The Amazing Race Season That Almost Cancelled The Show - The Amazing Race 8 

I'll admit. I laughed when I saw that

Yeah, except even the Dave chapelle show is worse

I thought they were called the Black family because of that fact, not because that's actually their last name.

I laughed because that’s a curb episode, well season. That was a curb your enthusiasm moment. 😂

@@user-bv7mk8id5t there’s also a funny Seinfeld where Jerry is set up to go out with a woman named Donna Chang and he is upset when he finds out she’s not in fact Chinese, but white

I feel like that might've been the reason they didn't really go overseas. They might've thought it might be too stressful for the little ones to ride ~8 hours on a plane and then navigate an entirely new language, geography, and culture.

@@oll-_-llo I don't have kids, but from what I can tell, international travel with young children is a nightmare enough without also having to race against other teams. And forget completing tasks for a reality TV show. I mean the Black family literally got washed downstream on a relatively calm river in the first episode, it can only get worse from there.

Think it was the difficult getting plane tickets and traveling overseas with that many people

@@oll-_-lloI think there should have been an age limit because The Amazing Race Family Edition had 2 tests with young kids which was no worries, however The Family Edition of the Amazing Race should’ve gone outside the us a little more though.

And they did it twice!

At least it wasn’t the track their dad died on

Well the show it's The Amazing Race so yeah. I guess at some point it was bound there would be a car racing or speed sport event.

@@xellotathschosen910 have u ever seen the show ? ☠️

@@Justchillinman17 well yeah, like 4 seasons, this one included.

Same me and my brother were being super immature with that

Phil was talking about introducing them at a promo, it was hilarious.

The Paolo is basically my family and I hate it

At first I thought it was a typo and then I realized it's actually their last name.

Keep in mind that in Season 10 some of the other contestants routinely referred to a Black female pair (who were not related) as "the sistahs."

Crazy enough they were almost eliminated the first leg

Young adults. They’re like 20s. And competing with 9 year old blonde girl.

Makes me wonder if the Weavers pissed off production that badly.

A lot of reality shows are fake. They probably cast them to be assholes and told them how to act plus editing. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the families weren’t real.

The weavers are bad and the production team are bad. Both of these things can coexist but yeah production is awful for their antics on season 8

They probably were very annoying in real life but as someone else wrote these shows are edited to cause tension and drama.

​@@cruzloera4931it's actually against the law for a broadcast competition show to lie about something like that

Yeah no, they probably care about the budget, too many people means less countries to be visited.

Yeah balance. Like have kids but their parents are athletic. Teams in their 20s should have 2 couch potatoes who cant run fast. I love the Linzes though.

or 2 adults and 2 kids up to 14 years old

Yeah doing it again but with a rule where 3 members of the team must be over the age of 13 or over a certain height, keeping the challenges in the States (and maybe also Canada). Like I could see this concept working great if Nickelodeon did their own version of it that's a bit easier for 8 year olds.

Or they have 2 adults and two kids around the same age for each team. But I guess he doesn't want to break children's hearts again so probs not.

Yeah or grandma and grandpa for variety.

I would love to see them do it again with kids, but fairly this time

I don't know... that's to expect reality shows to be fair in the way sports are fair (or at least strive to be fair), and they are rarely if ever like that, and have no intention of being so. If The Amazing Race were constructed like a sport, people who were athletically gifted, intelligent in various ways, book smart and street smart, and culturally well-informed (there are polyglots who could go on a season and speak the languages of the majority of the countries they visit, but you'll never see them on TAR), and would first compete at lower levels of competition to reach the big leagues, The Amazing Race, where we would see the best of the best. There would be 11 teams of incredibly capable teams every season. The athletes in professional sports are not just better at their sports than the average person, they are much, much, much better, to an extent that the average fan at home griping might not fully realize. That's not TAR's goal. They cast for personality, and contrasts. They cast some people because they're very appealing, and some because they're obnoxious and will become season villains. And they often cast people who are just as mediocre as the average fan watching at home. AND... while I don't think the show is rigged, it's certainly not even-handed, in a way that would be totally unacceptable in a sport. The non-elimination legs happen without rhyme or reason, and it seems clear to me that the producers often do so with the express purpose of saving this or that team they want to stay in the Race for more legs. (Sometimes I watch an episode, and as the last team approaches Phil, I think, "There's no way in hell that he is about to eliminate them." I'm usually right.)

I guarantee every team on every season of TAR throws trash.

Why can’t Phil just do family edition and help the young children grow from the stress. I wish the Family Edition Can’t he just let the young children go far enough. I feel bad for the Weaver Family. They’re so kind.

Nothing wrong with watching Family Edition again. I actually like this season. Pros: Good attempt to put children against adults. One team with a child under 10 got far enough. Kind personality. Children do well at building a house. All teams took the race seriously. Cons: Route was terrible.

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I once had a friend who had a massive unexpected loss hit him devestatingly. From that point he changed, noticeably, withdrawing from company, becoming suspicious and hostile to strangers, developing some seriously extreme political views (super hard-right), and generally alienating everyone who cared about him. With their hard-line religious views, general hostility to anybody outside of their group, and general attitude, it just felt like the Weavers - especially the mother and daughters - went through that same transformation. Totally agree about the son (Rollo?) though. It seemed like he got sidelined with the rest, and he couldn't be "disloyal" by mixing with others. What a horrible position to be in.

@@H0lyMoley Tbh I didn't like when they were calling that one family "housewives" or whatever, but your comment definitely is a great way at explaining that they definitely experienced trauma that caused them to act like how they did

@@masterfy24 Totally agree. I think you get this anyway, but to be specific here - I'm not trying to excuse their behavior at all (some of it was pretty disgusting), just put it into the context of what I've personally seen someone go through. The situation and reaction to it seems really similar.

@@H0lyMoley Its also the context of being on national TV here. The rest of your family is in a bad place and is saying everyone else is being mean to them (true to an extent) but they arent doing themselves any favors. On a competitive reality TV show where they are on your team, that is a very hard time to try and tell your family they are wrong because that only ends very well for you, or absolutely catastrophic. Pretty sure I would have just done the same "suck it up and ride it out" while at least trying to signal a bit of "yeah they are insane, but they are still my family so I have to back them because we are all we have, sorry they are so over the top"

Well they signed up for the race. And how do you turn a team down because of there last name ?

@@paulbegley1464 Not that they should have been turned down because of their name, but do you think that every family that signs up gets cast on the show? That's not how it works.

I know the casting director had a chuckle over that one

For some people, though, doing something this insanely different is actually helpful - it lets them get their mind off of things for a while. Or it WOULD if the show wasn't constantly "okay so your challenge for today is occurring at a racetrack and then we're going to try to kill your mother with a car".

I would too. I’d like the Gaghan Family to be back again. I really enjoyed watching them throughout their time.

I was FB friends with Carissa Gaghan for a long time and kind of watched her grow up. The last time she posted, she was on her way to New Zealand to attend school, but that was several years ago.

I heard they considered bringing 2 of the Linz siblings to compete in Season 31

We don't talk about Bruno, no, no, no.

I can see why

I watched the season once, and I’m never watching it again. It was a disaster

*There is no AR:FE in Ba Sing Se*

In earlier season, if it was a non elimination they would take something like all your clothes or all the money you have

@@ThoosieJP I wish they would do that again tbh

​@@GLBizziethey cant.. it made bad waves. That you had them begging fr money from extremely poor people

It was definetly due to the kids. The amount of overseas travel would kill them and they would all want to just go home lol.

I think it was more because of the scale of the show. Only so many last minute plane tickets and you have to buy for your team + camera man so that's 5 tickets per team. ​@@Hephaestus_God

100% agree with everything

@@TurquoiseStar17 CTV who produces the amazing race Canada doesn't have the same budget as the US one so unless they have a airline sponsor them they can't afford to travel outside of Canada due to the expense.

but what I hate about amazaing race Canada is there is always a team who will take time penalty in every season wothout even trying the challenge

No it was boring. I couldnt get with canada. Like they didnt even see tge world

i do mostly agree with the TARC thing, however, one big flaw with staying in the same country is often how the locations often get quite repetitive and boring, for example, there have been several times where the race just goes to bumfuck nowhere and in TARC 9, the race stayed in BC for 4 legs straight.

I'd guess the reason they didn't go to Europe or anywhere outside of the USA, Canada, and Costa Rico was because of the kids. I mean of course children can travel outside of North America, but I'm wondering if there was some insurance issue because of the ages of some of the kids that meant that they had to stay in the US for most of the time and couldn't enter Europe or another continent.

Dad had completely given up. At times Mom was just as horrible to the boys, but they were so ugly to her. Hopefully seeing their behavior on TV, especially compared to how the other families acted, opened their eyes.

Honestly, I got tired of hearing how their dad died. It seemed like it was constantly mentioned.

They didn't care knowing the cameras were rolling. The girls were throwing trash at one point at another team.

their whole personality was "I'm a good Christian" and "our dad died😢." ​@@daniel_sc1024

❤😂😅😊 I also like the Paolo Family, The Paolo Family were a great family team on The Amazing Race Family Édition, however, I did not like the Marion and DJ fighting with each other, It was really childish of Marion and DJ, Overall the Paolo Family are a great team, I don’t mind them.😂❤😅😊🎉 I did not like The Paolo Family yelling at each other, It was so childish of them.

I had the same reaction when i was a kid. Now on rewatch i realize how bad this season is. But i wanted like a kid version of survivor more when i was little. I'm kinda glad that has never happened lol

@@sarahjordan7406 I believe that would be called Kid Nation

@@NathanJakobMichaelThomas oh god I’d completely forgotten that show existed.

The Black Family is the most deserving family to be there. I’m sad they went out early.

Did you ever see Kid Nation?

@@WisteriatheFirst No, the ads did enough for me to know I'd hate it

I think it could be fun but only if it was restructured to be accessible to the kids, like adapting the boating challenge that was clearly oversized, so that it works for them, and altering how long each challenge takes. I don’t think it has to be like a beauty pageant, not if it’s done right.

The only good competition show I seen that look fun when I was kid (made for kids) was all the competition shows that was on Nickelodeon from early on to current times.

I wouldn't compare it to a beauty pageant, but there's definitely something to be said about making sure the kids are mentally capable for this sort of thing. The kids who lasted longer didn't seem to be mentally exhausted from all of it just yet, I was honestly expecting a child meltdown and instead they came from the adults

It actually is.

I have a feeling that’s why they didn’t go outside of the US much either

That’s right.

The Weaver Family is good enough. I respect your opinion if you dislike them.

The Amazing Race Family Edition couldn’t go outside the us due to the safety of the young kids. Is my prediction why the Family Editions route not the teams was terrible. The Amazing Race Family Edition is not a bad season. In my opinion.

The Family Édition of this show didn’t want the little children from the Gaghans and Blacks to get hurt and that’s why they sadly got eliminated early. Wish the Black Family and Gaghan Family went further in their Amazing Race career. I have no problem with the Linzes winning.

Very nice of them to do that! 👏

I mean, ok, buuuut…..the show is called The Amazing Race. Literally the whole game is a race. They were bound to hv to face a race at some point in a racing game. 🤷🏼‍♀️

There's nothing wrong with just casting one black family.

@@jenniferv3219 A certain group of People would be complaining if only 1 white family was casted

@Eric Turner I think the problem is the only black family is also referred to as the black family both in having the surname and in looks. So it’s just funny

I thought they already did?

They already did that for around 4 times i think

​@@franzreyes6185season 10, and season 24.. i think the season 18 was the unfinished business not the all Star

Since when does a team dictate the race course? If they didn’t want to go to Belize (why not, it’s a beautiful resort country), they can just be eliminated. 🤷‍♂️

I am wondering if that led to production torturing the family.

I need to know more about this. Where did you hear this from?

Sounds highly improbable. According to other comments on the internet the trip to Belize was canceled because of a hurricane which is much more likely.

My understanding was that Belize had to be canceled because of a hurricane at the time.

In my opinion I think Family Edition is a good season In my opinion The Blacks and Gaghans have cute kids and The Black and Gaghan Families are the ones that deserved to be there. I’m not saying other families are bad. The Linzes are Kind The Bransens made it far enough The Weavers did well through the passing of their dad.

I noticed that she called it a great lake but I didn't realize the kids were homeschooled No wonder they're all so incredibly antisocial and the mom thinks everyone loves them. They're in a cult 🤣

That was a crazy bit. I intentionally did not include every moment so people could watch this season if they want to and still be surprised by so many things.

Personally I prefer this over 32 as at least it is fun to laugh at this season. 32 is just sooo boring and predictable

My concern with cultural challenges is that it can get very VERY close to feeling extremely disrespectful. There were a few times in a couple of seasons that gave me the ick during cultural challenges. In the intensity of the race, folks aren't thinking about the possible significance that a challenge may have to the local people; they're just focused on getting it done as fast as possible, even if it means cutting corners that they can get away with. It feels like trivializing an important cultural pillar into a cutesy little task for a TV show. YES, it's super cool to see the show explore different cultures and may be the first time some viewers see a given culture, but some folks are just downright disrespectful or get angry easily... and that just makes the whole thing uncomfortable to watch.

The booking of flights made the earlier shows great as it a relatable real world struggle. Plus it encouraged out of the book thinking and some careful planning. Recent seasons have truly become a just-don't-finish last competition since even "winning" a leg gives you almost no real advantage.

I forgot i watched that video but yes, very much

Which one is worse? Them picking the tasks first and then casting the Weavers or them casting the Weavers and then picking the tasks?

Either way, they knew what they were doing.

Yep BB6 had it too

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Unpopular opinion, this season is actually good. I like The Linz Family. They performed well in their time. The Bransens are tough as well, they did well with Wally who is a little slow but smart. The Weavers did well through the passing of their dad.

Gaghans went far enough.

Season 4 is way worse. Family Edition is pretty good.😊

ahhhh yes the season that made me stop watching the show. only came back from Season 31

Yeah… Natalie and Nadiya were the only team that deserved to be there (and what happend…). And I guess Brandon & Rachel but more thanks to BB. And it was SO stupid to invite some of the teams back for the third time. I was so tired of those faces.

Trey7124 I hated the way Brendan & Rachel got treated by the other teams later on in TAR24. Sure, they still had their issues but they at least tried to be better people than they were on their first race. HOWEVER! The very second they choose to yield David & Conner, that’s when nearly everyone decided it was okay to start making fun of them? So mean-spirited!

@@wilddance2067 Only Three or four Teams deserved to be there and the rest were just WTF picks like Jen & Caroline why were they brought back?

In canada, they are on Disney+

Im currently watching them on Paramount +