THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE
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03-01-2009 9:00PM
03-07-2009 8:00PM

Donald Trump divides 16 new celebrities into male and female teams, then sends them off to bake and sell cupcakes to raise money for charity. Fierce power struggles erupt on the women’s team, while the men are confident their celebrity power will carry the day. Kitchen disasters plague both teams as they bake their cupcakes, but when they hit streets of New York City, the cash rolls in. A surprise taste test brings yet more conflict for the women, and the men confront one celeb who’s not pulling his weight. In the end, the team that makes the most money wins, and the first celebrity hears Trump’s fateful words, “You’re Fired!”

Trump has a funny clever knack for moving his show more and more into wierd but fun comedy business genre.The writing though needs a real boost. It tends to get into repeat.

They out to grab the hot hot Fine Brothers ...Finebrothers.com to do some of their writing. Make it more fun, bring in huge following and as the show rolls onward it will get more and more Trump centric.

It's really sad this show had to make once again a "go for the ratings show" using "celebrities". That the money goes to a charity is nice, but really, come on people. Do you really care if a person who already is probably set for life financially can make a better donut shop or sell used appliances better than the next celebrity? I would rather see a group of people out there where the possibility of a real job and life change is the goal.

I personally would much rather see charities benefitting from shows of this type then them being vehicles for individuals to launch annoying "reality" careers instead of working for a living (ie: Omarosa).

JD minus Mod hat

Anytime they use celebrities on anytype of gameshow/reality show I think it's cool because the money goes to charity.

I totally agree with you! Besides, most of these celebrities already have the funds to donate to charities if they choose to do so
I would much rather see real people in real business situations in it to win the ultimate job!

It's great to see celebs really working and showing off why their celebrity is money generating tool for these charities. So many times it's about just fund rasiers and we think they do nothing really. Now we get to see them hussle it up on the streets. Hopefully is will be more fair than them using contacts like piers last year. They harder they work I think the more they care about their chairity and with the econ now, this should be a real battle. bring it on trump!

Looking forward to this new season, let the fun ensue.

KOTU doesn't have the harmony needed to accomplish a team win, for example the name selection sux.

Plus the Playboy playmate Brande will draw alot of attention, so I think ATHENA will win Round 1.


But I think the Project Manager Herschel won't be fired, Clay will be.

That's my prediction.

Wow...the women take the win $61,000+ to $49,000+, over $120,000 to Joan River's Charity to feed the homebound, "God's Love We Deliver."

More on the Charity from their website:www.glwd.org

Yeah, Joan! Very good job! And this boardroom meeting is fantastic. I love it when Trump asks people who they would fire. This is going to be a good season for the show.

And the "Diceman" is the first to go...

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I was hoping he would stay around. He's a hoot! But, he made his bed when he left the bakery. Then again, Dennis left with him. It was a toss up, I thought, but Don Jr. said it best when he said that Dice couldn't be managed.

I thought Dice would be the first to go as well because of his lack of participation and volunteering to quit. Since it was only week one, I didn't see Dennis Rodman getting fired because of who he is. I'm sure some viewers will watch just to see what he is up to from week-to-week. I couldn't see Herschel getting fired because of the amount of money he brought in even though I only saw Tom's contacts come through.
I think the women did an excellent job, and I have to applaude Annie for her take charge attitude in the kitchen. When Joan (PM) wasn't around, someone else had to step up because she couldn't be in two places at once.
The show is much better when it consist of ordinary people trying to win the ultimate job working for Mr. Trump. However, ratings must be good, to continue with celebs....Rick

I'm glad to see Dice go, he's all about Dice not the team or his Charity. if took the attitude: A cupcake is equal to show ticket, as he should have his "TEAM" would have won hands down. but, he couldn't do that.
cya loser

I so agree! I think the men will do much better without him.

Andrew Dice Clay was the right one to go. He did nothing but complain and run his mouth. Although I did not think that Herschel Walker did a good job as Team Leader. For the women Annie Duke was too abrasive and overpowering. That might work well when she is Team Leader , but not under ordinary circumstances.

Yeah, the name selection really does suck. Kötü is the Turkish word for bad:



In Czech it means "quoted."
"Tummy" in Estonian.
"Cat" in Polish.

I realize few people will notice, but it's still hilariously ironic IMO.

So, Mr. Trump, do an episode where the teams must visit Turkey to complete a task. Team KOTU would learn a lesson in international branding faux pas!

To me, Kotu sounds like a sanitary napkin.

In the first few firings there's no danger that The Donald eliminates somebody who's any good. Dice was worse than useless, plus just not as funny as he thinks he is. My only real problem with this episode is that they just didn't have enough material for a 2 hour show. Way too many discussions went on past the point of boredom, until people were just sitting there waiting for the camera to stop.

The real betting on this show should be on whether GE makes it through to the end. Stock was at $7.50 this morning; it was about $60 when The Apprentice first aired.

When Dice first opened his mouth, reminded me of why I never cared for him! So glad to see him fired!!

Sorry, about these multiple posts, I am new to this and obviously don't know what I am doing. Please be patient with me.

As for Dice, I am glad to see him go also. I could not believe the way he was talking to Donald Trump and calling him "Donnie." I found his attitude to be abrasive and he refused to do the work involved to complete the task.

Hiya, Reginao!

Just to be accurate, I rechecked the premiere date of the original - 1/8/04. GE closed that day at $32.25. GE Capital, not NBC, is what's dragging the corporation down.

Hershel's inability to follow a recipe isn't getting enough credit. If the men had won the taste challenge, they'd have taken it by $3000 (plus however much more could have been raised by selling edible food)

I doubt that many people were buying the cupcakes for the taste. They were supporting the charities and likely would have bought them no matter how good or how bad as the money was paid before they were received. I also doubt anyone would ask for a refund from a charity regardless of how bad they were.

I don't know whether the difference would have been $10 or $10,000, but quality matters. In cupcakes or in websites.

This site, with its nasty habits of hanging up, logging me out, and getting sloooooooow, for example, should be an embarrassment to the entire corporation. Its a message board, not cutting edge technology. All this stuff was solved years ago.

What a start to the show! Dice was so going out after the first hour you could tell. I was shocked though the way rivers and that Poker lady kinda went at it. I guess joan is still the bitochy old new yorker she has been known to be, she's not slowed down at all.
rodman was so funny though about what he said about Joan an Melissa not having the cord cut. it's true it seems.

The taste of cupcakes don't matter, people know it's for charity. it seems if you are too worried about how they taste and what they taste like then you are being some what petty as a consumer. of course you want a good product but you aren't going to kill yourself in that short of a time to make something that is beyond perfection. People weren't buying tastey treats they were buying a chance to meet a celeb and give money to a worthy cause.

I don't like Walker either. He seems to be a cry baby. he didn't go a great job with his team plain and simple.

Same here!

Heh Herschel's lucky Dice was worse than him here, Herschel totally screwed up the cupcakes, hehe.

Agree totally!

anyone know the name of the piano piece that plays at around 30 minutes into the episode? This piece was in the previous season as well.

Thanks!

You'd kind think the men would put more effort into challenges that are lets face it more geared to women. the men don't have really very many creative types as far as cooking or design.

The men certainly blew it away with the van design, that should have earned them some kind of a bonus....

For me the interesting thing about celebrity apprentice is the insight into the celebrities.

CA seems to have a way of scratching through the veneer of the person's public image, public relations and glitz to reveal a little more about their humanity. It is interesting to see how hard they are willing to work for something that they (supposedly) believe in.

They select their charity, they sign on the dotted line to appear, but are they willing to perform?

For example, Jesse James said at one point "I'll do whatever it takes, just tell me what to do", while Rodman and Dice found every excuse to avoid doing anything that required them to do anything other than be a "celebrity".

There were similar examples on the women's team.

There's a big difference between telling the public what a great person you are and showing us.

Jesse James surprised me when he said that none of his friends had any money. The man is married to Sandra Bullock. Surely she knows scads of people who have lots of money.

The minute he said that I looked at my husband and said "what he can't call his wife?" I mean come on she has money and she has friends who have money. Maybe he is saving them for when he is project manager and his charity stands to gain from it? But that can backfire on you cause you can get fired before you get a chance to manage a challenge.

I didn't even know this!!

How did the ratings turn out for Sunday's show? With a two-hour show and a 'unique' cast to say the least, I'm curious as to how the ratings turned out.

Here is a little info

I can sympathize with this view, but ...

I am curious about whether people who are successful in some of the most ridiculously high-paying professions around - show business, professional sports, etc. - can actually pull their weight at the sort of jobs the rest of us do, particularly when their support system is taken away from them. It seems few of them are up to it!

And while they could easily give as much if not more money to the charity than they earn during the show, the national exposure for the charity is priceless. It's all about the marketing, baby!

BusinessBroad
http://my.nbc.com/blogs/BusinessBroad/main/

Agree -- it was really a contest between Dice and Dennis Rodman as to who contributed least. If Dice had raised $1 for every time he claimed he was THE MOST SUCCESSFUL STAND UP COMIC EVER, the men would have won.



And we have a whole season of this to look forward to. I'm sorry, but 16 people is too many, and two hours is too freakin' long. What were they thinking?

I seem to remember The Donald being on one of the Fox network talk shows last year talking about how much he hated being in the Sunday time slot during a past season (blaming that for the ultimate demise of the non-celebrity version). Maybe this sounds the death knell for the Celebrity version, too. I hope not, but their judgment this season is starting to look really questionable.

I missed the show last Sunday night, but it got shown again last night and so I was able to at least see them in the board room near the end of the show. That Dice dude was the right person to get rid of first because he made it as clear as glass that he was not going to follow the directions that were given by the person in charge. If you are going to be like that then you might as well starting looking for you another job.

God bless you always!!!

YEA!!! Just a few more hrs till start time!! I love this show!!

I know I'm a week behind and I missed this Sunday but I was very disturbed last week when Melissa Rivers, who I assume is Jewish, likened the hard time she was having in picking the best of the women's teams' cupcakes to the decision faced in the movie,"Sophie's Choice." I'm not even Jewish but I felt that her offhand remark was very distasteful. I understand she was trying to be funny but some topics are just off limits to comedic remarks. The Halocaust and all the horrors it entailed are absolutely off limits to comedy...at least that is how I feel. I enjoy comedians and I can laugh at almost anything but there is just nothing funny about the horrible dilema faced by the character Sophie. To suggest that picking between two cupcakes could be as hard as choosing which of your children you were willing to send to death to save the other one is unforgiveable as an entertainer. I would have left that scene on the floor in the editing room.

[quote name='AzizalSaqr' date='Mar 1 2009, 11:58 PM' post='3717620']
And the "Diceman" is the first to go...

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DICE deserved to go. He had no interest in doing any real work. What the heck was he thinking? Hadn't he seen the show before? Such a prima-donna, too. He doesn't realize he's a has-been. He WAS a star about 20 years ago, but what how successful has he been since then? He's just resting on his laurels. Scott deserved to go 'cuz he he didn't take control of his team. And he didn't play fair-I thought that he was pretty ignorant toward Tom Green.Tom was ACTUALLY trying to help. The next to go will be Rodman if he keeps slacking off. Or Clint Black-who I'm s'prised to see is a big jerk. I am most s'prised and impressed by Jesse James. He has creative talent, intelligence, a good work ethic,and tries to be a team player (w/out being a brown-noser or being dishonest). I can see what Sandra Bullock sees in him.Go, Jesse!

^^^ I didn't hear or see anything that made C.B. look like a jerk. Why should we believe the negativity that was being said about him when we did not see or hear it for ourselves?

God bless you and him always!!!

I had a long reply but it didn't save. So here goes my short one.

This episode was so funny. If all the assignments were sabatoged I think this could make for the funniest season.

^^^ That would be awful considering that each person is there to help out a certain organization.

God bless you always!!!