The Apprentice II, Week 7

It’s Thursday at 8 pm, 9 Eastern time… and you know what that means… it’s time for the Apprentice II!

12 candidates are left, who will be fired this week?

As usual, the show starts with reactions to the recently fired. As Andy and Kevin walk back into the room, everyone is pleased that Andy got to stay. The girls had cooked up a Mexican feast, and all are chowing down, when the telephone rings. The Donald calls everyone back to the boardroom.

Dressed in his or her finest casual clothes, the teams march on to see Trump. Trump is upset that everyone isn’t prepared, the tight ass. He makes everyone pick a project manager immediately. The women pick Jennifer and the men pick Wes. Since there are six men and six women left, Trump decides to do a corporate restructure; Jennifer and Wes have to pick three people they don’t want on their teams. Jennifer picks Sandy, Wes picks Raj, Jennifer picks Maria, Wes picks Chris, Jennifer picks Stacy, and Wes picks Kevin. Jennifer leads Apex, Wes heads up Mosaic.

Quote of the day, “She doesn’t fucking shut up” – Wes about Stacy.

This week’s task begins at central park at 8 am. The teams have to start a dog service business. Working with dogs, whatever they want to do. Whichever team makes the largest profit wins. Alan Weisslberg replaces George this week.

Stacy begins by bitching about how she’s not a huge dog fan. How sad for you, Stacy.

Apex decides to scour the area looking for a pet supplier – they are going to do a dog washing service. Outside. They charge $30 for a doggie makeover. Things don’t start off very well. Raj isn’t impressed. He suggests going to the east side, splitting the group up and having three people go to another park. Jennifer refuses. She wants the non-washers to promote the service, rather than running off to do their own washing.

Mosaic corporation decides to do a dog washing for charity. They pick a firehouse, but the firehouse won’t allow them to do that. Finding a charity is difficult. Andy calls a major pet store that helps them find an animal shelter to sponsor -a cat shelter. Alas, Andy left their cell phone in the cab. Major screw up, because now the team can’t split up into groups.

Apex decides to Take Raj’s advice after all and the group splits up into groups to another location. The second group decides to do doggie massages. Chris is really annoyed with the whole situation and is terribly embarrassed.

Mosaic set up an “extreme doggie makeover” station. They charge $15, and offer Polaroid pictures for $5 each.

Stacy wants to buy complicated doggie outfits, and she goes off looking for them, argues with Wes all the way. She’s pissed Wes won’t let her buy outfits.

Apex moves on to toenail clipping. Kevin is a godsend, keeping pissed and nervous pooches calm when they get their nails clipped.

Mosaic is finally in the groove, and Caroline makes some observations: “washing the dogs are Kelly and Sandy, who look like they are having a good time. Maria is trying to look provocative to attract attention, mostly to herself. Andy rushes around like an ambulance chaser lawyer getting attention. I can’t imagine what Stacy is doing’.

Apex is happy with each other. No nasty exchanges. In fact, they manage to go to dinner together, laugh and have fun. Jennifer feels good about her work. Of course, Ivana thinks Jennifer did a crappy job, because she didn’t lead, she was a team member. Ivana says that every week though.

In the boardroom, Jennifer beams about her team. She thinks she did well. Wes thinks the same. The dollar figures roll in: Apex $307.41, Mosaic $122. Apex’s diversification saves the day. The prize is meeting with Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion.

Gracie Mansion truly is a beautiful piece of property. Apex grills him about his insights and strategies in business. “Knowledge is power, and power is a gift that can never be taken away from you,” says Raj. Never heard of Alzheimer’s Raj?

Mosaic is in the apartment bitching about losing. Wes and Stacy snark at each other, each thinking the other will be fired. Personally, I think it ought to be Stacy. I’d actually like to see Pamela bitch slap her at some point at a reunion show or something.

Back in the boardroom, Kelly exaggerates the number of dogs he washed, which pisses off Trump. Trump asks about location. Wes blames Andy for losing the phone. Trump comes down on Andy for being a screw-up, Wes complains that “Andy needs to be checked in on, he has to be managed.” Andy reminds the group that he alone closed the charity deal, which, by the way, will only get about $20 from this gig. Trump is just not impressed with the charity. “The last thing the dogs want to know is that they are helping cats.”

When Trump asks the same question he does of every losing team every week – “who would YOU fire?” “Stacy picks Andy, Andy picks Wes. Maria is immune. Wes decides to bring two people into the boardroom. He thinks Sandy and Kelly did well, and he brings Andy and Stacy back to the boardroom with him.

Caroline thinks everyone did a poor job, but Alan thinks that Andy losing the cell was bad, but that Stacy was far worse. Wes explains that he brought Stacy in because she wasted time with her banter. She wanted to buy outfits. Wes thought it was too expensive to do that. She talks too much. Stacy thinks that Wes was just a bad leader.

Caroline is still trying to figure out what Stacy brings to the table. Andy thinks Stacy has good ideas, but can’t implement them because she is a poor salesperson. The whole room lectures her about her lack of ability to sell. Trump thinks Wes was a lousy leader, and he thinks Andy was horrible for losing the phone, but what he hates most is that Stacy kept going on about how nothing was her fault. Trump, in his pink neon tie hates it that she complains so much, and takes no responsibility for her own actions. She is fired. Good riddance, little girl.