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4/6/09 at 9:01am
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Damn what a great episode. I loved how Donald exposed that Kardashian! What a waste of space.

I don't know. I think it exposed how out of touch Donald is. Her DUI was all over the news, and I don't even follow her career.

Plus, while it is a game show and not real life, but can you really fire someone for having a DUI before they were hired? He should fire his casting people, and still let Clint go.
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4/6/09 at 9:10am
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Kardashian isn't a "celebrity" and never should have been on the show in the first place, but she didn't deserve to be fired for that task. Neither did the chick from TLC. Both videos were terrible and the corporate reps absolutely hated them so the blame fell squarely on the PMs in this case. Melissa and Clint should have been fired without a doubt, but Trump clearly wanted to keep them around as they bring more to the show than the two people he canned. I was honestly surprised Trump was so hardcore as he's been pretty mellow when it comes to firing "celebrities" in the past.

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4/6/09 at 9:54am
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I think the task was also problematic.

I think ALL was going for an online video for their target audience of moms, rather than a "viral video" that the teams were instructed to make. There is a difference even though the Donald might not know. And again, why involve Perez Hilton in something that he isn't even part of the target audience for?

Whoever created that task should have been fired.

Plus, why wouldn't ALL want to reach out to the college audience who might have liked the video? Heck, we did laundry in college. It might open them up to a new market.
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I think ALL was going for an online video for their target audience of moms, rather than a "viral video" that the teams were instructed to make. There is a difference even though the Donald might not know. And again, why involve Perez Hilton in something that he isn't even part of the target audience for?

Whoever created that task should have been fired.

I agree- as soon as I heard "viral video" plus mainstream corporate product, I knew they were in trouble, because most viral videos are crazy or raunchy or something else that a big corporation would not want as an image for its product, especially something boring like laundry detergent.

This task would have been much better for something with a different demographic, like Red Bull or skateboards or whatever.

I think the video with Jesse still would have worked if they had just removed the ending where the little people acted pissed off.

Agree on Perez- he is a celebrity gossip columnist... what does that have to do with the task? Nothing, except that he is on the Internet.

It was totally ridiculous that Clint created a video that the client hated and would not take input from the rest of the team, yet didn't get fired.
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4/6/09 at 11:25am
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I think this episode really showed that ALL is out of touch with marketing. Apparently only middle-aged housewives with 4 kids wash clothes. So if that is who they want to target and the only group they want to target why try to make a viral video? The teams should have just looped the sneezing panda video and then stick an ALL logo on it at the end. In reality you can't 'create' a viral video. No matter what you do they always come off forced, especially when you get the marketing folks involved who are all about branding. You don't 'brand' a viral video unless you are Jone's Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage.

I have no problem with Kardashian and TLC girl going. They've done nothing on the show. At least nothing worth being on camera for as they were pretty much edited out of the show from the beginning.

I'm really getting tired of the Joan Rivers love fest. Maybe out of the people there she is a 'genius' but to me she is just some crazy frozen faced woman that ambushes people on the red carpet.

On a plus note, at least they keep doing tasks that rely on creativity and not their Rolodex.
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4/6/09 at 1:10pm
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Re: Celebrity Apprentice season 2

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Apparently only middle-aged housewives with 4 kids wash clothes.

They said "25 and up", which is different from middle-aged. And obviously, people with kids do more laundry, so they buy more detergent.

But I agree, the demo for the product is a bad match for the viral video concept.
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4/6/09 at 1:30pm
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And one other thing, am I the only one who thinks Annie Duke is the smartest one there?

The Rivers are always complaining about her, yet everything she says, I agree with. And I'm not a big poker follower, so really don't know much about her.
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4/6/09 at 3:04pm
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Re: Celebrity Apprentice season 2

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...I think the video with Jesse still would have worked if they had just removed the ending where the little people acted pissed off...

Yeah I was mildly laughing at James throughout the video and then angry midgets suddenly appear. It was so weird and unfunny you had to wonder what the hell they were thinking.
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4/6/09 at 4:18pm
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And one other thing, am I the only one who thinks Annie Duke is the smartest one there?

The Rivers are always complaining about her, yet everything she says, I agree with. And I'm not a big poker follower, so really don't know much about her.

She might be smart and makes some sense, but she comes across like Sheldon from "The Big Bang Theory", and thus, unlikable and unsympathetic when she goes on her rants about what needs to be done.

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4/12/09 at 6:48am
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Re: Celebrity Apprentice season 2

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I think this episode really showed that ALL is out of touch with marketing. Apparently only middle-aged housewives with 4 kids wash clothes. So if that is who they want to target and the only group they want to target why try to make a viral video? The teams should have just looped the sneezing panda video and then stick an ALL logo on it at the end. In reality you can't 'create' a viral video. No matter what you do they always come off forced, especially when you get the marketing folks involved who are all about branding. You don't 'brand' a viral video unless you are Jone's Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage.
Nailed it.
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4/26/09 at 8:43pm
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Re: Celebrity Apprentice season 2

That was some funny stuff in the boardroom tonight. Plus, having Jesse go off on Clint was a nice bonus.

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4/27/09 at 1:13am
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Re: Celebrity Apprentice season 2

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That was some funny stuff in the boardroom tonight. Plus, having Jesse go off on Clint was a nice bonus.
Agreed! So what was on that note?

I guess the "Rivers" duo showed their true colors. Talk about a bunch of sour pusses. Their charities must not mean much to them. It's always just been about them.

Joan did have a couple good one liners tonight. "You must have one long Christmas card list."
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4/27/09 at 5:12am
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The note: "Paranoid much?"

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4/27/09 at 11:11am
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Trump was on the phone with Regis and Kelly this morning and said the note he passed to Kramer basically just said "Melissa has to go". He knew Kramer initially wanted Brande to be fired, but after she fought back and outlined why she should stay he felt Melissa should get canned instead. Kramer agreed and Melissa got the boot.

Those last few minutes were absolutely priceless. I loved seeing Melissa melt down like a nuclear power plant as it shows just how ridiculous she really is. She's not a damn "celebrity" in the first place and I am totally ecstatic she got fired.

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4/27/09 at 12:34pm
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I had some sympathy for Melissa until tonight's show. What a whiney bitch! Throwing a tantrum and yelling at the production staff at the end of the show. I think the reason Trump fired her was because when Melissa was talking, Trump interrupted her and she said something like: "wait, I'm not finished". Not a good idea!
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4/27/09 at 2:21pm
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Apparently she did have an exit interview after the fact....more like a plead for people not to think she is a brat. The music is a bit over the top.
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Love the last line "I'm walking away with my pride, I hope people see that."
Riiiiiiiiiight.
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4/27/09 at 3:09pm
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She makes me want to stick dynamite in my ears and hot pokers in my eyes.

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4/27/09 at 3:51pm
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"People perceive me to be simply an appendage of my mother. They perceive me to be spoiled, difficult, unpleasant, and not a hard worker, which is the exact opposite of who I am, and I think--I hope--people have seen that."

Maybe I'll concede the hard worker part but didn't her exit (let alone almost everything else she did this season) pretty much confirm all those other perceptions about her?
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4/27/09 at 4:42pm
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Maybe I'll concede the hard worker part but didn't her exit (let alone almost everything else she did this season) pretty much confirm all those other perceptions about her?


Yup.

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5/4/09 at 10:13pm
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Trump - "Please, please...Jesse, tell me that you will bring a real celebrity on this show. Will you bring your wife in for the final task? I beg you."

Jesse - "We'll cross that road when we get to it."

Trump - "Jesse, you're fired."


Not a surprising final two. I do hope Joan loses. She quit, she turned to hateful personal attacks, and I'm tired of her frozen expression.
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5/5/09 at 6:30am
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Can't say that I like Annie, but she deserves to win. She has "played" everyone, including Trump!

Jesse was his own worst enemy. Trump was trying to goad him into showing some passion, but Jesse is so self-controlled that he almost seems to be asleep.
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5/5/09 at 8:37am
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I actually thought Brande deserved to be in the final two over Joan, but I guess that wouldn't have been as good for TV as having the people that hate each other facing off.

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5/10/09 at 9:18pm
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I loved that Annie got faked out by the Donald as he summarily crushed her dreams of being the new Celebrity Apprentice.

Tom Green slayed me in most of his footage in this finale.

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5/10/09 at 10:54pm
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So basically it boiled down to everyone liking Joan so much going into it, because there was no way she was remotely better than Annie. She may have won 3/5 of the final task, but how can you really put fundraising (with Annie raising about three times as much) on equal footing as recognizability of celebrities?
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5/11/09 at 12:55am
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What a crock. I never really had an opinion on Joan or Melissa going into this but now I know they are as fake and hideous as their expressionless faces. This wasn't a charity show, this was the Joan Rivers show and nothing more. Did Trump and no one in the audience actually watch what we watched? The party planner quit because of Joan. She said it herself, "he quit." More probably went on behind the scenes after that with the producers and the agency which got them to fully pull out of the show but it sure wasn't Annie's fault. And then to have two Rivers boldly lie saying it wasn't them when Annie brought it up, I can't believe they let that fly.

I agree with you Anthony, they changed what it was about compared to last year. Sure they created 5 arbitrary criteria but the show was supposed to come down to one thing, raising money for charity. That was Pierce's biggest argument last year which made him the winner. He pussied out this time by siding with Joan. Hell she won one criteria because she brought in a bunch of look-a-likes??

On another note, I said to myself "I hope the censor guy is ready" as soon as Rodman was allowed to speak freely.
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5/11/09 at 12:56am
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I'm so glad Annie didn't win. She is one of the biggest ego maniac bitches I've seen on reality tv in awhile. She basically bullied everyone out of money the entire season. I bet it's killing her that she lost to that old woman.
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5/11/09 at 1:16am
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If it was my business venture, I'd want Annie over Joan in a heartbeat.

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5/11/09 at 5:43am
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Is it me, or was the hot golfer lady missing from the finale?
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5/11/09 at 10:49am
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Is it me, or was the hot golfer lady missing from the finale?
Maybe she had a golf tournament and couldn't make it?

It is interesting to see the response to this outcome. It is very hate/love Joan or love/hate Annie. Not many inbetweeners.
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5/11/09 at 4:21pm
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I can't stand the both of them. Joan was just the lesser of two evils for me.
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