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Week 3: "Trouble Brewing"
Original Air Date: 2/3/05
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Awesome, Paris Hilton is hosting SNL. I’m all over it.
Back at the suite, Magna looks around to see whom they should lynch next and points to Danny. Except for Erin, that is, who holds fast to her foolproof strategy. For the second time, she plops herself on the bed of the team leader. Snuggling up to Danny, she confides in a low sexy whisper how much Michael sucks. No Ugg boots this week, but she pretty much just ensured that she’s staying out of the boardroom again. She needn’t have worried though. As it turns out, everyone deplores Michael, so they all plan to stage a coup in the boardroom to get Trump to overrule his exemption.
Boardroom time. Trump asks Danny why they lost. Danny hems and haws for a minute, before gathering up his gumption and announcing, “But before we go there, I’d like to discuss something very serious.” Trump actually looks interested, whereas I would have just been like, “Dude, how did you, the zany marketing exec, lose a task with a budget of 75K?”
Danny explains, “When you give a gift to somebody, especially a gift from you, you don’t expect somebody to abuse it. You gave Michael a gift with the exemption, and he severely abused that gift.” Donald tosses that notion aside by saying that in this world, there are rules that must be followed. I’m not totally sure, but I think he actually says that the FCC is one of the things that run the world.
Erin takes it upon herself to fight the good fight, trying to bolster their case by injecting some legal mumbo-jumbo into the term, “exempt.” It would be fine, except that she keeps calling Trump “sir,” which makes her sound like such a toady.
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Trump wisely takes Danny to task for hiring an event planner to execute the whole thing. Erin’s eyeballs nearly bug out of head as she says, “If it weren’t for that event planner, we would have had slim to none. We would have had nothing.” You know, I honestly can’t tell whether or not she’s actually attractive under that plastering of makeup and blanket of hair. Maybe…then again, maybe not.
Since everyone wants to keep picking on Mr. Exempt, they just mumble when Danny’s abilities are questioned. George Ross tries to lay it out plainly, “What did you think of Danny as a team leader? Was he good; was he bad?” Cheater Stephanie, not owning up to the fact that she protested the hiring of the event planner, just says, “I wish that his decisions were made more promptly.” Only Bren can put it into decent terms: “The biggest responsibility for the loss itself was Danny. If I could fire anyone, without any doubt, I would fire Michael.” At this, Michael looks surprised and asks why. Good God, Michael. As if the entire team hadn’t just turned on you like two seconds ago.
George asks why Danny didn’t just tell Michael to get out of his face if he was acting so poorly. Yeah, I’d like to know that too. Danny responds, “Constantly, I handled it like a gentleman.” Trump disagrees with his strategy, “Well, something happened. This was a disaster.” Now, I call shenanigans again. A disaster is spending your entire budget on toilets. A disaster is not handing out iPods and coffee at a Nestle promotion.
Danny chooses to bring in Stephanie and Michael. Even though Carolyn Kepcher hasn’t gotten any lines so far, she does give a slightly evil grin at the prospect of watching Michael clobber Danny over the head with his own guitar.
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But before we go there, I’d like to discuss something very serious.
