Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Degradation with a crisp candy shell
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 12.01.2004
Kelly, weirdly, tries to argue that it's not, in fact, about price, proving again that the person who isn't in danger should always, always shut up. Trump seems baffled. Mosaic sold fewer bars and made twice as much money, Kelly. That's called "It's about price." What's Kelly's argument? "I think it's about, we underestimated the other team," he says. But ultimately, didn't that manifest itself in...price? I think it did. Because they weren't separately scored on perceptiveness (now that is something you'd have to grade on a curve). George tells Kelly that this is actually one of the worst things you can say about yourself, that you overlooked the opponent. "That's a flaw. That's a serious flaw," he says. Kelly squirms. Not learning the lesson about shutting up, Kelly decides to go on the offensive against Ivana, saying that as far as the price, in the morning, Ivana wasn't able to "control Kevin" when he started selling the bars cheaper. Carolyn asks how that came about, and Ivana says that Kevin came and told her that he was going to sell the bars for less money after becoming concerned that he couldn't sell them at the price they'd set. "And did you say that was okay?" Carolyn asks. Ivana says it started without her approval, but doesn't really mention anything about what she did -- which was nothing -- when she found out. Carolyn asks Kevin whether this is true, that Kevin dropped the price without consulting the PM. "Kevin," Trump jumps in, "didn't you really set the price too low?" Kevin initially denies having set the price, which I think will raise a few eyebrows. He admits, though, that he certainly didn't expect to be able to sell a candy bar that would normally retail at 75 cents or so for more than two dollars. Because Kevin is still living in a parallel universe in which logic is relevant. Trump asks, though, who set the lowest price. Kelly confirms that the responsibility for the lower prices would be on Kevin.
George moves on to asking Kelly whom he would fire. Kelly says he'd fire Ivana, in spite of his "great respect" for both of them. "I think this is the strongest three people that have ever been together," he says. "You really believe that?" Trump asks. Ha! Seriously. Kelly insists that he does. "Oh, really?" Trump asks, still not really sure that Kelly could possibly be serious. Trump moves on to something a little more quantifiable, in case Kelly is just being all abstract. He asks Kelly why three people only made a few candy bars more than two people. Of course, the answer to that totally depends on what the limiting factors on the production line were, and the extra person may or may not have made any difference. Kelly doesn't answer.