The Apprentice

The Pie's the Limit

Season 3, Episode 11, Aired 3/31/05

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This week's task is to create a new pizza for Dominoes, and sell the most of it. Magna sold $653.12, while Networth sold $523.90. Magna was treated to breakfast with Trump for their reward. Networth once again went to the boardroom, where Stephanie was fired.

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Donald Trump

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Bill Rancic

The Apprentice
Carolyn Kepcher

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I’ll have an Apprentice Pie to Go – Hold the Leadership Skills and Originality but Pile on the Crazy, Tobacco Chewing Guy and Hyperbole-Laden Previews.

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By theaterguy007, Jun 19, 2005 Report Abuse

I'll have an Apprentice Pie to Go Hold the Leadership Skills and Originality but Pile on the Crazy, Tobacco Chewing Guy and Hyperbole-Laden Previews.

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Previously onThe Apprentice, Net Worth made a crappy moveable kitchen cart that wheeled them into the boardroom for the fourth consecutive weak. There, "wise guy" Erin got the boot and the double eye roll I still have people checking to see if she got tapped to play Paris Hilton in NBC's "Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of The Simple Life."

Back in the suite, the other players are contemplating who will be fired that week. Stephanie, as well as the others, keep saying that Erin has already used up her sex appeal on Mr. Trump and that she should and will be fired. The next minute, perfectly edited, Angie and Chris walk through the suite door and Stephanie seems suddenly grief-stricken, though previously she wanted Erin to be sent home. You see, Stephanie thinks Angie and Chris are mean people. Even though this is a reality show, where good people never prosper (okay, almost never prosper. Sorry Rupert!)

The next morning, Rona calls Kendra or some other Jen Mancini-look-alike, telling her to be at the Trump Grill in Trump Tower by a certain time. I forget what time. If I was on The Apprentice, I'd probably forget what time to meet Trump. But I'd be willing to bet that I had to meet at some building that has the word "Trump" in it. You can't go wrong with that logic. Anyway, the players go down to see The Donald and are told that they are standing in "the finest buffet in the United States." (Note to self: never listen to anything Donald Trump says about his own buildings. Old Country Buffet still rocks.) Before he introduces the task, Trump tells Net Worth to choose one person from Magna to be on their team. They pick Alex, who looks happy, except for that split second look on his face that said "Damn." After, Trump announces the task: work with Dominos pizza to create an original pizza with a new topping (it can be anything, says The Donald. How about meatball?) and sell it from a mobile kitchen. Whoever makes the most money wins. Craig is exempt since he was the winning Project Manager last week.

In the next scene, Chris describes Alex as a "heartfelt individual." Does anyone but me notice how touchy-feely and sensitive Chris can be? He's not a psycho maniache's a cuddly porpoise (porpoise? Who does that, really?). Still, viewers shouldn't take Chris's views of Alex seriously. Stephanie describes Chris as "a total nutcase" when she explains why she's being Project Manager instead of Chris, so whatever Chris may be saying could be under the influence of calming drugs. You never know with that crazy cat. Anyway, Net Worth Corporation goes to Dominos to create their pizza, and what do you know? They take Trump's idea and go about creating a meatball pizza. (Note to Trump: Never make suggestions to your candidates.) They call their new pie "The Meatball Masterpiece" and though it's kind of queer, I suppose it's a better name than "Meataroni" or "The Meatball Experience." After their idea is formulated, Alex, Chris, Angie and Stephanie being selling pizzas in advance. How freaky would that be if someone came up to you and asked you, "Hi, I'm selling pizzas for Dominos. Can I pencil you in for three larges on Monday, May 8th? Okay, thanks a lot!" It just doesn't happen.

Over at Magna Corp, with Bren as the Project Manger, Craig and Kendra begin to clash when Craig treats Kendra like a baby and doesn't listen to what she wants to do with the pizza. In the end, after brainstorming things like Cheddar Chipolte & Guacamole Pizza or Meatloaf Pizza, Tana finally pulls "Meatball Munga" (Italian for "eat" out of her ass. After all, she says "this is just pizza. It's not rocket science." So, basically, what she's saying is that because it's just pizza, it's perfectly okay to take Mr. Trump's idea. Not true, she says. "I smelled those fricken meatballs, and I thought 'thank you Grandma!" She wants us to believe that she used her "Italian roots" to create the meatball munga. Anyway, I don't really know who or what I'm arguing about, so I'll stop. I like Tana. She's nice.

And then, we come to our second commercial break. Here, the first inevitable commercial from Dominos comes, this time the "Be the Donald Instant Win Game." Throughout the night, a few more or shown, except Trump actually attempts to act in them. Will they ever learn? Donald Trump's a sucky actor. It's not my faultit's just the facts. Speaking of commercials, Papa John's pizza aired a few advertising their "Spicy Meatball Pizza" (Talk about originality) and I was wondering, are they allowed to mention The Apprentice in their commercials? The spokesguy says something like "Tell the competition 'you're fired'" and then later says "Why order pizza from apprentices when you can order from Papa John's?" First of all, some Network Executive is probably in deep shizit right now. This past February, I learned about people who have one job on a TV set make sure the show doesn't upset your sponsors (for example: If one of the characters of a sitcom complains about a really bad Subway sandwich that they just had, they wouldn't be able to air a commercial for Subway. If they did choose to air the commercial, they would cut out the reference to Subway.). So, wouldn't a commercial for Papa John's upset Dominos, who probably paid big bucks to be featured on the series?

Now that I'm done rambling about product placement, I guess we'll get back to the show. The weekly "Words from the Donald," which I think are a complete joke, are shown, and this week it's "Know when to Fold." He means to stop suggesting your ideas when no one else likes them or they're really retarded. Even if you're really attached to an idea, you need to give it up sometimes. For the record, I get bored every time NBC airs these segments.

Net Worth has finally found a place to market their pizzas, and they hire models to sell them to NYU students, in the campus and at dorms. In their mobile kitchen, Chris and Alex start fighting because Alex takes too long talking to the customers. Though I thought he was just being personable, I assume that Chris just wants Alex to take the order, take the money, and give the change. I know that if I were the customer, I would want Alex to serve me more than I would Chris. So basically, Chris tells Alex to stop talking to the customers. Lemme correct myself he yells at Alex to stop talking to the customers. And then Alex gets all pissy about how Chris should never speak like that to him again. And then Alex pokes Chris. And then Chris starts yelling "Get the f*** out of my face. Don't f***ing touch me. Get the f*** away from me" and other things of the sort. And then Alex walks away. It was better than WWF wrestling.

Chris and Alex's fight wasn't the only cat fight on Net Worth in this episode: Angie doesn't respect her Project Manager, Stephanie, because she took an hour and a half to deliver six pizzas to some guys in Brooklyn. Seriously, who does that? According to Angie "Stephanie is asinine." I think it's important to note that while Angie was degrading her teammate, she was struggling with flipping a fricken pizza. I swear it took her at least two minutes to get one of them up on the pizza paddle thing. Still, that's not as fun as Chris and Alex's fight later the two talk to the cameras about it, and Alex calls Chris "a three-year-old little kid" with a very dirty vocabulary. And then, somehow from their verbal spat, Alex gets the idea that Chris was actually threatening to kill Alex and all of his little children at home. Never mind, according to Alex "I don't think he's gonna go kill anyone [except maybe my wife] but he's got a really short fuse." Personally, I don't like Chris but I don't think that he was threatening Alex at all. And I still think he needs to take a chill pill.

Next thing you know, Stephanie of Net Worth comes back from her little Brooklyn delivery, and Carolyn walks up to the team's mobile kitchen. The candidates give Carolyn a little tour, pushing customers aside in order to help the customer, aka Carolyn. Stephanie tells Carolyn about how good of a job her team's doing, and just as she says this, the camera zooms into a pizza that fell on the floor and just lay there. Stephanie blames it on the boys, and then Carolyn, as well all know, rolls her eyes.

The day complete, the teams shut up their kitchens and report to the boardroom to see who won the task. Turns out that Magna won by about 120 dollars, with a grand total of $653.12 while Net Worth makes $523.23. Carolyn and George announce that Magna won the task, mainly because Kendra and Tana "were smart" and marketed to businesses while Net Worth only marketed to people on the street. Trump tells Magna that he will see them the next morning for a breakfast with him, where the players can talk to him personally, not as a boss.

We interrupt this review for a PSA on Gossiping it starts arguments. Case in point: The Apprentice on March 31st, 2005. Back in the suite, Alex tells Stephanie that Chris threatened him and then Stephanie tells Angie that Chris threatened Alex. Angie then tells her friend Chris that Alex told Stephanie who told Angie that Chris threatened Alex. And I just heard it through the grapevine. Anyway, Chris then confronted Alex about the "threat" that went on between the two of them, and turns out that Chris "speaks ffffffffffffacts. [Alex] does not speak ffffffffffffacts." Thanks for cluing us in there, Chris. Later on in the scene, Chris and Alex exchange some words many of which are made up of 4 letters. I kind of missed exactly what the two said, because in the other room I heard my dad yelling "He's an IDIOT!" about Chris. So, that would explain that I guess.

Magna's reward turns out to be really nice, and though it doesn't top last week's reward into the stratosphere (nothing ever will) it really makes a difference in the lives of the candidates. They were able to see Trump's pimped out palace ("Trump must've been a rapper in a former life. I have never seen so much gold in my life," says Kendra) and talk with him on a personal level. Turns out that even on a personal level, Trump still has that ego problem. "It was more difficult building this apartment than the whole Trump tower. The budget was unlimited and I exceeded it," he tells the others while sipping orange juice from a wine glass. That must be the life, huh?

Finally, Team Net Worth makes the trip to the boardroom, and almost immediately Chris' temper comes up. Before anyone can explain anything, however, Trump inquires if Chris was chewing tobacco. (He wasn't, at least that's what he says). Then, the whole "fight" comes into play, and Trump, like me, doesn't see anything wrong with what happened, but seems to get concerned when Alex tells Trump that the fight was like a threat. Trump dismisses everyone, but not before Stephanie requests sending Angie up to the suite, even though Angie told Trump that Stephanie should be fired. On her way out, The Donald warns Stephanie to get tougher and to fight for herself in the boardroom don't let people walk over her. While the other three are out of the room, Carolyn tells Donald that she thinks that "Chris has a temper. I don't think that's suitable for the Trump organization." Chris, to her, is a volcano ready to explode. When the candidates are let back into the room, Trump asks Stephanie what she thought of the "fight." She says that she thought it was unacceptable for there to be fighting in the work place, and that "You don't want your colleagues to threaten each other." To which Trump replies, with the quote of the week: "Actually, sometimes I like that." He makes me laugh. The always-forward uberboss then asks Chris "Do you have a psychological problem?" Of course not, Chris responds. He's "just aggressive." Apparently, Trump didn't listen to Chris' response. Instead, he goes on making fun of Chris for the rest of the boardroom "Alex is a refined gentleman." Chris isn't. When Chris shows that he stopped chewing tobacco, which is really hard doing it cold turkey, Trump exclaims "You did it for two days!" The final stab in the heart, only wounding Chris, was when Trump said "Dealing with a crazy person [Chris] and a person with bad leadership [Stephanie]" I don't know who to fire. Alex thinks that Stephanie should be fired, because he thinks that Chris has far more potential than Stephanie, and that he is "an unheathed stone with a statue underneath." Alex quickly switches the conversation to her, who, according to him, "did great, for her," a really backhanded compliment. He says that this task was one of Stephanie's best, not showing that she is capable of much at all. Does she belong in the Elite Eight? Not at all. Does she even belong in the Final 18? Not at all. And for that reason (and for the fact that she's a pretty sucky-ass leader, she's fired.

Next week, on The Apprentice, TIME RUNS OUT!!! Uh oh. I'm personally really afraid. What will happen when the candidates are forced to design a clothing line? And was Erin fired too soon? Maybe she could help a certain someoneI know who it isnot to get fired. After all, didn't she say (in last week's episode) that she could easily design a clothing line? Maybe she'll make a guest appearance. You never know.

-Adam Polaski

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Trivia
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- Net Worth has now lost for five weeks in a row, the first time this has ever happened. Edit
- This is the only time that the Project Managers of both teams are Book Smarts. Edit
- Chris blows up during the task this week, not in the boardroom. His fight with Alex justifies the NBC Promo's labeling of Chris as a "loose cannon." Edit
Notes
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- Networth Project Manager Stephanie is fired in the boardroom. Alex and Chris are also brought into the final boardroom. Edit
- Alex is reshuffled onto Networth in this episode. Edit
Quotes
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- Trump: (To Chris) You're very rough around the edges. Edit
- Trump: (About the construction of his suite) The budget was unlimited and I exceeded it. Edit
- Stephanie: You don't want your colleagues to threaten each other... Trump: Actually, sometimes I like that. Edit
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- This episode is a play on the phrase, "The Sky's the Limit." Edit