Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sugar, sugar
By Miss Alli | Season 9 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.06.2006
Back at the climb, Lake and Barry encourage their respective wives. Fran seems to at least get enough of the hang of it to move somewhat. Michelle finishes, and Lake starts up. Fran does get there before Lake, so it doesn't look like they lost all that much time by taking this Detour, although I still think it's the wrong one for them, and their logic in choosing it was sort of ridiculous. Lake and Michelle get their clue and head for the pit stop.
Dave and Lori are approaching the pit stop. Welcome, Dave and Lori, you are team number four. Welcome, Ray and Yolanda, you are team number five. Ray and Yolanda are not all that happy about this, but they recognize it as better than how they did last time. Wanda and Desiree arrive next, and they're very worried about their position, on account of having gotten lost. As soon as she jumps onto the mat, Wanda looks at Phil, points with both hands, and says, "Smile to us." He tells them they are team number six, and this is very, very good news to them. Desiree first covers her mouth, and then she sort of demurely puts her hand over her heart and says, "Phil." Adorable. There's a way to love Phil without molesting Phil, and that's the way it should be done.
Danielle and Dani arrive at the waterfall as Barry is on his way up. Danielle immediately passes Barry, but he does finish not long after she does. Fran and Barry get their pit stop clue and leave.
Lisa and Joni? Lisa is still complaining and freaking out. The car stalls out, and Lisa restarts it. They are finally at the Press It option. "Pretend you're giving birth to a child," Joni says for some reason as they operate the cranking machine. "I didn't; I had a C-section," Lisa frets. Heh. It doesn't make any sense, but at least she's not complaining.
Dani finishes the climb. They really do seem to have handled that climb pretty well. I think those girls are pretty fucking tough, actually. To the degree they're that weird combination of cupcake (with the pink sweats) and bad-ass, I kind of am...beginning to like them a little bit. I need to hear them talk more, and I don't want to see them finding it charming when Eric acts like a fuckwit, but other than that, we'll see.
Lisa and Joni keep working on the Detour.
In Lake and Michelle's car, he says, "Don't expect me to ask anybody! I am over -- done! -- with Spanish." "It's Portuguese," she corrects. "I can't understand it," he mutters. They wander in search of directions. This is kind of the way I feel about the whole confusing of Spanish with Portuguese -- it's wrong, and it shows a lack of familiarity with Brazil, but what's more important to me than whether you make that mistake is whether you act like an asshole about it. It's okay not to know everything; it's just not okay to be an obnoxious dipshit.