Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Melon Vs. Melon
By M. Giant | Season 17 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.26.2010
Rachel is still having trouble with the car, although now the problem is getting it up the hill in town. "Like a big hill, like an England hill," she describes it in a post-leg interview. Looks more like a Kansas hill to me. Nat and Kat, meanwhile, stop at a gas station for directions, and when Brook and Claire fall in behind them, they decide to work together. Brook and Claire are impressed with the doctors. We may have our first alliance of the season.
Rachel is having so much trouble driving that Katie has to get out and push. Which doesn't work, but Rachel gets it going anyway. Katie has to run and catch up. This does not seem like a very efficient way to get to Tewkesbury. If that's how Richard III had to do it, no wonder he stabbed someone when he got there.
Ron and Tony are nowhere. Ron, who is driving, hasn't seen any signs, and Tony can't seem to see anything from the back seat so he can't navigate. They're keeping cool, though. But it would be even cooler if they knew where they were going.
Gary and Mallory are in sight (and earshot) of Stonehenge, with Team Glee right behind them in sixth place. After both teams read the clue and yet somehow still have none, Mallory goads the guys, "Come on, Princeton!" They finally get directions from some guy in the parking lot with a GPS and head out together. I just got a GPS this summer and it's changed my life. If I ever go on the Amazing Race I'm totally bringing it with me.
Chad and Stephanie arrive at Stonehenge in time to see Anide and Jenna already out of their car. "I guess we're not in third any more," Chad understates. Yeah, that would be eighth. Nick and Vicky are arriving in ninth, and Vicky announces, "This is the first time I've ever even heard of Stonehenge, and then I found out that it was a bunch of rocks." Oh dear. I'll have to assume that none of her tattoos are of Stonehenge, then. Michael and Kevin (remember them?) are glad just to be going the right way before they open their clue in tenth place.
"We had such a good lead," Tony laments on some motorway somewhere, and Ron says, "We're here now. Let's make it work. Let's fix the problem." There's a positive attitude, and then there's delusion. For all they know they're on the wrong side of the Chunnel by now. They find a middle-aged couple willing to give them directions in a Starbucks, because this season's teams seem to have decided that the most trustworthy direction-givers are to be found in American chains.
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