Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I Wonder As I Wanda
By Miss Alli | Season 9 | Episode 4 | Aired on 03.20.2006
Joseph and Monica get to Bavaria Film just as Fran and Barry head to Munich. Joseph and Monica are doing the bottles as well. They laugh at the absurdity of the task. Ray and Yolanda arrive, as do Dave and Lori, but Dave and Lori are a little more clued in to where the entrance is, so they hit the clue box first. Both teams go with the bottles. Inside, Ray wonders whether the lederhosen he's trying to put on are giving him trouble because they're backwards. Yolanda doesn't think that's the issue. "Your butt's just big," she says. He laughs. Lori, meanwhile, has such trouble with her outfit that Ray and Yolanda get to the bottles before they do. So now, Ray and Yolanda are joining Joseph and Monica at the bottle option. Dave and Lori soon jump in. Just then, a large band led by tootling clarinetists comes tromping through, which is delightfully random. Bottles are broken, more bottles are broken, and Dave and Lori get a magic label first. Monica and Joseph, on the other hand, are starting to get irritated.
And now, back to the field. Remember the field? It's where Wanda and Desiree and Danielle and Dani are. Looking for the gnomes. Remember? The "Roadblock"? At any rate, Dani and Desiree take the task. Incidentally, if you've ever wondered whether "Dani" is something of a cheat so that this team isn't named "Danielle and Danielle," it is. Because the one they call "Danielle" says to the one they call "Dani" as she's starting the Roadblock, "Danielle, fast." Desiree, for her part, seems to be a trifle confused, as she seems to think you have to dig in the hole rather than just peeking in the hole, which may be costing her time. Dani reaches into a hole under some feet and pulls out a gnome. She and Danielle are on their way. Desiree feels like she's already looked in every single hole. She apologizes, but her mom isn't satisfied: "You've been walking; she was running." Eh. True, but…I'm not sure that's going to help at this point. "The fact of the matter is," Desiree says, "they're all gone." Tearfully, she says she just doesn't know where there is left to look.
Commercials. Cereal: same as shampoo. Where is there to go, really?
We return to Desiree, still unable to figure out how to find a gnome. Wanda tells her not to get upset, but to keep looking. Finally, Desiree finds one, but when they get going, they're well in last place.
Fran and Barry, you are team number four.
Joseph and Monica and Ray and Yolanda are not enjoying the bottle-breaking. Here comes the band again! Monica is so frustrated that she suggests they Bald Snark it over to the dancing. That would normally be a bad idea, but of course, the dancing is being judged according to effort, apparently, so it might not work out too badly. Ray and Yolanda are surprised, and expect that MoJo might be back. But over at the dancing, again, it turns out that you only have to sort of, kind of, mostly do the dance. Actually, MoJo is a damn sight better than Barry and Fran, and I can't really complain about their execution when they finally get their clue. The cheer that goes up alerts Ray and Yolanda that the dance might not be so hard after all, and they abandon the bottles, too. Again, it looks like Ray and Yolanda are much, much closer to doing the dance than Fran and Barry were.