Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I'm Ghana Git You Sucka
By M. Giant | Season 17 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.03.2010
Nick's off to a slow start, telling people, "Big race, big race," like they care. Vicky tells Claire she should have done it instead of Nick, which is a nice vote of confidence. Chad is schlepping a whole giant rack of them around, and Brook's working the crowd like Elmo on ecstasy as Claire reminds us, "This is what we do for a living, is sell stuff." Brook tells one prospect that he looks like a gangster or a rapper with a pair of shades on, which doesn't seem to offend him, and she gives him a big hug when he takes them off her hands for 3 cedis. Chad's selling a pair to a younger woman, and interviews that he was "using sex to sell." The threat of it, or what? Next to him, Stephanie just laughs at him. Michael and Jill try to sell, the latter claiming that they "go to a really good cause" (that cause being Jill and Thomas getting to hold onto their Express Pass for another leg, I guess) while Thomas is being all uptight from the sidelines. Michael sells his first pair. So does Rachel, to a customer who tells her, "I love you." Ah, a volleyball fan!
Connor and Jonathan have arrived. Connor wants to give it to Jonathan, but Jonathan refuses. He seems to have had all the contact with the locals that he can stand for one day.
Gary and Mallory's cab has died on them en route, so Andie and Jenna arrive at the market in ninth place. Andie gives this one to Jenna, saying she's more of a salesman than Andie is. "That's one of the things, I don't know if she's a good salesman or not," Jenna admits. She gets right to work. And behind them somewhere, Mallory is trying to not freak out while their driver tries to start the engine. It's anyone's guess whether she or the car will blow a gasket first.
After the ads, Gary gets out and pushes. There's some chaotic editing, during which we see Gary riding on the back bumper of a moving taxi, but he upshot is that they change cabs. Sounds like a reasonable solution.
Nick, who is still striking out on his attempts to sell anything, admits that he doesn't have a technique. "I don't think there is a technique out here. Either they're buying them or they're not." Putting the lie to that is Brook, who's gushing about how a pair makes one guy looks like a supermodel. Better than a professional basketball player or something. The Amazing Editors give him a little tooth-sparkle to go with them, and she's also kissing her customers on the cheek and adding, "Send your friends, okay?" with an unhinged grin. Meanwhile, Jill commiserates with Kat over not having sold any while Thomas hollers at her from the sidelines in frustration, like he can contribute anything useful from a hundred extremely crowded yards away. Kat hauls out a whole rack while Nat yells at her to be aggressive. Meanwhile, Chad is trying to get three cedis out of a girl who only wants to pay him two. He gets on one knee to beg, and she just gets down with him. Chad interviews that he held onto her money to "sweet-talk her" out of the rest. He offers a big hug if she'll just come off that last cedi, but she just looks like she's starting to regret getting into this interaction in the first place; this big, noisy American has her money and won't let her leave. I am almost as uncomfortable with this as she is.