According to the NBC website, this week features “Another Shake-Up – Teams Change Again!” (Damn, I wish they did more than a headline as a preview). I’m guessing this means an actual reshuffling of the teams, and not just moving one player over, as when Pamela went to Apex. It will be interesting to see who gets to pick the teams, and it will be interesting to see who they pick.
The on-air promos are all about The Donald hating exaggeration. I know we’re all expecting him to be talking to Stacy “You want another Enron, Mr. Trump” R., but surely there are one or two other candidates who have perhaps been less than entirely above-board at all times. (Not to horn in on Mullinator’s metaphor, or anything.)
So – anyone have any guesses to throw into the pot?
I think exaggeration is a red herring. Anyone on the women’s team could fit that accusation. I’m not sure about men, because, they’re just so darned mature, even when they’re being catty.
Why speculate based on a few seconds of preview that we know from experience may not be even include in the episode? I’ll check back tomorrow after it airs.
Plus, it was easier to do with her female collaborators. Dilute the coven, and she’s now in the minority, forced to fend for herself more (and with a poorer boardroom track record to defend, too).
She’s got an excellent track record in the boardroom. Both her “Clinically” and “Enron” comments impressed Trump. If she ends up there again, it’ll be because she pissed off a guy, or she’s PM and lost. Delicious, wishful thinking…
I think she’s super hot in a super specific special way.
But yeah, she stinks and deserves to get booted.
Of course I was in love with Jenn C. too. I love picking the bad ones.
What evidence do you have of this? He didn’t say “Good Point” or “I’m impressed”, he just let her blather on. Just because he didn’t fire her doesn’t mean she was persuasive–it just meant that he was reserving her for a later dismissal.
With the teams mixing up, I would think the odds would lean towards a female going home unless a guy makes such an egregious error in this task that overrides the women’s overall levels of idiocity. At this point, I would think the bottom tier most in danger of dismissal are (from worst to not quite as worst)
Sandy
Ivana
Elizabeth
Stacy
Chris
Maria
Andy
Maria’s safe this week. Andy can’t win but won’t lose until he either really screws the pooch or the truly competent are left. Chris seems weak but has a win as PM. The rest are a crapshoot, although both Sandy and Stacy have yet to PM. If either of them do this week and lose, I think they go. I think if Sandy goes into the boardroom, she’s fired unless someone else really, really irritates Trump.
Therefore, for the 37th week in a row, I pick Stacy. First, she’s a mean little troll and has a history of hyperbole that will get her smacked down when she’s against decent competition. Second, she hasn’t really done a single thing that makes you step back and say she’d be good to work for, be a good leader, or be a decent middle manager. That will catch up to her. Third, Willy Wonka called. The Oompa-Loompa strike has been settled and he needs his Everlasting Gobstopper rollers back on the assembly line.
You can’t even compare the two. Stacy is an annoying exaggerating finger-pointing gadfly. But Omarosa is a dangerous delusional liar. Look at their reactions to bigotry. Stacy (IMHO) didn’t handle Jen C’s comment well. But Omarosa made up racist comments and attributed them to Ereka. Stacy may be misguided and ineffective, but she does seem to be trying to help her team get a win. Omarosa didn’t even do that. Witness her lies during the Jessica Simpson task or her claiming she was too injured to work on the apartment for rent and then going out to play basketball.
Ultimately, Stacy is just on the “very hate-able” end of the ordinary spectrum of reality TV contestants. Omarosa is in a whole 'nother category.
And a question: Mully has Sandy wearing the reddest shirt, and I’ve seen many others indicate that she’s probably next on the chopping block. But I can’t for the life of me remember anything about her, other than her getting the decoration of the restaurant wrong. Could somebody summarize why she’s considered the most likely to get fired at this point?
Well, to sum up, the restaurant decoration is the only thing, good or bad, anybody can point to and say, “Sandy did that.” She’s been a complete non-entity. The Donald doesn’t like non-entities. He likes people who come forward and take an active part in the task instead of standing around waiting for someone to hand them something to do. He’ll take somebody who gets out there in the middle of things and sometimes screws up over the person who sits like a lump waiting for something to fall into her lap.
CCL makes a good point, but I think there’s also the fact that she allied herself with Jenn C, which may have ostracized her from the rest of the group. We haven’t seen her do much since that moment because the other women have shunned her. But, the women were setting up Elizabeth last week. Maybe Elizabeth’s more of a “threat” while Sandy is simply a disliked mule.
Per Stacy/Omarosa, I totally agree, Green. Stacy plays dirty to win. Omarosa played dirty to watch people suffer.
I don’t know that being disliked and ostracized by your teammates really makes all that much difference in when you go home, 'cause your teammates aren’t the ones making that decision. Let’s face it, nobody particularly liked Heidi, two or three people fucking hated Troy, and we all know what everyone though of Assorama–yet they all made it past the halfway point. Troy came damn close to being in the final four, and now that he’s in college (financed by the Hair, btw) he may wind up working for Trumpie after all. Heidi wasn’t popular with the other contestants, but she got out there and showed Trump she had something to offer, so he kept her around as long as he could. Assorama…well, she seemed to have some potential, and she was really good television.
The people who got sent home before these three, we kept hearing the same thing from the Trumpvirate–“I haven’t really seen anything from you.” In other words, you’ve been a non-entity and we don’t put up with non-entities around here. Buh-bye.
Yeah, Jenn got a MUCH better set of players than Wes did.
I wonder what Wes was thinking? (I think it’s pretty damn clear what Jenn was thinking.) Maybe he figured Raj would be so distracted by all the womenfolks around him that he wouldn’t be able to function.