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
Travis rejoins Jason at the edge of the spring, apologizing for advocating the short cooking time. And Jamal is regretting being in the same boat as the others despite staying longer. When he joins them at the edge of the steamy water, he lies again and says that only three of his eggs were properly cooked. Jason advises him to tell Marie, if and when she arrives, that it only took ten minutes. "Tell her eight minutes. Eight to ten," Travis agrees. So it's okay to lie to other people, just not to Travis? In the post-leg interview, Leo makes a similar remark to one he made last week: "Hypocriiiites!" Stop making me agree with you, Leo.
Tim & Marie show up at the Road Block clue box, and Marie reads the clue and protests, "I don't know how to hard-boil eggs." Too bad; the clue specifies that she has to do it. Also, what does she cook if boiling eggs is above her pay grade? Up at the waiting area, Amy & Nicole crouch to get out of view, only to see Leo hilariously wave his arms down the hill before joining them. Marie finds them anyway, so it's a little awkward when Tim gets there to find them all squatting behind the fence, as through afflicted with a mass leg cramp. "What's up, guys?" Tim asks. Not them, until they stand up again. As Marie nervously takes off on the back of her bike with her eggs, Tim asks the others if they've been there a while. He's not exactly bowled over by a flood of straight answers.
Down in the crater, Jason and Travis are coming up on eighteen minutes, and Jason decides to wait for Travis even though his eggs have been in a minute longer. Leo & Jamal mock them for this in their post-leg interview, and finally Travis & Jason head out with the clock at twenty minutes, while Jamal has another couple of minutes to wait. It's not watching paint dry, but it's close.
While Marie rides down the hill, Tim explains to the others that Marie eats healthy, but doesn't know how to hard-boil an egg. This comes as kind of a surprise to the others. She meets Jason on her way down, and he high-fives her and tells her it's quick. "I don't know how to boil eggs," she confesses as they go their separate ways. "I’m gonna rely on Jamal," Jason tells us as he goes on his way. "I'll let him be the culprit." Travis also gives her some encouragement when she meets him next. "We thought they were like an hour ahead of us so I'm not really sure," she says as she continues down the hill. Jason arrives at the egg stand with the Egg-Man, and he starts cutting open eggs with pale-yellow yolks inside, rather than the more brightly colored ones we saw earlier. Tim informs us that this could be a problem, "because Marie lacks a little thing called patience." Yes, we've noticed that. He is one hundred percent certain that she's going to come back with insufficiently boiled eggs. Saying that may prove to be the one thing that causes the opposite to happen.