Season 3 Episodes
312: Flying with the Birds
Missions:
11: Paragliding
My comments:
The job handing out flyers would have to be the easiest job that they have had yet.
It is cool seeing Chris trying to take care of Michelle, it make you think that there is more to it..
What Bonnie had to say about the episode:
Original Air Date: March 24, 1997
Segment #1
This mission (Part 1): Promote a Party
The gang is still in Lourdes, France. At night, Chris offers his shirt for Michelle to sleep in for the night. He takes it off and gives it to her. Chris says, in confessional, that he and Michelle had something in common since the first day.
A huge can of peas fall on his Chris' head in the Winnie and Michelle goes into motherly-mode and puts his bruised head in her lap. She says they both have a lot of baggage from their past relationships.
When they get to their scheduled destination, they all go on a boat, Deck C, Room 56 on the trans Mediterranean.
They are off to Ibiza, Spain.
Antoine tells the group that people come here to let themselves go. They go to Cafe Amboa. Lots of scenes of topless beach bathers. The group discovers they will be handing out flyers on the beach to promote a party.
As they hand out flyers to people on the beach, they begin to notice that many of the people are completely nude. Antoine feels like he's hassling people with the flyers. Michelle felt like she couldn't approach the men because many of them were nude. Patrice says, jokingly, "Here's a flyer, put it wherever you can find a place for it."
Segment #2
Belou takes a pic of Michelle and Chris together. Alan, the club owner, gathers everyone and pays them a lot for their work. They all go to the party they promoted that day. Michelle says the club is wild. Chris meets an English girl named Louise. Michelle seems to be jealous. So she flirts with some guy named Christian and they hit it off almost immediately.
A singer with the band that's playing at the club sings the next clue to the group, but only Patrice notices it. He tells Chris the singers says they are all going paragliding next. Michelle is kissing Christian when they try to find her and tell her the news.
Chris is excited about paragliding. They meet with two guys named Raymond and Peach the next day who lend them scooters to ride to the paragliding site. Chris thinks Michelle and a scooter are not a good mix. She runs into a parked car as soon as she starts up the scooter. She seems to be left behind in the others' dust as she tries to get on her scooter again. This time she wrecks again and everyone drops their scooters to see what happened.
Segment #3
Michelle is found behind the house freaking out. Belou and Chris were scared something terrible had happened to her. She basically scraped up her arm fairly bad and they go to find the first aid kit.
Chris says he's very attracted to her. Michelle says he's in Boston and she's in LA and so it could never realistically work out. Antoine gives Michelle a ride on his scooter the rest of the way.
Chris says they have to have a lot of wind in order to paraglide well. Antoine says you also need a tall hill and a decent drop to catch the wind. They outfit Michelle in a red jacket and a helmet. Patrice jokes that if she doesn't make it back in one piece, can he have her sunglasses. ha ha
This mission (Part 2): Paragliding
Michelle paraglides with one of the instructors (as will everyone). She says if you catch a good breeze you get a great floating sensation. Belou goes next. She compares it soaring like an eagle. Antoine is next. He says he felt like he was defying gravity.
Patrice says he wants to go as high up as possible. Chris is next. He says he expected to sink like a rock, but instead he went the highest of them all.
Mission 11 completed.
The next clue they find says: Moustessa= mustard. Chris says he thinks its going to be a paintball game. Chris says he's worried it may be the last mission and everyone will start getting sad about the end of their journey together.
What MTV had to say about the episode:
Flying with the Birds
In Lourdes, Chris gets touchy with a pretty English girl while the gang is out dancing and Michelle goes looking for her own playmate. A rapper at the club informs the posse that the following day will find them gliding -- paragliding, that is. The next morning they get on scooters and head to the site, and poor Michelle wipes out and gets herself a gnarly road rash. They get their next clue --goggles, army fatigues, and a bottle of mustard -- and wonder, what's next?
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