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
Linda and Karen arrive at Wild Wadi, and as they're getting out, they run into an arriving Brandon and Nikki, who lost about fifteen minutes being lost, it would appear. "Golly," Brandon says (or more precisely, "goll-lee"), "We got beat by a couple of people." The Twinkies arrive shortly thereafter and hug the hot Fern of the day goodbye. "We're good to go -- money-wise," one of them says as they enter the sleep tent. That was a great mid-course correction in that sentence. She's not claiming they're competent, after all; they're just not broke.
The moon. Time is passing. Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?... I'm sorry, I was temporarily lost in the little theme of the passage of time, as demonstrated by...the moon.
In the morning, peppy music accompanies the teams as they congregate near the park entrance. Colin is wearing the do-rag that universally represents that special attitude -- that "I Am Intense! Look At Me! INTENSE!" thing he has going. The doors open, and the teams run in -- not in last night's arriving order, notably, because Chip is in the front. He initially goes by the clue box, however, and the first to get to it is Nicole, who grabs the little number "1" on the box. After Brandon and Nikki are Chip and Kim, Linda and Karen, Colin and Christie, and the Twinkies -- who manage to come in last every time, no matter what. Once they all have numbers, the teams read a clue that Phil explains will send them to the top of a high tower called the Jumeirah Sceirah that leads to a long water slide. They'll head down the slide, and then get another clue at the bottom.
The teams make their way to the top of the slide. Brandon hoots for Nikki as she heads down the slide. "Big B!" Chip chants as Brandon gets ready to go. And Brandon, of course, yells all the way down. Oh, yeah. He's definitely the boyfriend. They open the clue at the bottom, which will send them 2100 miles to Calcutta. There, they'll find a monument called Sahid Minar, and another clue. Oh, zoiks. India. India, India -- the leg that always begins to separate the Merely Fatigued from the Really Most Sincerely Fatigued.
I think that as Kim is getting ready for the water slide, Chip says something to her like, "Go Shaggy-Doo!" Or possibly "Shaky-Doo." Whichever it is, he gives the best pet names ever. I have decided that if we knew each other, he would call me "Catty-Bird." No, I don't have a reason, really, but is there a reason for "Shaggy-Doo" or "Booby Cooper"? Anyway, he follows Kim, "Yeah-yeah-yeah"ing the whole time. They grab the Calcutta clue and head out, slightly behind Brandon and Nicole. Speaking of whom, Brandon says, "Let's get a cab," but Nicole corrects him that the clue says to drive themselves to the airport. So they hop back into the McSUV and head out.
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