Yup, Mullinator, I’m afraid you’re going to have to give in and finally bump her out of elementary school. (Yay!)
Who else loved the preview for next week?Danny, you’re a nut!
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I nodded off in my chair during Will and Grace and missed the first 15-20 minutes. How did the restructuring go down? Was it picking teams like first season, or dumping ballast like last time?
Tana, darlin’, that would a be a MILFAW. Please stop being such a goody-goody; there are ladylike ways to intimate the word fuck without actually saying it, but also without resorting to euphemisms.
And was I the only one who, when Gene Simmons asked what guys wanted, immediately blurted, “You’re not getting steak and a blowjob”?
Is there not going to be a new ep next week?
Clips show – so new material, but no task and no firing. I guess they’re trying to pace it so that the finale comes during May sweeps.
I AM NOT AN ATHEIST MR TRUMP! 
Me!
Danny and Michael will make it all worthwhile, I think.
CrazyCatLady, it was ballast. Tana and Craig were happy to be bumped, and Erin was crushed but recovered (she’s uncanny), and Stephanie was just plain crushed.
Why did the preview talk about a reward that was “out of this world”?
That’s survivable, as long as it doesn’t go too far. Yell at Trump, on the other hand…
I thought that was for the week after next?
Best. Episode. Ever!!
I’m so glad that John was outie this week. Ooh, that man was annoying! Arrogant, cocky, full-of-himself prick finally went DOWN! Boo-yeah!
Chris is absolutely insane and makes for great TV. When his nostrils flare, you know he’s going to bring it. I loved him saying he’s better than John because he is only 21 years old, especially since last week John thought HE was better than the “22-year-old girl”.
For a minute, I was scared Trump was going go fire Chris. All the signals pointed to it. Carolyn and George recommended it. Chris went all beserko, like a drowning rat. Trump kept talking about the unwiseness of delegating such an important task and I was waiting for the axe to fall. But then Erin and John stick up for him. I guess the moral of the story is that if it comes down between you and the PM, don’t stick up for him/her even a little bit.
Erin got some cool points. Say what you will about her, but the shut-up face in the boardroom was worth a million dollars.
And I love Tana. Craig was great, but Tana was golden (even though the ebonics stuff was silly, IMHO).
At first I was shocked that they were able to negotiate so easily with those celebrities, but it occurs to me that maybe Trump and/or the show’s producers sweet-talked them beforehand. Maybe they were told to go easy on them or something. Or maybe Craig and Tana were just that awesome.
I thought Magna had better celebrities to work with than NetWorth. Is Bare Naked Ladies still popular? (John really put his foot in his mouth when he was talking about borrowing that guy’s drums. I laughed all throughout the commercial).
What I learned this week: Negotiate BIG. Ask for big stuff, let the other side’s ego sell it to them. And negotiate well, for poor negotiating is worse than blowing up in the boardroom.
The vast staff of the Raj Ratings has reached consensus on a startling idea. We are now actually more excited for the start of Survivor than the start of The Apprentice. This is somewhat surprising but rest assured dear reader, this won’t keep us from putting out the ratings. The hatred and anger may be a little more obvious, especially considering the level of “talent” represented on this “acclaimed” show. Honestly, this week was a little blah. Nothing overly horrific to catch our attention. Usually we can count on something so off the wall happening that it commands our attention, but this week was bland. Well, other than Gene Simmons impregnating half of the viewing audience just by looking at them. I get the feeling that he may be the closest any of us will see to a walking hormone. I will be in the shower for about an hour after this just getting the Gene off of me. On with the show.
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, Brian, Danny, Kristen, Michael, Tara, Audrey – Here’s a what if for you. You are a CEO and have to hire one of these people to run your company. Who do you pick? Play this game and you’ll see just how lacking the casting was. It’s fun to watch these people screw up and act like idiots, but in the end I want a fair portion of capability and that seems sorely missing. As for me, I’d probably pick Todd with Tara as a backup. Todd was total business school approach which is what cost him, but he wasn’t a blathering loon like the rest of these people. And while Tara would probably get bogged down in pointless work, she did at least appear to have good intentions. I wouldn’t hire the rest of them to flush a toilet.
John (SS) (College) – Just the continuation of what started as a gentle slide then escalated into a free fall of epic proportions. You might as well have been Wile E. Coyote considering how quickly you went from solid ground to 6 feet under it. Even if you had survived (and you lost to Chris in the boardroom, that’s gotta sting), the Rancic/Perdew corollary had you by the short ones. Also, this highlighted a key failure in The Apprentice. In season 1, we had friendships we cared about (Troy/Kwame). Now? Whoopee, he and Chris were friends. WHo cares.
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.
Chris (SS) (Elem. School) – You live to fight (and yell) another day. But you still suck. Make no mistake about that.
Erin (BS) (Elem. School) – Crap, you’re going to win this aren’t you. I guess the only way that will be good for me is that I can go take out massive life insurance policies before my brain forcibly ejects itself from my body when you get to pick between being a pointless figurehead for a tall building or a pretty face for a golf course.
Middle School - A group that might be growing up but still prone to wild swings based on playground fights, name calling, and puberty.
Stephanie (BS) (High School) – Dropped only because I think Trump looks at you as being not nearly as good as you are. Can’t remember where I heard this recently, but I’d like to buy you for what I think you are worth and sell you for what you think you are worth.
High School - Not quite a child, not quite an adult. Frankly, I still don’t know what to make of these folks.
Angie (SS) (Middle School) – We didn’t see you much at all (other than another phone answering. Ever consider ear plugs while sleeping?) but a boardroom shout out as being really good has to be worth something.
Craig (SS) (High School) – You seemed solid and understated, which is probably going to be on your tombstone. Well, either that or it will just be blank, much like my memories of your good actions.
College - Older and wiser, things are looking up. Maybe not ready to enter the real world yet, but getting close.
Alex (BS) (College) – No action, no change. Man, I thought you would have been perfect for this, what with all the street cred from the graffiti task.
Bren (BS) (College) – No action, no change.
Kendra (BS) (High School) – Excellent job. Up to this point a lack of screen time has kept you low in the ratings. But, you did a good job with delegation, understanding where you were needed (and more importantly, where you weren’t), and winning big. That will resonate with Trump.
Grad School - These people have a clue, have some seasoning, and have a chance to make an impact.
Tana (SS) (College) – Ladies and gentlement, I can’t believe it. But, I think I am now officially rooting for Tana. She is oddly hot. Really oddly, but still. She stepped up in a major way. And c’mon on. “Mother I’d like to fool around with?” That is oddly adorable. More with the oddly, but somehow it works. This is disturbing to me on many levels.
PhD - Ready for tweed jackets, big paydays, and gets to avoid Gene Simmons for life
Cracked up Carolyn is good TV.
The Rancic/Perdew corollary update. Chris is done. Dead meat. I think Stephanie is close. I’m still thrown off by the sudden emergence of Tana. I think I need to take a long, quiet walk.
Did we have no clue before this that John was such a pig? He showed no respect for Audrey last week, but that could have been due to her youth. Asking Erin and Stephanie (was it Steph?) to jiggle and giggle and act stupid? What a jerk.
Trump had to have known about some of that. It was obvious he had his mind made up about John. Chris will pay for his temper later.
Chris did hand off the most important part of the task, and I think it was because he was intimidated by meeting with the artists.
I cringed for my Iowa Girl. Did that look kinda patronizing to anyone else?
Good for George. Negotiating 101, everybody. Start high. 
You mean the way she was speaking? I didn’t think it was patronizing but I did think it was unnecessary and embarrassing. If I were one of the artists they were meeting and I had someone throwing out words like “diggity” (or whatever it was she said), I’d roll my eyes and wonder WTF? It’s not like Lil John and Eve can’t understand or appreciate standard English. Craig didn’t do a lot of the talking, but he seemed much more natural.
She did better during the auction, but only because it all seemed like a joke.
Yeah, that’s it. Tana wasn’t talking down to anyone, but it did sound funny, coming from her. She was sure having fun, wasn’t she?
Patronizing and clueless – not an attractive combination.
Chris would have done better in the board room if he had said something like, “The reason that I didn’t go to negotiate with the artists is that my talents lie more in planning and organization than negotiation. I had believed, based on what John had said, that he was a good negotiator, and so I assigned the task to him.”
That would have been smarter than saying, “I’m better than anyone on the team at negotiating.” That was just dumb, and led to George’s obvious question.
Thanks to our station breaking for “exciting news” about the 1" of snow we MIGHT get tonight, I didn’t get to see if there was a John taxi confessional…
if there was one…could someone let me know what bacon boy had to say?
It suddenly occurs to me how utterly, hideously embarassing it must be to be Tana’s kid tonight. Between the dorky attempts to be all hip-hop and the MILFAW thing, I would seriously cringe if she were my mother, and I think I’d spontaneously combust with shame at the thought that my friends might have seen it.