Treasure Hunters - anyone else watched this crap?
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Kobun Heat
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This is shit, but there are some great moments thus far. The priest and his family going "golly gosh gee, we're gonna play fair" and then they steal the clue? The Miss Usa girl destroys the clue? Morbidly obese guy nearly drowns? It's a laugh riot!
Kobun Heat
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Priest ignores his daughter's broken thumb! Daughter goes HEY GUYS IS THAT THE KEY when all the other teams are standing right there! Then they steal the key! This is a goldmine!
Forgotten_Taco
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These are the world's stupidest geniuses.
Kobun Heat
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They really love juxtaposing the word "geniuses" with stupid imagery, like the guys standing there dumbstruck with their mouths hanging open. OrForgotten_Taco said:
GENIUSES
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You know what I end up hating about these shows? The sense of entitlement that teams display. Like, everyone should help them out, and if you don't, you're scum. Even worse is when one team actually DOES help another team. WTF?!
The object isn't to play nice and make friends, it's to win. And as long as you aren't doing anything that is opposed to the rules, you should do whatever it takes to win. Helping other teams, or expecting someone to help you out is AGAINST the spirit of these games.
Also, I don't know how that one team ended up at Mt. Roosevelt. When the clue said to think about where you've been, and showed the names of the places, Mt. Rushmore was the first thing I thought of before they even solved the clue.
The object isn't to play nice and make friends, it's to win. And as long as you aren't doing anything that is opposed to the rules, you should do whatever it takes to win. Helping other teams, or expecting someone to help you out is AGAINST the spirit of these games.
Also, I don't know how that one team ended up at Mt. Roosevelt. When the clue said to think about where you've been, and showed the names of the places, Mt. Rushmore was the first thing I thought of before they even solved the clue.
Forgotten_Taco
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Team Wild Mullets sure do love to look under rocks, garbages cans, signs, and just about anywhere the clue didn't suggest the artifact would be.
It's like the title from a 1940s serial.
Kobun Heat said:
It's like the title from a 1940s serial.
Red Scarlet
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It was kind of annoying hearing the cell phone messages each time a team got to that point.
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Red Scarlet said:
BUY MOTORALA
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Forgotten_Taco said:
Calling your team "The Geniuses" is like a self-prophetic declaration of failure. These guys were made to lose.
Kobun Heat
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Me:
PUT THE CYLINDER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MAP
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Hitler Stole My Potato said:
They have nine majors and one masters; that's more majors than Dr. Doom, and one less than Dr. Quest.
Kobun Heat
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Well -- to be fair -- I don't think the teams were shown the names of the places, all juxtaposed like that. I think they had to figure that out on their own.Koomaster said:
Still kind of funny to see the Geniuses get it wrong.
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Kobun Heat said:
It's tough being a genius, you constantly have to dumb yourself down to figure the stuff out.
Hitler Stole My Potato
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I want to see someone crawl up Roosevelt's nose.
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I would have saved those assholes a lot of time.Kobun Heat said:
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Team Billy Ray Cyrus is annoying the **** outta me.
Kobun Heat
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THEY KEEP LOOKING UNDER TREES AND DIRT AND FILTHHitler Stole My Potato said:
Hitler Stole My Potato
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That's country livin' for ya.
So who's more ill equipped for this show? The fat black guys or the hillbillies? Seems like a dead heat to me.
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Hitler Stole My Potato said:
Tough call, the fat black guy slows down his team just as much as the king of the mullets, and both teams are only slightly smarter than the geniuses.
Hitler Stole My Potato
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9, 3, 1, & 2!
LMFAO!
LMFAO!
Red Scarlet
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So is there even a Theodore Mountain?
Forgotten_Taco
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"26 times 2 is 52, that's the answer, I know it is."
Kobun Heat
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"Okay, write these numbers down. 9, 3, 1, and 2. Now give me every combination of those numbers possible."Forgotten_Taco said:
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Kobun Heat said:
That part in the show was the best laugh I've had all day. Treasure Hunters has payed off!
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Just noticed this is on tonight. They're going to show the first episode again followed by a new one.
I know it's crap but I'm watching it anyway.
I know it's crap but I'm watching it anyway.
Wow, i like how it took all those teams about 30 minutes to figure out where they were going.
I flipped across this station and saw the clue's and the first thing i said was mount rushmore. And it took CIA a half an hour to figure this shit out? What a ****ing joke
I flipped across this station and saw the clue's and the first thing i said was mount rushmore. And it took CIA a half an hour to figure this shit out? What a ****ing joke
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Am I the only sad idiot to be addicted to this show? I'm kinda embarrassed here. 
Should be good tonight. Will the fat nerd be left alone in the swamp? Will the whiney Christian bitch ever shut her yap? Will team Fat Albert collapse under their collosal stupidity? Only time will tell..
Should be good tonight. Will the fat nerd be left alone in the swamp? Will the whiney Christian bitch ever shut her yap? Will team Fat Albert collapse under their collosal stupidity? Only time will tell..
Kung Fu Jedi
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I watched the whole season, and really enjoyed it. It's no Amazing Race, but it was still a fun Summer show. I like how the teams had to really use their brains to figure things out, unlike the Amazing Race where the challenges are more physical in nature.
Oh, and Phil is about a thousand times better than the robot they've got reading the cue cards on Tresure Hunters. Still, all in all, I'd watch another season.
Oh, and Phil is about a thousand times better than the robot they've got reading the cue cards on Tresure Hunters. Still, all in all, I'd watch another season.
Kung Fu Jedi said:
The girlfriend and I stopped watching after the first few episodes, but we tuned in for the last two last night. Better there at the end and the host (Laird whatever) seemed decent in person... but they really need to cut down on the product placement and liven it up if they do another season. If you're going to copy another show's format, you need to take what's good from it and run with it -- Treasure Hunters took some major steps backwards instead.
If they run a second season, we'll probably give it another shot since we're huge TAR fans, but it isn't nearly as exciting as TAR. Oh, and the Wild Hanlans were a total trip.
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Meier said:
Yeah, we're major TAR fans as well, and use to watch it during the Summers, which is why we gave Treasure Hunters a chance. It certainly did get better as it went along, but the teams were not nearly as fun and likeable as on TAR. Perhaps there were too many of them to really get to know them. Still, I like the fact that there were puzzles to figure out and they were far more challenging in that department than the ones on TAR.
Product placement was bad. TAR has gotten worse with this too (Hello, Travelocity Gnome?), but TR was bad from the start. The Geniworth crap was everywhere.
I do agree that the Treasure Hunters Host was better in person, but he was completely lifeless in the updates/videos. Just awful. Phil completely destroys him in every way. Can't wait for the new season of TAR to start in a few weeks.
Kung Fu Jedi said:I do agree that the Treasure Hunters Host was better in person, but he was completely lifeless in the updates/videos. Just awful. Phil completely destroys him in every way. Can't wait for the new season of TAR to start in a few weeks.
I was pretty shocked at how much more lively he was in person compared to the Motorola RAZR Status Updates (tm). Phil is one of the things that makes TAR so great -- the fact that the host of TH was just there in video form the whole time didnt do much to bring him into the fold. The whole Travelocity stuff in TAR has been worse in recent years, but they make it kind of funny with them carrying the gnome and everything whereas in TH it just felt blatant and thrown-in.
It has some promise, so if they can liven it up, add some more locales and remove some of the "reality show" feel from it (waaaaay too many little interview snippets a la The Real World -- it really broke up the action), I think it'd be a lot better.
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Meier said:
Yeah, I agree. And next time, send them off on a real global adventure. Not just to England and France. Send 'em all over the World. Then, it'll start to be more interesting. One of the biggest draws for TAR to me is the exotic locations they go to.
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