Great American Road Trip Ep. 6 Commentary – What Else Rhymes With Coote?
Let’s get it out of the way – no one got eliminated. So this was just three families driving around the desert in RVs. At their own leisure. And this, my friends, was greenlit as a TV show. I can picture the pitch meeting:
Producer: Just think of it. The Amazing Race, but without all of the excitement.
NBC: So it will be international? We could at least get some overseas markets, I guess.
Producer: No, we’ll be going to places like Williams, Arizona.
NBC: Williams, Arizona?
Producer: Don’t worry, we’ll also go to Applebee’s.
NBC: OK. So teams race in these RVs?
Producer: No, it’s not a race. Picture traveling down Route 66 with your spouse and kids and competing in challenges.
NBC: That sounds like a ring of hell.
Producer: We can get some huge celebrities to come on the show
NBC: Really, that’s interesting. Who do you have so far?
Producer: Well, we already have Penn and Teller. And I heard Andy Williams and Yakov Smirnoff are interested.
NBC: (Silence)
Producer: Have I mentioned the host that looks like Andy Richter’s pod replacement?
NBC: Get out.
Producer: Wait, you are getting very, very sleepy (takes out pocketwatch and swings it)…
Anyway, I don’t want to waste much more time here. So the analysis of the “action,” more of the same. I said it last week that this show has become the Quest To Beat the Cootes. That and the Saga of Amy DiSal. That was essentially the entire hour – the Pollards and DiSals want to stop the Coote winning streak, and Silvio and the boys frustrate Amy.
My response to the two themes:
1. Who cares! So the Cootes are winning free Best Western rooms. Get over it.
2. Dear Amy, have you ever heard of the expression about making your bed and lying in it? Those boys are who they are thanks to the parenting you have provided. Sil acts that way because you let him.
King of the Road Challenge: Laying Pipe. Literally. Otherwise it would be on a very different network.
Pollards do the plumbing in 20:33, DiSals are a disaster and make what Amie calls a “Chinese Jungle Gym” and complete the task in 27:34. The Cootes? 19:07. They win again, but Keith is showing some strain, getting scolded by the kids for some F-bombs.
NotEnd of the Road Challenge: Cootes and Pollards compete for a hotel suite in Vegas. Penn and Teller kidnap the dads, leaving Jen and Amie and the kids to race to find clues at various hotels leading them on a chase to find the dads. Hey, actual suspense. Pollards get very, very lucky and finally earn the win.
Roadside Attractions: a few extra ones because there was really no plot this episode:
• Is anyone surprised by Amy’s revelation that they were having financial problems?
•The Roadkill Café in Williams looks cool. Menu full of roadkill dishes – one would assume it is just the name, like the Itchy and Scratchy Land theme restaurant. And about the town, is it basically a town sprung up from a collection of roadside knick-knacks like some sort of tacky golem?
• Amy says it is hard being the only woman in an Italian family of men. No, Amy, just yours.
• Robot Jen Coote about the DiSal fight. “The other husbands and wives are having words. We just need to be together. Bee-dee, bee-dee, bee-dee, Hey, Buck.”
• Silvio loves to do chants. 1-2-3, Men!
• I fell asleep for a few minutes watching the Cootes deal with Jen getting stuck in an awning. That sounds like it would be fun and interesting –it wasn’t.
• Question of the week – BroBus or Men Mobile? 1-2-3, BroBus!
• Second question of the week – which is the better New Pollard Slogan? Kick Some Cootey Booty? Or “Boot the Cootes?” Both courtesy of Amie Pollard’s refined wit.
• The Sil and Ron (Pollard) debate over whose accent is more annoying? Emmy-worthy.
• Anyone surprised by the “Vegas, Baby” comment? We even get a “whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” comment later on. Awesome.
• “Sandy” Richter may be the worst host of any reality or game show I have ever seen. He’s even worse than the Man Robot that hosted Treasure Hunters.
• Aaron Pollard learned that Vegas is not in California. I learned why Alabama schools are among the worst in the nation.
•I love how they just assumed they had to pop the clown’s balloons to get the clue. Wouldn’t it have been great if that wasn’t the show’s clue and these women and kids just assaulted a clown?
• Did Jen Coote hide a clue in her cleavage? Yep, she sure did.
• Amie essentially just reads the names of the hotels as they drive by to hear the name “Mandalay Bay” and it turns out to be a clue. That plus the Coote’s bad traffic issue earned the win for them.
• Amie continues to be self-righteous as she says she’d rather win “with class and humility,” implying the Cootes have not. Of course, then the Cootes go and refuse the kind invitation to share in the suite. And we see their kids act like sore losers, while Jen and Keith steam.
• Man, I don’t like any of these people. Most of the kids are ok, but man no one really worth rooting for.
• So there was some suspense in the outcome with the challenge … for those not paying attention. In what were clearly post-episode interviews, Amie is interviewed in the hotel room, while Jen is interviewed outside. Sigh.
Next week: Not the Finale, we are apparently getting one ore elimination first.
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