Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What Happens in Vegas
By M. Giant | Season 15 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.06.2009
The brothers and the Americas recount. The brothers are told they got it right, and get their clue. Brian and Ericka, not so much. "How does this happen to us every single time? I swear, oh my God," Ericka moans, as Brian directs his attention to their stacks of chips. Gosh, wouldn't it suck if your dealer made a mistake in counting? I wonder how they avoided that, or if there was any recourse if it were to happen. You know, just hypothetically.
Sam and Dan get in a cab to the MGM Grand, still wondering who Mr. Las Vegas is. Meanwhile, Meghan and Cheyne get there, find the service elevator, and take it up to Suite 88. There they find that scary-ass Wayne Newton marionette behind a grand piano. He jumps up and hugs them both before they can recoil from his surgically stretched-out mouth and eyes, or his wig fashioned from black cat hair. They ask where the Finish Line is, and he simply says, "My house." That's all he's telling them. They run back out, and somehow don't encounter Sam and Dan coming up. "I wanna be there, I wanna be there," Meghan chants excitedly in the elevator going down. Possibly because right now, Wayne Newton's house is somewhere Wayne Newton is not.
Sam and Dan walk into Suite 88 and are stunned to find themselves face to freaky-ass face with Wayne Newton. Except they're totally spacing on his name. "Wayne Newton, guys," he patiently reminds them. They leave with the knowledge of the Finish Line's location and a deep sense of embarrassment. Points to them for resisting the urge to say "Danke Schoen" for the clue, though.
Meghan and Cheyne get into a new cab, this one a pink minivan. On their way to Wayne Newton's ranch, which will look like it's out in the country but is in fact just on the other side of the airport, Cheyne says, "That was really Wayne Newton. I feel bad running out on him but..." "Whatever," Meghan says, sucking on her water bottle. Sam and Dan are leaving right behind them.
Brian keeps counting, while Ericka says she wants to start all over. "Something's wrong," she insists, and she's right, but as I heard from several sources later, it's not with their counting. Meghan|Cheyne and Sam|Dan are racing each other to the finish line. "I just don't want to see another team's cab. I will throw up," Meghan says. And then we, at least, are at Wayne Newton's palatial estate, complete with a huge house and a giant fountain and horses running around in a green pasture. In the desert, mind you. "Come on, Wayne Newton's house, where are you at?" Meghan says. Soon they're in the parking lot of "Casa de Shenandoah." "This is all his ranch right here," their driver says. But now they have to circle the whole sprawling compound (50 acres, according to my five seconds of research) looking for the main entrance. They try one gate that turns out to be locked, and run back to their cab. It's not across the road, either, and Sam and Dan are closing in. And the brothers seem to have a much better idea of where they're going, even giving their driver directions. Hard to say who will get there first, and that's just thee way the show wants it.