Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 53 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Opposites Repel
By M. Giant | Season 24 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.02.2014
Dave & Connor show up and join a circle and start their attempts. Connor interviews that soccer isn't his sport, after he played it when he was eight. Dave agrees that he never played it, and it's certainly not his, either. At least his Achilles tendon seems to be holding up.
Brendon & Rachel deliver their car to the cultural center in fourth place, and quickly decide on -- you guessed it -- Featherball. Outside, three teams' taxis are parked in a line: Jet & Cord's, Caroline & Jennifer's, and Leo & Jamal's. Only two of those teams have to disentangle a large toy car from the back of their taxis, a fact which does not go unnoticed by the Afghanimals. Nor do the country singers' repeated expressions of gratitude. Once again, Leo & Jamal figure out that another team has used an Express Pass. All three teams opt for Featherball, as you already knew. Then the Globetrotters roll up in eighth place, and as he exits his cab, Big Easy says that every time he gets out of a taxi is like emerging from a birth canal. They're doing Featherball, obviously. All the cool kids are. The uncool kids, too.
So with eight teams having finished the Roadblock, that of course leaves two of them still back there. And it's Joey & Meghan and Jessica & John. Both Meghan and John are getting pretty frustrated, until Meghan reaches into her car and it starts rolling away with her hand still in it. But it counts, so she's done. Seeing Jessica's look of despair, Joey starts trying to reassure her that there's still a lot in play. And then, instead of coming over to take off with Joey, Meghan goes over to help John finish his car. Jessica hugs Joey as though it was his idea, when clearly Joey thinks it's a terrible idea. Jessica and the Amazing Editors remind us that these two teams were allies during TAR 22, for all the good it did either of them then. When Meghan finally hands her car off to Joey and he tells her about the Express Pass (which she already knew about, because she has eyes, she says, "Must be nice to have that color hair and get everything handed to you." Which is pretty blonde-ist, if you ask me. In a post-leg interview, she fulminates, "As a girl, it's important to do stuff on your own. Playing that, like, 'I'm weak' card is just…a slap in the face for al girls. I'm just saying." Yes, and Meghan's a regular Hillary Clinton. Don't these two refer to themselves as "Team Cute?" That said, I think the headband Meghan is wearing this leg is adorable. Anyway, Jessica and John aren't far behind as Team YouTube leaves in a taxi.