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
Given that Alex and Chris aren't in sight, Tara decides to try Blake and Paige. "We were over here talking on the phone, and we left our clue," she says. "What clue?" Blake says, unable to believe that they mean they lost the clue. "Our clue to the...where we're gonna go," she says. "Can we just jot it down?" Wil asks. Is he out of his freaking mind? Why in hell would Blake and Paige help them? Blake says he needs to go finish making reservations, because right now, all they have is their flight to Honolulu, so he heads for the phone. Wil downplays the whole thing, just sort of making it sound like it's a technicality -- "can we jot it down?" -- instead of a crucial piece of information that they just plain don't have. Blake and Paige stand at the phone bank, and Wil and Tara walk away, pretty confident they're not going to get the clue from the Teeth.
Paige voices over, "I guess Wil and Tara lost their clue or something..." Cut back to Blake and Paige, trying to keep their composure. They both spontaneously crack up, which is the funniest and best Teeth moment of the entire race. I don't begrudge them this for one single minute -- Wil has been an unmitigated asshole to them from literally the first day, and he lectured Blake on that very first day about how he would so obviously kick Blake and Paige's asses. They have every right to find this funny, and good for them. "They chose the wrong people to be mean to the entire trip if they want favors," Paige says with a grin. "Yeah, we're not going to give them the clue. It's crazy," Blake says. Right on, Toothy.
Elsewhere, Tara tries another tack. She approaches Alex. "My clue's gone," she tells him as they walk along with their arms around each other. "What clue?" he asks. "Your clue clue?" Heh. She confirms. "Will you give us the clue? Otherwise, we're just gonna quit." Oh, super. She's smirking. Seriously, she should not have done this. This puts him in a really difficult position if he actually likes her, and I really don't think she should even have asked. Especially not like that, with the "otherwise, we're just gonna quit." Sigh. Alex says he needs a minute to talk to Chris, which is the right call. While Boston discusses it, Wil pouts that he won't go to Alaska if they don't know where they're going. Over at the Boston summit, Alex says, "Do we want to give them the clue?" He pauses. "I say no," he finishes, which was, again, the right thing to do, because he really needs to answer first. Chris immediately agrees, "No," because that is the only logical answer. I suspect Chris was trying to feel out whether Alex wanted to give it to Tara, and once Alex said he didn't, Chris's answer was pretty much a foregone conclusion. Tara and Wil didn't get unlucky, they screwed up. Why would you help them?