Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 65 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Have You Driven a Fjord Lately?
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.20.2013
Tim & Marie seem to have their fish heads bundled, and Marie yells at him about having to push their fish outside, like it's his fault he doesn't know what to do next when she refuses to share the clue with him. She leads the way down the street, while back in the warehouse, Amy has found another vital job that keeps her too busy to stab fish-heads: that of narrator. "Oh my God, you're so good at wheelbarrowing!" Marie calls back to Tim as he runs behind her with their roly-poly fish heads. Yes, she just gave him a compliment. Meanwhile, having run out of essential non-fish-impaling tasks to occupy her, Amy has shifted to flattery of her partner. "Everything he does is really sexy," she says as he ties off the last bundle with his fish-gut-slicked gloves. I suspect the sexiest thing he's doing right now is not to make her help him with this. Their heads are all bundled, and they're on their way. "In the midnight sun," Amy says as they jog down the street with Jason operating the wheelbarrow. "It's pretty much midnight right now." That was pretty much not all that poetic.
The first team to arrive on foot, Brandon & Adam, have just finished their last bundle. "We're pretty good at slammin' a head onto a rock," Brandon explains, terrifyingly, and soon they're wheeling their head-bundles along the street. Other teams are getting close to finishing this part of the task, and Ashley says that if this doesn't prove that Kings Girls are bad-ass she doesn't know what will. I'm thinking different Kings Girls might do it.
Okie Tim is now having to stand with pairs of dried cod hanging stiffly around his neck while Danny climbs up and down the rack, with a guy standing on the ground holding Danny's rope like at your local gym's climbing wall. I'm not sure which of these three jobs is worst. Tim just wishes there were somewhere to put the fish while he's waiting, because apparently putting them on the ground is a no-no. Nicky & Kim finally arrive, just as Danny gives Tim their second-to-last fish. Soon Kim is up on the rack as Nicky calls up, "Do it for Spidey and Baboo!" Wait, so we already knew she had a kid named Spidey, in which case she'd better be able to absolutely kill this climbing task, but who is Baboo? If it's another kid, I'm going to suggest that Kim start taking humans into the delivery room with her and not just Twitter.
It's apparently quite a hike from the warehouse to the drying racks for the fish heads, because Tim & Marie, Jason & Amy, and Adam & Brandon are all still en route, at a jog. Nicole & Travis and then Leo & Jamal are soon on their way, leaving Ally & Ashley alone and complaining about it. The ER docs and the Afghanimals are both keeping to a walking pace, Travis because he can't run in the provided shoes, and Leo because their wheelbarrow has a flat tire. Jamal interviews how they made the "simple, stupid mistake" of not checking their equipment, which in my opinion is pretty much the least of their offenses. I mean, who checks provided equipment on the race? Finally the blondes finish filling their wheelbarrow with their head-bundles. Jamal is now taking a turn at the flat-tired wheelbarrow and finding it all but impossible, so Leo has to help him. The blondes are discovering a new appreciation for fishermen, like they think people in that job take the fish all the way from the ocean to your table. Finally the Afghanimals have to grind to halt, in what Jamal calls "my worst nightmare." Well, no wonder they always have so much energy to be irritating with; if that's Jamal's worst nightmare, he must sleep like a baby.