Amazing Race Final Re-shot CBS Admits!
InsomniaKev
August 30th
CBS President Les Moonves and Amazing Race producer Bertram Van Munster
released a statement Friday night confirming what is to reported in
Saturday's edition of The Drudge Report(www.drudgereport.com). The ending of
the fourth season of the reality show was re-shot just last month.
Along with the story the Drudge Report has the original ending that was
never seen, supplied by a CBS employee close to the show.
The final episode was shown August 21st and was the 11th highest rated show
of the week according to the Neilson ratings.
"Let's get one thing straight, this is not a cover-up. The only thing we did
was to correct a mistake after the final episode was shot", says Van
Munster.
On Valentine's Day on the outskirts of Phoenix, Jon Corso and Kelly Parks -
a couple from Miami came in first in a race around the world. Reichen
Lehmkuhl and Chip Arndt - a gay married couple from California came in
second, ten minutes behind the winners.
But it was not until the series was shown during the summer that producers
had realized they overlooked a rule that Parks had broken in almost all the
episodes. She had verbally abused other contestants especially Millie Smith,
whom Parks had referred to as Millie the Mole.
Game rules that are broken by contestants result in a time penalty. In this
case the verbal abusage should have resulted in 15 minute penalties during
each show. But the cameramen and soundmen who accompanied the contestants
failed to report the penalties and the show's editors did not know of the
rule themselves.
"No one noticed the penalties until the show aired", says Van Munster.
A 15 minute penalty in the final episode was enough to give Lehmkuhl and
Arndt the victory, all be it several months after the final was filmed.
Rumours about re-editing appeared almost instantly after the show aired.
Someone named Mr. Phoenix e-mailed the Smoking Gun web site(smokinggun.com)
on February 15th saying that he had witnessed the production the day before
and saw 'a skinny redhead and a man come in first, followed by two guys 10
minutes later'.
In late July CBS hastily recalled the contestants for the re-shoot in
Phoenix. Among them clown Al Rios who was performing on a cruise ship in the
Caribbean.
"It was bad enough losing to Kelly, but to meet her again on the reshoot? I
never had it so tough as a clown for the Circus", Rios said.
Needless to say Parks and Corso were upset.
"Kelly is a redhead and when redheads get upset it's not pretty", says
Corso. "She's from Texas, so it's twice as bad as you might think."
CBS President Les Moonves wanted to give Corso and Parks a million dollars
as well but due to broadcasting laws regarding game shows are prohibited
from doing so. They will however get $50,000 for finishing second.
"We made a mistake and by the time we caught it there just was no way to
come out smelling like a rose", Moonves said.
While it appears as if CBS did the right thing, million dollar loser Parks
has her own theory as to what happened.
"You look at TV now and it's all about gay guys. Gay guys are in and the
fact is that the Amazing Race is known as being popular among gay viewers. I
can't prove that this...reimagining...was done for ratings, but come on!
Millie(Smith) has a mole and I called her Millie the Mole. Chip and Reichen
are gay and I called them Chippendale's. Those are f!@#$%* time penalties?!"
The Amazing Race has yet to be renewed for a fifth season.
"We're waiting for the Emmy's", Moonves said.
The show is up for Best Reality Series.
Stan Mikita
Entertainment
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Poster's Note: The video on the drudgereport.com is a little tough to find -
what horrible html - so I put it on my web site
http://videoandstream.tripod.com/index.html#downloads
Po' Poe
Does the video file contain a virus?
"InsomniaKev" <Insom...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bipbjs$bt80h$1...@ID-176528.news.uni-berlin.de...
Werz Mungle
"you are the winners" and "you are the second team to arrive" to make it
look like J & K won. Man, some people have a real problem with gay people.
Sad, and only serves to prove their point.
Nat and Al Enquirer
news:25X3b.2916$Dh7....@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
> B*** S***! Post a real link to either of these articles.
> Does the video file contain a virus?
It is a zip file with an .avi file that is audio only. It is a clumsy
re-edit of the broadcast ending. There is no such article at
www.suntimes.com or with a subject search for "amazing race" at
news.google.com.
Norton found no viruses in the files. Tonight is our weekly scan, so we
will post if a virus shows up after having downloaded the codex on our MS
Media Player 7.1.
Looks mostly hoaxy to us.
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InsomniaKev
>Sad, and only serves to prove their point.
Lighten up people. A lot of folks wanted J&K to win. Nothing more intended.
> It is a zip file with an .avi file that is audio only.
Try installing the divx5.05 codec
Larry Jandro
the electrons formed this:
> Bull Shit! Post a real link to either of these articles.
> Does the video file contain a virus?
No, but the Divx codec you need to download to play it contains
adware, or you pay $20.00.
Why the hell can't people just post files that are playable on a
normal version of Windows Media Player..?
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"Lord, are we worthy of the task that lies before us,
or are we just jerking off..?"
Larry Jandro
> Try installing the divx5.05 codec
The codec contains adware.
Miguel Cruz
> No, but the Divx codec you need to download to play it contains
> adware, or you pay $20.00.
>
> Why the hell can't people just post files that are playable on a
> normal version of Windows Media Player..?
It plays perfectly with VideoLAN's VLC player, which is a free open source
alternative media player without any advertising crap.
miguel
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Werz Mungle
> >Man, some people have a real problem with gay people.
> >Sad, and only serves to prove their point.
>
> Lighten up people. A lot of folks wanted J&K to win. Nothing more
intended.
I wanted them to win too, but the phony article quotes Kelly as saying:
Rick
stupid to think anyone would fall for this. You must lead a very empty life
to waste your time on this. I feel sorry for you.
"InsomniaKev" <Insom...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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InsomniaKev
pretty
> stupid to think anyone would fall for this. You must lead a very empty
life
> to waste your time on this. I feel sorry for you.
When did this newsgroup become so humourless. When did you guys start taking
this show so seriously? It was an anti-Kelly joke which flew over the heads
of most of you like the Stan Mikita - Chicago reference.
> wanted them to win too, but the phony article quotes Kelly as saying:
The phoney quote was not anti-gay. If any thing the statement is true. Look
at the success of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and AR.
> The codec contains adware.
There's a divx logo in the corner which can be turned off. That's adware???
Must be one person in here who thought it was funny. Man it's good thing you
did not see Ken & Gerard winning last year, you would have thought I was
being anti-Flo.
Johnny Bela
use...@REMOVETHISljvideo.com says...
> On 29 Aug 2003, "Po' Poe" <po...@woods.com> tapped on a keyboard and
> the electrons formed this:
>
> > Bull Shit! Post a real link to either of these articles.
> > Does the video file contain a virus?
>
> No, but the Divx codec you need to download to play it contains
> adware, or you pay $20.00.
>
> Why the hell can't people just post files that are playable on a
> normal version of Windows Media Player..?
The $20 is the for the pro version that lets you encode divx files. If
all you want to do is playback the divx file you can download just the
codec that has no adware attached. The website leads you to the pro
version, but with a little careful reading, you can download just the
divx codec. It's very much like how the realplayer website would flash
a big ad at you to pay for the pro version and would have a small text
link to the free version.
jess
"Rick" <72242...@compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:mY14b.2597$G44...@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> No one with any intelligence would believe this. You must really be
pretty stupid to think anyone would fall for this. You must lead a very
empty life to waste your time on this. I feel sorry for you.
Ooops. Time to throw away my degrees because I actually fell for it.
I'm not saying it was funny, but it had me hook, line and sinker. That
was hard to admit because at times this ng can be a very tough crowd.
I guess it could be worse; I could be a top poster. :)
booster
but it started getting fake when he put in words like "redhead from texas"
and some other rants about kelly saying it was because they were gays. The
bullshit factor there smelled of fakeness
"jess" <don'tbothe...@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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Charlene Charette
My first thought reading it was "this must be from the Onion." :-)
--Charlene
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swearing at sees every gesture and hears every word. -- Raymond Lesser,
20 Things I Learned from God (or voices inside myhead, I'm not sure
which, yet)
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Usenet
news:biqp3p$ch6cd$1...@ID-176528.news.uni-berlin.de:
>> No one with any intelligence would believe this. You must really be
> pretty
>> stupid to think anyone would fall for this. You must lead a very
>> empty
> life
>> to waste your time on this. I feel sorry for you.
>
> When did this newsgroup become so humourless. When did you guys start
> taking this show so seriously? It was an anti-Kelly joke which flew
> over the heads of most of you like the Stan Mikita - Chicago
> reference.
We're not worthy! Do I get a doughnut?
>> wanted them to win too, but the phony article quotes Kelly as saying:
>
> The phoney quote was not anti-gay. If any thing the statement is true.
> Look at the success of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and AR.
>
>> The codec contains adware.
>
> There's a divx logo in the corner which can be turned off. That's
> adware???
>
> Must be one person in here who thought it was funny. Man it's good
> thing you did not see Ken & Gerard winning last year, you would have
> thought I was being anti-Flo.
It was a *very* good troll, worthy of a Hook, Line & Sinker Award. Pay no
attention to the sour-pusses behind the curtain.
Congratulations.
Rick
"booster" <saltyn...@msn.com> wrote in message
news:pn84b.104482$_V.9...@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> maybe because you didn't read all of it. the first 60% was very convincing
> but it started getting fake when he put in words like "redhead from texas"
> and some other rants about kelly saying it was because they were gays. The
> bullshit factor there smelled of fakeness
More importantly, a big news item like this would have been all over the
major news services. I am ALWAYS suspicious when some kind of breaking news
story like this is only found in a newsgroup posting.
Rick
> > No one with any intelligence would believe this. You must really be
> pretty
> > stupid to think anyone would fall for this. You must lead a very empty
> life
> > to waste your time on this. I feel sorry for you.
>
> When did this newsgroup become so humourless. When did you guys start
taking
> this show so seriously? It was an anti-Kelly joke which flew over the
heads
> of most of you like the Stan Mikita - Chicago reference.
>
The problem is that it wasn't presented as a joke -- it was presented in a
way that was clearly intended to be deceptive. There were ways you could
have written this that would have left no doubt that you were just joking
around. There is a fine line sometime between joking around and
deliberately trying to propagate false information.
InsomniaKev
> attention to the sour-pusses behind the curtain.
>
> Congratulations.
Just for that i'll keep the archive up.
Guardsman
[...]
r> The problem is that it wasn't presented as a joke -- it was presented in a
r> way that was clearly intended to be deceptive. There were ways you could
r> have written this that would have left no doubt that you were just joking
r> around. There is a fine line sometime between joking around and
r> deliberately trying to propagate false information.
Please. If you seriously think there's a TAR rule against
"verbal abuse" then you're the one with problem.
>> But it was not until the series was shown during the summer that producers
>> had realized they overlooked a rule that Parks had broken in almost all the
>> episodes. She had verbally abused other contestants especially Millie Smith,
>> whom Parks had referred to as Millie the Mole.
--
Chooch
There is no "problem" with the way the post was written. It was funny!
C'mon! How can you possibly give the guy crap for having a little fun? You
don't really take things so seriously, do you?
"Clearly intended to be deceptive" - Sheeesh! Would you prefer that he
included a disclaimer that identified the post as fictional so your
sensibilities weren't assaulted?
- Chooch
Rick
"Chooch" <chooc...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:YPv4b.66848$la.15...@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...
This is the way rumors start, and it is the reason so much false information
is disseminated on the internet. I doubt if many very knowledgeable people
were fooled by the post (I certainly wasn't), but it is obvious from some of
the reactions that a number of people DID take it seriously. Some of these
people no doubt repeated the rumors to their friends, who in turn repeated
it other people. This is the way internet rumors and hoaxes get started
(like the famous Bill Gates email tracking hoax or the Disney hoax), and it
is getting worse every day. You may have thought the post was clever and
cute, but I thought it was just deceptive enough that a lot of gullible
people would believe it and repeat it. In addition to cluttering up the
internet with further crap, it really does a dis-service to the show and its
reputation.
Rick
"Guardsman" <sp...@net.invalid> wrote in message
news:m31xv1v...@xanthu.home...
> >>>>> Rick writes:
> [...]
> r> The problem is that it wasn't presented as a joke -- it was presented
in a
> r> way that was clearly intended to be deceptive. There were ways you
could
> r> have written this that would have left no doubt that you were just
joking
> r> around. There is a fine line sometime between joking around and
> r> deliberately trying to propagate false information.
>
> Please. If you seriously think there's a TAR rule against
> "verbal abuse" then you're the one with problem.
>
If you read my response, you would realize that I did not believe the post
was genuine. I could tell it was a scam, and my belief was that most
intelligent and sophisticated readers would see through it. The problem is
that some people here were just gullible or trusting enough to believe the
post was genuine, and I'll bet many of these people repeated the allegation
to their friends and associates. This is how rumors get started, and it is
how reputations get tarnished. Years ago a major consumer products group
got its reputation tarnished because of unfounded allegations that some of
its ads contained hidden message supporting devil worship. Many big
companies like McDonalds and Disney have been the victims of internet hoaxes
and scams that continue to flourish long after the companies issue their
denials. I get emails probably at least once a week forwarding what
purports to be an email tracking plan by Bill Gates that is supposed to
track people's emails. Most of these claims are rubbish, but the mere fact
that they get repeated over and over is a big problem. The companies who
are victims of the hoaxes have their reputations sullied, and the constant
reforwarding of the bogus messages contributes to the already constant
clutter of junk mail that we all receive. Invariably, hoaxes like the email
tracking scam start with innocent "joke" postings on newsgroups that were
not meant to be taken seriously. The problem is that there are a lot of
people who don't get the joke when it is posted in the manner this message
was written. If you don't believe me, look at the responses from people who
were taken in by it. I know you think this is a trivial issue, but it
really isn't.
Chooch
The comparison you are trying to draw is garbage. This tongue-in-cheek
newsgroup post is not in the same vein as the email hoaxes to which you
refer. The post and the video were meant for a laugh. That's it. Those
hoaxes clutter up email inboxes, promise money for nothing and, in many
cases, prey on the misfortune of others. This was five minutes of a TV show
edited for a laugh. In addition, you had to go look for this if you wanted
to see it! What's your point?
One other thing... what kind of "reputation" does a TV show that rarely
cracks the Nielsen top 20 have? Not much of one, I'd wager, so I don't see
that point being valid, either.
- Chooch
Guardsman
r> "Guardsman" <sp...@net.invalid> wrote in message
r> news:m31xv1v...@xanthu.home...
>> Please. If you seriously think there's a TAR rule against
>> "verbal abuse" then you're the one with problem.
r> If you read my response, you would realize that I did not believe the post
r> was genuine. I could tell it was a scam, and my belief was that most
r> intelligent and sophisticated readers would see through it. The problem is
I know you realized it was a fake. But for you to think that
it was a serious scam instead of a joke means that you thought that it
was plausible for there to be a rule against verbal abuse. Urban
legends aren't based on something that silly.
--
jess
included a disclaimer that identified the post as fictional so your
sensibilities weren't assaulted?
>
> - Chooch
This is a case where more fiber in the diet is recommended. ;)
Rick
"Guardsman" <sp...@net.invalid> wrote in message
Urban legends certainly ARE based on things that silly. How likely is it
that Microsoft has a way to track everyone's email usage? Or that Walt
Disney Jr. (a person who doesn't even exist) will send you $5000 for
participating in the email tracking? How likely is it that Applebee's will
send you a $50 gift certificate if you merely forward some emails? Or that
someone on top of the WTC got a picture of the planes coming in, and that
the picture somehow survived? Most urban legends are based on completely
absurd concepts, yet people still believe them. In contrast, it's not
entirely unreasonable that a network TV show airing in prime time might have
a rule that players can't verbally abuse one another. It's a bit of a
stretch, perhaps, but nothing compared to some of the more outrageous urban
legends. You certainly can't compare it to the famous urban legend that if
you pour salt water into a soda machine, you can get free soda.
Miguel Cruz
> This is the way rumors start, and it is the reason so much false
> information is disseminated on the internet. I doubt if many very
> knowledgeable people were fooled by the post (I certainly wasn't), but it
> is obvious from some of the reactions that a number of people DID take it
> seriously. Some of these people no doubt repeated the rumors to their
> friends, who in turn repeated it other people. This is the way internet
> rumors and hoaxes get started (like the famous Bill Gates email tracking
> hoax or the Disney hoax), and it is getting worse every day. You may have
> thought the post was clever and cute, but I thought it was just deceptive
> enough that a lot of gullible people would believe it and repeat it. In
> addition to cluttering up the internet with further crap, it really does a
> dis-service to the show and its reputation.
Basically what you seem to be saying is: "Naturally, I am smart enough to
see through this sort of thing, but for the sake of other, dumber people, we
should forbid any jokes that are not explicitly labeled as such."
So, in a nutshell, pretty much anything but knock-knock jokes would be
off-limits.
sambo
I was fooled by it, then happy to find out it was a hoax. The re-imagined ending was fun to
watch and I have shown it to a number of my fellow Racers -- thanks for making us all laugh and
keeping the AR4 discussion alive -- even after the fact!
sambo
sambo
Frankly if people believed this (you, of course, excepted) and get mad because they were fooled,
they have noone to blame but themselves!
I don't mind being fooled by the occasional hoax, if it reminds me not to believe everything I
read on the internet or everything politicians say or anything that falls under that category of
Fiction in the library.
But hey... thanks for trying to protect all of us poor gullible people from our own gullibility.
By the way, there is an evil genius out there somewhere trying to tell us that Mankind never
landed on the Moon -- could you use your superpowers on him too?
sambo.
Jeeters
> On 29 Aug 2003, "Po' Poe" <po...@woods.com> tapped on a keyboard and
> the electrons formed this:
>
>> Bull Shit! Post a real link to either of these articles.
>> Does the video file contain a virus?
>
> No, but the Divx codec you need to download to play it contains
> adware, or you pay $20.00.
No it doesn't. The decoder contains no adware. Only the encoder does.