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
Lynn and Alex finish with another item, and then they miss on one. And then they bring the same guy a different item, and in my favorite moment of this sequence, the guy gives them an angry, serious look, and then he breaks into the rich, Uncola-Man laugh, "Ha-ha-ha," and he accepts it. Best laugh ever, that guy. Pretty stagy, but I still laughed.
Rob and Amber decide to duck into a hospital that they spot and ask for directions. In an interview, Rob grins that they figured they could get a much-needed psychiatric evaluation while they were at it. Heh. When they get into the clinic, a woman recognizes Amber and gives her a big hug. They explain in their interview that as great as it was to meet all these fans, they had trouble conveying that they were sort of in a hurry. They do manage to land directions, and they get on their way. Amber talks about how people sometimes do help them out because they recognize them and feel like they know them. I think she rather underestimates people in a sense, though, because locals have certainly been giving directions to racers since forever, whether they recognize them or not. Furthermore, no other team had people coming in with preconceived notions of what they were like and what their strategy would be, either. Pluses and minuses, I think, but probably more pluses, I agree. It's not a perfect system.
Meredith and Gretchen are getting directions to the cave, and then Meredith seems to be a little baffled by the driving, probably in part because he's driving on the other side of the road, and Gretchen remarks that the rappelling can only be really easy, compared to this suck-ass experience. Oh, I suspect that's not true. Uchenna and Joyce are snagging directions, too.
Caves. Ron and Kelly are still looking for clues, as are Greg and Brian. One of the brothers says to the other, "If you can't handle me stuffin' you in a sleeping bag when you were little, and not lettin' you out..." Wow, they tied each other into sleeping bags? My respect for them grows by the minute. "This is so fun, dude," they add. We also see that Ron and Kelly have missed the fact that the clues are actually inside the cave, and are erroneously looking for them outside, once they've finished crawling through. They realize that they have to head back down, so they do.
Brian and Greg hunt around with their flashlights until they find a clue. It tells them to drive to Soweto, which Phil explains is "transforming into a vibrant city." They'll head to a market there. The boys go, passing Ron and Kelly and generally pointing them toward the clue, in return for which Ron and Kelly generally point the boys toward the exit. Ron and Kelly get their clue. Outside, one of the boys tells the other, "You look like Braveheart, dude." Hee. Oh, boys and the way they can turn anything back into a compliment: "Dude, you totally look like Mel Gibson."
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