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
Bates & Anthony are having a much better time, riding in the boat down the river. Bates says this is the first time in the race they've been stress-free. "I'm sitting in my underwear. It's an awesome day, the weather's amazing, can't get better scenery than this. And Africa looks pretty good too!" Waka waka waka. They get dressed and dropped off on the bank, where a truck is waiting to take them to the Pit Stop.
Winnie manages to get their boat beached at the delivery spot maybe two hundred yards upriver, near more crocodile warning signs. "Who wants goats?" she asks. Someone points them to a makeshift pen composed mainly of bushes and a gate, and she carries one over under each arm to it, responding to their loud complaints with, "I know, it sucks." The friends get back in their boat, expecting it to be easier to go back downstream. Plus it's less likely that either of them will get peed on. Meanwhile, Wynona has her and Chuck's boat spinning helplessly in the current, and they're getting pretty impatient with each other. There's a similar situation with Beth and Mona behind them, as Mona does a lot of tense front-seat driving. Beth snaps at Mona to let her figure it out, then apologizes into the awkward silence. Actually, Mona seems less bothered by Beth's yelling than her sucking.
Joey & Meghan are still lost somewhere in Maun, and asking for directions. "Let's just hope other teams are having just as hard of a trouble," Joey says, not knowing the half of it.
And yet Caroline & Jennifer are the next team to make it to the riverbank, now in fifth place. Maun must not have been as out of the way as I assumed. Caroline agrees to do it, and experiences her own personal cute-overload in the goat pen until she finds out how hard it is to actually catch one of them. "I know you don't want to play with me. I get it. I wouldn't want to play with me either," she tells them. Oddly, they seem unconvinced by her attempt at empathy.
Wynona manages to get their boat landed after a minor collision with one of the local boatmen, who after all are probably still trying to do their own jobs today. She delivers the goats and heads back, getting annoyed with Chuck even as he's telling her that she's doing it correctly now. I'm starting to understand why he didn't insist on her doing more Roadblocks earlier on.