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Is Alex related to Maria? I haven't seen so much blinking since Nerk Nerk was around.

Chris is not only scary, he's delusional. If he honestly thinks that his confrontation with Alex is no big deal... there are no words. And his "power," Trump? Come on - he's a loose cannon. To fire Stacie J for her being scary, and to let Chris slide for so many weeks when he is so much more frightening than her? I just. don't. get. it. Except for Chris losing his mind = good ratings.

On a side note, how the heck did MB allow a Papa John commercial in the middle of their one hour Domino-commercial? Pimping a meatball pizza, nonetheless! Dominos must not be very happy about it.

And next week's episode? Maybe Chris and Angie can go get some meds together.

This was, by far, Chris's best performance in the boardroom. He took every ball that Trump threw at him and batted it back with no problem. I was quite surprised that he shut his mouth at the appropriate times. It's a shame he's a lunatic, because I could really see him doing well otherwise.

I'm glad Stephanie's gone.

This may be the only time the drama on the show was matched by the drama in the commercials!

Tana is so cute. I mean in a kind of over the top stereotypical way. You just KNOW she has that Pink Mary Kay Cadillac. Maybe two of them.

Why is Chris not locked up in a Juvie Detention Center somewhere?

Nice Denim, Carolyn! (do some of the Apprentices actually think her name is Caroline?)

So Alex is defending Chris? Jeez, does he hate Stephanie that much (not that she's all that likeable)?

Angie is a real snake, isn't she? Very Erin-like in her attack dog mode.

Hee. Dominos and Papa John's put on Dueling Pizza Commercials in my market. With that red shirt John guy dissing Donald and the show. And Meatballs are everywhere these days apparently.

Chris is SO lucky that Stephanie screwed up with that stupid Brooklyn side trip. So he made a lot of money in the outside world? Fine, let him go back to that.

And... Steph turns into a massive overgeneralizing snob in the Cab O' Doom. Boo hiss, beyotch!

And what kind of insane idiot would pick Alex over Tana? Oh, right. Chris would. And the great idea is "meatballs? Where is the roast chicken? Where is the pastrami? where are the artichokes? Where are the escargots? The smoked salmon? The peanut butter?

"Saucy, suacy. saucy. . ." Me: "Bwah!!" Mrs Knick: "You're very strange. Doesn't mean I don't love you, your just very strange." And--cut to Delicio commercial. Ugh.

Both the teams have a strategy. How did that happen? Usually, this winds up as a blow-out. Both teams might have a chance, now.

The horse: "Yeah, you wanna piece of me, pigeons?"

How many times does Alex have to say Dude? Really, you kind of deserve to get threatened if you use that particular word to much. If Alex is threatened by being told to fuck off, he sure better not work with me. And of course, only Trump is allowed to threaten people in his organization.

When I heard that "Chris" would be serving dinner, I had a sudden vision of a cheeze-and-chaw omelette.

Trump does not like people who chaw, he also does not like the word "dude". Seriously. These two are like children. This is why you should not have little snots in the the workplace. How far are these two from highschool? Like, three years maybe?

Trumps pad was "bling-bling". As has been stated before, King Midas obviously went nuts in the place. I wonder if Trump does the cleaning?

"It was harder to build this apartment. . ." and he had to erect a crane to bring the table up the side of the building. Cripes, to get the shiniest apartment, to really demonstrate his manliness, he needed an erection. . .okay. Yes, we are all tweleve here. Of course the Trumptastic apartment would require a lot of work. How hard must it be to co-ordinate that amount of tacky?

Ooh. Stephanie death stare! Ooh.

Asking someone if they are tough enough is a good sign. An actual good question. Love to see Chris get in on the pile-on when Caroline asks about Union Square.

"Do you have a psychological problem?" God, there's a question you don't want to hear. It's the knell of doom. If someone has to ask. . .

Mmm. Poor Angie, I feel bad for her--watching the vultures circle, the slow dance of death, the sweet, final, cobra-handed waltz. Not a good thing. And the final smacking of Chris--again, more poking of the crazy. Trump is taking the big daddy role, too, telling Chris to shape up. Boy, that's just not nice for him. I expect Chris's ejection will be a remarkable experience. I know Trump and Co. want him there for comedy value. I can't say I blame them. He makes excellent television.

So actual physical threats of violence are nowhere near as scary or disturbing as...being far too into a Magic 8 Ball?

BULLSHIT! I wish I could be done with this show. There's no excuse for Chris's continued existence on this show and that is said by someone who finds him excessively entertaining. I never read much into the conspiracy theories on this show's treatment of African American women, but this was a similar situation in that some of the team felt "scared" (this time involving actual threats and not just nuttiness) and was treated totally differently. I say it again: BULLSHIT!

You know, I was so caught up in Chris/Alex Showdown Spectacular Pissing Contest that I completely missed the "Stephanie sucks" subtext (the sucktext, if you will).

I also liked Chris' argument with Alex. FACTS!

During the second commercial break, I left to clean up dinner, and in the background I hear people talking about bipolar disorder. I'm thinking, "Man, Chris went so nuts they had to do a PSA to apologize." Just a (local, I think) commercial, though.

Word usage (with apologies to Strunk & White):
This isn’t rocket scientist. (tm Tana)
They were argumentive with each other. (tm Stephanie)
HEE!

This is awesome. Chris gets to live another week! I wouldn't hire this looney to lead my company, but I love watching this guy on this show. Grade A Entertainment. While I root to see him explode every week in the boardroom, this one time, I was saying, "Chris, shut the fuck up" because I wanted to see him stay to live another week when he can always revert back to form.

For the first time, my frontrunners in this show are both women. I think Tana and Kendra are clearly the best. Brent got lucky. He was the weakest on his team, but was lucky he was the leader.

Angie should have brought up Alex's wasting time at the counter. Maybe it was brought up and edited out because Trump did indicate that this was Alex's worst week. BUt Angie has got such an unpleasant expression at times.

Alex, dude, you were NOT physically threatened. Chris is a looney , but for you to be afraid of that Yosemite Sam is ridiculous. You would be laughed out of a boardroom. Still he is most probably one of the top 4.


It is refreshing to see Trump fire the right person many times this season compared to last season's bad firings. Stephanie was awful. She had no real strategy. Delivering that pizza to the customer in person was stupid. Send a temp to do it. THey should have gotten a temp to deliver all the pizzas. In fact, didn't she go with another lady? This is a one time task. Extended goodwill from the customer is irrelevant. And she contradicted herself when she said she could manage people like Chris when she just admitted minutes earlier that she couldnt manage him.

Was Chris wearing Angie's tie from last task when this task started?

And Stephanie? Your cab interview showed you to be slightly bitter and elitist (I think that's the word I'm looking for). You may want to tone that down a bit.

OK, I despise Stephanie as much as anyone else ... but what on earth does the fact that Chris and Alex had a fight while she was away have to do with her not being a tough enough leader?

Word. It's one thing to argue that Chris is a complete nutter who frightens the customer with his "intensity" and can be impossible to work with, but he lost me with the "he threatened me" stuff. Then again, I do hate Alex, so I was kind of hoping that Chris really would punch him.

Why did they hire "models" to market the pizza? Why didn't anyone seem to think that was odd?

I don't mean to be argumentive, but tapeworms have better vocabulary skills than most of these candidates.
Papa Johns is genius, Dominoes and their cheeseburger cop-out, not so much.

Heh...best job by a Chris and an Alex since The Amazing Race 2. Seriously, I figured Chris was done, but Stephanie was stupid enough to let Angie go back to the Suite. Seriously, what a dumb move. Liked the cabterview...only thing missing was her flashing gang signs and shouting "Bachelor's Degree! WHAT!?"

Trump...Wrong Heaven has a point. You take the say-so of a coven to fire Stacie J. You got Chris, whose only remaining purpose is to try and kill you once you fire him. Double-dip, man. Take out Stephanie for the task suck, then take out Chris for the culmulative suck.

Magna..,very nicely done. So Tana has some Italian in her? I think I'm in love. Maybe she'll make me dinner if I ask nicely. Though the whole "Manga" thing might be confusing for comic book fans.

I didn't feel this ep at all, really. I figured Chris would go double-cheese insane with a side order of garlic knots, but it wasn't that big a deal.

"Alex, when Stephanie was on your team would you call her a success?" (highly paraphrased). That was easily the smartest and best question ever asked by an apprentice in the boardroom.


Seriously! That's like saying, "I got it! We'll put two types of cheese on our pizzas."

I...just didn't care. I don't like anyone on that team, with the possible exception of Angie, well, with the possible exception of her hair. And it was so damn obvious that they were going to lose. I think they showed maybe 2 minutes of the other team actually doing the stupid task.

Wake me up when it's down to Kendra and Tana in the finals. Which I really, really want to have happen. I like those two lots.

I wonder if Chris got some nicotine gum before the boardroom? He was much calmer in the BR than he was during the task. Sunflower seeds don't do much for a nicotine craving...

Mmmm, I'm in the mood for a Papa John's meatball pizza.

Hey Stephanie, remember how Kendra won the mini-golf task for you? With localized marketing? Why didn't it occur to you to try the same tactic? 'Cause it occurred to Kendra, which is why Magna won again.

All that gold trim all over the Trumpartment, and they still just got sausage and eggs for breakfast? Might as well just take them to IHOP.

Once again we see a marketing strategy & execution in which Kendra and Tana are involved. Kinda like pre-empting the boardwalk on the minature golf, so I'm inclined to think that the idea of working the local businesses was Kendra's. Then bring in Tana, who could sell raincoats in the Sahara, to close the deal.

Final 2, just got to be.

P.S.: Kinda discouraging when the commercials are a lot more entertaining than the show itself.

[quote]OK, I despise Stephanie as much as anyone else ... but what on earth does the fact that Chris and Alex had a fight while she was away have to do with her not being a tough enough leader? [/quote[

Well, technically, it makes her look like she's running from a fight. Also, a more forceful personality would have made sure it didn't happen, whether or not she was there, and a more responsible leader would have stuck around instead of abandoning the team.

I'm starting to really dislike Angie. Stephanie was a lot worse, but Angie is kinda Stephanie-lite.

I don't think that Alex was physically threatened (although I did think Chris said he would do something if he didn't get out of his face) but Chris especially has a way of making just his words sound that scary. I mean, someone who blows up that quickly and that violently - it's not a huge leap to think that maybe actual violence isn't too far behind.

I loved Kendra's interview about the Trump apartment. She definitely grasped the tackiness, with the comment about Trump being a rapper in a former life. I kept trying to look at her face as Trump yammered about the hard work that went into the "decor." I'm definitely fully on her love train. She just seems way too normal and mature to be on this show.

I think Stephanie was a little too confident going into the boardoom. She didn't seem to have a good defense for herself at all-she just seemed to think that Chris being "volatile" would carry the day. And Chris is definitely a loon, and I don't think I'd want to work with him, but he does seem to at least get stuff done. Stephanie, not so much.

I guess both teams learned sucking up to Trump is the way to go. Gotta love how they both picked the pizza topping Trump mentioned. Or shake your head at their lack of creativity.

What's with Chris' constant nose twitching in the boardroom? Sort of like a half sneer. Dude, if you're auditioning for the Samantha role in Bewitched, it's already gone to Nicole Kidman.

Wow Chris is really trying to turn it around, you could really tell he was taking a breath and thinking before he answered any questions in the boardroom. I was impressed I think he's going to take more away from this interview than anyone else, even if he doesn't win. He doesn't seem able to give up the spitting, from tobacco juice to sunflower seed shells.

So glad to see Stephanie go, it was really time.

I like Alex although I think he blew the whole "he treatened me" thing out of proportion.

All the project managers were so meh I had trouble keeping track of who they were.

Tana continues to show tons of enthusiasm and effort which is wonderful to see, I hope she goes all the way.

I love Craig after The Box, but I don't see him as the next apprentice

Okay, first of all: to my Italian-speaking friends—is it not spelled “mangia”? Or am I the only one who seemed to think they were selling Japanese comic-book pizza? (I can’t zapruder this—I didn’t tape.)

While I enjoy a rousing game of “Poke the Crazy” as much as the next person, and I agree that his temper is just weird, I think Chris got shafted with that whole “threat” bullshit. We didn’t see a threat—we saw a profane argument. He was dead man walking after the tobacco thing was disclosed, though, and more so now.

Why were they going to Brooklyn with the pizzas? I guess I didn’t understand that. I thought they sold pizzas to the construction guys nearby, not halfway across town. I’ve not spent much time in NYC, so I don’t know exactly how far it is, but it didn’t sound any too close.

OK, they only had one product to make and deliver, correct? So how in the heck did they get so far behind in making them? I mean, that’s not that difficult. Set up an assembly line, maybe pre-make a few pizzas to prime the pump, and then just keep making them until you run out of customers. In something like this you don’t need to wait until someone orders it (especially since they were also selling it by the slice). If you have a fairly steady flow of business, which is seems they did, then just keep making them continuously so that no one has to wait more than a few minutes. If you make each person wait 15 minutes (or whatever) to make their pizza of course you’re going to get behind. And even if you end up having a little waste (a pizza or two), it shouldn’t make that big or a dent in your budget and you might make up for it in volume anyway. Seriously, have any of these idiots ever worked fast-food before? I mean, I learned this lesson in 10th grade when I worked at McDonalds.

Loved the WTF look Carolyn gave Stephanie when she talked about taking pizza to Brooklyn. Hee!

Oh, man! We didn’t get to see Outside Food’s co-worker (widely discussed in the spoiler thread) who yelled at Magna because they had to wait nearly an hour for their pizza. I was really looking forward to that!

Isn’t this like the second or third task that has been saved for Magna by Kendra’s marketing savvy? That’s fairly impressive.

Wow! That may be the most smashing suit I’ve ever seen Carolyn wear! Emerald green is one of my favorite colors and Carolyn looks fab in it! Yay for color!

George hade a great point about the NYU dorms being empty at lunchtime (well, except for those still sleeping off last night’s hangover). That really wasn’t the most well thought-out plan. Now, if they were making pizzas at midnight, that would be the perfect location to sell them.

Best marketing job of the night? The placing of the ad for Papa John’s meatball pizza right before the final boardroom. Brilliant! Seriously, the person who thought that up should be the next Apprentice.

I really don't think Chris should have been fired to somehow make up for what happened to Stacie J. Nothing can make up for that fiasco.

I think my new name for Alex is Ex-Lax, because he's just full of shit. I wonder how his girlfriend felt about his flirting with all those women. Then he wildly overinflated what happened with Chris, even though IMHO his demeanor in the BR suggested that he regretted making so much of it. I think that's why he backed down and went after Stephanie. And what was all that crap about Alex being a "star" and being a "winner"? Magna lost week after week after week, with no help from Alex. He won ONE task, but so did Stephanie. Trump wasn't calling her a "star". It's double standards and tired stereotypes. Alex is a clone of Bill/Kelly, a white man with a lot of education, and Trump is biased in that direction.

Chris is unstable, yes, but when someone is directly IN YOUR FACE, and waving his hands at you, then you are not "threatening" them if you say "get the fuck out of my face". Alex was provoking him, he was like a mosquito, and his body language was very aggressive. If Chris was half as "crazy" as Trump and the coven wanted to claim, then Alex's skinny ass would have been on the floor. I thought Chris handled himself EXTREMELY well in the BR. Much better than I thought he would.

It's nice to know that even though Craig expects hard work from his team when he's PM, all he can do when he isn't PM is bitch about other people's ideas.

Wow, who thought Tana would say "ass" and "son of a bitch"?

I'm so glad Princess Stephanie got the boot. Where is her "WILL GET FIRED FOR SHOES" t-shirt? I just wish that Alex could be the next out. Their Ken/Barbie conversations, the pretty pretties scheming to oust one of those wicked high schoolers, was not pretty to watch. I guess she can say she got to spend time with such class acts as Michael, Erin and Bren. Yeah, they're real classholes, those book smarts.

That was the most demeaningful boardroom ever. Trying to get Chris to flare and being disappointed that Angie wasn't there to dog her around.

eta: OT aw, yeah, I don't know, just don't fuck with my show!

HEE!

God, where do I begin?

Alex is a grade A pussy. Chris didn't threaten him, he basically told him to back off AFTER Alex got in his face. And if Alex gets scared of something like that...maybe he should hide in a corner with Ivana.

I'm still not seeing the value of Tana. To me, there's something ot the fact that she was traded away at the first chance. It's not "rocket scientist" to figure out why she wasn't chosen. (God, could these people butcher the language any more??)

If Tana was so good, NW would have chosen her to be back on their team. I just haven't seen anything from her. No ideas, no input. She can be as bright and cheery as she wants...she still doesn't seem to bring anything to the table. She strikes as one of those sales peopel that just forces herself on people and thrusts herself down their throats to the point where they buy stuff just to get rid of her. And yes, that is a technique...but does it build customer loyalty? No.

Stephanie has been a suckfest since the first task. She couldn't just hire someone to deliver the pizzas to Brooklyn? Does a Dominoes manager deliver the pizzas when they're late? No.

And the best these niotwits could come up with was meatball pizza? The guy in the pizzeria around the corner has been sellign that for years. THAT was their big idea?

All these people suck.

Oh...and once again....love the fauxmercials for this week's episodes. NBC promo dept. spends more time on those than the actual episodes, it seems.

Random thought, for some reason, when the teams walked into Trumpatrium, I thought that Angie looked a lot like Better Midler. Okay, a Bette Midler drag impersonator, but still.

Kendra gave me another gem of a line: "Trump must have been a rapper in a past life. I've never seen so much gold in my life!" Now, that is a back-handed compliment, Trump. She and Tana are my two favorites now. Everyone else can go to hell. Go to hell and die.

I did think it was funny that Chris gave Alex that big hug and then went on to say how much he LOVED Alex. He extolled his virtues till his mouth went dry. Jesus, is it possible those two were sleeping together? I mean, why else would Chris get so upset that Alex was "flirting" (hardly!) with the ladies?

Seriously, though, Chris was such a tool. First he yells at Alex. Then when Alex says, "Don't yell at me," Chris is all, "Get out of my face! Don't ever talk to me like that again!" You mean, the way you're talking now, Chris? And then, in what seems to be extra footage, Chris yelled at Alex AGAIN! I've never met anyone so completely delusional about how they come off. No, he didn't technically threaten Alex. He didn't say, "I challenge you to fisticuffs." But you don't have to say it to mean it. His body language and demeanor said it all.

And just one more Alex dig... Did anyone else chuckle when Alex came up with the name "Meatball Masterpiece"? I said outloud to my TV, "Yeah, Alex I'll bet you're all about the MEATBALL MASTERPIECE!" Okay, I'm twelve.

The construction guys were near where they got their training. Where they were the next day selling was a good distance away.

I hadn't seen the Trump-Dominos ads before tonight, but could they at least not show them during the show so we can pretend like this show isn't a giant one hour product placement every week?

Best line of the night -- "It's not rocket scien..tist"

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I can't imagine how Chris thinks he has a chance in hell to worm his way into Trump's good graces at this point. If Chris was smart, and not so delusional, he would pull a Verna and walk right off into the sunset before the inevitable smackdown to come. It's going to be one hideously embarrassing show when it happens.

And breakfast with Trump sounds like a nightmare. Nothing in this vain, pompous man's demeanor showed that he was even close to enjoying the experience of sharing casual time with this crew. I half expected him to just get up and leave after regaling them with yet another story of how far he's willing to go to aggrandize himself.

Will Trump ever learn the difference between revenue and profit? Yeah, the contest was close...but if you factor in what Net Worth paid those five "models" for "marketing," they probably ended up a few hundred dollars in the hole.

If these money-making tasks were about who made the most profit, rather than who made the most revenue, they'd be far more interesting.

Count me in the group rooting for a Tana-Kendra final two.

Goodbye, Stephanie, and your stupid chandelier earrings!

How did Papa John's get their meatball pizzamercial in on Domino's action? All that money you know Domino's spent. Pity.

Wasn't a big fan of Chris, and still am not, but he does handle himself in the boardroom. He matched Trump last week regarding the chaw, handled all the lobs against him tonight. Having said that, he's a nutjob. He has no tact or diplomacy, and doesn't seem to care that he doesn't have either. Those qualities make you more of a success than just making money. He'd better learn that quick.



Seriously, I would have taken that as a threat, too. Whether he puffed up or not, if someone said that to me I'd be ready to set it off. Well I'd think about setting it off. To myself.

I find I have no interest in who wins this year. Everyone is just meh. The tasks are meh. The rewards are.. meh. And yet strangely I can not turn away. What does this say about me?

Yup. But I wouldn't have expected Tana ("it's not rocket scientist") to know better. As it turns out, it was better than "Meatball Masterpiece."

And I'm really glad they didn't go with peppersteak pizza. That sounds like ass.

I feel like I missed a lot on this task. Was the pricing set for them? There was a little over $100 difference between the teams, I think- pricing could have been important. Was that taken totally out of their hands?

How much seed money was there? Why use "models" instead of "deliverymen" or "cooks"????

Well they all proved themselves as supreme suckups, anyway. Trump says "I like meatballs" and voila! Both teams have meatball pizzas. Which is nice cos that's open to so many jokes. Roll your own.

Well now. As a former beauty queen and college graduate, I now understand why Stephanie got her ass kicked out of the boardroom. Girl is dellusional. Glad to see her go.

Word on the Stacie J and Chris comparison! Chris has certainly had his moments, but in tonight's saga, technically, Alex started it. Did not. Did too. Did not. Did too. I'm just saying, if you know the boy has a short fuse, why would you get in his face? Dude.

I knew from the lack of Magna Corp, they were going to win. The other clue was Stephanie taking her dumb ass all the way to Brooklyn. Anyone else wonder how hot the pizzas were by the time she got there?

Loved how Stephanie's -- she's a college grad, ya know -- plan to gang up on Chris back-fired. Alex, Angie and Chris put her pompous ass on a spit and handed Carolyn the match. George didn't give her much slack either.

Alex didn't just say "don't yell at me". Alex walked over to Chris, DIRECTLY in front of him, and pushed his face close to Chris. Then he said "don't yell at me." When you get in someone's face, you are telling them that you are going to get violent. That's why Ex-Lax's faux-victim routine about how threatened he was made me roll my eyes. He's just a wuss. I've seen better sob stories from those 300 pound babies on Maury Povich.



You're assuming NW makes logical decisions. When has that ever happened? They haven't won anything since week 5. The last person who won for their team was...Tana.

In my area, instead of a Papa John's commercial, it was a Pizza Hut commercial featuring Erin...I mean Ashlee Simpson & Jessica promoting a buffalo chicken pizza.

Especially when "model" isn't really the term I would use to describe them. More like average people who are wearing identical outfits who should be pimping pizza, but are standing around like a gaggle of geese. What a waste of money.

I didn't think Magna's location was all that great, but NYU's wasn't that great since it looked like winter (with the ice riink ready) so either students aren't there because 1) it's finals time or b) it was break. I wonder if they couldn't park the truck closer to Union Square. Plus, more flyers??????

Tana is so great. She didn't even take credit (that we saw) for the pizza name.

Trump: "I like meatballs." Magna & Net Worth: "Let's make a meatball pie." Incorporating the Italian theme was a good move though.

If anything, it looked more like Alex was threatening Chris. Who gets in someone's face and then says the other person who was just standing there is threatening...only Alex.

I liked Craig's attitude during the boardroom. Not too cocky, and not falling into the Trump Trap of saying things you don't want to be called on about later.

Loved that Stephanie continued on the Cab o' No Self Awareness train. Yeah, the college group are so much better that they traded you and still continued to win. Even better, they won better without you on the team. You, Erin and Audrey can look in the mirror all day long and decide who is the fairest of them all.

I get the feeling that at one of his Board Room appearances, Chris is going to totally spin right out of his chair, a la John Belushi during the Weekend Updates of Saturday Night Live in the 70's.

Hee! Chris survived again! That's funny as hell. Personally, the arguement was juvenile, but Alex and Steph tried to take it to far. Sorry guys; Trump has learn his lession thanks to Stacie J. I seriously hope Chris sticks around. This really is entertaining.

Stephanie: Glad she's gone. Her cab interview prooved that she as big of a bitch as Erin, but not as entertaining.

Angie: Your doomed.

Alex: Your an idiot, but Trump likes you, so good job on that.

Bren: Good job... I guess. Didn't see much of him, but I guess he did a good job making the pizzas. Good move going with Tana's idea and letting her and Kendra market it. I'm sad that he didn't suggest a cucumber pizza though.



That was very strange. Was he always like this? Or was he being a bitch to spite his team for last week. If that's the case, he needs to quit it. I still like him, but that not going to get him anywhere in life.

Kendra and Tana: Finally two! Woohoo!

I'm loving the Papa Johns vs Dominos. Screw both them! Pizza Hutt all the way baby!

Was this national? We got it in NC, and I totally agree that the Papa John's "Why get a pizza made by an Apprentice?" was the best part of the show.

Beyond the commercial drama, this was booooooooring. I hate this show and its editing-for-dumb-people. It was so clear that Tana/Craig's team was in the clear because of how they'd been shown.

Sometimes, I think it'd be easier for me if instead of watching the whole thing, Trump just showed up at my house to hit me over the head with an anvil and yell "STEPHANIE'S GOING THIS WEEK!"

First off, to Kendra - Never. Use. Trump. And. Bling-Bling. In. The. Same. Sentence. Ever. I find it interesting that both teams came up with the same idea, which was in retrospect Trump's idea. Try to actually do something original!

Also, what's with Trump and mobile businesses? First airstream, now this. I thought that Chris would be fired, but Steph isn't half-bad a choice either. Glad to see Chris is actually sticking to his word, although people in my family thought Chris' sunflower seeds were more tobacco at first. Aye.

It's not exactly rocket scientist that time will play a major issue next week. And I would like to see Donald Trump holding out his hand to his face, then jabbing himsefl in the head as he says, "I'm fired!" It would be hilarious.

Oh, and what is next week's task about again? I was distracted by all the clocks. Especially the goofy image of Trump's face with a clock superimposed over it.

I have this strange feeling that Trump is starting to genuinely like some of these remaining candidates. Maybe it's because he's made some good firing choices so far, and the folks that are left aren't thoroughly obnoxious.

I was expecting more crazy from Chris tonight. I'm glad he held it together. I think I may have read somewhere that sunflower seeds are a mild opiate. Angie's nicotine patch idea might be worth looking into as well, though I could picture Trump demanding Chris strip off his shirt for a little show and tell.

Loved it when Chris's face fell right at the end, when Trump summed him up as "a crazy person". Hee. The boy knows he's on thin ice.

I'm fairly happy with the end result tonight.
Stephanie was obviously hoping that an escalation of the tensions between Alex and Chris would be useful in the boardroom take the focus off her fairly lacklustre abilities, which is why she gave Angie a pass. That strategy would have worked, too, if the boys hadn't backed off their silly playground arguements and closed ranks against her.

Alex seemed to read the situation and convince Trump and the viceroys that his team-mate's potential was worth far more than his project manager's entire "net worth" (excuse the pun).

Does Carolyn have her own theme song now? As she was striding towards the camera there was this music playing that sounded like it was lifted from an old "Police Woman" episode. It was pretty awesome.