Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Run It Up the Pole and See Who Salutes
By M. Giant | Season 21 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.09.2012
The twins, Natalie and Nadiya, are starting in fourth and last place at 11:14 AM. As we see them get into a taxi, they interview about how happy they are to be in the final four with two of the teams who were their favorites from the start, whose help they're counting on at this point. Whereas I'm counting on more bickering from them as they ride to the airport in their cab, and I'm getting it. At the airport, everyone gets checked in and the twins complain about the Beekman Boys "coasting" to a final four spot. "We want it more than them so we need to make it happen." I hope it's been interesting for Natalie and Nadiya to see the kind of "coasting" the goat farmers have endured as the season has aired the past couple of months.
Cut to Amazing Red, Yellow, and Orange Lines making the short hop over the Mediterranean from Mallorca to Barcelona, and then we're back on the mainland again. We cut right to the train station, where the teams board the train to France. As they ride north, the twins shit-talk the Beekmans to the other team and how they're "taking up a spot," whatever the hell that means. You gave them that spot with your U-Turn strategy in Amsterdam. Remember, Twinnies? Josh and Brent overhear at least some of this from the next compartment, and then there's an awkward moment as the alliance realizes they're there and gets quiet, and then Jaymes boisterously invites them to join the group like they weren't all just mean-girling them. Josh interviews about how demoralizing it was to learn for the first time about this alliance of everyone else but them. On the train, the Chippendales lay it on a little thick, using phrases like "group hug" and "family portrait time" as Josh's interview goes on to compare it to high school all over again. Which, you know, those other teams haven't been out of for all that long. So the goat farmers conclude that they decided to be motivated by it. You know what, you guys? It gets better.
There's a quick shot of the moon to tell us it was an overnight train ride, and then we're in the Loire Valley in France, home of castles, vineyards, massive chateaus, and of course the station that their train pulls into. Although it's a different one than the one they left in, I can't help noticing. They rush out of the station and scramble around a bit before Trey spots the parked cars waiting for them and they all run in that direction. The clue on each Escape tells them to pick up eight empty crates from a certain café, then use the "hands-free lift gate" we've been seeing on the ads during this show all season to open the back of their Escape. Then they'll load the crates in, kick the lift gate closed again, and drive to the Chateau de Villandry, which Phil says is "home to the world's largest ornamental garden." There, somewhere on this sprawling estate, they'll look for a stone dog, which frankly is neither large nor, after many decades of erosion, particularly canine-looking any more. But it's got a satchel full of clues hanging around its neck, so they'll need to find it nonetheless.
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