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
The exes and the ER docs are both still struggling back at the makeup task, and Tim & Marie discover that touching up makeup with black paint all over your fingers just gets your subject more messed up. After addressing that problem -- which Nicole still hasn't, for some reason -- they get their clue in second place and are on their way to the Pit Stop. So they went from second place to last and back to second.
Back to the tea field, where Jamal says they've spent three hours. Leo rhapsodizes wistfully about the fall of Leo & Jamal, comparing themselves to Spartacus as though they were ever that great to begin with. Leo hears a snake, and although Jamal tells him not to be afraid, Leo comes around a corner in the hedge in time to get struck at by a big, black, hooded snake. Now, I looked into it, and apparently there are some kinds of snakes that display hoods that aren't cobras. So in case you were worried, it's possible that the snake never presented any serious danger to the Amazing Cameraman. But Leo's had enough, and says he's not looking in that spot any more. Then Jamal cries out, "I found it! I found it! Not." Oh, that's always hilarious when you're searching desperately for something. Leo: "Bitch." I just made a startling realization: when Leo speaks in sentences of one word, I tend to agree with him.
Nicole & Travis get another thumbs-down, and he finally looks at her hands, which are covered in black paint. Why is he the one who had to notice that? I'm starting to get why he's so frequently frustrated with her. She says she'll have to clean off his entire face because it's smudged. What, and start over? Travis quietly complains, but it doesn't take that long after all and they get approval on the next try, so I guess all she did was clean off the smudges. I still don't get how she didn't see them as a problem. In any case, they're finally off to the Pit Stop, as Travis says he thinks they chose the wrong Detour. Now he tells her.
Besides, Leo & Jamal might disagree, as they are certain they've checked everywhere and have still found nothing. And they've fallen to bickering , as Jamal "guarantees" that the clippers were in one of the rows Leo searched. And we all know what it means when Jamal guarantees something. Leo gets defensive in the usual highly productive way, and finally Jamal finds a pair, which he smacks on the top of the hedges after pulling it free. "Getting your hands dirty actually does work," he lectures before they get their clue to the Pit Stop. Leo admits that he wasn't checking the tops of the bushes. "What'd I tell you?" Jamal says bitterly in the cab to the Pit Stop. Keep in mind, there wasn't just one pair of clippers they didn't find for hours; there had to be at least four.