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
Running toward the maze, Amy says, "I cannot even believe them." Jason interviews that his heart dropped and he couldn't believe they would do that either. Uh, have ya met Marie? Jason and Amy run into the maze as Tim & Marie are getting directions to the Gloriette. "Son of a bitch," Tim says when he sees the climb ahead of them. Jason & Amy are getting impatient with each other as they find their way through the maze, no longer having any fun at all after the experience they're having. They're soon running up the hill to the Gloriette behind Tim & Marie. The exes get there ahead of them, though not by much. "We're in trouble," Marie mutters to Tim as she monitors the approach of the couple she screwed. Jason & Amy step onto the mat next to Tim -- who is just staring shamefacedly at Phil's feet -- and turn to Phil without looking at the exes. Clearly reading the tension, Phil remarks to Jason & Amy, "Huh, you guys snuck up on us." Jason agrees that sneaky is a good word. "Other people know that term too," he says, giving Tim and Marie some nasty side-eye as we go to the ads. Ooh, it's on now.
That must have been a pretty long, awkward commercial break for the six people at the mat, but when it ends Phil says that Tim & Marie are team number four and Jason & Amy are team number five. For all her big talk earlier, Amy doesn't seem to trust herself to speak now that is just keeping mum. Phil asks her if she's unhappy about that, and Jason the one to speak up, saying, "Our friends here stole our cab, tampered with our bags. I think they should get a penalty." Marie jumps all over that part of it, chirping that they never touched the other team's bags and they were right outside the cab. "We would never take your bags out," she says. The very idea! "Would we take a cab that didn't have any bags in them? Yes. It's a race." Yep, one that likely still has one more U-Turn left. Which is one more than the number of Express Passes Marie still has.
Jason says they would never do that to them, so he and Amy understate that they're a little disappointed. Marie tries to argue that Jason & Amy don't know what they would have done in that position (without mentioning that she knew what she was going to do even before she was in the position), and both Jason and Amy yell that they could have done the same thing. At this point, Jason yells at Amy to shut up, because on top of everything else what she needs right now is for her boyfriend to start acting like a high-handed dick. Tim, by the way, has just been standing silently mortified between Amy and Marie this whole time, not looking at anyone and clearly just wanting this to be over. There's an awkward silence, made even louder by the fact that these are the first few full minutes in God knows how many seasons when there hasn't been some kind of music playing.