Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cultural Ignorant Americans Make Little Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
By M. Giant | Season 13 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.16.2008
Terence and Sarah seem to have spotted Old Square, and since Andrew and Dan look like they've gotten lost again, it might just end up being close after all. At least that's what we're supposed to think, as both teams are shown running into the square. And then the fourth-place team arrives. Phil tells them, "Andrew and Dan, you are team number four." All is forgiven between the two of them. "And you are still in the race," Phil adds. Andrew can't believe it. Neither can Phil. Neither can I. Neither can the entire English-speaking world.
Terence leads Sarah in from another direction, as they run through a garden strip to come around to the mat from the side. The Frat Boys are nowhere in sight. "Welca to Kazakhstan!" says the greeter. Terence thanks him and adds, "Kazakhstan is very beautiful." Appreciate the effort, but it's out of the greeter's hands, dude. Terence braces himself for the bad news by getting a kiss from Sarah, for which Phil is happy to give them plenty of time. At last, Phil tells them they're last. "Fudge, fudge," I think Terence says. And they wait for the official word. Phil gets as far as "I'm sorry--" before Sarah lets out a moaning "Noooo!" Phil gets right to the point of where and how they blew it: "You get to the Fast Forward, you saw Nick and Starr there..." Terence says he can run marathons and triathlons, but "I couldn't swallow that food to save my life. Couldn't do it." "Couldn't do it for a million dollars?" Phil says. Terence just looks at him like, "well, when you put it that way...motherfudge!" Sarah solo-interviews that Terence is going to be beating himself up over deciding to go for the Fast Forward for a while. "I hope that, with some time, he can see that we got out of this some great things for our relationship. We saw the world together, and hopefully in the long run that'll be just as valuable as whether we were able to win it or not. And maybe now I'll be allowed to open envelopes and talk and climb once in a while." Except for the last part. Back at the mat, Terence tells Phil how much he loves Sarah, and how "honored and blessed" he feels to have run the race with her. He interviews that Sarah will remain a part of his life, wherever that life takes him. So if anyone has been spending the season hoping that Terence and Sarah would provide us with a new specimen of that rarest of TAR birds, the Mat Breakup, it's clearly not going to happen.