(aka: Finally! A thread that's not about Bryce or Lee!)

How many times is Charmaine going to skate by and not get brought back into the boardroom??? This is the second time Trump thought she should have been brought back in!

Why is she getting over? Is it because she cries all the time? ...and people don't want to see her get upset in there and start crying? Is it because she's cute?

It is certainly not because she's all that, IMO! Those lyrics last night sucked! ...and, may I remind you, on the Chevy tahoe task, she was the one who hired the lousy, vulgar comedienne!

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  • Remember McDonald's Jingle,tinkerer, 08:48 PM, 04-09-06
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With how easily she cries for the camera... and they never miss an opportunity to show it... she won't come to the boardroom until she can have a complete and total breakdown.

LAST EDITED ON 04-06-06 AT 10:47 PM (EST)

LAST EDITED ON 04-06-06 AT 10:46 PM (EST)

She ain't gonna be in the finals, that's for sure. But I'd give her a prize just for being the nicest looking Asian gal to apply for the job.

Her J-Lo-esque looks and charming character is a refreshing change. Considering the degree of embarrasment inflicted by Ivana Mah upon her Asian roots, Charmaine sure is doing damage control and doing a pretty good job of it, I might add.

Oh BTW, if you were in the team and were losing Bryce over Monotonous Lenny and Hiding-under-the-Religious mantel aka Useless Lee, wouldn't you cry too ?

LAST EDITED ON 04-04-06 AT 01:32 PM (EST)

She definitely should have gone to the boardroom for that "comedienne"...but, last night I'm not too sure. She isn't a jingle writer...she is a businesswoman. The entire team heard the lyrics, and they all had a chance to change them or add to them. In the long run...they were approved by the PM. I think the person who should have been fired was fired.

Edited to add: I think that Tarek and Lenny were the two that should have gone in. The right music could make any lyrics sound good.

I think a few more times!
She is cute and has that cute accente. There arent many good looking women left, so might as well keep her around for rating puposes. Then we will have the dramatic firing, with tears galore!

I don't think she should of been taken to the boardroom last night. Maybe for past tasks but not this one. She wasn't the only one that wrote the lyrics and their lyrics were not that much worse than the other teams lyrics anyways.

I dont think Charmaine deserved to be pulled into the boardroom this week. Charmaine wasn't the only person responsible for the lyrics. Leslie helped out with the lyrics as well. This is not to say that Leslie deserved to be in the boardroom. In fact, I think the Donald's reasoning is ridiculous. Like someone else already mentioned, Charmaine and Leslie are not jingle writers. They are business women. Why should they be penalized for putting some effort when no one else in the team had anything better to offer?? They had no prior experience for this task and they tried their best. That's more commendable than pleading ignorance like Lenny did.

Touche JoshInSGV !

I don't think Charmaine is as bad as you think she is.

After all, she won her task as PM and those lyrics weren't that bad...

LAST EDITED ON 04-09-06 AT 08:50 PM (EST)

I was watching the NCAA Finals, so I didn't see the episode. But I'll just add a couple of comments from general experience and the other episodes I saw.

From the synopsis I read on this board, Charmaine seemed to be in trouble for choosing to recite the Arby's menu as the lyrics for the jingle, like that was supposed to be an incredibly stupid idea.

Well, a very similar idea was done before, by another fast food chain and it was a rousing success. Remember McDonald's jingle back then, "Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun."?

I was working night shift at this factory when that advertising campaign came out, and we had a few teenagers working there. The radio station kept playing the commercial with that jingle, then the teenagers starting reciting it back to each other over and over when the radio wasn't even playing. That's why I remember the lyrics aftr all these years.

By the way, the only radio station we could get reception for in the factory was this Top Twenty AM station, and they literally played nothing but the Top Twenty songs. Over and over. Try listening to that for eight hours, night after night. Minnie Ripperton's "Loving You" was popular at the time, and to this day I break out in shivers when I think of how many times I had to listen to the part where she goes up and down the scale, "Ooo-ooooh-ooooh, Aaaaaah aaaaaah aaaaaaah aaaaah." Anybody who remembers the song knows what I mean.

At any rate, Trump is always ripping people for not using tried and true methods to accomplish something. Here, apparently, Charmaine did exactly that-she copied a method that was greatly successful before, though I don't know if she had a chance to hear that McDonald's jingle. At any rate, there was nothing stupid about the concept-menus, ingredients, it's pretty much the same. It worked for McDonald's, so it wasn't a stupid idea.

I don't think Charmaine belonged in the boardroom this past time. Other times maybe, but not this time.

I am with halfpintlemon. Charmaine is not that bad. She did really well as a project manager. She put out a very nice effort with writing lyrics to the jingle.....she aint no Jingle Writer she is a business woman.

Tinkerer.

ITA.

I still wish she'd stop crying.

--Singer