- Wow, the Los Angeles River Basin! Can you say Grease!? Pretty cool!
- I know it’s easy to criticize…but did all the teams seriously think the show would expect them to KNOW what “Shinagawa” in kanji looks like?! Among 1000+ license plates?! Come on! Can’t believe NONE of the teams figured it out until later!
- Felt bad for the Yoga Instructors…to not even be able to compete in the actual race, really…Sucks! But someone had to go…I know we don’t really know anyone at this point, but no love lost for that team…
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JAPAN! First time they’ve ever gone to Japan this early in the race…!
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Wasabi rolls! OMG! I don’t think I could do that challenge…I can’t even have a smudge of wasabi in my sushi…let alone a HUGE GLOB and ONLY WASABI in a hand roll! Plus NO WATER or SHOYU! Crazy! Probably was the first time eating wasabi for a lot of the teams…They did pretty good overall, considering…
- I think we all know who the “hated” team is this season…Maria & Tiffany…the professional poker players. Can’t believe they MADE UP what they do. And not just made it up…they said they worked for a NON-PROFIT organization?! Geez…talk about laying it on thick! Pretty bad. At least the other teams finally figured out the truth about them…they already lost points with the teams now.
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I felt bad for the groups of Japanese people when they were being led to the pit stop by the teams. They weren’t even dressed appropriately to be running around the city by people who DON’T know where they’re going…I would get just as tired as they did! Not to mention frustrated, considering they all could probably just get there in no time…Cute how Canaan carried that one girl…she was so embarrassed!
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When the poker girls lost those 2 people, and tried to find them…their team sure was getting tired and annoyed…which I totally don’t blame them for!
- Roadblock: That was definitely not the easiest task. That was A LOT of ducks! And with only little flags on sticks?! Could be VERY frustrating. Pretty cool tho how in general the ducks did kinda follow suit…
So far I don’t really have a favorite team yet, but some “standouts”:
LIKE: Mika/Canaan (Nashville songwriter and his girlfriend who sings), Gary/Matt (Dad & Son), Meghan/Cheyne (elementary school sweethearts)
DON’T LIKE: Maria/Tiffany (for obvious reasons), Lance/Keri (umm…can you say meathead?!),
September 28, 2009 at 8:05 AM
i thought it was pretty messed up that they had elimination right off the bat…why waste their time and get their hopes up? I wonder if they’ll be able to travel with the show like the rest of the people that get kicked off.
father/son team right now my favorite…and the duck whisperer is pretty cool (although you probably won’t like them if you read their bio on the website)
September 28, 2009 at 8:58 AM
I would hope that if ANYTHING, those yoga teachers get to travel with the show until the finale…that’s the LEAST the show can do since they booted them off right at the beginning like that!
Zev is kinda cool…the duck whisperer part was actually pretty amazing…Uh oh, what’s on their bio that’s so “unlikable?”
September 29, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I’m so excited this show started again!! Zev, the duck whisperer, was pretty cool! I like the father/son team. It’ll be interesting to see how they are as the show progresses. The brothers are also kinda funny! Poker players – YUCK! and I really don’t like Lance. Not sure about the miss america person – she seems really intense and really competitive! And for the record, if any Amazing Race producers are reading this — you must cease with the new twist of ‘eliminating a team before the race even begins’ — that was soooo UNCOOL! I gotta go read the bios now…you’ve got me intrigued!