The Amazing Human Race

Man oh man it’s colder than a witches bazoom out there. Yikes! What the hell? It looks like its going to start snowing soon and I can’t even fit into my corduroys from last year. Ack!

Alright, I’m going to try and be as PC as I can here, and I want no one, of any color, race, creed or gender to take my ranting posts too seriously, I’m not even sure what I’m getting at here, so bear with me.

What is up with Survivor and the Amazing Race? I’ve never seen so much diversity in my life. TV has turned into New York City and I didn’t even notice.

Now I’m still not sure how I feel about Survivor breaking its teams up by race. I’m loathe to say anything bad about it at all because I love Survivor, and most of all, I love Jeff Probst. Now, I realize it’s just the first episode, and the race-teams won’t last long anyway, they’ll merge next episode probably, but I think for the first time out, its kind of an interesting experiment.

Now, if we were pretending there was no such thing as selective editing, it would seem as if the African-American team is the only one who even really mentioned their race at all. Making “ghetto” jokes and Martin Luther King references all over the place. The Caucasians (yes, I’m using the pc name, because, well…I don’t want people to yell at me), did mention that they were the “whiteys”, but it did seem to stop there. The Hispanics and the Asians didn’t mention it at all as far as I could tell, and also seemed to be whooping the ass of the other two.

I love Probst mentioning how the African American team came to its Exile Island decision through the men ONLY, while the women stood back and watched. Huh. And then, watching the two men burn a bridge the first day by razzing on the writing guy and sending him away.

Apparently, according to Survivor, black people talk about their race a lot, burn bridges, and no matter what they say, can’t seem to function in water. Keep in mind, this is what Survivor says, I say, YAY BLACK PEOPLE!

Now, on to the Amazing Race, which is truly emulating its title. We’ve got Indians, we’ve got African American Muslims, we’ve got African American women, Asian brothers, we’ve got a woman with no leg, we’ve got two sets of hot girls (c’mon AR, cheerleaders and Ms. Americas?), we’ve got two former drug addicts, a lesbian daughter and disappointed father, a gay couple, a very distinct white trash couple and one white couple yelling at each other all the time.

It’s so weird.

Where’s the old couple? You know, the ones past 60 that love each other so much and are taking the chance? Where are the best friend Alpha males? The separated couple trying to figure it out? The two housewife best friends actually believing they can make it? The mother and teenage daughter who are more alike than different, even though they fight too much?

Where did my TV go? Not that I’m upset with the diversity, it should make for some interesting road blocks and immunity challenges, but it all changed in a few months. It wasn’t like this before. Was it Survivor that changed the face of it all? Or is this the way it’s going to be from now on?

And how in the hell are John and I supposed to get on Amazing Race if we’re just a plain old white couple that actually love each other?