Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Only God Can Make A Brick
By Miss Alli | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 08.30.2004
The Twinkies buy tickets while Linda and Karen are boarding; the Twinkies do not make the same train.
Elsewhere, Chip and Kim hop off the train at Sealdah Station, along with Colin and Christie. Colin climbs up on a bench to spot the clue box (hee hee, can't you just hear Mirna at home, being all, "YOU SHOULD KNOW, HE SITS ON A PHONE BOOK AT DINNER, TOO!"?), and they manage to find it. The clue is for this week's Detour, which offers a choice between Heavy But Short and Light But Long. I'm not making any dirty jokes, but I don't want you to think I couldn't. Phil takes over from the Exposition Hands and explains that in Heavy But Short, you travel ten miles or so to a place where a bunch of taxis -- without engines -- are parked. You have to move the taxi a half-mile, so without the ability to drive it, you'll presumably have to push it. And you have to pull it into an assigned parking space at the end, too, so that won't be too easy. In Light But Long, you travel to a flower market for a typical "crowded streets of this chaotic marketplace" task, in which they'll have to find a particular flower merchant, who will give them a garland that they have to drop into the Ganges River for good luck. My favorite part of that task preview, which I noticed as soon as I saw it, is that the red and yellow flag over the merchant's stall is made of flowers. Aw.
Both Colin and Christie and Chip and Kim choose the Heavy But Short option, which puts them on a bus to the place where the taxis are. On the bus, Chip talks about doing the Heavy But Short task to "get it over with as quickly as possible." He turns to Colin. "Right, Colin?" Colin responds by displaying his huge bicep, which...ew. That looks completely silly on him. You know I'm an arm and shoulder girl generally, but that is just...stupid. Chip makes a big fuss over the giant muscle, and then quietly interviews that Colin has a fatal flaw, which is the need to have his ego stroked constantly. He says that he and Kim are pumping up his ego and waiting for him to make a mistake. "Colin will beat himself," Chip says, "but we will facilitate that for him." I think if Colin keeps pissing off his girlfriend, he's going to be beating himself quite frequently, if you see my point.
Brandon and Nicole head back into the brick factory holding hands, anxious to "get this over with." Brandon starts making bricks again, and immediately says that "it's easier because the pressure's off." He voices over that he knocked the bricks out fast when they came back. In what is suggested to be a reasonably short time, Brandon finishes up the bricks, and they leave, with the clue to head for the train station at Garia.
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