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
Brian has figured out their problem: "The striped bases need a striped hose," he whispers to Ericka, apparently giving the karma thing a rest for this leg. They switch stuff around, and Brian confidently calls to the judge, "My man!" The judge, who looks a lot like last week's Pit Stop greeter to me, nods and smiles, and the Americas are on their way in fourth place.
And the Globetrotters make the task switch. Flight Time reasons after the fact that since Brian and Ericka had been two hours ahead of them, "we should probably weigh some gold." I wonder if he would have come to the same conclusion of he knew Brian and Ericka had already attempted that.
Maria and Tiffany head down the water slide in their mismatched bikinis (the former coming close to experiencing a splash-related wardrobe malfunction) as Sam and Dan are arriving outside the water park. The brothers are not far behind, but when they get to the beach and run to the mat, Maria and Tiffany get the unprecedented (for them) thrill of being told they're team number two. They're still on the mat when the brothers come running up in their matching red trunks, which Team Inside Straight says looks like Baywatch. Tiffany interviews about how good they looked, and they all have a group hug in the water. Those poor girls still don't realize, do they? And even worse, the only way I can see them finding out is on some mat somewhere, as the boys first beat the girls to the mat in a footrace for last place, and then come out to them as they're being Philiminated. That will be the day that all of Team Inside Straight's luck in this race to date will come due.
"Sweet Georgia Brown" accompanies the Globetrotters, as they do something no other team has: they ask the judges for a calculator. "He was like, 'Sure, here you go,'" Big Easy interviews. Watching this at home, Brian and Ericka are like, "What!?"
Gary is still searching for the missing tongs. Canaan is feeling good about his progress, and Gary finally locates the tongs and gives them to Matt, who appears to have recovered. They're done, and they leave Mika and Canaan in their dust. "I hope it's huge," Matt says of their upcoming leap of faith.
A hope that Brian and Ericka do not share as they approach the resort in their taxi. "The problem is I'm scared of heights, she's scared of water," Brian says. And that's what makes them a team. Once they get there, she wants Brian to go first, but he insists she go ahead. "I don't know if she would have went," Brian interviews. With Brian watching, she goes down screaming. "She had a blast, trust me," Brian says before following, also yelling the whole way down. However, to their surprise, neither of them dies. "That was actually kind of fun," he says when he catches up to her at the bottom. She disagrees as she opens their clue, but they reach the Pit Stop as team number four. You think they might have won this leg if they'd thought to ask for a calculator? No, me either.
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