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
Chuck and Millie, on the other hand, are giving each other a lot of "Go, you!" as they climb. "Millie is fast," Chuck says. And then, surely not appreciating how this will look next to their little "Virgins" label, he says, "She's good at lighting a fire under me."
At Fast Forward station (booo!), Monica and Sheree get their snowshoes (booo!) and take off on the Fast Forward (booo!).
Millie and Chuck and Chris and Amanda make it to the chair lift and climb aboard. On the chair lift, Chris says to Amanda, in a way that sounds pretty sincere to me, "I'm sorry, dude." (Hee. I always think guys who call their girlfriends "dude" are funny, at least in the abstract.) "It's okay, I just feel lousy," she says. "Well, I do, too," he says. "I feel like shit." "And when I feel lousy, it's hard for me to work," she says. He voices over that "sometimes [his] bickering is just way too much," but goes on to say with a chuckle that "if it helps her pull her head out of her rear, then [he's] all for the bickering." "Look how beautiful this is," she says on the lift. He responds, "Just think, I spent, like, half an hour yelling at your ass instead of, like, being able to enjoy this." To me, the way he's rubbing his hair when he makes this comment is a submissive gesture, and the whole thing reads like an acknowledgement that it was a fairly stupid fight on both their parts, which it was. "Yep," she says, and they look at each other. He blows her a kiss. It's open to interpretation, but I actually read that as a reasonably healthy exchange, in that they had the fight, but then they talked about the fight, and they seemed to be okay. It's early yet, but that whole thing didn't put me off too much.