Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 44 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Fast Forward, Fall Back
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.03.2013
Nicky & Kim are plotting their next move when the ER docs join them on the platform to get their clue. And soon it's a footrace in which neither party knows where they're going. Nicky & Kim go to ask their cabdriver for directions, but Nicole has realized the Gloriette may be on the grounds, so she and Travis are going to ask somebody handier. The Afghanimals arrive on the scene as the ER docs get directions to the Gloriette from a convenient tour guide and start heading toward it. Soon Nicky & Kim are doing the same, but only after having backtracked to their cab and losing their lead. Again.
As the Afghanimals blunder through the maze until they find the last clue of the leg, the two lead teams are racing each other up the steep hill. After Travis tells Nicole to drop her bag, the two of them are the first to reach the mat. Also again. The greeter welcomes them to Vienna, and Phil tells them they're team number one and the winners of a trip to Anguilla. He also tells them that they've earned themselves a nickname, which Nicole already knows is "Power Parents." Phil allows that it's not a bad nickname to have. It's a bad nickname to say, though, and I'm not fucking doing it.
The baseball wives reach the mat just ahead of the Afghanimals, and they high five before Phil checks them in as teams two and three respectively. I can't believe Nicky and Kim came in second, but then I can't believe they've made it halfway through the race, either.
Back at the Roadblock, Ally's on her second try for the song. "Thank you. Not enough," the director says. "Oh my God, don't go back downstairs," Ashley mutters. She's getting worried. She wouldn't be if she could hear what's going on with Okie Tim, which is more (and more intense) awfulness.
At the Schloss, Marie tells Jason & Amy's driver wait for them, which is rich. Behind them, Amy is acting as though she's almost afraid of what she's going to have to do if she finds out that what happened, happened. Soon the exes are in the maze wandering about, until Marie sees a group of kids up on the central platform where the clue is and brays at them, "Which way? Tell me which way!" The kids excitedly point out directions, and Marie says she loves little kids. Probably because they assume any adult is the boss of them. With their help, Tim & Marie gratefully collect the Pit Stop clue in fourth place and are soon on their way to the Gloriette. The team whose cab they stole look much less excited as they roll up and spot their former taxi waiting. Jason jogs over to check in the back, and recognizes Tim & Marie's backpacks right away. Which is a shame, because I would have loved to see the fallout from Marie actually trying to pin that on the Afghanimals.