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
Chris is asked why they failed at the task, and mentions "the writing." Bren jumps in to complain again about the fact that Chris never objected to anything about the text while Bren was writing it. George doesn't really think it's about the text -- he says that ultimately, it's about decent color and pictures. In addition to the blurry picture, he hates the gray-car, gray-building look.
Trump says to Chris that he finds it rather interesting that anybody could lose six times (before now) and not be fired. Chris insists that the losses have been "the most insane experience" he's ever had. He seems like he's getting...all sniffly again. Trump points out that Chris has always been lucky that someone else has been worse. Chris seems very concerned at this point, as Trump goes to George for an opinion, right in front of the candidates. George says he would fire Chris, and Trump goes to Carolyn. She says that Chris has seven straight losses, and she also thinks he "could have stopped this disaster." So she would fire Chris, too. Wow, did it with the candidates present this time. Interesting choice. ["The episode seemed to be running short, too, so I'm not clear on why that happened. Seems like they would have tried to stretch it a little by sending them out and then back in, but no." -- Sars]
Trump says that he thinks Bren's writing was very bad, and he thinks Bren is better than that writing was. He thinks Alex saw that it was bad and did nothing. "You were sleeping," Trump nearly snorts. But then Trump moves to Chris, saying that Chris was the leader of the team, and the team was horrible. So Chris is...fired. The candidates get up and leave. And then you realize that Chris...is totally crying. Totally. In the "boo hoo hoo" sense. So Trump stops him. Chris turns back. Trump tells him he has two things to say. He even drags him over to the Trump side of the conference table so he can talk to him like a kid. Trump tells Chris first that he has to be careful about his temper -- advice I'm sure we all now wish Chris had followed. And second? Get off the tobacco. Trump makes him promise, which Chris does, because for whatever reason, the only thing Chris wants in the world is for Donald Trump to like him. Trump shakes his hand and tells Chris he'll be a big success, as Chris continues to cry. And then, finally, Chris leaves. Out in the lobby, Chris hugs his buds and prepares to go, at last. "It's all good," Chris says through his snorfles. That again! Finally, he gets on the down elevator. Back in the Boardroom, Trump says, "See, I think he's a good kid." Carolyn smiles ruefully and says, "He's a great kid." He is? Why? When was he great? Bleh. Trump says again that it was "time" for Chris to go, despite being "a good kid." A good kid who yells a lot, that is.