Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT On The Road Again
By Miss Alli | Season 8 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.26.2005
The Black family works on their house. The Linz family takes the buggy over a bump.
The Bransens approach the pit stop. The Aiellos are stuck in traffic. "This is incredibly nerve-wracking for a Boston driver," one of the SILs says. Heh.
And the Rogers family finds its way to the pit stop. Welcome, Rogers family, you are team number four. The Schroeders land on the mat as team number five.
Paolo yelling. I'm too tired already to keep telling you how bad it is. It's very bad, is all. They finally finish sixth, and now they act all happy. Of course, they say in an interview that now, everything is fine. That does not matter. You do not make your mother cry, and when you see your mother cry, you don't keep being mean to her. It's a rule. There are a few of those in life, and that is one of them.
The Linz crew is still in the damn buggy.
The Black family needs a bucket of water to run through its watermill, so they send Austin off with a bucket. As he gamely crawls down near the muddy stream, he pitches forward until he's on his hands and feet in one of those really awkward positions where you feel like if you move, you'll fall all the way into the water. So he calls out for his mom and dad to help him out. Heh. He's pretty distraught, so as Reggie stands over him, he says, "These things happen, okay? You're good." He pulls him out. "Good job." And he just swings the kid around like a doll, half because it's fun and half because Austin weighs about eight pounds, and then Reggie plunks him down on his feet and gives him a swat on the butt. And that's why Reggie and Kim have kids who aren't going to grow up with complexes.
The Bransens finally spot the silos, and they land on the mat as team number seven. Now, the Aiellos, who have bled time at several points on the leg, come in as number eight. I like these guys, I think. There's a lot of love there -- a certain very guy-like, family kind of love that isn't really on television enough. You see a lot of parents and little kids, you see a lot of women in friendships, you see a lot of romances -- you don't get a lot of adult men in families who love each other unless they're, like, cads who are brothers or something. I dig them, too. Phil asks Tony whether "the boys" are "worthy of being in the family." Tony pauses. "So far, so good," he says. Hee.
The Black family happily finishes their house and takes off. The Linz family approaches the end of the buggy course at last, and Megan comments that there are only two families left -- theirs and the Blacks'. Both families pile into their Yukons. The teams wish each other luck as they get in, which again seems to indicate a certain softness to the racing, but also seems appropriate when one of the teams has little kids on it. If people are feeling an instinct to set an example, I'm not sure that's a bad thing, even if it makes the race look a little too polite.
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