Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 58 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Zip It, Bingo
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.06.2013
Marie and her customer are still at it after the ads. Nicky tells her customer, "They look so pretty! Muy bonita!" Ashley gets approval for her shoeshine, as does Danny, who asks, "Bueno?" Good lord, who doesn't speak Spanish in this gang?
Cut to Rowan jogging through the square, and he's getting the goofy bass clarinet soundtrack cue for some reason. I do hope that's not because he isn't the most dashing--ohhhh, it's because he latches onto the first shoeshine guy he sees, who has a completely different kind of shoeshine stand that is not marked in any way. In other words, this is a free-range shoeshine guy with no connection to the race, who has no idea what's going on and is probably not expecting any rushed Americans to descend on his workspace and take over. But Rowan trundles right up to him, and is all, "I need to do shoeshine? Can I do one?" The dude's like, I'm working here, but Rowan prevails upon him to get up from his seat and give Rowan a turn. Nicky is just finishing her shining, and Marie's customer is finally satisfied, either with his shine or with the state of higher-than-usual dudgeon he's put Marie in. Danny loads his chair onto the stand, and Rowan is getting a crash course on the craft from what is turning out to be a very game shoeshine guy.
Ashley and Tim are getting directions to the storage space, and then Marie and Nicky are loading up their respective stands, Nicky talking to herself about how Marie's going to give her the Express Pass and "please don't forget anything," right before the camera gets a nice, clear, ironic shot of the workspace mat she left behind in the middle of the square. As he rolls his stand, Danny tells us, "I used to move furniture for a living. This is really no different than, like, dollying a refrigerator." And he doesn't even have to hook up the icemaker for this. Ashley is having a little more trouble, accidentally dumping all her shit out on the square. Meanwhile, at the non-sanctioned stand Rowan found, he's trying to convince the shoeshine guy to now let him borrow his entire livelihood, pack it up and roll it out. "He's not understanding exactly about this," Rowan explains to the camera, like the shoeshine guy is the problem. Rowan shows him the clue while explaining that he's in a race, and the shoeshine man… agrees. Oh dear. The guy packs everything up for Rowan -- his system seems a bit tighter, with an elastic strap holding the shiner's chair in place -- and kicks it up onto the wheels for Rowan, who starts bumping it along. "Okay, okay, yeah, don't ruin your living, I got it," Rowan says as he hurries off to ruin his own chances in the race.
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