It’s all for charity. It’s all for charity. It’s all for charity.That’s got to be the mantra for any (ahem) self-respecting contestanton The Celebrity Apprentice. Why else would anyone endure thehumiliation of such a schlockfest? The egos, the idiocy…the egos. Itmakes for train-wreck TV that truly puts to the test the motto thatthere’s no such thing as bad publicity. That’s why it was so easy to settle into last night’s show: The firstsegment didn’t deal with the contestants and their personalities. Itshadowed Joan Rivers as she delivered the check from last week’s win toher charity, God’s Love We Deliver. Even a clearly manipulatedgoodwill tour such as this was a welcome counterbalance to the rest ofthe show.
All too quickly it was on to the challenge, which this time didn’t involve hawking a product…at least not in the same hands-on way they normally do. Our celebs had to get creative and come up with a comic-book character, costume, and four-page comic to promote Zappos.com, known for shoes, handbags, and apparel — a fact which was repeated at least twice in this two-hour-long commercial. Khloe Kardashian (who owns a clothing store) was a little confused as to why her team picked her as project manager for this because she’s "not really familiar with online." (Er, she’s a twentysomething in 2009. How exactly do you get to be unfamiliar with online?) But after a timid start, she took the reins and led her team to victory with a well-executed concept of a superhero named Miss Z who comes to the rescue of a frustrated housewife who wants customer service help. Deal or No Deal model Claudia Jordan came up with the initial idea (despite Melissa Rivers’ assertion that she did), deftly laying it out for her team, but she later failed to nail the final presentation, flubbing several lines. That kind of bothered the Zappos CEO, but team Athena was more concerned about the fact that golf champ Natalie Gulbis showed utter disdain for the superhero getup she wore to the presentation and clearly couldn’t wait to get out of it.
The women were pretty straightforward in achieving their task (sure, poker player Annie Duke tried to take over the script writing, much to Joan Rivers’ chagrin, but that didn’t really impede anything). The real drama existed over on the men’s KOTU team. Project manager Scott Hamilton acted more like an exasperated kindergarten teacher trying to ignore/teach a lesson to a hyperactive child than a project manager. Of course he had to contend with "off-the-beaten path" Dennis Rodman’s enthusiastic attempt to make their superhero a transvestite. (So a guy who transforms into a woman might not be appropriate for a family brand? Good call, Scott.) And his buddy Clint Black kept talking over everyone. But the real problem child was Tom Green. There’s no denying that Tom was annoying as all get out — bouncing around, bogarting discussions, and once even literally flapping his arms for attention — but in at least one instance, he had a good point: What the hell kind of name was EEE for a superhero??? "That’s a bra size," Green joked about Scott’s misguided creation. With so much of the loss predicated on that choice, poor Scott got the boot. And I kind of feel relieved for him. He seems like far too nice a man to feel good about having been so publicly riled by that kooky monkey Tom Green, and now he can go on and pretend like it never happened. How about you, PopWatchers? Will you be back to watch the remaining contestants sell wedding dresses next week?
Patti Duke? I think you mean Annie Duke. If that was an intentional joke, I guess I didn’t get it.
Yes, it’s Annie. Do you even like the show? The blog should have more substance and a little humor…like it used to last year. This is BORING.
I thought they could save the EEE concept by having it be an expression of frustration at the beginning but then turning into EEEZ (easy) when she found Zappos.
Tom Green and Scott Hamilton both seemed like nice people but were like oil and water in this task. They had a nice moment when they bonded over their illnesses and when they shook hands saying goodbye.
I’ll check in on the recaps, but I’m pretty much done watching Trump for any kind of entertainment after reading about how he and Ivanka have stiffed people for hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece on one of his failed condo developments in Baja. If he’s making any money off of this show, I hope it goes directly to his investors!
Tom Green is the best part of the show. If the other men would just take a second and think about what he’s saying they’d realize he’s creative and could have some good ideas. Why he didn’t go with the creative team I’m not sure. They would have been better off. Everyone on the show wants to be the boss, definitely too many egos. I hope Tom Green is the project manager next week and the men win. I’d love to see the women in the board room, it will be nasty!!
They named the character Mizz Z. With ZZzzzzs.
Chloe has no neck!!
Having Tom Green saying EEEE was annoyiong enough.
As for the Ad Campaign. Come on! Both sucked. Hamiltons crew were on the right track, except the ad should have been:
A Valley Girl or a Disney High School Musical type girl saying the following phrase:
Zappos! Ordering shoes is soooo EZ!
This recap is insane. Any idiot could see that Tom Green tried and tried to pitch good ideas: “Senor Zappos,” names with Z, etc. It was only when they made it clear they were giving him the silent treatment that he got annoying, and it WAS funny. Because clearly, Scott wasn’t even going to pay attention. His “Eee” was SO lame he SHOULD have been fired on the spot. That was the dumbest idea EVER.
What is going on in your lives that you all have time to watch this insidious piece of total crapola? Seriously, go get laid or drunk or something…anything has got to be better than watching this.
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Good riddance to Scott. Glad Tom stayed, he is intelligent with endless energy, unlike Dennis Rodman, lazy. Love this show!
God did this episode really need to be 2 frakkin’ hours? they really dragged it out.
Last week, this show got respectable ratings because DH and Cold Case were reruns. Donald crowed all week how good his show is but wait until this weel when nobody without TIVO.
I totally had to DVR this and fast forward through A LOT of it. I almost died laughing when the women’s mascot trashed their costume. I mean, I know they are stars and all but she couldn’t even just say something diplomatic about. Wow!
I also loved Melissa Rivers trying to take credit and having Claudia totally stomping on it. Annie’s intensity really adds another level of fun as well.
The guys were a total mess but the women gave me much more entertainment with their dysfunction.
Once again another phoned in recap, different writer same lame sort of recap. Is there anyone at EW that actually enjoys the Apprentice? Or at the very least has some respect for the readers of these blogs?