Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Suck Like An Egyptian
By Miss Alli | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 08.02.2004
Commercials. That Fruit of the Loom commercial with the firemen is totally turning someone on, somewhere, you just know it. And it's not someone you want to meet.
Pyramids! Sphinx! We're back! The Twinkies continue to have no idea what they're doing. They're basically wandering aimlessly. The moms, meanwhile, are coming upon the Roadblock, which Karen takes on account of Linda's ankle.
Back at rock-hauling, Lance and Marshall are struggling through. Chip and Kim, on the other hand, are doing well. "We're working like a well-oiled machine now, lady-girl!" he says happily. Brandon and Nicole, however, are not so well-oiled. They've pulled their rocks right off the tracks. "Hey, Chip," Brandon says. "Can you help a brother out real quick?" And, yeah, "help a brother out" is pretty twee, but it's obvious that these guys have been developing a friendship (as when Chip called him "Big B" and "doctor" a little while ago), so I didn't find it particularly off-putting. Chip does head over and help Brandon and Nicole get back on track. That one, I think, was probably a good call, in that Brandon and Nicole are pretty good-quality allies, and that friendship might be useful, not to mention pleasant, in the future. Chip interviews that he helped them out primarily because it's just the kind of person he is. "My nature is to help," he says. And I tend to believe that.
Karen emerges with the satchel. They pour out the puzzle pieces and assemble the puzzle, catching on to the whole "hole" thing. They go off in the direction of the corner of the pyramid where the clue box is, as we see that the Twinkies are still completely confused as to what to do.
Brandon and Nicole bicker over whether she's lining up the logs to take them in the wrong direction. Amusingly enough, they both continually use the word "baby," even when they're arguing. Elsewhere, Chip comments that he "respect[s] the heck out of the Egyptians" if this is how they built the pyramids. Heh. ["You'd think that someone as conversant with the Old Testament as he would know that...you know, it wasn't the Egyptians who did the hauling. But never mind." -- Wing Chun] He and Kim give their rocks a final pull over the line, and you can see that Brandon and Nicole are basically right with them. They get the pit stop clue and leave, followed closely by Brandon and Nicole. Brandon does the dorky thing where he turns to her and sort of nervously says, "Sorry, baby, do you love me?" She gives him an impatient peck. "Are you mad at me?" "No," she says, kind of eye-rolly, "I'm all right." Hee. I think he generally knows when he's being kind of twerpy, and as long as you have that level of self-awareness, there's hope for you. They take off.
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