Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Games of the video and Olympic varieties
By Miss Alli | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 05.11.2005
Trump returns to Tana, warming up for my least favorite segment by asking her whether she thinks not being "highly educated" is a disadvantage. Tana insists that education has nothing to do with the job. Really? Nothing? "My education came from the street," she says. Yes, the mean streets of Iowa, and the mean streets of the University of Virginia. It's a wonder she doesn't have more tattoos. She insists that she can handle people "in the street." At least if they want makeup.
Trump asks Kendra if she thinks Tana is at a big disadvantage because Kendra is educated and she isn't. Kendra says she does think lack of education is a liability. Kendra says that it's her position that when you start college, or anything else, "you should finish what you start." So that's a reference, you see, to the fact that Tana started college, but didn't finish. Trump asks Tana about that, and Tana confirms that she started college, went three years, and quit. She explains that she got married and left the state for her husband's job, but...you can still finish. She brings up the fact that she had kids, and Trump wants out of this boring conversation, so he says there's "no better thing to do than have children." Which totally isn't what he thinks, unless your kids are diamond-encrusted, but okay.
Trump now asks Tana whether she, the little Midwestern lady, is really equipped to deal with New York City in the first place. She insists that she can handle people from New York. "I know how to run with the wolves," Tana says, throwing in a comment that she's "not needy." Whatever that means. Kendra argues that she already does business with New Yorkers and people from all over the country. Tana argues that she's strong and doesn't "frazzle easily." And then she returns to her favorite theme, which is not being fooled by the fact that she's such a "nice person." I really don't think she's all that nice a person, if she really wants to know. But she sure thinks she is!
Trump goes to his favorite question now. "Kendra," he says seriously, "do you think you're better than Tana?" Kendra tries not to answer it, saying only, "I think that I want this more than Tana." Tana jumps in, wearing a genuine and true bitchface: "I have more at home waiting for me than Kendra does," she says with disgust. "She's alone, and I have two children and a husband. She's left nothing."
Oh. I get it. Not married, no kids. Therefore, she is alone. Because there is no one in the world except husbands and kids. That must be why if you don't have a husband or kids, your life -- all that you leave behind if you go into a secluded situation like this -- amounts to "nothing." You can have a business, perhaps a boyfriend/girlfriend, a family (you know, a family of origin, the kind Tana thinks doesn't count), friends you would lie on railroad tracks for...but you still leave "nothing." Yes, you are footloose and fancy-free, and you have no obligations whatsoever. Welcome to the free, easy, and entirely uncomplicated life of the single woman. I know I'm enjoying mine! I could get up tomorrow, leave town for six weeks, and nothing in my life would change at all. I would leave nothing! That obnoxious, self-important jerkweed. GOD.