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
We rejoin Phil at the Pit Stop, where he's facing both Toni|Dallas and Terence|Sarah, neither of whom we got to see arrive for some reason. Toni and Dallas are team number two, which makes Terence and Sarah team number three. Not bad for a team that suffered a transportation breakdown. Terence's hair must be more aerodynamic than I've been giving it credit for.
Andrew is wandering around Angkor Wat. Outside, Dan is trying to remain optimistic, while inside, Andrew is doing things like looking for the Chamber of Echoes under small rocks. Ty and Aja have just spotted a sign directing people to Angkor Wat, so at least they're on the right track. It's an ice-cold track, but it's the right one.
Team Divorced arrives at Bayon temple before Ken and Tina, and they dash headlong into the grounds, where they then stand around for a minute wondering where exactly they're supposed to be. So emblematic of them, really. It's like they decided, "Our strategy is going to be to get places really fast, and then stand around going, 'what the eff?'"
Andrew is asking a monk about Prassat Kok Troung, and is quietly pointed in the right direction across the courtyard. As Aja and Ty are arriving, Andrew is accompanied by the monk as he goes in, thumps his chest, and grabs a carving. "So I just take one of these, right?" Andrew asks, carelessly flipping the stone slab up in a way that nearly catches the much shorter monk on the nose. He and Dan are back in their tuk-tuk as Ty and Aja seem to be arriving (although again, we don't see the teams cross paths or anything). Ty heads inside. "We'll find out if we're sixth once we get there," Dan tells Andrew. Ty finds a guide.
But at Bayon Temple, Ken and Tina have found the Pit Stop mat before Kelly and Christy, and are team number four. "I'm sorry, it's my fault, we should be team number one," Tina says as Ken hugs her. Kelly and Christy arrive next and are told they're team number five. "Five!?" Christy repeats in amazement. It's not clear if she thinks it should be higher or lower. I suppose it's also possible that she thinks "five" means "You're still racing!" and the editors cut away before she heads off to Prague or something at a dead run.
Ty has found his room and his clue, and rejoins Aja, who has been holding both of their backpacks as she waited for him. But they'd better hurry, because the Frat Boys have already found Bayon Temple and are hurrying inside. "Let's jog it up," they say, even managing to find an annoying way to say they need to hurry. In their tuk-tuk to the Pit Stop, Aja is talking about what can be accomplished when you "get that fire under your booty." Indeed, you can shrink a nine-hour lag down to less than a day. They'd better hope Dan and Andrew stay as lost as they are, to the point that Dan is hollering at nobody, "Anybody see a lot of Americans around?" Team Long-Distance are dismounting their tuk-tuks outside the temple, and finally Dan spots something through a narrow gap between two stone walls. Cut to Phil, bending down to point out an arriving team to his greeter. And it's... Dan and Andrew, picking their way down a steep staircase on their way to the mat. Phil tells them they're team number six, and they celebrate desultorily as Phil looks at them like, you little, little men. Hee, hee, hee.