At someone's suggestion, I am starting a new thread for the Amazing Race, Family Edition. Looking forward to seeing what dynamics come up tonight.

From the previews I've seen the last few days, looks like the families are at the Panama Canal tonight.

Yeah, I am looking forward to seeing what challenges they face outside of the US. Who do you think will come in first tonight?

Well I like the Branson family. the father actually LISTENS to his daughters.

I am also warming up to the Weaver family. They really held up well last week in spite of the task at the race track. The way they managed that moved them up quite a bit in my esteem.

I think the family with the two little kids is really at a disadvantage on some of the tasks. On the race track bicycle, the daughter's feet didn't even reach the peddles!

Yeah, I think they will be eliminated tonight. That is, if this is an elimination leg.

I suggested a new thread for each episode. I hate to wade thru the many pages when it's just one long one, especially with the title "AR Starts Tonight" no longer relevant and a dam slow dialup.

Thanks, Mike. Hope it picks up.

I am so disappointed in this season!

The US is great and everything but why won't they do a couple of tasks abroad?

I think the producers did the whole season here in the US 'cause they didn't want to pay for 4 tickets per team to travel around the world..

I still think they should have done at least one exciting international trip to Australia or something..

It was better tonite , finally an exciting destination !! Great scenery .

mnss,
Did you watch tonight's episode? They were in Panama, a foreign country. Will be interesting to see where they head to next week.
SuzieTrue

I laughed out loud when the Paolo family boy screamed like a little girl on the way down during the bungie jump. Mom loved being needed for that.

The Amazing Race proves once again that all the Spanish the average American knows - was learned from Speedy Gonzalez.

The Paolo mom is pitiful. She's treated like crap and begs for "scraps" from her kids. It was more intersting tonight and I hope they at least stay in South America or Mexico maybe for awhile if not a further destination.

SFImporter, LOL. We were cringing at the attempted Spanish.

We've gotten fond of that precocious little girl and can't wait to hear what will come out of her mouth next, so we were glad they weren't eliminated. I also liked the Goodlookskis (team name courtesy of Television Without Pity) for their sense of humor when they thought they might be eliminated.

I think I can now keep most of the teams straight in my mind: the Goodlookskis, the Dysfunctional Family From Hell, the Kute Kids family, the Please God Help Us Find the Clue Box family, the Three Dumb Brothers and a Sister family, and the Where's Dad family (which TWoP calls the Tanya's because they think the girls all look like Tanya Harding). Did I leave anyone out? Eliminate 'em!

Last nite's episode was definitely much better, and I'll watch it again next week; last week I was ready to bail on AM.

I was hoping it would be an elimination pit stop to get rid of that group of noisy sisters.

I think the other teams are giving the Weavers (widow team) a bad rap. I'm not so fond of the constant call for the Lord's help, but it's not enough for me to want them out of the race. I think they're working well as a team.

Enjoy-la!

....Last night's episode was much more interesting, and I gotta give it to the Paolo family for bungee jumping-they surprised me...they are really holding strong...who da thunk ?

I stopped watching because I don't like this edition.
Anyway, here's a link to a story a friend of mind e-mailed me, in case you missed it.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/televis...OE=click-refer

I used to love this show. With this new "family" twist, I gave it a chance, it failed miserably and I stopped watching. Hopefully, whoever had this idea is no longer employed at the network.

Maybe you are right, and maybe it just found a new audience.

I'm not at all surprised that the Paolo's came in 1st.

The race was much better last night. All the yelling of "Arriba! Arriba!", well, you just knew you weren't in Kansas anymore. How about the local woman who got one of the teams (I think it was the Godlewski's aka the Godawfulski's (TM TWoP))to take her to work in the guise of guiding them.

As for the other teams' dislike of the Weavers, I have to believe that there is a lot that is not being shown. I think they keep completely to themselves and go out of their way to not talk to the others.

It's just a guess, but I think that they (Weavers) aren't liked because they are verbal about kinds of behavior that they don't agree with- and that others think are "normal" behavior.

Like last night when Mrs. Weaver told the other team's chiders that it wasn't kosher to yell derisions- that instead they should be encouraging.

Old prophets used to be stoned for the same thing. And modern sensibilities don't respond well either to criticism, deserved or not.