Once, there was a time when La Toya Jackson, of all people, was skeptical of someone's grief over their recently deceased fiancé. That time was last week on Celebrity Apprentice, and La Toya, not to be outplayed or out-griefed by Omarosa, threw herself as far into harm's way as she could go. The game play got to her head, and it drove her mad. Speaking of mad, Gary Busey is still in this and doesn't understand why people find him a distraction.
Lisa Rinna tells Gary to "work harder, do more," and Gary doesn't understand the concept of doing more than he's told to do, and asks Lisa to tell him when he should be doing things without being told. Meanwhile, Omarosa is on the warpath. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
To start things off, Stephen Baldwin visits his mom to drop off a check for her Breast Cancer Research charity. It is important to play for charity, but also to keep it in the family. Carol Baldwin is convinced they will find a cure, even though I'd love to see more research grants for prevention being funded. Carol Baldwin is also convinced that Donald Trump is handsome and should get with her. Sorry, Carol, you're not his type. Not puffed up enough.
Hey, it's the strange but charming executives from Chi (Farouk Systems). We recognize those bright red boots, and the accent that just bodes well for excellence in hair care systems. This week, the celebrities are tasked with creating a traveling glass truck to advertise the Farouk Systems brands--Chi and BioSilk (one per team). This involves interaction and social media, and the public, somehow. Creativity, brand messaging, overall experience, you know the drill.
Claudia will be Project Manager for Team Power, and is the nominee for Omarosa to throw under the bus. On Plan B, Marilu Henner will give it a shot. The prize is $20,000 from Trump, $30,000 from Farouk, and $1 per Facebook like up to $50,000. I am curious to see if celebrities know much about Facebook.,
Team Power will be representing the Chi brand. Farouk comes in to tell the team more about it, and Lil Jon is feeling confident because he won the Farouk challenge in his season. Farouk is oddly captivated by America, and the Chi brand identity is "beautiful American." Farouk is not particularly helpful, but he is weird.
Most of the team is on the same page for their campaign: beautiful women with beautiful hair. Dennis Rodman is on a different planet; he wants the truck to have a Ferris wheel on it, with three homeless women whose hair is transformed using the products, and dogs are there too. I love this idea. It doesn't really matter, in the end, so yes, you should transform homeless women and dogs with a Chi Ferris wheel.
Over at Plan B, Marilu is working on BioSilk and puts Stephen in charge of marketing. She is a good task master. She assigns Gary to being the "accountant," which means holding the bag of money. Farouk walks in and tells them about all seventeen amino acids in silk. Then, he sprinkles Marilu with volume dust and makes her look crazy. Plan B is thinking along the same lines: beautiful women, beautiful hair, Miss USA pageant.
Stephen Baldwin is a complete douche, yet again. Marilu is on the phone with someone she knows from the Miss USA pageant, and Stephen keeps yelling slowly at her, "DOES SHE KNOW MATT RICH?" He is very confident in himself as a player, a leader and an asshat.
In the van, Claudia is mad that Dennis won't do her rap-brainstorming exercise. Even Brande, the only white person left on this team, participates in the rap activity. They decide on a concept in the van: "Chi Wants You," with a heavy-handed Americana, Uncle Sam type of theme.
Plan B's concepts seem to be coming from Team Power's idea dumpster. They want to turn the truck into a salon, which could be good if the interaction time is short enough, and do it up Hollywood Premiere Event style. Then, Stephen Baldwin becomes extremely attached to the slogan, "live life luscious," and Trace Adkins knows it is terrible. Stephen's defense is that he lives in this world, and Trace doesn't know because he's from the South and washes his hair with lard.
"Live life luscious is just a mouthful of crap," Trace says, then throws out, "experience silk," in his deep-voiced, cowboy casual way. They decide to go with Trace's idea.
Over at Team Power, Claudia wants to do a photo shoot inside the truck, hopefully after the products have gone in some hair. Omarosa is not crazy about the idea, but she is looking forward to destroying Claudia in the boardroom, whether or not they lose the task. Omarosa and Dennis Rodman go out to the costume store to putz around and buy a wooden Donald Trump head.
Attempting to use all their assets, or to make lemonade out of lemons, Plan B decides to dress Gary Busey up as an angel and have him run around the crowd entertaining people and/or making them uncomfortable. He calls himself The Angel of Silk. Not to leave Gary unsupervised, Trace and Lisa go with him to get the angel costume and other props.
Omarosa and Dennis return to Team Power with only four things off a very long list. Claudia is mad. But first, the celebrities will have their photos taken for the Chi brand messaging. I do love Lil Jon as Uncle Sam, though, that would get a Facebook like from me. Do you think Farouk wants Dennis Rodman with gold lips as a spokesmodel for them?
Meanwhile, at the prop store, Gary Busey fails at being the accountant, and takes too long. Lisa starts talking to Gary like he's a child, possibly because he is acting like a child, who should absolutely never be trusted with a bag full of cash. He leaves it in the store, but at least everyone had some fun with fart jokes on the way back.
Stephen Baldwin's Matt Rich, that guy he was yelling about while Marilu was trying to talk on the phone, comes through, promising a bevy of beauty queens. Stephen volunteers to take credit for that. Team Power is "pretty sure" they can get Miss Rhode Island, who won Miss USA not too long ago. As they print out pictures of themselves on a color printer, they receive the bad news that their beauty queen has already been promised to the other team, via Matt "do you know Matt Rich" Rich. Omarosa identifies this as a "critical error."
Do make up for their lack of beauty, Team Power decides to swing in the complete opposite direction, seeking out impersonators of celebrities with bad hair. Brande finds some kind of agency for celebrity impersonators, with a terrible Angelfire website, and requests the only Donald Trump impersonator in New York. But this impersonator died the day before... no joke. Omarosa calls this, "the worst thing I have ever heard in my life," which is certainly an overstatement. They get a Joan Rivers impersonator to interview them coming off the "red carpet," and Omarosa makes some calls for beauty queens (non-Trump, non-Farouk sanctioned title holders) in New York.
As Plan B sets up, something great happens. A woman in a car passing by rolls down her window to tell Gary Busey, "Gary, you got your suit dirty on the back," to which he responds, "I'm the angel of silk." I like that very much.
The BioSilk truck is pretty well appointed by this point, and it intimidates Team Power, who is working on promoting Chi. The day of the event, they still need to pick up everything (minus four costume pieces and a wooden Donald Trump head).
Over at Plan B, Penn is, of course, juggling. Stephen suggests that someone start putting up the rest of the silk for their designated area. Marilu notes that Trace is busy and says "no one else is as tall," looking right at Penn Jillette, who is extremely tall. Then she distractedly runs toward the beauty queens, who have just arrived. Stephen decides in that instant that Marilu will be fired if they lose this task.
Omarosa notices that the other team has stylists inside the their glass truck, whereas her team has that area as the photo shoot area. Omarosa points this out to Claudia as something to reconsider at the last moment, or really just to cover her ass in the boardroom.
"I don't know how I expect to go back into the music business with any shred of dignity," Trace says, having climbed on top of the BioSilk truck with his guitar to provide some spectacle for Farouk, who probably loves country music. Celebrity Apprentice isn't entirely about winning one's dignity back. The BioSilk experience doesn't have much cohesion, with a country singer on top of the truck, Gary acting as "the angel of silk," Penn Jillette juggling, and Miss USA standing to someone getting a makeover.
The Team Power Chi experience is at least cohesive: American, pageantry, and a kind of jacked looking Joan Rivers impersonator. Dennis Rodman is having such a good time mingling that he forgets his place and goes over to the BioSilk end with some Miss USA girls. The advisors arrive and Marilu offers a frazzled attempt at an explanation of their experience. She's wearing a crown, just to make her look extra insane.
Over at the Chi truck, Arsenio and Don Jr. talk to the busted Joan Rivers impersonator. Claudia tells Don Jr. that Brande is the MVP of this task (no, Lil Jon is!), and that Dennis Rodman and Omarosa will be returning to the boardroom with her if need be. Then, the show provides Facebook links for us to help the winning project manager, whoever that may be, by liking the pages. Despicable.
Then, Farouk rolls in and confirms that, yes, he loves Uncle Sam. Farouk also likes Dennis Rodman, another American icon, so he is excited to listen to Dennis mumble on about Chi products. Claudia attempts to regain control of the guided tour. God, Claudia is stunning. She looks so good in that photo shoot.
Stephen Baldwin notices Farouk and his son walking toward the truck, so he alerts Marilu to their presence. Marilu is so annoyed having this heavy, spectrum-dwelling mosquito in her ear, that she continues wandering around aimlessly, rescuing Farouk and his son only moments before they fall prey to Gary Busey. Gary gets to them anyway, but the interaction is mercifully brief.
The executives go over the two experiences with Don Jr. and Arsenio, and it involves a lot of paraphrasing ("I noticed that Claudia Jordan's team had Little Jon dressed up as Uncle Sam, Farouk, was that good or bad?"). What I get from it is that Farouk likes basically everything, but especially that he gets to promote his products for two hours on this show.
In the boardroom, Donald Trump talks to Claudia and her team first. They think they won, and remark on how Brande is learning to hang out with black people better. Then Don Jr. asks Claudia to repeat who she called out as being the weakest players on her team. Omarosa seems surprised and offended to be lumped in with Dennis. Omarosa, master of the boardroom, over-values trips to the prop room.
On the other side of the longest table, Marilu says everyone is strong, but Gary is probably the weakest still. Gary calls Marilu an incredible and inspiring project manager. Stephen Baldwin is all too ready to disagree. He compares Marilu to Gary, and she reacts as Omarosa did when being lumped in with the weakest link. Stephen, don't you know that Marilu is the furthest thing from distracted? She's too busy remembering everything. She struggles to give Donald an answer when he asks who she would bring back if they lose, asking why they might have lost. A good non-answer.
Don Jr. tells Plan B that the executives thought the slogan "Experience Silk" was "a bit banal," which I'm sure Farouk did not say. Stephen puffs up a bit more as Trace is questioned about the slogan. As a result, Marilu says she would bring back Gary and Trace.
On Team Power, the executives loved Lil Jon and "Chi Wants You to be Beautiful," plus Farouk loves America. They also thought not enough was going on inside the glass truck. Then Omarosa tried to talk up her rapping ability to make herself seem more likeable.
Donald Trump announces that Plan B and their spectacle of silk have won the task. Marilu reminds us that her charity is for Alzheimer's research, making me wonder if Marilu thinks anyone who can't remember every single day of their life like her has Alzheimers, in which case, yes, it is "out of control." I really thought Marilu's team would lose this one.
So now the question is, will Claudia punk out of bringing Omarosa into the boardroom? Omarosa notes again that she supports Claudia's charity and wanted to win for that reason. Claudia is upset because they don't have singers or fire jugglers on their team and Farouk loves that shit.
Omarosa brings up that she did suggest moving the styling inside the truck, but does not mention how late she suggested it. Claudia chooses to bring back Dennis and Lil Jon. Lil Jon did the best in the challenge, though! Donald Trump is shocked, admitting to Claudia that there is a less than 1% chance that Lil Jon will be fired. Don Jr. contends that Claudia must be afraid of Omarosa, having admitted earlier that she was the other weakest player.
Claudia asks if she can change her mind, and Trump and Omarosa say no. Claudia asks Lil Jon to help her so that they can both stay, and Lil Jon tells Claudia he worries that Donald Trump likes what Dennis is doing too much. Claudia whispers that Dennis is dead weight and they need to get him fired.
Donald tells Arsenio and Don Jr. that it's not looking good for Claudia, before talking over her reasoning for bringing Lil Jon back. Then, Lil Jon makes a very interesting case for Dennis Rodman. He says everyone is important, and Dennis is showing up every day sober and ready to work. The only problem is that he might just be doing less than everyone else on this rapidly dwindling team. Claudia brings up the rap brainstorming exercise, as though it matters. It somehow comes up that the Donald Trump impersonator died, and we waste some time on that.
Trump starts giving Claudia the firing speech, Dennis pipes in to defend Claudia, and Donald interrupts telling them it wouldn't have mattered if Omarosa was back in there after all. "Claudia, you were the project manager, you failed, you're fired."
Then, with completely different clothing and hair, Claudia walks into the limo outside. In the limo confessional, in her original look, Claudia seems relieved and happy.