The executives show up, and John talks about how important it is to ask the right questions. So of course he asks whether or not they raise their own cows. That doesn’t strike me as helpful to the task. Even less helpful, though, is Busey. After they say they buy beef from different parts of the country, Busey starts naming parts of the country to see if they buy beef from those parts. You know that Peanuts strip where Linus has to do a report about oceans, and the whole thing is just him going through every state and saying “There are no oceans in Alabama. There are no oceans in Alaska.” That’s what Busey’s doing here! And when it turns out that they don’t buy beef in Arizona (probably because there’s no grass and thus no cows), he wants to know if it’s because the cows are slaughtered a certain way. These guys look profoundly uncomfortable having the word “slaughter” come up so quickly in a simple Q&A. John asks questions that are actually about beef. Busey derails it by arguing with the execs about what “suspended animation” means.
You could tell, even after the entire project crashed and burned, Trump didn’t want to send Busey home because the show is less entertaining without him.
See, I disagree. Trump only thinks the show is less entertaining, but I was so much more relaxed watching this week without his crazy ass invading the personal space of everyone he came in contact with.
Yeah, it was definitely more entertaining to watch without Busey — not only did he make me uncomfortable, but he was leeching screen time from everybody else. We don’t really know much about how the various people interact with one another, because the editing was so Busey-focused. I think I would have been happier if he just popped up once every episode to say something crazy and then moved on.