Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The angry young man
By Miss Alli | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 04.13.2005
Trump informs the group that their task will be creating a promotional brochure for the newest car in the Pontiac family, a little roadster called the Solstice. In fact, one of the Pontiexecutives describes it as a "sexy, gorgeous, two-seat roadster." Tana smiles, thrilled at all the sex jokes she can get from this. Trump tells them that whoever ultimately wins the job with him is actually going to get one of these little dealies. So you'd better like it, because you can't return it. They'll have all sorts of resources to create the brochure, including models and photographers and printers and so forth. The team that the Pontiexecutives decide created the better brochure will win. Oh, and Tana is exempt, and the losers will go to the Boardroom. And in the Boardroom, someone will be fired. Fired! Trump always gives you those little pieces of business in case you forget.
In the Magna cab, Kendra tells Craig and Tana that she's done a lot of press kits, so she's put together stuff just like this, and she'd like to be the PM. Craig is making a face, sort of, but ultimately, Tana and Craig both agree to support Kendra as the PM. The first idea Kendra floats is a foldout that would have a slot in it that could be used for a CD. Tana says that they don't want a CD, and Craig says they should just focus on the brochure. I think they're misunderstanding her -- I don't think she wants to make a CD; I think she wants to put in a spot for a CD. Kendra interviews, already rather riled up, that she couldn't understand why they had her be the PM and then immediately refused to listen to anything she had to say. She says that within the first 15 minutes, she realized that her teammates didn't have faith in her and she was going to spend the task "battling" them. That won't be fun. Not for her, and not for any of the rest of us, either.
Over in the Net Worth cab, Chris is gassing on about how great it is to have the three guys working together like this. And just them! No interlopers! Bren interviews that he's "really excited" about joining this allergic-to-victory team. With his tie askew as usual, he says that he intends to help the team break its losing streak. In the car, he says, "Dude, it's three guys, and it's a car. I mean, just think about it. Two chicks and one guy over at Magna Corp?" Chris and Alex cackle at the very thought, because everyone here in the year 1952 knows that girls don't take any interest in cars, and companies don't have any interest in selling cars to girls. Can you imaaaagine? And then Chris rubs his hands together and says, "Excellent," all allegedly hilarious, which he isn't. It really is amazing how these people fail to learn, if nothing else, how much of a moron you can wind up looking like if you don't watch the way you present yourself in moments like that. They really ought to go around much of the time thinking, "How dumb will I look if I lose?...How dumb will I look if I lose?..."