Amazing Race 9 on Fox Reality

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feeds@yuku.com (Apprentice Talker) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:04:08 GMT

The Greece leg was good and the detour is also good, only the bungee task was horrified, only Fran decided to did it the bungee task and she was scared.

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feeds@yuku.com (victalac) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:01:39 GMT

There was a lot of bunching in TAR 9.

But it was fun to watch them pull down their underwear.

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:21:58 GMT

Don't forget the most retarded task idea ever - count the fence posts.

At least in TAR9 that was original (and it wasn't a proper task, it was just a routemarker to help break up a bunching-free leg). TAR12 made it an actual Detour. TAR11's stair-counting Fast Forward is the worst

There was NOOOO bunching until they got to Greece.

They were bunched in Leg 2 and the flight to Russia in Leg 3. Leg 4-6 only lacked...

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feeds@yuku.com (holyphuk) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:07:14 GMT

Ginawantsme wrote:
This season was awesome! It had two great racing teams and two HORRIBLE ones, but every season does. The only complaint for me was the obvious bunching was the worst this season. Some epsodes would not start 12 hours later but when they knew the teams would bunch.

However with that said the locations were great. Oman, Brazil, Japan, Italy, Thailand, NO INDIA, Colorado, and West coast Australia...

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:25:49 GMT

There were more than two luck tasks - digging in Oman, the gnomehunt, the German dancing (based on the subjectivity of the judges), the bottle breaking, the plate breaking off the top of my head.

I wouldn't count the German dancing (especially compared to the Burkina Faso one this season), but searching towers for scrolls, searching laundry and the Russian dolls were luck-based too. But the entire race is about luck and I'd prefer that to a bunch of...

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feeds@yuku.com (Apprentice Talker) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:19:09 GMT

I remember back in first half of leg 3, Eric/Jeremy and Danielle/Dani arrived in Moscow and they shared one taxi to Chaika Bassein, after the roadblock along the way to next destination Danielle/Dani knew that their race bag was on theirs, the bag left it on the roadblock. Danielle/Dani returned to Chaika and they got their race bag back.

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:06:02 GMT

Ginawantsme wrote:
This season was awesome! It had two great racing teams and two HORRIBLE ones, but every season does. The only complaint for me was the obvious bunching was the worst this season. Some epsodes would not start 12 hours later but when they knew the teams would bunch.

However with that said the locations were great. Oman, Brazil, Japan, Italy, Thailand, NO INDIA, Colorado, and West coast Australia...

Re: Amazing Race 9 on Fox Reality

feeds@yuku.com (Ginawantsme) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:27:10 GMT

This season was awesome! It had two great racing teams and two HORRIBLE ones, but every season does. The only complaint for me was the obvious bunching was the worst this season. Some epsodes would not start 12 hours later but when they knew the teams would bunch.

However with that said the locations were great. Oman, Brazil, Japan, Italy, Thailand, NO INDIA, Colorado, and West coast Australia were all great spots. Also picking Russia making just to spite Lake & Michelle I...

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:24:25 GMT

I'd say there was a way to mess up the didgeriodoo play

Yolanda posted on here about how ridiculously easy it was (finding the place being the only hard part about it) - I don't think even Fran/Barry would have struggled with, which is really saying something! And if Rayo didn't get lost finding it, it's hard to imagine anyone else would have either. The fact Mojo made up so much time without the Hippies screwing up navigationally (unlike almost...

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:00:47 GMT

A Dying Clown wrote:

the fact is if BJ hadn't gone for that wacky shortcut, Monica would've hit the mat last and would've been mugged.
The main reason the Australia Detour were so unfair is that there was absolutely no way to go fast in the walking task and no way to mess up the didgeridoo one. The nails vs. coal one was pretty bad (but it put my least favourite team last and my...

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feeds@yuku.com (Apprentice Talker) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:29:28 GMT

In leg 10 (Australia - Thailand) BJ & Tyler started that leg with no money and no pants, only wearing t-shirt, spandex pants and long pants. The locals begged them to gave money and clothes. The Hippies took Fast Forward outside Lopburi, Thailand and they ate cooked cockroaches.

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:06:27 GMT

the fact is if BJ hadn't gone for that wacky shortcut, Monica would've hit the mat last and would've been mugged.

The main reason the Australia Detour were so unfair is that there was absolutely no way to go fast in the walking task and no way to mess up the didgeridoo one. The nails vs. coal one was pretty bad (but it put my least favourite team last and my favourite team first, so I irrationally love it).

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:39:57 GMT

There's a lot of stuff said about the unfair Detour weighing (which has not been as unfair as some options - see painting nails vs. filling 10 bags with coal), but the fact is if BJ hadn't gone for that wacky shortcut, Monica would've hit the mat last and would've been mugged.

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:11:54 GMT

Two Hippie retards used it on the team right behind them, so of course they caught up with them

Everybody was only a couple of minutes apart, they all just took taxis from the same flight - Mojo fell into last place for the skydive It would have been stupid to not yield them and potentially end up missing out on falling into second because of Mojo taking the '1' before them....

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feeds@yuku.com (Apprentice Talker) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:03:06 GMT

I like the Australian leg (leg 8), Franberry didn't get the taxi after they arrived in Fremantle from Rottnest Island. They took a bus to prison, Fran was struggled to find a chamber.

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feeds@yuku.com (holyphuk) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:45:14 GMT

Apprentice Talker wrote:
I remember on episode 10 that I watched last year, BJ/Tyler yielded MoJo before the roadblock in Australia, that MoJo didn't gave the Hippies money.

Yeah that was the worst Yield/U-Turn strategy ever. Two Hippie retards used it on the team right behind them, so of course they caught up with them. The BQs use of the yield was funny, and actually smart since Eric & Danielle got...

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:16:46 GMT

greenraven1 wrote:

oh ehm gee wrote:

They already had the token old team in Teri/Ian.

One, Teri & Ian aren't seniors. (It's called middle-aged for a reason).

Two, The Guidos are slightly older than Teri & Ian.

Three, there were no senior teams...

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feeds@yuku.com (TheEasyOne) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:53:52 GMT

A Dying Clown wrote:
TAR9's premiere was decent, it was just stretched out way too long. I liked it more than TAR10's, which was ridiculously rushed to the extent that practically no-one had any moments to develop what little personality they had - Peter/Sarah were the only team who really stood out.

So you like boring one hour finales and premieres opposed to two hour ones? WTF!

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feeds@yuku.com (greenraven1) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:58:35 GMT

oh ehm gee wrote:

They already had the token old team in Teri/Ian.

One, Teri & Ian aren't seniors. (It's called middle-aged for a reason).

Two, The Guidos are slightly older than Teri & Ian.

Three, there were no senior teams on TAR all stars though Peggy said the Gutsy Grannies were asked, had their physicals and were set...

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feeds@yuku.com (Apprentice Talker) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:49:08 GMT

Cuauhtemoc Gilmore wrote:
Lake and Michelle were the only reason to watch this horrible season.

Lake was screwed in Greece leg, he was cried and he ripped the map of Greece.

Amazing Race 9 on Fox Reality

feeds@yuku.com (bigfatpigjh) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:28:58 GMT

Looks like Amazing Race 9 starts tonight on Fox Reality. There is one 2 hour episode tonight, and then looks like two 1 hour episodes every night thereafter.