Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | 498 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT I'm a Guay? No, Uruguay!
By Miss Alli | Season 5 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2004.07.06
Commercials. I don't think I'm buying a car/theme-park promotional tie-in. When my car goes upside-down, I consider that kind of a bad thing.
The moon hangs over the proceedings as the teams sit around a fire and then get ready to settle in for the night. Wait, are they not in a hotel? Wow. We haven't seen much outside sleeping in quite some time. How rugged. In the morning, everybody gets up and looks around. KamiKarli comments to KarliKami about what a nice day it is, and then we cut to Marshall and Lance, where Lance is saying, "Thank God we're getting off this hell hole." If he thinks this is a hell hole, he's certainly got some revelations coming to him. It doesn't even have poo or sacred religious rats! Amateur. They bitch about the bugs, the lack of sleep...they need to leave, because they are totally That Guy and That Guy's Brother. Go. Away.
Phil explains that, now, teams will take a boat from the island back to the Punta del Este dock, where there's another clue box. On the first boat, we have Alison and Donny, Bob and Joyce, and the rallying Linda and Karen. Half an hour after that will be Karli/Kami, Jim and Marsha, and Charla and Mirna. The last boat will carry five teams -- all the original American Airlines slackers, plus Brandon and Nicole, who earned the ignoble distinction of being the one team to fall back from pack to slack.
When the first teams to get to the dock rip the new clue, they learn that they have to get themselves to Maldonado, where they'll visit the Jose Francisco Gonzalez Meat Warehouse. The three lead teams get themselves on a bus to Maldonado without incident.
The second boat to land at the dock brings a number of fools who, for whatever reason, can't find the flagged clue box. Well, Charla and Mirna find it (as Mirna puts it, "Charla has the eyes of a cat"), but Jim and Marsha and Kami/Karli are struggling. "You guys, it's got to be right in front of our face," whines KarliKami as they stroll along a raised walkway. The camera guy manages to swing down directly to the clue box, which is right down below them in plain view. Hee. We check in with Charla and Mirna getting into their cab, and then we return to KamiKarli, who's saying, "I'm sure we went right by it." And what are they doing as she says this? They're going right by it. They're going right by it. As in, one of them almost brushes the flag with her elbow. And the thing is about four feet tall. Remember how Team Who couldn't find that clue that was on the wheelbarrow in plain sight, and how you kept hearing that gong noise, like, "Hel-LO?"? This is a lot worse, idiocy-wise, and it's only the first leg. They're very lucky there is no merciless stupidity-highlighting sound effect ("DOINK!" would work) in use. Jim and Marsha are still looking, too.