Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Finish Last = Nice Guys?
By Miss Alli | Season 10 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.18.2006
When we come back from commercials, the *wins find the *lyns up ahead and start following them. Burn!
Music Academy. Tyler and James are nattily sorting through music, looking for Concert Fantasy. James manages to come up with the music, and they're off to the practice rooms to find a pianist. The first room they stick their heads in contains a violinist. I love how this is kind of a Classical Music Parade of Horrors, like they open the door, and it's "NO! Not the violin!" And elsewhere, here's Kandice, not only composing the bad rap, but also putting dance moves to it: "And finally Ukraine / where we're doing our rap / give us a hand if you think we got knack." Oh, man. Nothing says "hip" like the use of the word "knack," not to mention referencing your rap in your rap, by calling it your rap. Furthermore, if you're going to rap this badly, it's not that hard to find a word that actually rhymes with "rap." Tyler and James find another damn violin. Finally, they open a door and find a pianist behind it. Dustin and Kandice stroll into the club proper, all, "Just be real comic!" Eep. They do a couple of lines of rap, and then we switch back to the piano. This is a nice sequence, cutting back and forth between the club and the classical music. James and Tyler kind of get into the spirit of the piano music, swaying and conducting and pantomiming playing the piano. The bad rap continues. When the piano bit is over, the boys applaud heartily. Finally, the rap ends, and the kind-hearted audience cheers for the lame Americans, as people around the world do every day. Both teams receive their clues. The clue instructs them to drive to the next pit stop, located at the Patriotic War Memorial. Phil says that this is a two-mile drive to this "tribute to victory in World War II." Last team may receive the ultimate tribute to non-victory in the form of elimination. Both the A(AM!)s and the BQs get on their way to the pit stop.
The Pointies are on their way to the hip-hop club, and Kimberly is apparently in charge of writing the rap in the back seat. Elsewhere, the *wins are right behind the *lyns, and Godwin doesn't think the *lyns are pleased to be followed. It is suggested that Karlyn says, "The Cho brothers need to learn to run their own race," but as was explained in the forums, it certainly sounds like the last part of that was stolen from a previous comment about the BQs, so I'm not sure that was even said. If it was, it's obviously rather ridiculous, but if it wasn't, we're pretty much stuck with the ridiculousness already demonstrated, consisting of complaining all day that people you're following aren't going fast enough.