SFist Watches: TV Tonight

Let us put this bluntly: The last season of "The Amazing Race" sucky, suck, sucked. They never left the continent, the tasks were as exciting as watching paint dry (and we believe that was, indeed, one of the tasks), and the whole "family edition" idea just blew. The show is at its best when the race involves flying from one part of the world to another, not when bickering families have to drive from Utah to Colorado. We like the dangerous tasks, the fighting couples who are deciding whether they'll even BE a couple by the end of the race, and we don't want to see any more heartbroken children crying after being eliminated (unless its adults acting like children, in which case, awesome).

We can only hope that TAR hasn't jumped the shark completely as season nine premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on CBS with a two-hour episode. Families are gone, teams-of-two are back, and the race will, indeed, span the globe. There's also a team with ties to the Bay Area, but wouldn't you know it, they're self-proclaimed "bohemian best buds" (pictured above). We hate them already.

Speaking of hate, the 17th (!) season of "The Real World" also premieres tonight, at 10 p.m. on MTV. This time it's set in Key West, Florida, and the only thing that's got us excited about it is the prospect of watching the latest crop of promiscuous, alcoholic, braintrusts getting their asses kicked by, three--count 'em, THREE--hurricanes. Bring it on!