Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Couch Trip
By M. Giant | Season 18 | Episode 8 | Aired on 04.17.2011
Approaching Salzburg, Zev is nervous about having to do something on his own. He really shouldn't be. The sisters and the Goths are also closing in. Vyxsin warns Kent not to miss the turn. "What's the turn?" he asks. "Kent! I'm trying to tell you but you just have to stop talking!" Dammit, Kent, stop asking for vital information that you need! God!
Flight Time and his sweep guide reach the roof, where a master sweep is also there watching the proceedings. He's more interested than anyone watching at home, I'm sure. The task consists, in its entirety, of dropping the tool on its rope down the chimney and then reeling it in, on three separate shafts. "When I grew up we didn't even have a chimney," Big Easy says, as though that makes this task any harder. "Santa Claus came through a window." His tool hits the bottom and he has to reel it back up and do the next one. That's pretty much going to be it.
The Cowboys and Gary/Mallory are also approaching Salzburg, Mallory hoping that there'll be a Road Block "or something that's tough to do so that we can catch up." Well, there will be one of those things.
Big Easy as just finished his third chimney. Now down to the cellar, where he opens up the little door, dodges the cloud of soot that comes out, and reaches in to grab his suspiciously clean clue. The end.
Zev and Justin are the next to find the Road Block clue, which means they made up a lot of time between here and Vienna. This one is Zev's. "I choose you," he says to a chick at the sweeps' table. In the changing room, he encounters Big Easy ,who says they haven't seen anyone else. Still in his uniform, Big Easy meets up with Flight Time so they can read the clue sending them to the next Pit Stop, the Villa Trapp. If that name seems familiar, it's because Phil says the 1863-built house was "the real home of the Von Trapp family immortalized in the film The Sound of Music." And the last team to check in may be eliminated, as in so long, farewell, auf wiedersehn, goodbye. The Globetrotters are on their way, worried that Zev and Justin might have a map and be able to catch up. Well, they did jump ahead a few places since the University.
Zev is nervous, but this task is so easy he really doesn't need to be. "Bigger, bigger," he says of his rope coils, then adds, "That's what she said." Even with these hijinx, his first chimney gets swept in short order.
The sisters are just now arriving downstairs, and Kent spots them from the street as he and Vyxsin drive up, so they couldn't have been that lost. Kisha and Vyxsin volunteer to take this one for their respective teams. Zev finishes up as Kisha and Vyxsin arrive on the roof, then heads down to the cellar and gets his clue. Kisha talks about how heavy the cleaning tool is, in a heroic effort to make this seem like an actual challenge. Zev and Justin get their Pit Stop clue in second place, find a crowd to direct them to the Villa Trapp, and head out. "Let's not get lost!" Zev says. Good plan. Ahead of them, Flight Time and Big Easy are getting directions from a cab driver. Kisha, then Vyxsin, finishes the Detour, but somehow the Goths just pass the sisters by the time they're out on the street reading their Pit Stop clue.