Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Press For Success
By M. Giant | Season 13 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.02.2008
Ken and Tina aren't far behind. Dan and Andrew still have eight items to iron. Sarah comes out of the banquet hall with Terence, looking for their same cab driver and happy to find he's still waiting for them. "You go fast! Go fast!" Terence yells at him from the back, shining his headlamp at the poor guy like he's an interrogator instead of a passenger. Ken and Tina are on foot, running up and down the street looking for an entirely new taxi. Too bad they didn't hold onto their original driver, with his mad waiting skills.
At Baha'i House, Dallas excitedly tells the greeter, "You have fire on your head! That's insane!" This all but ensures that all future greeters and their costumes will be chosen for their ability to blow Dallas's mind. They are team number three.
Ken and Tina are still running around looking for a taxi, accomplishing nothing but pissing off some dogs. And the Frat Boys continue to contend with their pitiless laundry woman. "This is gonna do us in, Ken," Tina warns. Terence and Sarah arrive at the mat in fourth, to their immense joy.
Ken and Tina now appear to be trying to hail a taxi on the goddamn freeway, while he wears both their backpacks. Dan continues ironing. Tina finally succeeds in flagging down a now-familiar natural gas-powered taxi and asks the driver if he can get them to "Bahia House" [again, sic]. He says he can, and they jump in. "We've never been last," Tina says to Ken in the back. Well, if they had, they would be gone now, wouldn't they? On a related note, I've never been fatally injured.
Finally the Frat Boys have completed the ironing to a satisfactory degree of quality, and they quickly find a cab. Now it's a taxi race. And since we already know that Baha'i House is relatively close to the laundry, and we can see that Ken and Tina's driver is temporarily abandoning them on the side of the road to get directions, it's not looking good for the separated couple. "How can it take twenty people to find something?" Tina bitches. Which gives me an opening to mention something I've been thinking of: as hard as it is for the teams to complete all these tasks, it must be even harder for the producers to get them set up. Each Detour and Road Block is a complicated production, many of them requiring the collaboration of untold numbers of locals who don't know exactly when to expect the competitors, but who damn well better be ready when they get there. And this applies not only to India, but all over the world. It must be a daunting undertaking. Seriously.