Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 140 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Smithing and Sewing
By M. Giant | Season 21 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2012.10.21
Rob & Kelley arrive in fourth place and also skip the Fast Forward. Which is just as well, because they do their own body work on the monster trucks back home, so Rob's got this more than covered. James finally gets his putty can open. "We took a long time to open it too," Nadiya says to Jaymes at the waiting area, accompanied by the Finger-Bells Of Bald-Faced Lying.
James and Abba are the fifth team to get to the repair yard, but the first to opt for the Fast Forward, which seems like it must be some kind of record. "Provide a vital service to the people of Dhaka," Abba reads from the clue, which sounds very noble and community-minded. And then a lid is disenchantingly taken off a bucket full of wet, dead rats. From another dump, Phil tells us that "in Bangladesh, rats destroy one and a half to two million tons of food each year." Yikes, who's giving rats explosives in the first place? Phil tells us that the team doing the Fast Forward will be "ratcatching assistants." Actually, they'll be rounding up the easiest kind of rats to catch, which is dead ones. James and Abba will have to travel around town visiting three different locations that serve as rat depositories, collect rat corpses from the buckets into provided sacks, and deliver them to the supervisor to get the clue sending them directly to this race's Pit Stop. I should also mention that Phil uses the word "e-rat-icated." Oh, Phil.
Josh & Brent get to the Roadblock in sixth place, and Josh takes it. Inside the yard, Ryan is getting irritated at Nadiya's incessant cheering for Natalie. Trey & Lexi show up in seventh place, and Trey volunteers to take it. Gary & Will finally show up, in last place as usual, and Gary will be doing the Detour. As he gets set up, Will tells us they thought they would be in the front of the pack today. I actually wish that were the case, because it would have been entertaining to watch them fall all the way back to last again. On the bright side, he says Gary's good at this, while he couldn't even reach. "Yeah, they'd have to bring a stool," Kelley agrees. Or a U-Turn???
James and Abba show up at a place where a dude's sitting at a wooden card table with gloves, a bag, and a small map of pickup locations. "Rats," James says before they go hiking off in search of some dead ones. First stop: New City Restaurant. Restaurant? That's not encouraging.