Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Animal magnetism
By Miss Alli | Season 7 | Episode 6 | Aired on 04.04.2005
Alex clears the second log, and then they grab their pit stop clue and Lynn takes over the driving. As they head out, Lynn tells him that whether they finish last or not, he knows that what Alex just did was really hard for him. As you know, I'm not a big fan of that team, but in terms of partner behavior during a Roadblock, Lynn basically did that perfectly. If anything, he was sort of naggingly supportive, which may or may not have bugged Alex, but he didn't act like it did, and there are many worse things you could do than that. I still think they're sort of self-righteously hypocritical and irritating, and that "born to do this" thing has to go, but at least they're nice to each other.
Brian and Greg. Roadblock. They maneuver around the logs.
Lynn and Alex are approaching the pit stop, and they talk about their hope that they're not last, but their knowledge that they might be. And then you figure out what Alex is doing in the back seat, looking like he's changing his clothes. He reminds us in a voice-over that the rule is that you lose all your clothes in a non-elimination leg besides what you're wearing. So he thinks he should wear as much as possible when they're arriving at the mat. You know, just in case. Heh. It's Africa, and he's got, like, eight layers on. Lynn says from the front seat, "Will you put on some of my clothes? Will you put on some underwear as, like, a headband?" And no, I didn't need that mental image on about six different levels, but it was still kinda funny. They drive up to the pit stop. They run to the mat. Phil tells them that they are team number four. "What?" they ask in unison. "Yes," Phil says in this hysterically funny way that I have absolutely no chance of describing adequately. They hug. They then sputter to Phil about how they put all their clothes on, just in case they were last and it was non-elimination. This amuses Phil, who allows that the fashion police may arrest them. Imagine if Alex had shown up with underpants on his head. Lynn's underpants. Yeah.
Brian and Greg, Roadblock. Meredith and Gretchen, returning to the clues. They open one and leave, since they know where it is and everything. We then see Brian and Greg pull their pit stop clue, and they say they'll just hope it's non-elimination. And then Brian says that they should show up in their bathing suits and dare Phil to non-eliminate them. You know, I'm sure this was nowhere near as close as it looked, and I'm sure they knew they were in last, because those guys are pretty competitive, and if they had any reason to believe they could be competitive, they'd have been going full-out. But still, you know? Even if it were non-elimination, you'd want the best time possible, and dicking around changing your clothes, while funny, isn't really the way to go. At any rate, they change into swimsuits and furry hats, and then they head out. They agree on the way there that it would be interesting to finish the race wearing nothing but this.