Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 181 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Too Much of a Good Thing
By M. Giant | Season 22 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2013.02.17
Caroline compliments Jennifer on her patience. Which, you know, they need in their profession, what with all the rejection they have to deal with. Sucks being a hot blonde and another hot blonde, you know. Idries finally locates a clue, so he and Jamil are on their way in seventh place, having fallen from second during this task. They go to the canoes and Jamil interviews how he's really trying to make sure they get the boat together correctly because he's afraid of water, being from inner city Chicago and all. Pam and Winnie are already crossing the water, as are Mona & Beth. And the twins are soon launching their canoe, stressed out about drop-offs as they wade into depths upwards of an entire yard.
Wynona is still going on about her vodka and 7Up when she becomes the next to find a clue. Pam & Winnie become team number four at the Pit Stop and Mona & Beth check in right behind them. "Normally we would not be stoked about fifth," Mona says, but it feels pretty good coming from last. Beth says they can learn from their mistake just like in roller derby. And unlike every other human endeavor.
Out in the middle of the water, Idries and Jamil's canoe suddenly flips. Also, their rigging has come loose and one of them has lost his glasses and soon one of them is trying to bail the boat out using one of those little plastic buckets that everyone was using to build the sandcastles. "Team Brotherhood, move your booty out of the way!" Chuck says as they paddle past. Which I'm sure he'd totally say to a white team. Eventually the twins manage to get back in their boat, which is more of a relief to Jamil than being back in the race is.
Joey and Meghan are team number six, and Chuck and Wynona are team number seven. Phil raises the subject of Chuck's hair, saying they're never had a 'do like his on the Amazing Race. "It's business in the front, party in the back," Chuck explains. Never heard that line before either.
The firefighters talk about how much they need the money, what with one of them having a nine-month old daughter. Still at the sandcastles.
Idries and Jamil make it to the Pit Stop and are team number eight. They're both without their glasses, which would make for a long rest of the race for them. Except we've already seen them wearing glasses in the post-leg interview clips, so whoever lost his must have brought a back-up pair. Or he put on a scuba tank and dove the entire fathom it must have taken to retrieve them from the ocean floor.