Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kelly and Jen, sitting in a tree
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 12.08.2004
Oh, and Jen winds up by telling Sandy how she (meaning Sandy) clearly "walk[s] around feeling inferior." You know what? I have never gotten the impression that Sandy feels inferior to Jen. Ever. And in my experience, the surest sign of an inferiority complex is the need to tell other people that they clearly feel inferior to you. So yeah, there's a complex in this room, but it ain't Sandy's. It's Jen's, because people like Sandy -- happy, successful, self-assured, and not working ninety hours a week doing work they hate in the service of people who don't give a flying mighty damn about them -- are a serious problem for people like Jen, who really prefer to think their choices make them superior to others, because how freaking depressing is it if they don't? Believe me when I tell you, law schools and the legal profession are full of outstanding, interesting, bright, dedicated, deeply satisfied people. But they're also full of petty, mean, self-important, unfulfilled snobs, and it's those people who have to run around telling everyone how they're on "a higher level" than everyone else.
Sigh. But of course, Trump's hard-on for Jen continues unabated, and he jumps in to say that he "loved the attack and the defense of Jennifer." And it was right there, when he praised Jen for being nakedly insecure, insulting, patronizing, obnoxious, evasive, and just plain flat-out fucking mean, that I just lost interest in Trump. Not just this season, but for good. Where have we gone, for God's sake, from last season, in which the nastiest person they had in the top five was Amy, who was just kind of snooty and full of herself and was that girl you knew in high school who got away with murder by wrinkling her nose? Holy sweet snow cones, this is an unpleasant group of people, and Jen is at the very top of the heap. And I'll tell you something else -- people will put up with jerkweed behavior from an attorney, because they think it benefits them. They like having a jerk for an attorney. They think it means the attorney will fight hard for them. But they don't like having a jerk for a boss, and they don't like to do business with people who gaze down at them like they're smelly peasants. Have fun as a manager, Jen.
Anyway, Trump lies to Sandy that the Horsemen "just weren't impressed with [her]," which isn't true, considering that at least one of them specifically said he was very impressed with her. But Trump fires her anyway, because he's a big snob, and he has some kind of an insane fixation on Jen that no amount of crap behavior and lack of productivity on her part can shake loose. So Sandy gets up and leaves, voicing over that she outperformed Jen, and she has no regrets. I actually wound up kind of liking her -- at least as compared to Jen. Who, in case I haven't recently mentioned it, sucks. I'm working on getting over it.