Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Back to School
By M. Giant | Season 17 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.10.2010
Stephanie has the hang of it, and Chad cheers her on. Vicki loses her hoop and after groaning in frustration, tells herself, "It's okay." Nick says, "I know it's okay to you, but it's not okay to me, so that makes it not okay." So Ghana is a Nickocracy. Good to know. Katie has finally made her first pass, but Stephanie's already on her way back. Once she finishes, Chad happily picks her up and spins her around, and they're on their way to the next Pit Stop in third place.
Nat and Kat are now at the puzzle, hoping to get clues from watching the other teams, but that would require that the other teams have a clue. Brook and Claire decide to switch, the camera zooming in on the decoder key as they walk obliviously away from it.
Chad and Stephanie arrive at the mat as team number three. They're certainly working their way up, aren't they? Katie finishes her second pass with the bicycle rim. Nick finishes his first, and Brook tells Claire as they arrive, "Just watch and learn." And listen to Brook yammer, presumably.
Jill and Thomas are still nowhere with the puzzle, and Nat and Kat have decided to switch already. Michael and Kevin are still at the puzzle. Out on the soccer field, Rachel is still rolling, Claire tosses her hoop straight up for some reason, and Nat says as she and Kat select hoops and sticks, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." In her outdoor voice, ironically. Some kids give them some pointers. "The kids are awesome, they're the best part of the day," Nat says. High praise indeed, given the day they've been having. Rachel finishes up, so she and Katie are headed for the Pit Stop in fourth place.
Vicki's struggling, and Nick bitches to us while sitting on the grass, "This is ridiculous!" He yells at her, "Hurry up!" as she suddenly stoops over wheezing. Turns out she's got asthma, and she takes a puff on her inhaler. Nick suddenly comes over all human on us, calling out to her, "It's all right, sweetie, take a break, you're okay." He reminds her to raise her arms and open her lungs, and interviews that he decided to calm himself down to be there for her. He gives her some water and everything. Nice of him to put aside his own concerns when she becomes so upset she stops breathing.
Thomas walks right past the decoder key while looking for it, he and Jill finally decide to ditch this. "Our eyes are, like, deceiving us." Jill says, with the giant decoder key in the background, all but calling after them, "Hellooooo!". That leaves only Michael and Kevin working on this, and Kevin asks if Michael's sure that they should switch. "I can do that, I just don't know if you can do it." Michael's willing to give it a try, which makes Jonathan and Connor the only team to have actually completed this Detour. Amazing. Meanwhile, Katie and Rachel arrive at the mat as team number four.