Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT One Day in Bangkok Makes Two Short Men Grumble
By M. Giant | Season 14 | Episode 8 | Aired on 04.12.2009
Kisha and Jen are the first to finish the karaoke Detour, and as they get their clue sending them to the Pit Stop, their subtitle reading "Currently in 2nd Place" is a cruel irony. Good thing they can't actually read them like on The Electric Company.They run off to find the taxi that was supposed to follow them, but it's not around. "That's fine with me, I ain't gotta pay him," Jen says as they give up the brief search. Rather than going back for their stuff, Kisha wants to go straight to the Pit Stop. They jump into a yellow cab and ask the driver to take them somewhere without money. When he says no, they hop right back out again. "'Kay, goodbye," Jen says rather shortly, and they start hoofing it again. I think it's somehow perversely admirable that the member of their team who is willing to put off getting their stuff is the one who's having to walk around Bangkok barefoot.
The Cheerleaders finish in third, and ask the first cabbie they see about the Thai Palace, only to learn that he doesn't know it. On to the next cab. As Tammy and Victor reach the end of their karaoke course, Tammy says, "Aaaand I just saw Kisha and Jennifer running barefoot down the street." They get their clue and run for a taxi -- literally, Tammy runs up to one that's still moving. "Good job, Tammy," Victor says. Yes, good job not getting killed. Team Go Team sees them go, and Jaime decides she and Cara should just jump in the next cab they see and follow them. Victor comments on how surprised he is that they caught up with the cheerleaders, who left the Road Block much earlier. Don't tell that to Jaime, or she'll go back and twist their previous cab driver's head off. When she's done with her current one, that is. "We have the meekest driver on the planet Earth right now," she bitches. Wisely, Cara just consults their map.
Jen approaches a cabbie and asks, first if he knows where the place is, and second if he can take them there for free. "You no have money?" he asks, and agrees to help them. As they ride to the Pit Stop, Jen says they'll worry about the rest of their stuff later. "I'm not too worried about my clothes that are there, I'm just worried about my passport." Yes, I would think that most of their Racing wardrobe could be replaced easily enough at the University of Louisville student bookstore.
Way back at the Road Block drop-off point, the Stuntmen are just arriving, and are surprised to se that there are two cabs still waiting there. Thai cabbies must be the most patient in the world. Although I don't see Margie and Luke's taxi there, even though he was still waiting when we saw Cara and Jaime return for their stuff. They must have told him that Margie|Luke no longer required their services, or Jaime simply yelled at him until he went away. Mark pays their new cabbie his four hundred baht (about eleven bucks and change, base on today's exchange rate), and they get in their original cab to return to Chinatown.