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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:

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And
so tonite it starts!!!!!!!
MY FAVS!!!!!RACHEL & ELISSA JANELLE
& BRITNEYNICOLE
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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?
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