Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Italians Dressing
By Miss Alli | Season 9 | Episode 5 | Aired on 03.27.2006
BJ and Tyler, on the way to the airport. They get there, along with Lake and Michelle, and head inside. When they all find Eric and Jeremy, the boys are in the middle of practicing wheelies in airport wheelchairs. "Just like we hoped -- that y'all broke a leg!" Lake "jokes." Michelle asks if there's internet availability anywhere, and she and Lake head downstairs. I wondered at first why Jeremy seemed to know where the internet terminals were, but then I remembered who Jeremy is, and it seemed highly logical that he would run for the internet even if he didn't intend to use it for business purposes. So Lake and Michelle go down to the terminals.
Back upstairs, the Choad Family has decided to engage in wheelchair races. Well, they are all lame. (Rimshot!) They wheel through a course made out of the posts that are used to corral the ticket lines. Eric beats BJ on the first round, although they're both pretty good in wheelchairs, which will come in handy when they're both eventually beaten senseless by people who share my worldview.
When this is over, BJ and Tyler decide to head downstairs and see what Lake and Michelle are doing. Down in the internet room, Michelle is apparently struggling with the fact that the page she's looking at is in German. There's been a lot of talk about whether Travelocity or Expedia pages will automatically render in the right language, but I don't think that's her problem. I think she's stuck at whatever the welcome screen is for the system that the Munich airport uses. She doesn't even seem to have a travel service up. I think all her screen is telling her in German is where the bathrooms are. BJ and Tyler, on the other hand, find an "English" button wherever it is that they're looking, and start hunting for flights to Palermo. They buy their tickets online, on that same 6:35-10:15 route that was described to Eric and Jeremy earlier. They're certainly lucky that they followed Lake and Michelle's idea of using the internet, not that they would ever see it that way. Michelle is now getting the pages she wants to come up, but she can't seem to book the flight. Tyler comments on how "sweet" it would be if he and BJ booked the last seats on that flight.
5:03 AM. Fran and Barry. Fran says that, in every leg, they're learning not to make mistakes they've made previously. Which I guess means no more motorcycles. Or assembly. Or climbing. Or looking for clue boxes. Or folk dancing. It's pretty much "drive around with a map." That seems to be the one area in which they excel. If this whole race could be executed without people getting out of their vehicles, Fran and Barry would be golden. They get in their car and leave.