Nicole was the first casualty in The Apprentice Season 10 Episode 1. I’m still not clear why. Trump kept saying she was a great leader, but he fired her anyway, apparently because she dared to take the risk of being the first project manager, something none of the other women were interested in doing.
The women are very excited to see Tyana and Mahsa return. I can’t imagine why.
David, a big risk to be a loose cannon, has volunteered to be the project manager for the men this week, before finding out what the task is. It turns out to be an ice cream selling task. Poppy will be the leader for the women. Dave is confident because he has sold for years, but Poppy has never sold anything.
James hoped to fly under the radar, but he realizes that location will be a large part of this task. Since he is from New York, he volunteers to pick out the location. Mahsa is assigned to location on the other side. Liza, who’s not very good at sales, is in charge of the accounting. Anybody who knows her in real life knows she’s not an accounting kind of person either.
The day starts off at 9:30 (for the guys anyway… the women show up half an hour later). Not the most prime of ice cream selling times.
James doesn’t like the hard selling or the lack of a plan. He’ll be happy to go on a trip to the costume store to get himself away from selling.
Liza is trying to offer people discounts. Stephanie hates this. She would prefer to stick to the $5 price tag no matter what. With that, she needs Poppy to put her foot down. It’s clear that Stephanie believes she is the PM on this task.
David has decided that Alex is the puppy dog of the team. You can’t put a puppy in front of people in NYC and expect them to sell ice cream. So why not assign him to an alternate task?
The women have moved a couple times before settling on a spot they think is working really well. That spot happens to be the same spot that the men abandoned earlier in the day. They opt to move elsewhere. As the afternoon progresses, things start to slow down for the women. When Don Jr. arrives, the biggest flaw he sees is that they are 20 yards from probably the biggest subway stop in the city, but they don’t have anybody working the entrance or exit.
The men have chosen a lower price of $3, and their new location is a park, a contrast to Union Square. They are relying on Steuart and Anand for their sales efforts.
Stephanie continues to be the bulldog. Poppy is just letting her run over her and everyone else.
For day 2, the men have decided to go back to Union Square, in spite of their lack of success the day before. Once again, the men show up more than half an hour before the women, who are surprised to find that the men are in their spot when they arrive. Rather than bow out gracefully and accept the fact that they need to stop sleeping in every day, they decide to set up right next to the men, which at best should merely serve as a way to decrease the sales of both teams.
Eventually, the women realize this was a silly mistake, and they decide to move to the park.
George sees a lot of aggressive activity from the men, which is exactly what is needed to sell ice cream in New York City.
Toward the end of the day, Tyana comes up with an idea. Take their last ice creams and give them away right in front of the boys’ truck. While this will harm the sales the guys can do, it’s not doing anything for the women either. I can’t imagine Trump will be impressed.
Poppy does not want to say who her weakest player is. Trump’s going to make her say a name, though. That name would be Liza, who was not good at sales. Brandy would fire Liza given the choice between her and Poppy. So Trump says “Liza, you’re fired.” Nope. Just kidding. Really?
Liza says that the whole task was run by Stephanie. However, if they lose, he should fire Poppy.
Mahsa would not fire Poppy.
David calls Alex and James the weakest players. Alex takes too much management. James overthinks everything.
Gene would fire James. Wade agrees.
One team made $1500 in profit. The other team made $1800. That team was not the men. The women win, and for her reward, Poppy will meet Jack Welch.
Do we really even need to go through the formalities of the next few minutes? It’s already clear that David will bring James and Alex back with him.
When the women get back to the suite, Poppy thanks everybody for doing a great job, and that’s why she struggled to name names when Trump made her say who the weak link was. Liza’s response, “Don’t even friggen look at me, bitch.” Somebody has issues.
David is not even going to consider bringing anybody else back. Everybody but James and Alex rocked out loud. If that were so, they should have been more successful.
James believes that Alex is the weakest player on the team, but David made some critical errors. He doesn’t care who gets fired as long as it’s not him. Dave is on the same page. And by the way, he has 5 children, for those who haven’t gotten the message yet.
Since he sold the least and really isn’t saying much, Alex is fired. Since leaving the show, he has gotten a job in construction management.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Apprentice Season 10 Episode 3, which airs Thursday at 10/9c on NBC.