Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 38 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT They Are The Egg Men
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.01.2013
Coming back from the ad break, Marie says she's going to throw up even before she takes a bite, but she interviews that she wasn't about to be the girl who didn't eat a snake. It would probably be inappropriate of me to speculate that her reluctance to eat snake likely has little to do with why she and Tim are broken up. She manages to choke down a bite with liberal amounts of water. "I just ate, like, a snake," she tells Tim, amazed at herself. Tim is supportively pretending to have a tough time with this himself. Or maybe he's not pretending.
At the spring, the guys are commiserating about the snake-eating they had to do earlier, and Travis says he can't imagine Marie eating it. Seriously, does everyone know about Marie's food issues except the Afghanimals? Busted, Jamal blithely says that she and Tim never showed up, which Jason is surprised to hear given what they told him earlier. "I was messing with you guys," Jamal says. Jason calls Jamal a liar, but he's a little more good-humored about it than Travis was. Ever, about anything.
Tim & Marie are powering through the snake-eating, and in fact Marie's pathological competitiveness is getting her through it more than Tim. They finally get their clue in last place, and I'm both disappointed and impressed that this didn't seem to slow them down at all. Seriously, good for her.
Travis is the first to take his eggs out of the spring and carry them back to the Egg Man, with Jason following closely behind and Jamal hanging back to be safe, though Travis notes that one of his eggs actually exploded after eight minutes. Jamal ends up chasing them up the long path to the bikes, and while on the bikes, all three guys are worried about the risk of bringing back undercooked eggs. Is it even possible to overcook them?
Now in their cab, Tim & Marie are flush with the triumph of having eaten cobra. Marie has tears in her eyes and Tim has scales in his teeth, and I think they only way they could be more excited is if they'd eaten the cobra alive.
Travis and Jason return to the Egg Man at the egg stand, in view of their waiting partners. So far, Travis's eggs look to be solid inside when the Egg Man cuts them open, one by one. Jamal joins them at the counter, and quickly seems to be regretting the extra time he spent at the spring. But after the Egg Man sets the halves in trays (while Jason asks if he can eat some to wash down the snake), he starts sticking his bare finger into the eggs, which not only makes them less appetizing but also reveals the fact that only half of Jason's eggs are sufficiently boiled. As Jason puts his helmet onto go back down into the crater, Travis's eggs get the check -- and his entire load gets shitcanned, tray and all. So he's going back too. Jamal's eggs are getting checked as he tells Leo that staying back a couple of extra minutes might have made the difference. But Jamal has one lousy egg that's not up to scratch, so he's got to follow the others back into the crater after all. Leo reacts like there's been a death in the family. Amy whispers to Nicole, "I really hope our guys stay there really long." "Oh God, please Travis, just take the extra ten minutes," Nicole agrees. I hope this is the first time they've hoped so fervently for their men to take longer at something.