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 is going to have to shave off his goatee before getting started, which explains why it's been missing from his post-leg interviews tonight. "Look at you, sexy sexy," Nicole says indifferently when he returns from the bathroom with a newly smooth face. He certainly does look younger. Jason & Amy are applying gold eye shadow to each other as Jason makes sure we all know he doesn't have her pageant background. "I just wait for the two hours it takes her to do it," he says. But he can't pretend he isn't picking up some techniques as they're being applied on his own mug. Nicole & Travis are also working on each other at the same time, and as the making up progresses and Travis gets painted-on eyebrows and lipstick, Nicole says he looks like the sexiest drag queen ever. Jason just cracks up, because he's seen way sexier drag queens.
Marie continues crouching over the spring, saying she feels like the eggs are done but she doesn't want to have to come back. Tim is increasingly glad it's taking her this long, aside from not knowing what the travel time is to the crater and back. "Good news is, though," he says, "is everything she does cook is always well done. No matter what, like, hockey puck style." Marie leaves the spring, feeling like she's done and hoping they're all hard-boiled. She should know from hard-boiled, if anyone does.
Leo & Jamal are dropped off at a tea stand on the edge of town, where they put on the mismatched shirts, scarves, skirts, and hats of tea cutters, as well as big wicker collection baskets on their backs that are just going to stay empty anyway. In other words, both Detours require everyone to look like a woman, so it's probably just as well that Danny didn't stay in the race long enough to endure such inescapable humiliation. Then they walk up the road to the tea field, noting a handmade sign warning passersby of the presence of snakes in both English, a local language, and a doodle. Still, they soon have their breath taken away by the impressive, expansive beauty of the tea fields. This view really does put the "gee" in "Darjeeling." They start right in debating on whether they should start at the edge of the field, middle, but the curving, non-uniform paths would seem to foil any kind of methodical search system they might devise. As do their personalities. Jamal at least has an insightful simile to describe the task with his poet's heart, as he says, "this is sort of like finding a needle in a haystack." So evocative! Leo adds that they don't know what the needle looks like. Have they never seen clippers before? Apparently not, because Jamal calls out, "I found it!" and produces -- a white flag on a long pole. If he's surrendering, I am totally behind him on that.