Bumpy Road Ahead

Summary With Marnie Maddison being named the third graduate, there are five participants left at the Centre in the running for the title of Canada's Worst Driver. After given a lesson in the task by Phillippe, the participants, as their first challenge, are required to do a 180 degree hand brake turn within an enclosed course. Most quickly learn the task but things may be a little different on the actual challenge. There end up being a few aspiring stunt drivers among the bunch. Their second challenge is to move a vehicle laterally on a 10 meter long course in both directions using a series of S-turns. There is added pressure in that the participants will go head to head with one of their fellow participants. Their third challenge has them off-roading in a 4x4, the course which includes what are called "whoopteedo"s which in turn can dislocate the driver's thumbs if they grasp the steering wheel in the traditional manner. They are required to drive the course both forward and in reverse. With the exception of Ed, each is given another participant as their passenger to see if that makes a difference in driving ability. The final challenge is the annual water tank challenge, where the participants are required to drive through a course smoothly, of else get doused by water mounted in a tank above the car. As usual, there is a lot of "fluid" driving. During the deliberation, the panel of experts decide between the most improved driver (which is their stated primary criterion for graduation) but someone who they feel is still unsafe, versus the combination safest and a highly improved driver.

S3.E5 ∙ Bumpy Road Ahead

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Andrew Younghusband Cam Woolley Philippe Létourneau Shyamala Kiru

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Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Nov 25, 2007

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

Summary With Marnie Maddison being named the third graduate, there are five participants left at the Centre in the running for the title of Canada's Worst Driver. After given a lesson in the task by Phillippe, the participants, as their first challenge, are required to do a 180 degree hand brake turn within an enclosed course. Most quickly learn the task but things may be a little different on the actual challenge. There end up being a few aspiring stunt drivers among the bunch. Their second challenge is to move a vehicle laterally on a 10 meter long course in both directions using a series of S-turns. There is added pressure in that the participants will go head to head with one of their fellow participants. Their third challenge has them off-roading in a 4x4, the course which includes what are called "whoopteedo"s which in turn can dislocate the driver's thumbs if they grasp the steering wheel in the traditional manner. They are required to drive the course both forward and in reverse. With the exception of Ed, each is given another participant as their passenger to see if that makes a difference in driving ability. The final challenge is the annual water tank challenge, where the participants are required to drive through a course smoothly, of else get doused by water mounted in a tank above the car. As usual, there is a lot of "fluid" driving. During the deliberation, the panel of experts decide between the most improved driver (which is their stated primary criterion for graduation) but someone who they feel is still unsafe, versus the combination safest and a highly improved driver.

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Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Nov 25, 2007

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

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In the Diplomatic Service

In the Diplomatic Service

Dick Stansbury chooses a life of travel and pleasure rather than a more useful career. He returns from three years of foreign travel. His uncle, Major Blaine, interests him in a bold breach of ethics made by one of the foreign diplomats, Doctor Montell, but as yet nothing has been proved against the doctor, as he knows all the men in the Secret Service in Washington. Dick met him abroad, and Major Blaine persuades him to undertake the task of Doctor Montell's unmasking. Beverly Ryerson has a friend, an eccentric young authoress, Helen Wardlow, who is disgusted because, she says, there is no more originality in life. Beverly assures her that such is not the case. Dick, Beverly, Doctor Montell, Helen, Mrs. Ryerson, Beverly's step-mother, and her nephew, Lyna Hardi, who is loaning her money to pay her bridge debts, and who in return demands that she aid his cause with Beverly, are all at the Diplomats' Ball. Dick and Dr. Montell interest the girls and they induce Mrs. Ryerson to invite the men to a party at her country-house. Dick seizes the opportunity to ensnare the doctor in a plot that will prove his deceptions against the government. Dick has invented a "machine gun," supposed to fire a bomb that will burst anywhere within several hundred feet of an airship, asphyxiating the pilot and passengers with poisonous gas. He brings the model of the gun with him to the house-party, and takes care to talk about his invention where Montell can overhear him. He is soon approached by Montell with a proposition to deceive his own government, and sell the model to a foreign nation. Dick asks for time to consider the offer. Montell is determined to have the invention at once, and Hardi attempts to steal it for him, but is prevented by a Secret Service man. His reason for this move is that in trying to discredit big rival he has told Beverly that Dick is a traitor to his country. He has arranged for Beverly to overhear Dr. Montell and Dick talking about the invention. Though Dick has so far refused to sell, she fears he may succumb to the doctor's inducements, and to save him Beverly surreptitiously takes the model to her own room, though it is soon returned to Dick by one of his detectives. Montell and two accomplices then try to steal the model. Dick has been warned of their approach. He extends a wire from one of the house-lights to the model, and gets the janitor to operate a magneto at a signal. When the three malefactors step on a wet rug with the machine, they are held fast by the sudden shock of the electricity and caught by Dick. The ignominious recall of Dr. Montell by his own country is inevitable. Dick spares Hardi, since he has plotted against him only as a rival, not against him as a representative of the foreign government. In order to clear Beverly's mind of any possible doubt as to his loyalty to the nation, Dick next day asks her to accompany him to a junk dealer, to whom he offers his "wonderful invention." The junk-dealer finally consents to give him twenty-five cents for it. Out of sentiment, however, Beverly buys it back for $25. A happy denouement follows, and Helen, having found ample material for a plot, types busily away on her new story.

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