B-Side, you're even funnier with this show than you are w/TAR!! I suppose there's much more fodder here that's ripe for the pickin's. These people are IDIOTS!! Especially that Brian-- a moron of the first degree!

Seriously, in that screencap of Erin, she looks JUST LIKE that freak girl from the Ring who crawls out of the tv. Look at her hand!

I had such high hopes for the new "season" after last weeks show.......... and after this episode it went right in the dumpster with the toliets

Medically Fragile Verna appeared more than just tired, I think she forgot to pack her happy pills

Erin is beginning to look like a cross between Morticia and Cousin It

and Man, Steve Forbes has AGED

If it wasn't for your recap I wouldn't even bother watching the show!

When she doesn't have Cher-hair, Erin looks kinda like Jessica Campbell, Chris Klein's lesbian sister from Election and the hermaphrodite on Freaks & Geeks.

I loved the recap. It was very funny. But I don't think you should give Brian a hard time about the "crunchy" beds. Since they are public beds you don't want to take any chances. Someone who sleeps on them might have a bladder problem. The plastic could come in handy.

I like your theory that NBC paid the guests off. I know I wouldn't pay to sleep there. I also like the names you chose for the Jersey women. Wouldn't it be funny if you got their names right? Doreen and Joyce suit them. Keep up the great recaps and pictures. Brian's head does look like a Goomba.

At least Brian went out in a blaze. His attitude suggested that as soon as he saw things goin' downhill, he opted to make it the most spectacular wreckage ever. The Fall of the Barad-dur got nothin' on him.

As for Verna...what the fuck? Haven't been taking care of myself. Boo. Hoo. I think that brought on two black women this year in the hopes that one would maintain if the other imploded. Go Tara!

Did anyone notice Erin hugging Verna(welcome back!) then 4 seconds later we hear voiceovers from Erin shit-talking Verna? Wow, change of heart!

Brian blew it royally, with those damn toilets.

Pay attention who didn't get any airtime this episode. Anyone who didn't get airtime, if it's anything like last season's Apprentice, their chances of winning go up dramatically.

Notice how little airtime Kelly initially got in S2. He saved the drama for his mama.

Yeah, Lady J, it's so wack with the constant black woman meltdown every year. It just gives corporate America an excuse, like, see, that's why we don't hire/promote black females to the executive level-they just can't handle it. They are going to break down, see? Annoying. Who isn't exausted among us? Nobody else played the martyr role, nobody told Verna to stay awake 48 hours and not eat (dumbass). I see she was on that boat, though. She should have taken her sleepy ass to bed.

My favorite line of the whole episode: "SHUT THE F--K UP! WOULD YOU LIKE IF I TALKED TO YOU THAT WAY, BIATCH! That was so Too Short of Angela! God,if I could lose it like that just one day at work and get away with it...so awesome.

This particular batch (of black contestants)is making me really concerned. Magna needed to lose so Verna could be sent home to find her gentle rest. However, I do believe her initial point about the importance of customer service proved valid. They won the game based on customer service, not on the physical plant or status of the rooms. That stated, if I were her teammate, I still would have fired her butt had we lost.

Brian was a complete moron, beginning with the lack of budget, extending to the new toilets so that the guests' derrieres could obtain maximum happiness while the rest of their bodies freaked out over the bugs and mold in the bathroom, and ending with his complete inability to accept good advice. (And no Brian, Trump is really nothing like you. How he imagined that Trump wanted a cursing, abrasive, short pudgy person handling his business is truly a wonder. But little men dream big I suppose).

Back to the black thing... did I hear some talk of making the black dude "shine shoes" in the episode? Was that comment initiated by him because he had been a shoe shiner in the past? Cause otherwise Mr. Passive should have been kicking serious ass over that crack if he had not initiated the comment himself. Oh Kevin from last season, where are you? Is it me, or do generally the find the least mentally stable blacks to be on reality shows?

Clearly Trump and staff picked the stupidest bunch of college grads, and the loudest bunch of non grads they could find. This group of people gives you nobody to root for. The inclination is to want to see them all implode and make further fools of themselves, although John (?) has a kind of hipster doofis Stray Cats thing going on that is pretty cool.

And Carolyn. I am really starting to dig her. Very refined. That whole episode of her follwoing (aka spying) in the car behind Verna to make sure that she was in fact walking in circles was priceless. Somebody needs to bust out a pro-Carolyn website.

Normally I'm leading the ra-ra squad for the sistahz. But Verna? Was she a walking promo for Coach luggage? Painting with her cute--albeit 90ish--Coach bucket purse. Then wandering the scenic streets of Seaside Heights.

Who can understand why Verna cracked. (Was customer service that stressful?) But Carolyn (sp?)--or her producers--handled it well. Also, it was pleasant to see everyone--with one execption, that skanky LI model/lawyer, I think--embrace her and re-welcome her into the fold. Trump was understanding, too. Oh well, maybe "beat up the sistahs" won't be the mantra this season. Yet.

FYI, Jos1yn @ 21:05 said it best, the standout promo SOT is (drumroll) ... "SHUT THE F--K UP! WOULD YOU LIKE IF I TALKED TO YOU THAT WAY."

Rod

I'm with Wizard on the subject of Carolyn. She's the reason to watch this show! It's fascinating to see her get more and more relaxed in front of the cameras as the show goes on -- notice how she gets correspondingly more opinionated. Plus that makeover from the end of Season Two certainly helped.

Yeah all the black tvgasm readers coming out to comment! Glad to see I'm not alone in wondering why the apprentice is trying to make me look 100% unhireable.

That was a great episode. Crazy but entertaining. The quoting of Martin Luther King.....chuckled about it the rest of the evening. It was not a long episode, (well I had DVRed it and was waiting for the 2 hours late Fresh Direct delivery man so I had time), and it was a great one.

The comments about the black guy shining shoes was because that was the business he created with his "street smarts". His bio says he "created and developed a modest shoeshine franchise entitled Peaceful Feet Shoe Shine Inc."

It was nice to see Carolyn show a softer and nicer side. I actually almost cried when I saw her show us all that she was in fact human.

Verna wandering the streets reminded me of Anne Heche after her big Ellen break-up, dazed and confused and lost in the city.

LOVED the Angela "Shut the F--- up!" moment! Bring it on!! Great recap!

Haley:

Thanks for that info... I thought there might have been a reason (for the shoeshine comments) but was not sure. I like how you have "street smarts" in quotes. I kinda feel sorry for that guy thus far.
(Also, cause I am anal, there is a typo in my previous post: it should read "or do they generally find...")

I don't think this show makes me look unhireable at all. My qualifications speak for me. Never been brought down by someone else's bad behavior. And why would I want to work for someone who was even considering on that basis.

Employmen is a two-way street.

I'm now rooting for Angela to make it far into the season and then get fired in an amazing blaze of "shut the f*ck up" glory where the smoke from the bridges she burns will be seen far and wide.

Angela v. Carolyn would be the TV Smackdown moment of 2005.

BTW, anyone with me thinking that Alex "booksmarts" is a little on the effeminate side? there was a scene where he was in the background putting on cologne in a very girly way. Could he be the closet case of this season?

Lady J, it was a joke. Don't worry, I have a job too.

About the guests being paid to stay there- I was thinking that too. It was funny how the quote from one of them was about "this unique" experience. Getting approached to be in an apprentice test group must be about as thrilling as getting approached as a potential employer of the real world cast.

spintoto:

"...an amazing blaze of shut the f--k up glory"
You're killing me with that one!

If you go to Yahoo and look up the Apprentice hotel reviews you will see that these ppl did not pay for their visit to these hotels. They were part of the whole thing. Picked to stay for free but they didn't seem to know exactly why they were there. I read all of the reviews and that is what I garnered from them. Personally, if I had paid good money to stay there I would not have stayed the night. So I am thinking some stayed because it didn't cost them any money.

Verna needs therapy. She needs it now. This almost makes you long for Omarosa. At least she was tough as nails. Stacie they made to be crazy. But Verna definitely is.

LJ, is that you????

Anyone notice how Trump and Carolyn came into the boardroom dressed to the nines but poor old George was just in the standard business suit get up? I wonder when they go places together if George has to ride up front with the driver.

But you gotta give it to Carolyn. She is making the most of her 15 minutes. The ice queen in a black dress with a plunging neckline--Purrrrrr . . .

"Brian continued to dig a hole for himself, but for some unknown reason, some angry dude named Chris piped up and started blowing hot air about something. Huh? Who IS this guy? Where did he come from?"

I was thinking the exact same thing. What the crap was that all about? These people are all mo-mo's.

I don't think there was any racial bias in the way Verna's meltdown was portrayed. She had a worse incident than Elizabeth, she pulled herself together better, and was commended for it in the boardroom.

However.

Memo to Verna: You might want to try to get through the next few tasks with your back to the wall at all times. Sleeping with one eye open probably wouldn't be the worst idea, either.

Here, here Jack! Carolyn is doing the damn thing. Actually, I'm beginning to like her (shudder). My take on George is that he's being groomed as the gruff but lovable uncle written into so many sitcoms.

The pic at top of Carolyn is classic.

spintoto, my gaydar was going off since the first episode with alex. and my gaydar is more accurate than doppler 2000 and doppler 3000. (oh and i just wanted everyone to know i'm gay...so this ain't no gay hatin')

somehow i see alex as a self-hating homo. his bio makes him look very conservative republican and very upperclass stuffy.

but no one is as gay as austin scarlett on project runway. (did any catch this week's episode? he even modelled).