Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Camel Kicks And Milk
By Miss Alli | Season 12 | Episode 3 | Aired on 11.17.2007
Kynt and Vyxsin, Azaria and Hendekea, and TK and Rachel arrive at the airport.
6:26 AM. Ronald and Christina read their clue. Christina knows exactly what Ouagadougou is. Wouldn't you know it? She does seem smart. Ron, who has the blue version of his "Who's Your Daddy" T-shirt on today (multiples? Oh, Ron), tells us that they're at a low ebb, since he was kind of a haranguing bully on the last leg. He tells us that he was too hard on Christina, and that it wound up being "demoralizing" for her. It also appears to have caused the universe to give him a hernia; that's the way I like to think karmic justice operates. Ron says that if they're going to win, they need to work together, blah blah. She just tells him to "take a deep breath." Which involves not talking, of course, so you can see why she went that route. She also might try "see how many saltines you can eat in ten minutes" or "learn to whistle 'Stairway To Heaven.'"
Azaria and Hendekea, TK and Rachel, and Kynt and Vyxsin get their tickets to Ouagadougou. Marianna and Julia and Nick and Don follow. It turns out that Nate and Jen have indeed made it onto the 7:20 AM flight to Paris, so they'll have forty minutes in Paris that nobody else has. Nate tells us that it might be important, because you never know what's next. They get on the flight, carrying their backpacks and their heavy sense of foreshadowing.
At the gate, Marianna says that most of the teams are set to go on the same flight, but that nobody knows whether Christina and Ron are going to make it, because they're not there yet. As you can imagine, nobody is really hoping to see Ron and Christina. We can see, though, that Christina and Ron are on their way into the airport, though they're cutting it very close, as we see when we find them at the desk at 7:30, trying to make an 8:00 AM flight. Azaria gate-talks that Ron and Christina are a little behind, so they might not make it. He tries to look like this is sad. The ticket agent is telling them that they'll need to run if they're going to make the plane. Let's get the hernia guy running! Good plan! Father and daughter run through the airport. He tells her that the hernia is really hurting him, and he's actually, like, holding it in while he runs. You know, one of my nephews asked the other night what turkey skin is for, and we wound up basically telling him that skin helps the turkey's insides not stick out -- an answer that may have lacked elegance, but is true anyway. It seems to me that when you're having to perform that function yourself manually by grabbing your innards to push them back in your body, you need to stop and get a doctor. The rest of the teams, on the flight, think Christina and Ron didn't make it, but wonder of wonders, Running Man With Hernia and his daughter get there juuuust in time to get on the flight. You can write your own bit here about how they're checking in at gate C5, and Ron's intestines are at gate C4, and his kidneys are at C3, and so on.