Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Knight Of The Sausages
By Miss Alli | Season 11 | Episode 7 | Aired on 03.31.2007
The BQs reach the clue box, and as soon as they see "Intersection," they realize that they are completely screwed. They grin at each other as Kandice says, "This tooootally stinks." It does indeed. They realize that they're going to have to wait and wind up tied with the trailing teams. "Oh, dang," Dustin says. You know, they should really watch their language. They're supposed to be role models. I am so calling the FCC.
After a set of commercials, we return to find Oswald and Danny and Uchenna and Joyce still on the way to the Fast Forward. When they get there, they realize that they have plenty of time to climb the stairs, because the BQs are sitting around for several hours waiting for everybody else. Back at the Intersection clue, the BQs are speculating that it's going to be several hours anyway before anybody else shows up. The Fast Forward teams start climbing and counting. Joyce tells Uchenna he needs to count to himself. Heh. We cut back to the BQs, who remind us that they actually were the third team at the Intersection last time, too. But this wait is going to be a lot longer, where last time, it was mostly about teaming up with someone you didn't like. Elsewhere, the members of the climbing teams all count 111 steps in the first tower. They go over and start up the second tower. The BQs speculate about whether the front teams took the FF, and they're figuring they must have, since it doesn't look hard. I really dig the way they're just hanging out, not complaining, assessing the situation, able to discuss the suck of their circumstances without wallowing.
At the top of the second set of stairs, it turns out that Uchenna and Oswald have the same number for that set, but Danny has a different number, and Joyce has still a different number. Uchenna and Oswald decide to commit to the number they came up with, and indeed, it turns out to be the right one. The guard who hands over their clue is kind of cute, but I guess Oswald only gets one charming local per episode. The clue directs these two teams to drive to the next pit stop. Said pit stop is located at Pieskowa Skala Castle. They leave happily in the marked car they find, and the two teams decide to follow each other.
In more somber events, Team Guido, Charla and Mirna, and Eric and Pink are just arriving at Auschwitz. Joe and Bill choke up as they read the letter. Bill interviews that he and Joe have seen Auschwitz in pictures, but not in person. As Joe crosses himself, Bill voices over that you just can't understand what it's like to be there until you're there, which I'm sure is true. "I felt the weight of all those souls," he says. Again, Bill? Clearly a scourge on society. Eric interviews with an appropriate level of embarrassment that being at Auschwitz made a lot of petty fights seem really... petty. "I can't imagine what people must have experienced in this horrible place," Mirna says, clearly moved. Mirna goes on to explain that her family is Armenian, and four million Armenians were massacred by the Turks. (The numbers -- which are kind of irrelevant -- vary a little, but this is certainly a very real and less-known story. More here.) This is, in a way, even more poignant because in a famous speech the gist of which is generally agreed to be for real, Hitler spoke of his plans to invade Poland and exterminate Polish people, stating: "Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness -- for the present only in the East -- with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks to-day of the annihilation of the Armenians?" It certainly makes it sound as though his conviction that this situation had been forgotten emboldened him, which... this is why it's not so bad to go back and look, even if you think you haven't forgotten.
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