Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Look Back in Angkor. Wat?
By M. Giant | Season 13 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.26.2008
At Angkor Wat, Nick is approaching tourists to ask them where to find the room he's looking for. "Don't tell me I've got to go up there," Tina mutters, looking up a steep stone staircase. Dallas is also asking for directions. And Terence is reluctantly agreeing to take this Road Block for him and Sarah. Inside, Nick has drafted a guide, who leads him directly to the right place. Nick thumps his chest, and interviews afterwards that "I though I was doing some kind of war cry or Tarzan thing." At a temple? Really? He picks up one of the relief sculptures on the ground, and discovers the carved message on the back telling him to go to Bayon Temple and find the Pit Stop there. Bayon is another twelfth-century Buddhist temple, but it's on a much smaller scale and it's also where the last team may be eliminated. Nick says that he hid the clue under his shirt. We see him going past Tina on his way out, asking her fake-cluelessly if she found anything. She frustratedly says no. "If you can hold them up for thirty seconds by saying, 'I don't know where it is,' then absolutely I will do that at every moment," Nick interviews. At a temple? Really? Terence doesn't look fooled, looking suspiciously after Nick as he rushes past with obvious purpose. Nick rejoins Starr outside, and Ken and Sarah watch nervously as the Siblings head to the Pit Stop.
Kelly and Christy are talking themselves up as they tuk-tuk to Angkor Wat, saying the people need to recognize their team as a force to be reckoned with. "They need to be skerred," Kelly adds. It's too bad the other teams aren't around to hear these remarks, which as far as I can tell are some kind of bizarre threat on the order of, "If people don't start taking us seriously, we're going to have no choice but to quit tripping ourselves up all the g.d. time."
Catching up with the teams to whom Team Divorced is actually a threat, Dan is confident that he and Andrew are close behind, and in the last tuk-tuk, Aja and Ty are still staying positive.
Tina? Still lost. "Is this the swimming pool?" she asks aloud as she wanders past a large rectangular hole. I am enjoying her clueless running commentary; when I hear the phrase "self-guided tour," the first thing I think of isn't a visitor walking from numbered sign to numbered sign listening attentively to a recording on headphones, but some ignorant rube wandering around going, "Gash, what the heck is that?"
Terence is having no luck asking for directions. But Dallas walks right into the room, and the overhead ceiling-cam someone installed watches as he stops, thumps his chest, and remarks, "That's cool." He picks up a clue carving and heads out. Tina and Terence are both still stuck, but Terence has at least found a guide and gets to the Chamber of Echoes next, while Toni and Dallas are en route to the Pit Stop. Ooh! Wait! Tina's found it! "Oh, goodness gracious," she says, stepping into the room, and then right through to the other side. "I must be blind," she complains, just as she passes right back under that ceiling-cam. You know the Amazing Editors had a little celebration when they got that shot. Hell, I bet the Amazing Tape Loggers had a little celebration.