Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Thai'ed Up
By M. Giant | Season 19 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.23.2011
Laurence and Zac are back at the station. "We cannot take a first-class bus," Laurence insists like he was the one who pointed it out. Ernie and Cindy spot them from their window, and Cindy amusingly says, "They look busted." They're just entering the terminal as Team NFL's bus pulls out. Back in the terminal, Team Adventure drips sweat on the ticket counter as they get seats on the next second-class bus, which leaves at 8:00 PM, and Zac again says first class is prohibited. "We've got a couple of hours to kip," Laurence says, although we next see them sitting awake and alert in the seating area. Remember to wipe those chairs afterward, sweaties.
And Liz has just finished the second half of the double Roadblock, so although they're still in last place, at least they're making forward progress, unlike one other team. Unfortunately, their camera is developing a foggy spot on the lens, which is not going to help me tell them apart.
The sun goes down, and Laurence and Zac board their 8:00 PM bus to Bangkok. "With a crying baby in the background," Laurence adds. "Or they're strangling a cat." You don't get much cat-strangling in first class.
Having missed what was probably their best chance of the leg to catch up with anyone, Liz and Marie finally get to the bus terminal, and Marie hands their driver a wad of cash. It doesn't seem to be enough, but Marie says they'll give him the change they'll have left over after buying their bus ticket. Only one problem: "This one leave now," the ticket agent tells them as she's selling them the seats. They give all the rest of their money to the driver, but he (and one of those taxi-pimps that seem to be the muscle at this station) says they're forty bucks short. But they're tapped out, and the bus is leaving, and if it leaves without them they have no money for another ticket, which means they'll be stranded at the Phuket bus terminal for the rest of their lives, where they will jump-start a rapid decline from cute young blonde twins to creepy-ass Kubrick/Lynch twins. I think their best move at this point would be to panic.
After the ads, Liz and Marie are trying to determine just exactly how very fucked they are, with the bus they have tickets on already gone and them still in the red on their taxi ride. But apparently someone has taken pity on them, because the bus has stopped and is waiting for them somewhere up ahead, and their cab driver is agreeing to drive them to it for free. They're all excited and grateful as they catch up to the bus and climb on. Still in last, though.