Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shop Till You Drop
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 04.23.2002
Back at the boats, Chris and Alex are kicking butt and they know it. Tara and Wil are beginning to shape up, and Gary and Dave still can't get off the ground. Dave voices over that Gary was absolutely no help with the boat at all, and indeed it appears that Dave is doing pretty much all of the work, while Gary dabs at the water like he's scared of it.
Danny and Oswald, happily lion-ing down a street full of little shops. "Don't you feel silly?" Oswald says blissfully. Danny, from under the lion's head (sort of out its mouth): "Believe it or not, I'm actually window shopping." HEE! That was the best line in weeks, in terms of how unexpected it was and how completely and warmly it made me laugh. Oswald interviews that they try to pick the opposite Detour from what it seems like everybody else is going to do, and then we see him ask Danny (from under the lion's tail) whether he can see the other teams in their boats. He can, and things look pretty grim for Thunk. Dave is instructing Gary on how to paddle properly, and Gary is basically refusing to listen at all, thus making the situation insanely worse. Gary is just getting ugly, ugly, ugly lately. (No, not that kind of ugly. The really bad kind of ugly. The kind not easily forgiven.)
Chris and Alex polish off the boat course (well done, fellas!), and they grab the next clue. It tells them to get to the steps of the opera house in Sydney, Australia. Oooh, new continent! Phil gives a restrained little intro to Sydney, and Boston is on its way.
Cha-Cha-Cha, still plugging along under the lion. They finish up the task, behind only Boston. They're happy about Sydney, but not surprised (Oswald immediately says, "I knew it!").
Taraweasel finishes the course, and Gary and Dave finally start making some progress.
As Oswald and Danny walk along, presumably looking for a cab to the airport, they come across a guy watering the plants outside his house. They ask if they can come in and make a phone call, and what does the guy say? "Sure!" Well, of course he does. No one can resist them. They're like Krispy Kreme. I'm telling you, these guys may come off like hothouse flowers, but they are no dummies.
Wil and Tara grab a bus to take them to get a taxi, and they pass Chris and Alex, who are hoofing it. Of course, Chris and Alex immediately get a taxi, so I'm not sure how much time Taraweasel really saved, considering that we now have a waste a few seconds watching Wil do his non-superior dance.
Finally, Thunk makes it to shore. When they read the clue, Gary attempts to low-five Dave, but it's a big whiff, and he just basically slaps air. It's very funny, if you don't like Gary. So...you know, it's very funny. They get a taxi to the airport.