Yipes, so not only is The Gov. gone but Sharon is out sick and Cyndi is going to D.C. to meet the president. It's up to the dregs remaining to come up with a commercial for Right Guard that doesn't, haha, stink.
Curtis and Holly are the project managers. The two girls being out comes in handy paired with the guys inability to win cause it evens the teams at four against four.
In honor of Scottie Pippen and Clyde Dexler helping out with the commercials, Trump has the teams shoot baskets. The first team to score wins an extra 10K for the project manager's charity. Maria sinks one in six-inch stiletto porn boots. Holly's autism charity gets the ten grand.
The teams need to make a short Internet commerical and longer TV ad.
Scottie Pippen is working with Tenacity. Holly's come up with a concept that involves a funky-smelling youngster and Pippen is his "Funky Godfather" to show him how not to have B.O. It takes Holly about five seconds before she's bad-mouthing Cyndi in front of Scottie and Selita just giggles about it.
Rock Solid gets Clyde. Who knows what their concept is? Bret, meanwhile, receives a call that his daughter is having a potential diabetes crisis. He cries on camera. Very sad. He's utterly upset. Looks like he might be this episode's third casualty.
At the studio, Holly and Selita are running the show. They've got four hours till Scottie has to book it elsewhere. At Rock Solid's shoot, Curtis sends Goldberg and Michael for props. Curtis decided to drop his original idea, whatever that was, for something simpler that doesn't involve scenery. That was Bret's idea.
(Aside: Bret's daughter is named Rainbow. Sigh. UPDATE: I stand corrected. Her name is actually "Raine," which is much better, bow-less.)
Everyone notices Selita isn't dong anything while the other girls are all hauling in heavy props. Ivanka comes in to check on Rock Solid and Curtis lies to her, saying all is swell.
Cyndi takes the time to call in from D.C. multiple times and no one gives her the time of day. It's kind of ridiculous.
Clyde Drexler is a total sport for Rock Solid -- even allowing actors to smell his pits. What a guy! They revert to Curtis' original idea and Bret has to admit he was wrong.
(It's hard to say what the final ads will look like, but Rock Solid's seems, well, more solid.)
After the studio, they have to quickly edit the films. On the way to editing, Bret weeps some more in the limo. Curtis is really supportive. So are Michael and Goldberg.
In editing, Selita hates on Maria to the camera. Holly is disappointed to see Cyndi come back for editing. Cyndi volunteers to sing -- Holly poo poos it and then lets her. Holly sang the first cut.
Michael and Goldberg are working on the presentation. Maria is cutting the Internet video. Holly is preparing the presentation. The other girls sit around doing nothing. Maria wanted help. Holly finds a mistake in Maria's work at the last second -- even tho Maria wanted her to come in earlier -- and then gets all bitchy and pouty.
They've shown a lot more of the women this time. Usually that means they're going to lose. Just sayin. That's certainly how it worked last week.
It's time for the rubber to meet the road. The executives stare at the guys' ads unmovingly. With confusion and stoicism, Bret says, calling it "sto-fusion." Tenacity, however, gets big smiles. Hmm.
The execs tell Trump both teams were exception. The men were better at hitting the target audience, but Tenacity's main ad was more entertaining, they say.
Michael, meanwhile, pops in out of nowhere to say that HE (not Bret!) has to leave because of a problem with his son. He's probably just quitting. Rock Solid is down to three.
In the boardroom, they watch the ads. The girls not having a separate Web ad looks shabby. That was Holly's decision. Holly gets pissed that Trump gives Cyndi more attention for singing "Funky Godfather." In Holly's conceited mind, she clearly thinks she's as much of a singer as Cyndi Lauper. Hilarious.
The women lose. Told ya!
Curtis gets $20K for Feeding America.
As they cut to commercial, I'm wondering who I want to see voted off -- and who actually deserves it for this loss. Selita wasn't working hard. They might remember that. But Holly was project manager and made many of the losing decisions. Cyndi was gone but that wasn't her fault. Maria and Summer didn't seem particularly involved or at fault in any of it. I think Selita should got but seeing meanie Holly go would be gratifying.....
Maria tells Trump the weak link was Selita. She points out that Selita wasn't carrying anything. George agrees. Selita says she was "organizing." Summer wants to fire Cyndi and Sharon. (Summer is annoying.) Holly tries to pick up on the Cyndi thing but Trump interrupts, saying he's flat-out not firing her. Holly says, "Alright then, I have to bring Selita and Maria" back to the firing line. Cyndi passes her chance to tell Trump she hates Holly. (I like Cyndi but I wish she would buck up and offer a name when Trump asks her a direct question.)
At the firing line, Holly immediately says she thinks Selita or Maria would be good to fire. Maria and Holly starts a good fight but Ivanka interrupts to ask Selita why she's not fighting. George wants to know why she's not defending herself. (Maybe her shoulder pads are too big?) Selita wants Maria to be fired. Trump says Holly and Maria are strong and tough but Selita looks like a bump on a log. She's fired.