But Can They Sing?

singit_clayOn this week's Apprentice, I was all geared up for the second coming of "The Rubble Man" after the previews promised a wild and crazy songwriting challenge. The good news was that we did indeed get a nice sampling of corporate types testing out their windpipes, but unfortunately, when it came to the bulk of the singing this episode, we were left in the capable and therefore unentertaining hands of professionals. For shame. In this age of Bai Ling and William Hung and the Apprentice's very own Adam ("FREAKIN!!!!"), it's a near crime not to have atonal reality stars try their hand at some vocals. Maybe Trump just didn't want his very special Emmy night crooning to be overshadowed. Don't worry, Donny. We'll never forget it...

The episode kicked off on a very rainy, very gloomy night in New York City. Oh the harsh city! So unforgiving! Much like this demanding interview process! As stoplights flicked from red to green, we returned to the suite to find our dearest Clay bitter about not getting exemption from firing. His eye-rolling and snipping were momentarily halted so that everyone could react to the double firing of Marshawn and Brian, but then it was back to the bitchiness faster than you can say "Patterned shirts!" Sensing a rift in the team, Capital Edge assembled outside to perform that most futile of traditions: the losing team pep talk. You know how that goes. Empty comments like "Whatever happened is over and done," and "We can't change that now," and "We need to be a team." In this particular powwow, Alla told Clay, "I think we could have a strong team if you could just get over your personal feelings." To which Clay retorted passive-aggresively, "The personal feelings that were put on me?" Ah yes. That's the Clay we love: petty, bitchy, difficult, petulant. The total package.

"I call him a roadblock," Alla explained to us in an interview. "He objects just for the sake of objecting." C'mon. Just call him a cockblock. Let the censors bleep it out later. You know you want to, Alla.

Anyway, back at the Capital Edge grand conclave, Adam implied that Clay did a below-par job on the latest task, causing the beleaguered teammate to adopt his most thrill prissy voice and say, "WE are done. Goodnight!" And with that, Claymarosa ushered his teammates away by performing the rarely seen passive-aggressive bow. You know the type: the hands clasping each other behind the back, the little rock on the heels of the feet, the quick torso slant. It's all an elaborate gesture that's supposed to imply, "I am so full of rage that I must hold myself back from assaulting you," but instead it usually comes off as, "I am an annoying bitch."

Well, despite this harrowing Clay experience, we greeted the next day full of promise and optimism as hopeful music blared on the soundtrack. Why, it made me want to seek out one of those joyous Rent commercials on my Tivo (cut to me having "Seasons of Love" in my head for the next two hours. I haven't even seen the damn show. Stupid musical commercials). We then cut to 6:30 AM in the suite, and what was Clay doing? Dicing some oranges! One might think he was preparing breakfast, but those of us in the know could immediately tell he was preparing to bedazzle his polka dot shirt with pieces of oranges. Anyway, Rhona called up, which meant we got to see the always suggestive image of Clay handling the dildo phone. This morning's assignment: meet Trump at Trump Modeling and Management. Sounds like a plan, Rhones! We then cut to Rhona hanging up with Clay, but not before she randomly burst into giant RhonaLaughter and chuckled, "Okay, bye!" Looks like somebody's having a fantastic morning. Unfortunately, we never got to find out what was so funny, which didn't surprise me. After all, Rhona LOVES inside jokes!

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Hey, look what Clay found up his ass!
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Comments (49)

Anonymous:

PASSION! Now excuse me while I wipe my monitor off....

I wonder if Mini Aqua Me had any say in the creative balance of product placement. Like Trump really drinks his own water.

I'm puzzled about how Rebecca's ankle is going to cause them to lose her next task horribly, too.

chronic:

Wooooo, Toral, oh how I miss her expressive little face!!!! LMAO

"Claymorosa", brilliant. Glad to see him gone, he was just a bit too evil and whiny to enjoy. Was a bit confused when they were remarking at the end that it was a hard boardroom decision. wtf, easiest decision ever - get rid of that useless bitch.

Should make for a stellar bring-back-the-crazy-ones finale though.

Er, am in Florence now, hence the "early" post so the recaps will have to tide me over til I get home *sniff*

East Coast:

Hmm, Clay wasn't the nicest of people and fully deserved to be fired. However, is the caption about the phone up his private parts really necessary? Is that even funny at all? I don't think so. Making fun of his patterned shirts and bitchy ways is just fine and funny, the personal attacks are hurtful.

Is it a personal attack to say someone has a stick up their ass?

Or to imply, rather.

Leah3t:

B-side
Please do not listen to east coast.

I loved how the whole time Levi was singing you could see Adam sitting there thinking "I could sing it soooo much better. Maybe he'll invite me to do a duet?!?"

East Coast:

Yeah, that would be a personal attack...

Dan:

Okay.... Rebecca broke her ankle in week 2. She said the doctors told her it would be 5-6 weeks before the cast came off. Here it is Week 9, and she's still in a cast. We all know the what's really going on, but ya gotta love continuity errors.

Dan:

Okay.... Rebecca broke her ankle in week 2. She said the doctors told her it would be 5-6 weeks before the cast came off. Here it is Week 9, and she's still in a cast. We all know the what's really going on, but ya gotta love continuity errors.

holyterror:

Clay, your name is mud!

Amazing how the little bitch could alienate and bring down his new team so fast -- even Squidward Joy Of Man's Desiring was affected.

I pictured him gazing in a huge crystal ball like the Wicked Witch Of The West when he was making his "predictions" in the cab. If any Flying Monkeys in patterned shirts skuttle the teams next week, we know who to blame.

Jess:

What, no screencap of C-Dawg's new 'do? The ponytail thingie was cute!

Also, has anyone else ever noticed/laughed at the ghostly George head that sometimes appears in that sunburst mirror behind the apprentices when they enter/exit the boardroom? It cracks me up every time. BoooooOOOOooooooo, ghostly George heaaaaaaad......

JaxJD2B:

Positively the best recap yet. I laughed out loud in the law library here and people looked at me like I was crazier than Claymorosa him(her?)self.

RealityTV4Me:

Did you notice how Rebecca seemed to turn on Randall in the boardroom? Although I fully agreed with her statments, she was brilliant in bringing up Randall's mistakes so that the Trumpster would see going forward that Squidward is not so perfect after all. I think Rebecca has been the best Apprentice candidate to date. We are down to the final 5 and she has stepped up her game by making one of her biggest competitors seem weak. And without having to be mean about it.

Love the screen cap of Claymarosa and the phone. He has acted like that thing has been up his butt this whole time.

RealityTV4Me:

One more thing, who makes those horrible, horrible midis anyway? MAN that was bad!

It would have been a great song to have playing as Clay took his cab ride of shame.

All together now: "What about me? It isn't fair. I've had enough now I want my share. Can't you see? I wanna live. But you just take more than you give."

Starlight:

Sheesh! Hasn't gay America suffered enough this season at the hands of reality television? First that horrible, vile, quasi-human Evette from BB6, then Jeff the dictator from Apprentice:Martha Stewart, and now uber-bitch Clay. At least we have Rafe from Survivor to show that evil is not encoded into the gay gene! Maybe this is a shift in reality type casting. Are this season's "wicked gays" replacing previous seasons' "crazy black women" or what?

Kismo:

B-Side........ would you like to elaborate more on your comment? :-)

"Even Carolyn was into him, but then again, we all know about her rampant dalliances with Jungle Fever."

Retroqueen:

Excellent Recap B-side,you made a Ho-Hum episode hilarious - love the accompanying pics!

EastCoast imposter go back to the MidWest
Oh wait... is that a personal attack???? Mwahhh!

meme:

Hey east coast! Get that stick out of your ass. And yes, that's a personal attack.

Lauren:

Boring episode, but greap recap- thanks B-side! Seriously LMAO at the Clay & Toral captions.

I really like Rebecca, but she is now 0-2 as a PM, so I don't think she has a chance. Is she still sporting the cast for sympathy from the Donald?

I am appalled that Felisha is still in this- no personality, fugly, no talant- and yes East Coast, those were personal attacks. Deal with it!

gregnNYC:

Rebecca is awesome. She should win. I like Alla, but I think she's probably too "exotic" for the Trump organization.

and Starlight (#15) - I totally agree. Go Rafe!

Double L:

Hey guys,

I recorded the streaming audio of The Rubble Man and made them MP3 friendly
for your iPods! I made 2 versions for your listening displeasure:

href="http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2N14MTNQFQS392BRCB6EW9LPS1">Rubble
Man (Freakin' Radio Edit) (1:51)
href="http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2BMOJ8R3XRU4M3SPER43375FZO">Rubble
Man (Freakin' Extended Remix) (4:21)

So if you see me in the club freeeeeeeeeeeakin...

Double L:

Oops! Let's try that again!

Rubble Man (Freakin' Radio Edit) (1:51):
http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2N14MTNQFQS392BRCB6EW9LPS1

Rubble
Man (Freakin' Extended Remix) (4:21):
http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2BMOJ8R3XRU4M3SPER43375FZO

East Coast:

Meme darling, sorry, I am confused. You must be suffering from some unresolved projection syndrome. I feel so sorry for you (most people do, in fact). Is this stick-up-your-bum fetish something you want to share with the group? Please do! We love you unconditionally and would hug you, except you are very icky.

Lauren, poor thing, you obviously cannot spell to save your life. I guess you wasted all those (few) years of education for nothing. Oops, sorry, I guess that could sound a little personal to most people...

Retroqueen, you are just boring.

Adios muchachos!!

Nodoubt:

Well, in spite of lost Randall or Rebecca is going to be the last one.
Why!!!!!
Let’s face it Rebecca is truly American with her "honesty" and "integrity"
And Randal yes ,you now, it should be politically correct ….. Finaly

You guys really think that this all really lasts 13 weeks? Rebecca still has her cast on because the tasks are days apart from eachother....not a week. They make it seem like it's a lot longer when in reality the whole thing probably takes two months at the very most to finish.

Oh....and East Coast....you sure sound like Clay....all bitchy and for no good reason.
And that is an attack.

Krissy:

One word: Eastcoastmarosa

Kismo:

D o u b l e L......

Thanks for the Rubble Man MP3s...

You are the Freeeeeeeeeeeakin Man!

P.S. East Coast... Deal with it and GET A LIFE!

BTW East Coast did you know that "Getting A Life" is a 22 billion dollar business in this country?

More ass-phone jokes please!

Casey:

Please, everyone, just get along. This is supposed to be fun and joyful and all that.

Happy Thanksgiving! And thanks to TVGasm for another brilliant recap!

TinkerbellAPixie:

Great recap B-Side.

I had some Happy Days flashbacks when Trump fired Clay. The way he slapped the table and cocked his finger at Clay was SOO VERY Pinky Tuscardero!

And Carolyn's lame pony tail was kinda Leatherlike.

Oh yeah... I invoked the names of the Tuscadero sisters, you know it!

Jeremy:

Brief story. I found out that my aunt knows George's niece so I of course had to ask her to get me an autograph. It finally came last week and he signed it, George the "Judge" (yes, he used quotation marks around the word judge). So, could we please now refer to George as George the "Judge"?

jash:

OMG "Eastcoastmarosa?"
(#26)

haha, funniest thing i've read today!

Qman:

Double L, where did you find the Rubble Man mp3s?

Thanks for the post! I enjoyed them.

Ben:

A bit of pointless trivia for you. 'What about me' is actually an Australian song from the early 80's. A new version was released a couple of years ago by the guy who came second in the first series of Australian Idol. Also to note is that Jennifer Hawkins (Miss Universe) is also Australian and she relinquished the title and returned home a long time ago, so it must have been filmed about 6-8 months ago.

Double L:

Qman,

On Yahoo's Apprentice website, they have streaming audio of the Rubble Man in the episode summary. I used a little appy to record the audio and make mp3s so everyone can enjoy the Rubble Man. I mean, when I'm on my way to the club, I'm gonna play the song... it's so FREAKIN' AWESOME!

holyterror:

Eastcoast: You're a bitter old cunt.

People who put themselves on reality television choose to be lauded or criticized for both their abilities (or lack thereof) and their personalities. Clay is a nasty little queen, and having made a point of being gay, he's opened himself up to gay jokes. It's no different than the drag queen/stripper jokes about Alla, or the virgin jokes about Adam, or the Squidward jokes about Randal.

Find something else to be pissy and shrill about.

Dr Zauis:

Anyone that can reference obscure 80's songs in a recap rocks.

In light of how boring this season seems to be I thought I would share this site I found.

www.subservientdonald.com


Donald Trump can be your monkey boy!

Aries:

but when Omarosa was axed on season one, that was just an epic, disastrous Boardroom

Omarosa's firing was the best boardroom ever! Nothing will ever top her going back in the boardroom early and having The Donald bellow "NO ONE SENT FOR YOU YET!!!!"

The second best boardroom was the one from a couple of weeks ago when The Donald was shocked, stunned, and surprised to find out that Clay was gay and that Adam was a virgin.

XETMOT:

The Horatio Sanz-Richard Dreyfus love-child looks like there's some Ron Jeremy thrown in too, for good measure.

Fuzzbait:

Love the Pinky Tuscadero reference...
The Toral floating head should appear randomly throughout the website...and those of us in the know will pee our pants! It's Toral on the OC! Look, Toral and Rafe on the beach petting crocodiles! Toral and House play doctor!
Now, that's some Toralpassion!

Lew:

That telephone in the suite is ridiculous. How could it go without comment? (Rhetorical question)

ha!:

XETMOT,

I agree. I think Lee No-VI could easily be Luigi to Ron Jeremy's Mario.

ha!

painterface:

xetmot,

don't forget a little sprinkling of jon lovitz...

volcat:

"Big wheel keep on turnin'! Proud Clay keep on burnin'!"-LMAO at the visual on that one!

Great recap-thanks B-side!

lol eastcoast did the stick up a guy's ass remark/pic hit too close to home?!

JohnGalt:

Hey Dan: (#8 AND #9)

The cast thing is most likely NOT a continuity error. Do you think they actually have one task per week? These things are like a 24 hour turnaround, so this whole process is taking no more than a total of 5 to 6 weeks. More likely 4 weeks, with probably 3 or 4 tasks per week. Thus, Rebecca will still be gimping it into the chivalry-vacuum called the Boardroom right up until she wins it all.

Jay:

OMG, these recaps are fantastic, keep them coming!

I think the 13 weeks is the number of episodes. Since it seems that every task takes 2-3 days, at most, we're probably looking at about 39 days of actual filming time.

Claymarosa! That's the best ever.

Does anyone agree that this is a pretty weak group? When Randal and Alla are the best and someone (Rebecca) who's 0-2 stands a chance of winning, it's pretty weak.

Too bad we're going to lose this show soon...

middle coast:

I miss Clay already. Who to hate now? I wish he had at least tried to slam the door on his way out. What a bitch. How long do you think it will take him to write a book? And will you read it?

this*one*time*at*band*camp:

I LOL'd at the Clay/phone picture, but then if you look at my username....

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