I don’t know about you, PopWatchers, but I found last night’s episode of Celebrity Apprentice to be infuriating. It was nice to see the teams shaken up (Joan, Natalie, and Khloe were sent to KOTU, and Jesse and Brian were sent to Athena), but the arbitrary board room results made me resent the fact that I had just spent two hours watching the show. Really — why make us invest time in watching the celebs complete their task when their performances aren’t going to have anything to do with who gets fired?
This week, the teams had to write, produce, and edit a viral video for All Small & Mighty 3x concentrated laundry detergent. Inexplicably, both teams interpreted ‘’small and mighty” to mean ”midgets.” Athena’s ”Jesse James gets washed by midgets” sounded awful in concept but turned out really funny, and KOTU’s ”Laundry innuendo” sounded funny in concept but turned out really creepy and weird.
After the jump: A dubious double elimination!
While the Athena video was clearly funnier and approximately 150 percent less creepy than KOTU’s (even Perez Hilton agreed), the All execs nixed both ideas and Trump sent both teams to the board room. Melissa, proud of the way her team performed, figured she’d be eliminated because no one really messed up, and solicited volunteers to accompany her to the board room. Timid Tionne stepped forward, which ultimately backfired when Trump fired her for volunteering. Unfair? Sure. But she could’ve done her homework before going on the show and found out that Trump hates when people volunteer for the board room. As aggravating as it was to see her go, the second elimination was even more exasperating.
The whole episode centered around the idea that project managerClint commandeered the entire KOTU video — came up with the idea,directed it, edited it, and wouldn’t listen to his teammates when theytold him it was nonsensical and strange — so when he arbitrarilypicked Khloe and Natalie to accompany him to the board room and Trumpdidn’t spend one second questioning him about the shambles of a viralvideo he made, I knew one of the ladies was in trouble. And when Trumpstarted lecturing Khloe about the DUI that everyone with an Internetconnection already knew about, I knew her number was up.
Khloe got a DUI, spent time in jail, and is taking court-orderedalcohol education classes. Sure, she seemed a little cavalier aboutwhat happened, but after watching a marathon a couple of episodes of Keeping Up With the Kardashians,I’m pretty sure she’s cavalier about absolutely everything (and I kindof love her for it). Clearly the producers on the show knew about theDUI (that happened more than a year ago), so the fact that Trump didn’tknow about it until Khloe mentioned it was pretty puzzling. I canunderstand having such an emotional reaction after learning thatsomeone you know did something so reckless and irresponsible. We allknow reality shows aren’t always judged entirely on merit and fairness,but really — what else was this girl supposed to do? She served hertime, apologized, and seems intent on never doing something so stupidagain.
Were you shocked by the double elimination? I wasn’t surprised that it happened, but I was surprisedthat Clint didn’t go. Who do you think should have gone from each teaminstead? Did Clint’s behavior bother you? Did you like Joan’simpromptou QVC ad? And whose video did you like more?
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I was stunned as well. I was saying out loud to no one that there’s no way in heck “the Donald” didn’t know prior to inviting Chloe about her DUI, while not condoning it, it applied to LAST week, he didn’t want to get rid of Clint and didn’t want to fire the Melissa/Joan team, can’t stand either of those ladies and joan said herself that 1 of her reasons for doing this show was to do it with Melissa, it was a joke last night from start to finish, can’t watch next week, i’ll just read the little recap
Trump made decisions based on drama. He fired T for drama Sunday night and kept Clint for more Joan River’s fireworks next week.
Has anybody seen the videos made by the Rivers girls?
I was really mad at last night’s results.
Why bother having tasks if you aren’t held accountable for them?!
And why are there so many $20K tasks this year? We want to see them flexing their contacts.
Donald’s older brother Fred, died of cerosis of the liver a few years back. Nuf said.
I want to know why Trump could give his Ms USA contestant “Tara” a 2nd chance when she did cocaine yet couldn’t give Khloe a 2nd chance when she clearly was trying to clean things up?
Talk about a hypocrite! Shame on the Donald!
The man (Trump) has a steak named after him. http://www.trumpsteaks.com/
I think is decision making abilities have been in question for a long time. Basically one thing can be counted on, Trump will do whatever needs to be done so that Trump will make more money. Firing the two most quiet and boring characters on the show makes sense if you consider this.
I think W. Mark is correct, they need to make sure there are some conflicts next week on KOTU…and keeping Clint and Joan together will assure that. I have to comment that Jesse James is my favorite, he is easy going, he works hard and he doesn’t speak much, but when he does he makes sense. Go Jesse.
Talk about being a hypocrite — not only did he give Miss USA another chance, how about TRUMP VODKA and TRUMP BAR in New York City.He’s anti alcohol — except he puts his name on it.
I can’t believe how Trump was so angry with Chloe for something that happened a year ago, but he was merely amused last week at Dennis Rodman’s drinking antics-and that happened on the show. He doesn’t think that Dennis never drinks and drives? What an idiot.
So frustrating with those eliminations. I stopped watching the Apprentice after the third season because of these type of firings. Omarosa brought me back in last year and I’m starting to realize that nothing has really changed since then.
Episodes like this, will FINALLY kill this already low-rated show. Trump is getting too preachy about the booze. C. Black obviously should have gone, and M. Rivers, as well. Those country music awards probably boosted the ratings on this show – for the week, anyway. Finally, Trump’s children don’t speak up enough, but it’s obvious why. I may not stick with it this season, and I’ve seen every one of them. Pull the plug.
This show is ridiculous — why do any of these so-called “celebrities” care whether they’re “fired” or not? They aren’t looking for a job with Trump! And the money being won for their charities is chump change when it comes to celebrity donations. It’s all just an excuse to spend two hours watching semi-famous people behaving badly (thus the firing of two wall flowers who added nothing to the fireworks). I used to like The Apprentice (when it was really an extended “job interview”). Now it’s just absurd and embarrasing. But I’ll be honest — anyone who lists their avocation as a “reality show star” deserves to be embarrassed (and fired!). So who cares?
I think that Khloe should have been fired… but not over a year-old DUI. She (like Tionne) has been invisible throughout the season thusfar, and she has added almost nothing to her team.
I had stopped watching Trump a few years ago because it had outworn it’s newness but like all reality shows, it appears to be fixed. There is no reason that Clint shouldn’t have gone home other than Trump likes him. He didn’t call him on any of the things he did or how he handled the team. I used to think that Clint Black was a really good guy but after this show I see him as a REALLY short Napoleon complexed man. He is not a team player and brings nothing to the table except for his quest for the most air time. I’m not watching again because it’s all fixed so why get invested.
Finally! Something like a recap! re: Khloe: people get fired for DUIs all the time. I didn’t find that too unbelievable. I liked the way that Melissa (who I usually dislike) defended her Mom. Tionne’s firing was predictable, because Trump fires anyone who volunteers to be fired.