It’s time for another edition of Hysterically Ridiculous Things The Amazing Race 8 Teams Said, brought to you this week by my sorrow over the Gaghan family eliminations. My heart’s not in it, but it’s God will for me to continue. “Daddy can swim. He takes his time,” Marion Paolo said about her husband. Taking …
The Amazing Race 8
I’m declaring today a national day of mourning, as the Gaghan family came in last place and was eliminated from The Amazing Race 8. I haven’t been this crushed since Charla and Mirna were eliminated, and seeing Carissa cry on the mat basically made me lose it. Damn this shitty show. Despite the outcome, the …
A few weeks ago, the Bransen family won “free gas for life” at BP when they came in first place at an Amazing Race 8 pit stop. However, there’s no use befriending one of them just to be able to fill your gas tank whenever you want, because the prize “isn’t unlimited,” according to the …
As The Amazing Race 8 teams climbed into cabs, it almost felt like a real episode of The Amazing Race. Then they had to, um, search for a guy. And for their Detour, they had to look at wooden birds through binoculars or pick up instruments; the Roadblock had them playing baseball. At least the …
The Amazing Race 8 family The Schroeders had the misfortune of being eliminated from the race in their hometown, New Orleans. Then, Katrina came and destroyed their home and everything in it. Before the hurricane hit, they tried to evacuate to The Rogers’ house in Shreveport, and Char tells TV Guide that the Rogers “wanted …
On another episode of The Amazing Race 8, the challenges were weak; at the Detour, they had to either saw wood or play Blackjack. Ooh. (One challenge featured an interesting multi-person circular bike called a Party Bike, which would have been cooler if it hadn’t just been product placement.) I may be mostly bored with …
The Amazing Race 8 finally forced its teams to travel via plane. They had to fly all the way from Washington Dulles to Charleston, South Carolina, an epic journey. After a detour, teams were forced to endure being driven for eight hours in a charter bus. This was too much for the Weavers, who insisted …