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
Trump returns yet again to the tobacco thing, saying that he just can't see a guy working for him who chews tobacco. Chris announces that he will quit this minute if it's that big a deal. "There you go," Angie says quietly, in a moment I kind of liked. Trump tells Chris he's not sure Chris can quit. "I think you're addicted," he says. Chris gets louder again, saying that if it's a matter of the tobacco, he'll stop. "If I say that and I lie, you can fire me next time I'm in here." "He'll quit," Angie says with a smile as Erin tries to protest that Chris is showing his temper again. "He'll quit," Angie repeats. Erin shifts her approach again, saying that the real reason Chris should be fired is that he swears in meetings with executives. Chris insists that he certainly does not, and Trump tells Erin that frankly, he doesn't give a damn about that, because he swears also. Erin tries to tell Trump he doesn't do it in business meetings, and Trump's answer is pretty much that it depends on the company. Imagine that -- Trump and I agree. Erin then brings up "anger management," and Trump says that he does see the anger thing as an issue. Chris calls himself "excited." Hee. Erin says that Chris uses foul language when he's angry "because he can't articulate himself very well." Should we tell her that "articulate himself" isn't a great construction? Nah. We'll let it go. Erin insists that Chris is unprofessional. Chris defends himself, and ultimately, he and Erin get into a little smackfest where he talks about how he's the youngest in the suite and he's a millionaire, and she talks about how she's a corporate "powerhouse attorney." Powerhouse? You can't really apply that word to yourself, so much.
"Who made the presentation?" Trump asks. "Angie," Erin says. George asks why Erin didn't do the presenting, and Erin says Angie told her not to. This gets Trump into a big huff, because he's so infatuated with Erin's VJ performance that he's convinced Angie should have let Erin be the demonstrator at Home Depot, which is incredibly stupid. Angie reminds Trump that Erin wasn't paying any attention to the task in the first place. Trump starts to complain that he's not really happy with how things are going, in that he blames Angie for not letting Erin do the presentation, and here are Carolyn and George making him keep Angie against his will. "And I've got to listen to them," he says. And then Erin brightly says, "Do you have to?" and flashes a cutesy-poo grin full of teeth. And then she winks. And then she follows up with a "don't fire me" puppy-dog face. And for once, it does not pay off, because Trump says, "No, I don't...but I'm going to." He turns to Erin and says, "You're a real wise guy, you know that?" And Carolyn is already saying, "That was a dumb statement." Which she repeats after Erin doesn't hear her the first time because of Trump. "Yeah," George agrees. "You know what, Erin?" Trump says. "You're fired." And good for him, for once.