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Re: [BigBrother_Survivor] The Amazing Race premiere recap: If the shoe fits, eat it

by Crime Time Tamil on April 19, 2019

Me too! Have no idea who that was!!
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On Thu, 4/18/19, Lori Flynn lorirflynn@yahoo.com [BigBrother_Survivor] <BigBrother_Survivor@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [BigBrother_Survivor] The Amazing Race premiere recap: If the shoe fits, eat it
To: BigBrother_Survivor@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019, 8:54 PM

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I was just happy that the team that lost was one I didn't
know lol

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On Apr 18, 2019,
at 7:58 PM, 'Donna M.' crow_donna2002@yahoo.com
[BigBrother_Survivor] <BigBrother_Survivor@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:

I am so happy to be watching TAR again!!

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On Thu, 4/18/19, SHARON ceegee2006@yahoo.com
[BigBrother_Survivor] <BigBrother_Survivor@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:

Subject: [BigBrother_Survivor] The Amazing Race premiere
recap: If the shoe fits, eat it

To:

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019, 10:38 AM

And

so tonite it starts!!!!!!!

MY FAVS!!!!!RACHEL & ELISSA JANELLE

& BRITNEYNICOLE

& VICTOR S

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https://ew.com/recap/the-amazing-race-season-31-premiere/

The

Amazing Race premiere recap: If the shoe fits, eat

it

By

Jodi

Walker

April 18,

2019 at 01:59 AM EDT

As a

super fan of The Amazing Race, you've

probably had to defend your choice to watch reality TV
to

naysayers a time or two (quick aside: imagine if it was
your

stone cold job!).

Oh, I

actually don't even OWN a television, they might say

to you.

Suuuuper cool, bro—I guess you don't enjoy FUN, or

TRAVEL, or Phil Keoghan's CHEST HAIR??? you might

calmly retaliate. Well folks, get ready to get those

defenses in high gear because reality TV just

got…realit-i-er!

In

season 31 of The

Amazing Race, it's not just any all-star season;

it's a reality all-star showdown among contestants
from

the CBS trifecta of Survivor, Big Brother, and of
course,

The

Amazing Race. And some of the teams have even double

dipped in the franchise waters! I appreciate that these

different competitive reality experiences bring a new
layer

to the way that teams are able to size each other up, and
I

especially appreciate a couple of Survivor

villains talking about how weak and dumb other teams are
and

then basically getting lapped by those teams in the

end.Ahhh,

Chekhov's villainous boasts: once only for
Survivor—now

featured right

here, on The

Amazing Race!And

you know one more thing I appreciate? That this premiere

just embraced the zaniness of a reality-TV-based season
and

had these bozos chomping down on shoes for a few hours.
I

mean, that was simply wild. It has to be one of the most

amusing Road Blocks I've ever seen, and I have ever

so many questions about it, but before we can get to

those, we have to meet our yet to be named teams (I have

taken the task upon myself for now, but am highly

open to suggestions):

RUPERT

& LAURA (SURVIVOR),

"Team Tie-Dye":

Oh Rupert, Rupert, Rupert. That presence! That voice!
That

omnipresent tie-dye! And now it's all on The

Amazing Race along with his incredibly kind and gentle

wife Laura who also competed on Survivor:

Blood vs. Water. I will note that Rupert and Laura both

say in their CBS bios that "getting lost" is the

thing that scares them most about traveling and…hey,

facing your fears can be really healthy.

JANELLE

& BRITNEY (BIG

BROTHER), "The BBBlondes": I will shoot you

straight from the jump and tell you that I don't watch
Big

Brother so I am at something of a disadvantage in

assessing these teams. But of all the Big

Brother Blondes, these appear to be the BBBlondest.

Janelle seems to be something of a BB

legend with three seasons under her belt and Britney is
like

her mentee that turned on her and got her evicted in
their

shared season. I am into

this dynamic.

LEO

& JAMAL (THE

AMAZING RACE) "The Afghanimals":

Oh, hey

fellas, it's been too long! The hair is shorter, the

egos (allegedly) toned down, but these are definitely
the

same spirited Afghanimals from back-to-back season 23
and

24. Now, these cousins have a daughter (Jamal) and a cat

(Leo), so in addition to mature haircuts, they also now
have

mature motivations.

NICOLE

& VICTOR (BIG

BROTHER), "Team Vicole": Is it my most creative

team name ever? No. But I only know what these two have
told

me, and that makes them seem like they deserve an
adorable

couple's portmanteau. They met on their season of Big

Brother where Nicole voted Victor out three

times, so he didn't vote for her to win in the end,

but she won anyway, and then they fell in

looooove.

TYLER

& KOREY (THE

AMAZING RACE), "Team Torey": That brings me to my

old school fav portmanteau from the TAR

social media season. Tyler has only gotten more famous
(8

million YouTube subscribers!) and Korey handles all the

behind-the-scenes production work for his best bud. They

seem just as pleasant and hilarious as ever, but guess
what

else: they're

jacked now!!!

COLIN & CHRISTIE

(THE

AMAZING RACE), "Team Med": Hell yeah, take it

aaaaall the way back to TAR

season 5 with that clip of Colin cursing out oxen: "My
ox

is broken, THIS IS BULLS—!" But listen here—Colin
says

they're a lot less intense now. Thanks much in part to

Christie's career as a life coach, they practice
regular

mediation.

BECCA & FLOYD (THE

AMAZING RACE), "Team Fun": Becca and Floyd are new

kids on the block in this lineup, fresh from TAR

season 29, but they made a big impression, didn't
they?

It's hard to believe they were strangers when they
started

racing and now they've returned as total besties.
Floyd

jokes that they're dating, but nope—just regular
ol'

freestyle rappin' BFFs.

ART

& JJ (THE

AMAZING RACE), "Team Patrol": Art and JJ had a

tough final leg in season 20 of TAR,

sputtering out when they were just about to win the
whole

thing. JJ says they didn't really talk about it for
five

years, but now they're ready for redemption. I hope

you're not a fan of uplifting, full-circle

narratives…

RACHEL

& ELISSA (BIG

BROTHER), "SisterSister":

Oh, our girl Rachel is back, and maybe having her sister

alongside her is the key to being able to root for her.

After all, if Brendon isn't there, she can't
completely

lose it on him! Now, Elissa, who has only competed on
one

season of Big

Brother, is racing this first leg in a sensible bike

short and sports top. Rachel is wearing a coordinating

spandex outfit that is…a

dress. She ran the first leg of The

Amazing Race in a short

spandex dress. In an episode where people eat shoes, it

is the height

of lunacy.

CHRIS

& BRETT (SURVIVOR),

"The Odd Couple":

These two! Bret the Boston cop and Chris the country

lawyer might

just deserve their own sitcom, but for now, we'll

have to settle for getting their clashing accents and
very

cute friendship in TAR

bits and pieces.

CORINNE

& ELIZA (SURVIVOR),

"Team Villain": Hey, they called themselves

villains. And then they went all in on proving it. They

talked about the time Corinne accused another Survivor

contestant of faking tears about her deceased father, and
I

honestly can't believe sweet little sister show TAR

would roll the clip, but

they did. Then Corrinne and Eliza listed all the teams

they saw as "easy pickings" including Victor and
Nicole

for seeming dumb, Rupert for being old, and Rachel and

Elissa for "looking like they lost a bet." Let's
see

how they fared against them, shall we?

Now

it's off to the rrrrrrace around the world, which
begins

in sunny L.A., where the 11 starting teams have to dig

through a sand sculpture of an octopus to find their
first

clue. This doesn't sound like a particularly difficult

task until the teams sprint over to said octopus and it
is

huge

and they have no

guide, they just have to start

digging. Dig they do, where they learn that they're

flying to TOKYO, JAPAN and being dropped off in the
middle

of Shibuya, home of the world's busiest pedestrian

crossing.In

this completely overwhelming atmosphere, the 11 teams
have

to hunt for their second clue at one of two places:
Tokyo

Tokyo Restaurant or ABC Lock & Security.. But each
only

hold a certain number of clues, so they have to hope
they

choose the right place first. In many ways, the leg is
won

and lost in the race to find these establishments. Most
of

the teams that were slow here never fully recovered. The

teams that had the most success with finding the clues
were

the ones that immediately charged out and started asking

people to help them without allowing themselves to be

overwhelmed by the sheer overwhelmingness

of Shibuya.. (Also the teams that got to Tokyo Tokyo

Restaurant first because it was much easier to

find.)

Once

found, the clue led to the ROADBLOCK:

WHO WANTS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES.. This first leg

featured two Roadblocks, the first of which was an
absolute

doozy. "Inspired by Japanese game shows that are
famous

for their cringe-worthy entertainment," Phil tells us,
one

person from each team has to request a Japanese sandal
from

a room full of Japanese sandals and then bite

into that sandal to see if it is made of chocolate or

wood. Only 12 of the sandals in the store full of
sandals

are made of chocolate and they truly seem identical to
the

wooden sandals so there is no rhyme or reason to

picking.The

record for the most amount of wooden sandals bitten goes
to

Victor with 43 attempts, and the least goes to Janelle,
who

does not have to bite a single wooden sandal, she hits

chocolate on her first try. It is incredible. Worse than

chomping into wood though, the contestants appear to have
to

eat

the whole chocolate shoe once they've found it, which

is…a lot of chocolate!

Especially

considering the next ROADBLOCK:

WHO WANTS TO CLIMB MOUNT FUJI. Phil, that jokester,

briefly makes it seem like one contestant from each team
is

about to have to scale Japan's tallest peak, but

no—still in the tradition of a Japanese game show,
they

have to climb a 20-foot toy summit that's slicked up,
and

holds the clue at the tippety-top on how to find the PIT

STOP at ATAGO JINJA.Oh

yeah, and they'll be wearing spandex unitards and
giant

wigs because, why

not?! The Afghanimals arrive first and it takes Leo a

few slides down the summit, but he eventually figures it

out. Most everyone else seems to scale right up with no

problem. That includes Bret, who somehow doesn't
realize

he is supposed to get the clue at the top and shouts

"Alright, I'm coming down!" much to Chris'
silent

dismay. Then he has to get the energy to get himself
back

up there. Corrinne has a bit of trouble with her clue

too but luckily moves pretty quickly because—if

you can believe—for all their talk about how

unprepared the other teams were, Team Villain struggled

through each and every part of the leg.But

no one struggles more than Team Tie-Dye and Team Patrol.

Rupert and Laura seem to have real directional issues,
or

maybe it's context clue issues, but they wander around
the

park where the second Roadblock is for two

hours before locating a map and finding it.

It's…unbelievable. And were it not for some rather
wild

circumstances, it would have lost them the game. Also

hanging in the back of the pack was Team Patrol, but
they

made it to the summit well before Team Tie-Dye, and Art

began his ascent…and Art began his ascent…and Art
began

his ascent…and he simply could not do it.The

man tried but he was having a complete physical
breakdown.

He was convinced he couldn't do it, and then his legs

cramped up and he really couldn't

do it. JJ told him they'd just have to take the

four-hour penalty, and for a little while, it truly
seemed

like Rupert and Laura could stay lost in that park for
four

hours. Alas…THE

AFGHANIMALS: Oh, I do

love a redemption arc. The last time Leo and Jamal went

to Japan, they were eliminated from The

Amazing Race, and this time—they won the very first

leg. TEAM

MED TEAM

TOREY

SISTERSISTER TEAM

FUN TEAM

VICOLE THE

ODD COUPLE

BBBLONDES TEAM

VILLAIN TEAM

TIE-DYE, Phil saying "because another team took a

penalty, I'm pleased to tell you that you are team
10"

sounded a liiiittle shady to me, but nothing could
dampen

the joy of Rupert and Laura just barely skating into the
mat

in a lubed up spandex suit.ELIMINATED:

ART & JJ. It was a brutal end for these two, as they

clearly didn't give the performance they wanted to. But
I

hope they had a good time and I really

hope they talk this through before five more years roll

around.So

what are your

hopes and dreams for this season of CBS all-stars? Are

you ready to reality rumble? Do you have better team
names

for any of the remaining 10? Have you ever eaten a shoe?

Sound off in the comments!Related

content:Meet the Amazing

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