Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 58 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Zip It, Bingo
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.06.2013
ER docs Travis & Nicole arrive at the Detour clue box in fourth place. They're the first team to choose the Brining option, on the logic that Travis thought it might be nice to celebrate Nicole's birthday with a pleasant little salt bath. Well, it's the thought that counts. Team NFL dismisses that idea out of hand given their size; "It's going to take a mountain full of salt," Ephraim interviews. When Jason & Amy arrive in sixth place, she votes for the Mining choice as well. Even as they're running to the bikes, Jason has his doubts, saying Brining might be easier and wondering if she'll be able to effectively wield the sledgehammer. Meanwhile, Team NFL are already on their bikes. "This is way better than having to run!" one of them yells. Yes, when you're running you can't go " A~~a~~a~~h."
Unfortunately for Team Bingo, they've realized that their cabdriver is lost. "Which direck-shee-oh-nay?" Rowan asks him in yet another display of fluent Spanish. The driver points one way towards the city and the opposite way to the airport and Punta de Lobos, but since he said all that in Spanish they have no idea what he just said, even if it included the information they wanted. They get him to pull off the road and a local guy gives their driver directions in Spanish. As they all pile back into the car, Shane is calling, "Muchas gracias." "Just get in, we can mucho him later," Rowan says. Sure, if you can find him for the mucho-ing.
Brandon & Adam park their bikes and run the rest of the way to the sign pointing to Mining in one direction and Brining in the other, congratulating themselves on going from last place to first. They head on into a wide-open pit where a worker in hardhat and safety glasses is already at work beating up great chunks of rock with a big hammer, and front-end loaders move large lumps of Chile around. So now we know how they get salt out of rocks, but how do they get the rock out of the salt? Brandon tosses a hardhat to Adam -- actually, he tosses it clear over Adam's head. "Good thing that's not part of the challenge," Brandon says while an actual worker looks on unamused, probably thinking about the dead coworker that helmet once belonged to. Once they have all their gear, including a hammer and a metal spike each, they start working over a rock that already had lots of cracks in it. Can't fault that strategy (har har har).
Behind them, the blondes are almost at the signpost, but the Afghanimals are catching up and there's a lot of yelling between the teams about their race-matrimonial status. It's all quite tiresome.
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