Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hell in High Water
By M. Giant | Season 15 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.25.2009
Mika and Canaan finally arrive at the marina, to the Globetrotters' chagrin. "We stay here long enough, Lance and Keri might show up," Flight Time cracks. Ha! Obviously Canaan is doing this. "I'm pretty scared of water," Mika interviews. Yes, we've heard. He rows out, meeting Tiffany coming back. She's back on the dock by the time Canaan gets his watch and heads back. Big Easy is still nowhere. Tiffany gets her case open immediately, so that's them in fifth place, and the Globetrotters dropping on down to sixth. Big Easy puts the case down for another look at the watch. "Don't give up," Flight Time says. Big Easy assures him he never does. Even, presumably, if he has to crush the watch into a prybar with his bare hands.
Meghan|Cheyne and Mr. & Mrs. America are struggling with the slowness of their respective tasks, plus Meghan and Cheyne have the sweat in their eyes to contend with. I've never seen a team on this show that can sweat like they do. They are champion sweaters. They are Cosby sweaters. Meanwhile, Brian's math turns out to be even trickier than suspected, because he's come up with an answer of five thousand something, which is off by a factor of ten. Sounds like someone forgot to keep his columns straight. Of course, with my calculator, I can tell you that the correct answer is 534.902 ounces, but like just I said, I have a calculator. They're still debating whether Brian "overcalculated," to use Ericka's term, when the number on the screen flips to 941.25. Ericka protests, "It should not be changing by the minute." She laments the lack of a calculator. "My American education's dumbed me down to use a calculator for everything," she says. Coincidentally, I think that was the exact same comment that helped her win the Miss America crown. The judges just ate that up.
Flight Time begins to wonder if Big Easy is on the wrong track. "Does a Muslim clock work different?" Mika asks Canaan. Yes, Mika, it's got a big electromagnet inside it that hauls you to the ground when it's time to pray and a compass that points to Mecca. Canaan wisely ignores her, and the 835 combination gets their case open and puts them in sixth. The Globetrotters helplessly watch them leave, In Team Nashville's taxi, Canaan remarks that they just passed the team that left third this morning. He doesn't say, although I will, that this is the closest to the front they've ever been. "To see the Globetrotters struggle was kind of nice," Mika admits. "We get those out of the race, that just makes it that much easier for us to move on to the top." The commercials come before Big Easy can open the case, or before Mika can list all of the other teams that will have to be eliminated before they can move on to the top.
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