Just a reminder that there’s a highlights show on tonight (against both Lost and Rudolf, so I know there’s gonna be some Tivo-ing and taping happening tonight!), followed by the usual ep tomorrow. We know that Ivana drops trou – er, hikes skirt – tomorrow – let’s hope that’s enough to get her scheming ass (about which we will obviously have additional information) fired.
Anyone ready to predict the final four? The final two? The winner?
Kelly wins. That’s been my prediction all along, and I stand by it. And I also predict that he will come out of the closet on the final show as well.
Ooh, twickster, thanks for the reminder. I’d have completely forgotten.
F2: Kelly and Kevin
Kelly wins.
I’ll go against the grain and say SANDY gets the boot tonight. I believe Ivana goes, but I don’t want to be like everyone else.
Kelly and Jennifer make the final two with Kelly winning in a blowout.
Here is an exercise to keep us busy until Thursday:
If you were in a hypothetical final two, and had to select FIVE people to fill out your team for the final task, who would you pick? Who would you pick for your opponent?
MY TEAM:
1 Kelly- If he can’t win (if he is on my team in the finals, he has been fired), he wouldn’t lead for credit. But I’ll bet he’d still work hard. I’d delegate the most important aspect of the task that could be delegated.
2 Ivana- Sure she’s a bitch, but she takes direction well. Without the need to play the game, I imagine Ivana would be good at certain assignments.
3 Jennifer- Anything involved in sales, she gets to do. Presentations, meet and greets, demonstrations. She’s the one.
4 Kevin- He is a nice support guy.
5 Rob- A grunt with something to prove. I’ll bet he’d work hard.
MY DREAM OPPONENT TEAM:
Hmm, judging from the preview of next week, ("…but Ivana trumps them all!"), I’d say that Ivana’s team does in fact win and she lives to stay another day (ugh!). This is unfortunate. I could be wrong. It’s hard to tell if the announcer meant Ivana trumps them all in use of sex to sell, or if she trumps them all in actual sales. We’ll know tomorrow…
Ichini, that actually airs tomorrow night, not next week.
Most of that hour was a snooze, with the brief exception of seeing Andy clean the bathroom during the wedding task.
I thought the line before it was something about how Jenn and Sandy were using sex to sell their product, but Ivana trumps them all by dropping her drawers and flashing her thong. IIRC, there is a shot of Carolyn’s utterly disgusted face, which does not bode well for Ivana. If her team loses, she’s getting the axe for sure.
Pure speculation, no spoilers, but who do people think would get fired if it were Jenn or Sandy? I’d like to think it would be Sandy, who was a hair’s breadth away from termination last week. Anyone have a rationale for Jenn being kicked out? I’d have to say I’d lose all respect for Trump and the show if Sandy OR Ivana outlast Jenn. That’d just be wrong, but of course that’s JMO.
I enjoyed tonight’s episode. I liked hearing Trump’s comments on why he fired each one. They were pretty much in line with my guesses on the matter, so that made me feel good. 
The interview with the professional dog-groomer where he was saying you could pop the dog’s eye out – 
– was also pretty weird. Overall a blah episode – though that’s about all you can expect from a highlights show.
I forgot to tape it! Hope I didn’t miss anything really, really good.
I was hoping Donald would mention something about the praise Jen got after the Levi’s challange.
I’m not the hugest Ivana fan, but she got screwed over by Jen (even though Jen didn’t purposly do anything).
MtM
Yeah yeah, I meant next week from last week. Or something like that.
If it came down to Jen versus Sandy, I’d expect Jen to get fired, just because of the way this season has been so far. I can’t get over the fact that Ivana has made it this far. Even if Jen makes it past this task and the interviews, do you really think she can fare well at all in the Final Task of Doom with any of the last 6 people to get fired? Puh-lease. I love the lady, but she can’t win this.
Oh yeah, you have to be careful restraining brachicephalic (smush-faced) breeds, or they’ll pop their eyeballs right out on your hand. Those breeds tend to be really bug-eyed anyway, to the point that the eyes are often just barely in the socket. Squeeze the jaw too firmly, and POINK! out they come. Same for letting them run into stuff head-first, trip over something in the yard, or get over-excited. It’s something we see a lot of in those breeds.
Uh, so what happens? Does it just dangle there? How do you get it back in?
Don’t puh-lease me. I didn’t think Bill would win or Kwame would be in the Final 2 either. I was sure it’d be Amy v. Troy. Trump is unpredictable and I think he sees Jenn’s value. The only major obstacle I see for Jenn is the vitriol and hostililty of the other women if they have to rejoin her team for the final task. However, there are a few people who don’t like Kelly either (Andy called him a smug jerk or something like that) so who knows? As you pointed out, this season has been unpredictable. I think Ivana and Sandy can’t win this, but the other three? Anybody’s game.
Ick. This happened to my parent’s Shih-Tzu. He was always “overexcitable”. On one long spring vacation, the poor little guy’s eye popped out while he was kenneled. It happened over the weekend, so it didn’t get noticed as soon as it probably should have.
How they popped it back in, I’m not sure, but they sewed up his eyelid to protect it. Once the stitches came off, about three weeks later, I think, he could still see out of it, but the eye was noticably “cloudy”. Not surprisingly, the eye slowly degraded and after about six or seven more years he went blind in that eye before going completely blind (and deaf…sigh…poor little guy).
Yeah, it just kind of hangs there on the cheek. It makes holding them for exam fairly gross, since it’s really hard to hold a little head without the eye flopping against your hand. I don’t so much mind a handful of intestine, but the eye-in-the-hand thing kind of squicks me out. Not as much as the dogs whose lower jaw has eroded from dental disease and their tongue just swings against your hand constantly, but still kind of oogy.
As for putting them back in, a lot of times we don’t bother, depending on how badly it’s out, how long it’s been out, and how much damage there likely is to the optic nerve. I mean, when the eye is completely out and the optic nerve is hanging out there waving at you, or the eye has caught on something and punctured, there’s really no point in spending the extra money to put a non-functional eye back in versus just taking it out. Even when there’s a chance of regaining vision, a lot of people just opt to remove the eye, considering the difference in functionality isn’t all that big.
Ewwwww. I know I started it – but shouldn’t we spoiler box for veterinary TMI asides? :eek:
My final two remain Kelly and Jennifer, friend twick.
In your Apprentice thread from maybe four weeks ago, I asked does anyone think it won’t come down to these two?
No responses at the time, but it would seem there aren’t many folks who would bet against this showdown now.
I think Kelly will win and Jenn will come in 2nd.