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Hercules Has Seen Big-Deal Writer-Actor-Director Mike White Compete In CBS’ THE AMAZING RACE!!!!
I am – Hercules!!
Mike White is the “Freaks and Geeks” vet who went on to write and star in “Chuck & Buck,” “Orange County,” “The Good Girl” and “School of Rock.” He more recently wrote and directed the hilarious and harrowing “Year of the Dog,” one of 2007’s best movies if you’re asking me.
Dad Mel White is described as a writer, filmmaker, professor, pastor and gay-rights activist.
On tonight's "Amazing Race," the Whites are seen racing against a deaf guy and his mom, a pair of dwarf sibling stuntmen, a pair of sibling Harvard Law grads, a pair of hot redheads, a pair of blonde flight attendants and a pair of twentysomethings from The Bronx.
Have a look at all the contestants here.
Notes on tonight’s premiere:
* The trademark jetliner CGI is gone; the series has a new set of opening titles.
* The race starts in Los Alamitos, Calif., then heads east.
* It turns out that both Whites are gay. I’ve suspected the younger White might have homosexual leanings since I saw the brilliantly creepy “Chuck and Buck,” but I don’t recall him earlier making mention of his orientation. Indeed, CBS’ press materials identify only the elder White as gay.
* The deaf kid doesn’t read lips, and so must rely entirely on his mother to deal with the hearing world.
* The little people, as one might expect, make their livings as stunt doubles for child actors.
* The first road block, involving a dam, is fricking nightmarish.
* Further into the episode, teams must each transport four 50-pound cheese wheels down a steep, slippery slope using fragile antique cheese carriers. Contestants often lose control of these mammoth lumps of cheese, causing the wheels to turn into potentially deadly dairy projectiles as they careen downward.
* There’s more crying when the first team hits the finish line than when the last team does.
* The ending is quite exciting. The last-place team hits the finish line only seconds after a not-last-place team.
8 p.m. Sunday. CBS.
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i think mike white is officially bi
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Feb 15, 2009 3:32:50 AM CST
Ah yes the Chelgenfjorst or Cheese Festival, or Jürgenvelt
by det. john kimble
I look forward to it.
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but still enjoyable as kind of a travelog/look-at-those-idiots kind of diversion.
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I really like the show. It gets a chance for people to see the entire world. Yes, I know it is a TV show, but it is entertaining. It is the only reality show that I watch.
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Yes stuntman miikey. you're right. he is in fact bisexual
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My wife loves that PBS show, which is fun, but I love the competition element on TAR - makes the travelogue part easier to swallow. Looking at the list of competitors, it's not surprising there are lots of single, pretty gals, but interestingly only two single guys - the asian and the deaf guy. Where's the team of macho guys? Seems TAR likes subplots about couples flirting with each other - doesn't look like it will happen this season.
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Are they *REALLY* only seconds after or edited to look like they're only seconds after? We love the show here but the editing to make it look like a footrace every time gets a little annoying after a while.
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yup.
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That's fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.
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I've enjoyed the show for a while now, but I agree with the manipulative editing comment so that the audience thinks it's always a much closer race than it really is. Also--I've never understood the "casting" on this show. On Survivor, it makes sense because they spend so much time together--scheming, making alliances, attempting to trust. But on this show, they are usually just in pairs with only intermittent involvement with other teams. But I guess you can't have reality TV without telling the audience what to think or how to feel about its "characters." I'll still be watching, though, mostly because I love to travel.
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Let's see the cities and cultures they're visiting, not just the insides of airports!
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it often doesn't air on time thanks to CBS sports, and it's not good enough that I want to remember to set the recording for two hours.
Also, they insist on live captioning the show to keep the result a secret (like anyone cares that much to leak it), which makes it basically unwatchable for my roommate. What's the point of captioning it if the caption is useless?
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Next you'll tell me that Liberace, Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Rielly were all closet homosexuals too.
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Feb 15, 2009 7:14:06 PM CST
"Blond Girls get away with anything in foreign countries"
by larry of arabia
A team tries that every year, and they almost always fall apart in the middle of the race. In reality the locals react by thinking, "ok your hot but that's no excuse for not to be able to carry a bag of corn 3 miles like my 5 year old daughter does every day!"
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this cheese challenge is goddamn hilarious.
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The cutaways to Swiss men laughing hysterically at the contestants throughout it should seal another Emmy!
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yep. the goofy music playing as you aimlessly go the opposite direction of the pit stop confirms this.
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One of TAR's best openers ever! Great new opening credits (which still include a brief shot of the CGI airplane, btw) and logo! Awesome revamped editing (the new 24-style split screens provide better flow and idea of when certain events are happening in relation to other teams)! The way Phil announced the winner this leg was touching! The cheese challenge was INSANELY funny! And we got TWO shots of Browsie! This episode alone should win the Emmy for Best Reality Show Competition next year!
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I think the hillbillies even made mention of Browsie when they got on the mat. Loved the cheese challenge, close finish with a pair that seemed unlikable getting the boot first. Off to a promising start.
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I stumbled on this in the other room and I am here to say that... yes... a reality TV show actually entertained me. After all I've said against the genre, I felt it was necessary to admit it here.
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Good challenges, one scary and one funny... good character development via editing, and NO airport/taxi driver B.S.
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The 2 redheads and the Asian babe!! That's the way red hair should look!! I was so waiting for one of those cheese blocks to plow into somebody and send em ass over tea kettle!
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And it was just before the finale...
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I think the Swiss guys rigged up those flimsy carriers and embedded weights inside fake cheese just as a joke. The casting seems to be getting cliché, though, with the hicks, the bimbos, etc... I think the brother/sister lawyers are going to go far.
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Check out The Amazing Race ASIA Season 2. Here's a picture: http://tinyurl.com/c3r3p6
And, IMHO, one of the best editions of the show, in either franchise.
And by the way, it's spoken ion english... so no need for subtitles there ;) -
Why support this crap? Leave it for Discovery, History or A&E.
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has been out for a long time. In the immortal words of Dale Gribble: "Come out, all you closeted homosexuals and so-called bisexuals."
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I didn't know they had the same kinda show over there. Now that I think about it they prolly have some version of our popular shows all over the world.
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As you can see by slumdog Millionaire, India has (had?) a Millionaire franchise.
The Amazing Race Asia is in it's third season, and there's a Latin America version taking shape right now, although spoken in spanish.
My brother participated (and won, in his episode) on the local version of The Weakest Link.
I've also heard of popular sitcoms being done overseas with more or less success, like Married with Children, Mad About You, Three is Company, etc.
And what about shows like The Office, or Life on Mars, that started overseas and were later remade for US audiences?
It's globalization, baby! -
There are 3, maybe 4 teams with any shot to win. That means that you have at least six weeks knowing it will be one of those weak teams to not make it (barring any mishaps). The midgets, the deaf group, the lawyers, and the married couple from Ohio are the only ones that I think have a shot. Most of the rest of the teams are bad. Some of them are laughably bad.
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They remind me of the potato bugs from A Bug's Life.
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Like the couple from Virginia?"We didn't get here by being idiots"No, that's just an added bonus! If you have trouble running, what makes you think you can compete in this race?
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Why does anyone watch reality TV crap? Seriously, guys--reality shows are the absolute dregs of television, and have so lowered the bar on actual entertainment. It's sad that anyone would actually consider this show worth watching, let alone reporting on.
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...obviously you are the sole judge of good taste m i rite? Have you ever seen the show? I'm guessing no to make such an ignorant statement and to paint all reality shows with the same broad brush.Why don't you get your snotty nose out of the air and take the time to check something out before you shit on it and get down from your high horse.Asshole.
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I believe the dam they bungee jumped off is the same dam James Bond bungee jumped off in Goldeneye.
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I only watch the competion type show, such as Project Runway and Top Chef, and Amazing Race. havn't watched survivor in 4 season. I am ashamed to admit it, but I also love celebrity apprentice.
I also like Law and Order, House, and Lost. The point is rassmguy, is that we have free will which allows up watch and like more than one type of tv/music/whatever. -
I watched 2 and a half seasons of TAR, but hated the winners and quit because it really just seemed like the most physically fit team would always win.
I came back and watched when Charla and Mirna were on, but I still think this show is far below other reality shows regarding the chance of any contestant winning. I know this show is a "critical favorite" but that's probably just because it is totally not trashy.
Reality TV is here for the forseeable future, so that's the breaks. Just like any genre (soaps, sports, sitcoms, whatever), we watch what we like and don't watch what we don't. -
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