Having been the target of the mean girls duo for months, Cyndi Lauper finally met her demise in The Celebrity Apprentice 3 Episode 9.
Everybody’s partying and/or stripping, but the night’s not over for them. Trump invites everybody back to the boardroom.
One person will be fired right now. The remaining four will be interviewed by Bill Rancic (the first and one of the best winners) and Joan Rivers (the last and one of the most rigged winners), after which two more people will be fired.
Holly says the weakest player is Maria because she comes from the least pure place sometimes. After being pushed by Jr., Sharon agrees that Maria is the weakest, whereas Holly’s tough because of what she’s been through as a mother with an autistic child. Curtis is another vote for Maria as the weakest player because she plays the game by hitting below the belt.
Maria says that the reason why she said she didn’t like Curtis was because he went into their bathroom and used it and left the stench behind. A grossed out Trump responds by firing Maria. This is his boardroom, not a locker room. She finds this reasoning laughable, but it’s not as if she was going to escape the piling on of everybody saying she’s the weakest.
Bill questions why Curtis has only been project manager once, which raises a red flag. But he’s good at building his brand. Curtis felt Bret got sidetracked a lot but shined with creative tasks. Maria won’t be on his Christmas card list. Bill and Joan both found Curtis to be a one trick pony.
Joan thinks Sharon wants this more than anything she’s ever wanted, but Bill thinks she’s out of gas. If she can handle two years fighting cancer, she can handle this, although she hasn’t been able to pull her weight. She wants to pay it forward by giving attention to colon cancer, but she’s struggling with the notion of beating Holly, who’s doing this for her child.
Bill sees some fire in Bret’s belly and likes that he owned up to making mistakes. He acknowledges that he lives on musician and/or rock star time. His goal is to win because he deserves it, not because he throws somebody else under the bus. Joan considers him very creative but doesn’t see the fire.
Holly’s going to have to go back home and still live with autism, so it won’t be over once she leaves. Bill considers her two losses as project manager to be a big problem, despite her huge win on that one task.
Joan would like to see Sharon up against Holly. Bill points out that Bret and his child are both affected by diabetes, so he’ll give just as good a fight.
Sharon can only say she needs it badly for her charity, and that’s why Trump should keep her.
Bret thinks he brings a lot to the table, from his creativity to being a hard worker. Also, he’s fighting for a cause for a disease he’s lived with his whole life.
Holly wants to be kept around for her passion.
Curtis thinks he’s the best leader.
Based on the input from Joan and Bill, Curtis is fired.
Holly would fire Bret because Sharon’s passion is really coming out. Bret would fire Holly, but his reasoning is interrupted by Sharon’s crying. Sharon does not have an answer who should be fired.
With concerns about whether she can hang in there given her emotional state, Trump fires Sharon.
Holly and Bret meet with Trump for instructions on their final task. They will be working with Snapple to create a new flavor, extend their advertising campaign with a new television commercial and print advertisement, and launch their product at an event filled with employees, distributors, and Snapple tea fans. They will be judged on originality, creativity, incorporating their charity’s mission and message, and maintaining the essence of the Snapple brand. This new product will be sold across the country, and the winner will receive $250,000 for their charity. Unusual for there to be a no fundraising task at the finals.
Bret’s team is Summer Sanders and Darryl Strawberry.
Holly’s team is Maria Kanellis and Curtis Stone. Maria apologizes for not being Summer.
Maria tries to be helpful, pitching ideas about the logo. Holly doesn’t want to hear it. Tomorrow’s the creative stuff. Today is about the tea. Or else.
As a diabetic, Bret doesn’t want the regular drink. He’ll go for the Diet Snapple.
Holly realizes during the taste test she got lucky with Curtis, who will use his kitchen skills to help come up with the flavor.
Because they have to have totally different flavors, they will need to negotiate for them right down the middle. Both teams have decided on passion fruit as their main ingredient. Bret and Curtis will be doing the negotiations.
Bret’s negotiation style is to tell Curtis everything he wants and then go from there. Hearing this, Curtis pretends he wanted all those same things, too. The net result is that Bret agrees to give up passion fruit. For that matter, Curtis got everything else on Holly’s list, too. As he’s walking out, Curtis calls Bret a sucker.
Darryl heads off to do a taste test of their two drinks. The other team heads out with one drink, with and without basil, so all their eggs are pretty much in one basket.
Bret’s pear, plum, nutmeg bombs. It’s a good thing they had a second choice. The tropical vanilla cinnamon fares much better. The problem is that, although they had a second choice, the whole creative is around the pear plum nutty, so they’re going to have to flip it around.
Curtis calls the girl’s cell phone from the prop house. He don’t need to wait for no stinkin business hours to line this up. If he e-mails her, she’ll be all ready for the morning when they open.
Bret wants to have a funny ad, but is not sure how you shoot a diabetes ad that’s funny. With that in mind, his idea is to double their workload and shoot two ads, one funny and one serious.
Summer views getting Bret to focus as a full time job.
Holly feels so bad about getting rid of the actors she doesn’t want, so she makes Curtis do the firing.
No matter what, Bret wants to make sure he gets hot chicks in his commercial. This is going to make him even more distracted.
Curtis takes it upon himself to work on the set, and he has had every chef in the country send him whatever passion fruits they could get their hands on since it’s out of season. While Holly’s worrying about the commercial, he will take on the still shoots. For a one trick pony, he sure seems to be doing an awful lot.
Bret has a vision in his head. He needs a dolly track. He’s going to spend as much time as he needs tracking one down. The whole commercial will be on hold until he gets one.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Celebrity Apprentice 3 Episode 11, where we will find out who The Celebrity Apprentice 3 winner is, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.