The Celebrity Apprentice 4 Episode 7

Once again the men begged Trump to fire Gary Busey in The Celebrity Apprentice 4 Episode 6, and once again he ignored them, instead opting to fire mark McGrath, who’s less capable of creating drama. If Trump like Busey so much, why doesn’t he just make him Vice President then? Or at least Secretary of State.

The women are thrilled to see Gary return, knowing it’s bad news for their opponents. John thinks he’s the saboteur, sent there merely to see the guys get eliminated one by one. Seems he has just answered the question “Who is The Mole?”

Today’s task is to write, produce, and star in a live cooking demonstration using Omaha Steaks products. Each team will create three occasion specific meals, as well as creating and naming an original variety pack. They will be judged on brand messaging, variety pack, and overall presentation.

Hope will be the project manager for the women because she’s the only one who has not been PM for the women thus far. She doesn’t cook, and she’s not a meat person. Gary will be project manager for the men.

Rather than asking the men whether any of them can cook, Gary says Meat Loaf is the chef. Lil Jon can cook, but he’s willing to let Gary sink himself.

When the execs arrive, Gary starts asking them questions like whether they buy their beef from Arizona, as if that matters. He also wants to know the meaning of the term suspended animation, rather than whether this company sells more chicken or fish.

It doesn’t matter who’s project manager for the women because Star will make sure she’s in charge, too.

Star goes with the heart healthiest option available (there really aren’t any), and NeNe and La Toya will also be cooking. For their variety pack, they’re doing poker night.

Gary’s driving his team as crazy as they could have expected. In addition to the general craziness they have come to know and tolerate, he hasn’t given them anything to do. None of them particularly care whether he’s fired or not.

Lil Jon and Meat Loaf are preparing to go to the kitchen. John tells them they’d better not leave him by himself with Gary.

After arriving at the kitchen, the women decide to change one of the meals. Coincidence or not, that meal would be La Toya’s.

Gary gets stuck on this idea of a multi-flavored steaks pack. The men think he is some combination of frustrating and hilarious. Eventually, Meat Loaf comes up with the ultimate celebration variety pack, which is more doable, but not particularly exciting sounding.

NeNe’s surprised that La Toya doesn’t know how to cook because women should know how to cook. At least multiple women will be cooking. Meat Loaf is all by himself, while Lil Jon does what he was told (nothing).

Upon Ivanka’s arrival, Meat Loaf says he doesn’t know what’s going on, and he doesn’t cook. Lil Jon begs her to take him with her.

Rather than having time to do a trial run, NeNe and Marlee are sent shopping. Don Jr. arrives to see that it appears Star’s running things as usual, and he says that eventually this role may come back to bite her.

Lil Jon finally gets a task. He will be cutting papers numbered 1-35. Twice.

John is unsettled now. Off camera, Gary called him “boy.” Now it’s on. After confronting him about it, Gary apologizes. John will not be accepting that apology because it took a day for it to happen.

Hope wants La Toya to project herself. Bad news then. Have you known La Toya to be a loud person? Should have thought of that sooner.

When the men finally look at the menu that Gary approved, they find out it is not accurate.

La Toya and Star have opted to cook everything before the presentation. NeNe would have, too, if she weren’t out shopping, which means at least that one person will be cooking. Although they brought some live cooking to the table, NeNe and Marlee kept saying Omaha rather than the full name.

In spite of all the drama about how unprepared they were and how this was going to be a disaster, the men do a good job, and one of the execs comments that Meat Loaf really knows how to cook a steak. What the execs don’t know, however, is why John and Lil Jon didn’t do much.

Meat Loaf likes Gary… but he was frustrated with the entire project. John Rich calls it a catastrophic collapse of time management. Lil Jon would prefer a project manager who remains on Earth with the rest of the team.

In addition to the incorrect menu items, the men’s menu also has two typos.

Gary gives a demonstration of his presentation in the boardroom. Everybody is lost by his rambling.

Although she wasn’t shy about tearing into a few of them during her confessionals, Hope won’t name names in the boardroom.

NeNe thinks Hope was great… or good.

La Toya would be willing to be acquaintances with everybody on her team, aside from NeNe.

For the women, the execs thought the presentation was great, loved that the logo was on the aprons, liked Star’s healthy meal, and Marlee’s poker night theme. However, they didn’t like the lack of their full name or that there was a lack of live cooking.

For the men, they thought Meat Loaf did a solid job and could be a spokesman for them, liked the live cooking, and the choice of the meals. Gary’s presentation dragged, though, the variety pack was too varied, and having the studio audience come up on stage was awkward.

Omaha Steaks thought the women were far better than the men. Hope’s charity, Best Buddies, will receive $20,000 plus a portion of the proceeds from the meals and variety pack they created.

NeNe leaves the suite complaining about how she doesn’t understand this label she seems to have earned herself as being negative.

Okay, Trump, enough is enough. Get rid of Busey already.

Gary says everybody did a great job. So after we continue to drag the drama out for the sake of filling time, the outcome is obvious, although it’s been obvious the last two weeks that Gary should go home as well. Finally, Gary has been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 4 Episode 8, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.