The Amazing Race 6...Official Thread

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I have been a fan of TAR since season 2.

Hated Will.
Hated Colin.
Hated Flo.
Despise Jonathan.

I really wish however, they would stop calling them "clues".
"Make your way to Checkpoint Charlie" is not at clue.
"Choose a car and drive to Eger" is not a clue.
They're instructions.

They are called clue boxes--and they aren't necessarily so clear on the instructions--

From the official website:

Departing the Berlin Pit Stop in first place at 2:55 am, Freddy & Kendra opened their first clue (emphasis added), which instructed them to travel to Checkpoint Charlie, the infamous East-West border crossing of the old Berlin wall. Leaving the Brandenburg Gate moments later, married entrepreneurs Jonathan & Victoria began this leg more civilly than they had ended the previous one. Hot on their heels, dating actors Hayden & Aaron also began the trek across town to Checkpoint Charlie.

 

[chrissyk]

I have been a fan of TAR since season 2.

Hated Will.
Hated Colin.
Hated Flo.
Despise Jonathan.

I really wish however, they would stop calling them "clues".
"Make your way to Checkpoint Charlie" is not at clue.
"Choose a car and drive to Eger" is not a clue.
They're instructions.

Wil (nefarious), Colin (stupid), and Flo (whiny) all had their faults and made good "villians". They were interesting to watch...they were the people that we "loved to hate". Jonathan is something else alltogether. His behavior is abusive and is disgusting to watch. I really don't think that the producers knew what they were getting when they signed Jonathan up. He makes Wil and Colin look functional and healthy.

 

[Jimbo]

I have been a fan of TAR since season 2.

Hated Will.
Hated Colin.
Hated Flo.
Despise Jonathan.

I really wish however, they would stop calling them "clues".
"Make your way to Checkpoint Charlie" is not at clue.
"Choose a car and drive to Eger" is not a clue.
They're instructions.

They used to be more like clues, though. I remember an earlier show where the racers were in Mexico City (I think), and were given a picture of somebody named Pablo. They had to find Pablo and ask him for their next clue. You had to figure out from the picture that he was standing in the town square, and then wander around the square until you found him. Now that was a clue!

This season they had a real clue in Senegal, when they were given the name of a poem and were told to find the author's grave. I like that kind of stuff. It doesn't seem like something the wrestlers would be good at, though. Except they seem to struggle with anything that doesn't involve heavy lifting anyway.

And I'm with you on the list of hated racers, except Colin really wasn't so bad. Just intense. Flo and Wil were awful, though. And Flo won, the most depressing reality show winner ever. But Jonathan looks to be worse than any of them.

 

[dzneprincess]

What happened to the fast forwards? I missed the last few seasons of AR but I do recall fast forwards....are they no longer a part of the show?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

What happened to the fast forwards? I missed the last few seasons of AR but I do recall fast forwards....are they no longer a part of the show?

They are few and far between--I miss them.

Since there is so few of them--you don't have teams trying to duke it out for them. Everyone passes on them b/c someone else probably already did it.

 

[dzneprincess]

Well, have there been any on this season yet? I thought I have watched every episode, but I have yet to see one? Did a team use one already?

 

[Grog]

But in the first season, near the very end, the mother-daughter team couldn't complete their last Roadblock in India, and finally just went to the pit stop. They were given a 24 hour penalty, and that meant elimination for them

I remember that. They couldn't find a marked car that they were supposed to take to the pit stop. Team Guido got the FF that leg, but the bus they took actually got them to the pit stop after the other three teams, instead of first. It was only the 24 hour penalty on the mother/daughter team that kept the Guidos in the race.

 

[Grog]

Well, have there been any on this season yet? I thought I have watched every episode, but I have yet to see one? Did a team use one already?

I don't think there has been one yet. I heard that there are only supposed to be two for the entire race.

 

[Laurabearz]

I remember that. They couldn't find a marked car that they were supposed to take to the pit stop. Team Guido got the FF that leg, but the bus they took actually got them to the pit stop after the other three teams, instead of first. It was only the 24 hour penalty on the mother/daughter team that kept the Guidos in the race.

I cam still picture them all sitting by that large dark table when Phil told them the news...

 

[gometros]

I never look at these threads if I have missed an episode and plan to watch it, I think once the show is over you can post about it, I have with no problems.

If anyone has a problem with that, please speak up

I had to tape it, because I was out on Tuesday night. But I know not to read the thread until I do watch it (which I did last night) What amazed me was how many pages I had to backtrack to get to the last post I had read before the show aired.

And I do hope it's Jonathon that Freddie tears in half

 

[gometros]

You know it's possible that Bolo and Lori can still take a train, if there is another station in a nearby town with a later train. I know it's a reach. Maybe they really do get eliminated and CBS is teasing us with the possibility that they are saved

 

[ead79]

Of course I can't stand Jonathan. His behavior is absolutely disgusting. However, I also can't stand "hellboy." He just rubs me entirely the wrong way. I mean he didn't cut his own toenails until he started dating Rebecca?!?!?!?! You've got to be kidding me! Plus, he is such a drama queen, always threatening to throw himself onto train tracks or off a boat. Puuuuhlease!

 

[StaceyA]

I had to tape it, because I was out on Tuesday night. But I know not to read the thread until I do watch it (which I did last night) What amazed me was how many pages I had to backtrack to get to the last post I had read before the show aired.

And I do hope it's Jonathon that Freddie tears in half

I think this 2 parter really threw us for a loop and we got chatty...LOL

I agree with your statement about Feddie....I would love to see that!!!

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Of course I can't stand Jonathan. His behavior is absolutely disgusting. However, I also can't stand "hellboy." He just rubs me entirely the wrong way. I mean he didn't cut his own toenails until he started dating Rebecca?!?!?!?! You've got to be kidding me! Plus, he is such a drama queen, always threatening to throw himself onto train tracks or off a boat. Puuuuhlease!

LOL! Did you hear Rebecca at the roadblock? They were deciding who was going to do the bungee jump, and he said he wanted to do it, Rebecca said "no way wuss-boy, this one is mine" or something like that! My DH was LOL!

 

[ead79]

Yep, I thought that was funny too! I just can't quite figure out what she sees in him at all. Although her thinking her joke about the cannonballs (something about how many balls there were) was so funny, I wonder about her maturity level too.

 

[CookieGVB]

Arrgghh...missed it this week. They had some type of award show on, so I figured it wasn't on this week at all. I guess it was on earlier...or later?

*wahhh*

 

[disneydragon]

Of course I can't stand Jonathan. His behavior is absolutely disgusting. However, I also can't stand "hellboy." He just rubs me entirely the wrong way. I mean he didn't cut his own toenails until he started dating Rebecca?!?!?!?! You've got to be kidding me! Plus, he is such a drama queen, always threatening to throw himself onto train tracks or off a boat. Puuuuhlease!

The drama queen comment made me laugh!

 

[calypso*a*go-go]

The following article was is our local paper today:

'Amazing Race' Producer Told Contestant to Cool It
(Tuesday, December 21 11:43 AM)

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Unpredictable behavior by contestants is the lifeblood of unscripted TV series, and producers are usually pretty happy to document it, edit it and show it to the viewing public, without intervening.
On the current edition of "The Amazing Race," however, executive producer Bertram van Munster says he felt compelled to talk to contestant Jonathan Baker after an incident that shocked fans of the show and sent message boards buzzing.

During last week's (Dec. 14) episode, Baker shoved his sobbing wife, Victoria Fuller, as they finished a leg of the race in second place, behind engaged couple Freddy and Kendra. He had dropped his backpack in an attempt to run faster, yelling at Victoria to do the same. Fearing the pack would be taken, she picked it up and carried them both to the finish line.


After host Phil Keoghan told them they had finished second, Fuller walked off camera, still crying. Keoghan told a still-fuming Baker to "go talk to your wife." Message boards devoted to "The Amazing Race" lit up, with a number of posters calling for Baker to be disqualified (the show was taped earlier this year).
Van Munster also talked with Baker about his behavior. "I told him you've got to tone it down, you have to stop this kind of stuff, it's not cool -- until then, I'd never given advice to a reality show player before to chill out," he tells the New York Post.

The producer says he told Baker, who owns a day spa in Los Angeles and is also credited as an executive producer of the popular "Dorf on Golf" video, "over and over again" that his actions -- he and Fuller have also engaged in several shouting matches during the show -- wouldn't put him in a very positive light.

"ut if he doesn't want to listen, there's nothing I can do about it," van Munster says. "I told him the camera can be used in many ways -- it's a dangerous instrument, and there comes a point where you can't change [what it sees]. I've been very fair with him."

After the episode aired, Baker wrote an apology on his and Fuller's website.

"I do not abuse Victoria. What you see is a heighten[ed] version of stress and obsession mix[ed] with medication for a sickness called Sarcoidosis. What was started as a Publicity Stunt turn[ed] in to an obsession to race and be first at any cost. This is a GAME and I set out to be the Villain to others not to Victoria. ...

"I am deeply saddened by the storyline that CBS went with. I am sorry for my actions, I am sorry to Victoria. Most [of] all I am sorry to the fans."

"Don't worry, I am fine," Fuller, an artist and former Playboy playmate, wrote a few days later. "It's a TV show and not a true reflection of our relationship. We both over reacted."

Van Munster says there were no more physical confrontations between Baker and Fuller after the Berlin incident. "I had a very firm talk with him that night," he tells the Post. "But he keeps on being Jonathan."

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Van Munster says there were no more physical confrontations between Baker and Fuller after the Berlin incident. "I had a very firm talk with him that night," he tells the Post. "But he keeps on being Jonathan."

I hope that is true--perhaps that is why he is so busy getting angry at Gus and the ticket agent!

 

[WWTBAMFAN]

Great article. My son tells me that finito is now a favorite phrase on another board that is devoted to this show.

I did not know that Victoria was a playboy model. That has not been mentioned on the show has it?