Episode Report Card M. Giant: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Whine and Punishment
By M. Giant | Season 17 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.28.2010
The first ferry docks at Cheung Chau island, and the teams run through a seaside boardwalk-type area. Except not so much for Claire, who isn't much of a runner, in case you haven't heard.
"This sucks so bad," Nick says as he and Vicki get on the later ferry. Could be worse; the ferry could sink. Or it could be better; only Nick could sink.
Jill/Thomas and Nat/Kat find the clue on a cliff uphill a ways and read, "Ferry yourselves to Kowloon," which is another area of Hong Kong. Then they'll have to find the Majesty Chinese Restaurant, which is where their next clue is. I thought Chinese restaurants in China were just restaurants, which shows what I know. Brook and Claire arrive at the clue box just as the other two teams are leaving, and Brook hurries an increasingly sweaty Claire along after they get their clue. On the way back to the ferry, Claire complains that she can't be athletic, and Brook says, "But you can be tough." In an interview, Claire says this isn't what she does (Brook shakes her head like, no shit), and goes on to say that she's impressed with herself if she runs even a little. She should go on The Amazing Race, then. Back in real time, she tells Brook she has to do this at her own pace. "Of course. Heaven forbid you do it at anyone else's," Brook snipes. Yeowch! Having delivered that barb, she then decrees, "Let's not talk, let's just focus and run." Nice for her. They just barely end up making the ferry with the other two teams, and Brook says, "Let's hug it out." "We did suck it out, "Claire says. Brook clarifies, and they hug it out. I missed the sucking it out, though.
On the ferry to the island, Nick is still bitching, and Vicki's asking him to "take that out of your head." She could mean either the negativity, or the brain implant that aliens put there to test the limits of human assholery. "I wish we would have never came here," Nick says. Well, that makes several million of us.
They arrive at the island before the other ferry reaches Kowloon, but not by much. Nat and Kat are the first team to get a cab, followed by Jill and Thomas, then Team QVC, as Brook mistakenly asks the driver for "Majestic Chinese Restaurant." Nick and Vicki get their Majesty clue in last place. Nat and Kat are the first to actually reach said restaurant, which helpfully has signage in English as well as Mandarin. Inside is a boisterous scene, with locals singing karaoke on a low but huge stage. A chef stationed at the clue box yells over the racket, "Welcome to our restaurant!" Nat and Kat open the clue for a Road Block and read, "Who's feeling peckish?" Nick is! Oh, sorry, I thought they said "prickish."