Friday, February 1, 2008

Celebrity Apprentice-The Godfather Saga

Oh where to begin, this episode unfolds like a Mario Puzo novel, the mafia Don, Donald Trump, the rat Luca Brazi, Vinny, and the hotheaded Sonny Corleone, Piers Morgan. Oh I can hear that godfather music in the background. Meanwhile, back to the firing of Jennie, we learn in the war room, Omarosa wants that "twit Carol Alt gone"-frankly I think she just threaten by her statueque beauty. It's funny how not two seconds after that sentence leaves Omarosa's lips when Carol walks in and Omarosa gives her a congratulatory hug, women will be women!
This episode's challenge was to design a free standing Croc donation bin where people can donate their used crocs to be recycled for those in Africa. I never really cared for Crocs myself-relegating them to garden shoes, but now I give them a thumbs up for that concept.
Piers becomes the PM for the guys, and The Don choses Carol as the girls PM. Immediately Trace comes up with the perfect catch phrase of "Wear Them, Share Them", watch out for those strong silent types! And hence the mayhem begins. When the guys think the girls are spying on them, Piers sends in Vinny to be a spy and cross the line over to the girls camp. Women being the nurturers, takes in Vinny with open arms-What? Didn't they suspect anything? I kept thinking this has got to backfire, although while it was happening, it was so totally funny. Vinny was thinking he was still on the Sopranos. When Vinny wrote a note and threw it to Baldwin, I was surprised that Baldwin didn't purposely pick it up but called Lennox to pick it up. Baldwin wanted to disassociate himself from all this deceitfulness, because much to my surprise, surprise, he's a minister and a born again Christian. He was having a pang of consciousness!
I thought the bin shaped like a giant Croc was a light bulb moment for the women with the cut out sign of Carol perfect and even Omarosa had to admit that Carol is a 10, although we know how highly O thinks of herself by rating her sassy self a 9 1/2.
Meanwhile, Vinny, being the nice guy that he is, started to feel the warm and fuzzy for the girls and decided to do a double cross and become a double agent and start working for the girls team, which set off a series of events that eventually led Vinny to become as he said, a man without a country, scorned by the girls and rebuked by the guys. I did feel sorry for him, but he shouldn't have taken it so far, he shoulda called it quits when Marilu and him were to go to the factory. That would have been the perfect time to go back to the guys camp, but our Luca Brazi continued to play his role.
I thought the guys did well on their project with that great catch phrase and the croc drop sign, and it did look like the Croc reps liked the guys better (I ended up liking the guys drop better with the graphics and all), however, the girls won for once-I'm thinking that shoe would look better in the Smithsonian.
In the boardroom, Vinny was still in Godfather mode, saying how the rat always gets killed, to which Piers or Pierce as Vinny kept calling him, piped up and said that "Marilu is not going to kill you". Curious how in the boardroom there was not a chair for Vinny-hum..too much over kill.
And I loved it when Vinny said that Piers called him a "fat Italian" which Piers, said, "no I called you a very fat Italian". I swear, Piers could say all the cuss words in the english language and they would sound like he's reading Shakespeare.
Had not for Vinny offering up his resignation, in the end, it almost looked like Piers was going to get fired, his face turning all pasty and sweaty, and his usually caustic English mouth snapped shut like two thin veal chops. Hey, have you noticed how Baldwin and Trump share the same doughy little eyes? In the end, The Donald had to let Vinny go, had he not offered himself up like some sacrificial lamb-Piers would have been ambushed, like Sonny, at the toll booth, his car riddled with bullets-but oh I digress! -Single D

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