<p>Just got around to watching the first episode… thought it was really good! The skydiving looked really wild and fun. I was surprised the sisters got the boot, but they were so clueless! First sign of trouble was when it took them almost 2 hours to even find the first clue and start the race… Geez. I couldn’t believe it when they missed Phil on the mat!</p>
<p>I agree that to go on the show you MUST know how to drive a stick shift, be able to swim, and be comfortable with heights…</p>
<p>I already want the Kentucky hillbilly team to go home (I know that’s mean). It’s just too much hick-ness for me…</p>
<p>I’m also surprised the usual “token” teams are missing - the old people, the gay couple, parent/child, etc. I have never watched Big Brother, so I know nothing about that couple at all (but the girl looks like a piece of work).</p>
<p>You know the clowns won’t last since she was already breaking down (did they really bring wheeled backpacks?). The border patrol guys, the army couple, and the federal agents seem really on the ball. The twin brothers were cute too, but the show really didn’t focus on them much. Can’t wait for next week!</p>
<p>Here are some chapter titles from my new book, “Amazing Race For Dummies”:</p>
<p>How To Handle Sleep Deprivation and 3 AM Starts.
How To Use A Stick.
Ways to Avoid Leaving your Passport, Pack, or Clue behind.
What To Do When Your Animal Quits On You.
What To Do When Your Partner Quits On You.
How To Read A Clue Properly.
Seven Prayers To Recite To Yourself during sky dives, stuffing your face with horrible foods, or getting lost in a major metropolitan area.
When Is The Best Time To Sabotage Your Competition.
Trains and Boats and Planes and Smaller Weird Vehicles.
Never Get In A Cab If The Driver Looks Like Gomer Pyle.
Always Hire A Local To Take You Places And Pay Someone To Get Another Team Lost.</p>
<p>Thought the episode was good. I would (really) like to try out for the show. I don’t particularly swim well, nor do I do well with heights. I can drive a stick, read a map, have traveled independently, am very detail oriented, and I find I can do nearly anything when in competition. I can get anxious and nervous, cry easily, and can be bossy to someone who isn’t keeping up/pulling their weight/possibly some other infraction. I would have to train to carry a backpack. I don’t know how they do it. I think I would make good TV because of my positive AND negative traits/skills. I would certainly give it my all! </p>
<p>Hey…this may be my written statement on my application! :)</p>
<p>If that girl whines about how she is not smart and her partner needs to be nicer to her I will have to turn it off. Rachel? Was she the Big Brother pair?</p>
<p>Agreed - quit your cryin and run the race!!!</p>
<p>Wow, 2 wins in a row for the army couple! Those border patrol guys are annoying me though…whiners…</p>
<p>Bye bye clowns - though I will miss the chuckle I got everytime one of the teams talked about them - “that CLOWN is terrible at math”, “we just passed the CLOWNS!”</p>
<p>lamom, the auctioneer calls out the total weight of each corral. The person doing the roadblock needed to calculate the average weight of each animal after quickly counting the number in the corral, and doing so before the auctioneer moved onto the next corral. It wasn’t as difficult as many of them made it.</p>
<p>abasket, I agree about the border patrol guys. Very annoying.</p>
<p>Agreed, the Big Brother couple needs to go. That girl is a mess. A Ph.D student and a cocktail hostess? I’m sure his parents are thrilled! Alright, alright, no judging in this economy… ; -)</p>
<p>The border patrol guys do grate after awhile… surprisingly, the hillbilly guys are growing on me! I thought it was hilarious how the federal agent girls are pretending to be elementary school teachers. That is pretty smart.</p>
<p>I feel like you never see some teams - like the twin brothers. Too many to keep track of at this point! Way to go for the army couple.</p>
<p>I’m not surprised about the clowns either - I didn’t figure they’d last long.</p>
<p>The Kentucky guy should have never so-called ‘teamed up’ with the big brother girl since it appears that all she did was just copy from him. She couldn’t even figure out what she was supposed to do.</p>
<p>Seeing that segment makes you wonder how many people can’t do simple math without a calculator and some even with one. It’s probably a lot.</p>
<p>I still don’t have a favorite but I like the Kentucky guys, who performed better this time, and I’m still figuring out some of the other teams. The military couple is sure doing well so far.</p>
<p>I’m ready for the big brother team to go but I was ready for that before they started since I don’t think the show should include people who have already had their shot at another TV reality show and won it.</p>
<p>Wow, I really though that it would be a non-elim last night! Those tasks (the watermelons, harp and bottle thing) were intense!!! Ugh, on the border patrol guys getting their first - surprised their heads could fit at the finish line! </p>
<p>Sad to see the twins go - feel like we didn’t ever get to see much of them. </p>
<p>Army guy and his wife got a good dose of how the game can change. Go from 2 first place finishes to having to use the express pass, getting a 2 hour penalty - yikes!</p>
<p>I have a feeling that using the express pass so soon might be their downfall - usually if the task is tough, teams would run to the other challenge to see how that goes. Didn’t it seem those bottles broke at the bottom repeatedly? Weird.</p>
<p>I think they must have been a special kind of bottle to break so easily. And to not cut them! Like Big Brother Rachel said, “do you have a broom?” HAHA</p>
<p>I have NO idea how they managed to keep that bottle on their head while getting down on the ground - that was RIDICULOUS!!!</p>
<p>I also thought it would be non-elim last night! Those tasks were super intense! I agree, those bottles shattered so easily - must have been a special design.</p>
<p>Even though the border patrol guys come on strong, they did SO well in last night’s leg. Pretty impressive. I was expecting them to fall on hard times because of all the “we’re the team to beat” proclamations. Famous last words (most of the time). The army couple seems pretty crabby right now. I would not have wanted to use that express pass so early on in the race! The watermelon task would have killed me.</p>
<p>We didn’t see much of the twins at all - figures, since they went home so early! I liked them.</p>
<p>Looks like Big Brother Rachel cries in every episode… can they please go home already? Ha ha. Kentucky is still growing on me - those guys are nuts but really entertaining!</p>
<p>The military team blew it by using the elim pass so early. It should only be used to keep from coming in last, possibly to ensure a win for first (and hence winning something of value), or possibly to skip a ‘no-way’ leg, like eating something gross or some other task that they absolutely know they can’t do and it’d make the diff between coming in last or not. </p>
<p>I’m starting to not like the border patrol guys much - they’re too full of themselves. They nailed that leg of the race though and certainly deserved the win.</p>
<p>The Miss. cousins were being pretty mean to the UCLA guy’s GF I thought. There’s a clip on the amazing race website of the cousins getting into it with the twins where one of the twins was passively bothering the cousins and the cousins were getting overly agitated over it.</p>
<p>I still like the Kentucky guys’ personalities. They seem like brothers they’re so alike.</p>
<p>The Kentucky guys are growing on me. They are such a contrast to the border patrol guys who are getting on my nerves too. Although they did really well last night, I agree that they seemed a little too full of themselves.</p>
<p>I liked the twins and was v surprised the musician didn’t ace the strings. Stopped disliking the border patrol guys when I found out they were local :0.</p>