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TAR14 EP1: 'Don’t Let a Cheese Hit Me' (Switzerland)
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on February 11, 2009, 02:35:20 AM ---It's called Waldegg !
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I was just there!
Mrs Shrek:
You look different, have you done something to your hair? :lol: :neener:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on February 11, 2009, 02:42:55 AM ---
I was just there!
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Mrs Shrek:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on February 11, 2009, 02:36:48 AM ---These pictures are supposedly from the area next to the kleiner Rouge too:
HERE
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It looks good. can see why the teams were falling over carryign those big cheeses down that slope
puddin:
TV Review
The Amazing Race
Few things signal
a fine new season of The Amazing Race better than when a contestant yells the words ''Don't let the cheese hit me!'' and you don't laugh but rather fear for his life.
So it is in the premiere of season 14, when members of 11 teams must carry
50-pound wheels of cheese down a hill
in Switzerland. And not just carry, but
balance them on a wooden ''antique cheese rack'' strapped to their backs. Pretty
soon, wood is splintering and cheese is rumbling anarchically toward such duos as:
·Margie and Luke, a mother-son pair. Luke is Race's first deaf contestant and proudly does not read lips. I know this can be a heated topic in deaf circles; fortunately in Race circles, you can usually see (no hearing necessary) when a giant block of cheese is coming at you — or, as in
episode 2, a pie is being thrown in your face.
·Mel and Mike, geezer dad and his perpetually grinning son, who's actually screenwriter-actor Mike White. He credits himself here as the writer of School of Rock, but truly touched greatness (just ask Owen Gleiberman) with his creepazoid turn in 2000's Chuck & Buck.
·Steve and Linda, married and self-
proclaimed Virginia ''hillbillies'' who do a lotta yellin' and cryin'.
That's just the cream o' the crop; there's a crackerjack assortment of Race teams this season, and I really like the way the show has incorporated more 24-style split-screen editing that lets you know where teams are in relation to each other during competitions. So far, the challenges and roadblocks are real tests of brains and endurance, with a notable lessening of those long jabbering-at-ticket-agents-in-foreign-airports montages that were becoming a drag. And of course
we couldn't have a Race without host Phil Keoghan, who sets up such challenges as the pie-throwing event with lines like ''Teams could find themselves...getting creamed.'' Phil is the TV industry standard for pure ham-on-wry. Even the ''hillbillies'' agree: ''I love the eyebrow!'' says Linda, when Keoghan raises it to convey his signature expression of amused dubiousness — or is that dubious amusement?
The Amazing Race remains the most
exhilarating reality show because it provokes such a wide range of emotions in the contestants and in us. You can always
find a team to identify with and invest
in; you can always find a few brats to detest. Then there's the subtler middle ground.
I think the addition of Luke will prove
edifying. Right now, other teams talk earnestly to the camera about his ''integrity,'' but if the deaf kid starts smokin' the
competition, pious p.c. sentiments will probably degenerate as fast as Mike White's dad's pulled groin. Ouch. And yay. A–
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20258483,00.html
puddin:
"Don't Let a Cheese Hit Me"--Mother/son team Margie and Luke travel to Interlaken, Switzerland and perform a "cheese race" in which they carry wheels of cheese up and down a slope to a little alpine hut in order to receive their next clue, on THE AMAZING RACE 14, Sunday, Feb. 15 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT)
"Don't Let a Cheese Hit Me"--Jen travels to Interlaken, Switzerland and perform a "cheese race" in which they carry wheels of cheese up and down a slope to a little alpine hut in order to receive their next clue, on THE AMAZING RACE 14, Sunday, Feb. 15
"Don't Let a Cheese Hit Me"--Jennifer (left) and Amanda travel to Interlaken, Switzerland and perform a "cheese race" in which they carry wheels of cheese up and down a slope to a little alpine hut in order to receive their next clue, on THE AMAZING RACE 14, Sunday, Feb. 15
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