Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sam's Enchanted Leaving
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.20.2004
Night in Manhattan. The men file into the Boardroom and sit down. The big door swings, and Donald and The Hair enter the room. Before he's even seated, Donald is giving them crap. "You know, as a man, I'm so disappointed with you guys," he says. Yeah, it's not just themselves they're hurting. They've let down the entire testosterone community. He asks George what happened, and George turns to Sam for the explanation, given that he was the team leader. "I think we had a successful plan," Sam says, "and everybody understood the plan, and at the end of the day, although everyone did try, it was not implemented." Nice try, ass. The plan sucked. Admit that the plan sucked. Because the plan? Sucked. Donald asks Kwame if he thought what happened was Sam's fault. "Yeah. I think it is Sam's fault," Kwame says calmly, to a smirk from Sam. Kwame says that they knew from the beginning that two of the items with a large spread were the leg wax and the golf club. In fact, he says, those are the items where they got killed. (Yep, those two things account for almost all of the difference between the teams.) Kwame argues that Sam pulled them back when they were going to get the cheap leg wax, forcing them to go buy the gold right away. Sam wouldn't listen, Kwame says, to their response that there just wasn't enough difference in pre-noon and post-noon gold prices to justify being yanked all over town. Boyfriend Bill mentions that as far as the golf club, one of the two places Sam told them to call didn't even carry golf clubs. Truly, that was a bad blunder.
Nick the diplomat is asked whether he thinks Sam is a leader. He says that he thinks Sam "displayed leadership qualities," but that he wouldn't necessarily have made the same decisions Sam did. The question of Sam's leadership is posed to Bowie, and Bowie says he believes that Sam isn't able to be a leader, because the rest of the team constantly has to do maintenance to keep him calm and functioning. What does Kwame think? "I think he's already shown some success, but in your role, no, I don't think he'd be capable," Kwame says.
Sam starts to argue in his own defense. He claims that the whole thing comes down to "respect." If his teammates had respected him, it would all have worked. And who, Donald wonders, did not respect him? "Kwame and Bowie," Sam says. Now I ask you, what could Kwame and Bowie have done about the golf club? About the leg wax? What could they have done, beyond follow Sam's orders, which is what they did? Donald asks Sam if he respects these guys in return. Sam says he respects everyone at the table. "I have not earned the full respect --" "That's for sure," Donald interjects. Ooh, ouch. "That's probably the most true statement that you've made," Trump says. A debate ensues in which Sam insists that he needs respect in order to lead, and Trump keeps telling him that you can't just tell people to respect you. You have to earn people's respect. Sam just does not get it. Carolyn points out that even if you haven't yet earned respect, you sometimes have to demand it, and Sam offers that he "could have demanded it better." Yeah. You could have, but...to what end? They did what Sam said. Lack of respect was not the issue, which is what makes this conversation so bizarre.
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