Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Phoenix Is the New New York
By Miss Alli | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 08.20.2003
The next clue tells all of the teams to drive to the general aviation terminal at the Cairns airport, where they'll grab another clue. Everyone bails out of the ceremonial grounds, with Team Who holding a slight lead over Jon and Kelly, and the Chipsters bringing up the rear. "Everyone's on each other's ass," Jeff comments. (Hey, he was at TARcon!) Jon voices over that the Chipsters were trying to get position on him, which won't work because he's from Jersey (oooooh, I'm so scared). Chip then responds in a voice-over that Jon irritates him slightly, mostly by always making jokes when Chip is trying to be serious. Chip claims that this just makes him more determined to "get an edge" by outmaneuvering Jon. In the introduction to one of this week's little subplots, Reichen voices over that he's always "completely petrified" in the back seat when Chip drives the car. In this case, he explains that it was raining, and Chip decided to pass Jon and Kelly. "Be careful on this roundabout," Reichen advises Chip. Just then, as Chip takes a soft turn to the right, he hydroplanes and skids off the road, landing in a ditch facing the wrong way. Kelly gasps from in her car, but when it's pretty clear that all they did was drive off the road, she says to Jon, "Keep going; they're okay." Jon can't help laughing. "I fuckin' knew that was gonna happen," he says, as Kelly advises him to slow down and avoid suffering the same fate. The Chipsters make their way back onto the road, at which point Kelly is impressed to note that they're right back behind them again. "We can't do that again," Reichen says with great gravity from the back seat. "Nope," Chip clips. Yeah. Glad they agreed on that one. They really do think alike. No more wrecking the car!
Still tightly bunched together, the teams arrive at the general aviation terminal. The first to grab a clue is Team Who, and Jeff (of course) says, "Good job, bro." Second are Jon and Kelly, followed by the Chipsters in last place. The clue they grab tells them that it's time for this week's Detour, and the choices are Wing It or Wander It. In Wing It, you go up in a plane and skydive (tied to an instructor) down to your next clue. Given how much they will want you to Wing It, you can tell that Wander It will be something very, very undesirable. Indeed, Wander It requires that you walk around a lot and navigate all over the place in a boat and do the Hokey-Pokey and basically remove yourself from the competition. It's not even Reckless/Chicken in the usual sense. It's like Reckless/Dropout. Unsurprisingly, all three teams choose to skydive. The first plane, nicely decked out with shark teeth on the front, takes David and Jeff. As she hops into the second plane, Kelly voices over that Jon likes anything where you get your adrenaline going, but she, on the other hand, found that "[her] stomach was in [her] throat," and she started to get scared. The Chipsters follow in the last plane.