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| Omarosa cries on NBC's All-Star Celebrity Apprentice |
For the second time in two weeks, NBC’s 2013 All-Star Celebrity Apprentice fired a rocker in its finale; Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider went this time. Poison’s Bret Michaels left during last week’s premiere episode. There goes the 80s. Thankfully, last night’s show – season 13, episode 2, titled “Just as Simple as Making Soup” – didn’t disappoint. We got Omarosa crying and manipulating the audience, her fellow players and Donald Trump by conjuring the memory of her recently deceased fiancé, actor Michael Clark Duncan (Trump will probably let Omarosa win this season since she’s lost three times previously). Plus we got one of the best Gary Busey-isms to date with this: “fun = finally understanding nothing.”
The episode begins with Omarosa savoring her villainous victory over Bret Michaels in the season premiere, then Trump jumps in and tells the celebs to get out town, literally, as Team Power and Team Plan B must board his personal private Boeing 757 (larger than the commercial 747) to get to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. "If you have a plane like that, you can have any woman in the world," Trump says later in the show.
Without knowing this week’s task, the teams have to choose project managers. Plan B’s Dee Snider and Power’s Omarosa take charge while last week’s winner, Plan B’s Trace Adkins takes the episode off to perform on a cruise with Blake Shelton. Before Omarosa can even leave the frame she’s laughing about the evil plot twists she has in store. "You don't have to worry about me backstabbing, I'll come from the front."
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| The celebs get their instructions |
How hard can this be? “Just as simple as making soup,” says Plan B’s Gary Busey.
Omarosa wants to create a large ad with three of Universal’s most celebrated films as the basis for her three-room photo booth where guests can become part of the experience. That she only comes up with two (Despicable Me and the Harry Potter series) without telling her team the third element sends Lil Jon and Co. into a panic. “We have to win because Omarosa will throw us under a bus,” says LaToya Jackson, a Team Power player and one of Omarosa’s most notable critics.
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| Team Plan B's cardboard cut-outs |
“The cardboard cut outs are something you’d see in a mall,” states Penn about the un-extraordinary nature of Snider’s concept.
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| Team Power's booth |
Dee Snider tries to assign roles only to find out that Gary Busey can’t use a digital camera. "He’s very sweet," Marilu Henner says describing her Plan B mate Busey. "But so irritating." When the beyond-irritating Marilu Henner calls you irritating, you’re a real pest.
Back to Power, after telling an empty room that she’s “a visionary and a leader," Omarosa finds out that her Spider Man figurine can’t be built. She belittles Universal’s workers, much to the chagrin of teammate Roderick who says, “You can’t treat people like that”) Instead of a large Spidey, LaToya Jackson wraps kids in gauze webbing in her photo booth.
At Plan B’s spot, the team dresses as silly characters and engages the crowd. Gary Busey is the Cat in the Hat and tickles people inappropriately. Marilu Henner (who can apparently remember every single day of her life) guesses which day of the week’s people’s birthday occurred. You tell me who is more annoying. That the real celebrities are there next to their own cardboard cutouts is weird and meta.
Back in the boardroom, Henner calls Busey a pest despite the fact that Snider said that Busey was the most attractive part of the event. Trump heaped praise on Dennis Rodman for what seems (to Trump, at least) like the basketballer's new found focus, and noticed that Rodman asked the right questions when it came to talking with the Universal executives. Omarosa though was having none of this. She called Dennis her weakest player and was mean to everyone on her team, save for Lil Jon. In the end Trump informs Snider that the Universal ‘s executives thought his team's exhibit was dull and uninspired, so Omarosa's team wins.
This isn’t the end though. Omarosa does some truly un-villain-like crying because she has never before won her own Celebrity Apprentice challenge, plus the money goes to the charity of her late fiancé. Rodman doesn’t buy it. "That's some Oscar-worthy acting," he says. Neither does LaToya Jackson who says “Omarosa is using Michael’s death to manipulate her through the game.”
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| Dee Snider |
"I didn't expect to see you so soon," Snider tells the Trump Tower elevator attendant before heading into the limo.
Apparently, soup isn’t quite that easy to make, Dee. You’ll be missed.
To see all of our All-Star Celebrity Apprentice click here.
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| Donald Trump's ride |
Photos ©NBC
Posted on Monday, March 11, 2013
