OMG celebrates 2000 Posts! Top 20 TAR episodes (19 & 18 up)!

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feeds@yuku.com (Annoying Tool Fanboy) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:52:23 GMT

Lol why does no one ever finish these things?

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feeds@yuku.com (YemaGrl1988) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:54:13 GMT

BLUmOP.

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:26:43 GMT

I's one of the only two episodes where the Detours are ridiculously uneven (the other being the BQ elimination).

Oops, I meant to say the only uneven episodes I actually liked (though I don't think the TARAS Ep 4 detours were that unbalanced, since Rob managed to fuck them both up) - there's plenty of "short dangerous" or "long boring" tasks that are just as uneven.

I think one of the Frats did give the Hippies money at the...

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:20:41 GMT

A Dying Clown wrote:

they didn't give them any money in Oman

I thought they did? They definitely gave them money after the second NEL.

It's one of the only two episodes where the Detours are ridiculously uneven (the other being the BQ elimination).

TARAS episode 4, TARAS episode 5, TARAS episode 6, TARAS episode 9 (the one after the two hour...

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:15:33 GMT

they didn't give them any money in Oman

I thought they did? They definitely gave them money after the second NEL.

It's one of the only two episodes where the Detours are ridiculously uneven (the other being the BQ elimination).

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:22:46 GMT

More rankings =O I'm shocked, TBH.

17. Man, They Should've Used Their Fake Names

Previously on The Amazing Race: Teams went to Australia for the first time since that boring ass leg in Cairns. Some retarded...

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feeds@yuku.com (Apprentice Talker) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:40 GMT

I loved the Hong Kong episodes of TAR2 and TAR11. Oswald/Danny is the only team visited twice in two seasons.

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:51:10 GMT

A Dying Clown wrote:
No TAR1 Thailand? That was arguably the first bad episode of the show.

I pretty much red-X that entire order, apart from replacing Bangkok with that, and bumping it up to 3rd or 4th worst. And adding South Korea as #2 - even as Sucks' only TAR9 defender, that pre-finale episode was maybe the most pointless episode ever.

I focused mainly on urban Asia. The majority of...

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:23:00 GMT

No TAR1 Thailand? That was arguably the first bad episode of the show.

I pretty much red-X that entire order, apart from replacing Bangkok with that, and bumping it up to 3rd or 4th worst. And adding South Korea as #2 - even as Sucks' only TAR9 defender, that pre-finale episode was maybe the most pointless episode ever.

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feeds@yuku.com (Thailandsurvivor) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:21:07 GMT

Diesalgate/Whatever Vietnam leg Ian had his revelation for the win!

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:14:13 GMT

As far as desolate and non-bustling Asia episodes go, it's a far worse offender than TAR9's Bangkok which I lurved (monkeys + MoJo having a proto-TAR11-Romber collapse into ineptitude <3)

ZOMG miniranking! Worst desolate/non-bustling Asia episodes:
10. Lucknow, TAR7
9. Bangkok, TAR9 (soz)
8. Kuwait, TAR10
7. Delhi 1, TAR13
6. Singapore, TAR3
5. Kolkata, TAR5
4. Shanghai, TAR6
3. Osaka, TAR12
2....

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:54:06 GMT

I did a rewatch of the second half of TAR4 and while the rest of the season was better than I remembered, the South Korea episode stank. It's one of the dreariest episodes and most miserable episodes ever - horrible bunching Roadblock, dull culture-shock stuff that you mentioned with the earlier India ep and 2 of the 3 tasks again favouring buff dudes.

As far as desolate and non-bustling Asia episodes go, it's a far worse offender than TAR9's Bangkok which I lurved...

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feeds@yuku.com (Annoying Tool Fanboy) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:21:15 GMT

Top 10 should be all TAR2 and TAR3 episodes.

Anyway, I liked the South Korean leg, too. Now I want to rewatch TAR4 again. It's really not that bad a season.

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:10:22 GMT

19. That's Me. That's My Face. Just Hit My Face. Hit My Face!

Previously on The Amazing Race: Reichen and Chip, Jon and Al, and David and Jeff waxed about their relationship, mugged for the camera, and got lost and testy with each other as they are wont to do. Kelly and Jon and...

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:31:49 GMT

Even the clowns?

Especially the Clowns, since otherwise Reichip would never have won. (didn't production delay all the other teams because of the credit card error anyway? I am foggy on the details).

Hope/Norm are the exception, but Blake would have lost for something not of his fault if he didn't yell at production about his transportation breakdown, so it was a special situation.

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:57:19 GMT

any eliminations that occur solely out of the team's control annoy me

Even the clowns?

ETA: PALINPOST

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feeds@yuku.com (A Dying Clown) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:12:05 GMT

by twos (since it's 2k)

I concur.

I rewatched 'We Have a Bad Elephant' and it's better than I remembered, partly Ron/Kelly hardly appear instead of taking up almost all the non-Rob airtime. I think I used to hate it more because of Lynn/Alex being RAWBBED - any eliminations that occur solely out of the team's control annoy me (and I hadn't found Sucks when TAR7 aired, so I was reading the TWoP forum threads where everyone seemed...

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feeds@yuku.com (pinoyako) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:36:17 GMT

by twos (since it's 2k)

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:34:29 GMT

I think I should go one at a time...thoughts?

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feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:41:29 GMT

A Dying Clown wrote:

MOST (BOSTON)ROBBED(LOL) EPISODE TITLES

Welcome to the World of Being Human
How Do We Know We Aren't Going to Get Shot?
I've Become the Archie Bunker of the Home
Honestly, They Have Witch Powers or Something!
It's Okay, Run Them Over!
I'm Not a Miner! No, You're an Idiot!
I'm Not His Wife -- He Doesn't Need to Scream...

OMG celebrates 2000 Posts! Top 20 TAR episodes (19 & 18 up)!

feeds@yuku.com (oh ehm gee) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:48:21 GMT

So, back again to break the monotony of elimination games (Edinboro h8) with a ranking of TAR's episode titles. Per wikipedia, they are taken from quotes made by the racers, sometimes changed for humorous effect. There's kind of a lot of them, and I'll rank them in terms of comedic value/epicness/desirability to watch. The first season will be excluded, since they were generic names (although Fight to the Last Minute is epic, no?). Anyway, that leaves us with 142 titles. Let's...