Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cab Fair
By M. Giant | Season 17 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.07.2010
But what if two teams show up, because here are Nick/Vicki and Chad/Stephanie. Nick and Stephanie are doing it, and freaking Kevin out. Vicki tells us she's glad Nick's doing this; "He can take his aggression out on this." That's not creepy at all. Nick cleans up, taking an early lead over the other two teams still there. Michael knocks out all but two, then misses clearing them out on the second toss and gives a nervous laugh. "I don't think this is funny," Kevin says, like that's the only reason Michael ever laughs. Michael agrees with Kevin that it isn't. "We're gonna get last 'cause of this," Kevin says. Well, not exactly, even though Nick has just knocked down a second group.
Jill and Thomas arrive at the bastion in sixth place, and Thomas announces he's doing it. Stephanie throws her club clear off the course, but Chad isn't too worried, seeing how badly Michael's doing. Nick gets his third grouping in two shots, so they're done with the Road Block and get to head to the Pit Stop. Unless there's still a Speed Bump between here and there. No? No. Meanwhile, Thomas knocks out his first group.
Brook and Claire make it up the stairs to the Pit Stop, and it turns out that going back to their cab nearly ate up the whole lead they had on Nick and Vicki, who come in right behind them. They're team number two and three, respectively. "You guys corrected yourselves, didn't you?" Phil remarks to Team QVC. Brook starts telling their whole story, mercifully capping it off at the end by simply saying, "It was brutalizing." No, listening to Brook's entire detailed account of it would have been brutalizing.
Gary and Mallory arrive at the Fortress in last place, wisely carrying their bags, and Gary's doing the Road Block. Watching Thomas from behind, Jill coaches, "A little more to your left." He takes the time to stop what he's doing, turn around, and snot at her, "Thank you, Jill," like he doesn't spend all of her Road Blocks hollering at her. It would serve him right if he missed his second grouping, but he knocks it down. Gary turns out to be a savant at this, getting a strike on his first throw. "Look at Gary crushing it over there!" Chad calls out, because every time he compliments his girlfriend he has to compliment another racer at some point in the leg. Michael is having a breakthrough; he gets all but one of his pins out, then picks up the spare with his second throw, so he's finally got one done, much to Kevin's relief. Stephanie also finishes her first one. Gary, meanwhile, is hurling his bat hard enough so that every throw is a strike. "You're just an athlete today!" Mallory tells him happily. Thomas finishes up, so he and Jill are in fourth place as they head out to pay their cabbie. And Gary finishes up, but since he and Mallory have already paid and are carrying their bags, they get to go straight in to the Pit Stop, making them team number four. Even at the very end the rankings are changing.