Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A | 417 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Again with the racing
By Miss Alli | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2003.05.29
Next ones to Park One? Al and ClownJon, who scream much, much too loudly about this relatively minor achievement. Next are Millie and Chuck, then Amanda and Chris. More careening cameramen, then Phil explains to us that the SwissAir flight has seats for four teams, and will arrive first. The Lufthansa flight will carry three teams, and it arrives forty minutes after the SwissAir flight, despite leaving at the same time. The last five teams will be on the Flight Of Total Losers, a KLM flight leaving an hour after the first two and arriving in Milan presumably significantly later. KLM didn't exactly hit the product placement jackpot here. KLM: Your Airline Of Last Resort.
Cindy and Russell run into the airport, headed straight for Lufthansa, because it doesn't occur to them to check schedules to see whether SwissAir and Lufthansa arrive at the same time. Russell asks for seats as far forward in the plane as possible, which is nice, in that he's working his ass off to conserve three minutes in a situation where he just gave up forty. They are thus the first booked on the Lufthansa flight. Incidentally, they can't even know that this isn't the worst flight, given that -- as some of our Eagle-Eyed Forum Posters pointed out -- the KLM flight could have been direct, and could have beaten both of the 2:55 flights. Frankly, they're lucky they didn't screw themselves even more, given that slack-ass piece of play.
Chip and Reichen make it onto a shuttle with their bags, and they meet up with Kelly and Jon. Introductions. Shortly after the shuttle leaves, Sheree and Monica come running up while it's stopped. Jon, however, tells the driver insistently not to let them on, but to go. "No, no, no, no, absolutely not!" Granted, the doors were closed already, but in any normal situation, I think there's a good chance that a shuttle driver will let you on when that happens. So I do think Jon got the driver to pull away, leaving Monica and Sheree standing on the curb. Either Chip or Reichen, incidentally, is participating in this as well. Once they pull away, Kelly sagely says to Jon, "That's going to come back around to you, buddy. Karma." Given that she understands this, I hope she's in charge of tipping cab drivers. He looks unconcerned. Back at the curb, Monica and Sheree are not happy at all.
Josh and DadSteve run into a guy and ask him for directions to the SwissAir terminal. The guy points. "How far?" Josh asks. "About a half mile," the guy says. Oops. "I thought you knew where we were going," says DadSteve. Yeah. Not so much. Drop and give me twenty!