Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Only God Can Make A Brick
By Miss Alli | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 08.30.2004
Brandon and Nicole arrive, and he takes the Roadblock. As he works, Brandon asks Chip how things are going or him. Chip is doing better than most, but he's having no fun either. "Uhhh, dying?" Chip says. Here come Linda and Karen ("Moms Bowling," hee), and Linda says that Karen has to take it because she did the last one. Of course, the last Roadblock we actually saw was the egg-eating, which Karen did, so this is apparently a reference to the Lost Roadblock of the last episode, which we didn't see because Colin took up so much time getting schooled by the Tanzanian police. Linda is the first to compare the task to making bread (duh), and to encourage Karen to smack the "dough" around to get the air out. Very smart.
Chip gets another brick. Cymbals of Achievement: "Chhhh!" And finally, Colin gets one, too. "You're behind Chip right now," Christie says. "You've only got one good brick." He looks up at her. "You're killing me, you know that?" he snarls. Heh. Yeah, he's a prick, but in that situation, he's right that constantly telling him how badly it's going is not going to help. Of course, he might have thought of that when he kept telling her about all the teams that were passing them during the caviar. Brandon calls the brick guy over to check his efforts, but nothing doing: "Not okay." Karen gets her first brick. Linda, of course, squeals and jumps up and down. Sigh. Christie, not really reading the room so well, says, "Karen has a good one. Just slow down and concentrate, you'll catch up with Chip." You know, if I were her, I would shut up, lest I learn a more literal meaning to the expression "Here's mud in your eye." Chip gets his fifth brick. Colin gets his second. Colin gets his third. Karen gets her second. Brickmaking ensues, and it looks like once Colin gets the hang of it, he starts churning out some seriously perfect bricks. Oh, he would.
Brandon, on the other hand, just can't get the corners to come out right. "Baby, I'm sorry," he says. "Ask, look, watch, do something," she snaps. "You can't just keep making them wrong!" This is how you can tell Nicole is the first official victim of Killer Fatigue. She used to never, ever do this. She used to stay encouraging, even when things took him forever. She would sit by and be like, "Baby, you're doing great, don't worry about it," and now she's a big ball of stress, which is pretty clearly not helping Brandon.
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