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's second batch of eggs are all good enough, and he and Nicole will also be doing "Paint Your Partner." In their cab, Travis is happy to be following Amy & Jason there. "Amy looks like she's definitely good at makeup," he says. Was that a backhanded compliment?
Marie arrives at the crater, and notices the smell and heat at once. "Now I know why Travis was sweating," she says, as though that's an unusual occurrence. Jamal is now getting his eggs checked by the Egg Man, and Tim seems increasingly sure that if all the other teams had to attempt this twice, Marie certainly will. Jamal has his clue in third place, and after he and Leo adjourn to the same scenic clue-reading spot, they decide on the tea task. They're hoping to make up some time, plus it seems like a good idea to avoid the makeup task because all the other teams have women in them. Yes, Marie and Nicole certainly seem like a couple of glamour-pusses, don't they?
"I just have to hold these here until I think I’m done?" Marie asks nobody, holding her basket of eggs over one of the boiling springs. That's not a good sign. Tim tells us it's only going to be a question of how runny her eggs will be, not even knowing that she's attempting to steam them instead of boil them. Marie is still talking about how she doesn't know what she's doing, which at this point is beyond unnecessary. Tim speculates that at the very least, Marie should at least know that the eggs need to go in the water rather than over them, which would "Pssh, blow my mind." Well, consider Tim's mind blown then, because that's exactly what's happening. Too bad Marie's not as good at poaching eggs as she is at poaching cabs.
After the ads, it is further reiterated that Marie has never boiled an egg even at 29 years of age. But fear not; she eventually lowers the basket of eggs directly into the water, probably more from impatience than anything else. But then she thinks this will only take three to four minutes, so this is barely an improvement. Tim hopes (perhaps vainly) that Marie gets that they don't have time to screw this up. And Marie narrates, "This sucks. It smells, and it's hot, and I hate eggs, and I just ate a snake. So far today blows." File that one away in case Marie claims to have loved every minute of it at the end. Ha ha, like she would ever say that about anything.
In the cab, Jason is beginning to second-guess their Detour choice, but Amy says it's just makeup. "I never put makeup on anybody in my life," Jason reminds her. "I'm just saying." They get inside the building with Nicole & Travis and get a load of their made-up bride, whose over-the-top aesthetic has Jason balking almost immediately. Still, Amy prevails upon him to sit down across from her at a makeup table covered with cosmetics and false eyelashes and the like. And just like Phil said, there's not a mirror in the room, so everyone is going to have to trust their partners. At least Jason probably doesn't need to worry about how he'll end up looking, with a pageant queen for a partner. Amy's the one who should be worried.