Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Water, water, everywhere, and yet it costs a lot
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.25.2004
S4. As soft, encouraging music plays, Heidi sends good wishes to Mom back home. She interviews tearily about how they devoted all the water-selling to Mom, which...I still don't get, but whatever.
And now, it's helicopter time. Troy calls the Trumpcopter "so classy...a limo with propellers on it." Troy and Amy make an oh-so-cute joke about how Heidi -- seated between them -- should turn the other way if she's going to throw up. That's one of the most Mary-Kate and Ashley jokes I've ever seen on this show, and I think they learned it under the watchful eye of Bob Saget, so that is some pedigree, cheese-comedy-wise. They fly around Manhattan in the helicopter, and Troy has Heidi and Amy show him all the stuff he's been missing, like the Empire State Building, which he apparently didn't notice until now. It's easy to miss when you're running around selling water and dreaming about ways to make money from dirt. Troy is particularly elated that they take him past "the most beautiful woman in the world," the Statue of Liberty. Well, the most beautiful besides his wife, who isn't, after all, green or hundreds of feet tall (I assume). He stares dumbfounded at the statue. Yawwwwn. I mean, it's nice, and I love New York too, but that's not why I'm watching the show. Enough travelogue! Enough music! Less happiness! More agony! "I'm going to have to say this ranks as the best prize yet," Amy says happily. And at home, when I heard that line, I swear to God, I said out loud, "Better than the picnic? On the lawn?"
When we return to S4 after the commercials, we come directly to a close-up of Boyfriend Bill's eyes. Gift for me! Happily, he has hard-to-manage eyebrows, just like I do. He's working at the computer when Ereka comes out to see him. "Hey, dude," she says. "I need to talk to you." Yeah, she called him "dude," because that will wash away all the pain. He voices over, as they head for the living room to chat, that as they prepare for the Boardroom, there's a lot of maneuvering going on. When he and Ereka are situated, she tells him that Nick is going to the final table, partly because "Kat" (bleh) said that Nick didn't give his all while they were selling. And "Kat" would be, after all, a totally unbiased source for that piece of information. Ereka then announces that Bill will "kill" her, but she's taking him in as well. Well, I'm sure that comes as a huge surprise. She says that she needs Bill with her when she deals with Nick (bleh), and she promises that if she's asked why Bill is there, she's going to say that the only reason she brought him is that he was with her when she closed some of the bigger deals. What kind of sense does that make? "He was with me for some of our few successes, so I figured, 'Fuck him.'" Great logic. She says, "Okay?" in this patronizing way, and then she voices over that she's taking Bill to the final table because George was stuck on how they did with the distributors, but she has also told Bill how she feels about Nick. "He's in the loop," she says, because apparently, she sets the loop, and then others just dance in and out of it on command.