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The Apprentice: Donald Trump, Week 3: Best Buy, Electronics, and Old Folks!
Original Air Date: 10/6/05
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The Capital Edge expo right next door is a rather drab affair. No balloons or signs and, most noticeable of all, no smelly Bengay…where are all the geezers? When Carolyn Kepcher walks in, Jennifer Wallen greets her. Carolyn is duly unimpressed as Jen sputters on and on about how she picked out the white table linen. Then Carolyn sees the icing on the cake, literally. The icing reads, “Tethno Expo.” I guess Jen should whip out her reading glasses too. Don’t worry, Jen. At least you can work a TV, unlike say, Toral, who has more trouble using a HDTV remote than Clay had setting up his Tivo machine. And this woman claims she puts together multimillion-dollar deals? She can’t even turn the TV on.
God bless Jennifer Murphy. She does her best to save the day by demonstrating a heart rate monitor…how, you ask? By doing push ups in a revealing top in front of yet another old geezer who’s worried if his wife is going to be seeing this. Relax, already—just get Toral to come over to set up your HDTV for you, and you’ll never get to watch this show, or any show for that matter, again.
In the end, in spite of Jen Murphy sending heart rates soaring and setting off a grand search for little purple pills, the survey responses focus on how well the electronic products were demonstrated and Excel wins out. Markus unbelievably earns a pat on the back from his teammates in front of an astonished Trump; Randall earns an exemption for next week; and the whole team earns the chance to shower the patients of a local children’s hospital with gifts of electronic toys, courtesy of Best Buy.
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In the boardroom, the entire Capital Edge team, with the sole exception of Rebecca, turns on Toral, saying that her inability to work a TV was a big reason why they lost. Toral then goes on a rant about how great her education and business experience is, playing up Wharton and basically trashing all of her teammates’ credentials. Carolyn is appalled and asks if she feels as if she is the only one who deserves to be there. Toral almost slips and says yes…before reconsidering and then saying that it is really just her and Rebecca who deserve to be there. The tide quickly turns against Jennifer W. though when George and Carolyn tell Trump how bad the food and décor was. Rebecca jumps all over it and sharply criticizes Jen’s poor planning choices. It’s desperate, but will it work?
For the second week in a row, the PM doesn’t to listen to Trump and gives a free pass to someone deserving of elimination. Rebecca lets Toral go and brings in Jennifer W. Trump is even given to comment that Toral is up in the suite enjoying the views when she should be the one getting fired. While he admires Rebecca’s loyalty, he tells her that she needs to make business, not emotional, decisions. Maybe so, but Trump lets Rebecca’s broken ankle pull his sympathy strings and fires Jennifer W.
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