Not recognizing Pepi was the reality show highlight of my year. Thank you Carolyn.
And Shaun, meeting with the sponsor was probably a more important thing to do than sitting there while your stalking object picke dout a catering menu. If you had given a little input instead of mooning over Tammie you might have had an excuse, but you didn’t. (Hey, I want to go to a rock event and eat seafood and veggies. Not. The menu needed beef and something spicy.)
I do feel sorry for Lee aving tro deal with the deliberately obstructionistic bitch. None of their ideas are good, she’s been doing this for five years (hey somebody, look up what they did over the past five years AND DO THAT!).
How come nobody’s mentioned the evil ANDREA on Sean’s team? This girl is a no-good, do-nothing, uber-controlling BITCH! And now she’s coughing up blood as well. (Looks to me like she’s got a bloody nose. Air’s probably to dry there in that pile of Atlantic City dreck! And she’ll be back to either save the day or screw things up royally. Besides which, I hate the way she talks!) Sean’s team is a mess: Tarek proved to be less than brilliant and Tami’s on board as a lust object. Since there’s no fashion bits involved, I don’t see how Sean’s going to pull this one off.
On the other hand, Lee may have made a mistake picking and listening to Lenny, but I can’t help but think this team has more common sense. And that may save them, Evil Liz not withstanding.
I hate these charity event finales, basically because I don’t believe the events are really in the hands of the finalists. No one would risk the success of a major fundraiser on folks who are trying to win a tv reality show. There’s more behind the scenes than meets the eye, methinks!
I forgot it was on and only tuned in towards the end, but two things struck me: Tammy looks very uncomfortable around Sean/Shaun/Shawn during the menu-planning portion, and Andrea does not look sick. The scenes I saw, she wasn’t coughing, or having any trouble speaking…she was delicately holding a tissue to her nose, but she was still upright and functioning. I work with a girl named Andria who is always pretending she has some great, disastrous condition…she can milk a simple headache for all it’s worth. (The last episode was when she allegedly injured herself while iceskating and doing jumps: she’s easily 300 lbs and has recently had foot surgery, so the mere idea of her getting on skates, let alone making a jump, boogles the mind.) So maybe I’m letting my Andria suspicion colr my Andrea viewing, but from what little I saw, I think she’s faking.
I’m thinking that the coordinators/contacts must have been given instructions to let the Trumpies sink or swim, and only provide input or ideas if specifically asked. Sort of a boardroom “twenty questions” approach.
Sean’s coordinators specifically said “He mentioned ‘matching contributions’ but failed to follow up on it.” It seems like there is some deliberate obstructionism going on.
The “We’re meeting with the head sponsor, and Sean’s talking to the caterer” dig from his teammates was spot-on.
And for the blood crisis? It was either that morning’s cherry cheesecake she was purging, or she had been swallowing blood from a bloody nose. I would have told her to grab some two-ply, or if she must go to the doctor to also bring a phone and a laptop and get some work done.
Along the same lines, I’ve always assumed that the producers arranged events so that each team leader ran into an obstacle to be overcome. Let’s face, a task that goes perfectly smoothly lacks suspense and interest.
So, basically, they have planned “unexpected snags” lined up to throw in as necessary. If a natural crisis happens – like the heavy rain when an outdoor event is planned – fine, we can watch the leader deal with that. However if they’ve done a good job of planning and things seem likely to go off without a hitch, the producer’s step in and Bingo! suddenly the featured comedian can’t make it or the singer’s plane arrives at the wrong airport or…or a member of the team is suddenly incapacitated or the charity’s expert turns into a ball-buster.
And I bet it’s all included in the contracts the candidates sign, under something vague like ‘proceedings may be adjusted to maximize opportunities for filming.’
IOW, if Andrea’s problem isn’t real, I’ll bet she’s doing it on orders.
