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
Jason & Amy are the third team to leave the mat, at 7:40 AM. Amy says she loves eating challenges, either sarcastically or not. Jason, however, has doubts that seem pretty sincere. Before they leave, Amy interviews that they're the only team left who hasn't won a single leg. "We're the best losers," Jason agrees. But he adds that they've beaten all the other teams repeatedly, which is also true. In the cab, Amy says they already know what a picky eater Marie is. It must be pretty serious if it's known even to other teams.
Finally, Nicole & Travis are the fourth and last team to start this leg, at 7:42 AM. Travis reminds us what a "mess" the last leg was for them, and Nicole continues to blame herself for not understanding the Roadblock at all. Nicole gives us a little insight into their relationship by telling us that Travis was her supervising physician when she was a medical student. And apparently he still treats her that way sometimes. Well, that's not creepy at all.
The Afghanimals' cab is approaching the Route Info as Leo frets that they might have to eat snake. "They don't eat snakes here," Jamal says in that confident-yet-wrong tone of his that we've come to know so well. Sure enough, moments later, they're at the stand, watching the cobras striking and hissing in screened cages and glass tanks. They act like this is the worst thing ever. I'm a pretty picky eater myself, but I've eaten rattlesnake. Granted, it was in patty form and not still identifiable as snake like it is here, skin and all. Still, I'd be willing to try grilled cobra. As long as it doesn't have raisins in it, because that's just gross.
Meanwhile, Tim & Marie are arriving at the south entrance of a place called CIC, whatever that is. I can tell you that it's definitely not the bridge of the Galactica, though. They're congratulating themselves on having found it so quickly, but when they get out, they're a little confused to not see the Afghanimals already there, given that they were only a minute ahead. Meanwhile, at CIC's north entrance -- which is the correct one, as it turns out -- Jason & Amy are already showing up. Jamal plays food critic, saying, "It's very chewy and rubbery" in between overly theatrical full-body gags. Jason & Amy belly up to the counter to join them, and Amy asks whether Marie & Tim have already been and gone. And you know how the Afghanimals generally react to an opportunity to lie; yep, they jump all over that shit. "It's not even lying, it's like joking!" Leo says in their post-leg interview. "It's just like messing around." "It's manipulating their brains," Jamal says. They're going to make two girls so happy someday. Jason & Amy are presented with their servings, and at least the Afghanimals stop short of lying that they have to eat the bones, too.