Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Beauty Of Coming In Last
By Miss Alli | Season 10 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.25.2006
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close. Morocco beckons, so the teams head off in that direction. Dustin and Kandice make a bad error in judgment at the airport, but they wind up not paying any sort of price for it. Then they do a poor job navigating, but they wind up not paying a price for that either, and they actually get to the Yield mat in time to Yield Lyn and Karlyn, the latter of whom gives a completely appalling speech about how crappy it is the BQs to Yield her when she was about to Yield them first. It's pretty atrocious. The Roadblock involves doing little other than riding around on a chariot, but the Detour requires some navigation that once again befuddles the BQs (who have lost their mojo after hiring taxis to lead them everywhere for a couple of legs). They fall behind yet again, and despite the fact that Rob and Kimberly have the worst car luck in the history of car luck and have to stop to change a flat, the BQs still come in last, at the opposite end from the A(AM!)s, who come in first. The BQs are not eliminated, though they are "marked," just like Dave and Mary were twice. Oh, and they really, really, really need to stop insistently calling Lyn and Karlyn "sistas," because it's gross and totally not okay. Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously on Losing The Race Made My Parents Very Proud: Everyone grooved on their radiation vibe all the way to Ukraine, where they piloted tanks and (in some cases) got waist-deep in the big muddy, though not in the George Bush sense. Then, they executed a music Detour that unfortunately led several teams to perform horrible and inept rap, bringing new meaning to "executed." The *lyns were incredibly aggravated about the fact that the *wins, whom they were following, weren't driving faster. Also, they would prefer to have their free candy provided with the wrapping removed, their found money wrapped in gold, and their keys to the kingdom placed on a more attractive ring. The *wins just wanted everyone to be nice, because it's not show business, it's show friends. In fact, the *wins literally stayed behind to place themselves in a tie for last, just so they and the *lyns could stick together like the Brady Bunch, perhaps reinventing the concept of being unclear on the concept. The *lyns ultimately abandoned their alliance, leaving the *wins high and dry and out of luck after their navigation skills failed them and they got pulled over by the police. Unfortunately, this was not the movie Honey, so the *wins could not approach the *lyns and say in their Josh Baskin voices, "Yo, bitch, why you gotta do me like that?" At the mat, the *wins assured us all that while they lost, they never compromised their integrity, as they would have if they had attempted to win a competition, and they hope that you can live with yourself the next time you buy Park Place, you dirty bastard. We are down to the final four. Who will be eliminated... next?
Credits. I think Sarah was never that happy with Peter again after that shot was taken. I kind of can see her in my mind's eye, ironically liberated because she's bolting away from him on a leg he built. I mean, seriously: can you imagine if you could essentially kick a guy in the ass with a foot of his own making? Rock on, Sarah.
Commercials. That movie where the kids are stuck in the airport? That movie and I are already sworn enemies. We hate each other with the burning, and the anger, and the bitterness, and the fact that even having that adorable dude from Everybody Hates Chris does not change anything. If Lewis Black turns into Tim Allen, I will know that it's about time for the end of the world.
Phil explains that we are in Kiev, which contains statues, as well as tall and nondescript apartment buildings. And it's cold. Wait, maybe I'm looking out the window. Phil reminds us that the Great Patriotic War Memorial is our pit stop. I'm not sure how that's actually written in the original, but I like the idea of a "Great Patriotic War Memorial." It's like they ran out of words other than "Awesome," which could have been used in both senses. Phil wonders, over dramatic black and white footage of Dave and Mary and the *wins that suggests that both teams were eliminated sometime during the Gilded Age, whether the *lyns will be successful without their alliance, which was doing a great job up to this point keeping them mere millimeters from last place.