I think Kendra is just happy that she doesn’t have Craig. I think they could have given her Saddam Hussein, an eggplant and Omarosa and she’d be like, “Thank God I don’t have Craig.”
Danny-- the singing? No. Don’t do that.
I almost forgot what a tool he was.
Oh, this is too funny. Erin peering out from behind her bangs at Danny, and the execs in full-tilt WTF.
That was wonderful.
Instead of bringing back the last six people fired, they stuck the candidates with the three biggest tools from their original teams.
How you deal with asshole subordinates shows a lot about a supervisor.
I hope that bitchy Playstation woman doesn’t cost Kendra the task. It’s not like Kendra had any control over the space she was given or over the contract for the main room.
Uh oh! I’m rooting for Kendra. How will she tidy the Sony area!? Dum da dum dum DUUUUM!
Even though I like Tana I think Kendra is sort of like the woman alone and the underdog so I want her to do well. One thing that sucks is that now’s the chance to see how she leads when Craig isn’t there to foil her efforts, but they’re having the bad team gimmick so you kind of still don’t get to see.
I’m surprised that I’m happy to see Chris again. Did I hear Tana call him handsome during the trip down memory lane? And then Kendra said he had such a good personality? That was weird. Even though they said dumb things like that for each person. That was like when you look at photos of a wedding where you didn’t know anyone, “oh there’s so-and-so’s cousin. She’s a smiler!”
But she should have anticipated that it would be an issue for the Playstation woman. She should have made it clear how they were going to direct traffic down there and make it appealing. For example, the first thing I thought when seeing them going down into the deep hidden area was to hype it up like a gamers’ cave, some place that would seem cool and exclusive. A place that would be so cool that the buzz would be to go out of your way to get there, as opposed to just wandering around the main area and running into some Playstations by chance. Heck, what do I know? I’m not a marketer or manager. But at least I have an idea to make the space seem intentional, instead of “Ooops, you were bottom of the barrel.”
Why do I always remember more things I wanted to say just after posting?
Was it my imagination, or did Tana and Kendra call Chris “Snuffy”? Mwah!
Not to mention Tana calling her team the Three Stooges. To Carolyn, no less. Who didn’t seem particularly surprised.
Wow, I was expecting Craig to be a total tool in the interviews but he really outdid himself. (At least what we were shown, which I realize is not exactly an unbiased picture.) All that fidgeting and collar-pulling was just embarrassing. Nobody making it to the final three on this show should be that incompetent.
Did they have to show Danny singing again? I had just told my hubby that the one thing I did not want to ever see again was Danny singing. They just had to bring him back and twist that knife, didn’t they?
Yep, they got saddled with some pretty serious baggage all right.
I so love Kendra. If I had to choose between Kendra and terrorist-killing Chloe, it’d be a tough call.
Watching Craig in those interviews was like listening to Durwood Fincher, only, at least Fincher is intentionally funny. (Click to see the video of the Dick Clark Bloopers clip – freaking hilarious!)
I’m totally rooting for Tana. I think she’s got moxie and charm on top of her drive and intelligence. I think Kendra is annoying, snotty, self-centered and immature. And on a purely superficial level, her nasally voice bugs.
Wow, Tana was a complete bitch toward Kendra tonight. Either that or she’s a blithering idiot. How else can one explain her telling Trump that he should fire Kendra over bumbling Craig?
I’m really hoping that Tana goes down in flames during the final task and that the final boardroom is a massacre similar to the unanimous support Kelly received vs Jennifer last season. Tana may go down as the most woefully inadequate finalist in Apprentice history.
Laugh out loud funny… and oh so true! 
Or impressed. I thought that was really inappropriate – acting as though she were Carolyn’s peer.
Heh. Clearly the braintrust behind the Raj Ratings finds the most enjoyable part of this entire season is now focused on the dunderheaded help brought back for the final task. It’s amazing that so many pathetic people were cast on this show that Danny appears to be the best of the 6 brought back. That’s the kind of thought that’ll leave sweat stains on your clothes. Watching idiots is sort of fun but it’s a lot like a NASCAR wreck. You have the initial “Cool, look at all that crap fly around” aspect, then you realize that somewhere inside the wreckage there is a human being that could be hurt. In this instance, the human being would be the viewer of the show. Season 1 and 2 had quirky people, but at least for the final task you knew you would be helped by your “employees” rather than hindered by the criminal investigation resulting from the PM killing them. Oh, and thanks for bringing Erin back. What a waste.
Nursery School - Full of crying, childish people that could use either a potty break or a nap. These folks deserve to be watched by the crooked daycares profiled on “60 Minutes”.
Todd, Tara, Audrey, John, Angie, Stephanie, Bren, Alex - You were viewed as too sane and normal to be brought back to hamper the final 2. That’s good for you, but speaks more to the level of competition we have been forced to endure this year. At this point, I’d rather watch Trump give us a competition between anarchists and catholic cardinals. Pretty much any group of people would be more fun to watch than these contestants.
Brian - I wouldn’t want you on my team.
Danny - Or you.
Kristen - Especially not you.
Michael - I’d end up beating you senseless.
Erin - You’d drive me crazy.
Chris - I actually think you really suck, but may be the best of a bad lot. But, dang. About the only way they could find a less helpful group of 6 people would be to hold Apprentice recruiting drives at terrorist training schools.
Craig (SS) (Elementary School) - I can’t believe the interviews did you in. You always came across as such a dynamic, forceful speaker. At least the Algonquin round table will get back it’s most loquacious orator. Not a bad series for you, but you definitely belong in the upper echelons of the pantheon of “that person made the final round of a reality series? Really?” with Jan from Survivor and Flo from Amazing Race.
Elementary School - Some growth, but in the end it’s a place rife with playground fights, name calling, and a trip to the Principal’s office.
Middle School - A group that might be growing up but still prone to wild swings based on playground fights, name calling, and puberty.
High School - Not quite a child, not quite an adult. Frankly, I still don’t know what to make of these folks.
Kendra (BS) (High School) - Just fire all three of them and do this on your own. It’s suicidal but will probably be done better. I really do think you will win this, but this task plays at your big weakness, which is managing people. Sure, these people barely qualify as human but if you are on a big project you can’t just try to do everything yourself and control every little detail on your own. It’s what doomed Jimmy Carter and it will get you, also.
Tana (SS) (High School) - Oh my gosh your team sucks. There hasn’t been this much underlying, simmering rage since the steroid fueled heyday of the WWF. You clearly start a leg down because Kristen is a waste, Brian will pretty much waste his time fighting with her, and Chris might mean well but is easily distracted by shiny things. I really don’t like your odds in this at all. Trump will want someone he can mold into one of his corporate drones. That’s probably not an older mom from Iowa. And, what was that muppet thing you wore on the show? Do these people not have mirrors?
College - Older and wiser, things are looking up. Maybe not ready to enter the real world yet, but getting close.
Grad School - These people have a clue, have some seasoning, and have a chance to make an impact.
PhD - Ready for tweed jackets, big paydays, and…good grief these people suck. They have sapped my will to care.
The Rancic/Perdew corollary update. I look forward to applying this for a full season next time around. It seems pretty sound to me. I can’t think of one single time Kendra was shown as a moron or shown in a goofy light with carnival music behind her. And, she makes the finals and wins (I assume). Tana has been shown a couple of times as screwing up and getting the full laugh track treatment but only a couple and not in unrecoverable ways. So, she makes the finals and comes up short. Everyone else has clearly had warts exposed to the world and were summarily dismissed. The only 2 that don’t truly fit this are Tara and Todd. Todd lost on the first show so I imagine that’s too soon to really have te corollary work and Tara went from completely quiet to completely mis-reading a task in one episode so she gave us nothing to work with. So, I think my theory is fairly solid. I expect after the first 3-4 weeks next season, I’ll have the final 3 or 4 identified.
She was telling the truth. Notice that she got no disapproving looks or comments from Carolyn either. Put yourself in her spot, you can see the prize, and the only thing holding you back is the final task. You have been working with many talented people for the last 16 weeks and you end up getting the the three turds from the bottom of the pile? Now, not only do you have to perform what may be a hurculean task, but you have to do it while babysitting the three stooges.
Not that Kendra’s team were any better. Once Danny started singing, I had to mute the TV, I was embarassed for him. Kind of like when the gal dropped her skirt to sell candy bars in the previous season.
I completely agree with this. Tana was extremely unprofessional in bashing her team like that to Carolyn. Carolyn has a poker face but she immediately wrote something down after Tana said that.
On a related thought, do they tell the brought back contestants to behave like complete morons? I missed the first few weeks so I’d never seen Danny and his singing. The one with the bangs acted like the Ally Sheedy character from The Breakfast Club–don’t sit there with your thumb up your ass while the presentation tanks–step in and take over the flamingly awful “presentation” and then she acted all weird when she finally found Kendra.
The guy at the meeting with Tana did the same thing–she stepped out to take the phone call and he started talking about himself and his magician background. How in the hell were these people cast in the first place???
I wish I could tolerate Kendra, really I do. She’s like a dumber version of Erin, all mouth agape, bulging eyes. Speaking of eyes, I really can’t take anyone seriously who wears glittery eyeliner to extremely important job interviews either.
Tana is not a heckuva lot better, but she comes across as being much more professional. However, her first question asking to switch “assistants” probably wasn’t a good idea.
I don’t understand how the show works – what the candidates do and where they go after they’re fired.
Are the candidates sequestered only until the filming is finished, except for the final live show?
That’s correct.