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
The next shuttle brings Brandon and Nicole, Chip and Kim, and Bob and Joyce. When they get to American, they run into the unhappy Marshall and Lance, who tell them that in an act of "total bullshit," Dennis and Erika are holding up the line buying tickets for other people and crowding them off the awesome American flight. Heh, tool. The other teams start to heckle Dennis about when the hell his friends are supposedly going to come out of the bathroom, and Dennis tries to shrug it off. A nice guy, perhaps, but a very inept liar. Erika correctly notes that she and Dennis have now earned everyone's wrath very, very quickly. A perfect example, really, of why alliances this early in the game are just not necessary. All you can do is hurt yourself. Dennis finds himself being called a "scumbag," for which he obviously was not prepared. Dennis tells them that they're "definitely not getting on this plane now." Yeah, I'm thinking that's Dennis's big cringe moment for the evening, because that was totally ass. When you find yourself doing an "Oh, yeah? Well, now you're really not getting a piece of my gum" routine with the rest of the teams, it's time for a step back.
As Jim and Marsha take a shuttle to United, he pulls up his the bottom of his pants and shows his leg, still covered with quite a lot of blood. He says he thinks the bleeding has stopped at last, but I think that by "stopped," he means "slowed from a gush to a trickle." Meanwhile, Linda and Karen are heading into the airport.
Kami/Karli are hunting for Dennis and Erika at the American counter to tell them the good news that they should come over to United. When they get to American, though, the bad news becomes apparent that Dennis and Erika missed the boat by either not checking the flight arrivals or accepting bad information. "We should have known," Erika says. "We're stupid." Well, not stupid, but...perhaps not quite as on the ball as they might have been. Considering how they were equivocating about whether it was the best flight to take, whatever information they got doesn't seem to have been very solid. It doesn't make a lot of sense, because they were specifically planning to check, but if they did, either they didn't ask the right question or they got flat-out lied to, I guess. And the flat-out lying doesn't seem that likely.