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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 7:07 pm
Hello hello hello! Bellinis to anyone who comes in and spoils for me! <wink>
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 7:09 pm
Oh, goody, I was wondering if there would be a spoiler, sorry tho, I am on the west coast, LOL.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 7:12 pm
Well heck, Dipo. You're no help! Here's a bellini anyways...
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 7:13 pm
LMAO, costa, I know, thanks for the belini.
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Highlighter
Member
09-03-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 7:16 pm
For some reason, with his hardhat on in this episode, Andy looks like Laurel of Lauren and Hardy.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 7:21 pm
OK, Highlighter. You've gotta toss us a few nibbles... what's the challenge? Who wins/loses? And later on... who goes into the board room and who gets fired!!
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Keepers
Member
03-31-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:04 pm
I did not see the whole show, saw that they had to renovate a home then have appraised. Whoever appraised at higher percentage increase wins. Raj was fired.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:05 pm
Yippee!! About damn time! Why was he fired, Keep?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:06 pm
oh goody, that is a good fire!!!
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Keepers
Member
03-31-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:10 pm
Trump said he made major mistakes. Turned a 4 bedroom home into a 3 BR (bad mistake), had bad contractor, should not have brought Ivana into Boardroom & didn't know why he didn't bring ??? (can't remember the guy's name) into BR at last minute after he complained that the team is going to lose again no matter who gets fired. (The guy,to speak to Trump, after Raj already picked two to go into BR, said he just wanted to say something. He went on to just talk very negative about the team. Trump didn't like that & asked Raj if he wanted to bring him the room then & Raj said no. Trump thought he should have. After Raj got fired, he stood in that lobby & asked Robin for her phone number (she did not give it up).
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Keepers
Member
03-31-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:11 pm
Sorry I couldn't give a more detailed synopsis, had a lot going on here at home while it was on & only caught bits and pieces.
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Highlighter
Member
09-03-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:11 pm
Whew, did I ever not like Raj on this episode!!! The guy either has the biggest ego in the world, or is clueless, or something. Most telling, I think, was when he was talking to the camera and said that the best thing was to destroy and build, and he was destroying and rebuilding, so "Raj is happy", as if that was the most important thing. He got nailed-spoiler-for turning a four bedroom house into a three bedroom house after physically knocking down a wall. It just seemed, by his comment, that it was all about what Raj wanted, which is how it always has seemed in all the back episodes. BUT I didn't like how the <Jennifer> told Raj to go after Ivana, and so they did in the board room. Man, but <Jennifer> flies under the radar. She gets away with it every time, too, by finding another target, and no one even notices what she's doing. I hope she doesn't win!!!!! I think I actually like her least, and that's saying a lot, I know. The competition didn't seem very close; one team does much better, though I was surprised the percentage increases weren't that much different. When you are watching the show, keep in mind the houses start over $350,000, which absolutely blew my mind when they said that in the boardroom!!! Only in NY! Yuck. <QT>
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Highlighter
Member
09-03-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:11 pm
Do I get lots of bellinis? I posted three paragraphs 
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Highlighter
Member
09-03-2003
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:15 pm
Keeper, it was Chris. Ya gotta wonder if they talk about what goes on in the boardroom afterward because you'd think they'd learn some lessons. Chris felt he had to add something *after* he was told to go back upstairs-that was to complain about what a mess the team was (to help Raj? I didn't get his point). Whoo, I thought Trump was gonna break all the rules and just fire *him* on the spot. I bet he would have, too, if Raj had agreed to keep him in the boardroom. Chris thinks he can do better so he will be PM next project, and Trump and his sidekicks ominously said they will be keeping a close eye on how he does.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:16 pm
Highlighter, you get as many bellinis as you want!!!! Thank you thank you thank! And Keeper, too! I've never liked Raj; I thought he was an egomaniacal sexist. I'm glad to see him go. I was getting tired of seeing him hit on every female within striking distance! $350K ain't so much! Average houses here are over half a mil. My two bedroom condo is worth more than $350K! (Yah, <gasp!>)
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:17 pm
Oh yeah, and it's Jen, who's the blonde. Isn't Chris the one who kept ragging about how much money he had during the dog competition? And how he had a Rolex but was having to give doggy massages or something? He can go, too! <grin>
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 8:52 pm
Yay, sending bellinis to you too for that Super News! I've had a belly full of Raj & all his womanizing like he's God's Gift packed with a bow tie! It's about time DT sent him packing! Yep, Costa, Chris is the one with the rolex and bad attitude. He needs to go soon. If I'm not mistaken he's really defensive because he has a High School education, but has to keep pointing out that he earns more money than any of them. TY again, now I've got to run to see Surv and then Apprent. This should be good tonite!
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Carlito
Member
03-26-2004
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 9:05 pm
Tonites episode seemed very strange to me.Did anyone else feel the same way? First i didnt see the correlation between the trailers and the actual episode.The trailers led us to believe it was between the two teams and the contractors and which was the worst.In actuality,it came down to 1 team being saved by a different contractor who just so happened to be in the neighborhood driving down the street and saved them from their original contractors mistakes and slow responsiveness. In the end it all boiled down to Raj not ensuring that the contractor did what they were supposed to do on time.What i found strange also was why didnt they check out local contractors first and why didnt we see the team discussing the renovations agreed upon for the home.I think when it came to the BR scene Carolyn and Trump had already decided it was Raj who would be sacrificed.There ws nothing he could have done to save himself at that point. What was up with Trump and Carolyn defending Ivana.. EEWWWWW!!!!! That smelled really bad.Almost as bad as the way Trump and company were kissing up to Stacie J tp make up for how they treated her during the episode where she was fired.Loved Stacie calling Ivana out.We just didnt get to see enough of it.I wanted to see her taking action to call them all out that were left including Maria and Sandy. Also this was the first time Kevin looked vulnerable. I thought he was in trouble when he tried to double talk his way out of saying he recommended the contractor.Fortunately for him Raj was already the chosen one for exit.
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 11:49 pm
I hated this episode. It seemed rushed and edited horribly. I barely knew what the challenge was. We didn't see anything. I never hear Marias mouth(which is a good thing) and I didn't get to see what any of them truly contributed. This show has become "attack and fire the PM." It is ridiculous. It seems like Trump cares more about one mistake or bad judgement call than someone who is mean and lazy and brings the team down. These people are not getting fired for being crappy coworkers and underlings. Why bring the people back without some chance to reenter the game? It just seemed cruel. You compliment Stacie and Robb but tis for nothing. I would have liked to see one of them get to come back as a reward or something. This episode was poorly done. I must say I LOL'ed when Raj asked for Robins number at the end. It was true to form and I loved it. I also remembered why I liked Bradford after tonight and his light banter in the BR. He didn't take himself too seriously
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 2:57 am
I know that I wanted Raj to get the boot. Frankly I felt that he needed to stop mixing pleasure with work, but I wouldn't have wished what Raj experienced on an enemy!! Oh my, I'm not going to sleep tonight REPLAYING & RELIVING my own experiences with contractors! But at least I didn't have to do it 'cold'. My contractors were referred by the Realtor, by the Insurance Co., or by the busy contractor who was too busy/and that contractor who was also too busy. One initial project took 5 months, but at least he did quality work. Point is that at least I had some tiny connection that they could do the job properly and I wasn't under a serious time constraint. However, at one point Raj himself said he 'was in Real Estate' - so it doesn't make sense the determination to eliminate and turn it into 3 bedrooms. Especially back east (where I believe rent/utilities are more expensive) and often people share. It wasn't an upscale downtown apt where the big/sexier bedroom with a view might become a bigger selling point. Maybe they intended to brown nose, but I think that Chris (with his overly BIG mouth) and Ivana (making unneeded snarky comments about Jen wanting to pull Stacie off the window job) have instead done some serious damage to themselves. They REALLY painted targets on THEMSELVES. DT is going to be watching their every movement - and not in a kindly way I think.
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Peeper
Member
06-14-2004
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 6:32 am
I agree Carlito...it did seem real funny to me that this contractor just "happened" to show up and save the other team and did you notice how much advertisement this contractor got???? The camera was directed right at the truck with the contractor's name on it for a long time. It seemed very fake and staged and reminded me of last season where Nick and Amy rented the penthouse with only 3 minutes left in their task. As for bringing back the fired people, I think they do this to throw off spoilers.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 7:29 am
I agree Peeper, it is a great way to throw off spoilers.
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Luvmykitties
Member
01-02-2004
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 7:38 am
I was surprised to know that Raj was in Real Estate. Wouldn't he know that a 4 bedroom has better value than a 3 bedroom? (I didn't know, but he should) I agree that the episode seemed way too staged. I can't remember right now, but didn't Sandy's team replace a lot of things - including some appliances? And then ended up with 2 contractors? And wasn't it that team that also had landscapers? And they were able to stay within budget???
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Luvmykitties
Member
01-02-2004
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 7:40 am
I watched Raj on the Today Show. He really is a character (not that I didn't think that before...) I am so surprised he didn't ask for Katie's phone number. He almost seem to run the interview. I couldn't tell if his answers were him joking or being serious. She did ask him about asking all the different women for their numbers, and they showed 3 different clips. she asked if he ever had any success, and he said "raging success all over the place" Then she asked what he was going to do next. He said something like instead of going out there and making the billions that he knows he could - he decided to work to save America. He thinks that a moderate cool conservative voice in America to guide the policies in this awfully troubling time in America. So he created "Coalition for the Advancement for the Republic." advancedrepublic.org (couldn't find anything. so either he was joking, or the website isn't active yet) She asked "so what are planning to do with it???" And then he said something like "I think for America to win this war in Iraq, we need more troops. 100,000 just isn't going to cut it. We need an alliance with India. They could send for example a million troops - and they're cheap troops - like their programmers" There were many other comments, but I just couldn't transcribe the whole thing. I'm sure the video clip will be on The Today Show's home page later http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/?ta=y it's not there yet at the time I'm writing this.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 7:46 am
I think he was obnoxious in that interview. But I think he is naturally obnoxious. It's also ironic that he got fired the one time Donald had a bow tie on. (And Raj had a pink "donald" type tie...)
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