Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Melon Vs. Melon
By M. Giant | Season 17 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.26.2010
The second flight lands at 7:18, only 21 minutes behind the first one as opposed to the scheduled 30. It's not an hour and a half earlier, but I'll take it. It's an eight-way race for the car park, with Brook and Claire first again, although Brook almost gets in the wrong side as well. They're on the road in fourth place, with Nat and Kat in fifth, and Nick and Vicky in sixth. As Team @ gets on the motorway, Nat asks Kat for her finger pricker. Yep, she's has type-1 diabetes, which I have to think would be a bitch to deal with on this race. And while driving, no less. "The schedule's off, I don't know when I'm going to eat..." Yikes. I don't want to see anyone going into insulin shock this season, okay?
Other teams, like Brook/Claire, Katie/Rachel, and Gary/Mallory, also seem to be navigating well. Not so much Nick/Vicki, Kevin/Michael, and Andie/Jenna. Andie has the added difficulty of having mistaken her gearshift for a chemist's mortar and pestle, judging by the noises she's making with it. Behind her, Jonathan and Connor can smell the toxic fumes she's generating with her transmission. I wonder if the car rental agencies ever see the way racers treat their vehicles on this show and send strongly worded letters to CBS demanding more money. Even further back, Ron and Tony have realized they're going the wrong way. Where's Tony's compass? Does it only work in Massachusetts? Chad and Stephanie get directions to Stonehenge from a McDonald's customer, and getting back in the car, Stephanie is thinking out loud to herself about where they need to go until Chad rudely interrupts from the back seat, "No, because we drive on the left-hand side of the road, so we're going to go around and then go around it." He really puts the "prick" in "navigator," doesn't he? Which I guess would make it "npravigickator."
Andie continues to grind gears while Jenna sites cringing in the back, probably regretting all the time the two of them spent apart, because if she'd grown up knowing Andie, she could scream at her right now. Behind them, Team Glee notices a problem. Jonathan refers to them as "The Gilmore Girls," which they're pretty much the opposite of, but he probably can't be expected to know that yet. Connor tries getting the women's car started but gets nowhere. All four of them agree that the singers should go on ahead, even though that leaves Andie and Jenna stranded in a middle lane, with angry, honking traffic oozing slowly by. At least if Jonathan and Connor were still there with them they could harmonize with the car horns.
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