Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The big gamble
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.24.2004
Elsewhere, Katrina is wearing a preppy sherbet-green sweater and voicing over that she may go tonight because of Amy and Nick's relationship. Of course, she doesn't allow for the possibility that she might go because she isn't that good and because Trump has already made it clear that he can't stand her, but why suddenly start getting all rational now? Troy wishes VersaCorp luck as they head for the Boardroom.
Katrina, Nick, and Amy get off the elevator. Katrina and Amy are both working the tiny skirts for all they're worth, that's for sure. Trump enters. "So Amy, how does it feel to finally be on a losing team?" he asks. She calls it "tough." Amy tells Trump that she thinks the team ultimately lost to Bill's VIP strategy. Nick points out that not only had Bill had the idea, but he had negotiated ahead of time that it would be an exclusive deal. "Pretty good, right?" Trump asks. "Oh, it was a great idea," Nick says easily. Trump asks about Amy's feelings about Bill, and she calls him "a great player." Trump asks if he's better than Amy. "I think Bill's my toughest competition," she says. Nick makes a face. Ow. That seemed like an unnecessary grinding of her heel. Trump asks Nick whether he agrees that Bill is that good. "He's good," Nick says noncommittally. Trump asks Amy why she was trying to get the people in the casino to leave, and asks what that was all about. I have a feeling that something went on that we didn't see, because Amy and Trump both seem to be acknowledging that while she was on the microphone, she did something or offered something that took the folks on the floor off the floor, at least part of the time -- I get the feeling it was something other than the rental car, though I could be wrong. I'm not sure that trying to decipher discussions between Trump and Amy will do anything but make me depressed about all the things I don't know.
Asked for her opinion, Carolyn says that she thinks the team's performance had some clear flaws. She says that she doesn't think the $300 value car rental in that setting was a good draw. Trump openly mocks the idea of giving away a rental rather than giving away the car. Secondary NotGeorge offers his opinion that the car with the balloons on it was just generally a boring, dumb idea. Nothing like what was going on with Protégé and the fun time folks had with the wheel and the laughing and the tiger and stuff. Katrina, not wanting to be deprived credit for her great ideas, says that she wanted to have belly dancers and a circus theme. Trump says that Atlantic City has plenty of spectacle -- what they needed was a car. "Who chose this stupid concept?" he asks. No one says anything. "Was it Nick?" he asks. "Was it you? Was it you?" "I came up with the car, I didn't come up with the idea --" "So it's Nick or Amy," Carolyn says impatiently. Amy innocently insists that she has no idea whose idea it was (it was hers). "I'm not really sure," she says. (It was hers.) ["It is not a secret that I do not like Katrina, but if I were Trump, that blandly smug 'I'm not really sure' would probably have gotten Amy thumped instead. Like hell you're not, blondie." -- Sars] Trump insists that had they managed to get a car to give away, the outcome would have been completely different. "I think your concept was terrible," he says.