Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT For whatever it's Perth
By Miss Alli | Season 9 | Episode 9 | Aired on 04.25.2006
At the airport, the other teams are picking up their tickets for the flight to Perth through Dubai. "Looks like the hippies won't be able to get on it," Eric observes. Now, they are just toying with me.
BJ and Tyler are low on gas, so they pull into a gas station. In the convenience store, Abdul Hamid hooks them up with some Snickers bars, making him obviously the best Bedouin ever. BJ explains that Abdul Hamid is a Bedouin, and he and Tyler are "like American Bedouins." I wonder what that's supposed to mean. I'm not sure what being a Harvard-educated improv comedian has to do with being a camel-herding nomad. Anyway, the guy is paying for their gas and Snickers and juice and stuff. I don't suppose it would occur to BJ and Tyler that if the guy was in a bad enough position to actually be hitchhiking, it might be the nice thing to do not to take his money to buy Snickers bars. At any rate, as they part, Abdul Hamid -- who is apparently being left at the gas station -- touches his nose to Tyler's, so BJ insists on getting the same. "Man, that guy rocked my world," Tyler says as they drive off.
The lead four teams get on the plane, and they're all hoping that BJ and Tyler won't make it. This is a very typical racing scene, in which there is supposedly all this tension over how maybe they won't make the flight, will they make it on the flight, the other teams hope they don't make the flight, they're in such a hurry, so important that they get on the flight, please don't let them get on the flight, please let us get on the flight. "T-Tow" makes its first appearance as they run toward the plane. And then we cut to commercial, and is there really anyone who doesn't know how this is going to go?
When we return, BJ and Tyler run onto the plane. What a surprise that is. No one is happy to see them. "Time to rub it in their faces," BJ says. Just like a Bedouin would. And rub it in they do. Ray affirms that nobody was happy to see them. "How annoying," Monica mutters, which is more than a bit pot-kettle, really. BJ and Tyler are loud and shrieky and obnoxious on the flight, which I'm sure is appreciated by all the regular people who are just trying to fly from Muscat to Dubai in the middle of the night without being hollered and "T-Tow"-d at. Again, I'm thinking a Bedouin knows how to behave in public a little more appropriately than this. Not only that, but here in the middle of the night, BJ and Tyler go around and beg for money on the plane. Undoubtedly, some of their targets want sleep more than they want to hang on to, say, their five dollars.
The Amazing Map and the Amazing Yellow Line tell us that all the teams are now headed to Perth on this same flight. Phil says that once they get there, they'll take taxis to Kings Park, and they'll search for a war memorial where the clue box is located. And then we are in Perth, and all the teams are dashing out of the airport, and that 9000 miles went really, really fast. First into a taxi: MoJo. Then Eric and Jeremy, Ray and Yolanda, BJ and Tyler, and finally Fran and Barry. "We're behind," Barry complains. I have a feeling that if all the teams started in a straight-across line and were allowed to start at precisely the same moment, and everyone took one step, and other people's first step was slightly longer than Fran and Barry's first step, you would immediately hear one of them complain that they were behind.