The celebrities line up in the lobby of the Paley Center. Trump arrives and asks Jesse if he "misses the fact that Dennis isn't here." That's not what he actually meant, though. I think he meant to ask if Jessie misses Dennis. He says he does a little. Trump tells them he's spoken to Dennis, and he's going to get some help. Joan says she "loved" Dennis. But apparently not now. Melissa's wearing a cast on her foot because she tripped at the Loews Regency and tore two ligaments, but she says she's not going to sue, which makes Trump happy. Trump announces he's going to mix up the teams. He says it's time, and asks Brande if she agrees. She doesn't really, but she doesn't say it outright. Anyway, the new KOTU: Herschel, Clint, Joan, Natalie and Khloe. Athena: Jesse, Melissa, Annie, Tionne (he pronounces it "tee-OWN") and Brande. Um, what happened to Brian? Did he get fired, too? Melissa looks over and fake cries to not be with Natalie. Joan's all, "Natalie? What about 'Mommy'?" Hee. If you would have told me before this season that I would love Joan Rivers after this show, I might have physically hurt you. But somehow I do. Joan interviews that she loved working with Melissa, but she also loves that they're opponents now. Trump explains that Brian's at a concert, and he'll decide week where to put him. I'm guessing he'll go to the losing team, evening it out again.
Trump finally tells them they're standing in the Paley Center, and explains that it documents radio, television and now the internet. Trump introduces two executives for All detergent, and says it's been around so long his mother loved it when she was younger. The All executives explain the task: Create a viral video that promotes All, and that people will want to share with others. They will judge it on three criteria: originality, buzzworthiness, and branding. Oh, and Perez Hilton will help judge it. I'm already upset about the prospect of having to watch and write about Perez Hilton. Teams choose project managers: Melissa will lead Athena. (Because, as she tells us again, she has 15 years in producing, though you will find no evidence of this on her IMDb page. Maybe she thinks "producing" means "hosting," because she has a lot of appearances as herself.) Clint will lead KOTU, and he tells Trump he feels confident. He interviews that he's directed 12 or 15 music videos. That I actually believe. He also cutely and self-deprecatingly says he's written two full screenplays, though neither of them has sold if anyone is interested. Don and Ivanka will be Trump's eyes and ears. The project manager once again gets $20,000 for charity. Someone will be fired from the losing team.
Trump asks Melissa about her video. She thinks it was so funny you couldn't stop laughing. Trump shows them both videos. Everyone's puzzled by KOTU's video. Annie says it was terrible, and she didn't understand it. She says it wasn't viral, or pushing the edge. Trump says it was pushing the edge in one way, and that the girl was beautiful. Brande says yes, but she doesn't look like a mother. Annie says she's very much the demographic of All -- with four children -- and she doesn't want to see that. Now it's time for the other video. Athena cracks up through the whole thing. Jesse is awesome. KOTU loves Athena's video. They think Jesse is the right person for the demographic. Jesse says this is the best team experience he's had so far. Trump asks why the bad words at the end, and Melissa says it was everyone's idea, though Brande looks like she wants to disagree. Then he asks about using the word midget. Melissa explains they checked viral video key words and "midget" was high up -- one of the top five words. Tionne feels like they won. He compliments her on last week.
Trump says it's time to find out. All's executives hated both videos. They didn't like Melissa's demeaning of the little people or the foul language. With Clint's, they hated that it was almost like porn and don't need a woman in a bikini bathing suit. Trump agrees with them, so he asks Clint to pick two people and Melissa to pick two people, and they will all come back into the boardroom. They're going to come back together, and Trump's going to fire two people. Melissa says they discussed this earlier and Tionne stepped up to go into the boardroom. Melissa also chooses Brande. Brande doesn't look happy about it. Clint chooses to bring Khloe and Natalie. Interesting. He doesn't want Melissa and Joan in there together, I guess.
Clint tells Khloe and Natalie that he's going to tell Trump that he deserves to be fired, not them. But they say that he could fire two from a team. Brande thinks he'll fire one from each team, but Khloe says he can do anything because he's Donald Trump. Clint doesn't think there's any way that will happen. It wouldn't make a lot of sense, but I guess it's whoever fights best, so it could be two from one team. In the boardroom, the Trumps talk about how bad the teams did. Then they call the six losers back in.
Melissa asks why she brought Brande and Tionne back in. Melissa says she had nothing to fault anyone on, but she felt like it was such a collaborative effort. She says she needed volunteers, but she knows she was going. Trump asks what Tionne thought of Melissa. She liked her. So did Brande. There was harmony, and no arguing. Trump says this is very hard, because she's the project manager, so she'd normally be fired but everyone thought she did amazing. He also says some people loved the video, but unfortunately the people who counted didn't like it. Melissa understands that, but she is thrilled that Perez liked it. Trump points out that Brande didn't volunteer to come back, but Tionne did. Trump asks if Tionne has heard of Bradford. She doesn't know who he's talking about (and I'm honestly a little surprised Trump remembers him), so he explains that Baldford volunteered to come back despite having exemption, and Trump fired him for that. He says somewhere Baldford's watching, and he knows what Trump's going to do, so he fires Tionne. Melissa gasps. Brande looks sad. Melissa tries to stick up for Tionne, but Trump sends them all out.