Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Water, water, everywhere, and yet it costs a lot
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.25.2004
Trump asks Boyfriend Bill, just looking at the dollars, who generated more business. He says that he and Ereka did. Carolyn points out to Ereka that if she's going to get on Nick for lack of sales, she ought to also get on Katrina, right? In the same vein, Trump asks Ereka why, actually, Katrina got to leave. "Do you like her 'cause she's your girlfriend?" A delighted Nick leans back and laughs, happy to see that Trump is totally onto Ereka's bullshit. "I mean," Carolyn says, indicating Bill, "you keep saying he did a phenomenal job, he was on your team..." Ereka says, as if she's making any sense, "Carolyn, if she'd taken more of a leadership role, I would have put her in that hot seat." Wait, what? Of all the lame arguments I've ever heard, that's the least capable of limping across the room to save its life. "I think that's an excuse," Carolyn says. Trump is like, "Wait, so because she did nothing, that's why she's off the hook?" "That was one reason," Ereka says. "Another reason is that she brought in the most dollars." Huh? Bill single-handedly closed half their sales! What is she yapping about? Carolyn: "Wait, she did, or she and Nick did?" Ereka explains, believe it or not, that she happens to know that Katrina took the lead on all the sales that were successful...because Katrina told her so. HA HA HA! Again. Yeah, there's some business savvy for you. George reprimands her not to make pronouncements about who took the lead when she wasn't there.
Trump calls it all to a halt. He tells Nick he's not sure where he gets the idea that he's a great salesman. "Your performance was terrible," he says. But now the focus goes to Ereka. "You never had a strong game plan," he tells her. "You were frantic under pressure. But worst of all, you let your emotions dictate who came into the Boardroom. Ereka." She breaks in. "Don't say it, Mr. Trump." "You're fired." Woooooo! Did you know that they booted Ereka and Richard Hatch on the same damn night? Someone was really looking out for me in Burnett-land. Nick smiles. But not too much. Bill smiles. But not too much. Ereka is booted from the Boardroom.
Out in the lobby, Bill tries to shake her hand, and she won't. And that puts her just about at the bottom of the totem pole, class-wise. What, because he didn't go along with her plan to gang up on Nick? When he never said he would? What did he owe her, anyway? Not a damn thing. "You sold me out, Bill," she says, judgmental to the power of fifty. "Short-term memory," he says, recalling how she and Katrina tried to screw him last week. As she leaves, Trump voices over that he likes Ereka, but she's "way too emotional." Trump says, "That was a tough one." Carolyn: "I didn't think so tough." Ohhhh, BURN. Hee. I adore Carolyn so much. I want to adopt her as my personal motivational coach, who won't say anything until I really fuck up, at which point she will call me on the phone and just say, "I think you're doing poorly." And I will wither and immediately commit to improving myself posthaste.