Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 119 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT So Near and Yet Safari
By M. Giant | Season 22 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2013.03.31
Pam & Winnie are a little nervous about driving "deep in the middle of Botswana" with no idea where they are, until they come up on the hockey brothers' parked car outside Boro Village. Pam is way excited about the Fast Forward for about half a second before realizing that the lead team probably already did it. That leaves them with the Roadblock, whose question asks, "Who wants to go up a creek without a paddle?" Now here's Phil at the riverbank among a row of handmade boats, saying, "The mokoro is a traditional dugout canoe made from a single tree." And the racers will have to use one to transport two goats upriver to a goat pen, then go back to where they started to get their next clue. Winnie volunteers to do this one.
They go to the goat pen and she grabs a kid about the size of a medium-large dog, puts it into the canoe, and goes to get another one while Pam sits in the front of the boat holding the first one in place. So this is actually more of a team Roadblock than what we usually see. Now that the goats are onto Winnie, her second one ends up being not so much the smallest one as the slowest. But soon she's in the back of the canoe, standing with her feet far apart for balance per Pam's suggestion and propelling them out into the stream by pushing against the river bottom with a long pole. Winnie says it's really hard, but Pam gives her encouragement, even as a goat pees on her leg. So yeah, not a Roadblock one can do one one's own. You need a racer to pilot the boat and another racer to get peed on.