Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Over Before It Even Staah-ted
By Miss Alli | Season 11 | Episode 4 | Aired on 03.10.2007
At 1:25 PM, the second flight arrives carrying Joe and Bill and Charla and Mirna. The teams that have finished the Detour see these teams who have just arrived at the airport and are on their way to the Detour, so the leaders are seeing the bottom-feeders, which I always think is cool. Both of the trailing teams get on their way to the shipwreck.
At the Detour, Uchenna and Joyce finally figure out that Magellan started in Spain. So they finally have the sign right, and they receive their clue. Rob looks at the sign and says miserably, "I don't get it." Well, he knows how to give a good, meaty target to his haters, anyway. In the car on the way to the airport, Uchenna is very excited about the way this is going.
Mirna and Charla pass Guido on the way to the shipwreck. I'm sorry, but I just do not find taxis passing each other quite as exciting as I sometimes sense this show wants me to. But I do like the part where Joe sticks out his tongue, because Guido being petty is always in order. Always.
When Uchenna and Joyce get to the charters, they find that they missed the first one. They are on the second -- and last -- plane. They meet up with Teri and Ian, and Uchenna quickly realizes that everyone -- every single person -- who did Navigate rather than Sign is there. I do think this was about as lopsided a Detour as they've ever done, as it definitely had a right choice and a wrong choice, no matter who you were. The navigating appeared to be absurdly easy, and just choosing Sign, even if you completed it relatively decently, seemed to doom you to winding up on the second charter.
Dustin and Kandice approach Rob and Amber about switching Detours together, presumably figuring they can both stay ahead of the two trailing teams. Rob tries one more time, but when it doesn't work, the teams agree to go and do the navigating together, rather than staying here trying to do navigational signs until they die of old age on the show Rob and Amber: The Geriatric Years.
What is presented as shortly thereafter, Mirna and Charla and Bill and Joe arrive at the Detour, and they choose differently. The ladies (used loosely) choose the signs, and the gentlemen (used not loosely at all) choose the navigating. Mirna and Charla head out to get their supplies. Elsewhere, Rob and Amber and Dustin and Kandice find the sailor, but they kind of stand around checking their map.
Mirna and Charla, in the meantime, are trying to carry their supplies up the stairs, but the main way they're going about it is that Mirna is screaming at Charla that she's doing it wrong. For some reason, and I really don't know what that reason could be, Mirna seems to feel that she is entitled to tell Charla how to do everything, and she's just ordering her around like Charla is a kid. "I don't understand what's wrong with you, Charla! You're wasting a lot of time!"