Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT One Day in Bangkok Makes Two Short Men Grumble
By M. Giant | Season 14 | Episode 8 | Aired on 04.12.2009
Mark and Michael are leaving at 12:46. Which, again, doesn't make any sense, because that would imply 15 minutes were left on their penalties when Team Go Team arrived, and we saw from their onscreen clock that there were only a few when the first two teams arrived. Whatever. I'm done trusting the departure times this week. As they read that they have $53 for this leg, we see a pre-start interview where Mark says their mistakes last leg were "a 50-50 misunderstanding." He doesn't say what the other 50 percent was, but I think I would categorize it at dickishness. "Technicality," Michael agrees. Funny how when I break the rules, it's a technicality, but when you break the rules, it's cheating. We get a replay of their getting smacked with their one-hour penalty at the end of the last leg, and then, once they're in the cab, Mark says, "If we get a good pace and we have good luck, it does us well." "As long as we don't shoot ourselves in the foot," Michael adds. He might as well say, "As long as we can travel through time."
Tammy and Victor reach the airport first, but their three-hour lead, whether it's real or not, doesn't do them much good, because they learn that the next flight is at 7:25 in the morning, and they can't buy tickets until the airline ticket counter opens at six. Sometimes the airport negotiations are cut because they're boring, and sometimes they're cut because there isn't much to show anyway.
Margie and Luke are supposedly departing at 12:53, but it could just as well be next Thursday for all I trust these chyrons right now. "It's almost 1 a.m., and I'm totally sweating," Margie pants in their taxi to the airport, so that at least corroborates the subtitle. She then translates for Luke as he signs, "In this hot weather, I'm worried about my mom because I don't want her to faint again." After a B&W flashback to that moment, Margie assures him and us that she's staying hydrated.
Kisha and Jen are leaving last, at half past log cabin. Or 1:05, as the subtitle would have us believe. In an interview, Jen talks about how the Race hasn't hurt their relationship. "We've learned to give each other space, and we know when to let each other cool off, and we're starting to learn each other's tendencies, so..." Let's hope nothing happens to test that during this leg. In the cab, she adds that it's fun to watch the other teams start to get paranoid. They're not going to have much time to watch other teams this week, I'm thinking.