Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Clueless, in every sense of the word
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 05.14.2002
Everyone eventually locates the ruins and hunts for the flag. Tara and the Weasel find it first. It tells them to pick a 4x4 and head for the water tower at the Pauwela pineapple field. The drunken cameramen careen around the pineapple field. Taraweasel takes off, with her in the driver's seat. Boston is close behind, while the Teeth continue the hunt. When the Teeth come up with the clue, everyone is on their way, and they all have to start by getting directions to the field. You can see that the sky is just beginning to show the edges of the sun coming up.
In the Taraweasel car, Wil asks to see the clue, and Tara tells him he's being really condescending. Which he is. I'm so tired. She also isn't sure what side of the road she's supposed to drive on. In the Boston car, Chris wonders the same thing. Heh. I suddenly am envisioning a dramatic car crash...okay, I admit that that would be kind of sad. All three teams converge on the pineapple field. When she sees it, Tara says, "Look at all these pin-apples. Pin-apples, pin-apples, pin-apples [sic]." Wow, you know...that's really not a hard word. They pull the clue, and it's a Detour. (Many TARflies, in unison: "A Detour is a choice between two tasks, each with its own pros and cons.") In this week's Detour, you hunt the pineapple field as follows: On a bike, where you look for a single red plastic pineapple; or on foot, where you look for one of four yellow plastic pineapples. I'm sort of disappointed that they resorted to plastic fruit, because it sort of defeats the purpose of being in the big pineapple field in the first place, doesn't it? I mean, you could just as easily hide plastic pineapples in a cornfield. Ah, well. You can't have everything. As so often happens, the Detour explanation provides the week's best view of assorted anonymous feet. They're the Detour Feet -- Exposition Hands's cousin.
All three teams think the Detour presents a pretty easy choice, and decide to walk and look for the yellow pineapples. I particularly like Alex's line -- "Walk it, dude, there's four yellows!" Lots of running down the paths ensues. Tara comes up with the brilliant notion that Wil should boost her up on his shoulders, which will give them a wider view of the whole field. She voices over that this plan worked brilliantly, because they found the pineapple soon after. Actually, considering that it appears that these pineapples are right by the side of the path, I don't think it offered that much advantage. I think it was a good idea, in theory, but it looks like she and Wil mostly just stumbled on the clue first. Furthermore, with her up so high, it's very easy for other teams to follow them, which is exactly what happens. When Wil and Tara grab the clue and run, Chris and Alex run over to where they were and find it pretty easily, or so it appears. The next clue sends Taraweasel and Boston to the dock at McGregor Point. Phil explains that it's fifteen miles to the dock, and then a five-mile boat ride to the route marker, which is a floating buoy with a clue attached to it. The Ex-Adultery-Alliance piles into the cars and takes off.