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
The reward for this particular victory is that the boys get to spend the night in the most beautiful suite in the Taj Mahal, and they'll get $1,000 each for gambling. They all grin from ear to ear. I think this beats a picnic, just by a little bit. Oh, and VersaCorp? You're going to the Boardroom. Hee.
Bill, Troy, and Kwame leave the meeting exuberant. Bill declares his intention to stay out all night, and he and Kwame share a chest-bump. They head upstairs to the penthouse, and when they get there, it is much more attractive than the Trumpartment. It makes Kwame swear a lot, culminating in his declaration that "this is some pimped out, rap video...shit." Or at least I think it's "shit." He gets bleeped. Either way, it really made me laugh. Kwame is really kinda funny, just in a much more low-key way than, say, Troy. "You can just call me the motherfuckin' PM," Kwame says as Bill hands him his thousand gambling bucks. Boyfriend Bill laughs. Bill takes over behind the bar, and asks, "You want a man drink, McClain, or you want a girl drink?" Hee. I was asked precisely that question at a party last night. Without the "McClain," obviously. "Man me up," Troy says, and Bill pours. After asking for a man drink, Troy actually finds the man drink a little bit strong, it would appear, judging by the swearing that follows. Troy now interviews that the three of them had been working all day, and delighted in the opportunity to take some time to relax. They head down to the casino, where they discuss how much they're enjoying the victory. Troy also says that they were able to get rid of all the crap and "cat fighting" and have a great time together. At what I believe is a blackjack table, Troy grandly tells the dealer that Bill is used to the big casino life, but Troy is only a simple country boy. Bill rubs his eyes and laughs, and he finally turns to Troy and gives him the hand-clasp, laughing, "Cut that bullshit, all right, dude?" They laugh. In an interview, Bill says that he does think he and Troy are really different, but it's all "water under the bridge," because they worked well together and it's all cool. Bill encourages Troy and Kwame to bet big, and somebody wins, and Bill says "booyah," which is when you can tell that his biggest problem is that he's kind of a dork. Yay!
Back at S4, VersaCorp is waking up for their day of preparation for the Boardroom. Troy, Kwame, and Bill are just getting home. Amy is sitting at the computer with a towel on her head, tippy-tapping away at a Boardroom defense. You can see that what she's writing down is that she stands by what they decided, and that their idea was better than pulling people off the floor to watch tigers. So rather than talk about what she would do differently next time, she wants to argue about why her idea was still better, which...seems stupid to me. That may be a good example of her lack of experience in the Boardroom and how it might not pay off. She interviews that she has "a lot of nervous energy" as she heads for her first visit to the Boardroom. She says that if she's asked about responsibility for the loss, she will indeed take a fair amount of it herself as PM. She and Nick sit at the kitchen table with a giant stack of cash in front of them (huh?), and she tapes things to a sheet of paper. Is she making a chart or something? Will there be a diorama? Can I get her some popsicle sticks? Nick opines in an interview that Amy is actually at a disadvantage compared to the rest of them, because she's never been to the Boardroom before. He says it's hard to know how she's going to respond to being on Trump's hot seat. She singsongs to Nick as they wait that she's "nerrr-vous." I believe this is the debut of the skirt she will be wearing in the Boardroom, which is extremely short, even for the women on this show. Seriously. The thing looks like a headband.