The episode had a funny start where Trump was pretending that he was running late for the finale episode and so he asked his secretary to get the fastest driver. That person ended up being Andretti who then drove trump in an F1 (formula 1) car it seemed as they darted to the final location.

The show continued off with the debacle of Arsenio having footage of Magic Johnson facing sideways as he spoke in-front of the camera. That issue was alleviated as apparently there was more footage where he did speak face forward to the camera. For the most part there didn’t seem to be much conflict with the two teams. In general when the actual events started it seemed like Clay had a lot more people and fans showing up in comparison to Arsenio as his people appeared to all be late.

Arsenio’s event seemed a bit more upscale whereas Clay’s theme was a carnival to reflect that his charity is about children. As semi expected too, in Arsenio’s show he had a lot of stand-up comedian segments whereas Clay used singing showcases. As implied last episode too Lisa did indeed visit Clay’s party and donated $10,000 to his charity. Again, everything seemed to go pretty smoothly for the both of them. In the boardroom it was then announced how much money they made where in the end Arsenio made $167,100 and Clay made $301,500.

It then moved to the live segment as Trump asked the two of them on why they should be the winner. It seemed like Clay was emphasizing more that he was tired of being known as the second place guy and for Arsenio it was more about how he feels that he earned it and deserves the title. Arsenio Hall did indeed seem stronger in terms of his want and passion to win. Not too surprisingly, with that said Trump chose Arsenio as the winner despite Clay having earned more money at the last task.

I think it will be interesting as it was implied that Arsenio has a new talk show of some sort starting up again. And after all that rant in this show on how many people who he thought was his friend that didn’t step up to help when he needed it on whether or not he will encounter them again. Always interesting to see those that stick with people when they are successful but then magically disappear when they are not in a fortunate position.

Interesting season overall despite how the first part of it seemed extremely repetitive. I wonder if they have enough creativity to make another one.

I guess this is the second last episode and it continued off from last week where after the interviews another person was supposed to get fired. As it turned it, that person was Aubrey as Trump mentioned about the points that people thought she was a transparent person when it comes to her social tactics. So it was a pretty prompt decision it seemed as she was fired. That meant the final two as Arsenio and Clay.

The finale task for this season was that the two teams had to create a variety show for their charity as well as sell tickets for their event. Similar to past seasons, old contestants came back and the two project managers were able to choose people for their team. Arsenio chose Adam, Lisa, Paul and Teresa while Clay chose Penn, Debbie, Dee and Aubrey. Arsenio’s idea was to have some good comedy people on his team while clay went for the musicians.

On a side note there was an interesting part I thought as Aubrey was chosen last and if I’m not mistaken she then said in-front of the camera ““Those mofos.” I was actually surprised they let that through on TV and it made me wonder if the producers of the show just had no idea what it means as I’m sure all the younger people watching the show does. I guess acronym and Internet slang isn’t as well known yet for everyone.

Arsenio had an interesting idea and situation where for his promotional video for the event he wanted to get Magic Johnson himself to talk about the charity to give it more of an impact. To do this even though he was in the West and Arsenio was in the east Adam proposed that he had a camera crew there that could video tape Magic and then they could digitally transfer the file back to them at the East for video editing.

There was a funny incident and cliff hangar as a result of this as they had this concept where Arsenio would throw a basketball towards the camera as if magic then caught it on the other side and then begin to speak. They then gave instructions to the camera people that the ball should be going towards “camera left” which is a direction term so that the end footage matches up as if you are watching it live. The thing was they apparently took that direction literally and the majority of the footage that they received had magic Johnson literally facing left of the camera in a side profile type of view. Interesting dilemma I must say.

Clay seemed to have struggled with coming up with a concept initially for the promotional video. However, Penn eventually came up with a good idea of kids playing together just like normal kids and in the background you saw a wheelchair. Essentially, it was a way to say that you can’t tell which child has a disability in the group which further emphasizes what Clay’s charity is about. They spent a lot of time looking for the location to shoot the footage and apparently it is very hard to find green grass in New york. They did eventually find one spot that they decided to risk and shoot the footage at even though they didn’t have clear permission to do so.

Clay also had a surprise a in the midst of looking for people who would donate money he got a call from Lisa. Even though she was on Arsenio’s team she mentioned that she would show up for Clay’s event and would also donate money to his charity. Surprising moment indeed I thought. Overall it was pretty much left at the thought that Arsenio has more power too in terms of bringing in big donors. Really interested in seeing how this all turns out.