Episode Report Card Miss Alli: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT And unicorns danced!
By Miss Alli | Season 9 | Episode 12 | Aired on 05.16.2006
The clue they open is a Detour. Phil explains about a Detour, and the pros as well as the cons, and then he says that the choices are Maiden and Messenger. In Maiden, you take a taxi seven miles to a tea garden, where you carry a maiden in a sort of litter thing about a third of a mile to a tea ceremony. In Messenger, you travel on foot about 200 yards to a parking lot, where you assemble two "folding bikes" and pick up two messenger bags that you have to deliver on the bikes to two different buildings. When the deliveries are finished, you bring back the signatures and get your clue. Eric and Jeremy choose Maiden (duh!) and get back in their taxi. Like Eric and Jeremy were ever not going to choose something called "Maiden." It would be like hitting a Roadblock where the clue says, "Who wants to touch some large breasts?" and having them both refuse to do it.
BJ and Tyler drive into Shibuya. They also find the parking with what appears to be a minimum of drama. So you'll notice they've made up an hour and a half on Ray and Yolanda. They park their car and head into the square. They quickly spot the "Find Hachiko" sign. They ask someone (apparently, Tyler does not know what Hachiko is), and they go over to the scarf guy, to whom Tyler says, in a way most embarrassing, that he wants the clue. Except he says it in Japanese, and he says it like he's four years old, and he says it like he's on crack. In spite of this, the guy gives him the clue. They choose the Messenger Detour, on the theory that Tyler will be able to get directions on the bikes so quickly that it will be faster. Have they mentioned that Tyler speaks Japanese and feels at home here? I think what's funny is that Tyler seems to have said certain things over and over and over to make sure that they got a great shot of him saying that particular thing that they could use, and even he didn't intend for the goddamn editors to use all of the times that he said everything.
Eric and Jeremy arrive at the Maiden Detour. I'm pretty sure this isn't, incidentally, what they were hoping a Maiden Detour might look like. (Write your own dirty "pros and condoms" joke here.) They lift up the carrier, and Jeremy immediately starts bitching about how heavy it is. For one thing, they're carrying it at the beginning like a yoke over a couple of oxen, which is sort of poetically appropriate, but not so clever. When they turn it so that the pole is parallel to the way they're walking and each of them has it on one shoulder, it goes a lot better.
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