Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT For a small person, she was very annoying
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.20.2004
We do indeed see a little doggie getting a nice bath. Elsewhere, Elizabeth tells a guy that they're doing "doggie makeovers." Hmm. I'm not sure a bath will satisfy customers who are looking for a makeover for a dog. And furthermore, do you really want to meet anyone who would buy a makeover for a dog? It doesn't really matter, though, because when Raj adds that it's twenty bucks, the prospective customer bails. The attempts to stop people on the street and convince them to have their dogs washed just appear not to be working, so something is awry with either the price or the product or both. Elizabeth points out that after the supplies they bought, they haven't even broken even until they come up with at least a few dogs to wash. Raj interviews that some dogs don't want to be washed, some people don't have money with them...it's going somewhat roughly at this point. Raj refers to it as "a big cluster...screw-up situation." Heh.
Raj heads back to check in with Kevin, who reports that they've washed about ten dogs. Raj looks unhappy. He adds in an interview that Jen made an early decision to stick with simple dog-washing, and he was "deeply concerned" that they weren't getting enough customers. He goes to Jen and tells her that three of the team members could go and try to start up in another location, but she's concerned that if three of them go off and can't find a good place because there's not a water supply where they can do washing, those three could wind up being basically idled for a period of time. Jen wants Raj to just go back out and sell to people, and he insists that he's doing his best and it's not working. What's interesting about that conversation is that I'm not sure either of them is entirely right, but they have the discussion in a calm way, and he doesn't berate her, and she doesn't get unnecessarily bossy, and both of them understand that she's going to make the final call, and that he may not like it. Sure, he complains in his interview that he's frustrated not to have two locations going, but he doesn't really act like a dick to her, and you don't get the feeling that he's trying to be unprofessional. He doesn't agree with her at all, and he thinks they're screwed, he says so, but ultimately, he spoke his mind without being unnecessarily obnoxious, which isn't easy for a guy who wears a bow tie.
More dogs, and then we are with Mosaic, where the idea of giving a chunk of profits to charity has come up again, with the first idea being sending the money to a fire station. Because...dogs, get it? Kelly runs down the makeup of the team, and puts in that Stacy "can get a little annoying." Hmm, interesting. They do seem to be able to reach consensus after all. At least about some things. Wes adds that they, too, were trying to keep it simple, mostly just washing dogs and adding the charity element. Unfortunately, when they get to the fire station, there's nobody there, and the guy they get on the Space Communicator tells them that they'd have to call the press office for that. Wes perseveres, asking if they can just hand over cash at the end of the day, but nothing doing. Stacy bitches to the camera that they've just "wasted about two hours on the New York Fire Department." Yeah, those assholes. She says that this "was not [her] responsibility." That's true, you know. Her contract clearly states that she's in charge of haranguing, indignation, and blame-shifting. There's nothing on there about philanthropy. "Our failure is solely attributed to Wes," she adds. Well, maybe. But her incredibly weird-looking shoe choices along about here are solely (get it? "solely"?) attributed to her. And, I suppose, to her weird desire to look like an adult version of Minnie Mouse. Seriously, are those anklets and heels? Didn't that go out in, like, 1985? And even then, wasn't it mostly tenth-graders? And...mostly the trampy ones? ["And didn't they know how to walk in them? Way to draw attention to exactly the shortcoming (…heh) you're trying to hide, counselor." -- Sars]