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
Colin and Christie, who haven't heard the news, step right up and get their tickets on American. Marshall and Lance do the same. The last team to expertly weasel itself onto the bad flight ahead of everyone else is Chip and Kim. Chip thanks the gate agent effusively, because he kind of doesn't get it yet.
Finally, Charla and Mirna pull into Park One. They run for the shuttle. Elsewhere, Linda and Karen are remaining chipper after "missing out" on the American Airlines flight. Inside, Brandon and Nicole are third to get on the good flight, followed by Jim and Marsha, Bob and Joyce, Charla and Mirna, and Linda and Karen. Charla explains to the excited bowlers that their flight actually lands sooner. "No waaaay!" the bowlers exclaim. Yeah, once or twice on the "No waaaay!" will be about enough also.
Jim and Marsha are hanging out by the ticket counter when Jim pulls up his pantleg again and shows us a still-bleeding leg. There is apparently a paramedic on duty who pulls Jim aside and asks to look at the leg. Marsha says this caused her a lot of worry. Yeah, poor...her. The paramedic takes one look at Jim's leg and says that it will have to have stitches. Jim protests that he has to catch a flight, but the paramedic tells him he's not going anywhere without having the leg fixed up. Jim and Marsha are forced to take a side trip to the airport medical clinic, which is a great place to get stitches, except that you probably have to wait for all the people with small children and the people who just "need a little extra time" and the people who frequently get stitches on business to get their stitches before you. Marsha manages to grab a guy driving a Thrifty rental car shuttle who agrees to run them to the clinic. Marsha thanks him profusely as she and Jim board.
Chip and Kim have apparently caught the snap that their flight situation is not what they would have hoped for, because they're looking pretty gloomy as they get on the plane. As the plane takes off, the caption says, "FLIGHT WITH LONGER LAYOVER LANDS LAST." I think they really were very fearful that we would be confused. In fact, they may have lost confidence in our intelligence, which...did I mention Alison and Donny? Yeah. There's a lot of that feeling going around.
Jim and Marsha are on their way to the clinic, and they're sitting in a bit of intra-airport traffic. Jim notes that they have about an hour to get this straightened out before they have to get the flight. See? I'm saying, if this were Nicole, she would just fix his knee with swimsuit/ass pageant glue. Already, she would be at an advantage.