Money money money money....moooneeey!
It's episode two of "Celebrity Apprentice." We open seeing Bret Michaels putting his winnings from last week to good use with some cute kids with diabetes. He gives them a peek into Donald Trump's boardroom. Kids practice saying, "You're fired." Every Alex P. Keaton's dream.
So the contest du jour: Creating capturing and sharing Kodak moments, rebranding the "Kodak moments" campaign. The teams get a storefront and must think of some way to get people in to have their pictures taken. Blago unilaterally appoints Sinbad team Rock Solid's project manager while Maria Kanellis, who has a huge flower on her head, takes charge for the women, team Tenacity. The women wanted Sharon Osbourne to do it but she declined, citing "coming down with something."
It's another two hour episode....
Girls settle on some sort of red carpet format. Sinbad talks about something with something.... Darryl Strawberry says: "I think Sinbad, when he's talking, thinks it's all clear in his mind but nobody else is getting it." Exactly.
Cyndi is asking a lot of questions, interrupting trains of thought and generally annoying her team. But she seems like she's truly into it and really trying. The men are stumbling around blindly. Bret is feeling ignored by Sinbad. Blago, who says he's a card-carrying member of "The Fellowship of Doers," is also pissed to be standing around. So he makes a cell phone, perhaps about his, um, "cloud," call that involves lots of swearing. He tells the camera he "can't deny the cloud that travels along with him," a cloud that might be good practice for a future electronic ankle bracelets, which would also undeniably travel with him.
Tenacity tells little Trump kid that they are doing something with wrestling champions -- not exactly red carpet they mentioned earlier. Sinbad tells Ivanka that they're inviting people in to basically take pictures with each of them.
Bret, still feeling left out, starts demanding he get a task RIGHT NOW lest the camera's pin him as The Stupid Lazy One. He kind of loses it. Sinbad poo-poos him. The rest of the team laughs at him (after he leaves the room).
The guys go into the street to capture some Kodak moments of their own. Bret complains to the camera that one of the shots injured him in, um, his private rock star parts. (??) (If not for Bret and his bountiful supply of crazy -- what exactly would we have here on this show?)
Tenacity continues to be charmed/annoyed with Cyndi's loopy rambling random-osity. Model Selita Eubanks puts it this way to the camera: She'd rather get hit by a bus than spend another minute with Cyndi. Sharon, with much coughing, does seem to be coming down with something -- she gets a doctor's excuse to go home for the day.
Men are still feeling lost, losing a bit of faith in Sinbad's leadership skills. "What is it you don't think you're seeing?" Sinbad asks. Um, a plan, they tell him. ... Make a Wish Foundation, the charity Maria is playing for, stops by and brings a few cute kids who try out the picture-making booth. .... Michael Johnson, who's totally the voice of reason this week, tells the camera that he believes Rock Solid's strategy is to rely on the girl's failing. Oof.
Finally -- and I do mean finally -- it's photo day. Blago is in charge of balloons. (I love that sentence!) Sharon is feeling better. Maria is wearing some sort of feathered getup with wrist bands and red leggings while Cyndi has arrived with green, blue and pink Easter Bunny hair streaks. Bret is late. The guys left without him cause he wasn't there for the car-ride to the site. Bret is pissed that they don't understand that he was actually early... when measuring by rock star time.
The printer messes up Sinbad's order and they don't get prints of the pictures the guys took on the street. They have a blank wall. The men complain more about Sinbad's so-called leadership.... But looks like Blago did a bang-up job with the balloons. He might have a future in balloons.
Girls open their photo store. They have wrestling belts and a WWE star for picture props AND cupcakes. Sharon coughs on the cupcakes. Like a lot.
At the men's booth, the guys offer themselves up as photo props. They decide to skip printing pictures and put them online, instead. The secret shopper Trump sent to check in on the teams was confused by the men's store, but he had fun with the pictures. Tenacity is printing pictures. That is until their power goes off. But it appears to be a temporary blip. Until it happens again. The secret shopper quickly gets Tenacity's store but had some issues getting her prints from the printing station.
Boardroom time. Much discussion and giggling about Blago's thing for balloons. ... The Kodak executives chose Tenacity as the winner. Maria gets $20,000 for Make a Wish Foundation. Rock Solid is going to be one less rock.
Michael Johnson doesn't point the finger at anyone. What happened to all the complaining about Sinbad's leadership void? Anyone? Anyone? Sinbad sort of throws himself under the bus, saying he should have spent more time on the Kodak products, less on the celebrity angle. Then Sinbad says Bret lost focus. Bret babyishly says Sinbad ignored him. Wah! Trump asks Michael if Sinbad fell down on the job -- Michael jumps on the anti-Bret bandwagon but admits Sinbad lacked focus. Curtis who did nothing but complain about Sinbad tells Trump he was an "average leader." Even Blago says Sinbad could have been stronger.
Sinbad picks Bret and Blago to go into the boardroom for the firing line. I might have misheard, but I think Bret tells Trump that Sinbad's job on the first day was "very dis-combooberated." Baby Trump asks Blago why he stuck the leadership job with Sinbad when he's supposed to be such a leader. Blago tells Trump "absent compelling facts where one of the players failed agregiously.... Sinbad." Trump asks Bret why he moped and walked away from the team. Bret says he needed a self-imposed time out. Trump wants to know why Sinbad couldn't manage Bret.
Sinbad's fired.