Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT For a small person, she was very annoying
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.20.2004
Elsewhere, Andy is getting a cab with the supplies that he and Kelly and Maria have collected. Andy adds that after the fire department flop, he was put in charge of tracking down a charity, which he still thought was a great idea, because an animal lover will shell out money to help animals. Still in the cab, he gets a representative from Kitty Kind, an animal shelter for cats, on the phone, and she approves their idea to donate some of their proceeds. She does weakly protest that she represents a cat shelter, so washing dogs seems a little odd, but Andy blows it off, assuring her it'll be great, and she's certainly not going to turn down the money. Even if it is dirty, dirty dog money, stained with the blood of mailmen. Cats don't do that kind of thing, you know. They just reject the mailman emotionally until he leaves on his own. Cats are totally the guitar players of the animal kingdom. Anyway, after the group exits the cab, Andy shares with Kelly and Maria the good news that the charity is lined up, but then Kelly asks him where the phone is, and we get -- through a non-subtle set of visual clues -- the information that Andy has left the team's Space Communicator in the taxi. Which is, sadly enough, gone. All pockets are checked, but indeed, they find that there is no phone. Kelly interviews that Andy indeed lost the phone, and in the Army, he would kill you for that. Okay, maybe not. But he does use "impact" as a verb in explaining all the ways in which this development is bad for the team. Breaks up their communication, keeps them from working in two teams, stops him from calling for free porn in the middle of the day, blah dee blah.
Kevin and Jen are still washing a dog. They're not, however, getting a lot more new business, so when Raj raises again his idea about another location, Jen agrees, and they decide to take off and add another operation elsewhere. See, that's what you get when you're not a dick. You don't build up people's resistance to what you're trying to do, see? It's just a lot better. And when Raj brought it back, he again was not a dick and wasn't too know-it-ally, which I again appreciated. She interviews that Raj convinced her it was a good idea, so she went with it. Specifically, she sends Ivana and Chris out to do dog massages. Snerk. As we see them start up this brilliant new operation, Chris voices over that he's not thrilled about doing the doggie massage, and that in fact, if someone made him an offer to massage his dog, "the first thing [he] would think about is kicking this person in the head." Well, that's nice. It's like he's kind of the dog equivalent of a homophobe or something. Anyway, he offers a doggie massage to a woman who looks like she almost doesn't believe him -- he's offering to massage her dog, you understand, not her -- but when she figures out that he's serious, she takes them up on it. And what does doggie massage look like? Well, judging from what we see here, it means they scratch your dog, much as you would. Only you would scratch your own dog for free, and this costs you a dollar a minute. And you know...not to be critical of the service economy, but surely there are some things in the world a person can do for him or herself. When they start outsourcing nose-blowing, I will know that society is crumbling. Not happy to be making a dollar a minute for dog-scratching, however, Chris talks about the indignity of doing this with his Rolex on. Shut up, Chris. He even calls it "degrading." Dude, it's scratching a dog. People do it all the time, for heaven's sake, so there's really no need to be so precious about it. He mutters to Ivana as they walk away from their first customer that it's "so embarrassing." This from the man who tried to hand out free kisses, given by a person not himself, with dishes of ice cream?