THE AMAZING RACE
''I've Become the Archie Bunker of the Home'' Nov. 11 (CBS)
With its manically micromanaging dad and randy grandpa, this fall's TAR made all of my crackpot-reality-TV-casting fantasies come true. And by only the second episode, both men were — delightfully — in full crazy. Dad Ronald browbeat his superhumanly patient daughter with such nuggets as ''I'm optimistic with the real truth flavor!'' And it all ended with Gramps Donald, stripped to his briefs, unsuccessfully and filthily trying to pole-vault over a mud pit. It's just the way I want to see the world: through the eyes of a dirty old man. — Josh Wolk