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
Jamal decides to take this Road Block, and he and Leo go walking off in search of the Egg Man. When the other two teams who have finished eating snake show up in their taxis shortly thereafter, Travis and Jason take this one. They all head to the egg stand and grab two trays, then are pretty intimidated to realize they're going to have to hold them on the backs of the motorcycles. The riding commences, and Jason's driver goes the short way around a tree that's inconveniently located in the middle of the path, getting him in front of Jamal for now. And that's the end of the Afghanimals' lead. Eventually the bikes drop them off, and then they have to negotiate an uneven, stony, root-strewn footpath to the actual crater. With two and a half dozen raw eggs in hand, I remind you.
Tim & Marie are now back in their cab, at least, but they're still fretting about not having seen any other teams. As they should.
"I smell fart-bombs," Jamal says as they approach the crater. I would imagine the reek of sulfur must be pretty powerful, but I'm surprised they're not used to it from hanging around Marie and her cloud of brimstone. There are several plastic pasta strainers mounted on long bamboo poles, and they load their eggs into these, which they carry to the hottest-looking spring and dip inside. Now that there's nothing to do but wait for a while, there are two questions on their minds: 1) how long to boil the eggs, and 2) where the hell are Tim & Marie?
Meanwhile, back at the waiting area, Amy asks Leo how quickly Tim & Marie finished the cobra task, which of course they didn't. Leo answers, "Uhhhhh…," and Amy whispers to Nicole, "He's such a liar." Nicole turns her face away to hide a smirk, either because she doesn't want Leo to see or because she doesn't want to make Amy feel bad about just now having figured that out.
Out at the spring, Jason and Travis are agreeing that ten to twelve minutes should do it, but they should wait fifteen just to be safe. Though they suggest Jamal take his in five minutes early just to check. Jamal doesn't seem to entirely appreciate the suggestion. Soon Travis notices cracks in some of the shells, which he thinks means they're boiling faster than they expected. I'm used to shells sometimes cracking as soon as they're in the water, so I am not entirely on board with Travis's theory.
Tim & Marie appear to have driven clear through the CIC, which is when they belatedly discover that there are two entrances, by virtue of having finally arrived at the right one, from the inside. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that they haven't fallen to bickering and blaming each other over it, though. Marie's probably too stressed out over what she's going to have to choke down to work up a good head of steam about it. They get out and Marie prays that it'll be a vegetable, but is horrified to realize that she's going to be asked to eat snake. She interviews that she "just can't eat gross stuff. I just can't eat things like that." Up at the waiting area for the Road Block, Nicole and Amy are telling Leo that Marie doesn't eat anything but lettuce, and they don't think she's going to eat this. And Judging by Marie's reaction when her plate of snake is put down in front of her, neither does she.