Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Back to School
By M. Giant | Season 17 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.10.2010
Katie and Rachel, the volleyball players, have had to stop for directions. "Son of a bitch," one of them says diplomatically as they complain about their driver. I think she's using it as a curse, and not calling their driver that. I think.
Chad and Stephanie are leaving in fourth place, at 7:52, and they seem to be in a pretty good mood as they quickly find a cab. I just noticed this week that their subtitle describes them as "newly dating." How long do you have to be dating to still be "newly," according to the Amazing Subtitles? And what happens if you cross that threshold while on the race? I'm going to be watching their subtitle very closely.
Jill and Thomas give each other a quick kiss before ripping the clue at 7:58, in fifth place. They also get a cab. Nice headband on Thomas, there. Jill may be a licensed cosmetologist, but I don't think anyone could accuse her of bringing her work home with her.
Connor and Jonathan leave at 8:01 in sixth place, and we learn from them that the allowance for this leg is $146. They jump into a cab with a driver named Samson and hurry to make friends with him. I don't know if that's a solid strategy, but it certainly can't hurt, either on the racing or the human level. As long as they don't start singing.
Brook, or "Bam," or "Bammer," as Claire is going to be calling her this whole leg for reasons that escape me, has taped her hands to her trainer's approval. I was going to fix that last sentence, because it makes it sound like her trainer's approval is a physical part of the trainer and Brook has affixed her hands to it with strips of adhesive, but then I decided that's a reason to keep it the way it is. After giving him a kiss, she gets to don a boxing helmet and gloves to go work the speed bag. The trainer gives her encouragement, and she says, "Thank you, coach. I like you." At least until she hits the speed bag so hard it snaps back and bashes her in the face. Okay, no, that doesn't happen.
Stephanie and Chad are next to arrive at the boxing school, and before he volunteers to take this one, we get a look at the poster outside that reads, "Motto: I Hate to Loose." Don't enter any spelling bees, then.
Katie and Rachel have to stop their cabdriver when they're the ones to spot the place out the window, so they arrive in third. Katie's taking this one, in case you care which one is which. They're not as hard to tell apart physically as Jaime and Cara, but if one of them doesn't emerge as the high-strung one soon, they're in just as much danger of becoming a monoteam. Brook finishes the speed bag, and she's moving on to the jump rope, and she can't even stop chatting while in the middle of a Road Block. Claire calls out to tell her to "focus," which I'm starting to think is the Brook/Claire term for "shut up." Brook earns her clue and they're still in the lead as they read that they're going next to the Dodowa district, where they'll need to find a "supply depot." They jump back in their cab, and Claire congratulates Brook, "You just knocked that one out, no pun intended." Which makes me wonder what she would have said if there had been a pun intended.