The Amazing Race 12 Teams Revealed

Great news, TAR fans. I’d heard the rumors that Jericho might be returning next month but wasn’t expecting that to apply to The Amazing Race 12 as well, particularly with reality TV being such a great thing to have in the event of a strike. CBS has announced that The Amazing Race 12 will premiere on Sunday November 4 at 8PM(ish… expect football delays). Along with that announcement comes a new cast. We have dating goths (their photo’s worth a lot more than 1000 words) and a grandson and his grandfather, but in a rare change for the franchise, no alpha male team.

Kynt & Vyxsin
Dating Goths
Kynt: Louisville, KY; 31; Waiter/Receptionist
Vyxsin: Louisville, KY; 29; Waiter/Receptionist

Jennifer & Nathan
Dating
Jennifer: Huntington Beach, CA; 23; Student
Nathan: Fountain Valley, CA; 24; Volleyball Coach

Ronald & Christina
Father & Daughter
Ronald: Tacoma, WA; 58; VP of Sales
Christina: Washington, DC; 26; Policy Analyst

Shana & Jennifer
Friends
Shana: Los Angeles, CA; 32, Actress
Jennifer: Los Angeles, CA; 32; Legal Assistant

Azaria & Hendekea
Brother & Sister
Azaria: New Orleans, LA; 27; Facilities Engineer
Hendekea: Torrance, CA; 23; Aerospace Engineer

Lorena & Jason
Dating
Lorena: Sherman Oaks, CA; 27; Bartender
Jason: Sherman Oaks, CA; 33; Wedding Videographer/Actor

Nicolas & Donald
Grandson & Grandfather
Nicolas: Chicago, IL; 23; Pilot
Donald: Elkhorn, WI; 68; Retired

Ari & Staella
Best Friends
Ari: Long Beach, CA; 21; Waiter
Staella: Fountain Valley, CA; 24; Restaurant Manager

Marianna & Julia
Sisters
Marianna: Miami, FL; 25; Art Gallery Manager
Julia: Miami, FL; 26; Production Assistant

Rachel & TK
Dating for almost one year (not sure why the last part of this is so important to include in their bio)
Rachel: Huntington Beach, CA; 23; Florist/Store Owner
TK: Huntington Beach, CA; 22; Substitute Teacher

Kate & Pat
Married Ministers
Kate: Thousand Oaks, CA; 49; Episcopal Priest
Pat: Thousand Oaks, CA; 65; Ordained Deacon

I’m going to pick Jennifer & Nathan as the odds on favorites early on. I’m picking Lorena & Jason as the team most likely to argue on a regular basis. What are your initial reactions?

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Reaper Episode 5

In Reaper Episode 4, Andi invited Sam and his friends to a concert, but the Devil fought him on it and convinced him he couldn’t go because he’ll never get a vacation. Once plans changed to him and Andi alone, though, a little thing like the Devil wasn’t of great concern. But in order to save Andi’s life, Sam had to promise Ted he’d work for the next four weekends, which means no concert. It also means Andi’s getting tired of him lying to her.

Sam makes plans with Andi to go to karaoke. He says he’ll be there in 10 minutes. I think we all know that won’t be happening. A demon carrying a contract for his soul prevents that. He needs to sign/initial/etc. every page of the several thousand. For some reason, the demon doesn’t want Jell-o shots and instead wants Sam to sign everything right then and there. He was hoping he could find a loophole in the contract, but the medieval and Latin writing in the huge document negates that possibility.

When Sam tries to walk, he starts slipping all over the place. As usual, his demon powers suck. The stickiness this gets replaced with is a lot easier to deal with (at least he doesn’t need to hold Sock’s hand) but still weird.

Sam says he really wants to know what he missed last night. Bad idea. What he missed was Greg, a guy who was hanging out with Andi all night.

Andi plays a prank on Ted, putting a note on his car apologizing for the damage (which is made up). She puts the regional manager’s phone number on it. He searches for 10 minutes to find out what’s wrong, then calls the number and calls the guy an idiot. Completely irrelevant but a good prank nonetheless.

Sam’s excuse for flaking: jogging. Late night jogging. If you’re gonna lie, at least make it believeable. Or tell her the truth. That sounds better.

The Devil, who Sam hates (again), shows Sam pictures of people who died because they slipped. After asking, he’s given a clue that’s remotely helpful, slime. After he climbs out of the sewer, Sam sees a guy walking in the middle of the street get hit by a car, but that guy turns out to be a slime monster.

The vessel is a sweater that looks like a really embarrassing homemade Christmas gift. For some reason, Sam thought it would be something that made sense and that actually looked impressive. As he’s leaving, sweater tied around his waist, Sam promises Andi he’ll tell her what’s up tonight.

Andi gets flowers at work from Greg. Ted says he approves.

The boys head into the sewer and find a slime trail. This trail of slime leads to a political fundraiser. Too easy. Sam says he’s friends with Ed, the guy who died in the car accident earlier, which doesn’t get them anywhere except thrown out. Sock decides the fact that they get no reaction when informing Bobby Hartford, one of the men at the fundraiser, about Ed’s death means it’s him who’s the monster. He grabs the sweater and shoves it on Hartford’s head. Since this doesn’t work, now it’s time for them to not only be escorted out but be busted by the cops as well.

Josie’s boss convinced Hartford to not press charges. He’s about to run for office and doesn’t want to deal with them, so he’s willing to let them go if they don’t get near him again. When he gets out of jail, Sam realizes he’s three hours late to meet Andi. When he arrives at her house, she’s out with Greg. The Devil dug up some dirt on him, telling him Greg’s been dating twins. Sam doesn’t want to stoop to that level. He says he’ll outcharm him.

They find out Hartford’s father dumped a bunch of toxic waste while he was still alive. Speaking of fathers, Sam’s dad wants to meet with the Devil, but the Devil’s not interested.

The boys head to the dumpsters to dig up the ugly sweater. While there, Ben gets attacked by slime. Sock saves him with used kitty litter.

When Sam meets with Josie, Andi calls and says she’s going out with Greg and wants her to double date. Sam spills the truth about the twins but asks her to not tell Andi. So much for the charm. After she spills coffee, they find out the sweater is really absorbent. Then Sock comes in with a lead.

This brings them to a woman taking a shower, which Sock’s getting a bit too much joy from. Slime comes out of her shower, but it goes down the pipes before they can catch it, so they head into the sewers, where Hartford’s dad grabs Sam. Sock puts on the sweater and captures the soul. Sam and Sock get stuck in that position, hugging, but their friendly neighborhood DMV demon helps free them.

Josie told Andi about the twins, who turn out to be Greg’s sisters. Now she’s fed up with him, and the worse his relationship gets with her, the worse his relationship gets with the Devil. Afterwards, the Devil warns him that if he tells Andi the truth, it will be bad for him and very bad for her. While he’s telling Sam about it being noble to keep the ones you love in the dark, we get a glimpse of his father, burning the contract he pretended he was going to help read.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 6 Leon, which airs Tuesday at 9/8 on The CW.

Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 6

In Beauty and the Geek episode 5, it was finally makeover time, where we found out who the actual geeks were and who was just dressed up for the sake of the show. Sam & Nicole and Luke & Katie went to the elimination room, and Luke & Katie were eliminated. And yes, I still think it was fixed.

Sam and Nicole return from the elimination room to a lukewarm reception. Nobody gets up to greet them.

After hearing the (pointless) comments from the last episode that he and Jasmine haven’t grown enough, David goes from there to the conclusion that he’s a terrible person. Jasmine manages to cheer him up.

The challenge will be held at Comic-Con. The beauties must come up with a superhero with a complete backstory and an archnemesis. They will be wearing outfits that have been designed by the geeks. Since they will be working together, they will be judged as a team, so the winner will get to choose both teams to go to elimination.

Jasmine wants Princess Bedhead as her character. She says “It gets better, or hopefully it will.” Natalie decides she wants to be a supervillain instead of a superhero, which sounds like a good idea. It doesn’t take long before the concept of being a superhero gets to Sam, who thinks he’s a superhero already. Jen wants to create a superhero who fights with her boobs. William says her ideas are stupid. I can’t think of a better descriptive term either.

I’m not real sure how sewing proves someone’s a beauty or socially well adapted, but that’s part of the geek challenge. Nicole’s feeling good about the way things are going since Sam is going to go topless, and she has enough time to give advice to the others.

Will starts bashing Jen (deservedly), and she walks into the room and hears him. She says she doesn’t care if he doesn’t like her, but they need to work as a team. As he leaves, she calls him an idiot and says she’ll resent him for life if this continues. Now that’s the spirit.

It’s not long before the geeks turn even more geeky when they get to Comic-Con (and on the ride over for that matter). The beauties don’t even give it a chance for the most part. However, Erin approaches it with an open mind.

Shay’s character is Steam. That’s about all she can remember. Erin is Aqualita Splash. Malibu Barbie with dolphins who have superpowers. Jen is Venus the Hypnotic Temptress. Yeah, she went with the boob idea. Natalie is Vinity, the lady killer who has vines covering her body and eats humans. Bad news for Metro Man, Sam, all the judges are guys. He’s a world famous underwear model who breakdances the villains. Jasmine also went with her original idea, Princess Bedhead. Her spray puts people to sleep. Her personality is more important than anything else in her presentation, and it goes over well with the judges.

The judges were pleased with Jasmine, but her character ultimately didn’t work as well as how entertaining she was. Sam and Nicole won. What the…? Yeah, I’m pulling out the rigged card again. How is a breakdancing underwear model a viable superhero? And to add insult to injury, his partner did very little in this challenge, which she didn’t have to because the costume was underwear.

Sam and Nicole get to pick two teams to go to elimination. Natalie & John will go up against Jesse & Erin. The fear is they are too close to each other to stick around. The guys will be tested on fashion; the girls will be tested on comic books.

Natalie gets her first question right, as does Erin. Natalie gets her followup question right, but Erin does not. This gives Natalie & John a 2-1 lead. John gets his first question right. Jesse misses his. Erin and Jesse have been eliminated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 7, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

The Bachelor 11 Episode 5

In The Bachelor 11 Episode 4, McCarten and DeAnna continued to employ their theory that they’re not there to make friends so they can treat people like dirt, everybody decided they hated Jenni (more) because she was Brad’s first kiss, and three more people got eliminated (McCarten, Stephy, and Jade). That brings us down to the final 6.

Bettina gets the one-on-one date, a romantic evening on the water. Before she goes, the girls inform her she has to kiss when she goes under bridges… why tell her that? Brad hopes she can just relax and be herself. She says she’s been brought up to believe the girl is supposed to play hard to get. They discuss her divorce and her lack of relationships since that time. They each get a peck on the cheek, but Brad wants to take things slow and give her some time.

Back at the house, the girls turn their sites on Bettina, saying she just thinks it’s a competition, largely because they’re afraid she’s the biggest threat in the house.

The group date is Jenni, Hillary, DeAnna, and Kristy. They have a pool party. Kristy says she’s really not a pool person. She just sits around on the side. It’s surprising she made it this far. Hillary begins expressing her non-G-rated thoughts about Brad. Brad starts going crazy because he can’t kiss DeAnna since everybody’s watching, though he doesn’t have much trouble getting Jenni away from prying eyes to kiss her. Hillary gets pissed off about him going off with her.

Sheena gets the other one-on-one date. All the blondes being on different dates works well because I can tell who’s who now. Brad refuses to even give her a hint about what they’re doing on their date. It starts off with a wardrobe choice. It’s straight out of a fairy tale… until she trips walking down the stairs. I already saw this scene with Rachel Leigh Cook in She’s All That. The floor of the room where they’re eating dinner is covered with balloons. When they sit down, he gives her a pair of diamond earrings. She says she wants to kiss Brad but won’t make the first move. Brad seems mostly to have kept her around because of his brother, but now he’s happy that he did. As they’re chatting, an orchestra starts playing, and they kiss while dancing.

Sheena writes him a poem and reads it to him the next day, which impresses him. DeAnna says she’s extremely nervous because of the nature of the situation, but she loves feeling that way. Bettina tells him flat out she wants him to kiss her.

Bettina says Sheena’s date sounds so much more exciting than her boring date. Jenni decides that means she’s not here for the right reasons. Bettina says it was just a joke when Jenni brings it up the day after, though it did seem like Sheena’s date was a lot better.

Brad made it pretty clear at the pool that Hillary’s just a friend. She didn’t get the hint. So at the cocktail party, he again says she’s just a friend. She still doesn’t get it.

Roses:
DeAnna
Jenni
Sheena
Bettina

Hillary and Kristy have been eliminated, which is not exactly a surprise. Well, not to anyone other than Hillary anyway. She says she doesn’t want to cry, but the waterworks are followed by hyperventilating. She says she doesn’t understand how he said the things and has now cut her from the running. Oh yeah, Kristy got cut, too. Doesn’t she like get final words or something? Apparently not.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Bachelor 11 episode 6, which airs Monday at 10/9c on ABC.

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Heroes Season 2 Episode 5

In Heroes Season 2 episode 4, Claire and West got closer, Alejandro and Maya met a new friend (Sylar), Monica started to discover her powers, and Molly helped find Parkman’s dad, only to collapse at the end of the episode.

Suresh tells Parkman he has to go find his father because Molly faced her worst nightmare to find him.

Monica is talking to a cop about her run in with the criminal. The cop says he needs someone to step up and be a hero and identify the guy, who’s already hit other places in the area.

Caitlin tells Peter she’s not sure staying around there isn’t going to be enough for him. She tries to talk him into opening the box. She says there’s bound to be someone looking for him, and she’s right. It’s time to introduce Elle (Kristen Bell), who asks around and finds out Peter’s in the area.

Parkman meets up with Nathan, who insists on going and helping him out.

Ricky tells Peter to go to Caitlin’s flat, and he’ll take care of Elle for him.

Monica’s friend Camille wants to know how and why she kicked the robber. She tells her the truth about how she learned it from TV. I couldn’t tell whether she thought she was crazy or not, though Monica thinks she may be going crazy but at the same time thinks it also means she’s meant for something bigger.

Parkman and Nathan head to the place in Molly’s vision. Nathan knocks on the door for him. Parkman barges into the apartment and is greeted with a shotgun. His father shows him a picture, with the same symbol as the other two people who were attacked.

He says he’s protecting himself. Nathan says he should just read his mind so they can get out of there, but he’s not able to get anything out of him, since both of them can read minds.

Micah’s at the piano playing a song. He and Monica have a discussion about their moms. While they’re talking, Micah he asks about playing the piano, and she says she never learned. Yet she’s doing an excellent job of it. She gets freaked out and stops.

Suresh phones HRG and tells him his plan is to take Molly to the Company because they’re the only ones who can save her, ignoring his request not to go there.

Parkman’s father tells a story about how he met all those people because, like him and the main stars of the show, he was connected to the people with special abilities as well. Pretending he’s going to help Matt out, he creates a world where Matt’s a prisoner and Nathan’s in the world how it would be if they didn’t save it.

After not being in last week’s episode for the first time, Hiro’s back with his hero Kensei. He’s sent a message to Ando to discuss how he’s helping him with the stories he read about as a child.

Micah confronts Monica about her piano playing. She wants to just go to sleep and forget it, but he shows her his power and says it runs in the family. He shows her a comic book and says she’s just like the hero in that: a copycat. He suggests testing her power out.

Bob tells Mohinder he wants him to go out in the field and capture someone and starts talking about how a lot of people aren’t in control of their ablities. People like Niki, who comes out and starts destroying things before being stopped.

Micah and Monica are deciding what to do, and she decides she wants to not suck at double dutch, so she jumps in and picks it up right away.

Peter decides to accept his past and find out what who he really is. He says he wants to be with Caitlin, regardless of what his life was before. He finds a wallet, a ticket to Montreal, pictures, etc., but none of it tells him anything. And with that, he starts painting a picture for no apparent reason.

Elle shows up in the pub and asks Ricky about Peter. Ricky plays dumb. She starts to walk away to mess with him, then turns back around and says she heard on the docks that they saw Peter there. He insists he doesn’t know who she’s talking about. She doesn’t accept this and turns around, shooting beams from her fingers.

Suresh offers to bust Niki out of there, saying she’s a prisoner, but she refuses to leave. She says she wants to be there and is sick, and they’re the only people who can help her.

Nathan gets into a fight with himself. Meanwhile, Parkman envisions his wife telling him he walked out on his son, the one she said wasn’t his. They start fighting their way out, but both end up getting choked. After this goes on for a bit, they snap out of it, realizing they’re actually still in the apartment and choking each other. Somehow Parkman managed to get Nathan to wake up, though neither know how. They know where his father’s headed, though. Nathan finds a picture of Bob, with the symbol on it.

Hiro’s telling the story of how the three of them are in a fight against a whole army. The final word Ando’s able to read is “fear.” He just doesn’t know what he fears, or what happens next.

Monica tells Micah she’s just looking for some answers. Suresh shows up at her door and tells her he’s got them.

Elle gets a phone call and reveals she killed Ricky. She gets pulled off the case by her father, who’s unrevealed on the other line.

Peter’s done painting. Too bad he doesn’t know what he painted, but they do suspect it’s Montreal. This is all interrupted by finding out that Ricky’s dead.

Stick around for spoilers of next week’s episode throughout the week.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 2 episode 6 The Line, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 5

In Prison Break Season 3 episode 4, we found out what was in the box. It was Sara’s head. That puts an end to the mystery whether or not she’ll be returning. Sucre stopped by to help, and the process of breaking out of prison has begun. Michael got a new cell, but now the question is: why that cell? T-Bag and Mahone continued to stir up trouble. They’ll be along for the ride when everything goes down, if they’re not dead by then.

Scofield does a test from his cell. He drops a piece of tin foil on the ground near his cell at night. The guards spot it pretty easily.

Lincoln breaks the news to Michael that Susan has the bird book. When asked about photos of LJ and Sara, he pretends she wouldn’t let him keep them. His day’s not getting any better either, as Michael informs him he’ll need a vehicle in the middle of the day the next day, dashing his hopes for breaking out under the cover of darkness. Crazy yes, but they don’t have a choice.

Michael asks McGrady for a watch or two and binoculars. He lets him know where to get them, though this time he doesn’t want to know why.

He explains the plan to Whistler. He figured out that the daytime is better because there is no jeep patrol or perimeter guards, so they only have to get past two guards.

Sucre gets stopped by a couple guys who know he’s the new gravedigger. They want him to get something inside the prison in exchange for $5,000.

Since they’re shorthanded, now it’s time to get Mahone involved. Aside from the whole not being able to be trusted thing, he’d make a nice ally.

One of the guards has to turn away when there’s a glare, at the same time every day. Whistler tests this by throwing a ball into the yard. The guard doesn’t notice it. He kept looking the other way for at least 6 minutes. The other guard’s not budging but is a sports fanatic who did stop to adjust the TV when he had trouble with it, so they plan to disrupt his shows to distract him.

There’s a new prisoner in town, one who seems to know Whistler and is snooping around and finding out more than anyone else seems to be smart enough to find out. Mahone notices this and confronts him.

Sophia and Lincoln are driving along and get pulled over. They’re told all roads within 2 miles of Sona are off limits. Time for plan B.

Michael asks Whistler what’s so urgent about getting him out of there can’t wait until the day after tomorrow. He says he doesn’t know.

Sucre happily sneaks the package into the prison, narrowly escaping being busted. The intended recipient, one of Lechero’s men, grabs it.

Scofield comes up with a plan to attach a power source to a transmitter, which will interfere with anything electronic. The guard gets distracted and messes with his TV, but then he shoots. I didn’t think he was shooting in Scofield’s direction, but he apparently was. The colonel charges into the prison, a siren sounds, and all the prisoners must go into the yard. They believe they saw a rifle scope pointing at one of the guards and plan to search the prison until they find it. They search and find Scofield’s binoculars and start asking prisoners one by one whose cell it is. Scofield readily admits it’s his cell. A gun is pulled on him, and he’s asked why he was watching them.

He says he wasn’t watching him. Whistler interrupts and says it’s his. He says he was watching birds. He pulls out the bird book and shows it to them. Satisfied with that answer (except for the guard, who still seems suspicious), they turn around and also leave the binoculars behind. Unfortunately, they locked up the cell while they were there, meaning the loss of supplies and an exit point.

Sucre’s got himself trapped now. They expect him to keep sneaking stuff into the prison.

The new prisoner comes up to Whistler and calls him McFadden, saying he knew him from 1997. Whistler plays him off as being crazy, but it’s obvious he’s lying.

Mahone proves useful. He notices a guard who needs his coffee fix, and Mahone managed to grab a coffee cup from the courtyard, offering them a new plan.

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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 5 Preview

I usually like to get these up earlier, but this week got thrown off with the scheduling change last week. Here you can watch two spoiler clips from Prison Break Season 3 Episode 5 Interference. In the first scene, Michael asks Lincoln for a vehicle. In the second scene after the jump, Michael explains the escape to Whistler.

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