Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT D.C. Follies
By M. Giant | Season 22 | Episode 11 | Aired on 05.05.2013
Bates catches the ball Anthony drops to him on what looks like the second try, and reads the writing on it, which still says Hains Point. "That's the clue?" he asks one of the players, who gives him a thumbs-up while giant-headed Thomas Jefferson does a happy dance. They meet back up in the stands, still in first place, and return to their waiting cabdriver, who knows where Hains Point is. Soon they're on their way and Anthony says they've gone from the back to the front, but Bates says they're not getting cocky. Translation: "Don't get cocky, Anthony."
Max runs to the clue box outside the center field gate of Nationals Park -- still carrying the briefcase -- and nominates Katie to throw while he catches. They run inside. The derby moms, meanwhile, have just been dropped off outside the stadium somewhere and have started wandering around it looking for an entrance. They're currently at the home plate gate, so they're in for a long walk.
Katie coasts out over the field lobbing the ball down gently. Max, under his baseball costume's giant blue hat, drops it, and Katie calls down to ask what she needs to do differently. He asks her to drop it a little sooner. Hey, look, they're working well together. Except that on the next try, Max not only misses the ball, he trips and goes rolling across the base paths like... well, like a baseball. He misses the next one, too, and Katie advises him to catch with two hands. Mona & Beth have found their way inside somehow and are wandering around behind the back row of lower-deck seats when they spot the clue box through the fence from inside. "Oh, we ran right by it. Once again, par for the course." When they read the clue, Beth says she used to play softball, so she should do the catching. Given the visual skills they just displayed, I'm not sure either of them is going to be able to catch anything.
Bates & Anthony are approaching Hains Point, and they're dreading some further "mental trickery." Yes, I remember the final TAR 21 challenge too, but I wouldn't worry about this one, guys. They spot the location of the final task, which is marked by giant, bright-blue-and-green globes, as well as what looks like a giant above-ground ball pit filled with smaller ones. They get to the clue box posted nearby and Bates reads, "You've made your way around the world; where did you go?" Now Phil's here, saying, "After traveling through ten countries and racing more than thirty thousand miles, teams now face a final challenge before heading to the Finish Line." Over shots of the globe pit, he narrates, "One team member must search through this enormous collection of globes, each of which shows a highlighted country." There are no country labels on any of these inflatable beach balls, just hand-drawn red marker outlines around a single nation on each one. The person in the ball pit will have to find globes where one of the countries they visited on the race is outlined until they've gotten all ten, tossing them out to their partner as they go. The partner's job is to carry them to one of three futuristic-looking bus shelters, inside of which ten stands are lined up in a semicircle and to put the globes in the order in which they hit each country. A larger, plastic globe in the middle of the arc opens up behind Phil to reveal a yellow envelope inside, to demonstrate how the racers will get their next clue. Anthony volunteers to enter the ball pit, which is not only taller than he is, but at least ten feet on each side and filled with what I would conservatively estimate as a thousand beach-ball-sized globes. Bates offers to put them in order as Anthony throws out anything he finds. "Chuck E. Cheese all over again," Anthony says as he struggles through the balls. Only there's probably less chance of encountering bodily fluids in this one. The balls are as high as his head, and he interviews that it was tough to move. He and Bates snicker-view about the number and size of all the balls, in the most twelve way possible.
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