Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 141 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT All About the Melons
By M. Giant | Season 20 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2012.03.04
Art and JJ decide to do "Stacked Up" and leave just as Bopper and Mark are arriving, so we get to see twice as many grown men with large backpacks awkwardly going down slides. Bopper and Mark are also doing "Stacked Up." Team Undercover and Other Rachel and Dave show up and start searching as well. Nary and Jamie are the third team to find the clue and Other Rachel and Dave are close behind. They're both doing "Stacked Up" as well. But how will those poor harps ever get strung?
Art and JJ arrive at the fruit market, where they take in the pre-existing pyramids, empty pallets waiting to have pyramids built on them and dump trucks full of watermelons. They load up a hand truck with watermelons and get to work. JJ interviews, "We catch the bad guys, and we catch the dopers and the alien smugglers. We know we can do the manual labor. We're not afraid of getting dirty and sweaty and grimy and gutting out. We know we can get that done." Cool, thanks JJ. Let us know if you can think of any other ways you are awesome. No, later is fine.
Despite being the last team to leave the yard store, Other Rachel and Dave are somehow the next team to reach the fruit market. In fact, we're going to see a lot of undocumented ranking changes during transit between tasks throughout this episode, but Team Undercover and Team Kentucky are right behind them. They all get to work. Bopper says this is his first time stacking watermelons, but there's a first time for everything and several of them comment on the heat. "It's hotter than new love, baby," Bopper says colorfully. Dave tosses Other Rachel a watermelon and, after catching it with her abdomen, she says, "I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to have babies after this." Soon they're all laying out the bases of their pyramids and it's not going as smoothly for the new arrivals as it is for Art ad JJ. Mark tosses Bopper a melon, but it goes high and bounces off his head. "Bust me right in the head with it, man," Bopper complains. Claire from TAR17 thinks, "Yeah, that must have sucked."
The second flight to Asunción has landed with the other five teams. Brendon and Rachel are the first team to get a cab, so they're now in fifth place. Cousins Kerri and Stacy are in the sixth-place cab and twins Elliot and Andrew are close behind, with Huge-Tiny couple Ralph and Vanessa in eighth and Joey "Fitness" and Danny in last, which they aren't thrilled about. You'd think they'd be used to it. Up at the Detour, Mark snacks on a handful of pulp from a dropped melon, while Other Rachel tries to get Dave to take a drink of water. Dave reminds us he was in Iraq for a year (and thus needs none of your water!) and as we see them start to bicker about whether or not Dave is encouraging to Other Rachel, she interviews that they haven't spent this much time together in a long time. "When he comes down on me it doesn't make me want to do things." Yeah, they're not working well together at all. Maybe he should stop coming down on her and try a different verb.