Donald talked for 3-4 mins telling us how great these peeps are and how tough this competition will be.

Team names in intro: Capital Edge (ladies) and Excel (men).

I noticed that. I don't know if I like the names but I guess that isn't important.

Capital Edge sounds like a credit card & Excel is a friggin' software program, LOL!

Just to shake things up they are sent to Trump National Golf Course.

Clay proclaims his gayness right off the bat and that the women will become his instant friends (he said this in confessional). He didn't tell everyone.

Team name and project manager has to be picked. The PM is only exempt if the team votes that person PM.

Their first task will be to create a new fitness gym for Bally.

WTF??? Donald says "come up with a team name & a project manager and I'll call you later", then almost instantaneously he's assigning the task?

He sends them running off for the helicopter, two peeps will get an advantage by going up in it?

The men won but I couldn't tell which two got the ride.

I know! It'll take a few episodes to sort out who's who.

One of the ladies was upset that the guys would get their choice of location by getting to the helicopter first.

So they showed the teams along with the team names in the credits, yet when they meet on the golf course, he asks them to come up with a team name. Way to go NBC, you're almost as bad as CBS on editing.

Donald's Lesson: Getting along with people is the key to success.

Well Melissa and Markus are the two in trouble already

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Markus is the PM for the men. He didn't want to be PM at first but said if everyone voted for him he would take it.

The guys pick two New Yorkers to go and look at the places because they would know the area.

Christy wants to take PM for the women and they let her do it.

The women get a spot in Spanish Harlem and the men got the 20th street place.

The women immediately go into the information gathering process and start asking roughly what the peeps in the club are all ready paying. Then the women start arguing about what they are going to charge customers. Melissa is saying that she is Hispanic and she knows what she is talking about.

The men are talking about how many classes should be taught in a day. They argue for 30 minute classes or 45 minute classes.

Markus & Kristi are the PMs.

There are problems with both teams (gee, what a surprise!).

The ladies are battling Melissa (the "hispanic" one) about what to charge for their exercise class in the bally's of Spanish Harlem. Kristi said we're not going to do this. It stops now.

The guys are arguing about how many classes to offer 7-30min. classes or 5-45 min. classes. Their location is Chelsea? Markus just made a possible fatal PM error in asking the guys to make the decision for him.

Randal just found out that his grandmother died!

ring ring ring ring ring ring ring... banana phone!

That suite is garishly horrific... it's better than Trump's own knick-knack nightmare penthouse though

It's supposed to be Feng Shui! LOL!

But now you have to die for putting that song in my head. I JUST got it out after having Raffi on repeat for two weeks.

Consistency, thy name is toddler.

I'm joking. Honest.

The women are hoofing the street in order to get peeps to come in for a free exercise class.

The men are doing a 1/2 class and have posted flyers everywhere but they are signing up existing customers and charging a one time fee.

The D calls Markus to find out the PM and name but D interrupts him a few times.

Randal's grandma died, he is torn about it and the fact that he's there.

OMG!!! The ladies have frickin' flyers to hand out! They are in the wrong neigborhood for that type of marketing! Plus, the flyers say "triple XXX threat" and one fo them is concerned about the possible negative stripper connotation.

Carolyn asks Melissa how the PM is doing and she (Melissa) gives Carolyn an ear full at how she (Melissa) is doing everything and there are organizational problems.

Looks like the guys had more peeps in their first class than the women but it appears the women pulled off a few more by the end of the class. It could be close.

The women brought in $516
The men brought in $527

The men win.

Only two peeps vote to give Markus an exemption. So Markus will not have immunity next task.

The D is going to fly Markus to the funeral of his grandmother!

Ladies earn $516 and the guys earn $527. Excel votes and only 2 members think he should be exempt (Adam & Randal) The guys will go to the Friar's Club.

Randal stays behind in the BR and DT asks if he wants to quit b/c of his grandmother. He says his G'ma would want him to stay, so he will stay. Trump will fly him to Philly for the funeral. (That was nice)

This isn't Kristy vs. Melissa...this is Melissa sucks!

In the BR...

Alla brought up a good point, Melissa distracted them and they only missed this task by one sale!

Trump tells Kristi she can bring back 2 people and she only brings one... MELISSA!

Thank Gawd! Melissa was beginning to remind of Yellvette and I soooooooo put that show behind me.

Omigawd yes!!! Thank goodness we don't have to deal with her for 15 more weeks! Yikes!

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When she got back into the boardroom, she did exactly the right thing - pound Kristi on her very really mistakes during the task, while expressing contrition for negative attitude. Had she kept up with that line of attack, she might have survived the boardroom . . . but she just had to run her mouth off and make the bizarre argument that the other women are jealous and intimidated by her . . . I swear . . .

These contestants are supposed to be smarter and more suave than the ones last year, right?

Melissa is the total package... she's racist, sexist, dellusional, and a hypocrite. Trump sure knows how to pick em.

She would have fit in perfectly with this past BB cast. She has all bases covered.

So, anyone worries that the women are in huge trouble?

Btw, we have the psycho out early--it usually takes a week or two.

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No, we dislike you becuase you're loud, obnoxious, opinionated, grandiose, and just plain stupid!!! Her argument, to Carolyn about why she does not get along with women and why the other members of her team wants her gone is because she's smart and beautiful and they're intimidated by her. This is a common problem she has with women. WTF!!! And she was using this defense with another woman. So what does that say about Carolyn? She jealous and intimidated too, I guess. Two words for that one: CRA ZY!!!

I was so hoping Carolyn would tell her that she didn't consider her as a threat of any kind. It is people like Melissa that try and bully their way through life.

Yeah. Melissa gets my vote of both:

1. Having the worst boardroom defense in the history of Apprentice

2. Having the worst taxi cap ride confession speech.

Actually last season I think there was some girl that kept saying she couldn't help it if she was beautiful and that people had always punished her for it and did not consider her brain. I can't even remember her name right now but I didn't totally dislike her until she started saying those things.
As for Melissa, she obviously was delusional(SP?) She was ok, but not what I would have thought of as beautiful. Loving yourself is great, but you can keep it to yourself as well.
Just thrilled they got rid of her quick because just listening to her yammer gave me a headache! I also had a moment's fear that they might keep her just for DRAMA!

I think you were referring to Audrey.

At least in Aurdrey's situation, John and other teamates did tell her that she's beautiful but nothing else. It is understandable that she got annoyed by that. However, Melissa's behaviour both inside and outside the boardroom really drove me nuts. Just as other posters have said, thank god that I don't have to see her for another episode.