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 & Nicole arrive at the cobra stand, and Travis interviews that at physicians, they aren't freaked out by animal parts. His only concern was that they were going to have to eat a huge plate of it, until they each got one small section just a few inches long. Bony, but small (that's what she said).
Now Tim is leading Marie all over the area near the wrong entrance, insisting they look everywhere because there's no point standing around. He is failing to consider a third option, which would be to get back in the cab to look for the right place that way. Marie says they would have seen the others by now, unless they're in the wrong area. Which, as much as one hates to admit it when Marie is right, she is. In fact, Leo & Jamal are finished with everything but a pile of bones almost as large as the original serving, so they're the first team to get the next clue. It tells them to get to the main entrance of Kawah Domas Crater. For some reason it amuses me to think that evidence of nature's destructive fury on the order of a crater -- especially one as big as this -- has something as pedestrian as a main entrance. In the cab on the way there, the Afghanimals recall their conversation on the way in, and Jamal says it was probably natural Viagra. Like they need it, the horny toolsheds.
Jason & Amy finish their cobra, though not without some complaining from Jason, who thinks he's got a bone stuck in his craw. Amy's already over it as she opens the clue sending them to the crater. And the ER docs are blithely comparing the taste to chicken as they get on their way in third place, speculating about what happened to Tim & Marie. Who are still wandering around the stone staircases and pathways as Marie continues to insist that they should be somewhere else. And unfortunately, she is still right.
Leo & Jamal are in their cab, talking about how much they want to win this tenth leg and how crucial it is, as though the antepenultimate leg isn't going to be non-elimination (spoiler[?]). They arrive at the Roadblock clue box outside the crater and open a clue with the question, "Who's feeling Hard-Boiled?" What's odd is that right under the question mark it also says, "Note: Marie must perform this Road Block." I guess Tim's already done his quota, then. What's also interesting is that they've gone back to spelling "Road Block" with two capitalized words. Great. Anyway, Phil tells us that the mountain with the nearly unpronounceable -- let alone spellable -- name (it's Mount Tangkuban Perahu, thank you Google) is actually an active, 6,800-foot volcano whose last major eruption was forty years ago. For the Road Block, the teams will need to use a long stick to carry a basket of eggs to a volcanic spring and hard-boil them in the bubbling water. "Just as the locals do," Phil claims. That's not the hard part, though. They'll first have to get the eggs -- sixty of them, to be precise -- to the crater in the first place, holding them on open-topped trays while riding for eight minutes on the back of what Phil charitably calls a "local taxi." It's actually a dirt bike on a bumpy, narrow path through the jungle, eight minutes away. Fortunately they only need to cook a dozen, so they don't all need to make it to the crater and back. A gentleman Phil refers to as the "Egg Man" will then cut them open with a knife to make sure they're properly hard-boiled, and if they are he'll hand them their next clue.