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The Amazing Race IX: Official Thread
CBS ^ | 2-4-06

Posted on 02/04/2006 2:26:37 PM PST by silent_jonny

The Amazing Race IX: Official Thread
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: doubledees; hippieswin; homosoutinroundone; nerdsrule; tar; teamhorny; theamazingrace
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To: EmilyGeiger

Unfortunately yes. Rockwell Gordy, son of Berry, and the one gloved pedophile.


421 posted on 03/28/2006 8:54:53 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: silent_jonny
Did anyone catch the Hippies' t-shirts? One said "Bowling" and the other said "Moms." Paying homage to one of the best loved teams on TAR - I just love BJ & Tyler!

And love to the nerds, Dave and Lori, seeing as I'm one myself. That roadblock would have driven me crazy, too (whaddya mean, two extra pieces???

Maven
422 posted on 03/28/2006 11:34:29 PM PST by Maven
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To: A.A. Cunningham

LOL....yes unfortunately there is that. In my teen years my taste wasn't as discriminating. :)


423 posted on 03/29/2006 4:06:46 AM PST by EmilyGeiger
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To: Maven
Did anyone catch the Hippies' t-shirts? One said "Bowling" and the other said "Moms." Paying homage to one of the best loved teams on TAR - I just love BJ & Tyler!

For you ...

:)

424 posted on 03/29/2006 4:28:15 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: pbear8

Sorry to hear that, pbear.


425 posted on 03/29/2006 4:30:21 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: EmilyGeiger
I always feel like somebody's watching me...

Isn't that a Michael Jackson song? (heee-heee :)

BTW, I saw Rick & Bubba on Fox and Friends one morning--they were very funny :-D

426 posted on 03/29/2006 4:33:37 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: silent_jonny
:) Yes. The gloved one. ugh....but in my defense we didn't know how loony he was then, just knew he was.

Rick and Bubba are funny, most of the time. They have a serious side at times as well. Then occasionally they have days where you say please move it along. :) One of my favorite bits they do is the Shakespeare for Southerners.
427 posted on 03/29/2006 4:48:42 AM PST by EmilyGeiger
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To: mystery-ak; EmilyGeiger; sola_fide; Wrigley; Jabba the Nutt; Chancellor Palpatine; carton253; ...
(((TAR Recap Ping)))

The CBS recap is posted separately below for everyone’s convenience.

428 posted on 03/29/2006 4:55:25 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: All
Episode 5: Segesta, Italy

"DOUBLE DS" DONE IN BY LAKE & MICHELLE

A computer made all the difference for best friends BJ & Tyler who kept their lead throughout the leg after being the only Team to book tickets online on the earliest flight to Palermo, Italy. When a ticketing mistake put married parents Lake & Michelle in last place, they managed to pull ahead of childhood friends Danielle & Dani just long enough to Yield them. The Yield allowed dating couple Ray & Yolanda to pass Danielle & Dani who became the fourth Team eliminated from the race.

AIR WARS

Departing the Pit Stop at 2:15 am, friends Eric & Jeremy opened their clue to discover they needed to fly 850 miles to Palermo, Italy on the island of Sicily. After arriving, they had to take a taxi to the Teatro Massimo, a 100-year-old opera house, for their next clue.

At the airport, Eric & Jeremy found the fastest flight on Al Italia landing at 10:15 am, but the ticket counter wasn’t open. Joining them, married parents Lake & Michelle opted to search on the Internet while best friends BJ & Tyler engaged in a wheelchair race with Eric & Jeremy. After BJ lost in the obstacle course to Eric, the best friends decided to join up with Lake & Michelle at a bank of computers where Michelle struggled to find information written in English. However, BJ & Tyler quickly located and booked the 10:15 am Al Italia flight from their computer. Immediately afterward, a frustrated Michelle couldn’t find the flight listed on her computer because it was now sold out. While Lake & Michelle ran off to book a Lufthansa flight landing at 2 pm, friends Eric & Jeremy took their chances waiting on standby for Al Italia, which paid off as they joined best friends BJ & Tyler as the first Teams out of Munich. However, in Rome, Eric & Jeremy discovered a ticketing problem, which placed them on the second flight to land in Palermo behind BJ & Tyler.

Joining married parents Lake & Michelle on the Lufthansa flight out of Munich were married couple Fran & Barry and dating couples Dave & Lori and Joseph & Monica. While at the ticket counter, Fran & Barry tried to be secretive when discovering an earlier connection in Rome on Al Italia that Lake & Michelle missed, getting them in at 1:25 pm instead of 2 pm. When Lake & Michelle walked up to simply greet them, Fran & Barry shouted for them to step away. On Fran’s seemingly rude behavior, Lake told Michelle, “She’s a doctor’s wife. She shouldn’t be acting like that.” In Rome, Lake & Michelle discovered the connecting Al Italia flight that the other three Teams had booked. However, the flight was now full, so they remained on the Lufthansa flight landing at 2 pm with dating couple Ray & Yolanda and childhood friends Danielle & Dani. Now on the last flight, a furious Lake said, “We went from first to last, dang it!”

CIAO!

Landing in Palermo in first place, best friends BJ & Tyler took a taxi through the picturesque city to find the Teatro Massimo. Opening their clue, they discovered they had to drive 42 miles to the seaside town of Castellammare del Golfo, named after an ancient fortress.

As BJ & Tyler sped off in their marked cars, the remaining seven Teams descended upon Palermo on three separate flights. While friends Eric & Jeremy maintained their lead, commenting on Italian women, an irritated Lake & Michelle found themselves in last place behind childhood friends Danielle & Dani. However, Danielle’s inability to drive a stick shift soon afforded Lake & Michelle an opportunity to pass the childhood friends.

CLOTHING OPTIONAL

Arriving at Castellammare del Golfo in first place, best friends BJ & Tyler found a Detour. In this Detour, Teams had to choose between Foundry and Laundry. In Foundry, Teams had to walk to a nearby metal works and pick up a 110-pound church bell. Then, using a vehicle known as an Ape, they must drive the bell to a church, Chiesa Maria, and hand deliver it up a set of steps. In Laundry, Teams needed to find an intersection littered with laundry lines and search among 2,400 pieces of laundry to find one of 16 items of clothing marked with a red and yellow tag.

While BJ & Tyler stared in surprise at the endless rows of hanging clothes, the best friends quickly got down to business inspecting the garments for the red and yellow tag. BJ squealed with delight when he spotted one sewn inside of a bright pink women’s blouse. Opening their clue, the pair learned they had to drive 13 miles to the ancient city of Segesta and find the archeological zone. Once there, they would need to hike one mile to the Teatro di Segesta, an amphitheater built in the fifth century. The pair quickly took off, gleefully noting that a Yield would be waiting for them, perhaps to use on “the frat boys” Eric & Jeremy.

RACE ANATOMY

After friends Eric & Jeremy found a marked piece of laundry, their concern turned to the possibility of being Yielded. When best friends BJ & Tyler arrived at the Teatro di Segesta, they momentarily toyed with the idea, but ultimately decided to Yield no one. Instead, after opening their next clue, the pair found a Roadblock. In this Roadblock, one Team member had to correctly piece together a classical Greek statue. The Teams didn’t know that there were two extra pieces not needed to complete the statue.

As Tyler began assembling his statue, dating couple Joseph & Monica opted to carry the heavy and cumbersome bell to an Ape. Noting the amount of energy needed for the task, married couple Fran & Barry immediately decided to sort through laundry instead, but walked past the clue box, just like in Sao Paulo, before doing so. While Monica asked to help Joseph carry the bell up the steps, he insisted on doing it alone, toting it on his back. Cheering him on, Monica said, “Oh baby, you’re Hercules.”

With dating couple Ray & Yolanda also carrying the bell, dating couple Dave & Lori searched through the many clotheslines with no luck. Soon, married parents Lake & Michelle and childhood friends Danielle & Dani joined the frustrated couple in the laundry hunt. Concerned, Lori told Dave, “We need to kick it in high gear.” Knowing that whoever would pick the lucky clothesline would have an advantage in this Race for last place, the three Teams continued looking until a relieved Lori finally found a shirt with a marked tag. After Michelle found one for her Team, Danielle lamented, “This whole thing has been about luck and we don’t have any of it. That’s the problem.” Alone in last place, Dani looked inside a blue pair of shorts and brought a smile to her partner’s face when she at last found a red and yellow tag.

YIELDED

After dating couple Joseph & Monica cruised to a third place finish, married couple Fran & Barry ran up to Phil on the mat at the temple, but encountered a lost Lake & Michelle, unable to find the Yield mat. When Lake asked Barry for assistance, he simply said, “Can’t tell ya,” as he and Fran finished in fourth place. Realizing that the teatro was at the top of the hill, Lake & Michelle ran in an effort to beat childhood friends Danielle & Dani, who now arrived in the parking lot, with the intentions of yielding them. Arriving first, Lake & Michelle apologized as they place Danielle & Dani’s picture on the Yield before Lake began the Roadblock next to Lori. Arriving at the Yield mat, a stunned Danielle & Dani turned over the hourglass to begin serving their punishment doled out by Lake & Michelle. Furious, Danielle said, “That’s pathetic. Obviously, they felt threatened by us.“ Dani added, “Payback’s a bitch. They’re hicks from the South and they’re jerkoffs”

As the girls fumed, Lori began to get frustrated when she couldn’t figure out what to do with the two pieces that didn’t fit in her statue. After taking her completed torso off in an attempt to change a piece of the leg, she still didn’t realize that the two pieces were simply extraneous. This delay allowed Lake to complete his statue first as he and Michelle stepped onto the mat in fifth place.

After all of the sand filtered through the hourglass, Dani began building the statue for her Team as Lori, in tears, still struggled to figure out how all of the pieces fit together. Finally, after putting the statue back together again the way she originally built it, she asked a judge who handed her a clue. Although frustrated at not seeing her mistake, Lori stepped onto the mat in sixth place with Dave. On the mat, a teary Dave told Phil he didn’t like the frustration that the Race sometimes caused between them. A hug from Lori assured Dave that everything was okay.

DON’T LOOK NOW

As Dani slowly constructed her statue, dating couple Ray & Yolanda, after an afternoon of wrong turns and bad directions, finally arrived at the Teatro di Segesta. With his back against the wall, Ray began putting the pieces of his statue together, as a worried Yolanda cheered him on. Danielle, seeing Ray’s fast progress, encouraged Dani to pick up the pace. Sensing her nervousness, Ray chimed in, “Come on, Dan, because I’m coming. I’m coming like Christmas.” When Dani’s judge inspected her statue, she received a denial while at the same moment Ray received his clue for having completed the task. The relieved dating couple stepped onto the mat in seventh place, saying, “We’re back in it.”

Arriving at the mat in last place, childhood friends Danielle & Dani joked, “Just tell us Phil.” Indeed, the pair had been eliminated from THE AMAZING RACE. On the experience, Dani said, “We’ve learned more in the Race than people learn in a lifetime about themselves. We definitely have strong minds and big hearts. We’re the Double D’s from New York.”


And you were beaten by
a couple of "hicks from the South".

429 posted on 03/29/2006 4:55:52 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: EmilyGeiger
When they were on Fox and Friends, they were talking about how taxes on beer and cigarettes were supposed to be funding education.

Rick (I think it was him--dark hair and a beard) said the next time a man comes home to his wife, reeking of beer and cigarettes he can just say, "Honey, I was just trying to help the kids."

Even the camera crew was laughing :-D

430 posted on 03/29/2006 4:59:36 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: silent_jonny

And you were beaten by
a couple of "hicks from the South".


Such a yankee. :)


431 posted on 03/29/2006 6:05:37 AM PST by EmilyGeiger
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To: silent_jonny

I saw that! It was funny. I never thought about it till he said that. :)


432 posted on 03/29/2006 6:06:27 AM PST by EmilyGeiger
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To: silent_jonny

I had to cringe every time one of the teams kept referring to Palermo as Paller Mo.


433 posted on 03/29/2006 7:32:54 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (More people died in Ted Kennedy's car than hunting with Dick Cheney.)
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To: silent_jonny
Thanks Jonny. Work was a shocker yesterday. Oh well, the Lord always finds a way to keep us on our knees. He always comes through though.

Anyway, last night's show did make us laugh. Team Magoo walking by the clue box yet again. Team Hippie is really growing on me and I do like Team Geek. I hate Team Horny and am not surprised that the Double D's were excused last night. Funny that Phil commented on the quick hook-up. He seemed a bit disapproving.

Thanks for all your work on all these entertainment threads.

434 posted on 03/29/2006 8:20:38 AM PST by pbear8 (I have to wait until Monday for '24'!!!! =()
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

Wasn't it Lake who said to the Italian ticket agent that, "We have to get to Palamino", or did I misunderstand him?


435 posted on 03/29/2006 8:23:59 AM PST by pbear8 (I have to wait until Monday for '24'!!!! =()
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To: pbear8

I think you are correct on that, although I think it was Jospeh and whatever? that pronounced it Paller Mo.


436 posted on 03/29/2006 8:45:02 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (More people died in Ted Kennedy's car than hunting with Dick Cheney.)
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To: silent_jonny

Does anyone else find the older married couple to be cringe-inducing? I keep wanting to like them, but I just can't, they are too irritating.


437 posted on 03/29/2006 9:27:27 AM PST by Chiapet (I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me)
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To: mystery-ak; silent_jonny
That is not a coinky dink...someone is watching and reading what we type...


438 posted on 03/29/2006 9:57:31 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Don't call them "Illegal Aliens." Call them what they are: CRIMINAL INVADERS!)
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To: freedumb2003

Being that people do read the internet,I was going to write something about illegal aliens, and then I read your tagline. That about sums up my feelings pretty well.


439 posted on 03/29/2006 10:15:15 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: luckystarmom

Thanks :)


440 posted on 03/29/2006 10:29:39 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Don't call them "Illegal Aliens." Call them what they are: CRIMINAL INVADERS!)
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