Satirical Yet Lyrical (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dontevenknow) wrote,@ 2004-08-01 16:32:00 |
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TAR5: We won’t be satisfied until someone vomits.
Finally watched my tape of last night’s encore presentation of this week’s The Amazing Race, and...
Is it just me or does this season seem to have gotten way heavy way early on those consumption-based challenges? Like that whole chocolate factory thing? And this week had two separate challenges of that nature: the vodka thing (which producers tried to cleverly disguise as a skill-based challenge, but not even one person dropped the shot glass, so c’mon) and the caviar thing.
And how vicious is it to pair those two challenges back to back? I probably would’ve lost my lunch just getting down straight vodka, let alone a two-pound chaser of salty black goop.
Don’t get me wrong. The bitter little fat girl in my heart rejoices when she sees a beautiful model-type cry piteously and Miss Texas practically faint dead away when confronted with mandatory eating while Chip and a Bowling Mom breeze through it. And who didn’t let out an evil chuckle at the sight of one of the hated Twins so grossed out that she had the shakes (They were obviously so traumatized by that ordeal that they even forgot to strip down to their skivvies for Phil. Although the snow in St. Petersburg might have had something to do with that as well).
However, in fairness I do appreciate that, yes, caviar does seem really, really nasty and that was a bigass portion of it.
But the most appalling thing about that whole episode was that even though Bob and Joyce were clearly the last team to get to the Old Town Restaurant, and they arrived there after Kami and Karli had already departed, and they had no hope of staying the race, they still made Joyce eat that crap!
That was a low blow. Did you see Joyce during her eating caviar montage? No amount of sweet, loving voiceover from Bob is going to distract me from the needless cruelty of that segment. By the time she got that down finally, she couldn’t even enjoy pulling up to Catherine the Great’s Palace in a horse-drawn carriage (which is something I personally think should be an immensely cool and memorable experience given how many times I’ve watched my video of Anastasia).
They should’ve just immediately handed them an envelope that told them it was all over and let them go check in last at the Pitstop. Joyce, spunky as she is, might’ve protested and wanted to finish out the leg, but when they shoved that huge bowl of stanky fish eggs at her, she’d probably have reconsidered.
Finally watched my tape of last night’s encore presentation of this week’s The Amazing Race, and...
Is it just me or does this season seem to have gotten way heavy way early on those consumption-based challenges? Like that whole chocolate factory thing? And this week had two separate challenges of that nature: the vodka thing (which producers tried to cleverly disguise as a skill-based challenge, but not even one person dropped the shot glass, so c’mon) and the caviar thing.
And how vicious is it to pair those two challenges back to back? I probably would’ve lost my lunch just getting down straight vodka, let alone a two-pound chaser of salty black goop.
Don’t get me wrong. The bitter little fat girl in my heart rejoices when she sees a beautiful model-type cry piteously and Miss Texas practically faint dead away when confronted with mandatory eating while Chip and a Bowling Mom breeze through it. And who didn’t let out an evil chuckle at the sight of one of the hated Twins so grossed out that she had the shakes (They were obviously so traumatized by that ordeal that they even forgot to strip down to their skivvies for Phil. Although the snow in St. Petersburg might have had something to do with that as well).
However, in fairness I do appreciate that, yes, caviar does seem really, really nasty and that was a bigass portion of it.
But the most appalling thing about that whole episode was that even though Bob and Joyce were clearly the last team to get to the Old Town Restaurant, and they arrived there after Kami and Karli had already departed, and they had no hope of staying the race, they still made Joyce eat that crap!
That was a low blow. Did you see Joyce during her eating caviar montage? No amount of sweet, loving voiceover from Bob is going to distract me from the needless cruelty of that segment. By the time she got that down finally, she couldn’t even enjoy pulling up to Catherine the Great’s Palace in a horse-drawn carriage (which is something I personally think should be an immensely cool and memorable experience given how many times I’ve watched my video of Anastasia).
They should’ve just immediately handed them an envelope that told them it was all over and let them go check in last at the Pitstop. Joyce, spunky as she is, might’ve protested and wanted to finish out the leg, but when they shoved that huge bowl of stanky fish eggs at her, she’d probably have reconsidered.
