The Amazing Race is coming back, and the teams were announced this week. In fact, CBS has already posted biographies to their TAR website.
The show premieres Sunday, September 28 beginning at 8:00, which means you're going to have a hard time programming the DVR because of football. As usual.
A quick summary of the teams here:
Mark & Bill: have been friends for over 20 years, ever since they met in a science fiction club. They acknowledge their geekiness, and they're hoping to be considered the most strategic team ever.
Anita & Arthur is the older beekeeping hippie couple you may have heard about. According to the bio, they're ready to go see the world together. For my money, they're going to go down earlier than they should because they're going to spend too much time sightseeing.
Terence & Sarah is this season's Dating Couple. With any luck we'll see their relationship come completely unraveled as the race progresses.
Marisa & Brooke: on the surface they appear to be a slightly younger version of Season 9's Glamazons/Frosties. Then they break out the "we're not just cute blondes, we're cut-throat competitors, we're not above flirting to get ahead" clichés, and we realize that they're more like a slightly older version of Team Pink, also from Season 9.
Andrew & Brad, while fraternity brothers, are reportedly called "Team Superbad" by other teams. This is according to the bio. According to the "meet the teams" video on the CBS site (embedded at the end of this post), this this is the name they've given themselves. These aren't the frats we're used to seeing. In fact, these guys might actually be a little bit fun, so long as they don't use the word "awesome" too much, which unfortunately doesn't seem likely.
Aja & Ty is this season's Long-Distance Couple. Enough said about that. It's fun to note that in the bio, Ty "looks forward to the Race as a chance to explore other cultures". Has he not watched this show? Only way you're gonna get some culture is if they feed you yogurt, dude.
Toni & Dallas: this season's cross-generation couple. Toni was apparently a single mother who views raising Dallas as her biggest accomplishment. I don't know why I'm getting this vibe, but I'm kind of hoping to get a couple of uncomfortable, too-much-information kind of moments out of their relationship.
Nick & Starr are the siblings of this season. Supposedly they each have a very competitive streak in them, but it's usually with each other. It'll be interesting to see if this dynamic causes them to spiral in, or if they can turn it into a kind of synergy. Starr's big "hook" is that she's a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. But she's not alone in that, because we have...
Mark & Bill: have been friends for over 20 years, ever since they met in a science fiction club. They acknowledge their geekiness, and they're hoping to be considered the most strategic team ever.
Anita & Arthur is the older beekeeping hippie couple you may have heard about. According to the bio, they're ready to go see the world together. For my money, they're going to go down earlier than they should because they're going to spend too much time sightseeing.
Terence & Sarah is this season's Dating Couple. With any luck we'll see their relationship come completely unraveled as the race progresses.
Marisa & Brooke: on the surface they appear to be a slightly younger version of Season 9's Glamazons/Frosties. Then they break out the "we're not just cute blondes, we're cut-throat competitors, we're not above flirting to get ahead" clichés, and we realize that they're more like a slightly older version of Team Pink, also from Season 9.
Andrew & Brad, while fraternity brothers, are reportedly called "Team Superbad" by other teams. This is according to the bio. According to the "meet the teams" video on the CBS site (embedded at the end of this post), this this is the name they've given themselves. These aren't the frats we're used to seeing. In fact, these guys might actually be a little bit fun, so long as they don't use the word "awesome" too much, which unfortunately doesn't seem likely.
Aja & Ty is this season's Long-Distance Couple. Enough said about that. It's fun to note that in the bio, Ty "looks forward to the Race as a chance to explore other cultures". Has he not watched this show? Only way you're gonna get some culture is if they feed you yogurt, dude.
Toni & Dallas: this season's cross-generation couple. Toni was apparently a single mother who views raising Dallas as her biggest accomplishment. I don't know why I'm getting this vibe, but I'm kind of hoping to get a couple of uncomfortable, too-much-information kind of moments out of their relationship.
Nick & Starr are the siblings of this season. Supposedly they each have a very competitive streak in them, but it's usually with each other. It'll be interesting to see if this dynamic causes them to spiral in, or if they can turn it into a kind of synergy. Starr's big "hook" is that she's a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. But she's not alone in that, because we have...
Kelly & Christy: one's a former collegiate cheerleader, the other is a former collegiate dancer. They're best friends and they want to be the first all-female team to win. And in their spare time they solve crimes! OK, maybe I made that last part up.
Ken & Tina: this is the couple that's using a game show to see if they can reconcile their marriage. Because a month of Killer Fatigue is the perfect environment for this sort of thing.
Finally, we have Anthony and Stephanie, another separated couple who are using a television show to put their relationship back together. Again, people who haven't been watching the show.
The "Meet the Cast" video:
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