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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.