Pandora's Box

Season 3, Episode 10, Aired
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This week's task is to create the best do-it-yourself clinic in a Home Depot store. Magna creates the better clinic, presenting a hands-on demonstration of designing and decorating a "box," as opposed to Networth's unoriginal and closed-off demonstration of putting together a cart. Magna wins, and for their reward, the candidates learn what it is like to be an astronaut when they are taken up in a plane to a zero-gravity section of the atmosphere, allowing them to literally fly in the air. Meanwhile, Networth ends up in the boardroom, where Erin is fired because of her disrespectful comments to Carolyn and George.moreless
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  • No Junk in this Trunk - Watch as Team Magna soars to perfection with "the box" and as Erin shoots herself in the foot.

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    By theaterguy007, Jun 19, 2005 Report Abuse
    No Junk in this Trunk - Watch as Team Magna soars to perfection with "the box" and as Erin shoots herself in the foot.

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    Okay, I'm really sorry this is so late this week (hey, it's better than not having a review at all, right?) but I've been busy with essays and homework and other things. Next Week will also be posted around this time, possibly even later. But please, enjoy this even though it is late. You can scold me later.

    Last time on The Apprentice, the producers and NBC bored the viewing public with an annoyingly bad recap special, so that for everyone who huffed paint the first time around could sit through the antics of Danny, Bren and Todd again. How fun!

    Thank God we weren't bored with that this week. And actually, I was really surprised how much I liked this episode. True, I didn't necessarily like the outcome of it, but it was very well edited and it finally lived up to the preview from last week. Backsassing Trump actually did get someone fired, and the reward truly was exciting - even to watch, which is usually hard since most of the rewards are giving the contestants a party or something. Is a party fun to watch? Of course not. Is a bunch of future-millionaires flying in a plane fun to watch? Definitely.

    Okay, so Erin and Chris come back into the suite after John got fired two weeks ago. Both are confident that they're the best, and Erin gives reasons on why she wasn't firedshe doesn't lose her cool in the boardroom and talks like a rational human being, unlike Chris, who spazzes his way out of every point that Mr. Trump makes about him. Still, some people don't like Erin. I mean, sure, Angie likes Erin, but she doesn't think that it's fair that "every time she turns around you see her ass." She doesn't think Trump should keep her in just because she's got a pretty ass. I mean, face. I guess that Angie has erased the whole "I wanted to be ugly. That way people could like me. At least he said I was pretty" incident from a few weeks ago. But I'm assuming that Angie's only jealous of Erin's ass. After all, don't mothers get jealous of their daughters? According to Angie, Chris, Stephanie and Erin are like her children. And "if they don't straighten up, someone's gonna get grounded." Frankly, I don't see the resemblance.

    Anyway, that night Craig pulls his team aside and starts ranting (in a whisper) about how it is better to be alone than to something else. I missed out on that, and I didn't record it, but I guess I wouldn't have known what it meant even if I did hear it. Alex says "We are supporting Craig because we like him, but we didn't really get" his pep talk. In other words: WTF?! Oh, by the way, Craig pulls his team aside because he's gotta be the project manager on the task since he's the only one that hasn't been it yet. Saving the best for last? I don't think so

    The next morning, Trump calls the candidates up to one of his countless building projects to introduce the new task create a "do-it-yourself" clinic at a Home Depot store. So I guess it's like building on the whole "You can do it. We can help" thing that store's got going for them. At the suite, PMs are found in Craig for Magna and Angie (who was PM for the Nescafe thing) for Net Worth. The teams start discussing what they're going to make for their presentation/do-it-yourself clinic at what one of the candidates calls "the happiest place on earth" Home Depot. Erin immediately secludes herself from the group when Angie suggests that they show people how to do crown molding. Erin says "I don't even know anything about Home Depot. When I found out the task was with Home Depot I almost cried. As a former beauty queen, I know what a 'crown' is, but I don't know what 'crown molding' is." (Don't worry Erin, neither do I. I don't even know how to spell it.) Her team, Net Worth starts rolling their eyes.

    The troubles sure aren't being reserved for Net Worth. Craig faces a near-mutiny when he makes an executive decision and chooses to make a "box" for his team's clinic. Alex questions the idea, saying "Would you wanna go to a clinic about making a box?" and Tana tries to get a grasp on the idea: "So a creative approach to an unoriginal idea." Nice going, Tana. Later on though, Craig asks his team to stop calling it a box. Instead, it should be called a trunk. A Safe Saver Trunk. Then, after his entire team deserts him because he can't get across his idea to them, Craig has a really somber moment (again talking in the 3rd Person) about how his team has failed him, and how "people" have bad attitudes. From then on, the team looks optimistic, and begins to make really dumb clichs about this trunk they're going to make. Kendra wants to make "the best damn box on earth." Bren wants to "think outside the box" and make a "magical box" or a "pet coffin." Craig just wants to make his trunk. So leave him alone, okay?

    Over at Net Worth, Erin and Chris are searching through the aisles of Home Depot, trying to come up with something to make. This is where viewers get the Quotes-of-the-Week, starting with Erin, when she says "Me walking through Home Depot is like me being in a country where everyone speaks a foreign language that I can't understand. Design a high heel, fine. Design a clothing line, fine. I can put a new doorknob on the door!" to which Chris responds "then we should do that." Second Quote-of-the-Week, I hear you asking? Angie, when she moans of her team, like my mother (not THAT kind of moaning!) "They're just pathetic. Really, really bad. I hate everyone right now." At least Angie's making out with some more luck she's finally come up with an idea for her team's clinic a mobile kitchen counter thing. I actually think I have one of those. But I sure didn't get it from Networth. Wanna know why? Keep reading.

    The actual clinics start now, and Magna's turns out to be really nice, even surprising me. Craig turned his really conventional idea into a creative, cool idea that the entire family can build together. He shows the kids that the Space Saver Trunk can be decorated with chalk or with the child's hand prints, and during the clinic, Carolyn points out to George or someone like him rich and old (but nice) that Craig, Tana and Alex (who uses his native tongue, Spanish, to speak to customers) are doing stand-out jobs. I must admit, Craig really thought of something great (even if it's still a box) but do I think the guy can win? Of course not. Picking him to win would be like picking me to beat Chris Kane in a basketball game never gonna happen. And if Craig does win, I guess I'm going to put on my basketball shoes. (If you don't get the similarity, either ask and quit complaining about inside conspiracy or keep quiet).

    And then we see Net Worth's little show. They start off really well, and aside from the fact that their project takes forever to put together, Angie thinks that Chris "was amazingly bad at everything" (somewhere in the universe, Carolyn snickers), and the wheel that rolls off before the team's done, I'd say that Net Worth did a standout job. Apparently, the judges don't think so. They don't think that Net Worth used enough of the "do-it-yourself" aspect of the task, and in the end Magna ends up victorious. Which is Tana's cue to shriek with glee. Then the D-Man announces that for winning the task, Magna will be given the chance to "find out what weightlessness is all about" and Craig is exempt from firing next week.

    Oh, I forgot about this week's Words from the Donald. He says that you should "Sell Your Ideas" and that people who can't sell their ideas are ninnys. And people who can't spell the plural form of "ninny" should be shot. That is, as soon as they're done writing reviews for popular TV shows. While we're on the subject of unimportant fluff, the Home Depot aired a commercial about a clinic that you can go to at your local Home Depot that'll show you how to make "the box." Which was apparently called "the neatest thing ever" and was proclaimed that "people are gonna be salivating." (both said by Kendra, who minutes earlier dismissed it as a really dumb idea.) Anyway, the free clinic is on Saturday, April 2nd at 4 PM. Check Home Depot's website for if there'll be one near you.

    Now, the rewardwhich was fricken awesome, even if you're just watching the TV. Magna went to an airport-like thing where they train NASA people and teach them what weightlessness is like, in a place where there isn't any gravity. (I'm not the best with Astronomy don't even know if that's the right Science but I think they went to the stratosphere.) The team got into a plane that didn't have any seats but was covered with safety mats. The pilot took them up to the "stratosphere" and the entire team just started floating the coolest thing I have seen in the past two weeks. Bren starts flying and he "was able to do all of the things [he] couldn't do as a fat kid diving off the diving board." Alex, Kendra, Tana, Bren and Craig basically are flying all around the plane, doing flips and whatever they want to do. It was really, really cool and I ever get a chance to do this, I will do it in a heartbeat. (Hey, if anyone at NASA is reading this and loves it like I know you do give me a buzz. I'm always ready to become weightless.)

    Back on Earth, Erin's touting her skills as an attorney, saying that "every time I speak it's poignant and accurate." That is, except for when she says she always accurate. Net Worth makes the hike to the boardroom, and immediately Angie blames Erin for the loss. Angie says that it wasn't right for Erin not to participate in the task just because she'd never heard of Home Depot before. (Throughout the whole episode, Erin reminded me even more of Paris Hilton remember the Wal-Mart Incident on The Simple Life?). So then Trump advises Erin to sue Angie for speaking wrongly about her, and then Erin blames Chris for being unprofessional and disgusting because he chews tobacco. The Donald agreeshe doesn't think it's professional that Chris chews tobacco during work. And then, Chris explodes again, spazzing this time about tobacco and unprofessionalism and other things that don't make sense. And then, as always, the blame shifts to Angie, because she didn't have Erin present the product. Trump thinks that Erin is an excellent presenter and it was dumb for Angie to take the reigns of the clinic. Even if Erin can't hold a hammer properly, we should still make her the head of our home improvement presentation? That's one time I disagree with Trump. So then Angie gets pissed that she's being blamed, so she moves back to the fact that Erin was out of her element on the task. And then Erin agrees and then Angie says that "It seems like you're out of your element being here." To which Erin snipes back like a five-year-old: "Actually, I think you are." Whatever.

    The Donald asks Angie who she's going to send up to the suite, and Angie replies, "Umm.me?" Cue the eye roll from Carolyn (that's #4, folks!). And then she answers seriously, sending Stephanie up to the suite, safe from being fired. While everyone is out of the boardroom, Carolyn confides that she thinks that Angie carried the team, and George seems to like Angie's leadership style. Even though Trump doesn't think so, he trusts in his advisors, and when he calls the three of them Angie, Chris and Erin back in, he tells them that Carolyn and George like Angie more than the other two. Erin sees that she probably won't win by picking on Erin, and she moves to Chris. "Chris needs adult supervision 24/7," she says. He curses in business meetings and on the job (that's not a problem with Trump, so does he.), and he chews tobacco! Erin, please don't get Chris spazzing again! Of course he does, and then, after missing a few words, I was able to make out "(Undecipherable mutter)I WILL (Undecipherable mutter) QUIT CHEWING (Undecipherable mutter) TOBACCO (Undecipherable mutter) Dip in!" I don't know about the last partI kind of guessed. Still, Trump doesn't think that Chris caused the team to lose the task, and instead reminds Erin that he needs to listen to Carolyn and George. Erin must have really not been thinking, because she remarks "Do you have to [listen to them]?" OoooCarolyn is pissed. "That was a dumb statement," she says. It was just a nail in Erin's box, as Trump says the fatal words "You're Fired" to Erin for being an uncontrollable wise guy. Even if she is a girl.

    Erin's cab ride was probably one of the best of the entire season, and I'm gonna miss hearing Erin make a funny statement. I guess that these few may be the last we hear until the dreaded reunion show, so I'll end with them. But first the preview for next week. Chris is on the edge with anger, and someone calls him a nut case and then the "Elite Eight" are shown. Elite Eight? Chris in the Elite Eight? Come on! If Chris isn't fired next week, I'll be shocked. Now, Erin's final words: "Getting fired was like a nail gun to the heart. I will be the next Tool Time chick. I will saw, and I will hammer, and I'll even jackhammer if I have to." How much better is that than "Et tu Brute?" Loads.

    -Adam Polaski

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    • This episode originally aired at a special time: 8:30 PM ET to 9:30 PM ET to be a lead-in for the series premiere of The Office on NBC. Edit
    • This is the only time the Project Managers of both teams are from the original Street Smarts team. Edit
    • This is the first time this season that a team has lost four times in a row. So far, in each season, a team has had a four-week losing streak. It was Versacorp in season 1, Apex in season 2, and now, Net Worth in season 3. Edit

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    • Erin of Networth is fired after Project Manager Angie pulls her and Chris into the final boardroom. Erin sasses Trump in the boardroom after he says that he has to listen to Carolyn and George's advice about not firing Angie. She asks, "Do you have to?," one of the main reasons that she is fired. Edit
    • The Project Managers in this episode are Craig for Magna and Angie for Networth. Craig will be exempt next week because of his win. Edit

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    • Trump: (To Erin) You are a wise guy. You know what? Erin, you're fired. Edit
    • Erin: (After being fired) I will be the next Tool Time chick. I will saw, and I'll hammer...I'll even jackhammer if I have to. Edit
    • Angie: I hate everybody right now. Edit

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    • This episode title refers to "Pandora's Box," a box that is filled with all of the evil of the world. It is used as the title of this episode because of Craig's "box" idea for his team's clinic. Edit
    • In her taxi cab confessional, Erin says that she "will be the next Tool Time chick." She is referring to the fictional show Tool Time on Home Improvement with Tim Allen. Edit

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