Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All up in your grill
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.06.2004
Whether on purpose or not, Raj comes nowhere particularly near returning any of Anna Kournikova's five serves. Moreover, he spends the entire time making a lame series of anti-Democrat jokes that go all the way back to Clinton, because apparently Raj didn't have any Kerry jokes handy at the time that this was filmed. Believe me, Raj, your Clinton "spin" jokes are not that funny. At any rate, because Raj misses all five serves, he has to do a dare, and the rest of the team gets together with Anna to decide that he should have to run around the stadium in his underwear once. My favorite part is that as he runs around up in the seats, the team decides to start whizzing tennis balls at him. So before you know it, there's Raj, running around having tennis balls popped in his direction by John McEnroe and Anna Kournikova. It's pretty funny, but you'd think if they were going to subject someone to physical punishment, they could've picked someone a little more deserving. Like, for instance, any of the women.
You will be shocked to hear that, back at the suite, all of the Apex women are sitting around having a divinely catty meeting to decide on whom they're going to gang up. Stacy is telling the rest of the women that Pamela was insisting that she be "shady legal," apparently by wanting Stacy to try to get the Formula 409 bottle approved or something. As we know, feigned moral outrage is Stacy's MO, for the most part. She's always up in arms about something. What I find hilarious is that Stacy now conducts an interview which she says that the reason Pamela should be fired is that "she doesn't listen to others." As opposed to Stacy, the cooperative, helpful, always-does-what-other-people-need soul that she is. She also calls Pamela "irreverent," of which, unless Stacy is running a church, I don't really see the relevance. Continuing down the road of employing language generally reserved for unfunny, jealous, bitter, used-up college professors, Stacy calls Pamela "flippant." I can't remember the last time I heard someone even remotely my age or younger use the word "flippant." Shut up, Stacy.
Sandy is next to say that it's obvious to her why they lost -- the price. And what's great about that is that they can blame it on the person they don't like who happens not to be the meeting. It's miraculous how that worked out. Imagine if someone had concluded that the script was at least bad enough that they lost one sale because of it, making that just as much of a reason why they lost as the price. That would have been so awkward. Stacy gloats happily in an interview about the fact that she successfully pawned the pricing task off on Pamela. Of course, she couches this in terms of her great offense that Pamela wouldn't listen to her advice, but you can see how she really feels about it. She's pleased as punch that she has managed to avoid responsibility for anything that happens. Yet again. Ivana tells Stacy, Maria, Sandy, and Elizabeth that in the boardroom, it will come down to either ganging up on Pamela or risking that one of them will be fired instead. I'm not sure why they're unified when they all hate each other, but whatever. Stacy snippily says in an interview that Pamela is "not up for" being Trump's apprentice. She's the one who brought it up, so I'm allowing myself one short joke, which is to say, "She who is 'not up for' reaching the cookie jar when it's on the top shelf should not talk about other people, Stacy." Elizabeth closes the meeting of the Apex women by complaining that anyone who was any sort of leader could have gotten them the victory. Except Elizabeth, because she would have cried the whole time. But anyone else.