Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Box of tricks
By Miss Alli | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 03.23.2005
Later, the candidates cantaloupe up to hear how the task went. They all claim to have had a great time. Asked for their reflections, the Home Depot execs immediately go to town on Net Worth's sad ass. The demonstration was too much showing and not enough involving the customer -- in other words, all the customers did was watch; they didn't participate. It sucked! On the other hand, the execs think that Magna was tremendous, and they loved the way that Craig's idea involved the parents and kids. I'm not a huge fan of Craig, but I was melted by the smile that breaks out on his face here as he starts to figure out that they're going to give it to him, and that people actually came to understand the wisdom of what he was trying to do with The Box. Even Carolyn and George are smiling. The Box brings people together! Magna indeed is awarded the victory, and Tana immediately comes over, squealing, "Way to go, Craig, that's great!" I do like her, I think, even though she's dorky. Trump tells Magna that their reward will involve going up in the zero-gravity plane to float around like astronauts. So...nausea for everyone! Even more than usual. Trump can't really find a decent connection between this and Home Depot, but no matter. Oh, and next week, Craig will be exempt!
In the Love Palace, we find Stephanie and Angie discussing the loss. Stephanie asks if Angie thinks she could have done better, and Angie says they all could have. Angie says that if she takes Chris and Erin, Chris will get fired, because Trump "loves Erin." Interesting observation, that. And kind of gnawing at me, too. Angie interviews that Erin has "created some kind of electricity with Trump," and she doesn't believe for a second that Trump will fire her. "She's very flirtatious with him," Angie notes. I'm glad it's not just my dirty mind there. They all bitch about not being on the reward plane -- or, actually, only Erin does. It only seems like a lot of people, because any Erin turns out to be a whole lot of Erin.
And...reward. (Worst part of the show, always, always, always.) Magna heads onto the tarmac and then toward the big zero-gravity plane. They're promised that this will be an extremely great experience, and then the plane actually goes up. Alex describes how the plane climbs, and then it starts down, and you float. And they all float, and it looks like a bunch of astronauts, only it's stupid people instead of science geeks. Bren tells us that the highlight for him was being able to do things he couldn't do as a "little fat kid." Kendra interviews that the reward was totally fabulous, and she frankly didn't even think anybody other than Craig deserved a reward based on their "attitudes," but there it was anyway. Heh. Alex closes with a rather labored bit about how Magna was literally floating in the air, and Erin and Stephanie are "space cadets," and they're on the ground, and one of them is going to be fired...basically, he lets the joke go on too about ten minutes too long, and it dies a horrible, wheezing death, despite not being entirely without merit.