The Amazing Race: Family Edition--Live Thread

[silent_jonny]

Can you add me to your TAR ping list?

Happy to :)

[Dane]

Way off topic, but I'm watching a rerun of Millionaire before a rerun of an episode of TAR season 1 and the contestant was former Mayor David Dinkins Chief of Staff.

On the $200 question, she was asked which article of clothing has a bill? Baseball Cap, tennis shoe, and two other silly answers.

She had to ask the audience. And this woman was Dinkins Chief of Staff.

[EmilyGeiger]

She had to ask the audience........OUCH!

[Dane]

Yep it is pretty weak when you have to ask the audience on the $200 question, but like I said she was the chief of staff for Mayor David Dinkins.

Also on the last night's TAR on GSN(first season) team Guido(the gay couple) were total aholes. Three teams had an earlier flight and the guido's tried to block the customs entrance so they would miss their flight, Kevin and Drew(who appeared in the first episode of this season,) were ready to kick their asses.

These are the guys(team guido) in a later episode who say their hero is bill clinton.

[hattend]

Team Guido are some pretty nasty homos.

They are also pretty creepy. I would be upset if they admired Reagan instead of Clinton.

[pa mom]

Even my kids caught that! And she is the one who wondered if Pennsylvania was a state. Add to that their prayers--to win. Yuck.

I really can't stand the Weavers.

[fzx12345]

I caught a blipvert during the NFL broadcast showing that the destination is the former Panama Canal Zone. So they're leaving the US to a destination that should be part of the US (no thanks to JIMM-AH).

[silent_jonny]

I saw that promo too. So glad the Race is getting out of the US. (But couldn't they go some place farther away than Panama?)

[hattend]

No ping for tonight? :-)

[silent_jonny]

No ping? The show doesn't start for another two hours :)

[hattend]

hehehehehe...I told you I live in a time mwarp up here in Alaska. What was I thinking?

uh, yeah!....Some people don't have their VCRs set! That's it!

My DVR is set, always is.

[silent_jonny]

Sorry, I keep forgetting you're in Alaska :)

I've never been there, but I'd like to some day.

[LA Woman3]

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Insider/default.htm?cmsGuid={8C9530F1-D7FB-4AB2-B557-F50571E93D1E}

Call it embarrassing, ironic or hitting them where it hurts. The Schroeders of New Orleans — Mark, 40, Char, 39, Stassi, 17, and Hunter, 15 — were practically in their own backyard when they were eliminated from CBS' The Amazing Race: The Family Edition (just like New York's Frank and Margarita from Season 1 and San Fran's Will and Tara from Season 2). But unlike any other team before them, the Schroeders' biggest adventure started after the race ended.

TVGuide.com: You got lost trying to find a park that, by your own admission, was one mile from where you used to work. One mile!

Mark: Yeah. I'm not a big park-goer. I had no idea that park was there.

Char: Nor did I. None of us blame Mark for not knowing there was a state park there.

TVGuide.com: How long did it take to get over that?

Mark: That's one of the reasons we were so upset. We felt like [we were] not only letting ourselves down, we were letting the whole city down. We knew so many people were rooting for us. To get kicked out in your hometown just seemed twice as bad.

TVGuide.com: Since you were eliminated in New Orleans, were you able to go home and get different clothes?

Stassi and Char: Absolutely not!

Mark: We make jokes about it with the staff, but we knew it was not going to happen.

TVGuide.com: Why not? Is it prearranged that, even if you're eliminated on your doorstep, you have to go to The Amazing Race's secret, private, post-race place?

Mark: That's it exactly.

TVGuide.com: Hunter, you were on tape in the second episode calling your stepmother, Char, "such a bitch." Tell us about the conversation you had when you and Char watched that together.

Hunter: I didn't even remember saying that. My sister was just aggravating me and I meant to say that about my sister, but they just edited it the wrong way.

Char: We were both in shock. It was edited so it looked like he said that about me. We all looked around and tried to figure out how and when it happened.

TVGuide.com: Can you tell me about something you actually did say that you wish you could take back?

Mark: Basically all my comments on the first show about the Godlewski team; I didn't remember saying any of those things. I ended up feeling horrendously bad afterwards, because they turned out to be such wonderful people. I was obliged to send Sharon Godlewski a dozen roses.

TVGuide.com: What do you all have against the Weaver family from Florida? Last week, you said they were evil and you called them white trash.

Stassi: Technically, they kind of are.

Mark: They started the race [wearing] $2 flip-flops.

Stassi: And [short-shorts that looked like] underwear!

Mark: This is The Amazing Race, not "The Amazing Let's Go Feed the Chickens!" Everyone was shocked; we thought they were going to be the first team out.

Stassi: Hence the "white trash" title.

Mark: On top of that, as much as we wanted [to be on the show] and loved every minute of the Race, we had to listen to them complaining about everything.

Stassi: And they were so rude. They spent the entire time being spiteful and mean. Then they would try to come back and be friends. I do feel for them about their dad, and they were very brave in doing what they did last [week], but there's no reason for me to forget what they did to us and just let everything go.

TVGuide.com: We know you stayed with the Rogers family afterwards, but were you back home in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit?

Stassi: My parents woke me and my brother up at 7 am on Sunday [Aug. 28] and said we were heading to the Rogers' [because) it was a Category 5 and we needed to get out. We were driving two different cars on our way to Shreveport, and we ran into each other! Our two cars were ruined. We were stuck during the hurricane in Covington, not far from Fairview Riverside Park — five minutes away. About three days later we were able to get out and reach the Rogers.

Char: The Rogers wanted to send a car down, while the hurricane was brewing, and have someone physically pick us up and take us to Shreveport.

TVGuide.com: That's so sweet! Thank goodness you weren't hurt. Where are you living now?

Char: For the first two weeks we lived with the Rogers, then we moved to the Baton Rouge area. My hotel company put us up for a couple of weeks in an apartment off of St. Charles Avenue [in New Orleans].

TVGuide.com: How big is the apartment you're living in now?
Mark: It's about 1200 square feet. It's not necessarily a three-bedroom; it's basically four rooms. In those old apartments, it's not clear whether you're sleeping in a living room or a bedroom.

Char: It's the top half of a garden-district home. Someone put a set of stairs to go up one side of the building, so it's very oddly arranged. It's really beautiful and picturesque. It's just teeny.

TVGuide.com: So have you been able to visit your home and save any of your belongings?

Mark: The house is basically gutted down to the studs. Basically the only things we were able to save was anything that would stay above [the flooding level of] 3 feet. All of our paintings [were OK], and any clothes that were in our closet on the top shelf, we took to the cleaner's. We had a $900 cleaner's bill.

TVGuide.com: The Rogers family told us that all but one of this season's teams rallied to help you after Katrina. Is it safe to say that the holdouts were the Weavers?

Mark: In all fairness, I don't even know if they know our address or phone number. Who's to say that had they known where we were, they wouldn't have done something? I don't want to make a general statement like that, that everybody helped but them.

Stassi: But it's safe to say it was the Weavers.

[silent_jonny]

Thanks for posting that--it doesn't sound like the Schroeders have changed very much since Katrina.

TVGuide.com: What do you all have against the Weaver family from Florida? Last week, you said they were evil and you called them white trash.

Stassi: Technically, they kind of are.

Mark: They started the race [wearing] $2 flip-flops.

Stassi: And [short-shorts that looked like] underwear!

Mark: This is The Amazing Race, not "The Amazing Let's Go Feed the Chickens!" Everyone was shocked; we thought they were going to be the first team out.

Wow.

And this I just found funny, about the "she's such a bitch" comment:

Char: We were both in shock. It was edited so it looked like he said that about me. We all looked around and tried to figure out how and when it happened.

Yeah right. I'm sure your teenage step-son didn't call you a bitch, Char. LOL.

[silent_jonny]

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[silent_jonny]

Mystery-ak may or may not be joining us tonight. She’s at home recovering from surgery.
She’s doing well, but if you’re inclined, I know she would appreciate your prayers.

Thanks.

And she says “Hi!” :)

[mystery-ak]

LOL.....I have to laugh at that pic everytime I see it.....even my surgical nurse got a kick out of it before I went into surgery...

[mystery-ak]

Thanks, jonny...I plan to be here for a little while....so, if I disappear, you know what happened..

[silent_jonny]

You're first tonight :)

I hope you can stay, but only if you're comfortable.

[silent_jonny]

That is a great Delay pic, isn't it? LOL--total backfire for the dems :-D