'Celebrity Apprentice': Tommy, can you hear me?

March 8, 2009 8:40 PM

Previously on Celebrity Apprentice... Athena, the women's team, got a huge donation from Brande Roderick's contacts and sold $61,257 worth of cupcakes. Joan, as project manager, won $126,000 for God's Love, her charity. Good for her. The Thing That Ate Andrew Dice Clay went after Herschel Walker on the men's team but "Dice" was ultimately fired due to apathy. Shocking. Who will be fired tonight?

God's Love Delivery
Joan goes on a delivery and Karen Pearl, the CEO of God's Love, explains that all the people they give donations to are sick with various kinds of cancer, HIV/AIDs, Parkinson's, etc etc. Joan hands over a check for $125,000 to the charity. Part of it will go to a woman for after her next breast cancer surgery. Cool. Can't make fun of that.

Challenge
Today they are working with Zappos.com (they sell shoes, handbags and apparel) to create a comic book character that focuses on customer service. Zappos's CEO will pick the winner. For project managers, the women pick Khloe Kardashian. Her "celebrity" is listed as "reality star." That whole family makes me so sad. For the men, Scott Hamilton is the project manager. I will always love him because of the back-flips when he skated.

The Women
Annie wants to write the presentation. Melissa takes this opportunity to point out that her mother has won Emmys for writing. It's hard to get my eyes to focus after rolling them back in my head so far. The Rivers women terrify me and not just because I think if I held a lighter up to Joan's face that it would melt.

They eventually come up with Mizz Z for Zappos as their character. The focus group is a bunch of "typical comic book readers," according to Khloe. They are also not used to being around "pretty women." Heh heh. To support Khloe's assertions, they are pretty blown away about talking comics with a Playboy Playmate. Well, yeah. I think even I would be pretty excited to talk to a Playmate. They're just so pretty! I have a total girl-crush on Kendra from Girls Next Door.

Interestingly, the women pick Natalie Gulbis to model the superhero outfit instead of Brande. She looks super-foxy. However, when they do the presentation, Claudia (who got "sick") fumbles over her words and Natalie looks like a Super Hero Hooker in a vinyl skirt and black hooker boots and she makes her displeasure with the outfit known IN FRONT of Eric the CEO. Hmmm.

The Men
With the men, Dennis Rodman wants to do a transvestite super-hero. A man who transforms into a woman and sells purses and shoes. Awesome. So awesome. I would shop at Zappos just for that. The men kind of flouder around for awhile and eventually rely on their focus group to give them ideas. The focus group basically turns into Night at the Apollo for Tom Green and they still don't have a character.

Tom Green is just going ADHD-bonkers all over the place, shouting out names for the character and being all over the map. Scott wants to smack him and so do I. Scott finally settles on E for the character name. "Everything, Everywhere, Everytime." I'd do E cubed, maybe. Green wants to do a big Z on her chest for Zappos, but Scott overrules him. They really aren't letting Tom Green do anything. I don't think I would either, frankly.

Their costume ends up looking pretty awesome, mostly because Jesse James takes over. He says his next show will be "West Coast Choppers... and Costumes!" Delightful. It's purple with silver accents and black boots. In the actual presentation, Tom Green does a good job and manages to rein in his crazy for 5 minutes. Their super hero is a woman in a silver outfit who looks decidedly less hookerish than the women's team's super hero.

The Judgment
Eric the CEO liked the men's focus on the customer but not the name (EEE!). He thought the women did well with focusing on the letter Z and capturing the core idea of service, but he didn't like Claudia's actual presentation. Ultimately, the women's team is declared the winner. Zappos loved the character, the use of "Z" and that they seemed to work so well together. Khloe wins $20,000 for her charity, which is an organization that helps fight addiction.

In the board room, Scott chooses to bring in Tom Green and Herschel Walker. Trump almost immediately dismisses Herschel because the real tension is between Scott and Tom. After a lot of sniping and interrupting and Tom Green invoking that they are both testicular cancer survivors, Scott Hamilton is fired. Boy, that's disappointing. Tom Green annoys the crap out of me.

What do you guys think? Did the right team win? Did the right guy go home?

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The right guy was sent home. Green actually seems like a pretty smart guy, and he was the only one who was completely against the awful name "EEE". Sure he was being annoying at times, but he was the only one with a positive attitude. Tom will clearly be the project manager next week, and hopefully the men can turn this thing around!

Aric | March 8, 2009 9:06 PM

Actually, I quite liked Tom. I can see that he was trying to bring order to the chaos - something that Scott wasn't willing or able to do. Plus Scott's "EEE" was breathtakingly inane. Dennis is useless, and Clint was really annoying. Jesse remains a breath of fresh air. Who'da guessed? I found it funny that they spent all that time before they finally returned to Jesse's orginal (good) idea.

Wanted to gag everytime Skeletor talked about her writing skills. Yeah, every time I think of Joan Rivers, I think "great writing". And what about her butt-ugly daughter laying claim to Claudia's idea?! Doesn't she realize this is all being filmed. Thought it was really weak of Khloe and other others not to strongly explain that this was Claudia's idea, not Melissa's.

And finally, who brings in a group of comic books geeks to give their views on a marketing tool for a shoe website? Was this supposed to appeal to geeks or shoe shoppers? Can't exactly see them as the same demographic.

Didn't like the Zappos CEO. Always thought their selection was overpriced and unimpressive. Now I also think their CEO is a boring, humourless, none-too-bright lump. Would have been nice if he could have given a straight answer to the questions the teams gave him.

Isembard | March 8, 2009 9:15 PM

I think Tom Green is brilliant. Scott's idea of the name "EEE" is just stupid. The right man was fired.

Simone | March 8, 2009 11:42 PM

Isambard, I agree. Tom was great. Jesse is awesome. Clint and Hershel are morons. Scott deserved to go, what a smug little squirt, I lost all respect for him. And the CEO was a jerk. Hope Tom kicks *** next week.

Phyll | March 8, 2009 11:55 PM

I liked when Tom held up the sign "CHEEESE". I thought that summed up Scott's performance and EEE name decision perfectly. I'm sure Scott is a good guy and all but I was happy he got fired after watching him in this episode.

hockey99 | March 9, 2009 12:05 AM

tom green and rodman and maybe jesse are the only entertaining ones on the show...why would anyone want to see them kicked off? make an already lame show lamer? they already lost dice who was worth a little bit of turbulence...and all the angry reviewers on the internet are *****ing about tom...do they know anything about entertaining tv whatsoever? i guess its still fashionable to bag on tom green for some reason...nice review andrea...dolt.

js27 | March 9, 2009 12:14 AM

Obviously this show is not real and tonight was transparently so. There were plenty of incompetent people during the challenge but Scott was not one of them. Yes his EEE name was not optimal, but who can think with all the ridiculous personalities in the room. Clearly Dennis Rodman brings absolutely nothing to the table. Scott Hamilton was forced into being team leader over a bunch of incompetent morons and voted out because of their incompetence. Perhaps it is like real life, but me thinks Tom Green and Dennis Rodman bring in better ratings than Scott Hamilton and that's the real issue.

Dave | March 9, 2009 4:03 AM

Wow! Another great episode and epic meltdown from the men! Zappos.com asks them to create a comic book character that focuses on customer service -- basically rip off the eSurance pink hair superhero cartoon girl. Good one! Way to think out of the box Zappos!

Trump's Pants | March 9, 2009 4:07 AM

Tom Green is one of my least favorite celebrities, but he's really impressed me the last 2 weeks. He had a lot of good ideas and no one would listen to him. He got really irritating, but only after he spent hours being ignored. I think Tom's parents are quite familiar with the pain Scott was going through with him! lol

Joan called Clint Black a snake. That's interesting, as he did seem to be a jerk this week, after being so quiet last week. I like seeing these celebrities fight it out. I can't stand the Deal or No Deal chick (is that show even on anymore?), but her idea got ripped off by Melissa Rivers. Then again, since both teams came up with virtually the same "story", it wasn't THAT original.

Cornelius | March 9, 2009 7:26 AM

Lord, why can they not send Rodman home??? What a useless, arrogant piece of work. He adds NOTHING to this show but controversy. I guess I just answered my own question. Again, it's all about the ratings. Who would watch a show that starred Scott, Herschel, Joan and Melissa Rivers?

Melissa Rivers proved once again she has no talent and must ride someone else's coattails. At least this time she chose someone other than her mom.

So how much of all of this is real or being acted. Are these individuals really that clueless? I know they are out of their own element, but some of it is just ridiculous. EEE? Hello? They were so close. Just chose a real name starting with E and progress from there!

Sometimes it's sooo bad it's just sooo funny :)

Now if we could just get a good stiff wind to hit Donald's hair as he is getting out of the limo.

Colorado4US | March 9, 2009 8:09 AM