Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Tea and Treachery
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.25.2001
Unfortunately, the members of the Under The Stars Brigade are not quite as lucky as they were starting to think they were, because it starts to rain. All cower under their assorted raingear. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Paris, Team Guido ducks into a little coffee shop. Joe refers to what he's sipping as "very Frohhhhnsh." Ick. You know what I think? You can't really go into a competition like this thinking you're necessarily going to win the money. The odds are against you, no matter how good you think you are. So you've got to enjoy the experience. What, you may ask, is the purpose of All This Useless Background Philosophy? Well, to point out that, all things considered, I'd rather spend the night under even a rainy Paris sky with Team Ensure, Lenny and Karyn, and even Paul and Amie than spend it holed up in a coffee shop with the Guidos. Honestly, if I wanted to hang out at Starbucks, I could do it without going to so much trouble. I think the rain-endurers are probably having more fun, even with the part where they have endure the rain. ["It'll work better in the telling later, at any rate. I mean, everyone has a Paris vacation story about going to a café in Paris. Sleeping outside in the French rain? Now that's a Paris vacation story." -- Sars]
While everyone else enjoys the relative peace of the Paris nighttime, EDG is on the move, but the two teams comprising this shaky alliance seem to have broken apart. Margarita is asking a stranger about the location of "Foh-CALT's" pendulum. The stranger correctly names the Pantheon, and is rewarded with being coughed upon by Loud Pushy Frank. Team Esquire finds the Pantheon at just about the same time. Seems that Team Danza was trying to ditch the alliance, because when Esquire arrives, Margarita chuckles and says something along the lines of "foiled again." It's so sad, because I really like Margarita, but I just can't get over what she puts up with from Frank. I'd be interested in hearing her explain it. Anyway, when EDG is reunited, their attention quickly turns to the thing they have in common -- they are very annoyed by Team Guido. (Yeah, that club is running short of membership cards, actually -- they're making them out of scraps of paper now.) Frank is, I think, both happy and frustrated that the teams are all going to be even starting at 10:00 AM. He's happy the Guidos aren't building a lead, but I think he'd rather stay ahead of the stragglers. Rob says "Fuh-CALT."
Pat and Brenda -- oh, nooooooo! They're at the Arts and Crafts Museum. Poor Pat and Brenda. Pat votes, by the way, for "Foo-COLT."