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
Commercials. Great Clips wants to cut my hair.
Tunisian Marketplace Atmospheric Establishing Shots. More running, and now we're at the café at last. Kevin and Drew get there just before Rob and Brennan, and both teams fetch the clue, which is a little cigarette lighter.
Paul and Amie find the massage. They get naked and wrap up in towels. She proceeds to get a really nice massage, which makes her smile goofily, and he proceeds to get a really mean massage, which makes him grimace like he's being stung by bees. Paul gets his neck yanked and his back stepped on and his face mashed. It's surprising where the comedy comes from sometimes.
More coffeehouse arrivals. This whole sequence is narrated by Team Guido, for reasons that escape me, because they have nothing interesting to say about it. They basically describe the order in which they spotted the various teams, and unless the producers are trying to make the show's entire viewpoint First-Person-Guido, I'm not sure I care.
Phil explains that the teams have to get to El-Jem, which is the home of the ancient Roman coliseum 200 miles away. It's possible to go by taxi or by train. Taxis are expensive but fast; trains are cheap but slow. Emily's Love Posse brings her and Nancy back to where the cabs are gathered, while the Rob and Brennan Estrogen Brigade recommends the train.
Ah, the Vehicular Manslaughter scene. Nancy and Emily are huddled with Emily's Love Posse in the middle of the street, which is otherwise blocked with cars. Team Guido's cab gets stuck behind the Love Posse's big going-away party, and Bill and Joe both urge the driver to just go ahead and drive. Into the crowd, that is. I realize they're wound up, but I have to think that if the Guidos' cab had run over any pedestrians, that would have (1) slowed them down; (2) increased the likelihood of criminal charges; and (3) reduced their chances of getting commercial endorsement deals. Eventually, the crowd parts, and the Guidos are off. Nancy tells the Love Posse that their mothers would all be proud of them for being such good boys, and they say their goodbyes.
Drew and Kevin grab their cab, and they bid farewell to the guy who helped them. "Merci, my friend, you're the best," Drew offers. Then they give the guy an authentic New York thumbs-up. You know, whether that sounds stupid or not, they're at least trying to be -- well, you know, guys who do things in an affable and friendly way, and I appreciate that. (I'd say "not like in New York," but I think New York is the current world epicenter of going way beyond affable and friendly, so screw that.)
In their cab, Shower-Fresh examines the lighter. On one side, it says "El-Jem," and has a picture of the Coliseum, and on the other, it says "Go Here" (in case the clue is otherwise too subtle). Drew comments that he originally thought it said "Go Home." Hee! He also thinks the Coliseum looks like "a hotel." I suppose so -- in the same way the pyramids look like the Luxor. Kevin notices that what it looks like is, of course, the Coliseum. Nancy and Emily repeat basically the same information from their cab. In one subtle and funny moment, Nancy asks Emily whether any of the information on the map they have is in English, and Emily sort of sighs and says, "Oh, no," in a way that isn't nasty at all, but lives somewhere between "oh, yeah, right" and "Don't we wish."
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