It’s one thing to flaunt that she’s in with the in crowd, but she also said being with the cool kids was typical of her. I suppose there are cool nerds somewhere who are being picked on, but I suspect she’s full of it.
I’m rooting for Valasquez on the women’s team. She appears to be the only one who isn’t some combination of useless and bitchy.
It needs to be quiet in here, like a church.
[Major hijack]My stepson got his Eagle Badge from Ahhhnold while he was Governor. All of the new Eagle Scouts got to ask him one question and I was so proud he asked the question I suggested
Do you still have the t shirt you wore at the end of Pumping Iron? The one that says “Arnold is Numero Uno”.
I think we’ve seen viral videos before on the Apprentice and we’ve come to the conclusion that the contestants have no clue what a viral video really is and they turn out to be commercials.
I thought it was huge that Tia asked that if she “quit” if Trump would fire another one. This is turning into a corporate version of I’m a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here!
How does one make a viral video that has good brand messaging and product description without it being like a commercial? I’m not sure the execs asking for the product know what a viral video is.
You could go the “european commercial that’s far too racy for US television” route. It’d have commercial-level production values, but be over-the-top enough to actually get some traction. Which is probably what Dayana was going for. “What’s your number?” is just terrible.
I thought the men kind of had the idea with 110% dancing then falling but it looks like not much made the final cut.
That (despite a one hour show turned into two hour show ) makes it good television.
Penn vs. Lisa finale!
I want to attend Clay’s party and Limbo! 
The ladies party looked like a major snooze fest.
I flinched a little seeing Paul playing bartender. He’s talked a lot about his decades of substance(s) abuses. I think he’s 20 or 25 years sober? But, its disturbing seeing him passing out drinks at a party. Can’t help but cheer for anyone that’s continuing day by day to beat alcohol and drugs.
Wow, talk about fake crocodile tears. Twenty solid minutes has to be an acting record.
[SPOILER]Darn it. Patricia was the best they had on the women’s team.
Just once I wanted to see the women’s team operate without Aubrey sticking her flaming red headed mouth into the discussion. She’s single handily bullied the team into her ideas and most of the time they’ve lost. They told Trump that repeatedly and he still didn’t fire her.
I’ve got a sick feeling Trump likes Aubrey and he’s going to let her reach the final no matter what. It’s going to take a massive screw-up to get rid of her.[/SPOILER]
Next week we see the men and women working together. Thank goodness. I couldn’t take another episode with the women cat fighting.
I think you are going to see at least an half of episode of cat fighting.
3 hours of this mess next week. Two tasks.
I don’t see how this challenge was even close. (Maybe it really wasn’t, the execs might just have to say that it is for dramatic tension.) The men seemed to nail the sassy and fun image of the brand with their beach party. The women’s looked like an art show opening. That might be fun for some people but I doubt that that’s the niche that Crystal Light was going for.
Dayana (or Patricia, can’t remember) really should have hammered Aubrey on her creative abilities just like the men said. Yes, you’re a major contributor but we always lose! If we keep going with your ideas we’re going to continue to lose. It really does seem that Aubrey is one of Trump’s favorites and is destined for the finale no matter what. Of course, all of this could be decided in advance and we’d never know.
I was not paying 100% attention – but the company explanation at the beginning said these were non-alcoholic versions. Were they spiking them? That would seem to be against the spirit (sic) of the promotion. If Paul was handing out nonalcoholic drinks, I don’t see a problem.
I actually agree with the women that Dayana is the most useless – maybe Patricia sticks to her graphics niche, but at least she has one. What does Dayana ever contribute?
But even if Trump is keeping her around solely so he can look at her in the boardroom, her time is running out.
OTOH, is seems everyone on the men’s team except Lou is a solid performer.
I doubt the mixup will ‘save’ the women, it’ll just mean that a woman goes EVERY week regardless of which team wins.
Yeah, I don’t think there was any alcohol involved; I doubt the Crystal Light execs would have looked kindly on mixing liquor with their “healthy” drinks either.
To the matter at hand, it did appear the mens’ party was a bit more festive. And it could have been creative editing, but they did show Patricia playing with the graphics and downsizing the Crystal Light logo in relation to the “Pomtini” lettering. We never did see Aubrey give her final approval on the graphics, though we did see Lisa warning Aubrey she should. Useful and intelligent as Patricia may have been, this was one where the task performance really did dictate who got fired. Though I do agree Trump does appear to be in love with both Aubrey and Dayana. I must admit both Lisa and Aubrey are incredibly grating, though. Being creative and useful is one thing, but constantly braying about it is quite another (and loved that Dayana of all people responds to Aubrey’s incessant claims to constantly being the brains of the operation by bringing up the fact the women have lost most challenges).
On the men’s team, the two that impressed me this week were Penn and Clay. Penn because he seemed to consciously and deliberately put aside his tendency to over-critique, and Clay because he did not name Penn as one of the two he would bring back if they lost (though naming three was just stupid).
I missed the first 12 minutes of the show. When I turned it on Clay was commenting that only a couple people on the team drank. Dee mentioned he never did drugs or drank even in his Twisted Sister days.
I just assumed they were serving real mixed drinks. But, I didn’t think about Crystal Light as a healthy drink the company is promoting.
Any way, my mistake. No alcohol for this tv show. 
Bull shit. Now I don’t care which of those hags on the women’s team makes it to the end anymore. Patricia was the only one who use useful and not a complete harpy, so now that she’s gone, whether it’s Loudmouth Hag Senior or Hag Junior really makes no difference. I guess I’ll root for Debbie or something, and the men’s team can take home the final crown.
Competition winner should be, oh, let’s say Arsenio, though it’ll probably be Clay or Penn. If Clay, I predict at least 15 cheesy Trump jokes, “Well at least you weren’t runner up this time,” hyuck hyuck.
I like Aubrey’s sensibilities during a project and I hate her ability to tell us how awesome she is.
“Ability”? Don’t you mean “pathological compulsion”?
I love how she’s such a psychotic phony. “I love Dayana, and hope we can be the best of best friends forever and ever!” Cut to the board room where Dayana dares bring up that maybe Aubrey’s leadership is overrated considering they keep losing. “I will cut you, bitch! Name one thing you’ve done, Senorita Worthless!”
Finally got to watch this. I did have one comment from the prior episode about the mops. On second viewing, I can see how Dayana’s bit about the mop, while racy and not too graphic, didn’t quite fit the sensibility of the ad campaign. She made it sound more like she was selecting vibrators rather than boyfriends. So that is at least a sensible reason for not including her bit.
As for this episode, I think both parties were a success at what they were trying to achieve. Both looked fun, though the men was certainly lighter and more lively. But I can’t decide: models and beauty pageant winners, or bikinis.
Clay did well, all the men kicked in, and Penn did a fair job of trying to dial down the condescension and mitigate his tone. I understand Clay’s frustration - if they had lost this round, there wouldn’t have been anything solid to pin it on and no particular weak link. That would have put it down to inadequate signage, or insufficient leadership. Or pick the weakest overall, hang this episode as “we all did great, the execs just were blind”. I think is naming three was his utter exasperation at having to name anyone. He mentioned Dee for the signage but really probably if had to name someone would have ended up picking Lou and Paul.
Out of the women, I can’t say I’m surprised to see Patricia go. While she is a solid contributor to execution, she hasn’t been part of the ideas team, and she hasn’t had that strong a position. She was bound to be booted at some point, and this time it was her attitude that contributed to the loss. Yes, a leader needs to delegate and trust the workanship of the team members, but proofing and checking is still a necessary feature, and ultimately approval should go through the PM. Which Patricia was told, several times. I don’t know if it was just editing, but it did appear she didn’t run everything past Aubrey. Aubrey handled the lack of signs the best she could, but that’s what it came down to, not enough Crystal Light signage. Because their name was prominent in the slogan “Garden of Crystal deLight”, and in the jingle that Debbie made up and had everyone singing.
I’m not surprised the pointed the finger at Dayana once again. Several of them have had it out for her, and so she is doomed. I’m surprised she’s made it this far, and I think the only reason she survived last week was Tia took the bullet to bail on the drama. She made the valiant effort to point out that the creative ideas of Aubrey haven’t always one. Aubrey kept asking what ideas she’s had, but we’ve seen Dayana trying to contribute ideas and get blown off. Still, she didn’t have anything more creative this time, so it’s hard to accept the criticism.
About Debbie’s song, did anyone else think it was a bit nasal? When she was in the studio recording, I was thinking it sounded dreadful. And I actually like “Electric Youth”.
Yeah, the catty braying is annoying. Debbie Gibson was on the Tonight Show last night, saying how she’s watching the shows real time with us and learning all the candid stuff from the back room stuff, and how she thought they were getting along and then there would be comments about how some of the people really felt. Especially Aubrey.
Aubrey has been creative and involved in most of the projects, and she did a good job as PM. This last one was close. And Trump really likes her. I think he’ll push to keep her if he can.
And Clay’s comment about Aubrey, “She came right out of her mamma’s chanch, and went right to the stripper pole” - OUCH! Talk about catty.
Please let Aubrey walk off. I can’t stand her, and I’m happy Arsenio and Clay were honest. It surprised me how Arsenio got himself so wound up it was as if he couldn’t stop.