Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Run It Up the Pole and See Who Salutes
By M. Giant | Season 21 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.09.2012
At Coney Island, it's a sunny day and the rides are all in motion when the Chippendales pull up, asking their driver to wait. Same with Trey & Lexi. Jaymes & James are busy trying to triangulate their position on the Boardwalk to match the vantage point shown on their postcard. That done, they start looking around for clues. "Anything red and yellow," Jaymes says, which is not going to help them find the yellow-and-black sign on the Houdini poster that looks like it belongs there. Trey & Lexi are searching as well, but it's busy, and colorful, and chaotic, and nothing's standing out. They end up entering the amusement park to look around, while the camera keeps zooming in on that Houdini sign like it's so hard to miss and they're all idiots for not seeing it. Soon they're focusing their attention upwards, assuming that the final leg will have some height-based task as usual.
Josh & Brent have arrived outside, and Josh appears to be taking a more Zen approach while the other two teams flail around inside the park, finding nothing and deciding to check the beach. Josh & Brent, meanwhile, are sticking to their more focused approach, looking back and forth at the scene pictured on the postcard and the real thing as though playing one of those "find the differences" game. And since that Houdini poster is even visible in the postcard, this is going to be even harder than I thought. Jaymes walks right by it again, though, passing obliviously within five yards of it. But Lexi spots it, quietly telling Trey about the sign that says "RACE TO THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD." "It says The Amazing Houdini," Trey adds, still not the brains of the operation. They try to play it cool, debating whether to write it down or try to remember, but Brent spots it next as they move down the Boardwalk, so they need to get going. "I told you to read the signs," Brent scolds Josh, because Josh is apparently the literate one. "Yes, it's all my fault," Josh says flatly. Running back to their cab, Trey wonders if they gave it away to the Beekmans, and says, "Dammit!" when Lexi says yes. Both teams are on their way. Jaymes & James are thus "currently in last place," with no prospects other than Jaymes's observation that the Beekmans just bolted like they suddenly knew where they were going. All they know is that they're missing something. "Dude, it's gotta be right here in front of our faces." Jaymes says, completely correctly.
As the two lead teams get back to their cabs, Trey's still worried about having given the game away to the Beekmans, but Lexi says that their threat isn't the goat farmers but the Chippendales. Who we leave looking utterly flummoxed in an Amazing Camera Shot of Jaymes looking right at the clue and not seeing it. Could this be where they lose it for good?
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