"Lee... You're fired!"

I hate Lee, and those words are sweet like nectar, but what a dick thing to do to the kid. Not that he probably wasn't asking for it.

Of all people, I think Tammy got screwed the worse. Pepi was "Who?", Brent was in the background and crazy, but Tammy was the love interest and nothing more. Must suck.

Overall, the whole episode seemed like one big arrow pointing to Sean. Only Kelly vs. Jen seemed more obvious.

Sean and the hairspray. OF course.

Wow. Totally didn't see that coming. Yawn.

Was that David Hasselhoff in the audience, crying?

I was hoping for Sean to win (lesser of two evils) but what a terrible conclusion to a terrible season. They never even discussed how the two charity events turned out. And was it me or were there even more commercials than normal?

Then to top it off it seemed like they were trying to brainwash me into thinking Sean and Lee weren't incompetent by telling me over and over again how great they were. I didn't fall for it though, because my hate was strong. And my memory of the season and their incompetence was still fresh.

Of the two I prefered Sean, but if I had to see the wanker dance one more time I was going to throw up.

Sean better get his ass back to The Orpheum theatre stat before Tammy and Bryce take off together.

Tammy looked lovely, as did Charmaine.

Lee the politician was working The Hair even at the end, trying for scraps.

Lee's leadership on that last task absolutely sucked. He should have been fired in the middle of the task for giving Lenny the job of handling the celebrities.

They could've used those filler minutes at the end to talk to fired candidates or even Sean more.

I think Trump would have hired them both if one of them had chosen the Hawaii gig. (Lee's a fool for not picking it). All in all, it was completely anticlimactic.

That was like reading an Agatha Christie novel and finding out at the end there wasn't even a murder.

YAY SEAN!!!! Couldn't stand the smug little Lee. Glad to see Sean got both the girl and the job. Knew he was going to win when all they did was bitch about the stuff Lee did wrong, and the only thing they could find to complain about at Sean's event was missing signage for Pontaic. Says a lot, IMO.


One thing bugged, though. Lee mentioned they made over $60k for the Leary Firefighter Foundation, but nothing (outside of knowing that one car went for $42k) was said about WWF's final tally.

Not much suspense to that one. Yawn.

It was a shitty thing to do to Lee (especially since he hasn't said that to the runner-up in a while), but considering how I was pulling for Sean, I'm satisfied with the end result.

Ho hum, Sean won, yippee, loves Tammy, gonna marry her, whatever.

I realized late last week that I wouldn't get my dream of both being fired for the simple reason that they were doing that stupid poll with a cash prize. They'd be in big trouble if all those people paid money to text vote and then they decided not to award a winner.

Lee needs abit more experience. Sean needs a tranquilizer. What the hell was that jumping up and down, yelling with pumping fists. Show some dignity man.

Anyway, boring end to a boring season. Hope next season is better.

1. I want to kick Lee in his stupid assface.
2. I hate to admit it, but if Tammy and Sean are actually dating, well....that's a little cute.
3. A trashy Trump hotel in my native home, and a fucking fify story building in my adopted home. Gee, thanks, Trump. You're all class.
4. I hate My Name Is Earl, but tonight, I fell in love with Jaime Pressley when she chastised Lenny. I can never get enough of Lenny being chastised.
5. "Pepi, sit down!"

Let's start with the semi tragic: Carolyn, what the HELL is that monstrousity you're wearing?! Did you roll around in mud to cover some stain that was all over your suit?

Second, Omarosa still gets invited to this? Huh.

In the end, when a celeb says "Your shit's not working, little Apprentice boy!" to a Apprentice lackey, then you're pretty much screwed. Oh Lee, not being ready for the first meeting was your first mistake. And then when downhill from there.

Congrats Sean on the job, the car and the girl. You're living the American dream! Now work on your excitement dance!

And can someone PLEASE tell Burnett that this is the fifth Apprentice finale he's done. Why does it reek of bad production? The last 3 minutes with them just standing there was just awkward.

God Trump sounds like a 5 year old when he gets on the subject of romance. "Are you going to marry her? You love her so much are you going to marry her?"

I was shocked as shit when Sean said yes.

I didn't think I cared who won, but after seeing Lee's task, I was happy for Sean. His event went off without a hitch. Lee's team really screwed up. Sean won anyway just by being there to greet Trump.

The lesser of two weevils. Oh well.

'Sit down Pepe!' Highlight of the night.

Jaime Pressley is a very unattractive woman. And not just in appearance either. Yech.

Sean and his banana slug lips are dating Tammy? Barf.

Charmaine? Holy gorgeous!

Was Brent actually on the stage?

Props to Sean... he deserved it, though Lee really is the definition of what an apprentice should be.

I actually thought that was one of the most entertaining things tonight, sadly. It's about time they finally have a winner spaz out. I thought he might have a seizure. Only thing he left out was attempting to crowd surf.

I'm am "glad" that Sean won. He's probaby the worst winner so far, but he was better then Lee. The show defintley made it look that way. Lee was screwing most everything up in his task. The only things they could find for Sean was maybe he wasn't micromanaging enough and he (gasp) couldn't find a cd. The Drama!

Seriously, why the fuck would Lee asign Lenny of all people, to cater to the celebs. That's just stupid, in my opinion.

Charmaine looked gorgeous at the live finale. As did Tammy and that hot red dress. But what the fuck was Roxanne wearing?

Congraluations, Sean. You managed not to suck as bad as Lee. Yay?

I wonder if the missing signage was by design. The task was about the charity, not Pontiac. Plus, there was signage for Pontiac.

Boring finale.

I noticed that Bill Rancic wasn't there.

It was nice to see Randal.

There should have been some time to discuss the tasks. Who actually did win the task?

What was the actual audience vote total?

Brent, incidentally, appeared to be the biggest (weight) loser. Good for him.

I would have preferred Lee as the apprentice but he was pretty meh in the final task.

This is the first time that both candidates wanted the same prize. I don't blame them. Why be stuck in Hawaii when you know that Trump will be in NYC?

Ugh, I cannot stand Sean with the air-punching and the jumping around....it totally defeats his major stance about being more mature than Lee....and on what basis did the Donald choose? We didn't learn the outcome of the charity events, who raised more money or who was more highly praised by the sponsors, and the Donald never gave his reason as to why he fired one and hired the other.
Just awful.
Am I mentally ill, or did it look like Trump whispered "give me a call next week" to Lee during the credits? I don't know why it seemed like he said that, but that's what it looked like to me.

had Lee chosen a different team, a group who wouldn't have made his predicament look like crap in last week's cliffhanger, the callers would have had much more confidence in him when they started voting 2 hours ago.

Even if Lee redeemed himself at the hockey event tonight, most of the votes were probably already cast long before his performance concluded so it wouldn't do him any good.

Next time Lee, make sure YOU have Tarek, Andrea, Charmaine, Dan, or Bryce, and make sure Sean is the one stuck with pepe, lenny, and roxanne.

1. I saw at least two Mrs. Trumps in the audience.
2. Brent's bagel diet might work.
3. Tight shots of the ice rink but you could still see there was a small crowd for Leary's fundraiser.
4. Does Jaime Pressly think acting like a prima donna will win fans?

Sean won this the night they picked their teams. Congrats to Sean. (And I think he and Tammy make a cute couple.)

Awww, c'mon! If you just won you'd be dancing too.

I'm dissappointed that we don't know how much they raised for charity, and what the vote percentage was.
Also, what was with making Sean leave and go drive his new car? I mean, for Pete's sake, we KNOW Pontiac was a sponsor (and if we didn't, the 8,437,956 Pontiac commercials that aired during the show should have clued us in), so why make him go down and showboat in the car? Let the man celebrate with his friends and family.
I thought Lee's event seemed pretty half-assed. Sean's event seemed much more upscale, and I am so impressed with the BNL. What nice, normal guys they seem to be. Their rider is pretty laid back too (no all one color M&M's in a bowl hand carved by a blind, one-legged pygmy and made from a tree planted on sacred ground under the fifth full moon of the year for them), so that makes them even better in my book.
I like how they billed this as the most "star-studded" Apprentice yet, but we only saw the back of most of the stars for about 15 seconds.

I wish they would have showed more of what was good and bad about how they handled the final tasks. Amd the Sean-Tammy thing is Creepy with a capital Eep.

Other than that? My thoughts on the finale? Ivanka is pretty.



I saw him chatting someome's ear off in the audience.

I could not believe the atrocious outfit Roxanne was wearing at the finale. It was hideously ugly.

I thought Sean deserved the win.

What was with the extended clapping at the end? Did it really go on forever or did it just seem that way? Did I miss it, or did they ever say which task was considered the winner?

I was disappointed that neither Ivonka or Donald's son- (what's his name I am having a brain cramp) would pick an apprentice. But then George didn't pick one either. Carolyn said she would but she didn't. Charmaine at least had the nerve to do it.

I cracked up at Lenny's Lee is like gold speech. It totally avoided the question Donald asked him.

I loved how Trump at the beginning of the episode, like in season 2, said he had not made up his mind yet on who to hire. I think he actually expected everyone to take him seriously. My guess is like in the lopsided matchup in season 2 there were about 7 or 8 people out of the millions watching who believed this.

Wow, I don't know who I'm embarrassed for the most...
Lee, for being fired so unceremoniously?
Sean, for being such an insufferable ass?
Trump, for putting on such a laughable show that's become a caricature of itself?
George & Carolyn, who have to be associated with this bullshit?
Or myself, for knowing who all of these people (asshats) are?

I don't see how she was being a prima donna. If I was asked to do an important job like emcee a charity auction and no one had any real details or explanation of what I was to do, I'd be a bit bitchy and nervous too.

He was sitting in the second row, in the far right. I spotted him right at the end.

Well, congrats Sean. I never really hated you, but you're REALLY gonna need to improve your skills before you're up to the level of the previous Apprenti (tm Randal). Starting with...your presentation skills. I imagine you're gonna need those A LOT, seeing as you're not gonna get a real job out of this contest anyway. And yeah, you really need to tone it down a bit, though your dance was a great source of laughter.

And Tammy, what the hell were you thinking? I'd be tired of Sean after five minutes and kinda creeped out by his interviews. You must be on some good drugs to put up with him for as long as you have.

Yay! Sean won!
Lee's team was beyond horrible.
I was really waiting for Carolyn to start in on Lee for that huge mistake of having Lenny be in charge of the celebs. I feel kinda gyped now...

I think I missed something though. Did they ever show the final percentages of that contest?

I stand corrected. I guess I was too busy yawning to notice Bill.

I hope next season (the final season?) will be more entertaining.

I was expecting Lenny to tell the celebs something like, "In Russia, we play hockey good. If you no play good, you weak, you worthless. You worthless, we shoot you." Seriously, I would not have felt comfortable with him. Urgh.

Sean...I'm only glad since it wasn't Lee. And because he was my pick in the fantasy game.

Trump is such, such a big baby. Why the hell does he alway shout???

Surprisingly, Ivanka + Donald Jr. were kinda annoying in that they were so on the fence. George too. I loved Carolyn in that I hated her answer. "Look, are you going to give me a pick?" "Yes I am. This is what's good about Lee, and this is what's good about Lenny." "Well, good, thanks for not being indecisive." I bet they told all four not to say a pick since they'd all have said Sean.

I knew Lee couldn't win, though. The normal storyline is that both teams encounter a huge, huge problem after week one which turns out to have zero impact on the rest of the task during week two. Lee's big problem sprung up new problems. It didn't "all come through in the end". Sean's actually did.

And why the hell did Trump have to mention "oh, I thought they were ACTUALLY bare naked ladies" again??????

ETA:

Something like a blood vessel in her sinus burst, but it wasn't actually anything serious. The doctor said if it happened again, she needed help, but it was fine now. You know, the first time I read that, I thought it said "what happened to Andrae", but I was sad to see my mistake.

Bill Rancic was indeed in the audience.

I also thought Trump told Lee "call me next week." (He also said "I wanna talk to you" as Sean was jumping and he was shaking Lee's hand at first.) Urgh. One can only hope he wants to tell Lee why he is such an arrogant, misguided young boy who shouldn't have trusted the snotty, unprofessional Russian.

I hated this season. But I'm okay with the Sean win...I mean, come on, he is the man who will single-handedly make Trump "richer than he is already." Snort. (On a more positive note: this hopeless romantic digs the Sean/Tammy love story...to a point.)

THe charity folks in the audience, by the way, looked like "WTF?" when the show was over and Trump made no mention of how the lads did auctioning the cars... Trumpie's got a lotta splainin to do.

Me too. The only reason they left it out, was probably to hide the fact that Sean probably kicked Lee's ass very badly, on both things. Actually, it felt like we didn't see much of his team to begin with. I have a feeling that it must have ran smoothly for the most part. It might have been as one-sided as Kendra vs. Tana was.

Jaime Pressly was kind of bitchy, but I did laugh when she "bantered" with Lenny. Lenny probably isn't use to people like Jaime (Re: women) talking back to him like that.

It may have been working, too. I lip-read DT saying "Call me next week" to Lee. Could have been a brush-off, though.

Yikes! I was embarrassed for Tammy, especially when Trump was asking Sean if he was going to marry her. When he said yes, I wondered if Tammy actually knew that already or if that was his on-air proposal.

Sean's run out to the car was very Austin Powers-esque. Yeahhhh, baby!!!

Randall (or Rebecca, for that matter) could have kicked either of these guys' backsides.

ZZZzzzzzzzzzzz to that finale. I tried to care going into this show, but it never happened.

The only thing that caught my attention was seing the Solstice in red. Between this show and countless ads, I've always seen the car in black. I never imagined it was available in another colour.

ETA - Fancy terminology for a nose bleed?

Terrible, just terrible. Trump really has no plan anymore. He just blows in the wind on which way he goes. He doesn't even try and disguise this as show full of bs anymore.

I'm hoping the California season will bring some new energy to this debacle.

All of sudden their afraid to really critique the performances? Because its live?

and WTF Mandrea was wearing JEANS!!!!!!

Getting pissed at the serious lack of professionalism shown by Lee and his gang is not acting like a prima donna. She was pretty good natured considering.

Andrea had an aggravated throat or sinus (don't recall which) from coughing. No big deal and she seemed like she was back in action inside of a hour.

I'd complain that they edited it too obviously but when Lee gives them so little to work with what are they supposed to do? Everything he did was a disaster. Can't believe his second meeting with that other charity gal was worse than the first with Lyz. Good God man, at least pretend to have a plan of some sort.

And his event was quite a bit smaller (based on what we saw). Though he did have more celebs to deal with. Or rather to let Lenny deal with. Lenny? WTF?! Lee should have been fired right then and there.

4 people have won without going into spasms. He's an immature, sleazy joke and I'm glad that winning this show now = fading into obscurity.

This was the worst final two and may have been the worst finale. No suspense, no entertaining insanity, and the last 10 minutes were nothing more than awkward crowd shots and the band playing. After FIVE seasons, how in the hell is it that they STILL can't plan a decent finale?

They should have had Bryce, Tarek, and Dan do a striptease and give lapdances to audience members. That would have been far more entertaining.

Yep, the Hair said to the Weasel, "Call me next week."

I wish the winner could have stayed for some of that interminable applause. What were they all clapping at, anyway? Besides that frenetic stage manager, I mean.

Yay for Sean. I guess.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! I've loved Sean all along plus I'll get 500 bonus points in the Fantasy Game for picking him during week 1. I'm doing the happy Snoopy dance here but I do wish they'd showed us the results of the final tasks.

And Randal is still a class act.

Lee so knew he wasn't going to win. You could see it on his face when Trump was talking to Sean about Tammy and Lee was just shaking his head.

I really miss the first season, not just for the contestants but for the fact that Trump actually spoke to them during the finale. It was, for me, the most interesting part of the whole experience. What the hell, with the aimless camera shots as that damn music played over and over? We couldn't have heard more from these people?

And did anyone note that Brent stood for both Lee and Sean when Trump asked who they wanted to win? I'm not a Brent fan, but I thought that was classy.

In the end, I liked Sean. I like his enthusiasm and his spirit, and I really hope he can take this thing and run with it. It was much more fun than watching Kelly win.

Randall is creepier than I remember.

And Randal is still a class act.

I thought he came across very "Used Car Salesman" while pimping his website. I'm sure it wasn't ad lib and that the producers knew about (or more likely wrote it for him) but it still came across pretty tacky.