The Apprentice starts with Trump calling and asking someone on Kinetic to go to Arrow. Amy, Surya and Marisa say they are winning, and Aaron chooses Surya. This interrupts Kinetic's staff meeting and Arrow's goofing off around the fire.
Surya immediately has to move outside. They picked out Surya because he seemed laid-back, something they had very little of on their team. He says the team needs some structure and discipline. He says he has some "rules" he had been thinking about because he had determined there was a 5 percent change he would be moving over to the other team earlier in the day -- reassurance and chain of command and more and more. His buzzed colleagues seem kind of flabbergasted.
Now it's time for the stupid "Get Rich With Trump" game, which names five people you can choose from who "deserve to be sent to Tent City." This is stupid for several reasons. First, no one gets "sent" to Tent City. It happens when the team loses. Also, it gives away who is going to have a negative experience in the episode. Grumble-worthy.
The next morning, Trump meets the teams at the Hollywood Overlook, and Sean, last season's winner, who I had completely blocked from my memory is with him. So are execs from El Pollo Loco, the president/CEO and the chief marketing officer. The task is to create, promote and sell a new version of their signature pollo bowl. Heidi and Aaron are the project managers.
Arrow develops the Chicken Tortilla Bowl, mainly having lots of chips for crunch as the difference.
Kinetic's Christine added mango and pineapple to the bowl, and the team loved it. They call it the Paradise Pollo Bowl. Marisa goes for Bravado Bowl. Heidi says, "I would definitely say no to that; executive decision." Marisa suggests people in a chicken costume in the intersection. Heidi says no. Then she calls again to come up with some more Bravado slogans. Derek says she is annoying the team. She calls again to say they need to call it Bravado.
Back at Arrow, it's time to sell. They're pretty psyched. They used balloons and "signage" and James to get people in. Frank and Tim go out to try for bulk sales.
At Kinetic, it seems pretty empty. Folks don't seem interested in the mango-pineapple idea. They're doing samples at the drive-through, which seems like a great idea, except that the traffic at the drive-through is minimal. Marisa is mad that they don't have chickens at the intersections like she suggested.
Arrow is overrun with customers, some of them angry, at least according to the horns that might be edited in. They're hoping for Frank and Tim to get back soon. They sell 22 for one bulk sale, and Aaron is psyched. Surya doesn't look that psyched.
Boardroom time. From the editing, I predict an Aaron win, Marisa piling on Heidi about marketing but ending up getting sent home. We shall see.
Sean said Kinetic had a limited marketing strategy, as opposed to Arrow, and Arrow definitely wins, which means they get to move into the mansion and out of Tent City. For the reward, they are going to Malibu to listen to Andrea Boccelli at a live, beachfront concert.
Arrow is ecstatic, to put it mildly, and ready to move into the mansion. Kinetic is not exactly excited to go camping in Tent City. The trading of places is a tad awkward. Arrow acts like the kids on The Real World, looking all over the house and screaming and jumping in the pool. Tent City, on the other hand, is totally nasty. Muna is way upset about the filth.
Aaron calls Andrea Boccelli possibly the, if not the, most famous musician in the world. The beachfront concert begins, and it's gorgeous. Frank says his family listens to Boccelli every week before the family dinner, and his mother is going to be so excited. The team then enjoys a fabulous dinner, intercut with footage of Kinetic having a nasty camp dinner. Back at Arrow, Tim plays the piano for his team, and Nicole is definitely impressed. Next, they get a fireworks show of huge proportions that makes me wish I was there with my camera and tripod.
Back at Kinetic, Heidi is already talking about who to bring to the boardroom. She is leaning on bringing in some marketing people. The team starts deciding to target Marisa, but of course, she is the only one who can claim to have thrown out some marketing ideas that got ignored, as annoyingly as she shared them.
Trump talks to the execs, and they target the marketing folks, which would be Marisa and Derek. In the boardroom, Aaron and Sean are Trump's help. Christina says she was responsible for the fruit and meat, which Trump says wouldn't appeal to him. Sean says Arrow sold the heck out of the bowl at the counter. Marisa brings up her chickens in the intersections idea, and Sean said the other team created a spectacle. She says, "Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean, I wanted to create that." Muna says Marisa is intelligent and sweet as pie, but she needs to learn to listen, that she has interrupted everyone. Trump finally tells her to shut up. Marisa says no one was listening to any of her ideas. Amy says Marisa is the weakest member of the team, that you have to tell her things over and over. She can't stop saying, "TWO CHICKENS! TWO CHICKENS WAS MY GREAT IDEA!" Marisa says Amy should be fired because she was the weakest link. Amy says Marisa is disruptive. Everyone says Marisa is the weakest, too. She accuses them of ambushing her, and Muna acts outraged at the idea, but they totally did talk about it ahead of time. We saw the footage!
Heidi chooses Amy and Marisa to come back to the boardroom.
Sean says he likes Marisa's spirit and passion, but it's hard. Aaron says it comes down to sales conversions, but they can't tell who was in charge of sales. Heidi says she brought Amy back because she was on the drive-through, but she says no one was in charge of sales. Marisa brings up the two chickens again, and says she shouldn't be there. But Trump disagrees because the whole team said she should. Trump says he cannot reconcile the fact that she was in charge of marketing, and that she came up with only one idea that she can't let go. Then he fires Marisa.
I think she had a good point, but her delivery of the point only proved the team's point, that she is disruptive and doesn't listen. Oh well, at least she doesn't have to live in Tent City!
In her exit interview, she says the team would have won if the team had listened to her. She only mentions the chickens one more time, thankfully.
In two weeks, the task appears to have something to do with bees.
