Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The [Pepsi] Edge of Reason
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 11.24.2004
Trump jumps in. "You know what, Andy? For the United States debating champion, you're being beaten pretty badly by Sandy." Which is exactly the case. George asks Andy why he didn't tell Sandy he had concluded she was weaker, if he was just kind of letting everybody know where they stood. Sandy, having some fun now, is like, "Yeah, why?" Heh. I have no idea how it happened, but the second time I watched this, I totally started enjoying her. "Because I didn't feel it was relevant," Andy says preposterously. Not relevant? Oh, Andy. You can do better than that. You must be able to do better than that.
And now, everybody starts talking at the same time. "The truth is, she had all day to think about how she was going to defend you," Sandy says firmly. Jen and Andy dispute this, but Sandy makes not one single move to back down, and Trump makes not one single move to break up the fight. He lets them go on for quite some time, and then he finally thumps his hand on the table three times. They all turn and look. "Andy," he says, "You're just being pounded on. You're being outdebated. I just don't want somebody running one of my companies that's going to get beaten up so badly. You're fired." And he kind of snarls "fired," too, in a way he usually doesn't.
Well, that firing is bullshit, because there's no way Andy deserved to be fired because Jen and Sandy were screaming. They weren't even screaming at him, for the most part -- they were screaming at each other. Moreover, that's not Andy's room -- it's Trump's room, and if Trump wants civility, he's the boss who needs to impose it. Andy doesn't have any authority to make the women shut up.
On the other hand, it's hard to feel bad for Andy, because everything he said was crap, and had he told the truth and stuck with Sandy as he should have, finally taking Carolyn up on her repeated invitations to note that yes, indeed, Jen does not do anything of value during tasks, it might have gone very differently. At any rate, Jen and Sandy get up and leave. Andy remains at the table. We see Jen and Sandy go out and get on the elevator...still fighting about whether Andy and Jen had an alliance, and fighting until the doors close. Back in the Boardroom, Trump calls the women "two tough hombres," although really, in that conversation, Jen got run over by Sandy just about as badly as Andy did. Andy thanks Trump for the opportunity, and then he finally gets up and leaves. When he's on the elevator, Trump tells George and Carolyn that he had actually expected to get rid of Sandy, but she showed so much "spunk" that he decided not to. Yeah, you keep men because they're strong; you keep women because they're "spunky." Spee-yack. Downstairs, we see Andy leave and get into his taxi. Bye, Andy! You were cute at times, but you deserved that one. Jen and Sandy return to S5.