Tom mentioned that at 8:30 the next morning the whole place was going to be transformed or something like that. I never did see the transformation but I figured that he was about 1:30 late.
The decor of the store was irrelevant to the task. The poduct itself was irrelevant to the task. Team management was irrelevant to the task. All that mattered was who could call the most rich friends, and the women have the most rich friends. There really is no game anymore.
Rodman is surviving on the ‘I’m the biggest celebrity’ factor. Period.
Oh, and how unbalanced is Trump going to let it get? The teams are now 5 & 8, at at some tasks even one extra pair of hand matters. (Especially when it comes to dialing a phone…)
The last time it was the men, I think, who won the first few, and Trump moved a guy to the women’s team. High time he did the reverse.
Here’s an amusing thought: can you IMAGINE the women’s reaction if he gave them Rodman??
If that happened, I think the best thing the manager could do was send Rodman out to do a ‘market survey’ of the nearby bars, and just pretend he doesn’t exist.
I’d never watched a show like this before but must admit it’s kinda entertaining. Didn’t know much about Jesse James but he strikes me as the most common sensical, sane one among them all. When Trump asked him before if he’d called any friends to come buy cupcakes, Jesse kinda gave him that you idiot look and said “My friends don’t have any money.” Ha! Hilarious.
It was pretty funny too to see Clint after Jesse suggested firing him. Stone faced pissed off! If he’d tried to talk it would have come out in squeaks.
Go Jesse.
I thought it was unfair that Tom got fired, and he didn’t even get to choose two people to come back to the boardroom. I know this is armchair quarterbacking, but if I were in Tom’s shoes, I would’ve taken advantage of the opportunity to get some cash for my charity:
“Mr. Trump, thank you for the opportunity. I tried very hard to raise a lot of money and although we didn’t beat the women, we did manage to raise over $60,000. If you think someone else could’ve raised a penny more with this team, then I deserve to be fired. But I came on this show to raise money for cancer research. Scott was fired last week and since I am going home this week, would you consider opening your wallet and your heart to personally match the $60,000 we raised this week to go to the very worthy cause of cancer research?”
The whole point of the show is to extort cash from rich friends, so I wouldn’t leave without at least trying to extort from the biggest wallet in the room.
That’s a good point. There’s a huge discrepancy from week to week as to how much the winning charity gets, assuming that they’re telling us everything. If your team wins one of the “How rich are your friends?” challenges, you’ll clean up. If you win a “make a pitch to some business” challenge, you get $20k. Not pocket change by any means but a far cry from the $160k that Brande won for her charity.
This show so totally doesn’t need to be two hours – and yet, there I was, watching two hours’ worth (even skipping Amazing Race, which really hasn’t grabbed me this season, to watch).
Dennis is a freakin’ nutjob, though apparently this will be dealt with directly next week.
The women’s team lost this puppy fair and square – they didn’t even consider putting on a performance, just went for a live-action commercial instead. That particular audience didn’t need a commercial, they needed a pep rally, which the men provided.
(Who was the blonde who got the private jet, BTW? I wasn’t paying full attention at the beginning of the interchange. Was that Natalie? Why does she know someone with a private jet?)
Also – despite our speculation, there was no effort to even up the numbers on the teams – the men won despite (because of?) having half the numerical strength of the women’s team [counting them at 4 with the decision not to use Dennis].
This show is so damn boring, with a few minutes of decent content. Please stop making it two hours nbc! It’s gotten to the point where I just watch it on Hulu and do other shit while it’s playing.
I think the fact that they’re running it at two hours is proof – if the fact that they’re planning to run five nights of prime-time Leno next year wasn’t proof enough – that NBC doesn’t have any fucking programming at all available.
Here’s a question. What in the world did the men’s team (“KOTU,” to use their incredibly stupid name) do to get the audience so pumped up? They had some fancy hip hop dancing and Brian McKnight’s vocals, but I don’t see why that would have gotten the crowd to start chanting the company’s name.
She said that she has an account w/ a private jet company to fly her between tournaments during the golf season.
God, the rich really are different from you and me …
That’s exactly right. I think the women didn’t actually get the point of this task, which is probably why they had so much trouble getting organized on it, too.
Many golf pros use companies like Net Jets for their travel. I have heard it is not much more than flying commerical first class and you don’t have the hassles of airports, and making connections.
Okay, the cameos by the celebs from Celeb Apprentice I seeing how obnoxious they can be – funny shit.
Tonight was the first time I have cried at a boardroom scene. What a hard moment for everyone, to have to confront Dennis Rodman about his drinking problem. Poor Jesse James. Joan was right…it really was like an intervention. And the poor women, having to watch the men go through that. No bluster, no bravado…just pain.
It seemed to me that this was a long time in coming and that the show exploited Rodman’s drinking on this episode. He did nothing different last night than he had since the season started. Wasn’t he in the final table for the men every time that they lost? And The Donald continually refused to hear what others were saying about Rodman’s behavior why?
I was glad they gave the number for AA at the end. I hope he finds help.
twicks, sober through the steps of AA for more than 20 years