Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Press For Success
By M. Giant | Season 13 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.02.2008
Morning dawns at the Siem Reap International Airport, and all six teams walk out onto the tarmac to board the same Bangkok Air flight. "All teams are now on their way to Delhi, India," says Phil, shocked into brevity by the triumphant return of the Amazing Yellow Line. The plane touches down at Indira Gandhi International, and there's the usual confusion of teams running willy-nilly through the terminal. Except that this time features the added bonus of Team Divorced coming up against a sliding glass door that fails to slide open, flummoxing them. "How do we get out of here?" Christy wonders, peering through the crack between the panes. Awesome. Of course, I'm just assuming it's a door; knowing them, it's entirely possible that it's a glass wall, with huge English letters painted on it just out of the frame, reading "NOT A DOOR" and "THIS IS A WALL" and "KEEP GOING KELLY AND CHRISTY."
Nick and Starr are the first to find taxis, and they direct their driver to Moonlight Motors at 16 DDA. That's the actual address, apparently (which I discovered by Googling "'moonlight motors' delhi -- amazing race'." The tricks you learn being married to a research librarian). "We're the first out of the airport!" Nick says, excitedly patting Starr's thigh. I'm sure his excitement is about being in the lead. Ken and Tina are the second to find a cab, and Tina wants her driver to confirm that he's sure he knows where they're going, which he does. Unfortunately for them, they've waited until they've pulled away before asking. Even more unfortunately, their driver will later turn out to be lying.
Dallas and Toni check with their driver before they get in their cab, and Dallas explains that their driver called someone over for directions, which Dallas decides to take as a good sign. Dan|Andrew are out next.
Nick and Starr talk some shit about Kelly and Christy, specifically the matching spandex booty shorts the divorcees are sporting for their India sojourn. "And they seem totally oblivious," Nick says, adding that he advised them to cover themselves a bit better, whereupon they responded, "Well, it's hot." Maybe Starr should have done them a favor and pushed their shorts off a ledge. Kelly and Christy are shown getting their barely-covered asses into a taxi. And Terence and Sarah are out of the airport in last place, which I'm sure is Terence's fault.
We then get a little sequence of the racers having their first experience with India traffic, which is always a reality check for new arrivals. Although I've seen it much worse than we're seeing it here (on the show, I mean; I've never actually been there). Nick and Starr still appear to be on a main road, where cars are moving along rather quickly. She comments about the preponderance of cars here, as opposed to motorcycles in Cambodia. Oh, and what's that strolling along the median? Well, that would be one of those widely known bovine-Indians we've heard so much about. Both Ken|Tina and Toni|Dallas notice and comment on the cow from their separate cabs. The Frat Boys, wouldn't you know it, have somehow hit rush-hour traffic that nobody else is hitting, and are wilting in the heat as well. Team Divorced passes an entire herd of cows on the shoulder, as Christy suddenly remembers that cows are sacred here, hence the expression. "I guess they're not worried about getting hit," she remarks. See what they mean about being fast learners? Nick and Starr are still moving along quickly, but traffic seems to be tightening for Ken and Tina. Not that this is slowing their driver down, as he appears to be riding someone's bumper at a pretty nervous-making clip. "This is a crazy time to be hitting the downtown area of New Delhi," Tina says, probably because she's more accustomed to hitting it during the late-morning lull. Their cab pulls up next to that of Toni|Dallas, and the teams have a brief conversation through their open windows about their doubts as to whether their respective drivers know where they're going. The Frat Boys seem much more confident in their driver, but Ken and Tina's has stopped for directions. Tina insists that the place is right down the street they're on, but Ken wants to continue talking to the small crowd of locals who have gathered around their taxi. That's going to be a pattern in this episode, if not in India in general; you never have to ask just one person anything. He interviews that Tina always thinks she's right, and they need to have more "give and take." As they get going again, Tina reminds him that he was wasting time, since she already knew where they were going. Well, if that's the case, they should get there pretty soon, then, right?