Team Penn
We resume with finding out how Penn decides how to make the video less than 60 seconds. They decide to cut out the punchline which was Dennis. They will do the reveal of the trick during their presentation.
It's time for the event. He has Wayne Newton, showgirls, Gilbert Godfried, George Wallace, the Blueman Group, Taylor Hicks, and of course Teller.
The former mayor of Las Vegas brings a check for $250,000!
The presentation with the video and the reveal of the trick was awesome and very well done. What started out as a big bummer, turned out to actually be perfect.
Team Trace
Trace gets Tim Tebow, who is bringing $200,000 with him!
Gary is going to reprise his role as Buddy Holly...oh boy. Trace isn't sure what he's going to get from him...he's a loose cannon. 10 minutes left, and Tebow is stuck in traffic. Trace is calm, but Marilu is freaking out! But wouldn't you know, he makes it just in the nick of time.
Billy Ray Cyrus brought $50,000!
I have to admit, I was a little worried about Trace's video, but it actually turned out really good.
As part of his presentation, Trace performed a song. He then turned it over to Gary...it was just a little scary to say the least. I can't believe he ever played that role.
The Boardroom
Penn: $503,655
Trace: $564,000 (he had $664,000, but $100,000 was late!)
Trump handed out $20,000 to all the players who didn't win any money.
Walgreens decided to give $100,000 to the winner of the best selling ice cream. The winner is Penn and the Magic Swirtle!
And Trump isn't done! He calls Lil' Jon down and he gives his charity $100,000!
And the winner of Celebrity Apprentice is...TRACE ADKINS!
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.11
We're down to the final 4, but it's about to become the final 2. Crazy! These last 4 are all really strong. I think Penn is a no-brainer. I think Trace has lost it, so I don't think he will make the final 2. That leaves Lil' Jon and Lisa. I think with all the money that Lisa has raised so far, I think she has the edge. We'll see...
Boardroom to Determine Final 2
The final 4 make their cases for why they should be in the final 2.
Trump says he's going to fire 1 person from each team. I don't necessarily think that's the most fair thing to do, because I think a case could be made that Penn and Lisa are the stronger of the 4.
On Team Plan B, Trump fires Lisa
On Team Power, Trump fires Trace
The final 2 ends up being 2 big guys with ponytails. Ha!
The Task
Create a new flavor of ice cream and hold an event and a video
Teams
Trump picked the people for each of the teams. Penn gets Lisa, LaToya and Dennis and Trace gets Lil' Jon, Marilu and Gary.
Team Trace
Trace loves red velvet and maple macadamia nut so they went with those. And then Gary went on a sugar rush and started singing about macadamia nuts. When he crashed, Trace said that he put a tranquilizer in Gary's ice cream.
After the taste-test, they choose to go with: Maple Macadamia Nut Mash-Up
For the video, Lil' Jon suggests that Gary do a Busey dance and then in the video it becomes a craze.
Team Penn
They come up with a "Swurtle" which was the combination of a chocolate swirl and pieces of chocolate/caramel turtles. LaToya said "Swurtle" accidentally, and Penn loved it! The other flavor was called "Sin City"
After the taste-test, they choose to go with: Magic Swurtle
For the video, Penn uses Penn and Teller and a bunch of Showgirls. They run into a problem when they can't get the video to less than 60 seconds.
...To Be Continued...
Boardroom to Determine Final 2
The final 4 make their cases for why they should be in the final 2.
Trump says he's going to fire 1 person from each team. I don't necessarily think that's the most fair thing to do, because I think a case could be made that Penn and Lisa are the stronger of the 4.
On Team Plan B, Trump fires Lisa
On Team Power, Trump fires Trace
The final 2 ends up being 2 big guys with ponytails. Ha!
The Task
Create a new flavor of ice cream and hold an event and a video
Teams
Trump picked the people for each of the teams. Penn gets Lisa, LaToya and Dennis and Trace gets Lil' Jon, Marilu and Gary.
Team Trace
Trace loves red velvet and maple macadamia nut so they went with those. And then Gary went on a sugar rush and started singing about macadamia nuts. When he crashed, Trace said that he put a tranquilizer in Gary's ice cream.
After the taste-test, they choose to go with: Maple Macadamia Nut Mash-Up
For the video, Lil' Jon suggests that Gary do a Busey dance and then in the video it becomes a craze.
Team Penn
They come up with a "Swurtle" which was the combination of a chocolate swirl and pieces of chocolate/caramel turtles. LaToya said "Swurtle" accidentally, and Penn loved it! The other flavor was called "Sin City"
After the taste-test, they choose to go with: Magic Swurtle
For the video, Penn uses Penn and Teller and a bunch of Showgirls. They run into a problem when they can't get the video to less than 60 seconds.
...To Be Continued...
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.10
The Task
Transform a suite at the Barclays Center promoting Foxwoods Resorts and throw a party in the suite.
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Lisa
Lisa and Penn quickly decided to use the Joker for their theme, and Penn knows a lot of "Jokers" to invite to the party.
Penn starts to line up Lisa Lampanelli, Teller...sounds great right? Huge snowstorm and all flights are cancelled. But they start getting a little slap-happy.
On the day of the party, Teller managed to make it on time, so Lisa didn't have to step in in his place.
They perform a trick with an apple with a hundred pins. Teller takes the pins and swallows them, and then eats part of the apple, and then swallows a string. He then pulls the string out with all of the needles threaded on it! Holy cow!
Next is Lisa Lampanelli. I sure hope she doesn't lose this for them. She is so crass and not classy, I don't think she is the right comedian for this type of event. The only thing that might help them is that she is a regular performer for Foxwoods.
They also had David Burke, who is a signature chef for Foxwoods.
Team Power
Project Manager: Marilu
Each one of them had a different idea for the theme. Lots of time spent on that. They finally decide to go with the King theme.
Marilu and Lil' Jon butt heads as she starts going spastic with ideas. They have 2 totally different ways of working on things. She's actually pretty rude in the way that she talks to both Lil' Jon and Trace. So, they finally started to have some fun with it and they were kind of making fun of her for being so serious. But Marilu started throwing out the insults to Trace: "you're turning into Gary", "you operate one notch above dead"...wow.
John Rich checks in with them to see how things are going. They obviously don't have everything figured out yet. John throws out a great idea: make Lil' Jon a king and put him on a big throne. That's not fair, John!
Trace secures Hunter Hayes. That's great, but just because he won the CMA for Best New Artist, what does he have to do with this task?
The day of the party, there happens to be a chess board and a chess champion who is going to be teaching chess. Trace and Lil' Jon knew nothing about this. I personally don't see how this connects to the King theme.
Lil' Jon had planned to do some DJing, but his people couldn't get his equipment there, so he basically had nothing to do. Hunter showed up to play some music, but this party looked DEAD!
The Boardroom
The win goes to Team Plan B! Lisa has now won over $500,000, wow!
Marilu, you're fired! Good riddance. She was REALLY starting to get on my nerves!
I think we have a really great final 4. Any one of these people could win. Next week's task is going to be crazy because they are both strong teams of 2.
Transform a suite at the Barclays Center promoting Foxwoods Resorts and throw a party in the suite.
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Lisa
Lisa and Penn quickly decided to use the Joker for their theme, and Penn knows a lot of "Jokers" to invite to the party.
Penn starts to line up Lisa Lampanelli, Teller...sounds great right? Huge snowstorm and all flights are cancelled. But they start getting a little slap-happy.
On the day of the party, Teller managed to make it on time, so Lisa didn't have to step in in his place.
They perform a trick with an apple with a hundred pins. Teller takes the pins and swallows them, and then eats part of the apple, and then swallows a string. He then pulls the string out with all of the needles threaded on it! Holy cow!
Next is Lisa Lampanelli. I sure hope she doesn't lose this for them. She is so crass and not classy, I don't think she is the right comedian for this type of event. The only thing that might help them is that she is a regular performer for Foxwoods.
They also had David Burke, who is a signature chef for Foxwoods.
Team Power
Project Manager: Marilu
Each one of them had a different idea for the theme. Lots of time spent on that. They finally decide to go with the King theme.
Marilu and Lil' Jon butt heads as she starts going spastic with ideas. They have 2 totally different ways of working on things. She's actually pretty rude in the way that she talks to both Lil' Jon and Trace. So, they finally started to have some fun with it and they were kind of making fun of her for being so serious. But Marilu started throwing out the insults to Trace: "you're turning into Gary", "you operate one notch above dead"...wow.
John Rich checks in with them to see how things are going. They obviously don't have everything figured out yet. John throws out a great idea: make Lil' Jon a king and put him on a big throne. That's not fair, John!
Trace secures Hunter Hayes. That's great, but just because he won the CMA for Best New Artist, what does he have to do with this task?
The day of the party, there happens to be a chess board and a chess champion who is going to be teaching chess. Trace and Lil' Jon knew nothing about this. I personally don't see how this connects to the King theme.
Lil' Jon had planned to do some DJing, but his people couldn't get his equipment there, so he basically had nothing to do. Hunter showed up to play some music, but this party looked DEAD!
The Boardroom
The win goes to Team Plan B! Lisa has now won over $500,000, wow!
Marilu, you're fired! Good riddance. She was REALLY starting to get on my nerves!
I think we have a really great final 4. Any one of these people could win. Next week's task is going to be crazy because they are both strong teams of 2.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.9
The Task:
Make a video for LG about their interactive, smart technology.
Can I just say that these LG products are frickin' amazing! Refrigerator that has wi-fi and you can create a grocery list and send it to your phone! Washer/dryer that can tell you how much longer you have on the cycle! These things are like from the future...something you would see on the Jetsons!
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Gary
What's better than having a PM who is technologically illiterate? Please tell me that this will be Gary Busey's last stand. There's no way he makes it out of this task, right?!
Gary is so disrespectful to the executives. He constantly interrupts to have them repeat everything. He gets up and walks around while they're talking, he's yawning...it's ridiculous! Granted, even if he was paying full attention, he still wasn't going to get it anyway.
Penn threw out 3 ideas like rapid fire and Gary vetoed them all. Lisa tried to give an idea and Gary told her to be quiet. Seriously Gary? Then he throws out the idea of a man who turns into a mechanical dog. It has nothing to do with the product at all. At this point, Lisa and Penn can do nothing. They are at Gary's mercy and will eventually go down on his sinking ship. They tried to throw him a life preserver and a way out, but he did not want to be saved. I really admire Lisa, because she did and said absolutely nothing wrong and Gary took everything as her being hostile and disrespectful. She continued to not raise her voice and talk calmly with him until he finally agreed to move forward. Ridiculous waste of time, and Gary was totally in the wrong.
Gary goes through the insane idea for the video, and then Penn tells him he will type it up. While going through the script, he and Lisa have a breakdown where they just begin laughing at the whole thing because it makes absolutely no sense, and no part of it was anything that they said...it was all Gary. Their only fear is that it will be so out of the box that LG will love it.
The actors show up, and apparently Gary chose 2 women of about the same age to play his wife and daughter. He told them he didn't choose them, the work chose them. He told them that he left his body at one time, and a ton of absolute nonsense. I really pity those people for having to sit through that.
And, it's time for action and he says "If you have to fart, fart quick, but keep your energy up." Oh my gosh, it's so hard to believe what's going on. And then he pushes one of the camera guys. Lisa says something to him, and he yells at her for not saying it to him in private.
Gary then takes on the role of the mechanical dog, and begins barking out of control. Lisa reminds Penn about LG's wholesome family mantra, and everything he's doing is the complete opposite.
Ivanka pays a visit and Penn and Lisa spilled the beans about the disaster they were experiencing. At that point, they had 1/2 hour left and had not really shot anything. I'm a little concerned when Ivanka says that Penn and Lisa had checked out and that was a risky strategy because they would all be in the boardroom. While that's true, there is absolutely no way that either of them are at fault for what is taking place.
After watching the video, all I can say is "Wow".
Team Power
Project Manager: Lil' Jon
This task was made for Lil' Jon. He has become a master at video production. Marilu and Trace are both creative as well, so it's hard to see how they could lose this task. Their biggest advantage is that they don't have Gary.
Over at Team Power, things are moving smoothly like clockwork. We aren't seeing a whole lot of their team because there is so much chaos going on with Team Plan B.
Marilu memorized her lines and Trace took off to start editing while they were still shooting. Each of them had a role on the team that was perfect for them. The 3 of them were like a well-oiled machine.
If there's any negative about their video, I think it will be that it's not overly creative, and there wasn't very much humor in it to make it exciting. The positives were that they really showed each of the products well and what they can do. Let's just hope that's what the execs were looking for!
Boardroom
The executives liked Lil' Jon's video better, and so Team Power won! Woohoo! All is right with the world! Now, if only Trump can see that Gary needs to be fired instead of taking pity on him and saying what a great actor he is.
It really amazes and astonishes me at how delusional Gary is. He lied about being abandoned by his team. He lied about Lisa yelling at him. He lied about not getting ideas and opinions from Penn. Nothing could be further from the truth for all of those things.
Trump tells Gary that this season he is a rock. What?! Trump said last time he played he was a flake...yes he was, but he STILL IS!!!
And, finally, Gary does not escape the boardroom. Gary should have never survived the last time he was PM.
As soon as Trump said, "Gary, you're fired!" He got up, walked out without saying one word to Penn or Lisa. Real classy.
Make a video for LG about their interactive, smart technology.
Can I just say that these LG products are frickin' amazing! Refrigerator that has wi-fi and you can create a grocery list and send it to your phone! Washer/dryer that can tell you how much longer you have on the cycle! These things are like from the future...something you would see on the Jetsons!
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Gary
What's better than having a PM who is technologically illiterate? Please tell me that this will be Gary Busey's last stand. There's no way he makes it out of this task, right?!
Gary is so disrespectful to the executives. He constantly interrupts to have them repeat everything. He gets up and walks around while they're talking, he's yawning...it's ridiculous! Granted, even if he was paying full attention, he still wasn't going to get it anyway.
Penn threw out 3 ideas like rapid fire and Gary vetoed them all. Lisa tried to give an idea and Gary told her to be quiet. Seriously Gary? Then he throws out the idea of a man who turns into a mechanical dog. It has nothing to do with the product at all. At this point, Lisa and Penn can do nothing. They are at Gary's mercy and will eventually go down on his sinking ship. They tried to throw him a life preserver and a way out, but he did not want to be saved. I really admire Lisa, because she did and said absolutely nothing wrong and Gary took everything as her being hostile and disrespectful. She continued to not raise her voice and talk calmly with him until he finally agreed to move forward. Ridiculous waste of time, and Gary was totally in the wrong.
Gary goes through the insane idea for the video, and then Penn tells him he will type it up. While going through the script, he and Lisa have a breakdown where they just begin laughing at the whole thing because it makes absolutely no sense, and no part of it was anything that they said...it was all Gary. Their only fear is that it will be so out of the box that LG will love it.
The actors show up, and apparently Gary chose 2 women of about the same age to play his wife and daughter. He told them he didn't choose them, the work chose them. He told them that he left his body at one time, and a ton of absolute nonsense. I really pity those people for having to sit through that.
And, it's time for action and he says "If you have to fart, fart quick, but keep your energy up." Oh my gosh, it's so hard to believe what's going on. And then he pushes one of the camera guys. Lisa says something to him, and he yells at her for not saying it to him in private.
Gary then takes on the role of the mechanical dog, and begins barking out of control. Lisa reminds Penn about LG's wholesome family mantra, and everything he's doing is the complete opposite.
Ivanka pays a visit and Penn and Lisa spilled the beans about the disaster they were experiencing. At that point, they had 1/2 hour left and had not really shot anything. I'm a little concerned when Ivanka says that Penn and Lisa had checked out and that was a risky strategy because they would all be in the boardroom. While that's true, there is absolutely no way that either of them are at fault for what is taking place.
After watching the video, all I can say is "Wow".
Team Power
Project Manager: Lil' Jon
This task was made for Lil' Jon. He has become a master at video production. Marilu and Trace are both creative as well, so it's hard to see how they could lose this task. Their biggest advantage is that they don't have Gary.
Over at Team Power, things are moving smoothly like clockwork. We aren't seeing a whole lot of their team because there is so much chaos going on with Team Plan B.
Marilu memorized her lines and Trace took off to start editing while they were still shooting. Each of them had a role on the team that was perfect for them. The 3 of them were like a well-oiled machine.
If there's any negative about their video, I think it will be that it's not overly creative, and there wasn't very much humor in it to make it exciting. The positives were that they really showed each of the products well and what they can do. Let's just hope that's what the execs were looking for!
Boardroom
The executives liked Lil' Jon's video better, and so Team Power won! Woohoo! All is right with the world! Now, if only Trump can see that Gary needs to be fired instead of taking pity on him and saying what a great actor he is.
It really amazes and astonishes me at how delusional Gary is. He lied about being abandoned by his team. He lied about Lisa yelling at him. He lied about not getting ideas and opinions from Penn. Nothing could be further from the truth for all of those things.
Trump tells Gary that this season he is a rock. What?! Trump said last time he played he was a flake...yes he was, but he STILL IS!!!
And, finally, Gary does not escape the boardroom. Gary should have never survived the last time he was PM.
As soon as Trump said, "Gary, you're fired!" He got up, walked out without saying one word to Penn or Lisa. Real classy.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.8
The Task
Interactive South Africa tourism travel expo
Team Power
Project Manager: Brande
After a coin flip win, they choose the Adventure package.
For lack of any other ideas for a slogan, Trace comes up with "You + South Africa = Adventure".
They struggled with how to bring huge adventures into a very small space. The themes were golfing, ziplining, shark cage diving, glamping and surfing.
A couple of their good ideas were:
Shark cage = a fake cage and someone dressed up as a shark taunting the person in the cage
Ziplining = being pushed across the room in a desk chair
Trace shows us the art of shopping quickly. He also continues to struggle with the ideas that his team is coming up with. He doesn't think they are all that great, and he spends most of the time just sulking in his chair.
They put together a really nice pamphlet that described each of the experiences, and the executives seemed to really like that. And, they even enjoyed the "zip line". I can't believe that they even got George to do it!
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Penn
They get stuck with the Romance package, which was not their first choice.
Their themes were: spa, art, wine, food and dance.
Gary is proving to be less than useless on this task. He doesn't have any idea how to use a phone! He can't multi-task at all. It's definitely like they are working as a 2-person team right now vs a 4-person team of true "all stars".
Penn used his connections to get some zulu dancers and a South African drummer that played with Paul Simon. Plus he got some authentic South African chefs. He made that look way too easy. And Gary did...nothing.
Watching Gary do his thing was like watching his own circus. Lisa said it was like working with a 3-year-old and that he was more focused on eating his chicken. He was so much in his own world. At times he seemed like he was having a seizure. He was so out of control...more than we've seen before. It was incredible, and I feel so sorry for Penn and Lisa.
I could not stop laughing as Penn and Lisa breakdown and have some laughs at Gary's expense. He's off drumming a candle and kind of spinning around. Penn tells Lisa that maybe the judges will say that zulu dancers are not romantic and they should have just had people making out. Lisa said she will not make out with Gary, because she's got to draw the line somewhere. Then, Penn laughs and says that he wonders if it's possible to French kiss Gary because he has like 4" of teeth to go through. Oh, my.
The Boardroom
Somehow the team of 2 with the severe handicap of Gary, managed to out-do the team of "all stars". Team Plan B wins! I'm shocked! And Gary lives another week...
My guess is, that as a 2nd time losing PM, Brande will be fired.
Trump is going after Lil' Jon because he really wanted Adventure over Romance. Oh come on Trump! Someone was going to end up with it, you can't blame him for thinking it might be easier.
Brande brings back Trace and Marilu. That was the right choice, you don't want to lose a good player like Lil' Jon. Although Trace is so tough too. As long as Brande or Marilu go, it will be the right decision.
And just as expected, "Brande, you're fired."
Right before they were dismissed, Trace spoke up for her and asked Trump to give some money to her charity since she wasn't able to earn any. Trump decided to give $20,000 to her charity. That was really nice of him, and nice of Trace to speak up.
Interactive South Africa tourism travel expo
Team Power
Project Manager: Brande
After a coin flip win, they choose the Adventure package.
For lack of any other ideas for a slogan, Trace comes up with "You + South Africa = Adventure".
They struggled with how to bring huge adventures into a very small space. The themes were golfing, ziplining, shark cage diving, glamping and surfing.
A couple of their good ideas were:
Shark cage = a fake cage and someone dressed up as a shark taunting the person in the cage
Ziplining = being pushed across the room in a desk chair
Trace shows us the art of shopping quickly. He also continues to struggle with the ideas that his team is coming up with. He doesn't think they are all that great, and he spends most of the time just sulking in his chair.
They put together a really nice pamphlet that described each of the experiences, and the executives seemed to really like that. And, they even enjoyed the "zip line". I can't believe that they even got George to do it!
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Penn
They get stuck with the Romance package, which was not their first choice.
Their themes were: spa, art, wine, food and dance.
Gary is proving to be less than useless on this task. He doesn't have any idea how to use a phone! He can't multi-task at all. It's definitely like they are working as a 2-person team right now vs a 4-person team of true "all stars".
Penn used his connections to get some zulu dancers and a South African drummer that played with Paul Simon. Plus he got some authentic South African chefs. He made that look way too easy. And Gary did...nothing.
Watching Gary do his thing was like watching his own circus. Lisa said it was like working with a 3-year-old and that he was more focused on eating his chicken. He was so much in his own world. At times he seemed like he was having a seizure. He was so out of control...more than we've seen before. It was incredible, and I feel so sorry for Penn and Lisa.
I could not stop laughing as Penn and Lisa breakdown and have some laughs at Gary's expense. He's off drumming a candle and kind of spinning around. Penn tells Lisa that maybe the judges will say that zulu dancers are not romantic and they should have just had people making out. Lisa said she will not make out with Gary, because she's got to draw the line somewhere. Then, Penn laughs and says that he wonders if it's possible to French kiss Gary because he has like 4" of teeth to go through. Oh, my.
The Boardroom
Somehow the team of 2 with the severe handicap of Gary, managed to out-do the team of "all stars". Team Plan B wins! I'm shocked! And Gary lives another week...
My guess is, that as a 2nd time losing PM, Brande will be fired.
Trump is going after Lil' Jon because he really wanted Adventure over Romance. Oh come on Trump! Someone was going to end up with it, you can't blame him for thinking it might be easier.
Brande brings back Trace and Marilu. That was the right choice, you don't want to lose a good player like Lil' Jon. Although Trace is so tough too. As long as Brande or Marilu go, it will be the right decision.
And just as expected, "Brande, you're fired."
Right before they were dismissed, Trace spoke up for her and asked Trump to give some money to her charity since she wasn't able to earn any. Trump decided to give $20,000 to her charity. That was really nice of him, and nice of Trace to speak up.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.7
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.
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.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.6
The Task:
Trump's wife Melania is launching a new skin care collection. The teams are to create editorials and displays.
Team Power
Project Manager: Dennis
Dennis asks Melania if he can go to her bathroom to see what products she really uses. Wow...really inappropriate! The whole team just cringes. Oh no, now Gary is talking. He says that he sees something like a rainbow...not sure how that's connected to the task.
Dennis's idea revolves around caviar...everything caviar because that is part of the name of the product.
Dennis and Lil' Jon go shopping for props: they look for everything gold.
Dennis has a very laid back style. He didn't really give anyone a task, they just kind of started working. He couldn't even pronounce Melania's name right.
For some reason Trace was working with the graphic designer instead of Lil' Jon. Dennis signed off on what he saw, but for some reason, I'm thinking this will come into play later because they put special emphasis on them asking Dennis what he thought and making sure that he said it was OK. I'm guessing maybe there is a typo that he didn't catch, or maybe there is something glaringly wrong with the photos.
Presentation
I WAS RIGHT!!! Melania's name is spelled wrong on the presentation!!!! It was spelled Milania! Oh my. Not good. The presentation itself went very well, but that is a MAJOR problem.
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Penn
They decide to go all out with gold and caviar as well. They have a lot of money to work with, so Penn told Lisa and Marilu to be "promiscuous" with the caviar.
Eric Trump came to check in with the team and Penn was pretty rude to him. I think it was all in a joking way, but it could be taken in a very rude manner.
Presentation:
Penn made a few faux pas and then Gary spoke. 2 strikes.
The Boardroom
Gary announces that he would like to be a spokesperson go men, heterosexual and homosexual, about the greatness of the product. Oh my.
Trump wastes no time in telling Dennis that his team lost because of spelling Melania's name wrong.
Trace tried to blame it on the girl who did the graphics, and even though he didn't catch it, Dennis had the last say. But really, they ALL missed it...not one of them caught it.
Dennis decides only to bring Trace back to the boardroom with him.
Dennis made a very good case for himself. Trace brought up when Dennis asked Melania if he could look in her bathroom.
And with that, "Dennis, you're fired!"
Trump's wife Melania is launching a new skin care collection. The teams are to create editorials and displays.
Team Power
Project Manager: Dennis
Dennis asks Melania if he can go to her bathroom to see what products she really uses. Wow...really inappropriate! The whole team just cringes. Oh no, now Gary is talking. He says that he sees something like a rainbow...not sure how that's connected to the task.
Dennis's idea revolves around caviar...everything caviar because that is part of the name of the product.
Dennis and Lil' Jon go shopping for props: they look for everything gold.
Dennis has a very laid back style. He didn't really give anyone a task, they just kind of started working. He couldn't even pronounce Melania's name right.
For some reason Trace was working with the graphic designer instead of Lil' Jon. Dennis signed off on what he saw, but for some reason, I'm thinking this will come into play later because they put special emphasis on them asking Dennis what he thought and making sure that he said it was OK. I'm guessing maybe there is a typo that he didn't catch, or maybe there is something glaringly wrong with the photos.
Presentation
I WAS RIGHT!!! Melania's name is spelled wrong on the presentation!!!! It was spelled Milania! Oh my. Not good. The presentation itself went very well, but that is a MAJOR problem.
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Penn
They decide to go all out with gold and caviar as well. They have a lot of money to work with, so Penn told Lisa and Marilu to be "promiscuous" with the caviar.
Eric Trump came to check in with the team and Penn was pretty rude to him. I think it was all in a joking way, but it could be taken in a very rude manner.
Presentation:
Penn made a few faux pas and then Gary spoke. 2 strikes.
The Boardroom
Gary announces that he would like to be a spokesperson go men, heterosexual and homosexual, about the greatness of the product. Oh my.
Trump wastes no time in telling Dennis that his team lost because of spelling Melania's name wrong.
Trace tried to blame it on the girl who did the graphics, and even though he didn't catch it, Dennis had the last say. But really, they ALL missed it...not one of them caught it.
Dennis decides only to bring Trace back to the boardroom with him.
Dennis made a very good case for himself. Trace brought up when Dennis asked Melania if he could look in her bathroom.
And with that, "Dennis, you're fired!"
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.5
The Task
The teams are to make 15 3-D pieces of artwork to sell.
Team Power
Project Manager: Lil' Jon
Trump moves Trace from Plan B because Power is down a couple players. Trace is not happy. He's the one that put together the dominating team and now he's on the losing team.
Dennis all of the sudden shows some creativity in creating his pieces. He somehow incorporates a signed Derek Jeter bats.
Chaz Dean buys 4 pieces for a total of $80,000! One of them was his best pieces, which he was hoping to sell for a lot of money. Now he doesn't get credit for that one.
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Lisa
The team is worried about Stephen from the start. They don't think that he will bring in any money. Trace was their guy for big donations, and now he's on the other team.
Gary gets violent with a piece of clay. "Art is life. Life is art." He's going nuts...he's singing about his art...it was crazy. Something about "art is only the search, it's not the final form.". It made absolutely no sense. He comes up with a piece called "Mr. Hang Brain". He had too many quotes in a span of a couple minutes, I couldn't get them all. Mr. Hang Brain ended up selling for $25,000 (but it's Marilu's contact, not Gary's).
Lil' Jon did NOT let Omarosa be in charge of the money this time.
Blue Man Group brings another crappy donation. Last season they blew their money all around and they had to try to collect it all. This time they put tiny folded triangles of money inside big jell-o molds that they had to dig it out.
The Boardroom
Team Power: $179,500
Team Plan B: $225,000
It was close, but Team Power loses another one. Will Lil' Jon be afraid of Omarosa too? I sure hope not. With Piers in the boardroom, he can't afford not to bring her back. Piers will rip her to shreds...there's no way he's letting Trump fire anyone but her.
The consensus is that those who raised the least should be brought back. That would be Dennis and Omarosa. She only brought in $2,000 more than he did. But, Piers argued that Dennis's art was creative and worth more than the $5,000 it sold for. He said what she made was worthless. Omarosa argued that Lil' Jon should be fired because he's the PM. But he raised $80,000...how can you fire someone who raised that much?
Lil' Jon smartly does not shy away from bringing Omarosa back. It is long overdue. I think in this case it is going to be very hard to fire Lil' Jon, so it's either going to be Dennis or Omarosa.
As they re-enter the boardroom, Dennis shouts "The good, the bad and the ugly." haha!
When asked who he would like to move forward with, Lil' Jon said Dennis. He respects how he came back to play this time and he's worked hard. He also said he worked harder than Omarosa because he got the Derek Jeter bat.
Dennis is fired up! You go Dennis! He is FIGHTING to get that woman fired! Lil' Jon just laughs...haha
And...here it comes..."Omarosa, you're fired!" Ding dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch, the wicked witch. Ding dong the wicked witch is dead." (Oddly enough, The Wizard of Oz was just on tonight)
The teams are to make 15 3-D pieces of artwork to sell.
Team Power
Project Manager: Lil' Jon
Trump moves Trace from Plan B because Power is down a couple players. Trace is not happy. He's the one that put together the dominating team and now he's on the losing team.
Dennis all of the sudden shows some creativity in creating his pieces. He somehow incorporates a signed Derek Jeter bats.
Chaz Dean buys 4 pieces for a total of $80,000! One of them was his best pieces, which he was hoping to sell for a lot of money. Now he doesn't get credit for that one.
Team Plan B
Project Manager: Lisa
The team is worried about Stephen from the start. They don't think that he will bring in any money. Trace was their guy for big donations, and now he's on the other team.
Gary gets violent with a piece of clay. "Art is life. Life is art." He's going nuts...he's singing about his art...it was crazy. Something about "art is only the search, it's not the final form.". It made absolutely no sense. He comes up with a piece called "Mr. Hang Brain". He had too many quotes in a span of a couple minutes, I couldn't get them all. Mr. Hang Brain ended up selling for $25,000 (but it's Marilu's contact, not Gary's).
Lil' Jon did NOT let Omarosa be in charge of the money this time.
Blue Man Group brings another crappy donation. Last season they blew their money all around and they had to try to collect it all. This time they put tiny folded triangles of money inside big jell-o molds that they had to dig it out.
The Boardroom
Team Power: $179,500
Team Plan B: $225,000
It was close, but Team Power loses another one. Will Lil' Jon be afraid of Omarosa too? I sure hope not. With Piers in the boardroom, he can't afford not to bring her back. Piers will rip her to shreds...there's no way he's letting Trump fire anyone but her.
The consensus is that those who raised the least should be brought back. That would be Dennis and Omarosa. She only brought in $2,000 more than he did. But, Piers argued that Dennis's art was creative and worth more than the $5,000 it sold for. He said what she made was worthless. Omarosa argued that Lil' Jon should be fired because he's the PM. But he raised $80,000...how can you fire someone who raised that much?
Lil' Jon smartly does not shy away from bringing Omarosa back. It is long overdue. I think in this case it is going to be very hard to fire Lil' Jon, so it's either going to be Dennis or Omarosa.
As they re-enter the boardroom, Dennis shouts "The good, the bad and the ugly." haha!
When asked who he would like to move forward with, Lil' Jon said Dennis. He respects how he came back to play this time and he's worked hard. He also said he worked harder than Omarosa because he got the Derek Jeter bat.
Dennis is fired up! You go Dennis! He is FIGHTING to get that woman fired! Lil' Jon just laughs...haha
And...here it comes..."Omarosa, you're fired!" Ding dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch, the wicked witch. Ding dong the wicked witch is dead." (Oddly enough, The Wizard of Oz was just on tonight)
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.4
The Task
Interactive marketing campaign, using a glass truck to promote Farouk Systems (hair care)
Team Power
PM: Claudia (Omarosa's next victim--she wasn't happy with how she turned on her in the last time, so when she wasn't overly willing to step up to being PM for the task, Omarosa gave her "a little push"...her own words).
Their team has 2 advantages: (1) Claudia uses Chi (the product they were given) everyday (2) Lil' John won a Farouk task in his season.
Omarosa was noticeably different on this task: she was more quiet! This time she was going to let the PM crash and burn without any input from her. Claudia sent her and Dennis out for props and wardrobe. No one wanted them to come back. They came back 4 hours later and still didn't get everything on their list.
Lil' John dressed like Uncle Sam and Dennis wore lipstick with glitter. Wow.
Marilu stole Miss USA out from under Claudia, so they decided to go with celebrity look-alikes instead. The only Donald Trump look-alike in New York...couldn't get him either, because he died!
Team Plan B
PM: Marilu
Oh boy, Marilu makes Gary the accountant! Ha! Advantage for this team? Marilu hosted the Miss USA pageant and they've used Miss USA girls for their ads before.
Stephen, as the "master marketer" thought the slogan should be "Live Life Luscious"...which Trace absolutely hated. He suggested "Experience Silk", and Marilu loved it.
Gary is the angel of silk. OK "You'll feel like you're 5,000 miles past heaven. Come with me." That doesn't sound creepy at all.
At the store, Gary was so meticulous about the money. He made sure every cent was accounted for and written down in his book. He took forever counting and recounting money. Then they get in the van and something is missing. The money bag. Oh wait, it was on the floor the whole time. Oh my.
So, on the ride back, Gary went nuts! Lisa's dress made a farting sound on the van seat, and Gary asked her if she farted. He then proceeded to say all kinds of weird things about farts like: "I can see fart gas." His Buseyism for 'fart': feeling a rectal transmission". Wow, that's a good one. Lisa started messing with him and I really think that he thought she was really farting. He said she was a farting trombone.
Another great Gary moment...Gary: "stop yelling at me." Marilu: "I'm not yelling, I just want you to hear me." Gary: "What?"
Trace said he was "whoring" himself out by performing on top of their glass truck to get people's attention. Penn did what he does best: magic/juggling.
Marilu got so distracted by everything! Her team members could never get her attention. Stephen put it best when he said she was "ping ponging".
The Boardroom
Winners: Team Plan B
Losers: Team Power
Claudia brings back: Dennis and Lil' John! I do not understand why they are all practically begging the PMs to bring Omarosa, and against all better judgement, they don't choose her. Why on earth are they so afraid to even try to go into battle against her? She will never be fired if no one brings her back to the boardroom. Did Claudia learn nothing from LaToya being fired last week? That was THE ONLY reason she was fired last week, and it will be THE ONLY reason why Claudia is fired this week.
Outside the boardroom before going back in, Claudia conspired against Dennis with Lil' John. They whispered back and forth on what to say to try to get Trump to keep them and fire Dennis. We'll see if it works.
And...Claudia--You're fired! (And another victim of Omarosa falls. First Brett, then LaToya and now Claudia)
Interactive marketing campaign, using a glass truck to promote Farouk Systems (hair care)
Team Power
PM: Claudia (Omarosa's next victim--she wasn't happy with how she turned on her in the last time, so when she wasn't overly willing to step up to being PM for the task, Omarosa gave her "a little push"...her own words).
Their team has 2 advantages: (1) Claudia uses Chi (the product they were given) everyday (2) Lil' John won a Farouk task in his season.
Omarosa was noticeably different on this task: she was more quiet! This time she was going to let the PM crash and burn without any input from her. Claudia sent her and Dennis out for props and wardrobe. No one wanted them to come back. They came back 4 hours later and still didn't get everything on their list.
Lil' John dressed like Uncle Sam and Dennis wore lipstick with glitter. Wow.
Marilu stole Miss USA out from under Claudia, so they decided to go with celebrity look-alikes instead. The only Donald Trump look-alike in New York...couldn't get him either, because he died!
Team Plan B
PM: Marilu
Oh boy, Marilu makes Gary the accountant! Ha! Advantage for this team? Marilu hosted the Miss USA pageant and they've used Miss USA girls for their ads before.
Stephen, as the "master marketer" thought the slogan should be "Live Life Luscious"...which Trace absolutely hated. He suggested "Experience Silk", and Marilu loved it.
Gary is the angel of silk. OK "You'll feel like you're 5,000 miles past heaven. Come with me." That doesn't sound creepy at all.
At the store, Gary was so meticulous about the money. He made sure every cent was accounted for and written down in his book. He took forever counting and recounting money. Then they get in the van and something is missing. The money bag. Oh wait, it was on the floor the whole time. Oh my.
So, on the ride back, Gary went nuts! Lisa's dress made a farting sound on the van seat, and Gary asked her if she farted. He then proceeded to say all kinds of weird things about farts like: "I can see fart gas." His Buseyism for 'fart': feeling a rectal transmission". Wow, that's a good one. Lisa started messing with him and I really think that he thought she was really farting. He said she was a farting trombone.
Another great Gary moment...Gary: "stop yelling at me." Marilu: "I'm not yelling, I just want you to hear me." Gary: "What?"
Trace said he was "whoring" himself out by performing on top of their glass truck to get people's attention. Penn did what he does best: magic/juggling.
Marilu got so distracted by everything! Her team members could never get her attention. Stephen put it best when he said she was "ping ponging".
The Boardroom
Winners: Team Plan B
Losers: Team Power
Claudia brings back: Dennis and Lil' John! I do not understand why they are all practically begging the PMs to bring Omarosa, and against all better judgement, they don't choose her. Why on earth are they so afraid to even try to go into battle against her? She will never be fired if no one brings her back to the boardroom. Did Claudia learn nothing from LaToya being fired last week? That was THE ONLY reason she was fired last week, and it will be THE ONLY reason why Claudia is fired this week.
Outside the boardroom before going back in, Claudia conspired against Dennis with Lil' John. They whispered back and forth on what to say to try to get Trump to keep them and fire Dennis. We'll see if it works.
And...Claudia--You're fired! (And another victim of Omarosa falls. First Brett, then LaToya and now Claudia)
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.3
The Task: 5-Minute Crystal Lite Soap Opera
Team Power Project Manager: LaToya
Of course, right away, Omarosa whines "I want to be in it," when LaToya tells her she wants to make her the Stage Manager. She continued to dominate the conversation and wouldn't even let LaToya talk. Omarosa is being so completely disrespectful!
Omarosa: "You got on the wrong side of Omaraosa today."
LaToya: "Her fiancee had a heart attack not too long ago. I'm sure she gave it to him." Oh snap!
Omarosa and Claudia go shopping for dresses and consistently calls LaToya for approval on everything. Claudia sees that she's only doing this so that none of the responsibility falls on her.
Their team is assigned Jack Wagner as their soap opera actor.
In the middle of the task, Omarosa received a phone call and she had to leave to take care of it. Apparently a tabloid was going to run the 911 tape from the night her fiancee, Michael Clarke Duncan, died. So now, the part in the commercial that she fought for, they have to find someone else to play the part. Claudia took over her part. After Omarosa left, everyone started to have fun.
Guess who shows up during rehearsals on the stage..Omarosa. Of course.
For the performance, everything is going great...until LaToya messed up the name of the drink (even though she had it written on her hand).
Team Plan B: Project Manager: Stephen
It's obvious that right off the bat, Stephen is going to have trouble gaining the respect of his team. I don't think any of them take him seriously, even though he's trying to be completely serious for once.
Trace: "I want to make out with Susan Lucci."
Not surprisingly, Penn has the best idea, so they go with his idea. Stephen says if the execs don't like it, he will be coming back to the boardroom.
The team starts running lines, but Stephen kept yelling, "STOP!", to give them all kinds of directions. The team is getting pretty annoyed with him at this point.
Their performance worked wonderfully and it was awesome.
The Boardroom
Team Plan B wins! Yay for Stephen and the rest of his team! Hoping that the mess that is Omarosa will be sent packing. She pulls out the fake crying...AGAIN! She just stars sobbing, but strangely, there are never any tears. Brande and Claudia are whispering to each other and Claudia mouths the words "why are you here?" This is going to be a battle of epic proportions.
Poor Gary seems really hurt this time, by constantly being called the weakest link. As many times as they say it, they also continue to say that they love him and that he did a good job. He's just distracting.
So, the boardroom battle begins and Trump's first questions are: "Dennis, do you like your tattoos? Would you get them again?" and "Lil' Jon, are your grills removable?" Seriously? Why is this important?
Omarosa didn't waste any time in bringing up the mistake that LaToya made. LaToya does her best to keep up with Omarosa. She definitely has a way with words. Omarosa brings Claudia into the fight and Dennis and Lil' Jon sitting at the other end of the table can only sit there in awe.
Then out of nowhere...LaToya speaks up and asks Trump if she, for the first time ever, could have permission to fire someone on her team? Whoa!
What in the world is LaToya doing? She decides to bring back Brande and Dennis. DUMBEST MOVE EVER!
I love that they brought up her fake tears. Everyone is trying to convince LaToya that not bringing Omarosa back was a dumb move. She even says she wants to battle her. Then WHY not bring her back? She says that she thinks Trump was buying her whole crying act and that she wouldn't have been fired. Everyone thinks that she was just scared of her, even though she keeps saying she wasn't. That's the only explanation anyone can give. And with that...
LaToya-You're Fired!
Team Power Project Manager: LaToya
Of course, right away, Omarosa whines "I want to be in it," when LaToya tells her she wants to make her the Stage Manager. She continued to dominate the conversation and wouldn't even let LaToya talk. Omarosa is being so completely disrespectful!
Omarosa: "You got on the wrong side of Omaraosa today."
LaToya: "Her fiancee had a heart attack not too long ago. I'm sure she gave it to him." Oh snap!
Omarosa and Claudia go shopping for dresses and consistently calls LaToya for approval on everything. Claudia sees that she's only doing this so that none of the responsibility falls on her.
Their team is assigned Jack Wagner as their soap opera actor.
In the middle of the task, Omarosa received a phone call and she had to leave to take care of it. Apparently a tabloid was going to run the 911 tape from the night her fiancee, Michael Clarke Duncan, died. So now, the part in the commercial that she fought for, they have to find someone else to play the part. Claudia took over her part. After Omarosa left, everyone started to have fun.
Guess who shows up during rehearsals on the stage..Omarosa. Of course.
For the performance, everything is going great...until LaToya messed up the name of the drink (even though she had it written on her hand).
Team Plan B: Project Manager: Stephen
It's obvious that right off the bat, Stephen is going to have trouble gaining the respect of his team. I don't think any of them take him seriously, even though he's trying to be completely serious for once.
Trace: "I want to make out with Susan Lucci."
Not surprisingly, Penn has the best idea, so they go with his idea. Stephen says if the execs don't like it, he will be coming back to the boardroom.
The team starts running lines, but Stephen kept yelling, "STOP!", to give them all kinds of directions. The team is getting pretty annoyed with him at this point.
Their performance worked wonderfully and it was awesome.
The Boardroom
Team Plan B wins! Yay for Stephen and the rest of his team! Hoping that the mess that is Omarosa will be sent packing. She pulls out the fake crying...AGAIN! She just stars sobbing, but strangely, there are never any tears. Brande and Claudia are whispering to each other and Claudia mouths the words "why are you here?" This is going to be a battle of epic proportions.
Poor Gary seems really hurt this time, by constantly being called the weakest link. As many times as they say it, they also continue to say that they love him and that he did a good job. He's just distracting.
So, the boardroom battle begins and Trump's first questions are: "Dennis, do you like your tattoos? Would you get them again?" and "Lil' Jon, are your grills removable?" Seriously? Why is this important?
Omarosa didn't waste any time in bringing up the mistake that LaToya made. LaToya does her best to keep up with Omarosa. She definitely has a way with words. Omarosa brings Claudia into the fight and Dennis and Lil' Jon sitting at the other end of the table can only sit there in awe.
Then out of nowhere...LaToya speaks up and asks Trump if she, for the first time ever, could have permission to fire someone on her team? Whoa!
What in the world is LaToya doing? She decides to bring back Brande and Dennis. DUMBEST MOVE EVER!
I love that they brought up her fake tears. Everyone is trying to convince LaToya that not bringing Omarosa back was a dumb move. She even says she wants to battle her. Then WHY not bring her back? She says that she thinks Trump was buying her whole crying act and that she wouldn't have been fired. Everyone thinks that she was just scared of her, even though she keeps saying she wasn't. That's the only explanation anyone can give. And with that...
LaToya-You're Fired!
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.2
The teams will be flown to Orlando, Florida on Trump's private jet to get their task there.
The task is to create an interactive photo experience for Universal.
Plan B
The team will be without Trace for this task because he has a prior commitment. Dee steps up as Project Manager.
Penn starts taking over, even though he's not the PM, and thinks they need to go with a magical/magician theme.
Gary says he's good with a camera, and he immediately has no idea what he's doing...big surprise! Buseyism: "FUN=Finally Understanding Nothing; because when you have nothing in your mind, everything you do will be extremely fun". Gary, Dee, Lisa, Stephen and Marilu all go out to get pictures. Gary dons a Cat in the Hat hat and Penn puts on a Harry Potter hat, and craziness ensues.
Dee decides to scrap Penn's magician ideas and go with life-size cut-outs of each of them as characters. Penn was obviously pretty displeased with this idea. And he continued to make his opinion known....to everyone.
The day of the event, Gary went crazy! He was wearing a Cat in the Hat hat, but he was saying he was the Tickle Monster and was tickling everyone during their pictures. Let's just say it was a little creepy.
Team Power
Project Manager is Omarosa. Let me just say I'm hoping they lose so she can be fired please! She starts her reign of terror by throwing Dennis under the bus in their meeting with the executives. Omarosa: "Dennis has a question for you." Dennis: "I do?" Wow.
Lil' Jon, Brande and Claudia are sent out to take pictures. When they come back they see that Omarosa has included Spiderman stuff in her graphics and they didn't get any photos of that. They had agreed on Harry Potter and Despicable Me.
Omarosa starts freaking out when the crew tells her they are running out of time and they may not be able to do 3D. I would not want to be them right now.
On day 2, they arrive and there's a lot to do. Their globe isn't painted, they have to design the entrance, and it's just chaos. 2 members of the team had to leave to get the Spiderman pictures that they didn't get the day before. Dennis's job: holding an umbrella. She put LaToya in charge of the Spiderman section, but gave her nothing but a web to put in it...basically setting her up to fail.
Their idea was to create 3 separate booths that had 3D backgrounds and the guests put on costumes and got their picture taken in each section.
The Boardroom
Both teams think they won, no surprise there.
Winning Team: Team Power
Darn it...I so wanted her to lose! She wins, and then she completely breaks down...not completely sure why, but I think it's because she was playing for a charity for her boyfriend, Michael Clark Duncan, who passed away.
My initial thoughts are that Stephen and Gary are in big trouble. Stephen didn't win any fans last task when he basically refused to fund raise to save his contacts for his own task. Then this task, he told Dee that he agreed with what they were doing. And for some reason, this really bothered Dee and he said he doesn't want someone like that on his team. Gary, as always was a distraction, so that is always a factor in not winning, but also fear in going forward and wanting to keep the team strong. Of course, Dee was PM, so a lot of this falls in his lap. He vetoed Penn's idea which probably would have improved their presentation quite a bit.
Trump asked Dee if Penn should be fired because he didn't fight for his idea. Seconds later, Trump uttered his famous words: "Penn, 'you're fired'"! Jaws drop! But...he's only kidding! What a fakeout! This was Trump's 2nd fakeout of the night. He told Team Plan B: "Dee, congratulations! ...you lost!"
Dee brings back Stephen and Gary; Stephen because he doesn't trust him and Gary because he has a limited skillset.
You're Fired: Dee
The task is to create an interactive photo experience for Universal.
Plan B
The team will be without Trace for this task because he has a prior commitment. Dee steps up as Project Manager.
Penn starts taking over, even though he's not the PM, and thinks they need to go with a magical/magician theme.
Gary says he's good with a camera, and he immediately has no idea what he's doing...big surprise! Buseyism: "FUN=Finally Understanding Nothing; because when you have nothing in your mind, everything you do will be extremely fun". Gary, Dee, Lisa, Stephen and Marilu all go out to get pictures. Gary dons a Cat in the Hat hat and Penn puts on a Harry Potter hat, and craziness ensues.
Dee decides to scrap Penn's magician ideas and go with life-size cut-outs of each of them as characters. Penn was obviously pretty displeased with this idea. And he continued to make his opinion known....to everyone.
The day of the event, Gary went crazy! He was wearing a Cat in the Hat hat, but he was saying he was the Tickle Monster and was tickling everyone during their pictures. Let's just say it was a little creepy.
Team Power
Project Manager is Omarosa. Let me just say I'm hoping they lose so she can be fired please! She starts her reign of terror by throwing Dennis under the bus in their meeting with the executives. Omarosa: "Dennis has a question for you." Dennis: "I do?" Wow.
Lil' Jon, Brande and Claudia are sent out to take pictures. When they come back they see that Omarosa has included Spiderman stuff in her graphics and they didn't get any photos of that. They had agreed on Harry Potter and Despicable Me.
Omarosa starts freaking out when the crew tells her they are running out of time and they may not be able to do 3D. I would not want to be them right now.
On day 2, they arrive and there's a lot to do. Their globe isn't painted, they have to design the entrance, and it's just chaos. 2 members of the team had to leave to get the Spiderman pictures that they didn't get the day before. Dennis's job: holding an umbrella. She put LaToya in charge of the Spiderman section, but gave her nothing but a web to put in it...basically setting her up to fail.
Their idea was to create 3 separate booths that had 3D backgrounds and the guests put on costumes and got their picture taken in each section.
The Boardroom
Both teams think they won, no surprise there.
Winning Team: Team Power
Darn it...I so wanted her to lose! She wins, and then she completely breaks down...not completely sure why, but I think it's because she was playing for a charity for her boyfriend, Michael Clark Duncan, who passed away.
My initial thoughts are that Stephen and Gary are in big trouble. Stephen didn't win any fans last task when he basically refused to fund raise to save his contacts for his own task. Then this task, he told Dee that he agreed with what they were doing. And for some reason, this really bothered Dee and he said he doesn't want someone like that on his team. Gary, as always was a distraction, so that is always a factor in not winning, but also fear in going forward and wanting to keep the team strong. Of course, Dee was PM, so a lot of this falls in his lap. He vetoed Penn's idea which probably would have improved their presentation quite a bit.
Trump asked Dee if Penn should be fired because he didn't fight for his idea. Seconds later, Trump uttered his famous words: "Penn, 'you're fired'"! Jaws drop! But...he's only kidding! What a fakeout! This was Trump's 2nd fakeout of the night. He told Team Plan B: "Dee, congratulations! ...you lost!"
Dee brings back Stephen and Gary; Stephen because he doesn't trust him and Gary because he has a limited skillset.
You're Fired: Dee
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Celebrity Apprentice, Ep. 13.1
I'm so excited for a new season of Celebrity Apprentice. This time, it's the All Stars! We're sure to be in for some major drama, backstabbing and fighting...because if we've learned anything from previous seasons of Celebrity Apprentice, it's that celebrities will do A LOT to win for their charities. Let the craziness begin...
Teams: no more Men vs. Women. Trump tells Bret Michaels (previous winner) and Trace Adkins (previous runner-up) choose teams.
Team Trace Adkins: "Team Plan B"
Penn Jillette
Dee Snyder
Marilu Henner
Stephen Baldwin
Lisa Rinna
Gary Busey
Team Bret Michaels: "Team Power"
Omarosa Manigault
Lil' Jon
Brande Roderick
LaToya Jackson
Claudia Jordan
Dennis Rodman (last picked)
Teams: no more Men vs. Women. Trump tells Bret Michaels (previous winner) and Trace Adkins (previous runner-up) choose teams.
Team Trace Adkins: "Team Plan B"
Penn Jillette
Dee Snyder
Marilu Henner
Stephen Baldwin
Lisa Rinna
Gary Busey
Team Bret Michaels: "Team Power"
Omarosa Manigault
Lil' Jon
Brande Roderick
LaToya Jackson
Claudia Jordan
Dennis Rodman (last picked)
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