The Amazing Race 2 is the second installment of the The Amazing Race (US) and the reality television franchise The Amazing Race. It premiered on March 11, 2002 and ended on May 15, 2002 on CBS. The entire season was released on DVD (exclusively only through Amazon.com) on January 24, 2011.[1][2]
Production[]
Casting for the second season began during the summer of 2001 before the first season premiered. Casting finals took place in Los Angeles in September.[3] Location scouting took place during September 2001 but was paused for a month and a half following the September 11 attacks. Filming was originally scheduled to take place on November and December 2001, but was postponed to January and February 2002, for which they traveled 52,000 miles (84,000 km) miles in 28 days, spanning eight different countries across five continents.[4][5]
The second season also debuted a number of presentation changes for the rest of the series. Unlike the first season, teams were now required to read clues out loud to the cameras. In legs that featured self-driving, the team's cameraman now sat in the co-pilot seat, while the sound operator and the non-driving team member sat in the back cabin, with the non-driving team member directly behind their partner. The color scheme for all Route Markers was changed to yellow and red for better visibility. Another change was host Phil Keoghan and a local greeter welcoming all teams at the Pit Stops for the end of each leg; in the first season, he appeared to greet only the last-place team.
A leg was originally designed for Argentina, but was dropped due to the country's financial crisis.[6] It would eventually be visited in The Amazing Race 5.
American Airlines and Royal Caribbean were the two official sponsors of the season and would provide the prizes awarded to first place teams on certain legs.
Twists/Changes[]
- Multiple Flight Itineraries Allowed: Beginning with this season, teams could now book multiple travel itineraries for themselves if they discovered another flight that they would prefer after purchasing the first booking.
- Rules and Penalties: The following penalty was revealed on this season:
- A team that is caught speeding by local law enforcement would incur a penalty of 30-minutes plus time gained, which would be applied at the start of the next leg.
Teams[]
Chris & Alex
Lifelong Friends |
Tara & Wil
Separated Couple |
Blake & Paige
Brother/Sister |
Oswald & Danny
Best Friends |
Gary & Dave
Former Roommates |
Mary & Peach
Sisters |
Cyndi & Russell
Pastors/Married Parents |
Shola & Doyin
Twins |
Peggy & Claire
Grandmothers |
Hope & Norm
Married Parents |
Deidre & Hillary
Mother/Daughter |
Episodes[]
| Episode | Air Date | Leg | Destination | First Place | Last Place | Finish | Viewership (millions)[7] |
Ratings/Share (18-49)[7] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The World Is Waiting: Go!" | March 11, 2002 | 1 | United States → Brazil | Tara & Wil | Deidre & Hillary | 1st Eliminated 11th Place |
9.00 | - |
| 2 | "Help Me, I'm American!" | March 13, 2002 | 2 | Brazil | Shola & Doyin | Hope & Norm | 2nd Eliminated 10th Place |
12.50 | 5.8/14 |
| 3 | "My Alarm Clock Didn't Go Off!" | March 20, 2002 | 3 | Brazil → South Africa | Oswald & Danny | Peggy & Claire | 3rd Eliminated 9th Place |
- | 6.1/15 |
| 4 | "This Game Is About Minutes" | March 27, 2002 | 4 | South Africa → Namibia | Oswald & Danny | Shola & Doyin | 4th Eliminated 8th Place |
- | - |
| 5 | "Welcome to the World of Being Human" | April 3, 2002 | 5 | Namibia → Thailand | Chris & Alex | Cyndi & Russell | 5th Eliminated 7th Place |
- | - |
| 6 | "I'm Gonna Take His Girl" | April 10, 2002 | 6 | Thailand | Mary & Peach | Chris & Alex | Non-Elimination Leg |
- | 3.9/10 |
| 7 | "I'm Gonna Throw Up on Phil's Shoes" | April 17, 2002 | 7 | Thailand → Hong Kong | Gary & Dave | Mary & Peach | 6th Eliminated 6th Place |
8.85 | 3.8/10 |
| 8 | "I'm Not a Miner! No, You're an Idiot!" | April 24, 2002 | 8 | Hong Kong → Australia | Oswald & Danny | Blake & Paige | Non-Elimination Leg |
9.56 | 4.5/12 |
| 9 | Australia | Chris & Alex | Gary & Dave | 7th Eliminated 5th Place | |||||
| 9 | "Ready to Lose Our Lives" | May 1, 2002 | 10 | Australia → New Zealand | Blake & Paige | Oswald & Danny | Non-Elimination Leg |
- | 3.8/10 |
| 10 | "It's Hammer Time" | May 8, 2002 | 11 | New Zealand | Tara & Wil | Oswald & Danny | 8th Eliminated 4th Place |
- | 4.2/10 |
| 11 | "Follow That Plane!" | May 15, 2002 | 12 | New Zealand → United States | Blake & Paige | Chris & Alex | Non-Elimination Leg |
11.25 | 5.1/14 |
| Tara & Wil | |||||||||
| 13 | United States | Chris & Alex | Blake & Paige | 3rd Place | |||||
| Tara & Wil | 2nd Place | ||||||||
Leaderboard[]
This chart shows each teams ranking per leg according to their official check in at the Pit Stop. However, time penalties issued before the start of the next leg due to improperly performed tasks are not reflected here.
| Place | Team | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | Leg 4 | Leg 5 | Leg 6 | Leg 7 | Leg 8 | Leg 9 | Leg 10 | Leg 11 | Leg 12 | Leg 13 | Average | 
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris & Alex | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1► | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3.38 | 5-6 |
| 2 | Tara & Wil | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1► | 1 | 2 | 2.54 | 4-7 |
| 3 | Blake & Paige | 4 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1► | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3.69 | 8-3 |
| 4 | Oswald & Danny | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1► | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4.00 | 6-3 | ||
| 5 | Gary & Dave | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1► | 3 | 5 | 3.89 | 2-5 | ||||
| 6 | Mary & Peach | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4.14 | 3-2 | ||||||
| 7 | Cyndi & Russell | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5.80 | 1-3 | ||||||||
| 8 | Shola & Doyin | 3 | 1► | 5 | 8 | 4.25 | 0-1 | |||||||||
| 9 | Peggy & Claire | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9.00 | 0-1 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Hope & Norm | 4 | 10 | 7.00 | 0-1 | |||||||||||
| 11 | Deidre & Hillary | 11 | 11.00 | 0-0 | ||||||||||||
| Notes | [1] | [2][3] | [4] | [5] | ||||||||||||
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Reception[]
- Josef Adalian at Yahoo Entertainment (11/07/2001): "CBS prepping for Race redux"
- Josh Wolk at EW (11/20/2001): "Is Amazing Race 2 a good idea now?"
- Reality TV World (02/13/2002): "CBS Announces Amazing Race 2 Cast"
- Dalton Ross at EW (02/20/2002): "Amazing Race 2 kicks off with a great cast"
- Neil Wilkes at Digital Spy (02/21/2002): "Amazing Race to air on UPN"
- Susan Schechter at RealityNewsOnline (03/05/2002): "Amazing Race 2: A Preview"
- Brill Bundy at Zap2it (03/07/2002): "Amazing Race 2 Makes Some Changes"
- Jeffrey Clinard at RealityNewsOnline (03/11/2002): "Amazing Race 2: Thinking Smart Before the Race"
- Neil Wilkes at Digital Spy (03/11/2002): "Amazing Race 2: Keoghan talks about new series"
- Bill Keveney at USA Today (03/11/2002): "New travel realities add tension to Amazing Race"
- Allan Johnson at Chicago Tribune (03/11/2002): "Amazing Race 2 offers some fancy footwork"
Trivia[]
Franchise[]
- First time visits to Brazil, Namibia, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong.
- First season also to visit South Africa as a Pit Stop.
- First season to feature a previously visited country (South Africa).
- First season to visit the continents of South America and Oceania.
- First season to feature sibling teams (Blake & Paige, Mary & Peach, and Shola & Doyin).
- First season to have a contestant born in the 1980s: Paige Mycoskie.
- First season not to feature a dating nor an engaged team.
- First season to feature a Hispanic-American Team: Oswald & Danny.
- First season to feature an imbalanced gender contestants.
- This was the first season where the majority of the contestants are male.
- First time there were ties at the Pit Stop mat.
- First season not to visit Europe.
- First season to begin and end in different cities.
- First season to air a two-hour episode.
- First season to feature all final three teams present at the Finish Line.
US[]
- Chris & Alex's footrace against Tara & Wil in the final leg towards the Finish Line was the closest finish in the Race.
- Second-most number of teams who won a leg, 7 teams (after The Amazing Race 4).
Season[]
- The Non-Elimination Legs took place on the same legs as the first season: Legs 6, 8, 10, and 12.
External links[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2011/01/the-amazing-race-2-dvd_released/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icCx6KfwXbo
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20060508211728/http://www.tarflies.com/article.php?_f=detail&id=269
- ↑ Andy Denhart (September 3, 2021). Amazing Race behind the scenes: an oral history of CBS’s first race around the world. Reality Blurred.
- ↑ Sarah Grossbart (September 5, 2021). What a Trip: The Complete Oral History of The Amazing Race. E! News.
- ↑ New travel realities add tension to 'Amazing Race'
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.spottedratings.com/2011/12/spotvault-amazing-race-cbs-spring-2002.html
| The Amazing Race Season Index | |
|---|---|
| United States | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 · 30 · 31 · 32 · 33 · 34 · 35 · 36 |
| Asia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 |
| Australia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 |
| Brazil | 1 |
| Canada | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 |
| Central Europe | Cancelled |
| China | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 |
| China Rush | 1 · 2 · 3 |
| Finland | 1 · 2 |
| France | 1 |
| Israel | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 |
| Latin America | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |
| Norway | 1 · 2 |
| Philippines | 1 · 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |