If you missed All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 6, I can sum it up for you in one sentence. Dennis Rodman’s team spelled Melania Trump’s name wrong. The entire rest of the show was irrelevant, and the foregone conclusion was that Dennis was fired for being the leader of a team that had the audacity to misspell the name of Trump’s wife.
Their task is to make a 45-60 second silent movie promoting Australian Gold. The winner will be determined based on brand messaging, product integration, and creativity.
Since their team has been decimated because they suck, again it’s time to even the odds. Trace says he wants Penn. Lil Jon would like Marilu, and Trump agrees. Trace thinks Trump doesn’t want to stack the deck by giving him Penn.
Gary Busey is volunteered to be the project manager, while Trace steps forward for his team.
This could be the chance the other team was hoping for. Gary wants this to be in the 20s. How do you sell suntan lotion with people covering that much skin?
Trace has exactly the same idea that Lisa and Stephen had (that Gary shot down). He wants to show old timey bathing suits transformed into the modern era by this product. Plus he wants cavemen because they’re always funny.
This is not Lil Jon’s first rodeo with Australian Gold. In his previous season, his team lost this task, which he believes boils down to lack of use of their koala bear mascot and lack of different products. As a result, he steers the meeting in that direction. Trace considers the meeting with the executives to just be a waste of time, and he wants to proceed with what they came up with before the meeting.
Gary was on that season as well (on Lil Jon’s team), but it’s safe to say he did not learn any lessons from that loss. What Stephen hears is that bronzer is their biggest seller, so he wants to focus on that.
Gary doesn’t want to wear a bathing suit, Hawaiian shirt, or anything that might possibly fit into the scene. Rather, he wants to wear a suit. Lisa hears him, but she’s pretty sure she has figured out how to trick him into doing what she wants anyway. She is successful in getting him to wear her choice of shirt and shorts.
Don, Jr. thinks Plan B seems to have it all together, and they’re not that stressed. Once she’s done laughing at Trace in his caveman outfit, Ivanka decides Power has a very good concept, though she worries how well it will be executed.
Not wanting a scene that everybody directs as Gary suggested, Stephen takes over as the director for his team, and those he’s directing find out as they go what they’re supposed to be doing. Lil Jon’s directing his team, or at least he’s trying to. Marilu keeps coming up with ideas, and he’s not sure when she’s going to catch up to her brain.
Gary says everybody was his star. Everybody is equal. Nobody is the best; nobody is the worst. None of the rest of his team has anything negative to say about anybody either.
Trace doesn’t know who his star was. This is equally a lovefest.
The executives thought both teams did very well, but they have picked a winner.
They appreciated that Trace’s team showcased the whole product line, though they waited until the end to do so.
Gary’s team delivered a clean and clear message, and at his insistence, they included a koala bear, no matter how out of place it was. But they only focused on the bronzer, rather than the rest of the products.
Trace’s team won. He was right. They really didn’t need the meeting with the execs, just his story combined with Lil Jon’s prior loss at a task with this company. Trace wins $40,000 for his charity, American Red Cross.
Penn says that the project manager should be fired, though Gary did such a good job in that role. Stephen agrees, and this is the best Gary’s ever been, for whatever that’s worth.
Gary will be returning to the boardroom with Stephen and Penn. His target is clearly Stephen, the director. He doesn’t believe Penn should be there with them, and Trump agrees. He can head back to the suite.
Earlier, Stephen said Gary did an amazing job, and Trump and the other Trump keep harping on it. Because of that, Stephen has been fired. No idea how Gary escaped that bullet.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 8, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.