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
Marie returns to the egg stand on the back of her "local taxi" (still a rickety motorcycle), and Tim starts stressing all over again: "Oh God, be right, be right." The Egg Man starts cutting them open, and for maximum suspense, we don't get a look at any yolks at first. Tim is asking Marie whether they're light yellow or dark yellow. "I don't know, like a yellow. I don't do yolks," Marie non-answers. Tim tells her that people had to do this twice because they didn't boil them long enough, which I'm sure she had already figured out. Tim claims to be freaking out, but Tim in freakout mode is still more mellow than Marie's baseline. In any case, Marie earns her clue, so she probably made up some time by being the only person to finish this Road Block on the first try. As they head up the path to read it, Tim confesses to thinking she'd blow it (better she hear it now than see it on TV later), and she reminds him that she always overcooks. Upon opening the Detour clue, she wants to do the makeup option, but Tim thinks that's the one everyone will do. Marie isn't worried about that. "Travis can't do makeup, Jay can't do makeup. You're so metro, you'll do fine." And when he does, she'll still take credit for it, or find a way to make it into a putdown-- oh, wait.
The task is starting to be less fun for Jason and Travis, now that they've gotten to the part with the glittery gold stickers and the false eyelashes. Jason calls it "tedious and humiliating," and Travis is so sweaty that Nicole is reduced to tacking the decals to his hair with bobby pins. The beautician observes her deploying technique with naked, gape-mouthed horror until he realizes Travis is looking at him, whereupon he quickly plasters on a transparent "make it work" face. I like the beautician.
Jamal leads Leo to a tea-picker and asks what the flag is for. "For cut-ting?" he asks in pidgin. "Do I get a clue?" God knows he needs one, but he's not getting it for that. He thinks they have to now go find another flag and make a pair of shears out of it. Jamal is waving the flag as though in surrender as Leo speculates that there are no clipping shears and they just use their hands. Because trick questions are what the Amazing Race is all about. "And that's, like, a give-up flag," he finally speculates. Whatever the case, they have no idea what they're looking for. I just hope they haven't disrupted the operation of this tea field by uprooting vital markers.
Tim & Marie are glad to catch up to the other teams at the makeup task, though Tim isn't glad to be using an actual razor blade on his face for the first time in seven years. And it turns out that Marie doesn't wear any more makeup than he does, so they might already be in trouble. Again.