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 get to the safari tent and lay out some tiles with a rhino and a bird at the end. Of course that's wrong on more than one count, because a) there's no ostrich in their sequence and b) a rhino is not a hippo, but all they know when the judge tells them it's wrong is that they have to go back to the beginning. And after the last ad break, that's exactly what they're doing. "Maybe we missed one, who knows?" Pam says. Uh, we do, Pam. We know.
Joey & Meghan are loading their sleigh as quickly as possible, and then discover that their donkeys aren't interested in carrots. Max & Katie, on the other hand, already have their team moving. "You guys realize this is a million fricking dollars, let's go!" Joey berates his team. "Come on, horsey!" I don't think the "horsey" understands what you're saying, Joey; maybe you should convert that dollar figure to pula. Max looks back as he's pushing his and Katie's sled and tells her that Team YouTube hasn't even moved yet. "This is how it ends," Joey shrugs. That would be about 8.2 million pula, Joey. I'm trying to help you out here.
Pam & Winnie are seeing their antelope/kudu again and figuring for some reason that they've got this. And at the other Detour, suddenly Joey and Meghan's team is moving, Joey jumping up and down excitedly and making the locals laugh just by being Joey. Glad it works on someone. Max & Katie see them coming, and gaining, and then passing, but then Team YouTube's trailer gets hung up in a tree but good. Pam & Winnie are back at the hippo/bird part of the fake safari, while Team YouTube somehow have their sleigh freed up and are gaining on Max & Katie again. But then Team YouTube's rig hits another tree. Fortunately this one's small enough that it just gets flattened, though it's not so fortunate for the tree. And then Max & Katie's team gets messed up. This is clearly not a mode of transport designed for the breakneck speeds these people are pushing, and by breakneck I mean trotting.
Pam & Winnie have their tiles lined up and they're sure it's right this time. While the judge is still checking, we cut back to the other two teams just arriving at the other safari tent and unlading their wood. "If Meghan and Joey beat us in this Brawn test, we should go home," Katie says. "Like, that's embarrassing." Both teams are hurling branches onto piles. But it's all moot between those two anyway, because Pam & Winnie missed the ostrich the second time around as well, and even having a bird above the rhino tile on their layout doesn't fix it. So they decide to switch tasks again. Oh, man.