Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Phuket List
By M. Giant | Season 14 | Episode 7 | Aired on 03.29.2009
In the Whites' cab, Mike is, apropos of nothing, saying, "I actually like everybody on the Race, except Jaime. She's kind of a Mean Girl." Mel laughs heartily. Jaime continues bitching about the shopkeeper, both in the shop and in her post-leg interview, and finally they get a clue and are out of there, with only Mel and Mike still behind them. They want to do the 100 Barrels. "The water? Is it very far, Sack?" Jaime asks. Sak says, "Uh...uh..." So Jaime nearly has an aneurysm. Awesome.
Mark and Michael get to the rickshaws first. They spot the foot pumps lying out on the sidewalk next to a wooden box, and take this as a sign that they should pump up their tires before they even get going. They are already pretty flat to begin with. Then, when they're done with that, Mark gets to work piling the pumps and the hoses and all the other little fiddly bits that go with them back into the box, tangling them up as much as he can. "Slow people up, you know how that is," he says to Michael. Uh, yeah, Mark, I know how that is. That's a dick move, is how that is. "I was just trying to make it a little more taxing for them to do what we had already done," Mark self-servingly explains in a post-leg interview. Whatever, cheater. His evil work done, he dons one of the traditional conical hats provided for the task and takes the handlebars of the rickshaw, pulling Michael out of the lot and chattering away in a Charlie Chan voice, complete with Asian-sounding nonsense. Charming. Chronic diarrhea of the mouth is bad enough, but when you have to get offensive just to fill the time, that's not an indicator of anything good.
Mel and Mike reach the herb shop, where not only are they in last place, there are five fewer drawers with clues in them than there were to start with. But they gamely get to it, and as every drawer comes out empty, they and the shopkeeper sing out in unison, "Nooo!" At least they're having fun sucking wind.
Kisha|Jen's and Margie|Luke's cabs deposit them at the harbor for the 100 Barrels task, which is called Pae Yod. But there's a small problem: no boats in sight. That's an unexpected wrinkle. When the cheerleaders arrive and take in the situation, they learn from Sak that he knows exactly where the rickshaw starting point is, and they offer to lead Margie and Luke's driver there instead of hanging around searching for boats. Kisha and Jen get back in their cab as well, but to explore the harbor area in search of actual fishing vessels. Hard to do the task without one, don't you know.