When I first heard that The Amazing Race was going to do a Family Edition with four-person teams, I thought "Great. Twice the bickering."
What I failed to realize is that it would be actually six times the bickering (do the math - it's nCk for n=4 and k=2). And although not every team is bickering, Garbageman's family is picking up the slack for ALL OF THEM! If they're not gone soon, I'll either stop watching or Brick my TV. And I don't want to buy a new TV. Actually, I do, just not right now. Anyway, on to the observations.
Wow! Moment: marathonfamily absolutely pwned the buggy push. Of course, they were working with a 200-pound weight advantage. But still.
Key Play: Garbageman's family leaving the campground in the last group but finishing the leg sixth. Dammit. I still want them gone, but props to one of the sons for being the only one to notice the 'hot dog' vendors were really The Frats from Season One!
It Was Over When: The Black family made an unspecified navigational error between the Detour and the pit stop, allowing the Linz family to make up the fifteenish-second gap and avoid Philmination. Don't let the editing that showed two trucks neck-and-neck approaching the pit stop fool you; both those trucks were black and the Blacks and Linzs drove gray trucks.
Posted by Chris at September 28, 2005 02:42 PMPertaining to the Black family, I just kept thinking, "What if you tuned in about halfway through the show and saw them referring to the 'Black family'?" You'd think CBS lost their mind. This actually happened to a guy at work.
Posted by: FloydWing at October 1, 2005 08:33 AMwhen the little black kid fell and need help getting up.... i started cheering for them to be last.
i can't believe i didn't notice the frats/fatties from season 1! i just saw it on gameshow network too.
Posted by: mlah at October 17, 2005 11:09 PM