Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Take Two
By M. Giant | Season 18 | Episode 1 | Aired on 02.21.2011
They get on the very next ferry after the ads, aware that they have "a little catchin' up to do today." Cord adds, "This race...can turn anywhere at any time." For their sake, it'd better.
Mallory hefts her big compass-disk-thing back out into the sunlight, onto the big brick patio overlooking the water where the flags are waving. "You gotta complete it, "Gary reminds her. Mallory starts the way she starts all tricky tasks: "Jesus, help me please?" Jesus is like, "Really? We just got out of that tank, can I just have five minutes to dry My hair?"
The second ferry arrives at Oceanworld. Seeing their approach from afar, Gary warns Mallory, "Don't let 'em scramble you." He forgot to say "further." The other batch of teams converges on the clue box, Jaime yelling at Cara, "Let's go!" Margie, Flight Time, Justin, Cara, and Vyxsin will be taking this for their respective teams.
Amanda has now joined Mallory at the decoding part of the task. Kris says Amanda will be good at this. Amanda, looking at her scratch paper: "What???"
Kisha is still in the water, and Jen's proud of her when she retrieves a compass. But soon there are almost as many re-racers as fish in the tank. Justin narrates that this was his first time scuba-diving, and says it's easy to panic if you don't know what you're doing. I'm certain that won't happen to anyone here. Jaime admits, "I don't really care for water or sharks." Or crowds. Or noise. Or people who don't speak English. Or people who do speak English but don't move quickly enough. Why's she doing the race again, again? Kent calls the sight of Vyxsin "a visual delight. She looked like a pink "Little Mermaid in there." The amazing thing is that this tank is so huge that none of the re-racers ever seem to encounter each other, either in the tank or the tunnel.
Now that the third ferry has arrived, Ron and Christina find the clue box, and agree that she's taking it. Ron can hardly breathe as it is, here on dry land. Mel will also be doing this one. Back at the flags, Mallory's done, and as she and Gary leave Amanda to it, she tells him what she figured out. They get directions from some locals and head on over.
Kisha joins Amanda, and, like Mallory, also gets her triangles and diamonds mixed up. Jen's not worried. Down in the tank, Justin is the next to find a compass. "Yeah! Now get the hell out of there," Zev mutters. Margie also finds one, as does Flight Time, much to Big Easy's delight. Jaime is also pleased that Cara's found one. "My partner's got reeeally good eyesight," she says. And yet she can't see what an ass Jaime can be. Vyxsin, meanwhile, is still searching.