Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A | 1 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT Go Overdogs!
By Miss Alli | Season 10 | Episode 13 | Aired on 12.09.2006
The *lyns are still looking for that clue box. Finally, they find it, and they clearly like the idea of Paris. They get in a cab. Back at the airport, the two lead teams are stretched out snoozing on the floor in a little row, like pencils in a box. The *lyns pull up outside. They too look at the Arr/Dep board, and they note one flight at 6:00 AM and then another at 7:25 AM on Iberia. The Rattlesnake Of Suspense suggests that something important is happening as Lyn notes that there seem to be only those two flights as options, really. They discover the other teams camped out at the Vueling counter, which is the airline with the 6:00 AM flight. "As usual, we catch up with the pack," they note.
At 4:00 AM, the ticket counter window rolls open. Rob and Kimberly are the first to get their agent moving, and they are the first to be booked on the flight to Charles de Gaulle. (Which is the airport.) (In Paris.) (You know this, right?) The A(AM!)s, next in line, learn that there is only one seat left, so there's no space for them. Wow, that was some good ticket luck the Pointies had. The *lyns see this all developing and decide to head directly for Iberia and deal with the 7:25 AM flight. Tyler and James go, too, but they're looking for an Air France flight that was referenced by the Vueling ticket lady, which flight the *lyns haven't seen anywhere at all. Perhaps it was kept off the board for some reason. The music sounds like Willy Wonka is taking you directly into the chocolate factory as Rob and Kim are very happy about their position as the only team with the 6:00 AM tickets in hand. Again, it's good, but it's... you know, everybody really just needs to get there. You're probably still good if you're an hour or two behind when nobody's even flying home yet.
At the Air France counter, which won't open until 5:00, James is still grouching around, and Tyler wants to know what his passive-aggressively steamy deal is. James's deal, of course, is that he wanted to look for internet access last night, and he thinks they might have gotten reservations on that 6:00 AM flight if they had. Tyler remains convinced it would have done no good, and I think we know that Tyler is not going to have his mind changed by James. James is lucky he doesn't get cut off with an "I said good day, sir!" somewhere along here. It appears that Rob is aware of the Air France flight being at 7:05, since he says he and Kim will have a lead of an hour and five minutes when they get to Paris. The fight between the A(AM!)s continues as Tyler wants to know why James didn't "speak up" if he was so worried. Of course, as James points out, he did speak up, and Tyler told him to forget it. I don't know that this "you should have argued with me more" thing ever sounds very convincing. I understand if it's "you didn't say anything and now you're complaining," but not so much "when I told you to shut up, you should have fought me harder." It's a little too "save me from my own bossiness" for my personal taste. We learn here that even when bickering over who didn't listen to whom, Tyler and James still say "dude" just as much. I think even if they were having a fist fight, it would be like, "Oof! Dude!" "Ow! Dude!" And so forth.