Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Your ad here
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 03.10.2004
Nick goes to visit Umberto about the credit. When he walks in, Umberto asks if he's there to negotiate the credit, and Nick says no, he's just there to give him the whole $250 back that he spent on the sign. Outside the restaurant, he gets a call from Boyfriend Bill on the Space Communicator. Bill wants to know how it's going. Nick spills that he gave the entire $250 back to Umberto. Bill is extremely bummed, and passes along the word to the women, both of whom seem to agree that a complete refund of the cost of that particular sign may have been excessive. Bill, in worrying-PM mode, interviews that Protégé can be very creative, and you never know what they're going to come up with. "This is New York City," he says. "Nothing's out of the question." Well, except cheap apartments. I really don't appreciate the way that Boyfriend Bill got stuffed under this stupid Marquis Jet hat all day, by the way, because it makes him look like a dweeb. Remember, I, the Viewer, am all that matters!
Elsewhere, Protégé is attempting sidewalk sales of their ride cards. Heidi is unable to get anyone to bite on what she's offering. As she gets increasingly frustrated and goofy, Carolyn -- cool as a cuke in a gorgeous black leather jacket with a fur collar -- stands there looking increasingly dismayed. At one point, Heidi loudly comments that "people need to have more sex, because everyone is just so miserable." That would certainly make me want to stop and buy something from her. As she's standing around lamenting her existence, she notices a pedicab rolling by. Protégé watches the pedicab, and they notice the big poster on the back. There is much sadness and moaning as they realize that VersaCorp has sold advertising on the rickshaws. "That's a great idea," Troy says simply in an interview. "I didn't think of it." Heh. You can just tell, as Troy takes in the passing pedicab, that he is extremely irked at the mere thought that there was an offbeat idea out there that didn't occur to him. And I suspect he's especially annoyed by the fact that it isn't really that special of an idea, and it probably should have occurred to him. Heidi asks him whether he's all right, and he says that he is, but then he interviews, "We were lookin' up the ass of a dead dog with fleas if we thought we were gonna go up against 'em." I don't completely know what that means, and I'm not sure that even a Troy-to-English dictionary, if one existed, would endorse that particular use of that expression, but it beats another use of "thinking outside the box."