Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Head wounds and foot races
By Miss Alli | Season 7 | Episode 5 | Aired on 03.28.2005
Uchenna finishes the shopping, and he and Joyce leave for the pit stop as well.
Gretchen takes the Roadblock for herself and Meredith, and she notes that if people see her coming, they just might "run the other way." It's all the blood, violence, and terror, you see. She approaches one guy for whom she makes a bit of a distressing game of charades out of a request for diapers, but he directs her and she gets on her way. He doesn't seem too shocked that there's an old lady with a head like a Q-Tip asking for diapers in his store. Gretchen makes her purchases as Meredith notes that he's pretty sure they're well behind at this point, but they're going on ahead anyway. Cranial trauma is no match for moxie, people.
Children's Home. Uchenna and Joyce. He's sure they're last, and he tells her so. She tells him not to get like that and be with the "negative energy." They're actually a little bit bickery as they approach the play yard, but then they run in and see all the little kids. And the cheering immediately makes them happy, because how could it not? "Wow," they both say in turn, and then they hug the Children's Home lady and get their clue. As they go, they call out to the kids and wave. They walk out, and Joyce interviews that it was "really special." And Joyce, because she's the kind of person who's capable of listening when the universe is talking to her, comments that seeing all those kids made her realize how many kids there are in the world who need somebody to take care of them. She mentions that they've considered adoption, and it sounds like maybe she's considering it a little more. Shots of adorable children! Oh, I can't take it. My heart wants to sing! Everybody had better stand back, seriously.
Gretchen returns to Meredith, half-apologizing for not being able to "get too many deals" on the shopping. Oh, man. You're bleeding from the head, lady; nobody expects you to haggle over a Tweetypack. They rip the Children's Home clue and take off.
Rob and Amber, still with their Fern, arrive at the pit stop and check in fifth. My favorite part is where Phil asks them the name of their Fern, and Rob quite nicely introduces her. He is such a weird dude -- he's capable of great graciousness to people other than other racers, and he's such a prick much of the time about game stuff. He baffles me, kind of, but I suspect he has a fairly common affliction in attention-seeking people, which is that he's blown right by the desirable characteristic of thinking it doesn't always mean you're wrong if people are unhappy with you, and he's wound up over in the land where other people disliking you is something to be proud of. Which, you know, it isn't. But he's happy with their Fern, at least. "She helped us out big time," says Rob of their friend, who is named (approximately) Talindele. He notes that this was probably their toughest day yet. Tougher than Meatblock day? Oh, right. They mostly sat around.
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