My TV Musings

Last week Vincent Pastorelli, of The Sopranos, was turned into a rat by the Hydra team leader, Piers Morgan. Piers and Vinny faked an argument so Pastorelli could be taken in by the women’s team, Empresario, and become an undercover spy, passing Empresario’s secrets to the men’s team. It backfired on the men’s team in two ways: Vinny decided to flip and join the women’s team AND Empresario, with his help, went on to beat Hydra. Once in the board room, Vinny resigned and Trump eventually accepted, leaving the men with 5 team members, one more than Empresario.

This week, Stephen Baldwin, having been put through the ringer by Piers last week when he disagreed with Piers’ tactics and when Piers recommended him to be fired by Trump, decided he wanted to resign rather than work with Piers again. Being allowed an audience with Trump, Stephen asked to be let go, but Trump had a different idea: why not change teams, working with the women, so he could, as Trump said, “kick his (Piers’) ass” in competition?

Stephen accepted this option and told the celebrities when he returned. Nobody was pleased. The women had finally gotten to a place where they all felt comfortable with each other, and the men thought it was a copout. To top it off, Stephen said he had a prior engagement this week and would not be available, to which Omarosa said “so you’re telling me that on the first day of your new job you won’t even be there?”

Omarosa felt so strongly about the idea of Stephen joining Empresario that she told Trump “we respectfully decline your offer to send Stephen over to our team” to which Trump responded “I’m the boss. Stephen is going to be on Empresario.”

The task for our two teams was to create a living window featuring Serta by Vera Wang, showcasing a Vera Wang-designed mattress. The women chose to utilize one of Vera Wang’s most famous lines, the wedding dress, staging Stephen Baldwin carrying in his “bride”, fellow team member, Carol Alt. After Vera gushed about the presentation, Omarosa, as project manager, said to the camera “I’m going to TKO Lennox Lewis.”

The men went a different direction, choosing to present a scene including one of the most great romances in history, that of Cleopatra and Marc Anthony. Vera had told them she spent a lot of her offtime in bed, watching tv and reading. Their presentation showed Cleo and Marc in a modern environment, lying on the bed, being fed grapes, watching tv, and multi-tasking with the computer and cell phone. Both Vera and the Serta executive really loved it.

The women were surprised when the men won this task, and Omarosa and Piers bandied back and forth about which of them was the more inept. Finally Trump asked the men to leave the room and Omarosa was on the hot seat to pick two team members to bring back to the board room. After thinking about picking Stephen because he wasn’t around for most of the task, she decided instead to bring back Nely and Marilu. When the three of them returned, Trump felt strongly that Nely should have seen early on that the wedding theme was not very creative so he fired her.

Good luck to Omarosa overcoming the things she said about Marilu. Marilu Henner may end up winning this whole thing if the women can just win another task.

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