Celebrity Apprentice Recap Part 1: No, They Can’t Take That Away From Me.

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   April
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 5:28 am

   See I keep saying they can easily make each episode of one task only an hour. They proved that tonight, right?

   I started out liking Lisa but OMG I just want to slap her now!!!! She basically straight up admitted she was jealous of Dayana for being prettier than her and she just keeps whining and bitching about it over and over! SHUT UP ALREADY!!! I thought it was funny when Dee wouldn’t validate her about it.

   I thought Arsenio was out of line. Yes, Aubrey is annoying and yes, it is okay to call her out, but he went too far and started acting insane. Terese said it was scaring her and I agree. Almost like Meatloaf when he started losing it last season. Yikes.

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   April
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 5:30 am

   I do have to admit I found this episode really exciting. The blank check from Jay Leno, the flying money from Blue Man group. All of that was awesome.

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   sarcasatire
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 6:05 am

   Methinks Debbie’s exit was a little salty. They didn’t show her exit the building more her cab interview. Obviously her so called exit interview was filmed much later. Not only did she look refreshed, she could speak without emoting rage in her eyes.

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   Indigo
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 7:05 am

   Penn and Lisa definitely have their dis-likable moments (lisa with dayana on the show, or penn and his big mouth outside of the show). But the two of them are the most upfront people who don’t care if you dislike their opinions or criticize them. They’re self depreciating and blunt and smart. I hope they’re the final 2 with penn taking the win.

   dee is likable as well

   everyone else is either boring (teresa and paul) or some of the most self righteous nutcase imaginable (aubrey, arsenio, lou, dayana, and clay)

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   crankyguy
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 8:26 am

   Clay Aiken is a whiny little twat. He’s bitching in his NBC blog about Penn losing the team $4K out of the $8K in the ballons. He fails to mention Teller’s check for $30K which makes Penn’s total contribution $34K. Way to look a gift horse in the mouth. The BMG was giving the money, so how much and the way in which it was delivered is none of Clay’s effing business. How much did Clay bring in? Was it anything close to $34,000? If each member had brought in as much as Penn, they would have won by a lot more than fourteen dollars.

   URL of Clay’s blog:

   http://www.nbc.com/the-apprentice/clays-take/

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   crankyguy
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 8:46 am

   Lisa doesn’t care if you criticize her? If not caring is the same thing as her thinking that anybody who dares to criticize her is a worthless piece of stupid shit, then I agree.

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   Cruella
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 9:43 am

   Um, Teller brought $20K not $30K (which is a lot, and extremely generous of him). You have no clue what anyone else brought in – except Arsenio who brought in nothing. I do know that Clay brought in at least $20K. Before you call people whiny little twats (which actually fits Penn to a tee – he’s been whining for about 3 months now) you should check your figures. The men raised $162K so obviously people other than the great and mighty Penn donated quite a bit. Penn needed to draw attention to himself, and he did. He’s succeeded in taking this away from being about the charities and has brought it to be about him – which was his motivation to go on the show, to sell tickets to his magic show. Penn cares about Penn and I’m quickly going from greatly admiring him to disliking him intensely.

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   crankyguy
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 9:56 am

   According to Penn’s article at Huffington, Teller delivered $30K. I made no claim as to the exact amount that anyone else brought in other than to put it as a question., and I do realize that one zero contribution brings down the average. I see you have no problem calling Penn a twat, which is fine, but you do that I call Clay that.

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   SuburBint
   Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:02 am

   I really don’t understand the Penn hate. At all. I don’t agree with him all the time, but he seems to me like one of the least egotistical people and most authentic people this season (along with Dee, Arsenio, and Paul.)

   I really liked Clay when the season began, but he gets more and more grating as the show progresses. He’s just downright bitchy. Blaming Penn for the way Blue Man Group donated their money? I really doubt that Penn had anything to do with the way it went down. Between that and his comments about Aubrey last week, I wouldn’t complain at all if he went home soon.

   Dee and Debbie shouldn’t have gone home; I think Aubrey should have been fired from the first task and Lou from the second.

   And as far as Arsenio going off on Aubrey, honestly, he has been watching week after week of her in the boardroom as her team loses and she skates away untouched, so of course his guard was immediately up when they became teammates. My only problem with the way he acted was that he didn’t say much during the actual task, and waited until they were in the boardroom to let loose. This was the first time that anybody has called her out on the way she acts, and her response was completely disproportionate considering the way she’s been pulling strings and pushing buttons since day one without any consequences. I’m sure she’s not really gone, though.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:04 am

    Are you giving Clay credit for that $20K check that Michael Andretti dropped off?

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    mtbleusky
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:06 am

    Mr. Pomposity, oops, Jillette, nearly blew it with BMG and knew it, so had to start talking about art & the homeless. Didn’t address the fact that about $2000 of that BMG blowup was lost. Saw very few homeless & considering they only won by $14 (if we’re to believe Sparky) they were d*** lucky to win. But Mr. P got worried & had to start bashing the only one who will stand up to him, Clay.

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    SuburBint
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:07 am

    Oh, my bad — I got all excited about the recap being up and only skimmed like the first half before commenting — I didn’t realize that it only covered half of the show. Sorry about spoilers!

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:10 am

    If he brought in more money than Clay, and it sure looks like he did, then Clay should just shut the fuck up. Clay just doesn’t like Penn, so he constantly yaps at him like an ineffectual chihuahua. It’s like Lisa’s contempt for Dayana.

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    Scottywrangler
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:23 am

    Lisa Lampanelli is living proof that one can be just as ugly on the inside as on the outside. I cannot stand her and truly, if there is any justice in the world, Dayana will outlast her.

    I’ll withhold my Aubrey comments until after the next recap. She and Lisa deserve each other.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:35 am

    Kind of interesting the way we seem to be dividing up based on feud members, especially the Clay/Penn conflict– which is mostly Clay bitching at/about Penn. I was even at first, although being a huge Penn fan, but Clay is more than beginning to irritate me with his one-note diatribes.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:47 am

    What if Andretti had handed a $20K check to Clay, and then, in front of Clay, delivered another $20K check to a representative from a homeless shelter. Would Clay be carping about Andretti having cost their team twenty thousand dollars? Probably.

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    Drusilla
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 11:08 am

    Nope. He brought in more money. Dee even mentioned it.

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    Drusilla
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 11:11 am

    I don’t like Penn either.

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    Drusilla
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 11:17 am

    Maybe some of us have listened to the things Penn has said since the show was filmed. He has contradicted himself over and over. In fact, one of the first things he said was that he went on this show for the same reason he went on Dancing with the Stars — to sell tickets for his Vegas show. Oh, and he guessed he had to pick a charity. Clay turned down the show over and over and finally went on it to try to raise money for his foundation. Clay has stated plainly that he does not dislike Penn. Penn has called Clay and talked with him about a idea and said he enjoyed the conversation. When they get in these “confessionals,” the producers do everything they can to get the cast members to say something provocative. Apparently they’re relentless.

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    Drusilla
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 11:21 am

    I don’t think there’s a “feud” between Penn and Clay. I think the editing of this show has perhaps made it seem so.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 11:22 am

    More money than whom? More than Penn? Even with Arsenio bringing nothing, if the rest matched what Penn brought in, the total would have been $170,000.

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    Drusilla
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 11:22 am

    And how do you know he brought more money than Clay? I don’t remember that being mentioned.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 11:25 am

    Going by their post-production interviews, it looks like a feud to me.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 11:29 am

    I am guessing that he did based on the average and knowing what Penn brought to the table. Even if Clay brought in more (big if) it is still none of his business how BMG spends their money.

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    Dear Mr. Cranky Pants,
    What’s your problem? Clay can spell? He has been involved with charities for over half his life? He never backs down and says what he believes? Aubrey is a whiney brat and he calls her on it? Penn’s idea wasted 1/2 the cash that could have gone to charity (Sparky agreed) and despite his tense relationship with with Penn,when it was his turn to be Project manager,he did not bring Penn back to the Board Room. Clay is always and ever,a fair man. it takes a lot to make him angry. He grew up bullied and he grew up poor. He had 3 things; a sense of humour and a golden voice, and a sense of justice. He would get in fights with fellow students
    who called called someone a “retard” because it was wrong and volunteered at the YMCA,always fighting for the inclusion of others,especially the autistic. He is to be respected. No-I’m not a Claymate. I like his voice.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    What other main reason would there be besides the publicity? Penn gets publicity and charity gets money–win-win. Penn could have invested the time spent on CA on his own act, and the proceeds from that, if given to charity, would exceed anything he could win on CA and it would be more of a sure thing, but then there would be no extra publicity.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    This was supposed to end up under Drusilla’s complaint about Penn using the show to sell tickets for his act.

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    Hotshortie
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    I love Lisa but she has got to quit bitching & crying. It’s starting to wear on me. I’m so happy that Arsenio gave aubrey a taste of own medicine. Aubrey has been such a mean girl. I think Penn & Aubrey should have gone home this week. Penn called Walgreens, Walmart. How horrible! Branding is so important to a companies image.
    And Aubrey is just a PITA.
    I do like how Clay looks at the situation and then tells it like it is. He’s not too kind or too bitchy. I also like Paul, he needs to say more words but I still like him and Arsenio is rockin this week!

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    cattyfan
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    The women used Dayana’s idea for the guidebook, then didn’t bother crediting her. And perhaps Teresa should have noted in previous weeks it was Patricia who made the signage appear. It doesn’t happen by magic.

    Lisa may be one of the biggest, most unpleasant bitches I’ve ever had the misfortune to see on my TV. My God…does she have any idea how awful she is? She is vile…repellent…and her ego rivals The Donald’s. Sadly, her intellect and talent don’t measure up to the image in her own head. And she is so obviously jealous of the “pretty girls.” Get over it.

    If Teresa had brought back Aubrey, Teresa would have gotten the ax, as Aubrey is good for drama. Trump would have changed the criteria rather than ousting Aubrey.

    Just a gentle correction. The men were “hawking” their guidebook, not “hocking.” Hocking is pawning something, and to be “in hock” means to be in debt. Basically hocking refers to owing. Hawking is selling.

    Can Arsenio save Jay’s check for the next fundraising task?

    Loved the final picture sequence wherein the Trump children argue over who will get stuck with a Debbie Dinner.

    On the Penn/Clay feud, I started the season as a Penn fan. He lost me a few weeks ago, though. I agree with whomever pointed out Penn cannot restrain himself. He makes himself the focus of nearly every task. If I have to back one, I’ll pick Clay.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Yes. That little prick thinks he can spell “ballon” better than me! Eff him! By the way, you are lying about being a Claymate. I can tell by your over-the-top, effusive profile. You are in love.

    Penn wasted nothing. He got the BMG to give money, and they gave it as they saw fit.

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    Scottywrangler
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    Cattyfan, thank you for agreeing with me about Lisa. I don’t like to comment on a person’s looks really. Well okay, sometimes I do. However, I think her ugliness rises up from the inside. What a potty mouth! Plus, while all the other ladies dress up for the boardroom, she looks like she just sniffed a blouse from the hamper and put it on. Talk about “one of these things is not like the other!”

    On that note, the women do mostly dress like tramps in the boardroom. They know what the Donald likes, I guess.

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    April
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    I don’t have a fav in the Penn/Clay debate. I like them both. I also see faults with both.

    There was totally a fat joke with Lisa picking that bakery and saying she went there everyday and she grabbed a pastry and shoved it in her mouth. Don’t know if anyone else saw that.

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    AmyOops
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    “Each week they slowly increase the torture on this show.”
    -BOO! I looooove this show, dammit!

    “Murder is fun!”
    -YAY! You’re effing hiLARious, Luscious!

    Back to reading…

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    I don’t normally point out spelling errors, assuming them to be typos, but when you call somebody out for bad spelling, then make sure your spelling is correct. What is “whiney?”

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    reddawg
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    In the beginning Penn seemed like he would be a great player. It was the Lou show where he pouted around and acted like a child.

    With the BMG incident, Penn told Dee they were going to shoot the money into the ground and Dee gave the ok. Instead the money was shot into the air along with cards advertising Penn and Teller and the BMG. Free advertising for Penn. Then Penn had to write the article and outwardly bashes (Lisa anyone?) Clay for not thinking the BMG stunt was art . Truthfully, how many people would think of it as “art”? If you don’t then you must be stupid according to Penn. Isn’t art subjective to the viewer?
    I think most of us saw chaos, a mob scene, and money that should have helped the tiny babies, not the New Yorkers hanging around. I didn’t see any homeless. Why can’t Penn just man-up and admit for once that it was a stunt gone wrong? his problem is he always has to be right.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    Penn’s version of events:

    I was on Dee Snyder’s team and he asked me to help with more money on his watch. I ran the idea by all our team members, the production company, and NBC. Everyone signed off. Blue Man Group would march up, with a loud parade and giant puppets and they would blow up a balloon full of money with leaf blowers and fill the air with 10-dollar bills that the Blue Man wouldn’t care about. Whatever our team could gather out of the wind, we would have to score for out team. Teller would join BMG and add 30 grand of his own money, not blown around, but handed politely to our cashier, American Idol, Clay Aiken. Clay takes The Celebrity Apprentice very seriously and plays the game for all it’s worth.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    “If Teresa had brought back Aubrey, Teresa would have gotten the ax, as Aubrey is good for drama. Trump would have changed the criteria rather than ousting Aubrey.”

    I said the same thing!! Teresa was smart not to bring back the teacher’s pet. Give the girl credit, that was some good strategy.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 4:51 pm

    Of course it had to be approved by NBC!! Gosh, how can Clay act like he was so surprised by a stunt when advertising and promotion on that scale have to be approved by the network. Perhaps, it was because he wasn’t in the loop?

    For the record, I like Clay, but knowing the stunt was no “surprise” I’ll say he overreacted in the boardroom. For all he knew, Penn had several “plants” placed in the crowd, specifically to collect the money and bring it to the men.

    Which brings me to my next question: If Clay saw some of the women’s team collecting the flying cash, would he demand they give it back? Head into the boardroom and accuse them of stealing from the men?
    Would he be right?
    Or finder’s keepers, loser’s weepers?

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    reddawg
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    As we have found out from the Buick show and Adam Carolla, the show is heavily edited to show the picture they want the audience to see. I would be more inclined to give Penn some space if he would quit singling out one person to complain about and just stick to the facts as he sees them. I would wager to say that the majority of the viewers across the country didn’t see the BMG stunt as art.

    This is the most fun recap blog of all I have read. Keep up the good work!

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    Penn talks about Clay because it’s Clay doing all the sniping at him. It started with Clay “defending” Lou Ferrigno as if Lou can’t stick up for himself. He knew that Ferrigno had already gone off on Penn for naming him as someone who might be brought back to the boardroom when Penn was PM. Clay was just piling on, using Ferrigno as a shield.

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    BSparky
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    “you carrot stained zombie” That one got me laughing pretty hard. I’d love to hear someone really say that! Another fun recap. Thanks for the sarcasm!

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    cattyfan
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    reddawg…just wanted to say I agree with every word you wrote.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    It’s nice to know there are so many people who know how to tell other people how they should spend their money.

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    reddawg
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    Others have had some say about Penn in their confessionals, it hasn’t been just one person–it includes both Dee and Arsenio. Penn did ask the BMG to present the money in a “fun way”, the show was about money for charity not art for charity.

    Lou’s hearing loss puts him at a definite disadvantage and communication isn’t his strength. Clay, who majored in special education and whose charity is all about disabled children, understands people with disabilities. Lou is not learning disabled, but when a person has a major hearing loss the person can’t possibly grasp everything being said.

    As far as playing to win, isn’t that why they are all there? It wouldn’t make a very interesting show if no one cared about winning. I certainly hope that ALL the contestants are there to win. The real sniping is on the women’s team.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    Are you implying that Penn is not there to win? I know it’s just my own warped perspective, but it looks to me like Penn has had more influence on the men’s wins than Clay. On Clay’s blog a few days ago, he says he’s STILL mad at Penn about the “lost” money. Think how mad he would be if the women had won.

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    Robinez
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    I have been falling off the Penn bandwagon lately. He seemed so nice in the begining.

    This is to be expected. This show loves to build you up and then take you down with the editing. Penn was so warm and fuzzy at the begining, Lou was a jerk and now he is the incredible..well, he is still a jerk…the editing on him hasn’t changed my impression. I don’t think they can even edit Lisa. She is an asshole all the time and there is probably no footage to edit that shows her anything but an asshole.

    I like Aubry. Cant help it. She is smart. And more importantly, has good sense. Dayanna is so charming and so eager and willing to help others and doesnt deserve the vile shit from Lisa’s mouth about her. She has had some good ideas that were shot down because she is considered just a pretty face. I am looking forward to her PM role.

    Clay Aiken Sux. Yes, he does. He is mean spirited and is nothing like the kid that came in second place in a cheesy singing contest. His arrogance is ridiculous. He was still shittin his britches when most of those men were already on their way. I know the Claymation people will be upset with me, but if he didn’t suck I wouldn’t have that opinion of him.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    Penn came off as nice in the beginning but it was a conscious effort on his part. No way, did he have to grovel to Lou for picking him for the boardroom on that first task. (They won, but still, the question was asked by Trump and he had to answer.) But I think Penn knew it was too early to ruffle feathers. It seems like the men really go out of their way to keep the camaraderie.

    I don’t think many of the men respect Lou as a teammate. We’ve seen it in past episodes. I think that Clay reacts to that personally because he may believe the men an marginalizing Lou due to his disability. Remember, Clay’s charity is the National Inclusion project and he is making sure the disabled one get included!! LOL
    Not to be flippant, but I think that’s what part of his beef is with Penn. However, I don’t think the men lost faith in Lou due to his hearing impairments, I think they just resent the fact that in every task, Lou wants to be front and center, flexing his muscles. That’s it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

    Personally, I think the “I’m gonna mop the floor with you” video would’ve been more effective if they used Paul and his handlebar mustache. But since they added a Stepford wife in the commercial, it wouldn’t have made sense. (he’d never go for one of those.)

    Either way, Trump separated Penn and Clay like he separated Lisa and Dayanna. In hopes that they square off at some point. Next week, my money’s on Dayanna!

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:49 pm

    Okay, now that makes sense.
    If that’s how it was planned, then Dee and Penn were technically right in saying that the stunt didn’t lose them any money. Technically, the money in the balloon didn’t become theirs until it touched their hands. But if they knew that was what was going to happen, why didn’t they plan for it better?

    Why not clear a circle around the blue men or station team members around to gather the money and maybe even get friends to stand around and catch as much as possible? Why just let the blue men explode money in the air with no plan, except for to scream “ITS FOR CHARITYY”? It was dumb (not art) for the blue men to have exploded the money, but it was even dumber for the men’s team to not have prepared for it if they knew it was going down in advance.

    I will say though that if I was in the crowd, I would have snatched that money off the ground and ran away as fast as I could. I would possibly even trample adorable little Clay in the process. I’m not proud of that, but it’s the truth, so I don’t blame those who did. It’s free money, floating down from the sky. What are they supposed to do? Be decent and maintain their composure? In the face of free money? This is America; we don’t do that here.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted April 3, 2012 at 10:55 pm

    As far as I know, the women and men don’t conduct their assignments in the same space, and aren’t allowed to see what each other are doing, except for with stuff like the shop window where it’s kind of unavoidable.
    The women were probably on the other side of the park, if not in another park entirely.

    But if the women were to collect the flying cash, Clay would definitely complain. He would probably explode with anger. But he wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. Besides, if the women didn’t pick up the flying money, Trump would probably scold them for it, especially since they lost by such a small margin. Tell them that they were dumb, because just two of those blue man bills would have given them the win. He’d be right for once, too.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 2:38 am

    Exactly.

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    RazzBeth
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 4:29 am

    Not knowing a whole lot about Clay except he was on Idol (which I don’t watch) and that he sold a lot of records (that I would never listen to), I have to say that I can’t stand him. He started out okay, but then he just got nasty. We like our snark here, but he is just a mean girl as far as I am concerned. So STFU, Clay.

    And I despise Aubrey even more. With the burning of 1,000 Snooki UTIs. Can that self entitled, rude, egotistical, conniving, manipulative, skank, fake bitch just go away?

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    snowshoecat
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 4:53 am

    RazzBeth, please don’t hold back about Aubrey. Say what you mean. We’ll understand.

    Of all cut-throat industries, sho-biz is probably the cut-throatiest. Performers who have worked their way to the top have stepped on toes and backs to get there, and it comes naturally. Clay attained fame and a huge fanatical following rather suddenly, easily compared to others who had to claw their way up. He just isn’t a street fighter and doesn’t understand the rules. That’s why he comes across as so irritating to some of us.

    BMG were expected to use schtick. It’s what they do. It’s sho-biz, baby.

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    June1
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 8:28 am

    Enjoyed your recap — look forward to it every week!

    Penn’s BMG started out exciting and fun — I like them. Crowd reaction to seeing them coming down the street stirred thing up and bought attention to the men’s Guidebook booth. However, shooting money into a crowded NYC street was just plain dumb. Of course, people being people, they are going to scramble for it. Dee hollering “it’s for charity” made very little impression on the crowd — after all it’s money!! Free money!! BMG and their performances may be seen as art. Blowing money in the air — and one BMG guy blew it almost into Clay Aiken’s face — this is not art. period. Penn was not thinking of those little babies in incubators ( and I hate to say this, I’m not sure Dee was at the time). However, Clay was. Someone even tried to grab money out of the money box on the table and Clay had to grab his hand away. This was a dangerous situation. Had children been in that crowed of crazies grabbing money, they could have been truly hurt. BMG, being creative, could have found a much better way to get their money to the booth. How about having that big puppet reach out and hand a balloon filled with the money to one of the guys. Safer and would have worked just fine and the whole $8K would have gone to March of Dimes. Think, people.

    Funny how some people see all the remarks, comments, and accusations in the board room, but seem to think Clay Aiken is the one who is whiny or bitching. Agenda, maybe?

    Aubrey and Lisa would dive me nuts in a minute. How could anyone ever work on a team with these two. They seem to think they are the only ones who have ideas and are creative — losing the challenges so many times evidently doesn’t sink into their tiny brains. Dayana has good ideas but because she is soft spoken is totally ignored. It was her idea to do the favorite spots around NYC for the Guidebook — did anyone give her credit for that? — I don’t think so.

    I do think the wrong two was fired this week. Dee and Debbie should not have had to leave. IMO, it should have been Aubrey and Penn.

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    RazzBeth
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 9:08 am

    I don’t have an agenda in regards to my dislike of Clay. He’s gay. Big whoop. So are a whole lot of other people in this world. It’s not what is said in the boardroom as much as what he spews in his talking heads and during the project itself.

    And he isn’t the only one I hate, but I guess I have an agenda with washed up pop singers with hair the color of tomatoes and haggy old stand up comediennes. I had never heard of Aubrey or Danica Pain before this show either, so maybe I really just don’t like anyone that I have never heard of. Let me think about this for a minute…… Nope, it’s just the mean people.

    And let me be clear that I also can’t stand Lisa; I left her off my earlier diatribe because I used up my adjective allotment for the day on Aubrey. Some of the others have earned mild disdain from me, but those three really annoy the ever loving snot out of me.

    There is no agenda and implying that Gasmii (some of the least judgmental people regarding sexual preference that I have ever had the pleasure of interacting with) is plain wrong.

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    notwithoutmytv
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 9:27 am

    I don’t care what Clay Aiken lets people put in his mouth; he’s a tangerine-haired supafreakazoid, and that’s why I’m afraid of him.

    (For the record, Debbie Gibson also makes me clutch my wubby in abject, helpless terror.)

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 10:01 am

    Agenda? Anti-gay, you mean? The reason that I point out Clay as being a whiny twatwaffle is that it became so glaring and obvious in this episode, although hints of it have been there all along. He is revealing himself here, whereas we have known how Aubrey, Debbie, Lisa, NJ Housewife, and Lou really are for some time now.

    I think Penn is rather pompous with his insistence that the BMG created high art, and that art trumps all other considerations, and that this BMG “performance” was one of the most beautiful and moving experiences of his life. That’s obviously all bullshit. What pisses me off is this idea that Clay has the moral high ground to tell BMG how and where they can spend their money. If Clay is so upset that $4000 was lost, he can easily cover the difference with his own money. But, no. Even after they won the task, even months later, he is still bitching about it. I can’t prove it, but I would be willing to bet that Penn still brought in more money to the task than Clay did.

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    June1
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 10:04 am

    yep, agendas are flying here. sad.

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    April
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 10:08 am

    I agree 100%.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 10:15 am

    You are an idiot.

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    April
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 10:16 am

    Well I am sure there are rules about donating your own money to tasks. If there wasn’t then it would be whomever was richer that wins every time. Instead of who has more fundraising contacts.

    I like Penn. I think he is a huge talent. However, I watched his Bullshit show. He is pretty pompous especially about religion. So yes, I am not surprised he can be pompous on this show either.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 10:19 am

    He can donate independently, without it being applied to the task. The task is over and his team WON! He still bitching about it in April 2012. He can write the check now.

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    April
    Posted April 4, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    Hey let’s be nice and just make fun of the stupid tv people, not each other.

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    Fred
    Posted April 5, 2012 at 2:18 am

    Not agreeing with the Aiken bashing at all. He seems to me the most level-headed, mission-focused & truth-telling one of all. I’ve seen a lot of the contestant interviews & the consensus is that he’s hard-working, sharp, a team-player & a good bet for the win. So he & Jillette rubbed each other the wrong way – so what? That’s pretty standard for a working environment, not everyone’s going to mesh. But even Jillette has complimented him since & he likewise in return. I think the viewers often take these “tv feuds” a lot more seriously than the actual players do. I do have to say, tho, that Jillette was less than truthful in his recent blog at HuffPost. The episode clearly shows everyone saying Teller gave $20,000 & there weren’t any “homeless” folks in camera range – that statement was pretty laughable seeing how it was mid-day in Madison Square, as any New Yorker would know.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted April 5, 2012 at 2:57 am

    Homeless no longer reside in the city. They’ve been run out. I remember when homeless people would panhandle, walk around with shopping carts full of bottles and belongings, but those days are gone. People can’t even sleep on the street anymore. (It’s against the law. It’s mandated that homeless people stay in shelters.) And if a contest is being filmed, the show needs the proper permits. (I’ve worked in “locations” for films.) Not only do they get permits, they reserve the right to prohibit entry into the filming areas. I don’t know if everyone must sign a release in a big, public scene like that, but usually they do. And if someone refuses, they can be denied entry into the filming area.

    With that said, I doubt there were any homeless people wandering about. The production assistants would’ve just shooed them away.

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    RazzBeth
    Posted April 5, 2012 at 3:37 am

    Hold up a second. How is calling people anti-gay being “nice?” You reap what you sow, so stop being a troll. I’m done with this.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted April 5, 2012 at 4:55 am

    Wheee! There haven’t been so many comments, so much side-taking, since the T&T Great Grammar Wars of ’11. (It made its season debut last night, BTW.)

    Gasmii are passionate.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 5, 2012 at 7:18 am

    Sarcasatire, I have a question about the “control” of filming locations. Can the production company limit the in-and-out access to businesses? If I had a walk-in business, I wouldn’t like the production telling me and my customers that I can’t get to the front door.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 5, 2012 at 7:32 am

    Clay rubs some people the wrong way. How that that be in a sane world? I don’t know.

    I will point out that Clay himself said that he feels bad about fighting some homeless guy to recover a few dollars of that money. But, you are right that there didn’t look to be a lot of homeless in the area. Is Penn lying about the $30K? Maybe to calm Clay down, Penn talked Teller into kicking in an extra $10K before the task was over and NBC just didn’t show us that part. If it turns out that Penn is lying, then I will think much, much less of him than I do now.

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    Anyhoo
    Posted April 6, 2012 at 10:08 am

    20K…not 30K. It is not how much they actually got out of those blowing $10 notes. It’s the potential chaos and actual mob scene ugly, AND the blue man ad cards with PENN’s name dominently captive… now, tell me it’s for charity… ironic…

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    Anyhoo
    Posted April 6, 2012 at 10:12 am

    sorry, made a TYPO. i meant IN CAPITAL.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 6, 2012 at 11:21 am

    $30K…not $20K, according to Penn at HuffPost. If you think he’s a liar, then that’s what you think. Like others have pointed out, they had to get a permit to blow the cash, so we have to assume that NYC authorities didn’t think there was much potential for an ugly “mob scene.”

    I’ll be happy to tell you it was for charity. Charity got a lot of money, didn’t it? Every celebrity on that show is on it for charity and other reasons. Nobody is on for charity and only charity.

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    Anyhoo
    Posted April 6, 2012 at 10:14 pm

    Well, i don’t think Penn is a liar. I just don’t necessarily believe what he wrote on Huffington (which is according to Penn’s memory). Again there are facts and never truth. They can bend it all they want to support their point. When something happens, people are gonna have different opinions. There’s no need to write a blog excusing yourself and righting everyone’s idea. And no, it’s not only for charity, it’s a game in the name of charity. Some takes it serious, some doesn’t.

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    Annie
    Posted April 7, 2012 at 9:18 am

    Totally agree with everything you said, June. Clay strikes me as someone who takes everything very seriously and professionally (I’m the same way) and to be caught up in a shit-show in NYC, where flying money and a mob of people are involved sounds like a nightmare to me. Especially if that money is meant for charity, and people are basically stealing it right in front of you.
    Hell, have you ever been to Costco on a Saturday afternoon? The mobs at the food sample stations are enough to make me wanna kill someone….I couldn’t imagine dealing with flying money on an NYC street..

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    Annie
    Posted April 7, 2012 at 9:31 am

    totally agree, chaos. If they knew ahead of time, why not plan better? Something else that bugs me (someone posted a few replies above) was Penn’s statement that “BMG would fill up the balloons with $10 bills they don’t care about…..” They don’t care about?
    So pretty much the guy’s fundraiser became “The BMG show, let’s promote ourselves and throw some money around. If Apprentices snatch it up, good for them. If onlookers take it, who cares because WE DONT CARE ABOUT THE MONEY”. That’s ridiculous.
    Why not have BMG do a show on the street, and people donate money to watch? Then the BMG could have said “whatever you donate, we’ll match it” or something…….but no, they had to be all super-cool and rebellious with their exploding money balloon. give me a break. BMG were there to promote themselves and nothing more.
    I agree with Clay 100% on this one. He was thinking strictly about the charity, whereas Penn was thinking about his buddies BMG and the “art” of performing. Penn basically stated he didn’t care about the money either….how in the hell can that fly on Celeb Apprentice? Who gets away with that?

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 7, 2012 at 11:19 am

    Who gets away with that?

    Penn did, since they won the challenge. If Penn and Clay’s team had lost, I still don’t see PM, Dee naming Penn for possible firing, since Dee and CA’s producers had already signed off on doing it.

    Part of BMG’s shtick is that they don’t care about money, so that just comes with having BMG perform. Besides, their presence had to have drawn a bigger crowd, and some people in that crowd, who were not stuffing their pockets with free cash, may have been inclined to donate some money.

    If being creative is as important as Aubrey and Lisa say it is, then Penn came through more than Clay. Maybe Penn could steal their line when his head is on the chopping block and save himself with, “You don’t fire creative people!”

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    snowshoecat
    Posted April 7, 2012 at 11:23 am

    Word.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted April 7, 2012 at 11:25 am

    Insert “word” here. I am such a ditz.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted April 7, 2012 at 11:39 am

    Okay, now this is irritating me. Tried to reply to Crankyguy’s post and it keeps coming up at the end where it makes no sense. Okay, under Crankyguy’s doesn’t either, but at least that’s my choice.

    My pc died so I’m using Old Bessie, my iPad. I’m a writer and need a pc for the Word program and sorta got addicted to it for reading my TVgasm. But it doesn’t work right. Old Bessie, that is.

    Anyway, Cranks, I thought your rather belated comment was right on target.

    Okay, now I have a question. Why do people have to be so rude when posting? Another recapper was viscously attacked today or yesterday for writing a recap that someone whom I have never heard of before didn’t agree with. The insults were just awful. I have never heard of the person before, and since s/he vowed to give up the entire TV gams site altogether, probably won’t again.

    I’m a bit of a Pollyanna and try to find something positive in every post, even if I disagree with the recapper, and I like to write positively. I see no point in hurting anyone. We can all disagree without being nasty, so let’s try it.

    And I won’t even write what I think of Lisa and Aubrey.

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    fancyface
    Posted April 7, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    Hmmm…I guess I’m watching a different show from some of the other people here. Please explain to me what Penn has done to deserve all of the hate & name calling. I don’t know if people are reacting so harshly to him because they flove Clay, but I don’t get it. Besides the episode where the little twat jumped down his throat for what he called ‘throwing Lou under the bus’, I just can’t recall a time where Penn was nasty, mean, or underhanded to any of his fellow players, including Clay. I also felt his ‘playing for the boardroom’ comment he made about Penn was hypocritical. Clay was so fed up with Lou for the very same reasons in the previous task that he was ready to throw him under the bus and declared he would have to step up because they would no longer ‘prop him up’ because he’s useless in tasks but always got away with it. Cut to Lou becoming project manager & Clay suddenly doing a 180 & forgetting his ‘disgust’ with Lou the week before. He’s so full of crap. I was a huge fan of his because I think he has an AMAZING voice, but this show is showing his ugly side & it’s as ugly as his new face & ridic hair style. I was turned off as soon as his bitchy comments started coming out of nowhere & the remark he made about Aubrey, whether you like her or not, was completely disrespectful & the way she has been treated by the men on this show is repulsive. They see her as a threat & are using every weakness they know she has to undermine her and make her look bad. Regardless of your opinion of her, let’s face it, the girl is rocking this competition & imo, therein lies the problem that they have with her. She snarks about people in her interviews, but I’ve never seen her be outright disrespectful to anyone’s face. She’s been short with people & fights in the boardroom but she’s not mean to them like they are. I do believe we aren’t seeing a lot & she’s probably a bit much to take in person, but maybe if Arsenio would have expressed his frustrations with her during the task, I’m sure she would’ve backed off. Instead he was making little jabs here and there but agreeing with & using her ideas & he waited until the boardroom to pounce for no reason & you could tell she was completely blindsided and probably thought they felt she was doing a good job because that’s what her team kept telling her. I just hated the whole thing. It was beyond inappropriate & I have lost alot of respect for him.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 8, 2012 at 8:11 am

    Please explain to me what Penn has done to deserve all of the hate & name calling.

    I think I started it by calling Clay a whiny little twat for his petty sniping, at Penn, and apparently that caused Claymates to retaliate with Penn bashing. I think Lou is a whiny little twat too, but since I don’t want my ass kicked, I would not call him that to his face.

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    fancyface
    Posted April 8, 2012 at 9:19 am

    Ok, that explains some of it I guess lol. So I guess what I just said on the part 2 cap is true: most of the harsher Aubrey bashing comments are being made by people that I have never seen comment on the Gasm before, so methinks we have some Clayhags, er sorry ‘Claymates’ that have found their way here and are turning the Aubrey hate up a few notches because their master is intimidated by her. Soooo, that’s saying something & tells me that my true Gasmi fam aren’t as cruel as some.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 8, 2012 at 9:39 am

    You and I are on different sides of the Aubrey fence, but do think there is a strong tendency for Clay fans to pile on anybody that is seen as a threat to Clay or whom Clay just doesn’t like, i.e., Aubrey and Penn.

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    fancyface
    Posted April 8, 2012 at 10:50 am

    Eh, I could take Aubrey or leave her, but again, I just don’t like the disrespect that Clay & Arsenio are piling on her. But I completely agree about the Clay fans! I was confused as to where the Penn bashing was coming from & where they were seeing him be an asshole on the show, but I have realized it’s mostly his fans burying him because of THE AIKEN lol.

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    crankyguy
    Posted April 8, 2012 at 11:18 am

    I just remembered that Aubrey was the PM against Clay’s stint as PM. That alone warrants automatic Aubrey hate from Clay fans. Well, they are fiercely loyal; I’ll give them that.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 13, 2012 at 10:58 pm

    Random Celeb Apprentice thoughts:

    1) I hate Lisa and Aubrey.

    2) I’m sick of Lisa & Aubrey saying that Dayana “derailed” the team. What a load of bullshit.

    3) I adore Clay – hope he wins the entire thing.

    4) I totally agree w/Clay that the Blue Man Group thing was stupid. Since BMG is all about performance, why not put something else in the effing balloons? Something LESS valuable than money? I lost so much respect for them re: their shenanigans.

    5) TOTALLY agree re: Arsenio – wtf was he thinking? He should have def paid someone to get to the office & sit there waiting for the check. Dipshit.

    6) Trump is definitely bald on top.

    7) I hope hope HOPE that Dayana goes further in the competition than those two beyotches, Lisa and Aubrey.

    That’s all for now.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 13, 2012 at 11:10 pm

    Also, I thought Aubrey’s behavior was very telling in the boardroom. First, she stood behind the women and acted disinterested. After they were all seated, she remained the farthest away from the women and stayed fairly quiet. C’mon, this is Aubrey! When does she ever act this way? I’ll tell you when – when homegirl KNOWS she brought in the least amount of money of ALL the players on her team. Suddenly, she knows she may be in deep-shit. The little smirk on her face (and Lisa’s) when Teresa didn’t bring Aubrey back in the boardroom also killed me. UGH!

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    leslilly
    Posted April 13, 2012 at 11:31 pm

    Whiney is correct, crankyguy. And so is whiny.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 13, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    I know what you’re saying crankyguy, but I have got to say that Clay really is fair. I was TOTALLY expecting him to bring Penn into the boardroom the week that they men lost under his (Clay’s) mgmt. Clay & Penn had problems the week prior and I figured Clay would bring Penn along. Wrong. Clay didn’t even mention Penn as being a problem – he brought in 2 other players from the men’s team. After that, I thought, okay, this dude (Clay) really is being fair and honest.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 13, 2012 at 11:43 pm

    I agree. Lisa cannot STAND the thought of anyone suggesting that she, Queen Lisa, is anything less than brilliant. At the tiniest hint of criticism, Lisa opens that ginormous mouth of hers and bellows a string of insults at the highest decibel known to humankind, therefore ensuring that no one can hear anyone but herself.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 13, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    Exactly, Reddawg. I didn’t see any homeless folks hanging about either. It was a stunt, plain and simple. And free advertising…although, just about everyone who goes on Celeb Apprentice is counting on the advertising that comes along w/being cast on the show.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 13, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    I don’t think Teresa was using her smarts in regard to not bringing Aubrey back to the boardroom. I tend to think she believes she is tight w/Lisa and Aubrey (I think they are using Teresa). They can’t stand Dayana, so they’ve included Teresa in their little alliance. Teresa just brought the people she didn’t like into the boardroom.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 14, 2012 at 12:01 am

    Well said, Annie. I agree w/so many things you said. Penn’s statement re: “money that BMG doesn’t care about” really rubbed me the wrong way.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 14, 2012 at 12:08 am

    Okay…so BMG claim they don’t care about money. Do they hold all of their performances for free? Are their cds/mp3s all free? I am very puzzled by this statement.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 14, 2012 at 12:12 am

    Regarding Clay defending Lou Ferrigno – I took that a different way than you did, Crankyguy. Clay has worked w/hearing impaired children. I don’t know much about him, but I did learn that during the episode. I thought that Clay was sticking up for and helping an underdog, so to speak. Lou really did have to put up with a lot of shit from the other guys “he has a handicap”, etc. Knowing how ignorant people can be about anything that makes one different, Clay decided to help Lou.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 14, 2012 at 12:21 am

    Okay, I’ve decided I like Clay, but “twatwaffle” is cracking me up! hahahaha – that has to be my new go-to insult.

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    leslilly
    Posted April 14, 2012 at 12:22 am

    LOL! I feel the same re: Aubrey. Love your description

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    leslilly
    Posted April 14, 2012 at 12:23 am

    RazzBeth, it’s Danity Kane, not Danica Pain ) And it’s no great loss that you haven’t heard of them. Yuck

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    leslilly
    Posted April 14, 2012 at 12:29 am

    Fancy!!!!! You said you were puzzled by all the name-calling in one breath, and in the next breath, you called Clay a “twat”. LOL! You can’t have it both ways

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    leslilly
    Posted April 14, 2012 at 12:50 am

    durrr….*the men*, not “they men”

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     fancyface
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 6:03 am

     Ummmmm…actually I said I don’t understand WHY he was getting the hate & name calling not that he shouldn’t be called names. I’m a TRUE Gasmi & name calling??? That’s what we do here lol

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 7:19 am

     To see if you are right, I checked two good print dictionaries–no whiney. Then I went on an internet dictionary, and voilà. I wonder how long it will be until popular usage will cause “looser” to be accepted as an alternate spelling for “loser.”

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 7:26 am

     That is a different way to look at it, and it’s the view to take if you favor Clay over Penn. But as for me, I like Penn MUCH better than I like Clay, so I see Clay taking advantage of a safe, protected situation in which he could attack Penn and be smugly self-righteous at the same time.

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 7:38 am

     In character, they don’t care about money. How do you normally get to witness them not caring about money? By paying for a ticket. See?
     I am not a fan of “performance” art, so I can relate to thinking that Penn’s defense of BMG’s shtick is bullshit. Overriding that, in my mind, is that Penn and BMG can donate money any way they see fit, including losing half of it to the winds.

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 7:40 am

     This was supposed to show up under leslilly’s “Okay…so BMG claim they don’t care about money” post.

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     snowshoecat
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 9:02 am

     Something is wonky with the comment placement. My (admittedly ridic) “word” comment has popped up in the strangest places. I wrote that 6 days ago and it never did show up where I placed it.

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 9:14 am

     When was Clay PM with a loss? He went against Aubrey with the duel of Crystal Light parties and won. Was he PM more than once?

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     leslilly
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 6:50 pm

     Merriam-Webster.com link for “whiney”:

     http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whiney

     Free dictionary:

     http://www.thefreedictionary.com/whiney

     Crankyguy: I read a lot of British novels and I think that spelling has been adopted from the U.K. They also use an interesting form of the word – instead of whining, they often say “whinging”. And they spell “cosy” instead of “cozy”, etc. etc.

     When you look at the online dictionary links, they typically categorize “whiney” under Old English or Middle English dialect. I have my behemoth print dictionary on the desk, but I’m lazy and scared to use it – I might break my back lifting the thing,

     Oh man – looser instead of loser, drives me nuts! Totally different though – in that case, the extra “o” makes it an entirely different word.

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     leslilly
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 6:53 pm

     I like both Clay and Penn. Early on, I nabbed them as probably the smartest on the men’s team. It really wouldn’t surprise me if both of them have been assholes at some point in time. First of all, they’re human & what human hasn’t been an asshole? Secondly, they’re celebs…I don’t even have to finish the sentence.

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     leslilly
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 6:58 pm

     If that’s what you do here (name calling), then you understand it perfectly.

     And just because you haven’t noticed someone on the site before, doesn’t mean they haven’t been a member for years, lol We don’t all frequent the same shows.

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     leslilly
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 7:01 pm

     I think you’re right, cranky. My error. I bet that both teams having to select who they would take in the boardroom if they lost threw me for a loop.

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     leslilly
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 7:04 pm

     Yeah, my responses aren’t showing up correctly either.

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     leslilly
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 8:06 pm

     Comment #110 was in response to fancyfeast

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     leslilly
     Posted April 14, 2012 at 10:01 pm

     comment #109 in response to cranky

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:01 am

     “Oh man – looser instead of loser, drives me nuts! Totally different though – in that case, the extra “o” makes it an entirely different word.”

     Yes, an entirely different word. It’s the only thing that will save us from, “looser/loser…either way is fine.”

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:03 am

     I guess at this point, it is painfully obvious that there is no reason to expect replies to show up in their proper positions.

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:06 am

     Another problem is that comment numbers change so they can’t even be referenced simply by number.

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     Luscious
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:08 am

     Thanks for your arguments, leslilly. I often spell things the English way, as that is how I’ve been taught (dialogue, theatre, etc.) I was highly irritated by Crankyguy incorrectly correcting my spelling; perhaps he does not realize how much time cranking out a two hour show recap that involves capturing pictures and coming up with a spin takes. Mind you, all of this is done out of the goodness of the Gasmii writers’ hearts, because we get paid in your fun, supportive and interesting comments. Pettiness about spelling is a bit arseholish, don’t you think? Sorry if I spelled that wrong too.

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     Luscious
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:09 am

     Wow and this is supposed to support Lesilly comment #112. WTF is wrong with this thing?

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     leslilly
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:25 am

     LOL! You’re right. The numbers are ALL effed up now. But, on other recaps, ex. Survivor, the replies are working. I think we are all so fired up about this anger-inducing show and by Luscious’ excellent recap that we “broke” the comments section.

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     leslilly
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:32 am

     Luscious, at this point, I don’t expect my response to show up ANYWHERE near yours No problem, Luscious – you do a GREAT job at the recaps – your screencaps & comments are hilarious. Thanks for all the work you do! And yep, the Brits & I think Aussies? use “arse” too, lol, you spelled it right

     P.S. Now, I’m thinking of all the words I’ve come across while reading..favourite, colour, favour, whinge… Language is cool. Yes, I’m a nerd.

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:35 am

     Luscious, I would NEVER correct any recapper’s spelling. Some commenter got onto me for bad spelling in her anger that I am no fan of Clay, so I simply pointed out that she had spelled a word incorrectly also. But then, I get my ass handed to me because “whiney” does show up as a correct alternative in some dictionaries. I don’t know how you got the impression that is was directed to you.

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     leslilly
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:45 am

     Luscious, let me reassure you that cranky wasn’t referring to you. I remember the “fight”, lol…I think crank was calling out someone named…Kartoff? something like that. When I saw your response, Luscious, I thought wow, I didn’t know the spelling thing was with our recapper.

     and Cranky! LOL! Whiney is old English. Expand your horizons. Go read an old book

     I simply got involved because I often spell it “whiney”. When I saw your spelling challenge, I had to say something.

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     Luscious
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:51 am

     I took it personally because that is how I spell whiney and I know I’ve used it at least once to describe some of the “celebreties” on the show. I thought he was referring to me! Glad I wasn’t the one being picked on, but still. We’re all typing a million miles a minute and have other things to do so don’t diss anyone for typos. I’m sure we’re all smarter than the end product of our flying fingers and hasty proofreadless posts!

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     Luscious
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:53 am

     “celebrities” – excellent case in point!

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     leslilly
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:55 am

     Me too, Luscious. I spell it that way, so when I saw it, it raised my hackles a bit. I guess that’s why I had to hand his ass to him

     Right on, typos are a given. Keep up the great work! I laugh so hard at your screencaps and recaps!

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 11:00 am

     Well, thanks for trying to get me off the hook with Luscious. I am nowhere near perfect when it comes to spelling, so I don’t even try to find and point out spelling errors on comment boards, except in this very special circumstance. Besides, most spelling errors are just careless mistakes anyway, as was in my case, since I really do know how to spell balloon.

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 11:06 am

     Damnit! I don’t make a habit of pointing out typos! I would not do it even if commenters had a chance to make corrections with an edit function, which they don’t,. I did it ONE time to some asshole who latched onto my having accidentally left an ‘o’ out of “balloon.”

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     leslilly
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 11:11 am

     You’re welcome, crankyguy. I remember the conversation, and yeah, they called you out for something ridiculous. It was early on in the comments section. I had to check to make sure I wasn’t misspelling whiney all this time! You never know..

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     leslilly
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 11:12 am

     Cranky, I’m joking around. You said earlier that you got your ass handed to you. That’s all!

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     crankyguy
     Posted April 15, 2012 at 11:14 am

     No, leslilly, That reply was to Luscious. I give up.