Episode Report Card Miss Alli: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Go
By Miss Alli | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.10.2005
In the Linz car, Megan thinks she saw a sign that her brothers passed that might be for the shrimp place. "You don't know what you saw, but you saw an arrow," Nick snots with extravagant annoyance. At the suggestion from Alex that Megan might be right, there is an audible snort. Nice. "What a shock, I could be right," she says. "We are doing what you asked us to do, Meg!" one of them gripes, because what more can she expect? Certainly not that they do it without making it clear that they assume she's an idiot, because why would they do that? ["Yeah, I've been defending them, but they lost me there. I've dated that guy, and…no." -- Sars] She turns out to be right about the arrow, so they're all, "Good work," because they have no choice. They get to work on the shrimp, followed closely by the Gadzookskis. Some people deserve to smell like fish.
Meanwhile, Bransens and Gaghans hop out at the gazebo. Bransens take shrimp, Gaghans take the mud. Again, I think this is one of those tasks where the use of a big number makes it sound like the shrimp will take longer, when it won't necessarily. Mama Weaver, meanwhile, thanks the Lord for the great mud bog she has found. (God: "You're weeeelcome. Remember, all you have to do is aaaask. A loooooot.") The Aiellos are arriving there as well. Mama Weaver almost immediately gets herself stuck in the mud. The boys do better at first, but as they take the trip back, they also bog down. It appears that on this very first try, they get very, very close to finishing, closer than they will for a very long time, but they can't quite pull it off. There's a very nice edit where the truck totally stops, and it's almost like crickets are chirping, and then SIL Kevin, in the driver's seat, says, "We were going…great guns, though." Heh.
Bransens hit the shrimp company and get going. This is a classic Tortoise/Hare Detour, incidentally, for those of you keeping score at home. The shrimp might take longer, but you're not going to pass out and not finish. The Paolos get to the gazebo and pick the shrimp, while the Weavers are pulled out of the mud bog by a tractor with a rope, and the Aiellos realize they're going to need the same treatment. Mama Weaver gets stuck again. The Aiellos get stuck again. They also note that they're rather covered with mud at this point. A little bit of mud fighting predictably ensues, because The Cult Of Hitting Each Other is a close spiritual relation to The Cult Of Throwing Mud.