Recap: The Apprentice: Taking Out The Trash

The Apprentice

By Screampiller | Tuesday, March 6, 2007 | 9:24 am | 24 Comments

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So after a week off because of some big awards show, The Apprentice is back this week. And better than ever, I would argue. Special guest stars, surprise firings, and an appearance by Squidward! What more could we ask for? If only there were a rap song encapsulating the whole experience…

We begin this week with a replay of Aimee getting fired and mouthing off to her teammates as she got in the limo. Hey do you smell that? Smells like SOUR GRAPES. Team Kinetic is ecstatic to see Derek and Jenn returning without Aimee, since, as Derek so delicately puts it, she was a piece of “riff-raff”. Being a fan of that word myself, I immediately give some extra points to Derek. Plus, he does a very dramatic reenactment of Aimee’s departure, complete with glamor shots. Love it. Jenn informs her team that she is willing to step up and lead the team to victory. Derek informs us, via voiceover, that since Jenn is the last piece of riff-raff that he’d like to see gone, he’s pretty happy about this development. Regardless of how she performs in the task, he’s going to be gunning for her. More points for Derek, for the usage of spite as a tactic.

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Blue Steel

Meanwhile, over at Arrow, the boys are complaining about how they did all the work but Surya, the useless PM, got all the credit. “He’s like that kid in the playground that wants to be accepted by everyone but just isn’t,” blares Frank. He and Tim and James plan out a possible coup. This is all so exciting I almost just fell out of my chair. But I didn’t. Please, no phone calls, I’m fine.

Trump meets the candidates the next morning. With him is…Squidward! That’s right, Randall has been unearthed from his zombie realm to judge a challenge. This should be interesting. I bet he just shoots down every single candidate, declaring that none of them are fit to be The Donald’s Apprentice. IT’S APPRENTICE, NOT APPRENTI, he’ll yell. I can’t wait. Trump informs everyone that they’re standing at Rodeo Drive, one of the most luxurious shopping places in the world, so this week’s theme is luxury. This really strikes a personal chord with me, since luxury is one of my favorite things. That and classiness.

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“I’m mildly interested in this.”

He introduces them to two bland Lexus executives (that’s hard to say out loud). They announce the task: to create a special owner experience for a group of preferred guests to introduce the new Lexus LS460. I have no idea what that means, but it definitely sounds like something these teams can screw up real good, so I’m excited. Each team gets $50,000 in seed money, and when the event is over, the guests will take a survey, so the highest customer satisfaction score will win. He sends them off to…I really don’t know. If I got those very same instructions I think I’d just pocket the money and head on over to the nearest bar and/or mini golf course.

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Luckily for Kinetic, this week’s challenge involves chimpanzee impressions.

Kinetic comes up with the theme of “Sixth Sense of Luxury”. Nice work and all, but they also have to create some events that will go along with this. Angela, in charge of marketing, does a lot of umming (through the magic of editing, I’m sure) and ultimately says she doesn’t know. After THREE HOURS of deliberating and no ideas, they finally settle on go-kart races. Kristine points out that they’re trying to convey luxury here, and that go-kart racing sort of destroys that entire notion. Jenn presses on, insisting that for a last minute decision it’s not bad, since it has to do with driving. Why not just set up a soapbox derby? It has to do with driving! And luxury!

Heidi and Muna are sent off to do some product research. They get into a car with a tech consultant to help them learn the vehicle. I think Heidi and Muna must have misunderstood the point of this, as they started rattling off simple driving test reminders, like “put into gear” and “check the mirrors”. They also asked some pretty difficult questions, like “What is this made of?” (the answer: wood), and “You just press ‘trunk’?” The poor tech guy looked like he was giving some pretty serious consideration to running in front of a passing freight train. Heidi of course attributed all this nonsense to the fact that she and Muna are very detailed, but by the end I really think they were just waiting for the guy to tell them they had passed and gotten their licenses.

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“Please end my life immediately.”

Over at the Arrow Brain Trust, the team is brainstorming. Surya, meanwhile, is writing a novel on the dry erase board. The rest of the team mock him behind his back, saying that they’ll just get done what they need to get done, and he can just keep writing while they work. And as far as what we get to see, that’s exactly what happened (hi editors!). Tim and Nicole, meanwhile, are acting all stupid and in love, which irks James, who says that they’re going soft. Huh, I wasn’t aware that Tim suffered from that particular affliction. *The More You Know*

Derek and Angela are working with the graphic designer, who can’t guarantee that he’ll be able to get everything done in the next five hours. Great. Angela, who is in charge of marketing, keeps running everything by Derek, who has become totally exasperated with everything. Of course, they miss the deadline, and Derek is going to make damn sure that Mr. Trump knows that HIS portion of the work was done way ahead of time. So Angela’s screwed. We get it.

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“I”m built like a Mack Truck!”

The next morning, Stefani and Frank leave the house early to start to get things set up. Stefani says that Surya is still…I’m really hoping she says he’s still writing shit down on the board…but no, he’s still at the house, along with Tim, Nicole, and James. But he is by no means idle, as he goes from room to room, surveying his teammates about whether or not his tie “screams Lexus”. In my opinion, the tie is screaming “I’M GAY!”, but they all agree with the Lexus thing, so that’s cool too. I suspect they’re just trying to shut him up. Way to dream that impossible dream, kids.

Over on Team Kinetic, Kristine is starting to set up the tent. Sure enough, not all of the signs arrive on time, because of the missed deadline, so they have to end up cutting them in half. Or something. Derek is understandably pissed, and Jenn agrees that the situation sucks. I agree. See you in the boardroom!

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“Get back in your cage!”

We then cut over to Team Arrow, amidst a flurry of harpsichord music. Luxury! Surya admits that he’s flying a little blind, since he didn’t handle any of the logistics of the task or, you know, anything else at all. Stefani takes us through the luxurious food, which includes “seared ahi” and “beautifully appointed buffet tables”. Who talks like this? Tim and Nicole are taking people through the features of the vehicle when uh oh! It stops working completely, because they ran out the battery. The disappointed people are left standing around with no car features to play with and nothing to do, except perhaps comment on the beautifully appointed buffet tables.

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“Do my manboobs excite you?”

Jenn, over on Team Kinetic, explains that she’s a PR and event planner by profession, and this is still the hardest thing she’s ever done. To be fair, the only other events she’s ever organized were tea parties featuring her Easy Bake Oven, so let’s cut her a little slack. She doesn’t really have a speech prepared, so she decides to wing it. This is a bad decision. She can’t see the television screens, so she can’t follow along with the program, and basically just ends up flipping through her papers and stuttering like an idiot. Her teammates all exchange horrified glances.

Cut to a hilariously ridiculous montage of go-kart “racing”. Basically these go-karts max out at a speed of 7mph, and Randall is not impressed. Jenn insists that these antics entertained “about half the people”. Well, why didn’t you say so? We’ve got a winner right here! As exciting as mini-NASCAR is, the real fun is actually taking place inside the tent, where the illusionist has shown up. I remember back in the brainstorming session Derek had mentioned something about a magician, but I had forgotten all about it. So imagine my delight when this freakshow appeared and proceeded to destroy his sterling reputation by totally sucking on national television. Smell ya later, homes.

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See, this is what happens when you invite the homeless to your Lexus event.

Kinetic, on the other hand, has the brilliant idea of letting the people drive THE ACTUAL LEXUS. What? No go-karts? What is this madness?! The customers are delighted and really enjoy driving it through the little test course that James had set up. And sweet merciful crap, the car can park itself. IT CAN PARK ITSELF. I’m not exactly a car person, so I was unaware of the fact that vehicles have been evolving and are now slightly more intelligent than your average nine-year-old, so imagine my excitement upon discovering this. I think I’m going to run out and pick up one of these Lexus doohickeys first thing tomorrow.

Boardroom time! Trump asks how the task went, and both PMs gloat about how wonderful their teams were. Whatever. Trump points out YET AGAIN how lovely it is that Tim and Nicole have found love. I’m almost certain he’s going to insist on officiating the wedding. Randall reads the results. Arrow got a lot of positive reviews and an overall score of 94 out of 100. Kinetic got a lot of crap reviews and a score of 84. Arrow wins! “No thanks to Surya,” every team member thinks to themselves. Except for Surya, who thinks “I can’t wait to tell my dry erase markers about this!”

And here comes the belly laugh of the night. Trump lets loose with: “After creating a great promotional campaign for Lexus, you’ll get to do something with a really good friend of mine. You know who Snoop Dogg is?” I literally do a spit take. There is whiskey, er, water all over my television screen. And it gets even better. IT’S A SONG REWARD!!! There is very little in life that brings me more joy than watching Apprentice candidates write songs. Need I remind you of The Rubble Man? FREEEAKIN’! Totally snubbed at the Grammys, but a classic nonetheless. Trump goes on to rave about how wonderful Snoop Dogg is, ending with “F’shizzle.” I am actually speechless.

Back at the mansion, the scheming begins. Derek decides to try and convince the whole team to go after Jenn. Whatever. I can’t feign interest in your team while the other one is “songwriting” with Snoop Dogg. Later, losers. I’m gonna go make some popcorn and watch the musical magic happen.

Arrow walks into the recording studio in awe. Surya, in voiceover, informs us that this is extra special for him because he’s been a Snoop Dogg fan ever since he was a kid. Could there be a new Rubble Man in the house? Snoop singles out James and asks him to freestyle, which he proceeds to do HORRIBLY. Snoop’s posse can’t believe they’re being subjected to this. Frank, cigar in hand, decides to take a crack at it as well, and fails just as miserably. I’m on the floor, of course, because watching these two try to rap is the best thing that’s happened to me all week, perhaps all year. Surya, meanwhile, “stood against the wall like an idiot,” says Stefani. For some reason, he just doesn’t want to play with the other kids…it’s just like Frank said at the beginning of the episode!! Cosmic.

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“Please don’t eat me.”

Back at Tent City, the other team is like, so. Snoop Dogg, huh. *Cough*

Arrow finishes up the “song” and thanks Snoop Dogg for everything. He wishes them the best of luck and says that the sky is the limit. Seems like a nice guy. Nicole tells us that “everything that Arrow Corp. is, was defined in that song.” So, did you title it “Mediocre Businesspeople With A Rhythm Problem”?

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“Fire my agent!”

Jenn and Angela talk smack about each other in Tent City, but not a whole lot of time is wasted on this. I’m thinking at this point that they’re both going, since A DOUBLE FIRING is what NBC has been promoting for the past two weeks, and both girls royally sucked. Meanwhile, Trump is in his office with the bland execs, who reiterate the fact that go-karts aren’t exactly what they’re looking for to promote a luxury vehicle. Trump asks if there were any stars (a word he’s been dropping a lot this season), and they point out Heidi and Muna. Yeah, if by stars you mean OCD Poster Girls.

Kinetic files into the boardroom and Trump enters, asking what happened. Jenn says she’s genuinely surprised that they lost. You do recall the fact that you totally choked in front of the audience, right Jenn? Randall points out that the other team had more signage, more LCD screens, and balloons. Randall LOVES balloons. Almost as much as he loves megaphones. Jenn doesn’t place the blame squarely on anyone. Trump asks who was in charge of the signage, and Derek pipes up and starts trying to explain himself, saying that he did the best he could in the time that he had and under the conditions he was in. I understand. It’s hard to create decent signs when you’re taking a power drill to the shoulder. Oh wait, Derek’s conditions only consisted of mild frustration caused by his teammate. My mistake.

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“I like belts.”

Derek insists that he tried to insert luxury into the signs, which leads to a discussion on how the team put together the customer experience and how go-karts didn’t fit into the theme of luxury even a little bit. Trump randomly asks Derek if he can even fit into a go-kart. Huh? Derek explains that he just threw it out there, and didn’t think about how Lexus consumers might not be fans of that, since he would enjoy it because “I’m white trash!” WELL. Trump goes after him like a badly toupeed hawk, asking if he goes around calling himself that. Derek kind of backpedals and says that it was a joke, but Trump blares that that’s “a pretty stinkin’ statement”. “You think I wanna hire someone that’s white trash? I don’t like it as a joke. You know what? You’re fired. I think that’s so stupid for you to say. You’re fired.” WOW. A firing so nice he said it twice. Derek happily says okay and leaves, noting afterwards that he knew he was going down so he decided to leave as a smartass. Um, okay? You win?

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God don’t make no trash!

The girls are still in the boardroom, kissing ass and agreeing with Trump’s firing. All smiles until he says oh, by the way, I still have to fire someone. You know, someone who actually had something to do with losing the task. Heidi and Muna are singled out at doing an excellent job with product knowledge. They both say that Jenn should be fired, both because she didn’t convey the theme of luxury and because she totally screwed up the presentation. Trump asks her what happened with the speech and she explains about the glare, but even a rational explanation doesn’t keep Trump from calling her “a stumbling idiot”. My my, The Donald is in fine form tonight.

Next the blame falls on Angela, who was partly in charge of the creative aspect and also failed to convey luxury. She admits that she and Derek didn’t do a very good job but then turns right back around on the go-kart idea. It is established that everyone hated that idea, but Jenn decided to go with it because it was all they had. Ugh, this is painful. It’s time to drag Surya into this. Trump snaps at him for not saying anything, so Surya better watch out for the Curse of the Chin Donut. He asks Jenn what she felt the go-karts added. Nice work, Surya. That’s one for the ole wipe board.

Trump surveys the team, who all feel that Jenn should be fired. Randall tries to say something but The Donald subdues him with his TrumpTaser. He asks who Jenn will be bringing back, and when she asks if he could possibly just leave it at Derek being fired, he shoots this down immediately and yells at her for making the final decision on the go-karts. Randall interrupts yet again and Trump shoots him down YET AGAIN! It’s awesome. Randall looks like a hurt little puppy dog. I’d love to get a more in-depth update on how this apprenticeship is going. I imagine it involves a lot of beatings.

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Stew in your shame, Randall.

More squabbling. Trump says that Jenn’s team doesn’t respect her, and is about to fire her when she interrupts him to make sure that that’s not true. She does a quick survey of her team, and they say that yes, they do respect her. Great. Now that that’s taken care of, Trump fires her. She totally takes it with a smile and says she felt it coming, and genuinely says that the whole thing was a lot of fun and thanks him for everything. Aw. That girl ain’t so bad. Outside, the girls all do a little Oprah hug and say goodbye, saving the eye-gouging for another day.

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“I love getting fired!”

So, I admit that this season of The Apprentice has been pretty crappy thus far. Until now. I don’t know about anyone else, but I luurved this episode and thought it was really damn entertaining. Best reward ever, and strangest duel firings ever. I actually liked Derek, thought for sure he would make it to at least the final four, and Jenn seemed pretty well-spoken and sensible too, all things considered. Shows what I know. Thoughts? Comments? Ever made love to a wipe board under the cool glow of a fluorescent light?

24 Comments

  1. 1
    KikiC
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 10:01 am

    Absolutely great recap! I LOVE all the screenshots with the snarky comments.

    The Donald seemed particularly crabby at the end.

    I think the rewards that the winners are recieving this year suck….basketball? Songwriting? BFD.

    Good job, Screampillar! You were hilarious!

  2. 2
    Ash
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 10:33 am

    I completely agree, this episode was better than usual and the recap was EXCELLENT! Great job!

    Honestly, I felt so bad for poor Randall, Trump was so snappy with him, I would’ve died!

  3. 3
    swimbikerun
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 10:54 am

    As soon as Trump fired Derek for the white trash comment, I instantaneously thought to myself, “Self, I bet Taking Out The Trash will be title of the Apprentice recap”. Thanks, The Donald.

    But seriously, I think The Donald needs to come down from his high horse a bit, acting as if “white trash” is one of the most offensive terms ever. Derek used it sort of as a term of affection for his people. You know, the people who were not born to daddies who were already millionaires. (cough, The Donald, cough)

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    nycid
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Can you please post a side-by-side of Surya and Squidward? They look like they could be twins!

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    TWilliams
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    I was glad that Derek got fired. He didn’t necessarily need to go down the way that he did; but I wanted to see him gone.

    I was so tired of hearing him tell the camera the past few weeks about how he was going to let information escape the PM so that he could use that against him/her and defend himself. You cannot do that week after week before someone gets wise to your weasely ways. After he started doing that again this week, I thought to myself “you have got to go” because his team wouldn’t succeed without his full co-operation. I seriously think this is the third time he attempted to do this. “Help your team you bastard.” I cannot stand people who ONLY look out for themselves. He said Jen was the last person he wanted to get rid of; but something tells me the Olymplian would have been next on his list and then either Heidi, Christina or Muna. It wouldn’t have ended until he was number 1. Good riddance.

    I LOVED Donald shutting up the Randal. Donald DID allow him to talk for quite a while; but towards the end he was clearly tired of being shut down and interrupted. I had to rewind to listen to Randal again and I couldn’t believe he talked as much as he did. This must have been taped before ole Caroline got the boot because Randal probably didn’t think his right-hand or left-hand man could be fired. While he was trying to bring up a valid point, he was only talking about that one thing. He continued to bring up “who was ultimately responsible for the loss?” when Mr. Trump is highly aware that he is supposed to gather this EXACT same information (but in his way). It’d be funny to not have Randal show up anymore. You think Randal gets several beatings from the Donald? Ouch … I would be curious to see how Donald treats one Apprentice over another. Speaking of which …

    I think it is odd that the only Apprentice Trump hasn’t EVER used in a boardroom is his female Apprentice winner, Kendra. Do others think he has her off getting coffee or making copies? Perhaps nobody can go to Kinko’s like she can.

    Trump: Sexist Pig! Trump: Racist Pig!

    This show was the best of the season; but I am certain that it is too late to be revitalized. The last nail has been nailed into this coffin: Sunday at 10/9 central (not good).

    Trump must have sensed this disasterous season before it started — why else stir up a debate with Rosie?

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    TWilliams
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    I have to say one last thing about Team Arrow. Isn’t it odd how they will NOT work for a PM but they will work wonderfully against one?

    I am curiuos to see what’ll happen when Surya finally loses. Will the entire team say they lost on purpose so that Surya would stop getting credit for their wins? This is what’ll have to be done if they are to be taken seriously. All we saw Surya do this task was write on a dry-erase board. He walked around in a mall last time (frightening locals I might add) without a single teammate near him.

    It is strange that the only way they can work as a team is united against their PM who IS taking all of their credit. Donald doesn’t even allow the winning team to speak or say anything after he declares them the victor. These buffoons winning is making those remaining at Kinetic look pretty bad. Some of those women appear to be smart and sensible (Muna, Heidi and Kristine) so what’s the deal with them? Was Derek’s sabotaging doing them all in?

    What’ll these guys (Arrow)do? I dislike ALL of them (except for Stefani — AKA “the Realist”) and want to see them all get fired for being immature assholes, but — seriously — how do they make Trump see that it isn’t a glorious Surya leading them to victory each time?

    Did Jenn stand a chance at winning?!? NBC labeled her “the Blonde!” How’d you like your “whole being” being wrapped up into one word like “blonde”?

    And now for a line from Derek, he says, “I’m not afraid to take risks and make my voice heard, and while I generally respect boundaries, I’m never afraid to overstep them for the sake of advancement of a good idea.” Like go-carts.

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    chronic
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 1:18 pm

    I do think it’s worth mentioning that Derek followed up his “I’m white trash” declaration, with something along the lines of “… I even eat deep-fried appetizers. Hello Bloomin Onion!! Given that one of the Apprentice’s major sponsors in recent seasons has been the Outback, I’m sure that didn’t help his cause. And in a weird way, I can sorta see why he’d be fired for making that statement. No point getting annoyed about it when Derek sure wasn’t.

    Still when candidates are downright jolly about being fired, it’s yet another huge blow against the show. This show needs some gravitas to work: George, Carolyn, NYC, rainy weather, the apartment suite, and desperate candidates in order to have just that semblance of plausibility it needs to work.

  8. 8
    Donna Martin Graduates!
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 3:02 pm

    Hilarious recap, even funnier screencap titles — thanks for posting it so swiftly, too!!

    God, those whiteys rapping with Snoop was excruciatingly to watch. The studio guys could barely conceal their shivers of distaste.

    Anyone else think that reward imposed on about 2 hours of Snoop’s time, tops?

    I liked this ep. I thought the gal who lost made her exit as gracefully as one could, under the circumstances.

    And yeah, what makes Derek think Trump has any ‘proud to be white trash’ people working for him? He deserved to be fired.

    FREEEAKIN’!

  9. 9
    626
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    I enjoyed watching Donald get rid of the “riff-raff”

    And your screencap about Snoop Dogg needing a new agent made me laugh out loud. I was thinking the same thing!

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    r.pupkin
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    “Fire My Agent” –classic caption.

    What was up with Trump getting crazy about someone using white trash? There are so many more offensive terms used on this show like “Franky Suits” and “Surya”

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    bfrost
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    Excellent recap! This season has truly sucked…until now! I have never been so uncomfortable in my life than while watching James and Frank rap. I was so emabarrassed for them. Snoop probably had to be high as a kite to get through that. Also, what was wrong with the Donald? He snapped! I think he could be diagnosed with rage problems.

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    mangos
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    This is more like it! I loved this episode because they spent more than 10 minutes covering the task. It was like old times…ah.

    Man, that song was no Rubble Man.

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    conrad5
    Posted March 6, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    Lexus pretty much has the luxury image thing down already. Why they enlisted these dolts to sully their brand name on national television is a mystery. I read somewhere that companies featured in an Apprentice challenge pay NBC over $1-mil per episode for the hour-long product placement fest. This was one weird corporate Dominatrix-Schmo session!

    Surya is a man with a plan. Unfortunately, the plan he scribbled out on a dry-erase board looked more like the Unabomber Manifesto than a coherent business plan. He shows alternate signs of brilliance and creepiness. You’ve got to give the guy some credit for breaking down challenges into their component parts and assigning responsibilities. Maybe it’s luck or sheer coincidence, but team victories seem to follow him around. It’s truly laughable that the three stooges (Frank, James, and Tim) think Surya’s riding their coat tails, and are contemplating a coup. If I can paraphrase Snoop Dog, “Das Un-Coup”.

    I really thing that Angela, the scatterbrain, should have been fired for blowing the graphics deadline. But I also think that Jenn is hotter than Angela, so I would have fired Angela on that basis alone. Ladies, holster your weapons…Trump (and most men) aren’t any different. Jenn handled her firing with humor and class, which made her even more likable. If only she could have been as eloquent during her LS460 presentation. It seemed to me that Randall (the dick) interrupted and stepped on Trump, much more than Trump slapped him around. The old man looked truly pissed-off at Randall. It would have been spectacularly entertaining if Trump fired his bony ass.

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    soflat
    Posted March 7, 2007 at 6:12 am

    I wasn’t that crazy about the episode.

    The white guys rapping was uncomfortable.

    Snoop Dog looked uncomfortable.

    The kids working for Surya belong in high school.

    Randall going on and on was uncomfortable.

    Surya sitting in the boardroom and standing in the studio doing nothing was uncomfortable.

    Ugh.

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    JasonR
    Posted March 7, 2007 at 7:36 am

    Screampillar, if it weren’t for your recaps I would have abandoned this show by now. However, I gotta say this episode had more than a glimmer of what made seasons past so entertaining. Even though Derek didn’t give a shit about being fired, I’ll miss him as he was always funny and entertaining. Bfrost (#11), I was thinking the same thing while watching Snoop and his crew suffer though wonderfully painful studio session. NBC probably had to provide a pound of chronic to get Snoop to agree to do that.

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    GIFFORDSAZ
    Posted March 7, 2007 at 9:30 am

    Jenn works here in the Valley of the Sun as some sort of money making venture and has been on the news stating her case….. She just wants everyone to know she is respected and did not want to make a fool of herself on the show because she did not want to lose her real job…! how disappointing she didn’t go to win but further hor own cause.

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    Jojobear
    Posted March 7, 2007 at 11:31 am

    I missed this episode, but thanks for the great recap Screampillar, I felt like I actually watched it. I’m sorry I didn’t get to hear Donald say “F’Shizzle” though! LOL!

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    TWilliams
    Posted March 7, 2007 at 11:44 am

    I didn’t dislike Jenn throughout her entire run, but I liked her more because of her demeanor in the final boardroom. She handled everything with class and sophistication — this from somebody who ultimately chose go-karts to exemplify luxury. I do have to give her credit for leaving gracefully.

    I also have to say I greatly appreciated her butting into Trump’s firing. She didn’t deserve to go out with him saying “your team didn’t respect you, blah blah blah” (what boardroom was he in sitting in on?!). I hate how his final word is always final and the fired candidate has to exit on his terms when (half of the time) he has no idea what he is talking about. Jenn’s team did like her (except for the already fired Derek) and she didn’t deserve to leave fully disgraced.

    Why must Trump always tear these people down and treat them like LOSERS? The truth of the matter is that he handpicked all of them to compete on the show — does he pick out LOSERS (well, he did pick out Frank)? I guess so but he’d never admit to it.

    Conrad5, I agree that Surya has some kind of a plan but I don’t know if it is a working plan. I think the shining star on that team is Stefani who has always mentioned going out on her own and doing what needed to be done in order to win. The Surya-speak doesn’t lead them to victory if NONE of them know what he is talking about. I am hoping Trump takes notice of Stefani (not just her breasts) soon because she is the best on the show in my opinion. She is intelligent, fierce, competent and likable.

    Lastly, why does Frank ALWAYS look directly to Trump and frantically clap his hands when his team is declared the victor? He is always looking right at him for approval or something — I don’t get it.

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    sweetleaf
    Posted March 7, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    Hey! Thanks for recapping this show, and I agree this was a great episode. God don’t make trash……too funny!

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    Esquimaux
    Posted March 8, 2007 at 12:26 am

    Call me crazy, but I have to get this image out of my head. For weeks, I’ve been trying to figure out who Surya reminded me of, and it hit me this week. For some odd reason, especially when he’s in the boardroom, Surya reminds me of Beaker the Muppet, especially when his head swivels around and he gets bug eyed. All I know is that now I can’t watch the show without thinking “Mee mee meee mee,” and then I burst out into giggles. Hopefully somebody else sees the resemblence too.

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    bluesmith
    Posted March 8, 2007 at 11:31 am

    Wow…Squidward wouldn’t shut up…I can’t believe it took so long for Mr. Crab to get pissed.

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    Amused2bHere
    Posted March 9, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    omg, what a great recap! much funnier than the actual episode, and the comments are the icing on the cake!

    I caught a glance that Snoop Dogg gave one of his posse, and then he started smoking something. Hmmm…seems to me he needed a little ‘help’ from his friends to get by on this ‘reward’.

    Anyone else think Snoop had community service to complete? No way he was paid enough for that torture! Maybe he lost a bet to Trump.

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    Simon
    Posted March 11, 2007 at 8:34 am

    The man who makes it happen for Arrow is James. Yes Stefani does her bit, but for the critical idea that makes the plan James is there. THis time it was the test drive course and the demonstration of the parking itself feature.
    Before on the tour it was going on a competitor tour, finding out about Laker girls and drinks. Even in the Mall task is was as good a salesman bringing in the other folks as the Mr. Smooze. I think their idea of working with themselves and not depending on Surya is a necessity. The other team wasted 3 hours brainstorming and finally coming up with medicore Go-carts. James even does well under pressure, giving up the microphone when his tour was going flat. These tasks get won on the insightful ideas and watch he will come up with more of them as the show goes a long. Yeah James. James and Stefani look like shoo ins for the final 4.

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    TinkerbellAPixie
    Posted March 11, 2007 at 9:25 am

    I have to confess I don’t really pay attention to this show anymore. I no longer watch it when it airs live, I don’t even rush to watch it on my DVR. I finally got around to this episode today because it was the last show left on my DVR (can you tell we are in repeat season?).

    I was delighted to see it was the first episode this season that had a glimmer of the show’s former glory. Like someone else mentioned it was nice to actually see them spend time on their task rather than watch them putter around the filth in tent city. I am so over this Haves vs. Have Nots crap Burnett is force feeding us.

    Watching Surya hug the wall as the other fools attempted to rap made him ALMOST seem like the wise one. Ok who am I kidding, he looked like a frightened little squirrel.

    It’s funny to see all the men get canned one by one on this show as the same is happening to the women over on Survivor. Gotta love those gender wars on the Burnett shows.

    And like everyone else noted – watching Trump get increasingly annoyed by Squidward made the boardroom more suspenseful. You knew he was gonna blow at some point and it was fun to watch Randall get more and more confident only to be shot down – TWICE.

    I am looking forward to next week but that’s only because it looked like Bill Rancic is going to be back. I love me some Bill Rancic.

    Nice recap Screampillar!

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