Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Greece, Lightning
By Miss Alli | Season 9 | Episode 7 | Aired on 04.11.2006
BJ and Tyler, Lake and Michelle, and Fran and Barry all get to the carriages next. BJ and Tyler also "crack" the "code" as they're standing there. In the Lake and Michelle cab, this is the first time I notice that he shaved somewhere after the beginning of the leg. He definitely looks less creepy without the neat, angry little beard. He's taking deep breaths, trying to keep himself calm. Ray and Yolanda hit the steps and get their Athens clue. In the cab, Ray says that he's seen lots of shops in Rome, so he'll have to come back here sometime to spend his million dollars.
Teams begin arriving at the airport. Inside, Eric and Jeremy are the first to learn that the first flight to Athens is leaving at 7:25 PM. MoJo winds up with the same tickets. BJ and Tyler are just pulling up outside, and they come in and get the same tickets, too. Lake and Michelle, Fran and Barry, Ray and Yolanda…everybody's got the same flight out of Rome, so they're all together again. The Amazing Yellow Line shows us that all the teams are on their way to Athens. As we see, Athens is a place characterized by big old buildings and people selling things from pushcarts. That's what I've always heard.
Fran and Barry seem to be the first ones to get a cab to the Agora. And Ray and Yolanda are next. Crazy! Topsy-turvy! Next: MoJo. "This is where thinking began," Monica announces in the cab. Does she mean right here in this very cab? Because that would be remarkable. As they pass Ray and Yolanda, Joseph says, "I don't get them." Monica agrees: "They're just all business. All about the race, all the time." Over in the Ray and Yolanda cab, Yolanda sees MoJo and comments, "I'm not sure there's a lot going on there." Ha! Yeah, me neither. Lake and Michelle get out of the airport next, meaning that the Choad Family is, for once, running behind. Jeremy asses it up in their cab, doing his best Animal House, momentarily letting that whole side of his personality just run roughshod over all the other parts of his personality, which isn't too difficult, since those other parts are tiny. In other news, Tyler invents the word "Taxi-doodle-doo."
When Fran and Barry arrive at the Agora, they find that it doesn't open until 8:00 AM. Next thing you know, it's morning, and it's absolutely pouring rain, which is to be an emerging theme for the remainder of the leg. The teams are all let into the Agora, and they start hunting for the clue box. First to get there are Monica and Joseph. In the clue envelope, they see a Fast Forward. Phil explains that this is one of only two on the race. And Phil says "most advantageous to go for it," but you know, it's just not the same anymore. In this Fast Forward, you go to a popular restaurant and break plates until you find one with a clue in it. Jesus, another needle in a haystack? Seriously? Unbelievable. So if you have more than one team trying it, it will be nothing but luck which one gets it. Monica and Joseph decide to go for the FF. Ray and Yolanda decide to just follow the next clue, which says, "Travel by train from AG. Anargini railway station to the city of Corinth. To find your next clue, get off at the Isthmos station." Phil explains that this is more than 70 miles by train. Eric and Jeremy decide to go for the FF. Lake and Michelle and BJ and Tyler decide to just get on the train, but Fran and Barry are going for the FF, too.