It's kind of not fair to say that Don bit the hand that feeds him, since Lucky Strike ditched him, but that's not how these men are going to think.

Then why keep Dayana over Penn? Oh yeah, for the potential to fight.

Yeah, but they were on a rotation and it was her turn. I think Dayana's mistake was thinking the PM means more than it actually does on this particular show.

Check out Baldwin's tie in the breaking news sketch (it doesn't matter which version). He's wearing a tie with green stripes, and because of the greenscreen effect there are echoes of Tina Fey's reporter in the tie. I wonder if this was an intentional wardrobe choice to ape low tech gimmicky TV effects.

I've seen a one or two very good Illyria costumes in my time

yeah but the point is something like this was bound to happen.

Agreed. I think the idea established on the show is that SPOILERS the Founders have an obsession with order, which motivated them to form The Dominion as a way of controlling everything (as well as stop solids from persecuting them) and thus imposing order as they see it. Isolated from them, in Odo this trait was…

Another question would be to what degree Illyria was planned before the show got canceled and they had to wrap up the storylines.

SPOILERS. It does play into Angel's battle against the senior partners and gives Angel a new warrior in the final battle to come.

When I rewatched these episodes recently with the benefit of hindsight, I could think only about what might have been had Angel and Spike taken Fred with them to the Deeper Well. Then there would have been no one between her and the well when Illyria is ripped out. However, since there was a description of Illyria…

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So, was the 1950s Dr. Spaceman gay in the East Coast version? I thought the test tube joke was tied into him being the kid of a gay dude.

The subplot this episode ignored was that Wil Wheaton blatantly violated the bro code. What happens at a bachelor party is not to be discussed with outsiders, let alone posted online. What an a-hole.

Yeah, but he seems to have the exact same role as he had last season before he left

Necessary Evil is a great episode, one of my favorites from DS9 and all, but as was pointed out to me years later, Odo never actually solved the crime Dukat had him investigating, which begs the question of exactly what impressed Dukat enough to keep Odo around as the security chief.

Somehow I doubt that Trump is sick of looking at Dayana

Just a quick footnote to this mess. Penn was on Red Eye and said that Caesars, which owns the Rio in Las Vegas where Penn & Teller do their show, cut a check to his charity for the same $250,000 that Trump gives the winner's charity. So there's a big Whatever.

Peggy's transformation into Don continues. She also enjoys an old fashioned.

I think the final will depend a lot on how the final two are chosen. In the past, the final four would be interviewed by a panel of executives and make recommendations to Trump, who then picks the final two. The exception to this was the most recent version of the regular Apprentice, when they competed all the way to…

Well, the show has certainly trained me about what to expect from it, but come to think of it in this particular case my observation might be based more on my familiarity with Penn and the usual confidence he always projects in everything he does, which was just lacking in that interview.