Lenny's time was way past due! And, I can't believe how Lee stuck up for Lenny so long when it was so obvious that Lenny was not competent enough to be a Trump man.

Funniest B-side recap... Today. LOL

Loved the 24 reference

Loved the team ranking on Micheal

Loved Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral and The Englishman Who Went Up the Hill And Came Down the Mountain. Does that make me a wanker? Can you call someone a jerk-off on national tv using British slang? Guess so.

Love that Michael truly is a wanker!

Loved the cancer kid getting the toys (cried a little). boo hoo.

Loved the Lenny-Lee feel good moment during dinner. (cried a little, again) I'm suck a wanker.

Hated that Lenny got sent home. I got your back Lenny! Boo Hoo

B-Side, if you are half the man I think you are, you will not let Donald's "The More you Know" commercial fly under the radar.

It aired last night (4/11) towards the end of 'The Apprentice' and featured Donald spouting truisms about smoking. Such as this gem..."Smoking SUCKS!!...the air RIGHT out of your LUNGS!"

I guess when he's not talking about himself, he loses all poise on camera.

Poor Lenny. Poor Lenny. Where was the blimp when he needed it? That was so painfull to watch him go down in flames so hard. My wife and I expected he would not make it to the end but we did not see a meltdown like that.

I noticed his buisness has something to do with importing stuff.....I knew he was russian maffia.

I did like his comment: "good luck Lee. There is no one good here" right as he was looking at Charmaine.

Yay! You saw the random black effeminate king, too!

Lenny will be missed. Best episode of Apprentice.

Trump needs to stop ridin' Lee's sack. It's sick. Being loyal to Lenny (to the point of just telling lies). It was pathetic.

I really don't think Lenny gave a shit. I think that was his attitude from the beginning. If he made it fine. If not, who cares? He probably looked at this as something to do for a while just to see how far he'd get. He obviously wasn't an ass kisser so I think he didn't think much of everyone there once he saw how much ass kissing (especially with Trump) was involved. I don't feel sorry for him at all. As a matter of fact he's probably having the last laugh on all of them and glad to be the hell outta there.

Ok, I love Lenny, but he failed miserably as PM. So did Michael. The kids, who this room was for, absolutely LOVED the Gold Rush music room. They were just ok with "The Lounge." It's so obvious the exec's were prejudiced by the bad 1st impression made by Lenny & didn't give a rat's ass what the kids thought. Michael could have just as easily gone home.

Speaking of which, I lost a lot of respect for Allie & Roxanne (I already have no respect for Andrea) with the whole "let's bitch at Michael & tell him what a horrible job he did non-constructively" session.

I LOVE Lenny for standing up to Bill!! And Carolyn's non-point about the expensice equipment-hello, the other team also had expensive musical equipment along with a big screen tv & video game system! Bill & Carolyn really sounded stupid on this show & I'm getting sick of how she has to add the bitch face when she reams someone-whatever happened to constructive leadership without personal judgement?

Bill Rancic is working my last nerve. Good for Lenny standing up to Bill's lap-dog yapping. I want George back.
I will miss your slavic-mumbling Mr. Lenny.
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One of these seasons, a contestant is going to pull a remark out of his/her ass in the boardroom that's going to sound suspiciously close to a TVgasm recap one-liner. I think the first one will probably be: "It's one thing to be loyal. It's another to be deluded."

Nearly had diet coke coming out of my nose on that one. I think I've screamed versions of that at the TV several times, myself.

Reading Apprentice recaps on TVgasm is a THIRTY BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY!

this show might not be the best one TVgasm covers, but they are my favorite re-caps. they make me want to jump with glee. B-side you're hilarious!

I went to my local Ace Hardware store last weekend and was confronted at the entrance by a life-size cardboard cut-out of the Donald. While I understood that it was Apprentice/Ace cross-promotion, I thought it was odd that Ace thinks I'd be motivated by a life size Trump to buy more. I mean, he's not known for being handy. I then turned the corner and was met by a life-size Bill Rancic. I kid you not, some poor deluded fool thinks life-size Bill will increase hardware sales (feel free to insert some form of 'Bill's a tool' joke here). No sign of Carolyn though.

Do you think just once when they are dealing with executives form a company, such Ace Hardware, that Trump could learn their names instead of asking them?

Thank goodness for CNBC repeats of this show, I missed the first one! Sounds good, I love that Lenny told off Bill hahaha.

Bryce's interview on tvguide.com is pretty interesting:

" ...I brought the right people [Lenny and Lee] into the boardroom, it just wasn't the arguments and the cheesy Jerry Springer crap that [producers] prefer. And considering that reality TV is almost dead, America, in my opinion, is tired of seeing this kind of common behavior. This is my 15 minutes and I've got to live the rest of my life with whatever I say on the show. I know who I am and I'll do what I want. I'm not a yes-man like [Season 1 champ/occasional George sub] Bill [Rancic]." [Laughs]

(then to later question) "My honest opinion is that sometimes Bill makes comments just for the sake of making comments."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Insider/?cmsGuid=%7BD3402810-F6FC-4302-810C-863247238C8B%7D

I loved the random king guy! As soon as I saw him, I thought of TVGasm. Is that sad, that I'm thinking of this site now while watching stuff? Not that in took away from my enjoyment of some guy just dressed as a king.

First time leaving a comment...but absolutely the best laugh I have had at 7:30 in the AM! Couple of question for the experts...as a former Jersey girl (& living that traffic and city-does anyone on the show know how to Mapquest anything-why do they continually get lost and look like hick out of towners?(Even Lee) Also-is there anyone like me who covers their eyes when they do the awkward montage of missteps-like Lenny & his inability to think out 5 minutes of questions? I am cringing and feel like I'm watching a drive by shooting! Love the recap! No one will watch this crap with me and I wait anxiously by my monitor for any and all recaps to fill these dull mornings.

The Don tried to be sneaky this week with the "lesson" by telling us "be decisive" and then throwing in at the end, "but don't be too decisive." So I actually was expecting a double team firing because clearly no team's decisiveness was just right.

I'd also like to point out in Michael's presentation to the judges the fact that their goal was to make sure "no child is left.... outside." Note to self: when presenting, try not to mention failed federal programs.

I would love to see Charmaine attempting to place dust masks on her ten thousand faces! Great recap!

The late start was a manipulative and amateurish attempt at mind control on the part on NBC. Fortunately, I Tivo’d the show, so I didn’t have to sit through the random paroxysms of the egregious Howie Mandel. The shortest unit of time any physicist has ever been able to measure is the time between Howie Mandel appearing on my TV screen, and my index finger hitting the remote control.

Finally, a challenge (at least somewhat) related to real estate development…albeit with the requisite product placement component. I heard Trump mumble something to one of the hardware store executives about his company buying a lot of merchandise from Ace. Maybe it’s a New York thing, but where I live, Ace hardware stores are small handyman shops for those people too lazy to hike through the local Home Depot’s gargantuan parking lot. Can anyone really envision one of Trump’s construction superintendents heading over to an Ace store to procure 18 tons of rebar and 50 miles worth of electrical conduit for a hi-rise project?

Santino…err, I mean Lenny, finally exposed himself as a one-trick pony: All bluster and attitude, with no discernable skills or management capabilities. Of all the apprentice candidates, he is perhaps the least qualified. A year from now he’ll probably selling used cars somewhere in Hoboken. I can just picture him chomping on wad of cinnamon gum-to conceal the stench of his foul breath- and bitching about how the GM keeps whacking his commission. The musical gulag created under his direction was a sorry, half-assed production. The space was monotonous and dreary, with little to amuse a child devoid of any musical aptitude (say, a young Jessica Simpson) or foster computer literacy. Imagine what a country this would be, if were possible to use a computer to obtain a map of New York City, so you didn’t have to get lost every time you searched for an electronics store.

That Michael guy is the most indecisive nanomanager I’ve ever seen. He probably would have been fired in this episode, were it not for Lenny’s ineptitude. But hey, he ultimately delivered the goods and led his team to a win. It’s surprising that his ingrate teammates didn’t recognize his efforts. Sean looked like Austin Powers when he performed that stupid-assed martial arts maneuver. I was hoping that Lenny would employ some of Sean’s karate moves on Bill Rancid in the boardroom. Bill was more heavy-handed than Bobby Baccalieri in a buffet line

During the meeting with the execs did Lenny ask the Ace execs if they had just a little store and would they be able to get what they needed there?

The thought crossed my mind during this episode that Sean is faking the accent. He's just spouting out British words that I would put into an Austin Powers script, because I don't know any better. "Wanker!" "Shag!" "Jolly Good!"
He'd be the best ever if he's faking it.
By the way, B-Side, your re-caps have brought me back into The Apprentice fold after I gave up on it.

I loved Sean's wanker comment. It's good to curse in foreign slang on national TV. Think of what Lenny could have come up with!

Wait!!!

Did anyone notice Bill Rancic's Ace Hardware-fomercial where he smiled creepily the entire time he spoke. I can just hear the director: "Cut! Bill, half your face is smiling, half your face is chewing itself!"

What a Jerk-off.

I loved the cheat sheet Lee made for Lenny. That was so sweet and cute. You could see the love! I'm gonna miss Lenny too.

No one noticed Bill in the ACE Hardware commercial? Might be why they have a life-size cutout of the Rancic in their stores... I didn't even listen to whatever he had to say. He looked ridiculous. Quite a spokesperson ACE has gotten itself!

And Mark Burnett & co should be ashamed of themselves! The model in the Trump's lesson segment this episode? They totally recycled the footage they had of former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins from LAST YEAR. They showed the same thing last season. She's not even Miss Universe anymore! Great way to be relevant, lazy ass Mark.

Oh and I just love how Trump was like "This isn't for the kids, it's for the judges!!!" Gentle way to say 'F*ck the kids!', huh.

- All in all, I laughed my ass off during that episode. Thanks for the awesome recap B-Side. :)

Oh maybe I should have refreshed and check the new comments before sending mine. JLove #24, you're not alone: I saw it too :)

Lenny's was about the most bleak rec room I've ever seen, despite the peppy checked floor. Let's all look at the walls and have headphones on to isolate us from other humans -- isn't that what recreation's all about?

It was Siberia with drum sets.

Yes, Auntieboo, that was one of Lenny's first mistakes I guess. Lenny did tell the Ace Hardware execs that they have small stores and he questioned whether or not he'd be able to get what he needed there. It was an honest statement, unfortunately it wasn't what they wanted to hear.

This challenge made me kind of think of last season's finale when Donald asked Rebecca who the "real clients" were. It wasn't the suits of the sponser that time . . . it was the charity (kind of like the kids benefiting in this challenge). The kids did love the music room and enjoyed the Lounge . . . granted they only used 5 kids or so to judge the rooms, but why bring them if the execs didn't listen to them?

Lenny was always entertaining, but he was never a true candidate for this title. His and Lee's accusations of Charmaine were ridiculous. I didn't use to care for her; but I think she is the best one on this team now.

As for the "random" Leslie dialoge, Trump mentioned that she was again quiet and he thought that she had a sports pedigree (which must have meant he'd think an athlete would be more vocal I guess). He asked what sports she had excelled at in the past and then questioned her if she thought she could beat him at one of them. She mentioned she could beat him at all three -- I am assuming he didn't like this statement.

And the Bill commercial was all about him becoming one fo the Helpful/New Faces that Ace Hardware was trying to promote. I think it is a nice thing that Ace is doing, but Bill doesn't have to whore himself out to it. He mentioned that anybody who knew of a Helpful Place in need of a makeover can go to the Ace Hardware website and nominate it. So -- anybody who didn't want to listen to Bill but knows of a place in your area or community that serves as a Boys or Girls Town, PLEASE do go to that website and nominate it. You didn't hear it from Bill, you got it from TVgasm.

It wasn't even the same group of kids for the 2 rooms!!! So their reactions can't really be taken into account. If it were the same children, maybe we could say the kids preferred this room over that room. But it wasn't even the case. Damn producers wouldn't give rides to the original group of kids to the other Boys & Girls Club location! :)

-TWilliams #28: thanks for pointing out what Bill said in the ACE commercial spot.

Great recap b-side! You should go without sleep and/or social interaction more often! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

Could Bill be a bigger blowhole? It's sort of sad, because I really liked him when he won, but now every time he talks it makes my skin crawl. Someone needs to tell him to just sit there and look pretty, because I'm fairly certain that's what he was hired to do.

I was sorry to see Lenny go, but I knew it was only a matter of time. I was so happy that someone finally told Charmaine to shut up. I've never heard that much inane, non-stop chatter in my entire life. I couldn't stop laughing when she put the dust mask over her entire face. Priceless.

I loved Lenny. Not a great Apprentice, but high on the entertainment scale. I wish Alla would've been on this season instead of the last one. What a great Soviet Block that would be.