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"Bedazzled by a Beefy
T" - April 28
Strategy is all that is on Kendra's mind as she waits to
see who will come back from the board room. While
everyone seems to be in agreement that they expect Alex
to come back, Kendra would like to see him gone as she
considers Bren to be less competition. Unfortunately,
her prayers are not answered and Alex comes back through
the doors spouting about how tough that boardroom was,
especially having to go against his good buddy Bren.
However, after a good night's sleep all the candidates
seem to be back in throat slashing mode, ready for a new
task, but first, we need to have a corporate
restructuring.
Net Worth, in a slump only the Ulong tribe could be
proud of, is now comprised of Alex alone who must decide
what Magna member will be doomed to failure
I mean will
switch sides. In an attempt to cause some disturbances
Alex chooses Tana leaving Kendra and Craig to fight
amongst each other on the Magna side. Now that the teams
are set for the very last time, it's on to the task.
This time around the candidates have been asked to
design commemorative T-shirts for Hanes celebrating 50
years of T-shirt culture. (T-shirt culture being slang
for "slacker-wear.") To aid them, each team was assigned
a pop culture artist, and was given space in a trendy
fashion store called Scoop to sell their product. Simply
put, whoever makes the most money wins. Go.
Kendra and Craig who for the moment are seeming amicable
meet with their artist, Romero Britto, who does art
ranging from funky shirts like the one he was wearing
(think candy heart overload) to works that are shown in
the Smithsonian. In drafting early designs, the major
dispute seems to be which of two major designs to go
for. Kendra loves the heart design and asks Craig his
opinion, which is that he prefers the star. Kendra,
taking Craig's opinion into no account, chooses the
heart, exercising her power as project manager. As Craig
says, Kendra only asks his opinion where she wants to do
the exact opposite. So apparently Thursdays are opposite
days.
If it's opposite day, this might just mean that Net
Worth can pull off an upset. Or so Alex thinks, as he is
psyched to be working with Tana on a T-shirt task
because she has run fashion boutiques before. Based on
her expertise, Alex and Tana agree that Tana should be
project manager and they quickly begin sketches eager to
win. Midway through their designing, artist Burton
Morris, whose work can be seen on Friends and the
Academy Awards, joined them. Designing went smoothly,
but the best of their design is yet to come.
This GSNN Primes recap is brought to you by the Donald,
who wishes to remind you to "Keep your eyes on the
prize." Don't let yourself get sidetracked by less
important tasks. Watch your reality shows first, and
then do your work. After all, why work when you can
watch others do the work on The Apprentice.
Ok, so maybe that isn't what the Donald meant by keeping
your eyes on the prize, but his messages always forewarn
what danger is to come in every episode. Enter the
Bedazzler, Tana's favorite toy that adds cheap Barbie
Dreamhouse-esque rhinestones and jewels to anything for
just pennies a pop. Tana is so excited about adding
these to the T-shirts that after failing to find the
Bedazzler in Manhattan, she deems it necessary to take a
trip to Staten Island just to pick up the gems. Hey, it
made her $10,000 during the Olympics; it has to be worth
it in NYC.
Back at Magna, the claws have come out as Craig has
confronted Kendra about how she really doesn't want his
opinion at all. After a price point argument, he shot
down her time-management skills and lack of openness.
Kendra then retorted by saying that Craig doesn't even
have the skills that he complains she doesn't have. This
argument could be recapped for a year, but Carolyn says
all that is necessary by pointing out that these tiffs
between Craig and Kendra could end up hurting them where
it counts. For those who don't know where that is,
Kendra had a really good idea, exclaiming later that
Craig was a donkey's bottom, but in a less professional
way.
So let's warm up those cash registers and sell, sell,
sell! Alex and Tana are selling their design at $42.99
for a men's T-shirt and $54.99 for a women's T-shirt,
bedazzled of course! They seem to be having some mild
interest, but only as much interest as can be generated
by handing out flyers on the sidewalk right in front of
the store. Poor Alex stood outside and attempted to
promote their artist's new T-shirt only to learn that no
one knew or cared who he or his artist was.
Meanwhile at Magna, Craig and Kendra have settled on a
price point lower than Net Worth, selling short sleeve
T's for $25 and long sleeved shirts for $35. We learn
through George's astute questioning that Magna sent out
an email to over 3,000 fans of their artist letting them
know that there would be a limited edition sale of his
T-shirt at their store for one day only. This little
exclusive seemed to be working wonders as customers were
coming in looking specifically for their shirt leaving
with 3 or more in hand. Craig, trying to do his part,
began to offer discounts to customers that agreed prior
to his offer to buy multiple shirts. Kendra seeing this,
bared her claws, and scolded him for giving their hard
earned money away unnecessarily. (Apparently someone
remembers the QVC challenge from last season where the
winning difference was about $10)
The sales continued all day, and after the registers
closed, it was time to head back to the boardroom to
face the Donald. But first, in honor of all of those
registers
don't forget, when you hear that beep, think of all the
fun you could have if Pax didn't cancel Supermarket
Sweep.
Sitting side by side Magna and Net Worth looked nervous
but tried to display confidence. Craig even went as far
to say in his opening comment that he was sure that
Magna had Net Worth beat. While Kendra agreed, there was
no team unity. When Craig tried to take credit for all
of the selling, Kendra was forced to claim that she had
a role in their sales as well.
On the Net Worth side, everything was hunky-dory, as
both Tana and Alex were proud of their product and their
work. At least they were until they heard the results.
NET WORTH: 33 Shirts, Total: $1147.95
MAGNA: 101 Shirts, Total: $2705.00
Net Worth looking like it had been kicked square in the
gut prepared to return to the board room while Magna got
to Dogfight in jet planes as a reward. Finally, a
sanctioned fight between Craig and Kendra! I wish there
were juicy details, but long story short, Kendra smoked
Craig and there are only two weeks left, so in her own
words, "I have two more weeks and two more dogfights.
Two more people to smoke and I'm the apprentice." Only
time (or spoilers) will tell.
In the boardroom, Tana maintains her nice demeanor but
states that she believes the biggest weakness was their
marketing, for which she blames Alex. Knowing that he
had done marketing on may previous tasks, she assumed he
would deliver here and she felt he didn't. Alex took
offense to this pointing out that he had tried to get
Tana to talk about marketing numerous times, but all she
was interested in was her silly Bedazzler. As if she
heard PeeWee's magic word, Tana lit up telling her story
about how she made $10,000 dollars off of her $10
Bedazzler and that the jewels alone were adding $12 to
the price point. She loves it. The sparkle, the shine,
the glitz, the glamour. Unfortunately for Tana, the only
"the" that matters is the Donald and he has had it with
the Bedazzler, claiming, who cares about a few plastic
jewels, I don't want to hire somebody who sticks jewels
on T-shirts.
Alex further complained that Tana didn't delegate
enough, to which George asked how much delegating she
should do considering that there are only two people on
the team. Once everyone agreed that Net Worth did an all
around horrible job. The candidates were sent out so
that Carolyn and George could speak their words in
private. George felt Alex showed more fire and Carolyn
agreed and felt that Tana was a great saleswoman but
just too nice of a person More importantly, after this
boardroom, she could not see Tana running one of Trump's
companies.
Re-entering the boardroom, Tana was forced to defend
herself and claimed that they lost because they didn't
sell art, but rather they sold "a stinking T-shirt." She
blamed Alex more directly, and for the first time, Tana
showed a little bit of meanness. Then the Bedazzler
returned and Tana was chided for making such a long trip
to get Bedazzler gems. In order to divert attention
Alex, brought up the marketing difficulties (wait, did
he want to divert Trump's attention away from Tana?).
Eventually it all came down to records, Tana raising the
fact that as project manager this is her first loss. She
added that one of her two project manager victories was
over Alex. Trump asked Alex about his record and Alex
slipped saying that he only lost once as project
manager, and it was all downhill from there. Alex lost
twice (once with the Staples Packrat and again with
Wearable Tech at American Eagle) and based on that slip
in combination with not stepping up on this task, Alex
heard those magic words
. the Bedazzler! I mean, you're
fired.
Next week, Tana, Craig and Kendra face the Trump
interview process, a fierce 3-way boardroom, and a swift
firing all (supposedly) in the first half hour. That's a
combination guaranteed to make you say
See you next
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