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
The Twinkies start looking for the yellow rocks. The Moms, for whatever reason, decide to follow them. Yeah, brilliant plan. As Linda and Karen try to follow the twins, Linda steps in a hole and falls. Karen comes back and asks if she's all right, and Linda says she isn't, actually -- she's twisted her ankle. Uh-oh. Oh, so vivacious. And so hobbled. Speaking of which, remember when Miss Alli's Mom broke her foot and walked around the zoo for hours? I have an update. She's got a removable cast on her foot right now, and she can walk around with a cane. The other day, she was detouring around the sleeping dog (!) when stubbed her toe on her cane (!!) and broke her little toe (!!!). That's on the good foot. So I appreciate all of your good wishes for her speedy recovery, but I'm afraid that they were somehow misunderstood by the universe, which read a loud clamor of voices calling out "Get well soon!" as a rowdy crowd yelling, "Cool! Break something else!"
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We return to the pyramids, where Linda remains on the ground. Karen gives her a hand getting up, but it's clear that she did give her ankle a twist right there and isn't quite at full speed. "That hurt," she moans. My mom didn't moan, incidentally. She was actually laughing when she told me about her toe, because she pays more attention to absurd humor than to broken bones, which is pretty much how I like everyone to be.
Mirna is calling to Charla down in the cave, as if Charla needs her yelling. "I was stubborn, and I made Charla do it, and now I feel bad." Yeah. The time for the realization is before you wimp out, not after, when it's worthless. She watches the hole anxiously. We, on the other hand, are inside the hole, watching Charla climb down the ladder -- which, obviously, is not scaled for her legs, which are her littlest part, so I'd think this would be a little bit awkward. "Perfecto!" she yells. Which is kind of funny, because there's not even a random international person to hear her. "As long as you don't look doooown, you'll be fiiiiine," she singsongs to herself. Hee. "It's a beautiful day in Egypt," she continues to chant. She then notes, however, that it's hot. Mirna, outside, finds it "a little bit scary" having Charla down there. In the shaft, Charla goes after the satchel, which is at the bottom of maybe a foot and a half of nasty-looking water. She hauls it out. Outside, Mirna mutters, "I should have given her the whistle to signal for help." All right, Mirna, enough. She's not your kid, so knock it off. Charla, not really thinking, "Gee, I wish I had a whistle to yell for help," slings the satchel strap over her head and goes back to the ladder. She says that getting back up with the "wet and heavy satchel" hanging off of her was "more complicated than [she] thought." See, that's what I'm talking about. I do think each shot up that ladder is harder because it's not proportioned right. If you look, when she stands on the ladder, the next rung she has to step to is almost even with her waist. I'm not sure how that's affected by the fact that she has short legs, but it looks to me like it's an even tougher grind if the ladder doesn't really fit you. Anyway, she stops for a breath. Mirna frets outside. Finally, Charla emerges with the bag. Mirna: "Oh, my gosh, Charla, you're the hero here!" Charla, silently: "No shit." They get their big rolled-up clue.
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