Okay, my fellow Celebrity Apprentice-viewing PopWatchers, how delectably dramatic was this week’s episode? Now that they’re back to the one-challenge-per-show format, it allows more time for what reality TV is all about: juicy, juicy fighting. Last night, the teams were charged with creating a four-page advertorial for Right Guard’s newest deodorant that featured New York Knicks power forward/Annie Duke’s BFF David Lee. So many things made me happy about the episode: that both teams (AND the Right Guard execs) immediately thought ”naked” when figuring out how to get Lee to pose; that KOTU’s storyboard stick figures were so endearingly terrible; that Annie’s best comeback when arguing with Joan was that ”poker players are the most awesome people in the world!”
First things first, though — I was disappointed when the Donaldmoved Jesse to KOTU because I couldn’t figure out the motive behind themove. Was he trying to create a super team that would beat Athena, orwas he picking Jesse as the next patsy to be forced out? I mean, really— Joan’s totally safe because Trump loves her (and so do I), andClint’s totally safe because he’s so stubbornly incompetent that theyneed him around for drama. I’m sure Clint’s a very nice guy outside ofthe confines of a heavily edited reality show, but he comes across as agrade-A douchebag on TV. And since the past, like, five episodes havebeen all about how he sucks, they’re either setting him up for a darkhorse victory (possible), or a spectacular failure (more likely).
The producers did such a good job of focusing on each team’sweaknesses in the challenge that it was hard to tell whether Melissa’swhining or Jesse’s passive-aggressiveness would prove to be thebreaking point this week. It might’ve been obvious to everyone but meas to who would win, but I thought the producers made it seem theentire time that Athena’s ad would be better — or maybe that’s justbecause their idea sounded more competent, and it didn’t includedeodorant clip art that towered over Lee’s head. While Jessestraight-up laughed in Clint’s face after repeatedly telling him the adwas horrible, Melissa spent the entire time complaining about how newBFFs Annie and Brande were totally having a party on Friday night withboys and spin the bottle but they weren’t inviting her! Or, actually,that they were working together to edge her out. Which they pretty muchwere.
Apparently the Right Guard execs liked both teams’ ads, but Trumpultimately awarded the win to KOTU. All of Annie’s manipulating (wellplayed, lady), Brande’s delegating (not as well played, but good foryou anyway) and Melissa’s whining (probably founded, but way moredramatic than necessary) paid off, because Trump fired Melissa after alast-minute surge of passionate defensiveness from Brande. Melissa, NOTHAPPY with the decision, stormed out of the boardroom, demanded herstuff back, and refused a post-show interview, dragging her mom behindher.
Unfortunately, we have to wait until next week to see the aftermathof Melissa’s post-elimination tantrum. Will Joan return after herdaughter’s ousting or won’t she?! (She totally will.) Until then,PopWatchers, tell me: Which was more awkward: Joan’s weird/unfunny NBArace joke, or Brande comparing herself to Ivanka, a Wharton graduate?Which Rivers had the best one-liner? And which ad feature was worse:KOTU’s Microsoft Paint-looking ”fire” or Athena’s stupid font?
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I’m rooting for Jesse James still, but this week he kinda acted like a tool. Granted, it was toward Clint, but still.
I hope BOTH Rivers are out.
The best one-liner…
“I don’t want to insult Hitler” – Joan
http://tvdonewright.com/2009/04/27/tv-tonight-monday-april-27th-2009/
Melissa and Joan have revealed that they are both grade-A whiners. Good riddance. Although Annie and Jesse, my two favorites, both looked like tremendous a-holes last night, I still am rooting for those two in the finals. Two very different, very successful styles.
By the way, small nitpick: Annie can’t have two BFFs, as you implied. Is she BFFs with David Lee or Brande? Either way, Jean, I can’t believe you employed that annoying, overused cliche twice in about 200 words.
Melissa would have stayed if she had shown half of that emotion in the boardroom that she showed after. Jesse was way overboard in his pouting. Clint may be obnoxious but he was right about the colour and about Jesse’s attitude.
Annie really knows how to manipulate everyone, including Trump.
Weirdest moment: Joan taking back her comparison of Annie and Hitler, because she didn’t want to insult Hitler.
Everything was a mess and embarrassing to watch these adults, with huge egos, act like this. Shows what people will do to impress people, or the Donald. Annie is a sneaky twit. Melissa and Jesse are both cry babys. Joan and Clint in the final, brains vs. brawn.
with Mellisa referring to feeling like she was back in high school she had “NO CLASS” lastnight, and Joans exit to the elevator with all her baggage she looked like a Glorified BAG LADY IN NYC..suck it up Joan and get back in the game, it’s time to cut the cord…
I love how all the pity I felt for Melissa during the episode (I hated high school too) totally went out the window with her ridiculously baby-like tirade after being fired. Man, what a tantrum!! And then her mother saying, “There are more important things than charity” — like being named the Celebrity Apprentice is some big stepping stone for a career. Over-exaggerating runs in the family, it seems.
Why do they even bother having “challenges”? It doesn’t matter if you were the PM and delegated everything to someone who caused you to lose, it’s how many rich friends you have who were willing to donate money a few weeks ago. Did no one ever tell Jim Cramer how the real business world works? Otherwise he wouldn’t have been surprised/impressed that once Brande was on the line of course she would throw someone under the bus! That being said- could someone please tell Joan and Melissa that this is a show for charity and although Melissa hasn’t worked since the red carpet, she wouldn’t have really been working for Donald Trump? (At least they do show emotion when fighting…unlike Jesse and Clint who may have been replaced by robots at some point during the season.)
I thought Melissa Rivers’ ending tantrum was thoroughly classless. People have been fired on the show for shakier reasons than hers but still managed to maintain some grace and dignity. I had been trying to give her the benefit of the doubt up until then, but her exit just left me thinking that this is a person who doesn’t hear “no” very much and is completely unable to deal with it.
Actually, the greatest comment was when Joan pointed out that she “knows” poker players and “none of them have last names!” Then she called Annie “white trash” (too true). Melissa should have known better than to talk over Trump, and I would LOVE to know what that piece of paper said that Trump passed to Cramer. Speculation, anyone? How about “nobody puts Trump in the corner?”
Wow. Melissa and I are the same age. What a baby. That was totally unprofessional.
Wow I hope that someone shows Mellisa just how stupid her baby tantrum looked and how codependent her Mom is with her, that was the saddest I have ever seen two grown women act in my life!!!
Melissa and Joan proved to be two of the most childish adults I’ve seen on TV of late. They should both be embarrassed by their disgusting behavior and spewing of the FBomb at everything and everyone in sight. It appears the two of them believe they are the greatest of the great (like when they review star’s clothes on the red carpet…when did they become such fashion icons?). I really liked Joan Rivers as a comic, but not she looks and acts like a comic book character. I say ‘good riddance’. Melissa spent more time whining than contributing…she’s far too full of herself. Blah blah blah
This episode was like a bad movie in which you hate all the characters. Nobody was likable.
It was painful to watch Jesse act like a spoiled brat the entire 2 hours. He’s a guy I definitely would not want to have a beer with. Joan was OK until the end, when she joined her daughter in uber-spoiled-ville. Remaining utterly loathesome was Annie. Her mere visage makes my skin crawl. But Joan was wrong to compare her to Hitler. Stalin is more apt. Brande is hot looking but for some weird reason is not that “sexy”. Not to say I wouldnt go there, of course, but its my sense of her person. And BTW, her logic that pretty people are smarter because they have to work harder to prove themsevles — what does that imply about ugly people? Are they stupid because everyone assumes they must be smart? Doh! Brande
Obviously other people are commenting, so they’re watching the show too, but I have to say I’m LOVING this season of “Celebrity Apprentice”! (I don’t even hate myself that much for it.)
Last night was a big-time roller coaster:
High point: When Jesse FINALLY unleashed that (still monotone) tirade on Clint about how terrible his ad was, I was literally clapping and cheering him on.
Low point: KOTU’s ad winning over Athena’s. The orange graphic (that Clint loved) was almost as embarrassing (was he supposed to be in hell?) as the deodorant clip art from the skyline. Just an awful choice for a winner. (Made me think it was rigged to keep Trump’s peeps around.)
High point: Melissa Rivers telling Jim Cramer that the credit for the ad was “even.” (She’s annoying, but this was VERY well played – Annie almost s— a brick.
Low point: Melissa acting like a 43-year-old baby. (And her mother sort of encouraging it). I though Brande should be fired, but glad Melissa is gone
(cont.)
I shouldn’t have said Joan “sort of” encouraged her daughter’s bratty behavior because she TOTALLY encourages it. (It’s disappointing because Joan is obviously a smart person.)
Finally, the episode even had a mini-mystery: Like Beth asked, what the heck was in that note Trump passed to Jim Cramer?
Jesse is my favorite and Anne Duke has to go.
How embarassing! I thought this show made Dennis Rodman look bad, but Melissa Rivers-wow! I had to pick my jaw up off the ground after watching that temper tantrum. My 7 and 5 year olds have never acted that immature!
What a poor loser Melissa is! She acted like a baby, and it proved once and for all she rode on mama Joan’s coattails. I can’t believe that Joan walked out, no wonder Melissa acted the way she did, Joan pretty much acted the same way. I don’t think she should be allowed to come back, but I’m sure Donald Trump will let her. In the real world, once you quit you quit. You could see back a few weeks ago Melissa was getting set up. It was pretty obvious that Annie had it in for Melissa the whole time, even from the beginning. I also couldn’t believe how whinny Jesse James became. Did you notice how, once Kotu won he suddenly changed his tune? I’m sure that if Kotu had lost he would’ve been fired. I do give him props for congratulating Clint Black on his “terrible” idea, though. I can’t say that about Melissa and Joan, though. I admire Joan for defending Melissa, but quitting is not the answer. She only hurts herself and whatever charity she is playing for. She deserves not to come back.
You know the old Hollywood saying, “You will never work in this town again.” Well, from the antics and behavior of Melissa Rivers, she doesn’t deserve to work in any town again.
What a baby! What a temper tantrum! I haven’t seen such classless, immature, unprofessional behavior since – well, since the last time I saw the Rivers twins attempt to critique fashion and to insult real stars on the nameless, endless schedule station that had the good sense to fire them, too.
Good for you, Donald! Perhaps you will be lucky and get two “Rivers” gone for the screen tantrum time of one! This isn’t worthy TV – this is annoying TV.
A couple surprises last nite-jesse acting like a total snide jerk and Melissa throwing a ridonk tantrum! Although I do despise Annie and can’t believe Melissa didn’t totally call out the fact that she bragged about coming up with the concept and everything else – Cramer was there/heard it. Best line of the nite – Brande “I forgooed it…” or “she thinks we were coercing to get rid of her” – yeah, she’s on par w/Ivanka in the smarts dept!
Melissa is 43? Okay, we’re not the same age. She’s older so that makes her tantrum even worse.
Last night’s show was great. I TOTALLY support Joan and Melissa and hope Joan returns to provoke major havoc. Annie Duke is absolute garbage. Jesse actually made Clint Black look not so bad, which is quite an achievement. Jim Cramer is a complete tool! He should take a year-off after the Jon Stewart debacle, but she’s such a shameless media pig, he doesn’t have the discipline to do it.
Melissa missed the opportunity to nail Annie in the boardroom. She could have made the case Annie made all the decisions and the team lost the competion. Annie is easy to hate and I would like to see her get kicked in the pants by Donald and sent home. My favorite player left are Joan and Jesse. Jesse was hilarious this week.
I can’t stand that manuipulative Annie, and Trump keeping her because she knows all the high-roller gamblers who bring in money is stupid. Yeah, its about money, but a lot of people consider gambling to be illegal and Joan did have a point about Annie’s “blood money” (though that was a bit strong). I hope Joan sucks it up, behaves with class, and returns. She is probably the smartest person left. Do have to give kudos to Clint though, he DID try to listen to the others this time. Jesse is an interesting person, so quiet, yet obviously so much going on inside. He certainly isn’t as slow as the others make him out to be.
I thought that the two Trumps and Cramer looked like fools way beyond Melissa… Cramer was right that Brande should have left the show. Trump with his “prettier than most” questions to Brande kind of made me laugh out loud. He’s such a beyond midlife crisis in action… Kind of gross, but funny. If the show is only about connections, money that can be raised, then the winner is predictable and the boardroom is irrelevant. Melissa made a fool of herself, yet had reasons to be angry. Can’t blame Joan, my mom would be the same way…. typical mom/daughter connection. Donald and his daughter, however, take the double douchebag award this episode.
Joan and Melissa are at the top of my list. They have a new fan in me. This is a tough world and to know that they love and respect each other enough to have each other’s back like that. We all need someone like that in our lives. I told my 30 year old daughter that I would have been the same way with her. “Big Props” to Joan and Melissa. Maybe Candy and Tori can take a lesson! Don’t ever let life keep you from backing your mom or your kid!
This may sound like a wacky conspiracy theory, but in the back of my head I keep thinking that Joan and Melissa had an arrangement with Donald Trump before joining the show. I think they agreed to do the show only if Trump guaranteed that they would make it into the finals. (We all know Trump bases his decisions on random issues and not performance.) And that’s why I think Melissa kept screaming “Liars” and refused to talk to the producers in the end. But maybe I’m wrong. At any rate, I still love Joan and Melissa.
Move over Zach Efron, Melissa Rivers is 17 again!
She kept referencing previous bad experiences in high school, obviously a vivid trauma for her. She is so pathetic it’s not even funny. Someone should tell her she’s now an adult and not mummy’s-little-girl any more.
I’m glad The Donald finally came to his senses and sent the Rivers witches packing.
OMG!!! Thank you SOOO much to Team Rivers for capping off my weekend!! I HATED to see Melissa go, but seeing Joan’s reaction to that Wretched Annie and Box of Rocks Brandy was PRICELESS!!! I could not stop giggling! Still hoping for my Jesse and Joan showdown in the finale. I have nothing to say ’bout Brandy or Annie cuz they’re just idiots.
Annie may be manipulative, but raises lots of money (don’t care for her) but she is doing what the Trump requires of her. Melissa! OMG! Such a whining, unprofessional, immature, brat and Joan (I love her) but should not encourage her. Joan’s attack on Brande, unwarranted and made no sense. They ARE there to raise the most money. Finally Melissa is gone. Good Riddance. Trump made the right decision. Grown up show, left with only GROWNUPS now.