Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How egg-stremely satisfying
By Miss Alli | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 08.16.2004
6:33 AM. Bowling Moms. They mention that Mystery Destination also. Is it Guadalajara? Karen interviews that Linda has to keep encouraging her, because she gets depressed about being in the back of the pack. Linda says that indeed, she's working on maintaining a positive attitude. "It's tough," she says. With the losing, presumably. They get a cab.
Mirna rents the cabbie's cell phone by saying in her Broken English Of Improved Understanding, "You give cell phone, we give dollar." It works, too. Oh, Mirna. You give funny talk, he give favor. World work in mysterious way, no? Mirna calls to try to get reservations on Egypt Air, but she finds out that the first plane is at 7:00, and it's already twenty to seven as they're in the cab. Colin and Christie, Chip and Kim, and the Twinkies have all landed tickets on the 7:00 AM flight.
Brandon and Nicole de-cab at the airport and go in, followed by Charla and Mirna and the Moms. Charla happily says that the flight was delayed half an hour -- meaning, for those of you keeping track of flight delay luck, that she and Mirna have already gotten airport lucky once this leg, just by not being already three hours behind at least the first three teams. "Everything's always delayed in this country," she says, speaking words she (or at least Mirna) will apparently soon forget.
The long and the short of it is that everyone gets on the same flight, which leaves Luxor for Cairo. Phil explains that in Cairo, they'll need a taxi to the new international airport, where they'll look for a flight to Nairobi. When the flight lands in Cairo, everyone starts looking for taxis. There is running through the airport, and then there is piling into cabs. These are marked cabs, too, incidentally, as you can see from the red and yellow flags hanging from the mirrors. The taxis jockey for position, and seriously, I understand that "habibi" is a real word, and that Mirna is using it properly to my knowledge, but there is no word that you should use with a taxi driver this many times in a row. I don't care if it means "beloved," "dude," "friend," "bud," or "my little croissant with jelly" -- you just don't need to use any term of endearment for a taxi driver in every single sentence you speak.
Controversy rears its ugly head again this week as the teams arrive at the international terminal. The Twinkies get inside, where one of them says she needs to get to "Kenya, Africa." Of course, she's currently in "Egypt, Africa," so...yeah. Good one. She finds out that the Kenya Air office (I believe) won't be open for a while. But outside, the real trouble begins when Colin and Christie pull up, followed closely by Charla and Mirna. Christie stands in the doorway into the airport as Colin pays their cab driver, and she calls out, "Come on, Coliiiin...come on, Coliiiiin." Because it's the day of acting like an obnoxious brat, Christie has positioned herself in the door with her arms up against the sides so that nobody can get past her. Mirna and Charla come up behind her. "Excuse me," Mirna says, quite reasonably under the circumstances, and Christie ignores her. Now, granted -- you literally see Christie block the door for a total of six seconds. Six seconds. Of which she impedes Mirna for about three and a half, and Charla not really at all, because by the time Charla gets there, Colin is right behind her, and Christie gets out of the way, and they all go inside at the same time. But still...come on. Blocking the doorway? Is that really necessary? Must we go in that direction? My head already hurts.