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I was so bored with the season premiere that I switched to HBO's True blood.

Counting steps vs rapelling or climbing down. How original!
More bickering couples, Hippies, fat frat brothers and Double Ds in pink.
They started in South America.
The hotel arrival time divides them into 3 groups.Van Munster doesn't even bother to spice things up.

Johnny, The Amazing Race is not the only US reality show that has been copied all over the world--So You Think You Can Dance and America's Next Top Model are two examples of shows that started in the US and have franchises around the world.

I tried to watch the season premiere tonight but I couldn't. It's the same stuff every year since possibly after the Family season--same editing tricks, same attempts to garner sympathy--everything's the same except for some gimmicky Race trick such as the Intersection. And I'm lost on why every professional critic and the Emmys say that this show deserves an Emmy every year.

I wish that the producers would stop casting teams that look directly into the cameras and make lame attempts to be funny.

Long Distance-dating couple, Fat Eric/Jeremy, Hippies, and blond girls in pink clothes-Is this the best that they come up with? The TAR 13 introduction videos screams "Don't bother watching!"

If you want to watch a decent travel shows, you should watch Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. The only thing that you would get with TAR is some crappy couple bumbling their way to the final three.

I would submit that TAR actually is the least obnoxious of the reality shows and, while I think it may have come extremely close to jumping with that truly awful family version, it's rebounded nicely. Most of the participants are more down-to-earth and "real" than on other reality series, and there is some legitimate competition and teamwork taking place during the race. At least the scenery changes during the course of the show, unlike being stuck looking at the same shooting location for the entire season.

Some of the newer "twists" may not be great ideas, but will they disappear next season? Hopefully. The quality of the contestants is much more important to me than the specific tasks or challenges they face, and I think that the casting decisions make or break each season.

They tried every trick in the book and the race still sucks. What's next TAR 20-Will & Boogie VS Ms New York * Tailor Made?

I want to run this race so bad!

I just wish I had big boobs and blonde hair!

What about having married couples on?

To Johnny: There is no need to be sacastic. I'm just pointing out that the winners tend to be generic dating couple or a obnoxious male team. I'm bored with the outcome of this show.

There are some twists that work(U-turn) and some that don't(Yield, intersection). The bottom line if a reality show needs that much twists, it's time to pull the plug.

anyways the amazing race is still the best reality show on tv. no other show goes around the world in the span of a season or shows people new places/cultures theyve never seen before.

4 emmys dont lie.

its impossible to satisfy everyone, so someone out there is gonna be dissapointed no matter what "twists" they throw into the show.


the show has had a few "subpar" seasons but has never been mindbendingly horrible (like american idol has basically from the outset, or big brother/real world/ which have had seasons that where total trainwrecks)
so it hasent yet jumped the shark and hopefully never will.


its also the only american reality show thats been copied by other countries, as opposed to other countrie's reality shows being ripped off by us.

so you actually predicted that redd?



thats a little hard to swallow........

Who says that Amazing race isn’t predictable?

Young Male team
Young Male team
Best friends
Young Male team
Generic couple
Generic dating Couple
Generic couple
Young Male team
Young Male team
Young Male team
Generic dating couple (not a real couple)
Generic dating couple (most incompetent winners ever!)

I love watching this with my dad! It's addictong along with survivor. By the way i am obsessed with alvin and the chipmunks

The next winners of TAR 13 are going to be a young Alpha Male team. The pictures don't lie.

What's the point of watching the race if the outcome is already determined?

It should be called the "Amazing taxi race."