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
Aside from Paul and Amie, most of the other teams are turned off by having to wait on the massage, though the massage place -- unlike the coffee place -- is marked on a map they have. (This is how they tend to structure these two-choices situations, like the wildlife-park thing in Africa and the pendulum/Hunchback dilemma in France -- one of them is easy to find and takes longer, the other might be hard to find but goes quicker once you find it.) Rob and Brennan ask two girls for help (Esquire knows its target demographic, at least), while in a similar development, Nancy and Emily meet up with a bevy of young men who flock around to help. Nancy voices over that she suspects this stroke of luck has something to do with Emily's cuteness. Gee, Nance, you think? They start running through the streets, with Emily urging the boys to stick by her. (Amount of urging required: very little.) Meanwhile, Drew and Kev run into a guy who agrees to take them to the shop, and this entire series of encounters brings up a clever point brought to me by Snowmobile Boy, who has suggested that a smart team would recruit a TV-spotlight-craving local in every town right off the bat, and use them as an escort the whole time. Good idea, no? Dave and Margaretta keep an eye on Kevin and Drew.
Paul and Amie are the only ones to seek out the massage, but they're having trouble finding their way and deciding how to start to figure it out. "Make a decision," he says. "Why don't you make a decision?" she whines. Apparently, every fight Paul and Amie had in the first two episodes had one of those triangular recycling symbols on the bottom, because we certainly are seeing them all again. They do, however, eventually find a kid to lead them to the "Turkish Bath" where the massage can be found.
The only things I can say about the Frank and Margarita scene that follows are that he's rude, and that she calls him "Frankie." That? Is creepy.
Margaretta says she tends to make everyone get out of her way. She and Davey run through the streets, and she protests a little that he's perhaps going a bit too fast for her. "You're killing me," is what she says, technically.
Everybody runs for the coffee shop (except Paul and Amie, who run for the massage). Margarita actually says, "Frank, come ON," in a way that I don't like all that much better than the way he talks to her.
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