Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Personal Dynamics A-Go-Go
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.02.2001
Amie finds the swords. "There they are. How do I get it?" she wonders ungrammatically. Brennan walks up beside her. He says something hesitant about climbing over the gate, which motivates Amie to say, "Oh, yeah? Watch." She goes over, and Brennan obediently follows. Dude, the guys at Bally's Total Fitness are really going to give Brennan hell about that moment the next time he's trying to relax with a carrot-soy smoothie between intervals at the free weights.
Lenny is totally in the wrong place. God help us all.
Amie and Brennan get their swords and run. They're both struggling to find the way out. Brennan actually gets out first, but as he runs up to the table to place the sword, Rob (from off-camera) calls him back for some unknown reason. (Do they have to finish together? I don't know.) While he and Rob are huddling, Amie and Paul sneak in to finish ahead of them. "You are number five," the guy tells Team Cockroach. Amie gives a big "woo!" and Paul lifts her up.
Rob and Brennan finally finish. I don't think they're too happy about being sixth.
Karyn yells instructions to Lenny. Meanwhile, Dave and Margaretta finally make it to the Coliseum, and open the clue. Davey takes the torch and sets off, with a warning from his lovely wife not to burn up the clue in the leaping flames. (Hee! Good point.) As Davey starts walking, a million voices from around the world shout in unison, "Davey! Clockwise! Clockwise! You're going COUNTERCLOCKWISE! Noooooooo!"
Another interlude in which Karyn yells at Lenny, and he finally finds the stairway.
Davey figures out he's walking in the wrong direction. Sniff. He turns around.
"Where are you, Len?" Paul yells. Hey, maybe there's more to this Paul/Amie/Lenny/Karyn Underdog Alliance than I thought. Karyn is sitting with Amie, too, so it appears there is indeed. Lenny, at the gate. Apparently helped by info from Team Cockroach, Karyn instructs Lenny on how to use the pole to grab the sword (which is weird, because Amie just climbed over and grabbed it). A dismayed Margaretta begins to see the writing on the wall. Lenny, with the pole. Davey continues to walk around, and Margaretta comments, "We're so close, I just want him to come up here fast…I want to go on. I don't want to be eliminated here." Lenny, untying the sword; Lenny, on the move. Next thing you know, Lenny and Karyn turn in their sword, and you know what that means.
Margaretta and Davey finish the task, but she counts the swords on the table, and she knows. As the sun starts to set, he returns. "Here, honey," he says, handing her the sword. "You do it." He knows, too. They place the sword on the table. The guy behind the table gives them the bad news. "You are number eight," he tells them. Quite spontaneously, applause breaks out from the teams that are still there -- Paul/Amie, Rob/Brennan, Lenny/Karyn, and Frank/Margarita. (The three lead teams seem to have left.) "We tried," Dave and Margaretta say, hugging each other. Phil pops out and says -- realizing that, given the hugging and the applause, he's irrelevant -- "David and Margaretta, you're the last team to arrive at this leg. You've been eliminated, I'm sorry to tell you that." He means it, too, and everybody is still clapping. "And I'm sorry to hear it," Davey says, "but I want to tell you, this is a tough group to compete against, and I don't think it's any disgrace to lose to them. They're all great people, and we did our best, and we wish them lots of luck." Awww, Davey! "You get lots of respect from me, I'll tell you that much," Loud Pushy Frank calls loudly, as he continues to applaud. You know what? He's totally not full of it. LPFrank is serious, and so are the rest of them. They're happy they weren't eliminated, but they know these people kick butt, and they know they'll be lucky if they're anything like Team Ensure when they're sixty. Furthermore, a warmly grinning Phil clearly loves Dave and Margaretta as much as everybody else does.
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