Coutzy
« on: February 16, 2010, 11:56:43 PM »
This is a show I've started doing on Youtube, it's basically a recap of The Amazing Race, with a healthy dose of my personal opinion included.
Episode 1: Ranking the teams
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« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2010, 09:00:31 AM »
Good job Coutzy!!
"I can't speak for production, but I really like that people see us when we're traveling around the world. If you're a fan of the show, ... you're going to be more excited because you want to see what happens." --Phil Keoghan
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2010, 11:35:32 PM »
Brilliant, Coutzy.
"Intersection = The Valdemort of the Amazing Race"
Classic.
DavidJunior
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2010, 03:39:15 PM »
the clue that must not be named...
Coutzy
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2010, 03:39:22 AM »
"We Are No Longer In The Bible Belt"
Uploaded very late. First week of university got in the way of the editing process.
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Hooky
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2010, 02:32:19 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
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« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2010, 02:42:52 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
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« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2010, 04:15:52 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just
dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
Is the DUMB word just one used for JJ or can anyone apply...Geesh! Are they dumb for being already on BB or what? Does the German cabbie not knowing how to read his GPS make them dumb..I dislike that word used on anyone...Ppl, all teams....aren't dumb..just lucky or unlucky!
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« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2010, 04:34:46 PM »
Back to Coutzy's review please.
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Coutzy
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2010, 08:09:21 PM »
Back to Coutzy's review please.
Please! I enjoy the discussion.
And Luke, I never meant to imply that the NEL was planned, I was merely expressing my frustration that Team Almost Famous caught it.
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Caelestor
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2010, 03:54:59 AM »
Wow, I just realized.
Where'd you get that T-shirt?
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Coutzy
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2010, 05:36:35 AM »
Wow, I just realized.
Where'd you get that T-shirt?
Ebay. I think you can get them from the CBS store as well.
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Hooky
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2010, 01:05:19 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
I know that. Most of us here follow this show obsessively, after all.
But that doesn't change that it looks suspicious when it happens almost every season nowadays. Until it stops happening, I'm never going to be 100% sure that it isn't meant to save certain teams.
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« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2010, 01:46:32 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
I know that. Most of us here follow this show obsessively, after all.
But that doesn't change that it looks suspicious when it happens almost every season nowadays. Until it stops happening, I'm never going to be 100% sure that it isn't meant to save certain teams.
Y'all don't trust the sinister deaf kid?
Coutzy
« Reply #18 on: March 13, 2010, 03:10:10 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
I know that. Most of us here follow this show obsessively, after all.
But that doesn't change that it looks suspicious when it happens almost every season nowadays. Until it stops happening, I'm never going to be 100% sure that it isn't meant to save certain teams.
The only problem I have with that logic is that if they have pre-planned all the NEL's for specific teams, then why not pre-plan the entire race using actors? It'd make saving the producers favorite a lot smoother after all.
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« Reply #19 on: March 13, 2010, 05:51:54 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
While I always subscribed to the same thought process (or rather believed it I guess?) I called J and J being saved as soon as I saw they were last. Have we EVER had a NEL THIS early in the game? Talk about fishy.
Also regarding the review: Cowboys took so long because they had never drank before. When they first found out they had to finish the boot one was quoted as saying he had never had a beer before in his life. Can't say that about both of them for all I know but it definitely made it harder. Being that beer is somewhat of an acquired taste, I can't blame them for taking a while on it.
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« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2010, 05:57:47 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
While I always subscribed to the same thought process (or rather believed it I guess?) I called J and J being saved as soon as I saw they were last. Have we EVER had a NEL THIS early in the game? Talk about fishy.
TAR6 had a NEL on the 4th leg. TARs 5, 7, 8, 10, AS & 14 had a NEL on the 5th. And TAR15 had the NEL to spare the double elim on leg 1. So, the location of this NEL doesn't seem that fishy to me (with half of the races having a NEL before leg 6).
The story so far:
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« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2010, 05:59:24 PM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
While I always subscribed to the same thought process (or rather believed it I guess?) I called J and J being saved as soon as I saw they were last. Have we EVER had a NEL THIS early in the game? Talk about fishy.
TAR6 had a NEL on the 4th leg. TARs 5, 7, 8, 10, AS & 14 had a NEL on the 5th. And TAR15 had the NEL to spare the double elim on leg 1. So, the location of this NEL doesn't seem that fishy to me (with half of the races having a NEL before leg 6).
Thanks for that. Seemed really early to me but I guess not. I don't count that NEL on leg one though lol!
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« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2010, 08:35:44 PM »
TAR 9 had a TBC for Leg 3 too.
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« Reply #23 on: March 15, 2010, 04:14:28 AM »
Agreed! Non-elimination wasted on another "producer's favorite".
Steve & Allie: We got a little more of them this week, and I really think I will love them, but I've got to see more of them first.
On a side note, I liked Louie & Michael more this leg, maybe it's just because they were happier than usual.
Non-elimination legs were already planned before the race actually started!! So they didn't just throw non-elimination in to save Jeff and Jordan! Jeff and Jordan were just dumb enough to be lucky to come in the last place at right time.
While I always subscribed to the same thought process (or rather believed it I guess?) I called J and J being saved as soon as I saw they were last. Have we EVER had a NEL THIS early in the game? Talk about fishy.
TAR6 had a NEL on the 4th leg. TARs 5, 7, 8, 10, AS & 14 had a NEL on the 5th. And TAR15 had the NEL to spare the double elim on leg 1. So, the location of this NEL doesn't seem that fishy to me (with half of the races having a NEL before leg 6).
Thanks for that. Seemed really early to me but I guess not. I don't count that NEL on leg one though lol!
Yeah they were planned but I don't really like (BUT NOT HATE!) Jeff and Jordan. I don't count leg 1 of TAR 15 to be NEL because the team was eliminated at the starting line though the pitstop was a non elimination point.
Back to topic, on with the reviews!, keep it up!
