Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Triumph of the Bill
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.27.2001
Flight takes off from Phuket, flight lands in Bangkok, as shown by The Amazing Yellow Line on The Amazing World Map. Whining music…well, it whines.
Danza cab, Bangkok. Margarita says they're going to the ticket office in the city to try to book a flight. Esquire, on the other hand, pursues ticketing options by wandering the airport. Nothing doing until "middle of the night/next morning," they learn.
Anyway, Esquire explains that they don't know where Danza is, but they haven't seen them at the airport. "They might have figured out something that we didn't," they speculate. (Isn't that interesting? If it had been Team Guido, they would have been all, "We haven't seen them at the airport, so they must have gotten wildly lost on their way here, and they're probably in Australia by now, because they don't know their way around airports and we're really not that threatened by them as a team…" I think it's safe to say the whole "they might have outwitted us" thing would never have occurred to them.) Brennan, in this interview, is fondling what appears to be a red cabbage. No, I have no idea.
Meanwhile, Danza realizes they've got a long layover ahead, so they duck into a mall to "do something about [their] backpacks." The theory seems to be that since they've only got a few days left, they don't need to be carrying so much stuff, and they can afford to ditch their heavy backpacks. They sort through their belongings, and Frank seems to ditch one thing (I think it's a sock) just based on how it smells, which I found particularly funny. Furthermore, to his credit, Frank ditches a hat. Woo! If only they'd ALL ditch their damn hats. He accuses his wife of being a pack rat, and they yakkety-yak like married people, which is kinda nice. Frank voices over that Bangkok was a "pivotal moment" for them as a couple, because by ditching their belongings, they got a new start. Eh, okay. It's a little blatant on the baggage symbolism, which is about as subtle as the Christ imagery in Billy Budd, Sailor, but if Literate Helping Frank wants to make the effort, I won't stand in his way. Armed with smaller packs, they're on their way. (Miss Alli's Mom, as they walk away from their piles of junk, which they've left in the middle of the floor: "They could have at least thrown it in the trash.")
Rob explains that Drew and Kevin will make the 8:30 on Day Two that Esquire and Danza barely missed on Day One, so they'll pick up some time. Speaking of whom…