The Apprentice – Black and white did not make the ad pop

It’s that time of the season on The Apprentice … when one team is clearly superior to the other, and Trump decides to mix things up. Except, this time the men and women were still battling it out back and forth, both team hanging on with four members apiece. Was it really time to dismantle the single sex teams? I don’t think so.

But no one checked with me; Brandy and Liza got assigned to a team with Clint and Steuart, while David and Anand were sent to work with Stephanie and Poppy. Good thing too, since Stephanie and Anand had just been at one another’s throats the night before.

I was excited that Don Don and Eric were this week’s eyes and ears. Don Don and Ivanka are supposed to not look alike — one’s a guy, one’s a girl. But seeing Don Don and Eric together really puts them in stark contrast, and that’s not just in terms of their appearances.

The task this week was a four page advertisement for Trump’s Macy’s clothing line. Come on, really? I’m willing to bet that none of the Trump men were decked out in their signature shirts, ties, or cufflinks. Do you imagine they’d be caught dead wearing something being sold at a department store?

David led the task against Brandy this time. Making no comment on his sexuality, David’s man-crush on the first model to walk through the door was ridiculous. I’m not saying it should have played any role in evaluating the job he did — ignoring the collar issue — but it did make it obvious that he needed to be metaphorically slapped across the face in order to wake him up to his blindness.

I agree that the models should have had food by five o’clock in the afternoon, but David lost it unnecessarily with Poppy and Anand over the issue. I think he must have a little bit of schizophrenia, because that craziness came and went out of nowhere. That guys blood pressure level must be through the roof.

I’m glad David claimed responsibility for the entire task, but that made what Trump was doing in the boardroom, after announcing that Brandy’s team had won, even more blatant. David said he shepherded the task from cradle to grave; that he shouldered the entire burden; that he himself completed 90% of the entire task alone. But there was Trump, turning to Poppy to tell her that the executives found “her part” to have been the worst (and suddenly David hadn’t been involved in a quarter of the project), and asking Stephanie what she meant when she used the word “unfortunately,” as in, “Do you mean unfortunately because someone else should be fired?” It was a sad display of Trump attempting to shape the configurations of the two teams despite reality.

But in the end David had established himself too firmly as the man behind a failed task, and Trump really did have no choice (for once that line was true). Thank goodness David’s gone; he won’t be missed.

As an aside, I just want to say that I can’t stand the players’ regular misuse of the nouns “I” and “myself.” As in, “Steuart and myself were happy that David got fired.” Um, since you wouldn’t say “Myself was happy…” you can’t use it. Or, “Trump gave Steuart and I a gift by firing David” … did Trump give “I” a gift, or “me” a gift?

If these people want a job making lots of money, maybe they should go back to school first and learn some basic grammar.

“When I think of Trump products, it’s power; it’s wealth; it’s sexual prowess.” – Clint, making us all gag

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Nov 05, 2010 @ 12:00 EST5EDT