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
Marie has the balls to tell Phil that they've been friends this whole time and have been helping each other, "but at the end of the day, it's a race. It's a million dollars." And Jason responds that it doesn't matter anyway. "We went all the way to a Fast Forward, and back and we're still here. We're gonna kick their ass. We know we're a better team." Marie doesn't have a response to that, and Phil and the greeter -- the latter of whom so did not sign up for this -- just nod at Jason all, "Alrighty, then." He does make a good point, except for the part about teammates not telling each other to shut up during conflicts with other teams.
With five teams checked in, that leaves two still racing. That is, if you can call it racing when they're still stalled way back at the Roadblock. Danny and Ashley are waiting to see who's going to come back next and what will happen when they do. Tim finishes another run-through in the practice room that his instructor seems excited about, and they head back to the rehearsal hall. Ally's on her way back as well. Tim's second attempt doesn't go much better than his first, though this time he shows enough improvement that one might almost mistake him for someone who may have heard music at some point in his life. They each take a third and fourth try, but Ally actually gets to the end of the piece on her fifth attempt. After along, dramatic pause, the director calls her performance "acceptable" and hands over her clue. It's not looking good for the Okies, but Danny tells Tim that he couldn't have done it any better as the blondes get their clue and take off. Tim's instructor asks him how he feels. "Uh, bad," Tim says, because he's in last place. Danny says they still have a chance, so Tim goes into the song again.
Meanwhile, to make it seem like it could still be close, Ally & Ashley are shown out on the street trying in vain to get a taxi to stop for them. Tim finishes the song and prays silently as the last echoes of the choir fades out. Finally the director says, "Congratulations," because as rotten as Tim still was, there's really no point in torturing him further. The blondes get in a cab, and the Okies do as well. "Can't dance, can't sing," Tim berates himself in the taxi. Danny says they can still race, though. Even with his hurt ankle that he had up on a chair the whole time Tim was doing the Roadblock? Anyway, the blondes arrive at the Schloss while the Okies are still in their cab hoping for some kind of break. And they might be getting one. It takes the blondes a while to find the maze, and longer to get to the clue amid all the dead ends, but they eventually find it as the Okies are running onto the grounds.