Heh.
That’s all I have to say.
Heh.
Three words: He got told! :eek:
It’s funny, usually on these shows, the terribly irksome people last forever. However, Sam did absolutely everything he could to get the pink slip today. What a crash and burn. Let’s recap: [ul]
[li]Accept leadership of the project[/li][li]Do everything in your power to make sure every single decision is yours and yours alone.[/li][li]Completely screw everything up, and blame others for the meltdown. [/ul]My favorite part is when he mentioned that he failed to earn the team’s respect. He really seemed to think that he was describing a team-wide issue. Guess what, cowboy, you failed to earn their respect. You. Adios! :D[/li]
I’m looking forward to next week’s show: (info from the preview)
[spoiler]I’ve been waiting for the women to get called on the sexy stuff. On the first episode, I could help but wonder how many miles they were going lower the glass ceiling before this show concluded.
I also think whoever said the men were going to be dangerous sans Sam was right on the money. Should be a good episode.[/spoiler]
Definitely an interesting series so far. 
I’m so surprised they didn’t consider having security escort Sam out after he gave Trump the Penetrating Stare of Future Stalkerdom. After his little escapade by the door of the suite (I’m not moving till someone greets me at the door) I didn’t think it could get any more dysfunctional, but they were right: Sam is very entertaining.
I really wish they would show more of the discussions between Trump and George and The Blonde.
All the women seem so unprofessional in the way they have been dressing. I wonder if the wardrobe choices have been theirs alone or if the show’s stylists picked some of those outfits.
This show is entertaining, but fundamentally flawed. The women have had a huge advantage since the beginning in at least two out of the three challenges. They are essentially flashing their breasts to get what they want. Men simple don’t have this luxury. Take for instance the lemonade episode. The women were selling this for 5 dollars per glass, solely because of their sexuality. There is no way the men could have performed a similar feat. In tonight’s episode, the same rules apply. The teams had nothing to barter with but their-selfs, and in the woman’s case, that’s all they needed. A women (by her nature) will be a lot more convincing when begging (or “negotiating” as the show claimed) than a man. A man begging comes across as pathetic, a good looking woman begging is endearing. The mere fact that women can toy with a man’s hardwiredness is enough to tip the scales in their favor significantly.
The show would have been a lot more reasonable had the teams been equal parts men and women. Oh well, at least Sam is gone.
Word on the cold stare of death Sam gave Trump after being fired. Then, you have to love Sam’s delusional reasoning in the cab, especially when you just know he’ll become a stalker when you hear it.
Damnit! Just saw an ad for next week’s episode and it stresses the fact that the girls know that sexuality will play a big part in next week’s challenge.
Exactly! I was sitting there thinking, “okay, I knew he was crazy, but WTF?”
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This show is entertaining, but fundamentally flawed. The women have had a huge advantage since the beginning in at least two out of the three challenges. They are essentially flashing their breasts to get what they want. Men simple don’t have this luxury. Take for instance the lemonade episode. The women were selling this for 5 dollars per glass, solely because of their sexuality. There is no way the men could have performed a similar feat. In tonight’s episode, the same rules apply. The teams had nothing to barter with but their-selfs, and in the woman’s case, that’s all they needed. A women (by her nature) will be a lot more convincing when begging (or “negotiating” as the show claimed) than a man. A man begging comes across as pathetic, a good looking woman begging is endearing. The mere fact that women can toy with a man’s hardwiredness is enough to tip the scales in their favor significantly.
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Yeessss… But… In this episode, neither team did what you would call “negotiating”. It was all pretty pathetic. However, the girl you bought the golf club (Anne?) DID do it in the spirit of the competition. I don’t think that she used any sort of sexuality at all on the sales guy but bargained for a fair deal. And seeing how terrible the men were at buying their products, she probably came close to winning the competition for her team all on her own with that purchase (with the leg wax sealing the deal).
I am looking forward to seeing how the men do now sans Sam. He was reminding me of a Simpson’s episode - calling out football plays wearing a special hat. Heh - that should have been … asshat! Hah! I kill me… And I could see him off-camera saying to himself “I am NEVER washing this hand again!”
Our broadcast (Global TV - Burlington, ON) didn’t have a preview for next week’s show… What a rip.
The women were literally shaking their tts this week to come out ahead! (I’m thinking of the two jumping up and down with the jewelry guy and pleading like little girls.) But you know what? God bless 'em. They understand that’s what will work quickest for them to win, and they utilize it. The guys, not having this advantage (and maybe not having the advantage of seeing how these women operate), need to recognize that they don’t, in fact, have tts, and are going to have to use twice the smarts and work twice as hard as the women.
Just ironic that it’s women who usually complain about needing to work twice as hard as men in the business world. Pfft.
- Sam’s football metaphors reached Saturday Night Live Sketch proportions of ridiculousness. I’ll miss Sam.
-Omarosa is–and I know we all hate the word–a c*nt.
- The negotiating was absolutely pathetic. Why didn’t they call a bunch of places and at least start to talk price on the phone? Why did the guys go to one high-end leg wax salon and even then only get $4 off an $80 dollar wax?
-The only person on this show I would even consider hiring is Amy. I was really hoping they would have talented, smart people on the show.
- Still wish they made the rules more clear. Are they not allowed to go out and do things individually? Must they stay in minimum teams of two or something?
Yeah we can rant and rave about the women’s tactics all we want, but in the end, the guys’ negotiating skills sucked out loud.
Well, as lousy as the guy’s negotiating skills were I think their overall plan worked: they got rid of Sam. That’s why they made him team leader, right?
As Bowie put it in the boardroom: “Sam has shown that he can’t be a good follower, and now’s he’s shown that he can’t be a good leader.” Bingo. Good-bye.
Also count me as someone who is wating for some task, ANY task where Heidi can’t jump and down and shake her boobs in order to help out the cause. Put these women in professional attire, please!
I think that the next few weeks will see an evening of the teams. The guys can now operate smoothly, while the girls still have serious conflict issues to deal with. Watch them nominate Omorosa as team leader so that when they lose she’s guaranteed a trip to the boardroom.
The guys went to the Greenhouse SPA to get their legs waxed fer crying out loud!
A trained monkey would know that you can get that done at any one of the thousands of little nail salons at a fraction of the cost!
Well, I guess their project leader didn’t know.
Good riddance to Sam!
But they didn’t get that much savings from it…
The places where I saw them cut spending (and I admit I wasn’t paying extremely close attention) were the golf store (where Amy really did negotiate) and the leg waxing (what were the guys thinking? They were at an expensive salon - you want to save money, you go to a cheap storefront place (which the women did) - especially for a leg waxing, those are hard to botch.)
The lemonade, the men were definitely at a disadvantage…but this week and last week they could have won.
Anyone else get the idea that Sam has never been near a football team in his life? (making all the “quarterback” thing not only entirely ineffective and well, weird, but rather pathetic, too?)
I completely didn’t get why Katrina lost it. Omarosa kept telling her “You are successful” what more did she want? And despite the fact that Omarosa has had some bitchy moments, she’s been effective during the assignments.
Very true. Even last week, when she and Ereka were at their worst and she complained about the women’s choice of campaigns, she sold the hell out of it when it counted. It’s going to be harder for the women to engineer her exit than it was for the men to get rid of Sam, because Omarosa comes through in the clutch.
That said, I think she drives the other women crazy because she’s passive aggressive – she’ll be annoying enough to get a rise out of them, then immediately switch to calmly sympathizing with them and making it clear that they’re being irrational. Whether or not they are being irrational at any given time, it’s annoying to have their irritant pointing it out to them. Also notice that while Amy and Jessie, for example, don’t like Omarosa much, they have no problem getting along with her, because they don’t get sucked into her drama vortex. (Or Ereka’s.)
I think the first woman to go will be Tammy. Omarosa may bring the drama, but Tammy’s just kind of a pill, from what I can tell.
And I hereby take back my declarations of dislike for everyone: Troy, Amy and (to a lesser extent) Jessie are all pretty cool. (Jessie also resembles Angelina Jolie. Anyone else notice that?)
Even I, a guy who’s never gotten anything waxed, knew that your best leg waxing price would not be found at an upscale salon.
Finally, I think Sam’s stare at the end was simple disbelief. He never quite realized that the show isn’t about giving him an infinite supply of chances to dazzle Trump with arcane knowledge and offbeat ideas instead of results. His speech in the car at the end was pretty telling: “I think Trump was telling me I had to succeed at this task to stay on the team.” I mean, duh, but Sam was obviously too busy worshipping the handshake to actually process the message.
I dunno about the lemonade stand thing being that unfair. If Troy took his shirt off I sure would have bought a five dollar glass of lemonade from him.
I’d have more sympathy for the men’s position vis-a-vis sex appeal if it wasn’t for the fact that they’ve just plain screwed up every week. There’s no excuse for Week 2, when they didn’t really listen to what they were told and didn’t bother to talk to the customer and thus came up with a boring, unoriginal ad idea. They performed horribly in Week 3. There seems to be no semblance of organization at all.
When they were asigned to sell lemonade, the first thing I thought of was “Oh, the guys, they seem like smart guys. They’ll hire a model.” It was a hot day. How hard can it be to have one guy OUT OF EIGHT go to a phone booth, call a cheapass talent agency, and say “Send us a pretty model for four hours, we’ll give you $200.” If it occurred to me, why not to them? I’m not a genius.
Instead, they spend three hours trying to FIND some lemonade to sell. How friggin’ hard is it to say “Okay, you two guys, go buy supplies.” And rather than coming up with any sort of idea, they just stood there. No gimmicks. They didn’t hire a model, didn’t try going into an office or a fire station or a cop house, didn’t even go to a high traffic area. What the hell were they thinking?
As for last night, if you can’t negotiate a better price on a set of $420 golf clubs, you shouldb’t be allowed to carry your own wallet.
The problem was, they were originally in Chinatown to get several items on the cheap, including the leg wax, but idiot Sam demanded that they leave right that second and go buy gold at a $0 savings, which took them too far out of the area to get back in enough time to find one of those cheap salons. I’m not familiar with NYC at all, but I got the feeling that there were no other options for cheap leg waxes where they ended up.
As a businesswoman myself, the women on this show embarrass and disgust me.
I thought Jessie Conners looks more like Ashley Judd.
According to “Entertainment Tonight,” Sam proposed to his girlfriend on the “Today” show this morning.
Ew.
If you were sleeping with him, would you want everyone to know after millions of people spent three weeks thinking, “sheesh, what an asshat”?