9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Posted on 02/24/2005 8:35:27 AM PST by Veto!
Begins March 1 on CBS, 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific
Here we go again, race fans, for the Seventh Season of The Amazing Race (TAR7). We'll vicariously travel with eleven teams as they fly, drive, climb, crawl, leap, slide, and boogie around the world to compete for one million dollars. They'll never know where they're going next or what they'll have to do once there. The last team to arrive at the "designated pit stop" at the end of each week's episode will be eliminated from the race -- unless it is not. So pull up your favorite armchair and travel along with the Freeper Amazing Race contingent every Tuesday night for the next few months as we root for favorites, throw tomatoes at the others, and wish we were the ones living dangerously. BON VOYAGE!
A Thumbnail Photo Guide To This Season's Possibly Amazing Racers
Brian, 27 & Greg, 24 are brothers from Santa Monica, California. Brian is an actor/bartender and Greg is a bouncer. Their primary motivation for participating in the Race is to travel the world with each other and meet new people. Veto!s opinion: Team Bro wants face time on tv. They are big, strong, in shape, and they think they're action stars. But are they wily? Could be they'll be eating other teams' dust.
Debbie & Bianca are best friends from Los Angeles, California and Woodbridge, Virginia, respectively. Bianca is a high school teacher and Debbie works as a photographer. Both are highly educated, experienced travelers, and have lived abroad. Veto!s opinion: Keep an eye on these two. Unless they scratch each other’s eyes out, they’ll probably do just fine.
Lynn & Alex are (would you believe?) a gay couple from West Hollywood, California. They both work as executive assistants. With their four-year anniversary on the horizon, they possibly hope to get married in Amsterdam—if indeed they race through Amsterdam. Veto!s opinion: Need I say?
Megan & Heidi, a make-up artist and fashion designer, are roommates from Oak Park, California. Both are allegedly extremely competitive and not afraid to take risks. They decided to sign up for the Race “just for the challenge and competition.” Veto!s opinion:. Can the Hair Queens keep up the pace when their tresses get tangled? I see hissy fits on the horizon.
Meredith, 69, & Gretchen, 66, are a husband/wife team from Easton, Maryland. Meredith is a retired executive and Gretchen is a retired nurse/flight attendant. He holds seven National Masters Swimming Championship titles, she admits to being quite loud, particularly when upset. . Veto!s opinion: If Gretch doesn’t turn into Nurse Ratched, they may go far and win Freeper kudos for their efforts.
Ray, 44, & Deana, 27, are a dating-on-and-off team from Canfield, Ohio and Youngstown, Ohio respectively. Ray, a former semi-pro football player, is a stockbroker and Deana is a marketing and promotions executive. Both enjoy weight lifting and karate. Veto!s opinion:This season’s “will their relationship last?” team. Ray will overdo it trying to beat younger guys. Ho-hum.
Rob, 29, & Amber, 26, AKA Boston Rob and Ambuh, are an engaged couple from Canton, Massachusetts and Beaver, Pennsylvania, respectively. They formed an alliance and fell in love when they competed with each other on “Survivor: All Stars.” Amber won the one million dollar prize. Rob finished as the $100k runner-up, but proposed to Amber before they knew which had won the big bucks. Veto!s opinion: Two Thumbs Up! Highly athletic and competitive, these two know how to work together. But will their “take-over-the-‘hood” skills that won them Survivor translate to racing’s Hall of Fame? Why, indeed, not?
Ron, 28, & Kelly, 26, are a dating Team from Villa Rica, Georgia and Greenville, South Carolina, respectively. Ron is a former Iraq War POW who is currently a student at the University of Georgia and works as a motivational speaker. Kelly was crowned Miss South Carolina in 2002 and works as a Legislative Correspondent…(for whom?) Ron was an Apache helicopter pilot in Iraq. When shot down, he was captured, interrogated, held captive and later rescued by the United States Marines. Following his rescue, Ron returned home and was introduced to the reigning Miss South Carolina. The two have been an item ever since. Ron is very competitive and admits he’s a thrill seeker. . Veto!s opinion: Two more thumbs 'way up. They’ll be Freepers’ favorites, and they have what it takes to win.
Ryan, 31, & Chuck, 32, are lifelong friends from Landrum, South Carolina and Inman, South Carolina, respectively. Ryan is a general contractor, and Chuck works in boiler tube replacement sales. Both are motorcycle nuts and very religious. . Veto!s opinion: Definitely wily Southern boys. Up against tough competition, but I hope they make a good showing.
Uchenna, 40, & Joyce, 44, a childless married couple from Houston. Uchenna worked for Enron as an energy trader and Joyce worked in sales for WorldCom, have different jobs since their companies went bankrupt. If they win, they say they’ll use the money for in-vitro fertilization. Veto!s opinion:A tough, scrappy pair, but too much tension here, methinks, for them to get much traction. They’re hardly Kim and Chip, the wonderful black couple who won Amazing Race two seasons back.
Susan, 54, & Patrick, 26, are mother and gay son. She is the Director for Judicial Affairs for Miami University in Ohio and Patrick is a writer now living in Hollywood. Susan, married to Patrick’s father for 34 years, earned her college degree as a “non-traditional” student. Patrick says his family has always been very supportive of him,even —surprise, surprise-- when he told them he was gay. Veto!s opinion: They’re looking for love in all the wrong places; hopefully, their elimination from the show will be swift and merciful.
That’s it for the Preview.
Something about knowing you're eating udders, brains, intestines and saliva glands would make me not finish. If it was all steak and ribs, I'm with you.
I would have been with Rob. 4 hours penalty beats sitting there puking every 3 minutes.
Me too. What happens in a road block when your 12 year old daughter has to eat 4 pounds of meat because she's the only one left who can do it....oh yeah, 4 hour penalty!
I just think it will add too much baggage to the teams. It's bad enough trying to get transport for 2.
This will be a one season experiment that TAR will drop...with any luck.
They have outtakes on the websites but you need RealPlayer to watch them. Been there with RealPlayer, done that, don't want to do it again.
I might be a bit late, but how come theyhave to have a male gay couple in every damn race but no (outed) lesbians?
Everytime they showed those gay guys in the last one and said "married" I yelled at the TV "not possible!"
But PC notwistanding, AR is the best show on TV. I loved how Rob conned the whole field.
You want lesbians?
Tell the producers, they'll produce some. But maybe not. Survivor had a show with two outed and maybe more lesbians and it was the worst Survivor ever. Those girls are no fun.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Amber came up with the suggestion to bail once they understand the mechanics of how the penalty worked. Either that or she independantly figured out how to best bypass the BBQ road block, came to the same conclusion as Rob and therefore no arguement.
I agree. About every season had one or more inter-team (and one intra-team) relationship get really steamy. If you have to ask which ones, I ain't tellin.
Interestingly enough with the exception of TAR4's Steve / Josh, all of the family (non-married) teams fit into two categories:
1) Parent with openly gay male child - TAR3 Dennis / Andrew, and TAR7 Susan / Patrick
2) Parent with either straight or non-openly gay female child - TAR1 Nancy / Emily, TAR2 Diedre / Hillary, TAR5 Jim / Marsha, and TAR6 Gus / Hera.
Of these teams, Nancy / Emily did the best by making it to Leg 9.
It gets worse than that: 'AMAZING' NEW RULE: 8-YR-OLDS ELIGIBLE - NYPost (3/8/2005)
TAR8-FE (family edition) has a good chance to devolve into that Nickelodeon kiddie show "Double Dare". That unfortunately makes sense because CBS and Nickelodeon are both owned by Viacom.
Agreed, Real Player, is the worst to deal with, the pop ups alone are irritating.
I had the same reaction, in addition to wanting to hurl each time that Chip or Reichen called each other, "honey".
Nor do they have a sense of humor. Got behind a lesbo's car in Memphis this weekend. Car's rear bumper was festooned with femi-nazi bumper stickers. Including this tidbit, "Eve was framed".
I made her the L sign for loser, she didn't think it was funny. Oh well.........
Well said - as one racer put it a few seasons back -- the only leg where FIRST matters is the last one.
I must have blinked, but good for her if she did. I know that later, toward the end of their four-hour penalty, she said to Rob, "Smart move," congratulating him for figuring out the probabilities, as I understood it. Either way, she supports Rob, lets him be the man, and he definitely does a good job of it. I like them as a couple, win or lose.
Here's how they finished Tuesday night:
1. Alex & Lynn
2. Uchenna and Joyce
3. Brian and Gregg
4. Ron and Kelly (two seconds after Brian and Greg)
5. Rob and Amber
6. Ray and Deana
7. Meredith and Gretch
8. Susan and Patrick
9. Bianca and Debbie - Eliminated.
BTW, I heard that Penis Lesbian changed his name to Dick Van Dyke. ;)
BTW: Did I miss it or did Alex and Lynn NOT get a free trip somewhere for being first?
Not even a Rosie/Ellen Lesbo cruise?
No free trip for the winner of this lap of the race. Poor L&A were obviously waiting with bated BBQ breath for Phil's announcement of a trip, but alas, no.
I just watched it. Rob asked Amber what happens if he can't finish. She doesn't look ecstatic, but simply says, "Penalty."
The brilliance of this move was that he HAD to find someone else to give up with him so that their penalty clock would start after his. Once the other group agreed, Rob knew he was in the clear. It was a great move!
Some might see it as wimping out...I see it as strategery. Why sit for hours gagging down nasty food if you can use your head and find a way around it? It could have backfired on him, after all, I don't remember any other team just giving up on a challenge.
TAR6 had the sister team give up at the hay bale rolling road block at the request of the producers because they were so far behind the others in Scandinavia. I believe that TAR4 had a team of two brothers quit after they realized they were last and weren't getting anywhere in the "archelogical dig" road block in Egypt.
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