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
5:23 AM. TK and Rachel open their clue. Rachel's pronunciation is perhaps the worst yet, and she throws in some extra syllables at the end, just so that nobody feels left out. Better too many syllables than not enough. Hippies believe in a world of bounty. TK also tells us that he and Rachel are not letting things upset them or anything. They are at one with the universe. He says that success comes with having a good time, which is reliably true, so long as you define "success" as "having a good time."
5:46 AM. Marianna and Julia. They add some syllables, too. Marianna explains as they get in a cab that Julia has a way of getting out of control and then losing her ability to think coherently. Julia is forced to admit that this is true.
5:47 AM. Nicolas and Donald. Don says that he'll be sixty-nine in a few months, but that he doesn't think of himself as old. Therefore, as he puts it, he has chosen "letting it all hang out on this thing" as his approach. You may have seen all of it hanging out during the ditch-vaulting, in which case this revelation comes as no surprise to you. He adds, "It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to show was a guy my age can do." Once-in-a-lifetime indeed, especially if you fall off a cliff, Grandpa! Please keep your footing!
Marianna is pretty sure that Ouagadougou is in Africa, but they're aware that they need to figure out "where the hell it is." Well, you would think. They borrow the driver's cell phone, and Nick and Don actually try the same thing in their cab, so at least both teams figure out what country they're flying to before they get to the airport. Nick cab-talks that they don't anticipate there being a lot of flights to Burkina Faso from Amsterdam, so they're anxious to keep moving. He's officially smarter than Jason and Lorena, who figured that the Arr/Dep board would show a direct Ouagadougou flight within the hour.
Meanwhile, Nate and Jen learn that there's one flight to Ouagadougou today: it goes through Paris to arrive at 4:35 PM. Shana and Jennifer and Jason and Lorena get the same news. All the teams learn of an 8:00 AM departure for this route, but only Nate and Jen learn that there's also a 7:20 AM departure that's full. It appears that the plan would still be for them to take the same connecting flight, so I'm not sure how this is any kind of big advantage as things stand right now. But Nate is convinced that if they get the earlier departure, they'll be golden. It's a little strange, because this seems like leaving forty minutes earlier just in case it possibly comes in handy, so they seem overly excited about it. I might be confused. Now that I'm older than Shana and Jennifer are, I'm not as sharp as I was when I was the age Shana and Jennifer think they are.