The World Is Waiting for The Amazing Race 2018

No one cares. Not "the world," certainly.

Oh, bless your heart. You may be waiting, but no one else is. I'm sorry, honey.

CBS has identified the 25 Most Unforgettable Teams

The list includes our Josh and Brent as well as Supergays Reichen and Chip. It also includes the gay deaf guy and his Maaaaaaaa!

Uchenna and Joyce, the Cowboys, The Globetrotters

Justin Kanew of Zeb and Justin is currently running for Congress as a Democrat

Who is missing from the list? Surely Rob and Amber and the duo from Big Brother aren’t memorable

New race begins this week!

These two cutiies aren’t just team mates, they also live together and bicker. No mention of girlfriends....

There is a gay team who are singers. TAR Canada is so much better nowadays than TAR USA.

Watched them film the start of the race in Washington Square Park a couple of months ago

[quote] There is a gay team who are singers.

Yes, it is two of the guys from Well Strung, Chris Marchant and Trevor Wadleigh.

That show is still around? Huh.

Best Reality show on TV- no plot just racing..and people bitching each other out.

I can already tell the Well Strung guys and the goat yoga girls are going to be annoying. Still excited that the show is finally back.

The tasks over the past few seasons have been a snooze.

I want the racers to interact with disinterested or outright hostile natives. And I also want them to interact with disinterested and outright hostile animals.

Cats! Goats! Donkeys! Camels! Horses!!!!

Thanks for the reminder

I had no idea that Josh and Brent had been on TAR! This is a revelation for me. I only know them from the Beekman goat milk products by way of Evine. And the won too? They must be incredibly athletic and coordinated.

I might start watching again, haven't tuned in since Zak and Flo's season.

The show has considerably dipped in quality recently. Shitty cast, shitty locales, shitty tasks.

We don’t speak of the especially awful “Internet Star” season.

We are hoping for a return to quality tonight but won’t be shocked if it’s a drag.

I can't wait! But I won't be reading this thread until it's over!

Will this be the official thread?

Yes! Official Thread!!

Is anything official without "Official" in the title? BTW this was not the first thread on TAR 30.

I'm watching. I hope the Big Brother team gets knocked out early. I hate stunt casting like that.

The Yalies are already annoying.

Welcome back to my TV, Phil!

The Goat Yoga mom's business isn't going to survive TAR.

Host credit upfront for Phil after 30 seasons!

Stunning Miss Iceland

I think the tall indy racer is secretly in love with the short one. Short one doesn't have a clue.

No camera time for Team Gay! I guess they bored the producers. I think I'm kind of leaning for Team Yale. At least until the first shirtless part of the competition

Alex Rossi is kind of hot.

Aww, I liked them.

After episode 1, I'm rooting for the female extreme sports team that came in first. All female teams hardly ever win.

The basketball team was way too nice, telling the ring girls where the parking was and helping the other lady with the spelling.

Who was the bitch who couldn't park? OMG. You don't go on TAR without being able to park a semi in a compact car space, driving a manual transmission, swim, etc. Craziness. Was she one of the women who got eliminated? If you take that long to park you deserve to go out first.

The ending was nuts.

I am shocked I tell you that they didn't have to visit the Icelandic Phallological Museum

The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country.

I'm rooting for the extreme sport girls, and Indy car racers.

The Yale guy is very cute.

Glad its back

I don't like any of them. Why can't they have ordinary teams again?

I do miss them having older competitors. I don’t think there’s anyone over 40.

The basketball players are older.

I cannot find the current cast anywhere, I keep finding former cast.

Is this season 30 or 31?

[quote] I cannot find the current cast anywhere, I keep finding former cast. Is this season 30 or 31?

This is Season 30, and the current cast is quite easy to find.

Click through slides at link to see each team.

The CBS link to the cast.

I don't know why the above link says cast 2015 but it is the current cast for season 30 year 2018

This link has each teams photo on one page and shows the eliminated team(s) in red.

That was the problem I had. I saw 2015 and I didn't have the good sense to go to a site(such as Just Jared)other than CBS's official one.

Thanks to all who helped me!

[quote]I am shocked I tell you that they didn't have to visit the Icelandic Phallological Museum

[quote]The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country.

And as an inside joke, the clue could have been "Meet Phil in front of the Phallological Museum where he'll be greeting you with a huge package which will help you to your next destination"

Do you have to park the car properly? After wasting that much time i would have left it parked in the middle of the street and ran to finish. Do they get penalized?

This is not looking good. Our gay people barely got airtime despite being 4th. Which means they wont last very long 😔😔😔

Cody looked cute in his tan stocking cap

Favorite team of all time: the queens who went shopping in Singapore. I'm not seeing much potential with this new lot.

Oswald and Danny, R48?

Quite a surprise -- AR beat all its network time-slot competition last night, scoring a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating compared to 1.5 for The Goldbergs, 1.4 for The X-Files, 1.0 for The Blacklist and 0.2 for Riverdale.

It also drew more total viewers (7.31 million) than any other show for the night.

R48 Because they only focused on 4 teams, give or take. They almost even ignored the existence of the other teams, and then there's the eliminated team which barely got any airtime. I was like-- who are these girls again?

The neurotic bitches should have been cut.

Is this the official thread

Yes.

Cody is still a mental case. I laughed when they lost 1st place. Ha ha ha

What do you think was the best season of TAR?

Really?

I know there's usually only one official gay team, but there sure seems like there are some gay players in this season

UGH Jessica and Cody from Big Brother - he still looks psycho

He is psycho. I hope they get booted soon.

They don't. They make it to final three.

Yeah I could tell CBS is going to give it to them when he got the Iceland challenge over the Yale grads...lol.

Actually they were u-turned once and on 2 occasions were last at the pit stop. Doesn't look like CBS rigging.

Could we please keep this thread spoiler-free?

Please no spoilers. I have so little to excite me these days—please don’t take the enjoyment of Amazing Race away from me.

Fuck you asshole who’s giving spoilers. Are these like the Survivor spoilers that are always wrong?

This is NOT a spoiler... But I think the goat yoga wins. Since the last two seasons' winners seem to fight a lot.

I hope the Big Brother team gets U-turned.

On second thought, maybe not. Cause that would mean that they would get MORE airtime. 😛

So you are saying they come in last twice and don't get eliminated...yeah that would be cbs keeping them in the race.

I am confuzzled. Does someone here already know the outcome? Are you a CBS insider? Do you hate people?

Bah humbug to you.

For the first Detour, where one team member had to cross on the high wire, I think it would have been more interesting if they had to retrieve an Icelandic flag printed on a card hanging from the wire but the catch being multiple random envelopes, some containing the flag cards and others not. If the Racer retrieved an incorrect envelope, they would have to go again until they found a correct one.

The competitive eater (ugh!) looks sickly. His eyes are sunken and his skin is waxy. His organs are probably all fucked up and it’s showing on his face.

We can only hope he eats Cody and Jessica...I would pay to see that.

Or just the homophobic Cody

Jess still can’t cope unless she has an ugly bandanna on her head. Is it her security blanket? Is it to hide the tracks of her extensions?

I love that Cody has his dog tags hanging out in every shot - Look at me Murica I am a vet..and thier matching camo hats...ugh.

“I want him off of my couch...”

(“...and into my bed. ❤️ “)

“Cody and Jessica, you are team number TWO. No massahhhge in the spahhh for you.”

So Cody’s babymama and daughter are watching him call Jess “the love of my life” on national TV. Charming.

Ha I thought the same thing r26. Tall Indy racer is likely hoping short Indy racer realizes he's been in love with him all along.

Cody eats Jess’ snatch? Ewwww!

Stop obsessing over Cody and Jessica. The less we hear about them, the better.

Are they filming it differently? Something seemed...off when I was watching it.

“Babe! You got this, babe! Babe! Babe! Babe!”

Is anyone else hoping that the Big Brother team hurts themselves?

I just don't want the Race Car Drivers to come in last, well Alex I don't care about the other guy.

The blonde gay musician has an award-worthy ass

How exactly are the violin guys one of the most competitive teams ever? Are there wedding band competitions they compete in, of which I'm not aware?

Also going to include the goat yoga chicks to my post @ r90. How is goat yoga even remotely competitive?

Awww I will really miss them, who were they again?

Won’t miss goat yogurt

First two episodes have been boring

Goat yoga isn’t competitive, silly! It’s QUIRKY and creates moments to be shared on Instagram!

That is ALL that matters!

The budget for the show has been drastically cut. There is much less travel and kess costly challenges. Its glaringly obvious that costs were cut.

They broght in a little person and all he did was stand there. They should have had the teams chase him or something.

Ucch, that last minute race was stupid. Not a good addition to the show. Although those goat yoga fraus were destined to be eliminated

Not sure I like the head-to-head competition format, but at least they're trying something new to keep the show fresh.

Next week, Team Big Brother reminds the world that they are awful people

Yales performance on that challenge was abysmal. Hustle was lacking til the end. They certainly were put thru the ringer when everybody else got lucky.

The firefighter twin purposefully rammed the other girl's car, it flipped around and that caused her to lose and get eliminated. That's some bull. You could even tell he felt guilty at the end when he apologized to her

He can cry into his million bucks

Not surprised that the mean goat yoga lady made her partner run the race a second time. What a bitch.

Terrible list, R3, so pedestrian. No Colin and Christie? (I named a cat after Colin, I loved him so much). No Jon and Kelly? Funny as hell. No, two cute brothers one of whom ended up on "Big Bang."?

Instead we get that retard couple from "Big Brother" that nobody cares about on either show? Jesus...

as mentioned above, no Oswald and Danny and their shopping spree? No model Brandon and his angelic blonde hair? No two sober male models? Or hockey player guys?

Okay, I see my list would be very different. The Asian doctor and her partner would be nowhere near it. Off the guys, I also loved the black woman and her dad who got so moved by the slave ship gate in South Africa. They were both sweet. I miss when the show was like that, when we really got to know the teams. I don't think I have really felt that way since Rob and Amber's season way back when. Which also included my cute brothers who overturned their car, a great scary moment.

Hey! We see a lot of hetero kisses, why not show the gay ones? Pretty sure they kissed(or more 😉), considering they finished 1st and come at 7th on the next challenge.

At least, they seem to be doing well!

I don’t think the gay guys are a couple, just friends and coworkers.

R106 It says dating.

R106 Here

I want to see Cody bond with the gay guys.

I loved the first five or six seasons of TAR then stopped watching it around the time of the family edition. I came back to it for the last half of last season and was largely unimpressed, but I thought I'd give this season a shot from the start. It's clear the budget for the show has been cut and some of the challenges make no sense. (Why did the skyladder racers have to wait until five competitors showed up? Why not climb when they got there?) I also miss the "drama" of there being two or three flights to the next destination and ticket-agent politicking instead of everyone being on the same flight and starting the first challenge all bunched up (also, what was the point of the going to the Antwerp chocolatier?). The *idea* of the head-to-head challenge was good, but the challenge itself was so repetitive it became uninteresting (and the frites costumes were stupid and Phil's action commentary unnecessary), so I just FF'd to the end of it. That said, the print shop and diamond challenges were old-school TAR and appreciated by me, as they had to use their brains instead of just being driven through mud puddles. I especially liked the print shop one -- loved that the extreme racers (I think) knew to hold the paper reversed up to the light to show how the type should be laid; I couldn't believe no one else saw them and copied that. More of those, please. I had to laugh that the doofus Indy racer just sat there and let his teammate do all the diamond math.

These teams all seem largely interchangeable to me, but I'll be pulling for the gay musicians, I guess. I'll give it a couple more episodes, but I have a feeling I won't last much longer than that. A shame, because the first few season were terrific. (Also: Phil has been around the world THIRTY TIMES now.)

Yeah, the Family Edition marks when I ceased knowing all the racers anymore. Didn't watch it, was mid-move to another state anyway, and never paid as much attention again. But those first seasons were bliss.

R109 I think he might be homophobic. None of the gays follow him on IG

Though.. Am I the only one who hears a gay accent from Cody?

If Cody is gay, he’s so far in the closet that he’s lost in Narnia. No, he’s just your average uneducated bigot who thinks he’s God’s Gift.

Yes, I watched his season of Big Brother.

Phil’s play-by-play commentary of the Frites Race could’ve been silly or campy but he started out uninspired and only got bored as the races went on

If even Phil has tuned out, why are we sticking around?

TAR CANADA does the Face Off competes well, but i think it goes by a different name. Yet, Canada does it better - both teammates compete and there is no narration.

Short gay Chris with Steve Grand

R116 Those speedos are too short!!

That head-to-head race was the most boring challenge I've seen on the show. What a waste of 20 mins. Even Phil seemed bored. A challenge that had them making chocolate or tasting/categorizing chocolate would have been better since they were in Belgium.

They should have been made to chase the little man through the cobblestone streets and when captured, tickle him until he gives up his chocolate bar.

I've read the spoilers and I'm right about who the Final 3 were.

Phil’s play-by-play commentary was annoying. Cut out that Jeff Probst bullshit and just stand there quietly and show up your enormous basket!

Lucas reminds me a bit of a young Tom Chase. Big dick face.

More boring challenges

I would never have figured out where the coins for the phone call were.

I've noticed too that the show quality has gone downhill. You never see most of the teams actually getting to a roadblock, they are just there. You have no idea when and in which order they made it there. And half the time when you see someone running, you can't tell who it is because of bad camera work and quick cuts. Still a good show but its a shame.

That fucking gnome is STILL around. Gah... The find-the-roof challenge probably seemed better in the producers' mindseye -- in reality it was just a lot of aimless running around because the audience had no reference point to where the racers needed to go. And the *racers* should have ziplined, not that cursed product-placement statuary. Next week -- near drowning! Maybe we'll get some airport-gate drama, too.

Of course, the teaser made us anticipate a fight between Jessica and the Southern Girl when instead the “fight” consisted of one line uttered by SG: “Jessica may have sabotaged me on purpose but maybe she didn’t.”

Ugh. This show is coasting on fumes.

The racers absolutely should have been the ones ziplining. Even Jessica said that when she got to the first roof. Carrying around the gnome is bad enough, but then watching it zipline all over the place was too much.

Also the belly dancing was stupid. I thought they were going to take belly dancing lessons and then actually, you know, belly dance. Instead they just kind of wandered around the cafe. The dancing challenges used to make you learn the dances. This was stupid.

There's just no urgency to any of the challenges anymore. Take the fish at the beginning- an easy, stupid challenge that doesn't really give anyone any trouble. There's nothing to figure out. It's boring to watch. The budget has clearly been slashed too.

I agree with the recent comments, but still look forward to the show.

I was shocked to hear the one older black athlete has had 3 heart attacks and he’s not 50!

Yup they are building up the old Trump voter sympathy for Cody - showing he was in the airforce AND the marines...he is a red blooded american hero!!!

Speaking of the strange editing, I kept wondering where Team High Strung (this season's sole gay team) was throughout most of the episode especially when everyone was racing through the streets. It seemed as if they weren't getting as much air time as some of the others teams, leading me to worry that it was an omen of them being Philiminated.

Despite doing fairly well each leg, the gay team has had very little screentime and we've gotten to know them far less than other teams like Cody & Jessica, the Yale grads, the ex-NBA players and the race car drivers. Hell, even those competitive eaters have spoken more to the camera.

Have you seen their recaps? By the sound of it, they are doing REALLY well. There's a possibility in each episode in which they can be first place if it werent for their little mistakes.

Episode 1. They are behind the other teams by 30 minutes due to being on the 2nd flight. Still, they manage to almost tie up with the other 2nd and 3rd place teams.

Episode 2. They're first to complete on the first challenge and then they got lost.. They goy the hard detour, but again, managed to catch up.

Episode 3. Chris was supposedly first to arrive after the booth one, but he got lost again.

I think they'll get eliminated by a U-Turn or just by getting lost.

At least, Trevor already had named two episodes by now.

Often on Survivor, a player who doesn't get much screen time week to week makes it to the end or close to it and gets his/her screen time later on. (This is not always true, of course. See JP in the recent Survivor, but that's because he had no personality whatsoever, just nice pecs.) So I think High Strung is in this for awhile. Often a player or team who gets a lot of screen time one week goes home the next, so I'm predicting Team NBA goes home next, plus they have a speed bump to deal with.

Will there be 2 eliminations next week? It's a 2-hour ep

2 hours? OMG! I'm so excited I could just shit!!!

Chip, you know how I hate the brown word.

WHERE is Phil's Amazing Package?!? The camera has to focus on a full body shot, not just above the waist!!

Did Chip and Reichen kiss on their season?

The show has been so boring that it's been a chore to get through it. Sad.

I agree with earlier posters that the editing this season has been terrible. I'm hoping that, as the number of contestants gets whittled down, the editing won't be as confusing.

They're a bit awkward on the dating part.. hmm...

Oh damn Alex shaved off his scruff, he looks better with the scruff.

Poor Alex isn't getting a massage.

No way was the sailboat challenge fair to the basketball players. They're literally twice the size of other players.

Cody’s legs in those shorty-shorts on the lil boat

With a head to head challenge at the end, it really doesn't matter that much if you come in last or next to last.

Jacks? Are they trying to kill this show?! Awful.

The jacks challenge is the most boring challenge I’ve ever seen on the show. Zzzzz.

Cody would be a 10/10 if he was tall.

Oh I didn't realize tonight was a two hour episode.

Evan sounds like and looks like (a blonde) Dakota Johnson.

Cody's wet ass in those short shorts was pretty amazing in that boat challenge.

I guess I’m rooting for the gays. None of these teams are fun or interesting.

I like team IndyCar.

Lucas is 100% my type, so I'm also rooting for team Ocean Rescue. Brittany is a lucky bitch.

Brittany is a thoroughbred!

Brittany has huge flotation devices.

Yikes. All the teams are bland as. No characters to speak of at all.

Who casts this shit?

Yes, the teams are very bland this season, but at least they are not downright hateful as they have been the past 5-6 seasons. The social media star season, the blind date season, the random pairing season. Who was that blonde kid with his mom? Cole maybe? I wanted to strangle him every episode.

The may have over course corrected with this boring people, but they don't make me want to throw rocks at my TV.

You can tell the budget has been slashed to shreds. The jacks was a TERRIBLE challenge.

I'm guessing that due to world events, the teams and crew have a limited amount of time to be in each country. I agree that the challenges are boring now. Building a catapult?? Team members in the stocks?? I prefer the earlier seasons when they really helped the countrymen by doing things to help them.

Like a poster upthread, I still watch the damn show every week and every season.

TWO head to head competitions! This show has gone to shit. What's the point of being in the front if you can be eliminated later for one dumb challenge. It kills the whole idea of the show. If you have to have these stupid things, at least put them earlier in the episode.

That van Gogh challenge was really lame.

Phil acknowledged in a tweet that some fans have expressed their displeasure with the head-to-head challenges.

I wonder if anyone bothered to complain about the boat-stacking road block. No need to go to France to stack boats, there are plenty of boats to be stacked right here at home.

The Van Gogh challenge was AWFUL and had nothing to do with the artist really. I thought they were going to have to paint the painting again.

While I thought the petanque challenge was interesting (I also like to watch curling), I agree it did not make for gripping television. I hope Phil's done with the head-to-head challenges, never mind his Probstian narration of them, because they're antithetical to the nature of a, you know, race.

Also, sailing is hard. I have never understood how a boat can go forward into the wind. Well, intellectually, I understand the physics of it, but I've never been able to make a sunfish do it. And putting the non-trebuchet builders in stocks just seemed mean. It made my back hurt just looking at them.

Next head to head will be chess!

Can you imagine Phil's commentary?

If they don't have the budget to come up with new and interesting challengers, then just revive all the old one's. Some were very good. I see they are doing the old phone one in Prague next week, which I think stumped the Globetrotters-from memory.

I use love this show but they just can't seem to get the casting right anymore or ordinary folk just no longer apply. Where are the characters we used to get like Charla & Mirna etc?

And they cant blame it all on budget.

AR Canada have a minuscule budget compared to their cousin over the border, but they always come up with better casts and good challenges.

If they can’t afford cool one-on-one competitions, at least make them unique and fun to watch.

Tickle fight-first one to pee loses

Gross food eating-if you can’t eat an entire goat head faster than your opponent, you have to eat another one and another one until you win

Car hotwiring—armed with only pliers, whichever team member gets the car started first without instructions wins

Bel Ami internship - teams fly to the Czech Republic and all the men have to learn how to pleasure each other on camera.

The marriage proposal of Team Lifesaver was nice, but the editing is really lame this season. And, of course, another Big Brother team. But overall the teams do seem nice. I am rooting for the remaining womem team, the couple from Yale being so geeky, the race car team (they are hot!) and maybe the Strung Up (the gay team), but they are barely in it. And the challenges do seem kind of lame so far.

I agree, r67. If the TAR producers and staff were more creative, they could come up with better challenges on a tight budget. It's almost as if they're phoning it in at this point.

But yes Cody in those shorts on the boat... my God. And I love Alex the race car driver and his partner too (are they gay?) The Well Strung gays are growing on me. Lucas is also hot and one of the competitive eaters had gorgeous eyes and a nice smile. So there’s that.

Lucas has not only dated that woman for nearly a decade but he’s considering marrying her!

Straight guys are so strange.

No way the race car drivers dont fuck

Yeah, I was think those race car drivers are living an open secret. His little friend sets off my gaydar like crazy. And he's cuter than the driver

They're both drivers, but Alex the taller one is way more successful, hence the little one having to live on his couch.

I actually think the tall one is secretly in love with the short one, and hopes him letting him live with him will awaken an undiscovered affection for him too. However, the little one is straight, and is breaking tall driver's heart.

They do have a loving vibe, whether or not they've consummated it...

Both drivers are teeny tiny.

Note their height when they’re standing next to a woman.

The tall racecar driver said something while the small one was building the trebuchet.. something like " he doesn't put together the furniture in the (both their last names hyphenated, ex. Smith-Jones) household " maybe just because he's crashing on the couch.. maybe they are gay

During the sailing challenge, Jess yelled out to Cody something like “I’ll give you a massage tonight!” and the driver standing next to her quickly said, “My team mate is definitely NOT getting a massage from me tonight!”

So if the drivers are fucking, that is their little secret.

I guess that answers that.

I enjoyed last season. Plenty of eye candy and most of the teams were cool. I think since they were on the bubble of being cancelled, CBS gave it one more chance but cut the budget. At least the move to Survivor's time slot has shown there is still interest.

The BB team seems ok to me since I haven't watched that shithow in years. Is he the bodybuilding former military guy from Kentucky? Seems less jacked now, if so.

The head to head comps need to stop. I'd be pissed to run a good leg only to have this bullshit push me back. It's boring and brings the show down when it should be the most exciting.

Agreed on the head-to-head competitions. They're manifestly unfair.

Alexander Rossi always seems so cool and collected. Conor Daly seems slow.

The BB guy isn’t a bodybuilder from Kentucky. He’s former military who now sells aluminum siding door-to-door in central Texas.

I've given up on this show. Sad way to go out.

Can anyone identify who is saying "Oh My God" every leg?? It's kinda irritating

R150 Also, if he's not homophobic..

R169 Dang it! Now we know who gets eliminated next week!! 😠😠

The execution / edit of this season feels so clumsy. The host's commentary during the head to head games is either badly executed (good idea on paper, but ...), or downright mocking something or someone (Probst?). It's like the production hired fresh talent that has no idea what works, or doesn't work, in practice.

[quote] tylset Tell @chrisjmarchant I said hi!

Seth Tyler from last season trying to get it on with single Chris.

Is someone hiding behind the curtain in that picture?

The show has been winning its timeslot, so I think there will be more AR. It seems like they are giving Cody and Jessicunt a winners edit. Play down the bitchy and make anti-social homophobe Cody seem like a hero.

R193 90% sure Jody wont win. They'll probably be in the final 3, but thats it

Cody and Jessica are definitely getting a prominent edit with lots of face time. I don't know if they'll win, but I think they'll make it to the finale.

Oh, please. They are getting a great edit because they are CBS "celebrities" and the network thinks that's what everyone is tuning in for.

We finally get a hot(and extremely likable) gay team on AR, and all any of you can talk about are the straight guys. The two violinists are far hotter than any of the straight guys, but none of you self-loathers are attracted to out gay men.

This is why gay celebrities stay in the closet.

Oh, please, r197. The musicians haven't been spotlighted much yet, so not much to talk about. Get over yourself.

Exactly, R198.

R197 needs to read the thread. People are complaining here because the gays have NOT been highlighted this season, because of the fame whore straight couple from Big Brother.

That's why I hate this bullshit cross-casting from other CBS shows. It takes away attention from the other contestants.

[quote]We finally get a hot(and [bold]extremely likable[/bold]) gay team on AR,

Maybe I am too spoiled from AR Canada (Season 5's Aaron & Paul - linked picture is them), but extremely likeable? Isn't that a bit too much? They are nice 'n all but to me they come off as "on" in being a bit hyper and a bit too impressed about their own punchline deliveries.

Darnit, SAM & Paul (not Aaron & Paul), my sincere apologies.

[quote] Poor Alex isn't getting a massage.

It’s pronounced MASSSAAAGGHH.

I hope the reason why the BB team gets so much coverage is because they get eliminated soon and the show wants to get the most out of them. Otherwise I will be seriously pissed that all the other teams get sidelined for the whole season (if BB team makes it to the end). I want more from the other teams and less from the BB team and I guess that will only happen if the BB team gets eliminated.

I don’t know what to think about the wedding proposal. Something tells me big dick faced Lucas and the girlfriend should run as far from each other as possible. There’s a reason her family does not like him.

R197 I talk about them here all the time..

The thoroughbred girlfriend’s family doesn’t like Lucas because he’s been getting the milk for free for nine whole years. They want to see their baby girl married already.

He seems kinda dumb so I assume he will marry her and live a life of misery.

The gay couple are both attractive but the blond one seems nice. The brunette not so much.

Rooting for Henry and his tooth chipped gf.

R207 They're not a couple, they said it on their recaps. Trevor(brunette) is dating someone else, while Chris(blonde) is single. Also, they both seem like fun and nice people to be around with.

I think they gay guys are both hot and seem fun, but what's there to say about them? They're featured for 80, maybe 90 seconds per episode? There have been travel agents booking flights that get more airtime than these two.

The reason we are all talking about Cody & Jessica so much is because this season has basically been the Cody & Jessica show. They have been given a majority of the narration duties, and because they've often been in the front part of the pack we see them tackling the challenges first. CBS clearly loves when they can cross-pollinate Big Brother/Amazing Race/Survivor and they're taking extreme advantage of it here.

Don't forget, Celebrity Big Brother premieres this Wednesday at 8pm, followed by a double episode of TAR from 9-11pm. Wanna make a bet that Cody & Jessica will show up on Big Brother at some point to lead an HOH competition and ever so subtlety remind us all that they're on the current TAR season?

As a BB watcher, I can't separate them on TAR from their performance this past summer. It does seem like they're getting a much nice edit this time around. Anyone watching TAR who did not see them on BB? If you just knew them as a random couple what are your impressions?

Cody and Jessicunt are going to be on The Bold and the Beautiful in February.

Stop with the cunt bullshit. Are you in 6th grade?

Celebrity BB starts February 7, not this week

Listen to a lecture and then take a quiz!

Is this show begging to be canceled?

I would like for the brewmaster to approve me.

I’m enjoying this episode.

Lucas looked at the sexy brewmaster with bald-faced desire!

Double uturns makes it more interesting.

Ugh the phone challenge. That must suck.

The season that they first did the Kafka phone challenge was very entertaining

Conner and Alex bickering is cute.

Quite frankly, I would play the game the same as Jessica.

Hopefully they can find a cab.

They are making it look like the violinist have a chance but I bet it is just the edit, no chance because they are so far behind.

Phil is saying to expect a twist, I think on one of the legs the teams have to switch partners which makes no sense since this is a team competition.

Not looking good for Team Muscly Gay

I bet they have to keep racing.

come on be a non elimination leg

Nevermind

Well I didn't feel anything for the [eliminated team], they didn't have a lot of drama or interesting back and forths so I'm okay with then leaving.

2 hour episode next week so set your DVR's if you record TAR

R223 is right. Ugh.

Wednesday Feb 7 TAR starts at 9PM EST through 11 PM EST two hour episode

Celebrity Big Brother takes the 7 PM EST that TAR normally takes.

Cody and Jessica...still cunts!

Correction: Celebrity Big Brother takes the 8 PM EST that TAR normally takes.

I can't figure out how a leg with switched partners will work, who gets eliminated when they come in last, both team? or another head to head ?

I can't imagine how they'd switch for an entire leg. Maybe just for a detour, I imagine having to work on a challenge with someone else than your partner can be hard.

Nasty Jess and Angry Cody deserve each other.

When one of them finally realizes how awful the other one is, the breakup will be messy and probably violent. They’ll probably have a few miserable kids and a handful of shared STDs by that time.

Well, damn.

The musicians kept it classy.

r236 Jessica deserves Cody..she had a chance to dump him when she saw what kind of psycho he was in BB house..

R228 That's not because they were not interesting. It's because they are UNDER-EDITED due to being not important to the outcome of the rest of the race. Had they been on the Top 5, they would definitely get more airtime.

They dont fight each other, are friendly and likeable, so they didn't get much airtime. Kristi and Jen & Henry and Evan are probably less interesting, but since they probably made it to the Top 5, they get TONS of airtime.

R236 How would they have kids when Jessica will probably just abort them?

I can hear her now:

[quote] "OH MY GODDD!! Umm.. I'm gonna do whatever it takes to not have a child right now. I'm just not ready for kids.. I think they are gross... I mean, yum!" -Jessica

They need to do a reunion season consisting only of all the most annoying racers.

I would love a season of worst and annoying racers!

Why do we HAVE to relate, love and root for a team.

I want tears, tantrums, and trainwreck challenge attempts!

Also, do I get something since I predicted the WellStrung's fate correctly?

Them being excited to go to Prague 😉😉.

Get eliminated at this leg.

Get eliminated due to a U-Turn.

Despite being sad that the gay guys are gone, I think this was the best ep of the season.

I liked the quiz and the different strategies used to beat it. The gay guys crushed it proving how smart and detailed-oriented we are. They really put out a positive image for gay people. They were kind, funny, smart and hot.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the way Jessica played the challenge, but since everyone else is a goody-goody this season it makes them look like bigger villains than they are.

Henry and Evan are totally the boring team who get a big edit because they make it so far. She was a bit controlling with him this leg.

The editing at the end was exciting, but afterward it was clear that the outcome wasn’t close.

And no fucking last minute challenge to get to Phil

If Cody/Jess hadn’t u-turned the musicians they could well have been eliminated themselves.

Having said that I still hate them from BB and want them gone.

Has anyone seen this shitshow?

[quote] I liked the quiz and the different strategies used to beat it. The gay guys crushed it proving how smart and detailed-oriented we are. They really put out a positive image for gay people. They were kind, funny, smart and hot.

While I was happy to see a non flamboyant gay couple represent well, I fear they weren't around long enough or got enough air time for the average straight viewer to even realize they are gay.

Non-flamboyant? Hah.

Was it only me or did it seem as if Jessica's vocal fry was going off the charts on the latest ep?

Can’t stand Jessicunt and Mr No Personality.

I can't stand them either, r252, although I have to admit that they're at least making TAR interesting this season. Still, they remind of modern-day grifters and, if I ever saw them in real life, I'd run the other way as fast as I could.

Jessica has ALWAYS had major vocal fry.

The gay guys were pretty masc I thought.

Has the show made reference to Jessica’s “career” beyond reality TV? Because before BB she was a bottle service waitress in Las Vegas. Apparently, she was VERY popular with her regular clients = hooker.

I wish there had been a Speedo challenge before Trevor and Chris went packing (pun intended).

I wonder if they visited BelAmi studio before leaving?

Me too, r256. Talk about a missed opportunity!

R258. THAT'S HOT. I'm dropping my boner for Chris Evans now. And I'll have Chris Marchant instead 😍😍

Seriously, r259, what is wrong with the TAR producers? Why couldn't they have made it a non-elimination round to save Chris and Trevor?!

They really should have saved the gay guys with non-elimination. They deserved it and it would have created drama with Jess & Cody after they just U-turned them.

Supposedly all of the legs, including the non-Philiminations, are planned out in advance but sometimes they seem a bit *too convenient*

I don’t watch “Big Brother”, but a friend who religiously does told me that Cody and Jess came off abominably on there — cold, humorless and selfish. Whether it was editing or maybe they realized how they came off on “BB” and were attempting to behave better, but until last week’s “AR” episode, “Team BB” didn’t come off badly at all. Focused, yes, but not cutthroat or shady. Using the U-Turn is one thing (I know it’s part of the game, but I always respect teams who don’t use it), but what Jess did in the phone challenge on top of it sealed the deal — they’re assholes.

The violinists were the first team I can remember who didn't whine and have a meltdown over being U-turned. The knew it was part of the game, so they did both tasks to the best of the ability and with a positive attitude. They also didn't bitch and complain at the pit stop to Phil about how unfair life is, or how evil Jessica and Cody are. They left with charm and class. I thought they represented us well.

Agreed, R264!

There are only three episodes of The Amazing Race left, but each of those three episodes are each two hours long and the show will start at 9 PM EST with Celebrity Big Brother taking the 8 PM EST time slot.

Set your DVR's if you don't watch it live.

That would mean there are 6 episodes left, not 3.

I like scruffy Phil.

[quote] That would mean there are 6 episodes left, not 3.

Jan 24 was a two hour episode and IMDb list it as ONE episode, so if you don't mind I will consider them more of an authority than you R267. There are 3 two hour episodes left.

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Team IndyCar is so cute. Wish they paid better attention.

I want to see Alex sing and dance.

Having rhythm... white people's natural enemy.

It seems to me that on these competitions that are judged, normally after a team does it so many times they just go ahead and advance them anyway. They don't seem to be doing the talent any better than before the judge just gets tired of hearing them.

So many cute men this season but no shirtless challenges! I want to see Henry from Team Yale nekkid.

The whole thing feels so truncated -- like the celebrity edition of "Big Brother" that already looks like it will be over before it's begun. Even shorter attention spans these days?

This has been a terrible season. 2 Head to heads! Changing partners, so they ended up basically working in teams of 4. The editing is horrendous. The cutting is so quick you can't tell who anyone is or what they are doing. My favorite show is going down the drain fast...ah well. There's always Canada.

I actually thought these two episodes were some of the best of the season- or at least the challenges were some of the best.

I liked the twist that the swapped team couldn't check in until both members were there, but it ultimately didn't matter as the racers had to keep going and it kept them all in a pack. They should have had them draw numbers from jar and randomly mixed everyone up.

Cody and Jessica really are sticking around till the bitter end, aren't they?

The lifeguards are getting a great edit and could easily be the winners.

Oh, and on CBS all access it lists these two as episodes 7 & 8, despite being aired together. I'll take CBS' word over imdb's, which often gets things wrong about tv episodes and has to correct.

What's this nonsense about Well Strung (Hung?) not getting much screen time due to an early elimination? The two older black guys went out earlier but got lots of exposure. It's the age of Trump so gays - back in the closet!

That Big Brother dude is so grim and humorless. He barely smiles.

I didn't see anything wrong with Evan not helping the other team. I don't think the teams should be allowed to help each other - they just allow it for the drama when someone doesn't want to help.

Too much kissing! Soooo annoying. The producers must tell the couples to kiss constantly. I hate it.

SPOILER:

R278, the lifeguards do not make it to the final three.

R281 I'll bet it's just the opposite for the gay couples. These shows want to appear inclusive and edgy but there are limits to what makes it to air. Especially if the couple is male.

FUCK OFF R282

R278 which ones are the lifeguards? The engaged couple?

I will be very disappointed if “Big Brother” wins. They’re not the worst in the annals of vile “Amazing Race” teams, but definitely the nastiest on this season.

Jess was in high dudgeon about Yale declining their offer to team up at the challenge, conveniently overlooking the fact that she and Cody had previously U-turned a team (leading to their going home) and screwed the teams she was working with in the phone challenge by giving them a wrong word. Cody is easy on the eyes, but he’s humorless and arrogant.

I’d be fine with any of the other teams winning except them.

Exactly, R286. The hypocrisy of Jessica being angry about Evan not helping her after she screwed people on the phone challenge and being sore about the U-Turn after they did the same to another team is too much. If you're going to play a mean, cutthroat game that's fine and a valid way to play, but at least own it and don't act surprised when the teams you've walked over don't want to help you out later on.

Do you guys honestly expect well manners from Jessica? Most of her fans are stupid and annoying, one should expect nothing better.

To all Jody and Jessica haters, don't worry, they don't win (they place second).

And this season's winners are surprisingly relevant to the Olympic Winter Games (skiing, cough-cough).

That’s terrific news, R289 — I was hoping the skiers would go all the way! They’ve been great all-around competitors, and a win for them is very satisfying.

And R287, agreed 100% on Cody and Jessica. When Jess complained about Yale not being a team player for not wanting to work together with them, I literally yelled, “Bitch, please!” at the TV! (I know — Mary!)

As the show’s gone on, they’ve just become more and more unlikable (and though I don’t watch “BB”, I’ve heard they were truly loathesome there — particularly Cody!)

WTF with the spoilers!?

usually I hate spoilers, but if the ones mentioned here are correct I am ok with it, because a team I really like wins and the one I really hate loses. I didn't bother watching the latest episode because of the elimination of the Violinists, but the spoilers kind of make me want to watch it now.

The spoilers are accurate. There have been several social media postings (twitter/instagram) of the contestants as they raced, posted by fans from all around the world, beginning from the first stop in Iceland, all the way to the final leg in Alameda (USS Hornet). There was even a fifteen minute vimeo posted by an American who unexpectedly ran into the skiers in Chiang Mai, Thailand and followed them around. There are pics of the final three teams at Hong Kong airport, the penultimate leg, awaiting their flight back to the US.

So, basically you plan to ruin the experience of watching this show for the few people who still watch it. Great.

I'd start a new thread, but the spoiler asshole would ruin that too.

You make a really good point, r280. I myself don't know why the Well Strung guys didn't get more air time. They're certainly photogenic and well-spoken enough. Hmmm...

R 288 "Well manners"--you mean, like, she's a troll in a well?

It wouldn't be that surprising if the skiers are the winners since they've had them make comments on camera about women teams needing to win more. This season seems rather dumbed down and a lot less complicated in the tasks. Maybe winning all those Emmys made them lazy.

I loved the final challenge on the last episode, but I have to admit that stupid song was stuck in my head for awhile after I watched. I liked the Zimbabwe lead singer though, laughing and gesturing at the contestants.

I’M SO FUCKING PISSED OFF THAT THIS TAR THREAD WHICH HAD BEEN SPOILER FREE FOR ALMOST 300 POSTS WAS RUINED WITH SPOILERS!!!

As often as not people with spoilers have been wrong, I take them with a grain of salt. Since we don't know for sure if they are right or not they don't really spoil it for me.

When do the race car drivers realize that they are in love?

Lucas looked fucking hot in his shorts. Especially when he was cranking the winch to get the car out of the mud pit, his shorts kept riding up. Nice thighs.

Assholes who post spoilers get cancer.

NEL: Henry and Evan

Lucas and Britt

Alex and Conor

Henry and Evan

Jessica and Cody

Kristi and Jen

Sorry, my friends..

I hate the person spoiling this for the rest of us. I love discussing TAR/Survivor on DL, but there's always an asshole or two who likes to ruin it for the rest of us.

I know spoilers are sometimes wrong, but it seems like the person here is in the know. I guess I will just have to relearn my lesson and not read these threads again.

I dont know what youre talking about. I read the last threads of Survivor and I saw no spoilers at all.

Maybe you're mistaking predictions/speculations from spoilers

Yes it’s sad that someone has to ruin it for everyone. Really just sad.

I want anyone but Jessicunt and Mr. No personality to win.

I can’t understand their casting decisions. Those bald twins? They’re so low-key, they can’t possibly have been exciting during the audition process. Why would they cast such a boring, forgettable team?

You can say the same about most of these teams. Are they doing this purposely to kill the show?

I'm oddly attracted to Asian guy Henry. Find him insanely sexy. I want to massage his chest and tongue kiss him, quite deeply.

And then fuck him and then shoot a load inside his ass so you can impregnate him. Give him your baby batter!!

Yes, it seems that underneath the layers of nerd, Henry has a nice body. Show us TAR producers!

I love Henry’s chest in those shirts he wears. I want to see him shirtless, too.

Convinced they are hading this to Cody and Jessica - they should have been eliminated - there is no way Cody got that Song. He looked liked a dancing two by four.

Lucas is hot. Love the big ears.

Yes, 315, but his fiance is a castrating nightmare. She's so into the "dating for 9 years and no ring" schtick she can't shut it off; still making belittling asides about it.

I’m sure that a large part of the female audience can relate to the thoroughbred. So many American women are encouraged to dream about their wedding beginning in childhood. By the time they hit their 20s, they’re obsessed.

Bridezillas are commonplace so the thoroughbred isn’t alone.

Her big ole tittays make up make up for all of that, R316.

Team have one storyline or gimmick throughout the season (like, the racer team wanting to win so the one can move out of the other guy's home). The lifesaver team is her waiting for that goddamn proposal (which she got a couple of episodes ago, so that's that).

The show is long past it's prime. Most contestants are pale imitations of former standouts. The show used to have really colorful characters and strong villains but has gotten increasingly watered down lately.

r320, I believe that's because people now know how Reality TV works and manipulate it rather being the ones manipulated.

sorry, ... manipulate it INSTEAD OF being the ones manipulated.

R321 I think it's more a case of trying to appeal to as many folks as possible so controversial characters are now passed over for blander, non-threatening ones. There used to be some really abhorrent people on this show that made you wonder what their partner ever saw in them but that isn't as prevalent these days.

I haven't watcher survivor since season 2.

Are the contestants on that show as bland as the ones on Amazing Race now ?

Surely they can find people that are not just the 15 minute famers and celebrity hasbeens that find their way on the show

On Survivor, if you’re not a quirky character you are a hot piece of ass.

Those bald twins from ARace would never make it past step one of the Survivor audition process.

Someone loses their passport this episode, at least they teased that on last episode, hope no one gets eliminated because of that.

You MUST have your passport to check in at the mat with Phil.

Justin, Zev’s partner, lost his passport. But he was able to keep racing.

[quote] For the second time in three seasons, a lost passport did in a team on The Amazing Race. Friends Zev Glassenberg, 26, and Justin Kanew, 30, went from leg winners to disqualified racers after Zev's passport went MIA.

After the fake tits and fake hair why didn’t Jess get fake teeth?

Haul these logs!

Eat this candy!

What an exciting show.

Are those the car racers that were eliminated?

[quote] Are those the car racers that were eliminated?

Race car drivers are currently in first place, no one eliminated yet this episode, Ocean Rescue lost a passport, but got a replacement one but is way way behind.

I didn't think once you started a challenge you could switch who was doing it, like Cody and Jessica just did.

If only this was the camel that Jess tried to milk

“Squeeze the teat harder, Jess!”

Jessica thinking a camel that gives milk has testicles is hilarious.

The people who are successful at catching frogs, including Cody, are on their knees in the water.

Team Indy Car, standing: “How is he able to catch all those frogs????”

Come on Alex and Conner, grab those frogs, they sound like they are giving up. If Cody can do it so can you.

This is probably Cody's one shot at some degree of wealth. I think Conner is already there being an Indy 500 winner, Conner probably will get there one day, motivation for Cody is huge, Alex and Conner not so much.

[quote] I think Conner is already there being an Indy 500 winner

I meant Alex

When Phil suggested that the shorter race car driver could use his winnings to get his own apartment, the tall driver practically burst into tears. Adorbs.

The blonde in the all-female team is quite unfortunate looking

I have been pulling for Alex and Conner to win, they have been the most enjoyable to watch, but they probably also need the money less than anyone else. Not that that matters.

I knew the game was fixed when Cody figured out a puzzle.

The Indy drivers have been my faves from the start, glad to see them succeeding so far

Neat, R327, I wish him success - Tennessee needs some decency.

Cody doesn’t appreciate the experience at all. When Jessica was saying how beautiful Thailand is, all Cody could say was he preferred the trees and hills of the USA.

When Jess described Cody as a cyborg, she wasn’t kidding. He presents himself to the world as an emotionless machine programmed to conquer whichever task it faces.

Oof, this guy is so lame. Be glad that you didn’t watch them hang all over each other last summer on Big Brother.

I haven't watched Big Brother so haven't seen Cody until now and am sorry about it as I think he is handsome and hot as can be - even his voice is sexy

I want Alex inside me quite deeply.

R350 You will when they get eliminated next episode

Jessica was acting so much like a girly-girl, it was disgusting -- "Oh no, MUD!!", "Oh no, I'm going to get DIRTY!!". I would've have literally LOLed if she had fallen on her ass in the muddy rice paddy. On top of that, she doesn't seem to have the correct concept of karma and loved to keep talking about how other teams won't help her and Cody, but it's okay when they don't do the same in return.

On VD, Jess and Cody announced their wedding engagement on Facebook. Maybe they recently acquired a million dollars to throw the trash wedding of their dreams.

They wont win this.

I'm predicting a very messy divorce, but since they're both horrible bullies, their relationship might actually work.

Insufferable psycho Jessica prolly got jealous of Brittany and then threatened homophobic Cody to propose to her.

I want to dry poor Lucas’ tears and then suck him dry.

[quote] I want to dry poor Lucas’ tears and then suck him dry.

Well just take his passport.

Is tonight the finale?

I believe so.

I am going to miss this show after tonight, guess I will have to just watch Survivor next Wednesday.

I want the next season of the amazing race to be back to regular, everyday people. No more stunt casting. No more random partners, no more celebrities. I want joe schmoes who are eager to race, and need the money. Regular people get real petty when cash is on the table.

Ah! I think the racers just signed their death warrants by pussing out on the crabs

IndyCar pussed out at the crabs. And Alex was kind of a dick to the photographer.

Boo! Disappointing ending.

At least the spoiler winner was wrong.

I didn't watch big brother, so I didn't know Cody and Jessica beforehand. I liked the way they ran the race, so I'm glad they won. I wanted IndyCar to win, but what can ya do.

Not the team I wanted to win.

Evan is so fucking annoying and Henry is a complete wuss. I hope he wakes up and realizes he doesn't have to marry the first pussy he fucks but I doubt it.

EWWWWW!!

So glad I don't have to watch Evan playing with her hair constantly (yuck) and hear that quavering voice yelling "You can do it Hen!" Kill me now.

Saw this picture of Alexander Rossi with this tattoo on his arm, never noticed it on The Amazing Race but he was wearing long sleeve shirts most of the time.

Anyone have any guesses of what that tat might signify?

Lame ass ending. Ugh

When Evan learns that Henry actually had solved the plane challenge first, she is going to flip out. And I don't think she will ever let Henry forget about that. And that's why Henry needs to break up with her and run as fast as he can.

In my opinion, this was the worst season after the Family Edition. All the things they tried were stupid. (and of course, my least favorite team won.) Hopefully they learned their lesson for the next time.

I thought Cody & Jessica were in for a third-place finish when she started the airplane challenge. I'm shocked that she beat the other two.

R374, I had the same feeling. I really thought Henry would win that challenge because he seems to have the most logical mind. But then he didn't try to figure out that puzzle logically. It was like he panicked and was going by trial-and-error.

R372 I thought the same thing. Henry had it but being the genius Yalie that he is, he ended up over thinking it and screwed up. Evan is going to go ballistic. I did agree with Evan's stance on not helping the other teams. TAR should make that a rule.

Obviously, Henry’s problem was that he didn’t communicate more with his beautiful and intelligent teammate.

Is the $1 million after taxes for a newly engaged couple enough money for Jess to give up her career as a Vegas hooker? Or will she still have to work weekends and big events?

Cody’s gonna murder Jessica in her sleep a few months after they get married. It seems inevitable. Then CBS will create a reallty show for him called The Widower.

It was a bad finale all around. The Indy guys were mostly calm and chill throughout the race, but they seemed to be having a minor meltdown here. They acted like jerks to the photographer (though that was a stupid task) and even though they were in first place when they got to the crabs they kind of had a hissy fit and panicked unnecessarily.

I don’t remember Evan being so awful in the first few episodes, but over time she grew to be one of the more shrill racers ever to compete. Henry seems nice and sweet and he will snap someday if he stays with this nagging harpy.

As a big brother watcher, I couldn’t stand Cody & Jessica on their season and to watch them win was not fun. Jessica was such a bitch to Evan and Henry when they arrived to the pit stop in Hong Kong.

The skiers probably deserved to win based on their overall performance over the race, but so often we see a consistent team falter in the finale and a more erratic team take the win. Cody & Jessica often were racing in the back of the pack.

I'm pretty sure that Henry and Evan are still standing on the deck of that ship right now while Evan explains her feelings about his performance... "You know you told me to be silent, and I just felt like, my voice isn't important, you know that you were playing this game without a partner and I think that you may have some mysogeny issues so I feel like I need to make sure...."

"Ummm, Sweety, the race ended a few months ago, should we get back to school?"

I didn't think much of Henry at the beginning of the season, but then I found him increasingly attractive with each episode. And I thought he was particularly hot in that episode when he had to work that winch.

Lol R381. Seems about right.

Cody is still weird but I'm glad he actually seemed to make some friends on the show.

I really hate how CBS tries to normalize homophobes like Cody and Jeff from BB by re-framing them in a better light and making them look cute, lovable and amiable when we have the truth in every episode of that show. Fuck these jerks. I'm sure he and Jessica will end up in trouble with the IRS down the road.

Cody: "I just want to win." Jessica (with shit-eating grin): "The money would be nice, too!"

Cody did mention his daughter and the money. I very he and Jess won. He received too much camera time, yet she won it for the team.

“Jody” are sort of the anti Jeff and Jordan who remain the reigning media sweethearts when it comes to couples formed on Big Brother. Jeff and Jordan are basic but they have a smidgen of charisma and likability. Jody are creeps and rotten to the core. Their days on TV are either over or will be quite soon.

R388 Jeff is a likeable homophobic bigot? Oh dear.

Hen! Hen!! HEN!!!! OMG......we should have won!

Cody said something like, “Good to be back in America. World travel is just not my thing.”

Who wants to watch someone win TAR who doesn’t appreciate the experience? I can understand if someone starts out nervous about travel, but the experience changing them, but Cody didn’t get anything out of the race other than money.

R391 That's Cody in a nutshell. Completely un-selfaware, willfully ignorant and proud of it. Deplorable to the end.

Not only is Cody proud to be ignorant but he thinks that not being ignorant is a character flaw. He doesn’t like open-minded people merely because they are open-minded. To him, that trait is a weakness.

Truly awful person.

But Cody the caveman did power through that race, essentially by himself since the bimbo he was with just whined everytime she had to do something

Especially after last night's finale, it looks like Cody has PTSD. He was so unemotional and stone-faced. He has dead eyes. Something's not right there.

Also, did anyone notice that he mentioned having a daughter at the end? That was news to me (unless I misunderstood him).

[quote]Also, did anyone notice that he mentioned having a daughter at the end?

Probably the first time he remembered her the entire trip.

Alex said Conner could stay one more month......he sleeps on the couch, you know.

Cody looked tiny in comparison to the other racers in the group shit last night.

Group shot*

No, you were right the first time, R399.

Jess summed up Cody by calling him CYBORG in any of the challenges. And you better bet he pounds her like a fucking mechanical CYBORG and she loves every minute of it!

I'd tap it.

Yuck. Jessicunt and crazy Cody won? Glad I didn’t watch.

First season I can recall where we got zero skin. Boo! I wanted to see Henry’s chest.

Here you go, R403.

Pre-“Amazing Race”, I think I’d read something about Cody being in legal trouble over not paying child support. Class all the way.

I'd audition for the show, but I don't have anyone with whom to race.

They used to have a rule that each team member had to do a certain number of roadblocks. This seemed to be scrapped so Jessicunt could win. I don't remember her doing anything other than the puzzle at the end.

She did the zip line thing early on, didn't she?

Jess also raced around with the gnome. Remember when the thoroughbred thought that Jess stole her gnome?

That shirtless pic doesn’t look like Henry.

i hope Alex and Connor fucked on every leg.

I knew it from the first episode they were going to "win" (meaning they handed it to them) after the first episode when Cody figured out a puzzle before the Yale guy. Jessica was useless the whole season. When they had to sing the south African song, there was NO WAY Cody and Jessica got the lyrics. They gave the same shitty performance as their first try but suddenly they were good? BS.

I was disappointed with the finale/winners as well. I've never been thrilled about BB/Survivor/TAR crossovers, even though I was okay with Rob and Ambuh because during their time, they were beyond the reality competition shows and were quasi-celebs, appearing as talk show guests, etc. But if TAR is going to continue these cross-promotions, why not simply do them for all of CBS' shows - the cast of Hawaii 5-O races against the casts of MacGyver and NCIS (or whatever other shows). When Cody and Jess split the money, he'd damn well should get the bulk of it as I don't remember her doing too much competitive-wise (not to mention her general snarky attitude and irritating vocal patterns). The only other thing I disliked about the ending was how, before the final leg, was how the three other teams - Team BB, Team Xtreme and Team NASCAR - decided they were all best buddies and were determined to eliminate Team Yale because they apparently weren't good enough to be in their circle. Despite the fact that Henry and Evan did quite well for themselves, with little help from other teams. Even at the finale, Jess seemed almost disgusted that she and Cody were racing against Henry and Evan, let alone seeing them come in second.

Although I hated the outcome, the SF leg was pretty damn cool -- all the tasks were interesting and there was a great deal of variation in the types of skills needed.

Yea I'm over the "put the countries we visited in order" challenge on the final leg.

Finding Henry attractive is almost laughable.

I guess my roomie won’t be able to afford to move out. I’m heartbroken.

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I didn't want Evan to win because she was such a bitch. Henry's teeth are yellow and his butt his big, but I would like to try out his Chinese penis. He was a lot more attractive with the glasses on than with them off.

It was amazing that Conor paired with anyone got as far as he did. Not the sharpest tool in the garage. It was sad that when he got home that he found out he had been replaced on his racing team and is out of job for the season. He will need to keep Alexander as his sugar daddy for a lot longer.

Alexander can put his peen inside me. Anytime.

I love Evan. Henry is so lucky to have her. Keep in mind, we only saw her in a competitive environment and I thought she was fun then, she’s obviously more relaxed in social situations. I’d much rather be with someone like her who tells you what’s going on with her, what she wants, encourages you to do your best, believe me. That’s so much better than being with someone you have to pry open, never knows what’s going on with themselves, whom you can never figure out what they want - someone like that is far more demanding than Evan would ever be and you can never please them. At least with Evan you know what she wants - do your best and hopefully win!

Evan, in the last episode, looked rather HOT! When did she get her bangs cut, I thought? Then I realized that I, the viewer, had been subjected to watching Evan with her hair pulled back by that damn headband the entire season.

This led me to believe that her bangs had recently been cut, but then realized that she always had her bangs pulled back. With her hair down I saw her quite differently; I bet that poor Henry licks a mean kitty! That poor sod, if someone kept calling me chicken: "HEN!!!!! HEN!!!!! HEN!!!!!!!!!!, I think I would end up smacking her silly!

[quote] Alex said Conner could stay one more month......he sleeps on the couch, you know.

In their exit interview on RobHasAPodcast, Alexander and Conor said that Conor has bought his own house since the end of TAR so no more couch surfing for Conor. Conor lost his IndyCar ride when the filming of the show ended, so he must have used his TAR winnings to help purchases the house, if I remember correctly they won $15,000 each for winning legs of the race.

It maybe just me but this picture of Alexander Rossi resembles Cody somewhat, especially the lower half of the face.

But focusing on the upper part of his face, his eyes aren’t dead like Cody’s.

R420/421 are those parody posts?

Wow. Alex Rossi is so hot. I don’t agree he looks like Cody. Like r424 said, Cody has dead eyes and I’m wondering if he even has teeth. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him smile.

Alex is rumored to have a big peen.

Anyone wanting to vote for either Alex or Conor for Favorite Indy Car Driver, can do so at the link. Only one one more day to vote.

I voted for Alex, because he is my favorite, but strangely he hardly has any votes, it is a race between James Hinchcliffe and Conor Daly. Don't understand why they are calling it the 2017 fan favorite when it is 2018.

It was announced today Conor has gotten a ride for the Indy 500 this year. USAF is sponsoring.

I read that Indy car drivers can earn as much as 1.5 million for top tier drivers like Alex, and in the low six figures for low tier drivers like Conor.

Yeah Alex and Conor didn't do The Amazing Race for the money, although I am sure they wouldn't have minded winning but in one interview with Alex and Conor they said that IndyCar came to them with the idea of doing TAR for the exposure and to get more fans.

It wasn't their idea, despite Conor talking about how much of a fan he was of TAR, it was IndyCar's idea to have them race and win over fans for IndyCar.

IndyCar's first race of the season is this Sunday at 12:30 PM EDT on ABC and I will probably check it out, if I am not doing anything. So I guess it worked.

The casting people knew that with Conor that would be getting someone entertaining, since he's always been a character. He could play off of Alex being the "straight" man.

Ugh. Least favorite season by far. Hated that the other teams picked on Team Yale and I wanted them to win because of that and then Team Big Brother wins? Fuck That. I liked Team Indie Race Car at first, but they turned into total douches by the end. That Team Ski Lesbos turned out to be total cunts as well. The younger one is clearly heads over heels for the older one and gets totally obsessed not disappointing her and of course she chokes at the final challenge and can't get over it.

I so wanted to punch that Big Brother gal for not even be a gracious winner to Team Yale. The next season sounds absolutetly terrible (Mashup of teams from Amazing Race, Big Brother, and Survivor). I think from now on it's only Amazing Race Canada for me.

The Amazing Race trying to get the Big Brother demographic on board is so not working for me. Those teams are just total bigots who don't appreciate the travel experience! Fuck' em!

Sorry, The younger one is clearly head over heels for the older one ...