Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Enjoying the glory of Darwin
By Miss Alli | Season 9 | Episode 10 | Aired on 05.02.2006
As Ray and Yolanda are leaving, MoJo is arriving at the Dry Detour. Yolanda is very happy to see anyone that far behind them.
Over at Wet, all the boys are frustrated at how long the Detour is taking. Eric and Jeremy are catching up with BJ and Tyler.
In the Ray and Yolanda car, they're happy about the fact that they picked up a map earlier, and it shows tourist destinations including the Lake Bennett place that they're going. They need, as Yolanda explains, to find their way to the Stuart Highway, back toward Darwin.
MoJo parks. They pick a didgeridoo and start to follow the sound. At least as advertised, they find their guy on the first shot, and it doesn't take them too long to get the hang of the thing, although Monica kind of lets Joseph show her how to do it rather than letting the actual aborigine show her. Kind of strange.
Monica thinks that they made a good Detour choice as they get on their way.
BJ and Tyler, then Eric and Jeremy, finish the Wet Detour at last and leave for the pit stop. They take off at almost the same time.
Ray and Yolanda find the Lake Bennett Wilderness Resort. They run up to the mat as the guy does his whip tricks. Welcome, you are team number one! They win...kind of a so-so prize, which is year-long leases on Mercedes vehicles. Eh. Once you pay the taxes, you might as well just lease yourself something a little more reasonable. Ray makes Phil promise that the Mercedes will have the steering wheel on the correct side. Heh. Phil says that Ray seems happy, and Yolanda notes that this is about as demonstratively happy as Ray ever gets. Phil tells her that this stoicism should be thought of as part of Ray's appeal, and she wholeheartedly agrees.
MoJo heads for the highway. On the highway, BJ and Tyler and Eric and Jeremy are just in sync. None of them really know where they're going, so Eric and Jeremy flag down an ambulance, which gives them directions. As they get those directions, BJ tells Tyler to get out and ask, too. Tyler responds by getting out and asking Eric and Jeremy, rather than asking the guys they asked. That is...really goofy. And the part where Tyler's like, "Wait for us"? Since when is there "wait for us" in racing? BJ hassles Tyler about why he asked the guys instead of the locals.
Just then, here comes -- seriously -- MoJo. MoJo squeezes in behind BJ and Tyler, who are behind Eric and Jeremy. Eric and Jeremy, for their part, are smart enough not to be happy that it's MoJo behind BJ and Tyler -- they were all counting on somebody being way behind from that Yield who would protect them from being in last place. Incidentally, you can do the math for yourself, but the reason Eric and Jeremy are unhappy about MoJo being back there is the same reason you don't Yield a team that isn't in last place -- the idea is always to put somebody as far behind you as possible. Joseph flips off BJ and Tyler, which is nicely obscured by pixels, but which BJ and Tyler apparently do not miss.