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As the losing project manager in The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 5, Tia Carrere fell on her sword. Unlike the previous week in which he just randomly made up the rules as he went, firing someone out of spite rather than performance, this time around Trump merely granted Tia’s wish and fired her.

The men think Tia could have survived if she fought for herself.

Aubrey says this boardroom has completely divided the team. Really? This boardroom? Seems to me the team has been divided for quite some time, and keeping around the divisive forces isn’t bringing about a resolution. This further gives Lisa the excuse to be a bitch about the team members she doesn’t like, as if she needs one.

Crystal Light is apparently still around, and this week’s task is to promote their mocktails. They must throw a launch party, to be judged on creativity, brand messaging, and the overall party atmosphere.

Clay volunteers to be the project manager for the men; Aubrey volunteers for the women. The women opt for the pomegranate flavor, leaving the men with peach.

The men know nothing about parties, which is not their atmosphere. If just you look at Aubrey’s hair, you can tell she likes to party.

The women are going with a theme of forbidden fruit, with a tagline “Stir your healthy desire.” After meeting with the executives, Aubrey is second guessing this concept because it doesn’t sound very fun, which is what their brand is about.

Clay suggests life’s a beach/peach, complete with beach themed cocktail party, in New York in the winter. The other men are onboard with this, except for Penn, who’s still pouting about Clay’s tantrum last week.

Last week, Aubrey complained that Patricia keeps doing branding. So, of course, she assigns her to branding. Lisa wants to proofread what Patricia is doing, all three words of it. With Patricia disinterested in this idea, Lisa tattles to her clique buddy. Ultimately, Patricia expects to not be micromanaged, expecting to be trusted to run the task to which she has been assigned. At the end of the day, it’s on her if it goes wrong.

Don Jr. arrives and starts asking some questions. He’s not sure how they are going to make this fun, and they are not sure either. Teresa says she’s not crazy about the concept. They may use Aubrey’s and Lisa’s ideas all the time, but that doesn’t always mean those ideas won’t land them in the boardroom. The problem is she doesn’t have an alternative idea, so they’re pretty much stuck with this concept that nobody seems to like.

Project manager Clay Aiken will be singing at their party. For their part, the women have someone who was a pop icon 25 years ago, so Debbie Gibson records a theme song.

It’s a tale of two cities. The women put on an elegant red carpet affair, while the men have people in bikinis doing the limbo.

The women say they got along for a change. That won’t last long.

Teresa likes the concept. Now. She would fire Dayana. Lisa agrees, less forcefully than usual.

Dayana suggests that the project manager should be fired.

The men all got along as well, and they think Clay was a great leader.

Clay would bring back Dee and Lou or Paul, if based only on this task.

Aubrey would bring back Team Venezuela, Dayana and Patricia.

The executives liked the women’s theme, the way the elements blended together, the tagline, and that it was a very polished party. The negative was the focus of the graphics on pomtini, which many other brands use, and not enough on Crystal Light.

They felt the men were very entertaining, with much activity and use of celebrity, and they liked the bars and the bartenders. However, they wanted to see more branding there as well.

The men win, and Clay gets $50,000 for his charity, The National Inclusion Project. The women lost this at the beginning when they stuck to their concept after hearing that it was supposed to be fun.

After seeing her cry, Trump offers to give $10,000 to Aubrey’s charity.

Aubrey would fire Dayana. Trump says that he would think that what Dayana did, bringing models like Miss Universe, outweighed what the other people did.

Patricia declines to say who she would fire.

Aubrey refuses to fall on her sword. I can’t argue with her on that point. I can see where it may be noble, but ultimately Trump should be deciding who goes home, right or wrong, rather than someone just bowing out.

Being in charge of the graphics puts Patricia in the line of fire. Aubrey says she did not see everything, though Patricia disagrees. Based on what we saw during the task, Aubrey’s suggestion that these got pushed through without an okay would not surprise me.

The men make a point about all of the alleged creativeness coming out of Aubrey and Lisa. They have lost 4 out of 6 (should have been 5). They may be coming up with ideas, but they are not ideas that are any good.

Patricia and Dayana are brought back into the boardroom with Aubrey.

Aubrey reiterates that she would fire Dayana, in spite of Patricia’s mistake on this task.

Dayana again points out what the men were pointing out: Aubrey and Lisa may be creative but keep losing.

Because she created the graphics, Patricia has been fired. Good luck on your next fundraising task.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 7, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Adam Carolla took a bullet as the losing project manager in The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 4. Then Trump threw a hissy fit and fired Michael Andretti, too, because the Buick execs expected an Andretti at the helm of the project but did not get it.

Patricia warns the women that they’ll need to change their behavior if they hope to keep winning. They won’t have too many rigged tasks like that one to fall back on.

This week’s task is to create an original theme and viral video for an O-Cedar spray mop. The whole concept of viral videos on this show is laughable. They will be judged based on product integration, entertainment value, and brand messaging, plus any other things Trump decides to throw in like whether or not Michael Andretti is project manager.

Having received a beatdown in the boardroom in which he should have been fired last week, Lou steps up to be the project manager for the men. Tia volunteers for the women. Both of these people view themselves as the two outcasts of the two groups.

Lou wants to be the star of his team’s commercial. He says that every week, and it was bound to happen eventually, at least when he’s in charge.

Aubrey has decided she no longer hates Debbie, but now she hates Dayana.

Lisa comes up with an idea: what’s your number (of mops you have used)? It won’t be long before the inappropriateness gets out of hand. Whether the executive signed off on sexy or not, this is a 100 year old brand that’s probably somewhat conservative.

Lou wants to be a super hero. Penn shoots this down, which he defends by saying all brainstorming should involve shooting down every idea. Clay comes to Lou’s defense, arguing there are people in the room trying to set Lou up for failure. This confrontation gets them to working, but it leaves Penn upset.

Aubrey is used to being front and center on these tasks, but this time she’s being pushed aside. Dayana doesn’t understand what’s going on. There’s no mop in the script. Seeing as they’re already filming, it’s too late to change, so she’ll just complain to Aubrey, who has more than her share to complain about.

In the middle of his video, Lou starts dancing. He wants to show people that a big man can move his butt like a woman.

During his visit with the women, Don Jr. observes that there’s a lot of tension and somebody’s ready to explode. Most of them are just talking badly behind the others’ backs. That’s not going to fly with Lisa. After Dayana asks to be in the presentation, she tells them that not everybody needs to be included (last week, Trump blamed the men for not everybody being included), and they need to drop their egos.

Dee thinks Lou did a great job. Paul agrees, and so does Clay.

Tia calls Lisa the star. In turn, Lisa thinks Tia is great, but she never had a handle on the task.

Dayana thinks Debbie was really stressed out, which Debbie agrees with.

Don Jr. believes that Lisa, Aubrey, and Debbie are the three creative people, and Lisa agrees, adding that Dayana is the least valuable. She says that the ideas that worked came from the three of them. That said, the ideas that didn’t work also came from them, and if you have enough people with the biggest voices shooting down everybody else, that’s what is going to win the day whether it’s good or not.

Dee would fire Paul because there was not really anything for him to do on this task. Paul’s lone contribution on the task was coming up with the tagline, “I’m gonna mop the floor with you,” which was very clever. Arsenio would fire Paul as well.

Lou will bring back Paul and Penn if they lost. He calls Penn a bull in a china closet with a superior attitude. Harsh. Clay repeats that Penn is condescending, the word he knows Penn does not like to hear.

The executives felt the women nailed the entertainment value and the brand, did a great job working as a team, and showed off the mist sprayer. They didn’t like their confusing concept, and they focused too much on the presentation and not enough on the video. For the men, they felt they were entertaining, Lou was great as a housewife, the tagline was terrific, and they showed off all the key features of the product. They though the video needed too viral, and they didn’t like that the suggested the need to use an eco friendly cleaning product.

The men won. Lou won $50,000 for his charity, Muscular Distrophy Assocation. Not surprising. The women’s concept was flawed. If you have to explain the concept to every single person who hears it, it’s neither funny nor clever.

Lisa defends herself by saying that, although her concept was bad, she should get a pass because it was approved by the project manager.

Patricia would fire Tia over Lisa, but Teresa is their weakest player. Teresa responds that Patricia is the weakest, clarifying it by saying that, if she’s going to knock her down, she’s going to return the favor.

Aubrey would fire Tia because she’s project manager, but Dayana is weaker. Arsenio would fire Aubrey, but his say from the suite doesn’t count.

Trump says he will not fire anybody else if she throws herself on the sword, so Tia accepts responsibility, and she has been fired. She’s happy to get away from this cattiness.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 6, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

With the men stumbling over a fashion task in The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 3, project manager George Takei was eliminated.

Dee does not consider the decision the correct one because Lou needs to go.

This week’s task is to do a 10 minute presentation and 10 minute question and answer segment to introduce the new Buick Verano. They will be judged on informational content, brand messaging, and creativity.

Adam is the project manager for the men, in spite of Trump’s suggestion that it be Michael Andretti. He says he races vintage cars, so he feels more suited to this task than the pro racer. Debbie is the project manager for the women. Unlike last week’s task that was geared toward them, the women feel less comfortable with cars.

Aubrey continues to be the idea person for her team. Debbie’s not a fan, but she will use her to the extent she feels comfortable.

Adam’s a comic, but the executives are very reserved. They are open to some humor, allegedly, but his traditional style of humor is not going to fly with them.

Lou mostly just wants to tear his shirt off because that’s what he does.

The women listened to the executives, who emphasized things like safety and technology. That should set them on the right track, whereas Adam just wants to be funny.

Teresa, Tia, and Dayana are relegated to the uncool van, the one in which the occupants are disregarded while the rest of the team comes up with the concept. Tia calls and asks to be put on speaker so they can join the conversation, but they hang up and offer to call back once the idea’s already set. Apparently, Debbie cannot review her notes and have someone on the phone listening at the same time.

Adam’s made up his mind. He wants the others to heckle the presenters and say things like “You suck” and “Shut your pie hole.” He gets complaints from all directions that this is the wrong way to go, but he’s not listening.

The women don’t have anything written as the clock ticks down, except for Tia, whose ideas are immediately dismissed because she was not in the cool van.

With their own comedian on hand, the women are also heading down the comedy route, plus Debbie Gibson’s opportunity to sing a song that was popular 30 years ago. Then Aubrey gets up and pretends her mom died in a car that was less safe than the Buick Verano, or Verona as she calls it. Teresa’s up next with her whole family.

The men mostly have the Adam Carolla show on their hands, though Michael does get on stage for a bit and talk about his experience test driving the car. Their comedy bit does, mostly, go over well, and their car knowledge comes in handy.

Lisa likes most of what Debbie did.

Dee says Adam was amazing. Then Trump gives Michael a hard time for not being the project manager, and I can see why.

Lou thinks he should have been utilized more. Again.

Penn doesn’t think their presentation should have been funny because the executives shied away from it. They prefer witty, which would not be Adam.

Adam says that if they lose, he will not bring anybody back. Trump’s going to remember that.

Teresa and Tia felt left out. They didn’t know what was going on. If the women lose, Debbie would bring them back. The equally marginalized Dayana seems to have escaped the blame this time.

The executives liked how the women integrated the four key features, Lisa’s role, and Aubrey’s passion. They did not get a great sense of the brand, weren’t sure what Tia’s role was, Aubrey called the car a Verona, and they didn’t understand their concept, which the team doesn’t seem to understand either.

They thought Adam was engaging and had a command of the product, the Q&A was very good, and they loved Penn getting out of the car. However, they wondered why Michael was not more utilized, didn’t get a sense of the voice of this particular vehicle, many players had too marginal a role, and they felt a lack of sense of community on the team.

The women have won. Debbie receives $50,000 for her charity, Children International.

When they return to the suite, Debbie apologizes to Teresa for ignoring her, but Teresa’s not buying it.

Adam didn’t realize they were being judged on how many people on the team were utilized. I did not realize that either. It sure was not one of the criteria set out at the beginning of the task.

Paul calls Lou the weakest. Arsenio agrees. Lou says Michael was the weakest because he didn’t step up more in spite of his background. Trump repeats, for the 20th time, telling us he won’t say it again, he was shocked that Michael was not the project manager. The way they keep going on and on and on, the task didn’t matter. It all unraveled at the PM selection. The men should have just taken the day off.

Michael’s defense, a very sound one, is that this was not a car task. It was a marketing and presenting task. Based on his presence on stage, it was clear Michael was not at home in this environment, though his knowledge managed to shine through regardless.

Dee would fire Adam because it was his task. Michael would fire Lou, who is complaining about being underutilized but only says it in the boardroom.

Adam declines to select two people. Because of that, Trump will fire two people tonight. He has a pre-determined target in mind, and he’s not going to let him escape. Jackass. Just let Adam go. Didn’t you learn anything that night you fired four people, which was the beginning of the end of regular Apprentice? Nobody likes stunt firings. Let the rules be what they are. Don’t make them up as you go.

Because he refused to play Trump’s game, Adam has been fired.

Trump tries to twist Arsenio’s arm to make it seem as if would fire Michael. Arsenio still declines to agree. Aside from Lou, nobody has said Michael should be fired. Dee would still fire Lou. Not one to care that nobody is coming to his aid to back up this theory that he’s had for days, Trump fires Michael anyway. Two strong players down, and they still have Lou. The purpose of the show is supposed to be for the strong to survive to the end, but Trump went the extra mile to see how much he could do to cripple the men.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 5, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Once the dust settled from the over the top drama in The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 2, Victoria Gotti was fired.

This week’s task is to design living window displays for the Ivanka Trump Collection, to be judged by Ivanka and an executive from Lord & Taylor. Dayana volunteers for the women, getting the nod over Teresa. The gay guys are nominated for the men, with George drawing the short straw.

Everybody is drawn to Aubrey’s ideas for their team, and like last week, it’s not long before she takes over.

For George, the first trick is to figure out just how many windows they are responsible for doing. Once he realizes the task says two, they’re off. They want to see hot twins. That’s about it.

The women had already come up with a day and night theme, and after meeting with the executives, the men are on the same path.

Unlike the men, who have to go hunting for models, the women already have much of what they need present. Debbie believes she can fit into that role, but at age 41, she’s outside the target demographic and quite a bit older than multiple members of her team.

Adam used to be a carpenter, so he’s right at home when they start building their sets. So much at home that he declines to run his ideas by the project manager. Not that George seems overly concerned. He’s willing to defer to his team to run with what little guidance he provides.

Having planned to jam multiple themes into each window, the women realize something on arrival. These displays are a lot smaller than they thought. They try to talk the team in the van into reducing their ideas to just the best ones, which those who are not physically at the location are reluctant to do. By the time Don Jr. arrives, their concept doesn’t seem to exist yet.

Deciding there is a need to also display Ivanka’s jewelry, Debbie makes a call to Ivanka asking for access to that collection as well. Simple enough to get a yes.

Dee finds out the diagnosis on his finger is not as good as he’d hoped. He needs to have surgery, now.

One thing the men have neglected to notice that Ivanka stressed: her brand’s color is coral. What they did manage to do thanks to Paul is create signs that are brand specific. The women have a coral border around their windows, which ultimately ends up covering their shoes.

Having struggled with their photos the night before, the morning of the presentation, the women’s struggle continues. With an hour until the presentation, their photos and sketches, which are the center of their theme now, are sitting in traffic. So they think. The sketches are printed. The photos are not. That leaves one window display blank with 10 minutes to figure out an alternative. Aubrey comes up with a plan B on the spot.

As the task begins, Dee returns with a cast. The one armed man isn’t quitting. Arsenio insists this can’t be done with one arm, but that didn’t prevent Dave from winning Hell’s Kitchen 6.

During the pitch, George mentions Lou’s name as someone who didn’t want to get involved. Lou’s standing right there. Here comes another tantrum.

When they arrive in the boardroom, Dayana still struggles to explain their concept.

Teresa thinks Dayana was great. Nobody disagrees.

Tia declines to comment on the weakest player. Teresa continues the lovefest. Dayana doesn’t want to mention two people to bring back because they won. Trump tries to bully her into answering, but it doesn’t work. So who would Aubrey choose? She doesn’t want to answer either. Who would she want to stick around? Lisa and Patricia.

Clay has been hard on George throughout the episode, but when asked in the boardroom, his response is that George did a perfectly fine job. Arsenio liked working for George because he left him alone to do his job.

The judges liked the women’s attention to detail, use and integration of the logo throughout, the living aspect of the window, and clear understanding of the demographic. They did not like the fan because it wasn’t a photo shoot, and they did not like the lost visibility of the shoes.

On the men’s side, they loved the signs so much that Ivanka wants to use them for her shop, and they also liked the twin concept, brand messaging, and Arsenio’s presence in the scene. They did not like that it was hard to see the second window due to their choice of a very dark midnight blue color, they did not feel that the clothing was appropriate to the setting, and they felt the team lacked creativity and did not take risks.

All things considered, the men did a good job, but the women did better. As the winning project manager, Dayana wins $20,000 for her charity, the Latino Commission on AIDS.

Lou suggests that Adam’s reluctance to call George and ask whether midnight blue was okay is the reason for the lack of visibility in the second display, but this was a color George had already signed off on.

Arsenio was the only person on the team willing or able to choose the clothing. They can try to blame him for this, but none of the others would have stepped up to the plate in his absence. Because of this issue, Lou would fire Arsenio. Arsenio’s input is that, if the clothing was a problem, maybe he should be fired.

Paul would fire George due to his communication. Clay would also fire George because he didn’t necessarily delegate tasks. Adam would fire the project manager.

Penn says he was self marginalized, since he doesn’t have a good eye. Teller does all of their visual work.

George will be bringing back Arsenio for the clothing and Lou for his lack of a role.

Lou doesn’t think George is an aggressive enough person to be the project manager.

Arsenio doesn’t know what happened at the location with Adam’s subteam, and neither does George. That said, what they do know is that there are members of the team who wanted Lou to be elsewhere.

George assumes he will be fired. With that, George has been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 4, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Raising her hand to be fired, Cheryl Tiegs made Trump’s decision easy in The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 1.

Victoria warns them they all better watch out. And sleep with one eye open they presume. She tells them every last one of them is a bitch.

This week’s task is to create a 15 minute Medieval Times show. Ivanka is not around this week, but James Lipton is. He tells us he’s a knight.

Penn is nominated as the project manager for the men; Lisa will be the PM for the women. Adam is away from the men’s team. He has to host a wedding. As good excuses go, I would not suggest that one.

Lisa quickly warns her team not to interrupt her.

The women decide to be The Unreal Housewives of Camelot, who are vying for the affection of Donald Trump. This doesn’t seem particularly suitable after they just got done talking to the executive, who told them this is a family show. Dayana tries to express that concern, but Lisa doesn’t want to hear it. Oh, and by the way, they want Dayana to wear a nude body suit. Granted, this is exactly what Trump said he wanted to see. Everybody gets a role other than Victoria, who is relegated to sound and lighting.

The men will be using their star power. Aresnio is a host, along with the man with the big voice, Penn. Clay will sing. Paul rides on a motorcycle that looks like it’s from the medieval days, if they had motorcycles then. The macho men Lou and Paul will joust for the hand of the fair maiden, Dee Snyder. Ultimately, they have no real plot. It’s just a bunch of celebrities telling jokes.

While they’re choosing outfits, Lisa goes crazy. She thought she told them not to interrupt her.

The next morning, feeling as if she’s being ignored, Victoria threatens to leave and join the men’s team. Lisa pretends that Victoria is the most important person of the day to make her feel better.

Nobody wants to listen to Dayana, who has decided that all they want her to do is sit on a horse and look good, which Lisa says is all she’s good at.

Clay’s struggle with George is that he’s not following the script. He agrees to read from it.

As Dee rides the horse into the arena, he stumbles off. He thinks he broke a finger. The EMT says he needs to go to the hospital, but the show must go on.

Back from the hospital, Dee’s diagnose is a severe fracture, and he may have to get a pin put in it.

In spite of the tension, Victoria says that she thinks Lisa did a fabulous job.

Paul says that Penn was phenomenal, and Michael agrees.

Penn says that everyone was great, but he’ll play by the rules. If they lose, he will bring back Lou and George, who are less versatile than the rest of the team because they’re actors. Lou is insulted. Nothing Trump likes more than pointless manufactured drama. George, however, still admires Penn.

Arsenio would fire Penn, who created and ran the whole show.

Lisa would definitely bring Victoria back, and she has a lengthy explanation to support it. Her next target is Dayana, who she doesn’t feel can do anything other than shop and be pretty.

Patricia would fire someone who came up with the concept: Lisa or her right hand girl Aubrey.

Debbie points out something, or at least tries to before she gets cut off. Like the rest of the week, 5 people are not saying much while the others are doing all the talking.

The men received 558 votes; the women received 363 votes. Penn receives $40,000 for his charity, Opportunity Village.

Don Jr. thinks the women appealed to the men in the crowd, but lacked the diversity to appeal to the entire audience, which was at least 1/4-1/2 children, a fact they were entirely aware of but chose to ignore in their quest to focus on hot babes and Jersey.

Patricia has a different answer now. She would fire Victoria. Aubrey would fire Dayana. Dayana and Victoria would fire Lisa.

Unsurprisingly, Dayana and Victoria are going back to the boardroom with Lisa.

Don Jr. doesn’t understand why Dayana is being brought back, but he could see either of the other two being fired.

So begins much yelling and crying.

Once the fighting is done, Dayana says that Lisa has tried to be heard more and has more energy. With that in mind and the fact that Victoria thought about quitting the team, Victoria has been fired. Great, now we get to listen to Lisa yell at some more people.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 3, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Trump dropped his flirtation with the presidential race when NBC made it clear he is expendable, so he is back with a new cast of D listers, some of whom are recognizeable as celebrities, or at least were a couple decades ago. The Celebrity Apprentice 5 cast of 18 contestants is:

Adam Carolla (Comedian)
Arsenio Hall (Comedian/Host)
Aubrey O’Day (Singer/Reality Star)
Cheryl Tiegs (Supermodel)
Clay Aiken (Singer)
Dayana Mendoza (Miss Universe 2008)
Debbie Gibson (Singer)
Dee Snider (Singer)
George Takei (Actor)
Lisa Lampanelli (Comedian)
Lou Ferrigno (Bodybuilder)
Michael Andretti (IndyCar Driver)
Patricia Valasquez (Model/Actress)
Paul Teutul, Sr. (Reality Star)
Penn Jillette (Magician)
Teresa Giudice (Reality Star)
Tia Carrere (Actress)
Victoria Gotti (Writer/Reality Star)

For the sake of not having to make a decision, we start out very simply: men against women.

Clay is concerned about the number of frat boys on his team, foremost among them, Adam Carolla.

The men unanimously agree on their team name, Unanimous, after 45 minutes of really stupid names. The women agree on Forte, a name that apparently is supposed to show they are not loud and bitchy.

Patricia Valasquez volunteers to be the project manager for the women. As for the men, they are all silent for a change. Paul Teutul gets volunteered.

After that, they are invited into the boardroom for a Trump family reunion.

The men learn that Michael Andretti will be coming to join their team, after his son Marco dropped out following the death/investigation of a teammate.

Their first task is simply to sell sandwiches.

Dee Snider says he can get $5-10k. Paul thinks he can bring in half a million dollars. No need blowing through everything on day 1, but if he wants to, everybody else will just save their guns for later. With that in mind, they’re going to focus their theme on him and choppers.

Like the men, who were originally thinking about turning their store into a sideshow, the women were considering a carnival theme, but after Victoria Gotti’s comments about the cops and permits, they go with a red carpet theme instead.

Aubrey O’Day is upset that the other women don’t consider her recognizeable. Sorry, I don’t know who you are either. Then again, I wouldn’t recognize any of the women by looking at them, and only a couple by name.

Everybody is finding Paul rough around the edges, and elsewhere.

The women have more of a team effort going on, all going through their rolodexes and making calls, though it goes without saying that they will be saving their best for when it comes to their own necks. Victoria, however, is making calls about personal problems instead. If you can’t put stupid things like your son’s car insurance on hold for a few hours, don’t bother being on this show.

The next morning, Victoria’s not there when they head off to the shop. She strolls in later with claims of a doctor’s appointment.

When Lou takes off his shirt, George is more thrilled than anybody else.

Not afraid of the cops, the men stand on the sidewalk and make a spectacle, with Penn doing his magic show and shouting. The problem is there is so much going on outside that they are struggling to get anyone through the door.

Clay’s inside hustling for money and making some good progress, but he’s left with a question: where’s the big money? Meanwhile, the women continue to draw in a number of donors in the $10,000-25,000 range.

Don Jr. thinks that the women’s grilled cheese idea may not be good, as it takes too long to prepare, which may hurt them if volume is a concern.

In the middle of the task, they get a call from Trump. Each team is instructed to bring their best sandwich to the Rachel Ray show. The best sandwich will receive a bonus, theoretically enough to make a difference between winning and losing.

Patricia and the women seem to have cleaned up. However, Paul’s big donors are not showing up, and since the men put all their eggs in his basket, it would seem they are screwed.

Patricia says that her biggest star was Dayana. She thinks that Tia did well at her thankless job at the cash register. Trump asks whether she’ll bring her back if they lose, and she says no. Tia says that it’s okay if she wants to bring her back. Big mistake. Trump is the kind of person who will throw out all performance data and anything task related and fire you due to one comment. Completely pointless and stupid and against the grain of the whole show, but at least on that he is consistent.

As far as who needs to go if they lose, she reluctantly offers up Cheryl and Victoria. Cheryl did not bring any money, which she denies, though she personally said she had no plans to make a big effort at doing so. Her problem with Victoria is that they could not get a hold of her when she was missing.

Paul says his biggest star was Penn for the spectacle he was able to create. When pushed, he names George and Arsenio as his weak players. George does not have a strong enough personality. He just picked Arsenio at random.

Rachel Ray’s winning sandwich, worth $35,000, is the men’s big chopper sandwich. Better pretentation and better taste.

The women set a record for the first task of The Apprentice with $126,000 in earnings. The men, however, raised $332,000, for a total of $367,000. The money from both teams will go to Paul’s charity, Make a Wish Foundation. $305,000 of that came from one nameless person.

Debbie would bring Cheryl into the boardroom because she’s slow. Aubrey would fire Victoria, but she will not answer whether Diddy is a good guy. Tia would fire Victoria as well, maybe. Nobody would fire the project manager. Dayana can’t believe all these stars who are bigger than her could not raise any money. Lisa would fire Victoria due to her personal calls or Cheryl due to her lack of focus.

Cheryl and Victoria will be going back to the boardroom with Patricia. Tia would have been a smarter pick. Trump would be out for blood over that comment she made. At the end of the day, though, I don’t see Patricia going regardless.

Victoria acknowledges that everybody held back, including herself. Cheryl finally does as well.

Patricia would keep Victoria, if she will focus. Victoria would not fire the project manager. Cheryl, who has always been shy and quiet, does not know if this is right for her. No point delaying the inevitable. Cheryl is fired.

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