The Task: make a silent movie promoting Australian Gold
Team Power
Project Manager: Trace (because no one else would step up)
Trump sends Marilu to their team, because Team Power is being decimated...the opposite of "power".
Trace: "In the beginning there was a caveman..." I think I like where this is going.
Lil' Jon kind of takes the lead since he had been in the last task with Australian Gold. Trace seemed annoyed and just got up and walked away. Trace didn't want to waste any time with the executives, he just wanted to go with the caveman idea that they came up with.
Trace didn't want to integrate the product into the film, but Lil' Jon knows that's why his team lost the last time. Even so, Trace didn't seem to care. I think that's a big mistake.
Who better to play the caveman/Fred Flintstone than Trace, huh? He is so believable in that role, it's crazy!
Lil' Jon is the director, but Marilu keeps throwing out ideas. They are running late and now they are probably not going to have enough time to edit. This group is so spastic, I don't see how they are going to come up with a consensus on anything.
Trace was absolutely perfect in this role, and I think the video was very good. The executives laughed more than once.
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Gary
Oh boy, everyone remember the last Australian Gold task that Gary was a part of? Deja vu?
Gary is ridiculous. He should never be allowed to talk to executives. He is almost impossible to understand, and makes absolutely no sense. It's just a lot of wasted time.
Gary's idea is to have a male and female and she's away from the sun. "She's a vampire with a day pass, and she's afraid to go out there."
Stephen directs as Gary does...well...he's trying to smile without looking creepy. Kind of impossible if you ask me. Good luck Stephen!
Time to edit and Stephen and Penn butt heads over the speed of the film.
Time to present, and Gary actually made a little sense as it presented it to the executives. I gotta say, the whole film really came together.
The Boardroom
Gary said he didn't use any of this prior knowledge about Australian Gold from the last task because it was in the PAST: Preoccupation About Spent Time, and he is in the NOW: No Other Way.
Trump asked Trace if he likes Australian Gold, and Trace said it smelled good. He then asked him if he used it, and Trace said "I ain't been in the sun for a month."
And the winners: Team Power. Finally! They had lost, what, like 4 in a row? It's kind of funny that 50% of their team is Team Plan B.
Gary decides to bring Stephen and Penn back.
It seems the most logical that Gary is the one who will take the fall for this. I don't think Penn or Stephen did enough to be fired over on this task.
Trump: "Is it Stephen's fault?" Gary: "I. Don't. Know."
Trump: "Why did you bring Penn back?" Gary: "I was asked to bring 2 and he is my friend." Trump then immediately sends Penn out of the room.
Stephen says the reason they lost was that they didn't use all of the products and he only directed what was given to him. I really don't see how the fault of this comes back to Stephen. Gary as the PM missed the mark. Trump kept getting Stephen to say that Gary did an amazing job, and then the Trumps (plural) took what he said literally that Stephen thinks that Gary did an amazing job and therefore shouldn't be fired. Ridiculous.
Trump: "Stephen, you're fired."
Wow. I cannot believe he kept Gary when Stephen really didn't do anything wrong. Just because he thought Stephen should have been the one to put more emphasis on the entire product line into the video. THAT SHOULD BE THE PROJECT MANAGER'S CALL! Obviously, Trump was looking for any way possible to keep Gary on the show because he's good entertainment. Had ANYONE else been PM, they would have been fired, no question...I guarantee.
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