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
Okay, the flight sequence. Begin at the Hong Kong airport. Gary and Dave, boarding. At 12:45 PM, the flight they're on with the Teeth and the Adultery Alliance takes off from Hong Kong to Bangkok. At the same time, Danny and Oswald find themselves behind the wheel of a large automobile. Danny comments that they are "definitely styling," and Oswald says, almost in disbelief, "We had a really good day today, huh?" They arrive at the airport, and their flight to Singapore takes off at 2:30, just as the other teams land in Bangkok. In the Bangkok airport, Gary accuses Blake of "hovering" over him at the ticket counter, but Blake points out that he's on the same flight as Gary the Gargantuan Grump, so he can just chill out. The flight from Bangkok to Sydney takes off at 5:40 PM. Cha-Cha-Cha lands in Singapore at 6:15, and takes off for Sydney at 8:00 PM.
An Amazing Yellow Line is joined by Special Guest Star the Amazing Red Line as the two flights streak toward Sydney. And the winner is...Cha-Cha-Cha, whose flight hits Sydney at 6:25 AM. All that shopping, and they still saved half an hour. Ha! Brilliant. In their cab, Danny says that "yesterday was a nurture-pampering day, and today is a let's-kick-ass day." Yay, Danny! I want Cha-Cha-Cha to come live with me and be my pets. I could feed them Cha-Cha-Cha Chow. (Yeah, I know, THUNK.)
At 7:00 PM, the flight on Everybody Else Airlines lands. Thunk, commenting that they're ahead of everybody else except "Cha-Cha-Cha -- whereabouts unknown," gets through customs and out to a taxi first.
Cha-Cha-Cha, currently in first place, runs up to the clue box at the opera house. This is the Roadblock for the week, and you have to pay attention to how it works. (Really, you should -- after all, not all the contestants are going to.) It's a series of clues, almost like a scavenger hunt -- find one thing, that sends you to the next thing, and so forth, in a chain. And the person doing the Roadblock does not return to their partner until they finish the chain of clues. It says this right on the clue. Oh, and the clues are written in Australian slang, so a little help from the locals will be needed. (Advantage, Cha-Cha-Cha.) The first piece of the Roadblock says to take a bus to "check out the surfie in the lairy daks." Oswald takes the Roadblock, and he's off. A guy on the bus explains that daks are pants, and "lairy" means basically loud and gaudy, so I'm thinking Oswald can definitely relate. Incidentally, it is also now raining a bit.