoo hoo!!! The Weaver's made it in 5th place!
We're down too the hometown dumb-butts and the team with the children.
Run little girl run... someone pick up that poor child and run! She's climbed up onto a giant chair for God's sake... give her a break!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY they made it! Team #6. Which leaves Mr. Dog Collar and his annoying daughter in last place. I hope they realize that their crying and blah blah blah is not gonna make me feel sorry for them.
On an end note it was a very touching public service announcement about Katrina and it's victims at the end of the show.
Well that concludes the show and this review/random nonsensical thoughts on my part. I hope they were at least mildly entertaining.
written by babybear
Episode 4
Chairs and Bikes and Trailers OH MY
Subtitle : Toto I have a feeling we're not in Louisiana anymore... oh wait yes we are. Then why are we losing?
The families, who to be honest I can barely tell one whining group of dumb-asses from another (4 people teams suck!), are off to find the largest.... office chair? Ummm OK, what kind of weird artifact is that to find? It's almost as bad as my old hometown, home of the World's Largest Ax.
So we're barely off in pursuit of the huge chair when the Paolo boy starts screaming about a paper cut. Now if this were the team with the small children I could understand but he's like 16 or something. This kid is never gonna get a date when he gets back home and his classmates see him acting like a 2 year old in the throws a good old fashioned temper tantrum.
I really don't think that looks like an office chair. It reminds me of the chairs in my old church's basement growing up that we used for Sunday school and fellowship, which consisted of a pot luck type snack of sandwiches and sweets after Sunday night services. I'm not sure why we had them but I remember always having to be woken up from the pew to go downstairs to participate in said ritual. What can I say, it's hard to focus on what the preacher is saying when you're 6 and he's using so many big words and it gets boring when you run out of paper in your doodle pad that you smuggled in your purse along with a pen. What else would you need a purse for when you're 6 anyway? Not that this trip down memory lane has any direct relation to the show.
The poor Weaver family! How insensitive of the producers to make one of the tasks take place in a place similar to where their father/husband died! That had to have come out in the application interviews. Tell me that wasn't a preplanned "tear jerker" moment. I can almost see the group of CBS execs wringing their hands together in pleasure and laughing devilish echoing laughs. Muahahahahaha
Those party bikes are weirder than duck nuts! They have this odd ride on lawn mower/circle act going on. Wait, circle act? WTF does that mean? I can't even read my own notes..... oh circus act! Ride on lawn mower circus act is what I meant to say.
Why in God's name are these people letting that child climb the giant chair? I get nervous if my son climbs on a normal sized chair. You may call me overprotective but I worry that he's inherited my accident prone ways. You know the kind of accident prone where you simply step off a deck and wind up having surgery and stuck in the pediatrics wing in the hospital for 9 days. Sucks being 21 in the pead wing but at least the nurses babying you makes up for the constant noise.
The next clue is in a trailer park.... can't tell we're not in Europe can you?
That poor little blond girl can't even reach the pedals. How is this a fair challenge? If there are going to be children in this race shouldn't it be made to be fair to those with the kids. But her tiny legs are probably too tired from climbing up on that d**n HUGE CHAIR anyhow.
Do the Paolo family ever do anything except pregnant dog and whine? I think they even annoyed God judging by the storm a brewing as they ride their bike on acid. What? God can't be a fan of the Amazing Race?
Next we have Girls Gone Wild on the daughter/daddy team. Mooning another team. Wow, I bet daddy's never been so proud.
I don't remember who thought to right away use the phone book to find the location of the trailer park but it was brilliant!
And on the flip side we have the dumb-butt in the dog collar (aka Toto. you know, like in the title) who not only refused to stop and look at a phone book when it was suggested but also didn't take the directions from the local police officer. Can we say LOSER! #30#
.... By the time his screeching daughter finally convinced him to stop at a gas station and look up the clue in the phone book they'd already lost precious time and ended up one of the last to reach the clue box. Which of course caused the mouthy, bratty daughter to cry and complain to another team. Guess what honey.... they could care less. They're laughing inside like Gargamel who finally caught an MFing Smurf and was sitting down to a lovely meal of Smurf kabobs. I mean her father was a complete spaz, but get a grip girl!
Now we're searching for a man named Les... I'm assuming there must be more to it then this but I'm distracted by the news ticker of the breaking news of a dam being sandbagged.
Now they seem to be in a state park. But what about Les? I'm confused.
Oh there's Les, at a gas station. That is the weirdest random clue ever. Can you imagine if they went to the wrong gas station and some guy named Les just happened to be in there paying for his gas and picking up some Ding Dongs for the drive home and he keeps getting harassed by impatient, screaming people looking for a clue?
LOL The little girl's pen song is in such true form to a child. Only a child could find such amusement and song capabilities out of a pen. Well perhaps aside from someone who's been hitting the bottle a little too hard.
The Detour is a choice between sawing logs and winning 3 hands of 21 against a professional dealer on a casino boat. WTF? Saw the logs people, saw the logs!
If I were on that boat, trying against seemingly all odds to win against this card genius, I would have to throw the little band players off the freaking boat. Hats, little striped shirts and all. Splash!
The Paolo family make it through the logs quite quickly. Why do the not a very nice persons always seem to get ahead?
On the commercial break I ponder something. This show just isn't the same in North America. I miss the fun that not speaking the foreign languages brings and the pleasure of hearing people's bad attempts to communicate. Also we're without the token "prissy princess" looking down on the poor people and the different cultures while coming across as a moron. Some of the appeal of the show before was learning new things about far away countries and watching them flounder to try to get better flights then everyone else.
At times like this I miss Jonathan yelling at Victoria. The man has more restraint then I, her screeching drove me nuts. I really would have hit her. Did you see them on Dr. Phil? I think they have too many issues even for him.
I have no clue who it was but some blond girl is having some "get the men with the butterfly nets and straight jackets" moment over her backpack. Why in the name of all that is good and holy is this woman having a meltdown over her backpack? Take a Prozac and get a grip lady.
How can the dog collar man family be from this area and be so freaking behind? They should be completely ashamed of themselves.
It's very bittersweet to see New Orleans the happy, beautiful place it used to be. My thoughts and prayers right now are with all those that suffered in the wake of Katrina as so often they have been lately.
Kind of scary that the Amazing Race filmed in both Sri Lanka and New Orleans right before the disasters hit. I think I'd think twice about letting them into my country/city. Next thing they'll be responsible for bringing the bird flu to North America. Right now those that know me are groaning at my mention of the bird flu. Hey, a girl can be concerned!
Well the d**n Paolo's made it to 2nd place, at least they didn't get first but still.
But whoo hoo!!! The Weaver's made it in 5th place!
We're down too the hometown dumb-butts and the team with the children.
Run little girl run... someone pick up that poor child and run! She's climbed up onto a giant chair for God's sake... give her a break!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY they made it! Team #6. Which leaves Mr. Dog Collar and his annoying daughter in last place. I hope they realize that their crying and blah blah blah is not gonna make me feel sorry for them.
On an end note it was a very touching public service announcement about Katrina and it's victims at the end of the show.
Well that concludes the show and this review/random nonsensical thoughts on my part. I hope they were at least mildly entertaining.
written by babybear
