Bling Bling It Is! - 
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Back at the loft, Tara complained that because Audrey didn't tell her about all the different landscapes of the game, they lost. The only problem with that logic was that, well, Audrey DID tell her about the different landscapes. Nevertheless, Tara made Audrey her #1 target as they headed into the boardroom. She cited Audrey's enormous (READ: fleeting) flare up with Craig as a major liability to the team. But wait! Audrey had a response. "Craig seems to think it's okay to speak in a manner that's demeaningful," she insisted. Demeaninful? Is that like when someone is demeaning AND meaningful at the same time? And what exactly do you say to a demeaningful comment? "Man, you really hurt my feelings, but you had a very interesting point!"
George meanwhile was very snippy. He chastened Tara for coming up with a concept before even meeting with the Sony guys and was particularly ornery about their mural's tagline. "Where did you come up with the line 'Tear It Up'? WHERE??" he asked, adding "When I used to work at a soda jerk, if you said 'Tear it up', it meant the machines needed cleaning. You don't joke about that!"
Eventually, the scrutiny fell on Tara as the biggest cause for the loss seemed to come from her ineffective mural. "It was a Sony ad, not a community ad," Jill admonished. Eventually, Tara picked Audrey and Craig to come back with her to the boardroom. It was a fairly personal pick considering Craig hadn't done anything wrong except naysay Tara, and when Trump asked him if he had any beef with Audrey, he gave an unusual response. "I had a talk with Audrey. She's newly married... She stated that her husband is sitting around waiting for her to come back, and he's not doing anything." Okay, well, that really made no sense and had nothing to do with anything. Well done Craig.
Of course The Donald was immediately enthralled with this domestic saga. "Do you have a non-ambitious husband?" he asked Audrey. We can now add this to the tally of strange personal questions from The Donald, joining the ranks of "Are you not a homosexual?" and "Are you the sexiest man in the suite?"
While these oddball interactions between Audrey and Craig were fun, in the end, the failure in this task fell squarely on Tara's shoulders. Trump reluctantly fired her, thus solidifying her status as "considerably less street cred than before." Tara seemed smart and savvy, but she was just as culpable as she was capable. You like that? Capable and culpable? Yeah, you're welcome. RIP stupid Sex & The City punnage.

What did you think? Who had the better mural? Did Tara deserve to get fired?
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I liked Net Worth's better. Magna's was nice with the fist+cash and the E rating. But the main pic of the car was, well, dull.
Tana's got some hooters.
Next week's ep better be up to snuff. This one was boring. You had an ep where the topic in the boardroom was a freaking playstation 2 game, and it was still boring.
Posted by: British | February 25, 2005 8:02 PM(#1 of 14)
I can't decide what was my favorite in this ep ... the cutaway from Tana's hooters to George's face when she was walking into the boardroom ... or Erin giving a blowjob to her freshly painted mural! Great stuff!
Posted by: dumbanddumber | February 25, 2005 9:38 PM(#2 of 14)
I love the way you end articles with a question. I feel so relevant!!
Posted by: empty | February 25, 2005 10:19 PM(#3 of 14)
Okay, so I came in from a friday night's revelry and just had to boot up my computer to see if this post was up yet. (Yeah, you can probably guess the revelry wasn't all that thrilling). It was worth looking at "windows is starting up" for ten minutes.
One of my favorite moments was when Stephanie referred to her teammates as 'the most successful people in the country'. do you mean, the most successful people on the 32nd floor of the trump building? not counting Aetna's employee of the month who just booked a room down the hall?
Another great moment was the opening of the focus group about the coolness of a game aimed at inner city males from 18-30 to show us...a while lady. with circles around her eyes. and a coat purchsed at ann taylor.
Posted by: chettogirl | February 26, 2005 12:20 AM(#4 of 14)
Eight ways to say or mean "black" without actually using the word "black" or refering directly to black people in any way as seen on The Apprentice:
1. "urban"
2. "certain focus groups"
3. "Harlem"
4. "hip-hop"
5. "street credibility"
6. "the community"
7. "certain demographic"
8. "urban jungle"
Did I miss any? Please let me know.
Posted by: joslyn | February 26, 2005 7:29 AM(#5 of 14)
I think that Net Worth's painting was better looking, but they didn't really advertise the game. Magma's painting wasn't nearly as good, but they threw in the important things out of the game. You knew looking at their painting that it was an ad for GT4. Tara needs to take credit for her failure. The whole idea was hers when she thought it was good and was going to win, but as soon as it was obvious that it wasn't a winner she couldn't find someone to blame it on fast enough. She wanted all the credit when she thought they were going to win and none of it when they eventually lost.
Rick D.
Posted by: Rick D. | February 26, 2005 8:28 AM(#6 of 14)
"Five people died." I'm going to laugh about that all day today, not to mention the awesome photos of The Donald. Absolutely hilarious.
Posted by: Lauren | February 26, 2005 8:34 AM(#7 of 14)
Another nice update. Great use of photos to clarify the points made in writing, which are already hysterical to begin with.
Ah, finally the black-centric episode that we have been waiting for (well sort of). Cause up till now I was pretty sure that Tara and Craig were largely drifting over from the back lot of a Dawn of the Dead remake.
Tara fell into the biggest sucker trap. When you are, for the most part, the lone black person, never ever take the typically "black" assignment.
First, you play into the ridiculous idea that only certain races can really reach certain races (which the episode proved otherwise).
But also, blacks are notoriously mentally double jointed on things like this. Cause on the one hand, if you attack the whole rap or hip-hop culture, blacks would be up in arms, and yet, if your reduce everything down to that culture, the same folks would say you are stereotyping. So its a delicate line one has to walk to actually offend nobody. Just not worth it. Black contestants...in the future, FLEE the "urban" assignment.
(Also, I like the post above with the euphemisms for black.)
Now finally, Craig. Craig busted out the verbal chops and some people were confused by his comments regarding Audrey. But I thought it was diabolically brilliant. Craig did two things. Wait, three things:
First of all, he made the valid business judgement that Tara goofed it up. And it was true. That was her urban distaster.
Second, Craig eliminated his only black competition. (That can mean anything from now being free to hit on white chicks, to having the race card solely available for himself should he need it, or simply the greater likelihood that he won't get drunk after a win and end up in bed with Tara, thus wrecking his own marriage).
But the most brilliant thing he did was reach outside of reality television, break the third wall essentially, and tamper with Audrey's marriage.
See, she was basically being a brat, and not respecting his role. She probably could have painted with her butt cheeks if she only threw him some respect. Having not done that, Craig used the board room to totally emasculate her husband.
So imagine Mr.Audrey, going in to work on Friday, and all his friends now saying, "Dude, your wife makes more than you?" or "Dude, your wife has the final say and word in your house?" (Both things Audrey told Craig, but then tried to deny on film).
Of course these epsisode are shot ages ago, so imagine Audrey, on Thursday night, scrambling to put her comments into context to her husband. "Uh Honey, I said some things I forgot to mention months ago, and well..."
To me, that was brilliant. There is no way her comments on her husband would not leave him slightly pissed off, it being national television. So I have to make Craig evil genius of the week, but also, have to give Magna credit (and a sociological high five for disproving the ridiculous notion that only blacks can reach blacks).
If that holds true, (that only blacks can best reach blacks) that would also mean that only whites could reach whites, or hispanics hispanics, and in the end that would limit the overall opporunity for blacks (and for everyone).
Which maybe, just maybe, that was the point Trump wanted to make all along! (or, maybe he just wanted an episode where he can work on meeting some new models for when his current marriage busts up).
Posted by: wizard | February 26, 2005 2:11 PM(#8 of 14)
Mac Daddy Trump gives a shout out to all his homies!
Word!
Posted by: kc8 | February 26, 2005 4:11 PM(#9 of 14)
i'm sorry, but that ghetto-daddy hip-hop theme music they used for all of trump's entrances (as opposed to the feudal trumpet flourish) was pretty amazing. maybe he'll come out with a "bling by trump" urban jewelry line or "trump alizé ice" beverage to boost his penetration of that certain target demographic.
Posted by: m_ruv | February 26, 2005 5:19 PM(#10 of 14)
And who the hell was that photographer - the "Best in the World"? I know that Richard Avedon is dead, but c'mon, that's a ridiculous hyperbole, even for Trump. Guess he couldn't say he was the "yoogest photographer" in the world, though.
Posted by: readingalong | February 27, 2005 6:33 AM(#11 of 14)
Having been sick with the friggin' flu for the last 3 weeks my pleasures in life are few.
1)B-sides recaps
2)A Big Box of Kleenex
3)And the fervent wish to be still alive when Chris from Net Worth completely loses it
Posted by: Retroqueen | February 27, 2005 4:06 PM(#12 of 14)
tara is this season's pamela: she looked like a contender, but by micromanaging the task, she left trump with no one else to blame. no matter that tara ran a tight, efficient project while alex and magna floundered before tripping over a couple of kids who, you know, actually play video games. and though the edited clips from the focus groups suggested a landslide for magna, the billboards looked equally garish and offensive to me. so once again, trump has fired one of the few viable non-white, female candidates, narrowing his options to craig the shoeshine guy, tana the mary-kay lady, and two or three overweight versions of bill and kelly.
Posted by: jack | February 28, 2005 6:53 AM(#13 of 14)
omg, between this and your Survivor commentary, my tongue has been bitten right off from trying not to laugh at the office!
Posted by: jaded | March 1, 2005 1:24 PM(#14 of 14)