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
Nicole & Travis are on their way there too, as Travis says they've worked too hard to go home now. And it looks like they won't, because their taxi has overtaken Tim & Marie's on the road, and in fact passes it. The deeply startled exes tell their driver to go faster, only to watch him bumble and grin and get them stuck behind a slow-moving truck. Marie says they can only hope the Afghanimals are still out in the tea field, "but, I mean, that would be ridiculous."
Leo & Jamal are, of course, all about ridiculous. They're not still in the field, but they're not at the Pit Stop, either, so this just became a three-way race for last place. They're pretty bitter about having found the clippers in the first area they checked, which could have saved them hours, and instead they could be eliminated, "based on stupid, stupid mistakes." Yes, but another mistake is assuming that the third non-elimination leg is going to be leg eleven.
Travis & Nicole's taxi gets snarled in traffic in a downtown area, and Marie spots a family of four on a single motorcycle. I know I said in last week's recap that people do that there, but we haven't seen it until now, which makes me pretty fucking cool. The next vehicle of interest they spot is actually Nicole & Travis's taxi. Their driver passes it by squeezing around a dump truck through a space narrower than the cab itself. "What a move!" Tim cheers, while Marie bitterly says, "Now he gets it." "Extra hundred thousand," Tim adds, promising a bigger tip for either the assertive driving or for having to put up with Marie's attitude. By the way, a hundred thousand Indonesian rupiahs is eight bucks and change, or about a third of their allowance for this leg. Behind them, Travis observes the buses are pulling into traffic between them and the exes' cab, so they're falling even farther behind. A few shots of rooftop monkeys later, the exes arrive at the parking lot just ahead of the ER docs. Tim tips the driver handsomely because he'd rather get to the mat than get his change back, and soon all four of them are racing down the steps. Or rather three of them are, with Travis racing to catch up with Tim and Marie while Nicole picks her way down. At the bottom, Tim and Travis both jump for the mat, but Tim lands on it first and it doesn't count anyway until their partners arrive. Tim calls up to Marie to hurry for once, and she beats Nicole to the mat, much to Travis's obvious frustration. "Come onnnn," he whines. Tim & Marie are team number two, and Nicole & Travis are team number there. "And I thought Jason looked bad," Phil tells Travis. "But you are an-- you look like an angry showgirl." And Travis is not beautiful when he's angry.