When did you stop watching "The Amazing Race"?

[tjwash]

I just came to the realization that I used to love TAR, and just am not the least bit interested in it any more. I just sort of quit watching it after they starting putting reality show contestants from other series like Rob and Amber on it. I just think that what made this show so great is that it was real people, and they were not pandering to the least common denominator, and putting an already high-profile pair of media whores into a series that does so well on its own.

It also sort of just seemed like the teams turned bitter, hateful, and humorless. In other words, it turned into a reality show :(

What about all of you out there?

[Radical Activist]

1. The Real World was the last and only good reality TV show.

And it stopped being good several years ago.

[xmas74]

2. Hated Romber, hated the family season

but plan to turn in next season. They are back w/ teams of two, race around the world(family stayed in N. America) and things look good. Plus, for the first time ever, I have a team to root for immediately from the promo shown at the end of TAR: Family. They've got a nerd team on there and I can't wait to watch them in action(self-confessed Trek, D&D style nerd-geeks). I love nerds!

[Schema Thing]

3. When I saw the "hay unrolling" episode

Where an older retired couple was pitted against a pair of young models or atheletes or somesuch to find instructions rolled up deep within huge bales of hay scattered thruout a field.

I thought "how fucking stupid, this has ZERO to do with the implied premise of this show".