Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 65 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Have You Driven a Fjord Lately?
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.20.2013
Brandon & Adam change out of their coveralls while Jason & Amy arrive at the truck task and change into theirs. Jason's not worried about this challenge, having experience with trucks and all. Tim & Marie show up, and Amy asks Jason for help with the three chains they've been provided while Jason is trying to back their truck into position. Then he's pointing out all the different pieces, his New England accent getting more pronounced as he speaks the names of all the super-manly stuff around him. Tim & Marie, however, are not quite as prepared, and Marie tells us that no one's in charge of this one on their team. Who is this woman? Jason gets behind the wheel of his truck and drags the sled a bit while Amy guides him. And Tim & Marie are working less well together, she asking if she's sure he has the chain attached to the truck correctly while they're working on hooking up the sled. He says yes, and repeats it when she starts talking again, causing her to scream, "I wasn't asking about it any more, stop saying yes!" Okay, that's the Marie I'm used to.
Jason & Amy have their clue to the Viking longhouse. Marie drives the truck for the exes, and after her wheels kick a few rocks into the tire-cam, they get their pouch clue in third place. During all this, Nicole & Travis have not only shown up, they've already attached their sled and are ready to go. "The coins are probably the clue!" Marie pronounces as she runs to the cars waiting nearby (because they don't get to just drive the trucks to the Pit Stop for some reason), at which point a camera zooms in on the gray scrap of canvas she and Tim left in the gray rocks, and will never ever find. Even I have trouble seeing it without HD. Totally oblivious to this, the exes are soon in their car, with Marie driving and saying she has no idea where they're going. "There was nothing underneath it," Tim tells her, incorrectly. There is going to be hell to pay over this, I'm sure.
Nicky & Kim finally make it to the Roadblock clue box, and Nicky takes it because we know how Kim feels about heights. Meanwhile, the ER docs have unearthed their clue and know they're supposed to go to the Viking longhouse, unlike Tim & Marie. This disparity in knowledge is about to be very, very important.
The blondes have reached the truck Route Info now, but are nervous about having to back their gigundous pickup into place. The Afghanimals are already doing so, and are relying on the example rig to see what they're supposed to do rather than on any kind of training or knowledge. Which explains why they just toss a loop of chain over the ball of their trailer hitch. PSA: if you're ever driving along and see the Afghanimals towing something on the highway, get ahead of them as soon as possible, and for God's sake get some distance between you because otherwise whatever they're towing is liable to catch up with you on the next downhill slope.