One of the more intense episodes this one was that’s for sure. This time around, the teams were given 150 wedding dresses to sell. As well, they had to setup their own retail setting to sell the dresses with the team making the most money would win. The project manager for KOTU was Tom Green and for Athena it was Brande Roderick.
I suppose typically you would expect the men to get clobbered in a task like this. I must say, all the drama came on the men’s side mostly too. While the task itself wasn’t too thrilling in anyway, Dennis Rodman’s character made it entertaining to observe.
His idea of work/promotion was to go to bars and talking to girls. At the same time, for some reason he brought this model into the mix which didn’t really do anything in helping the team. It’s funny too because the guy is like the epitome of not caring about the tasks thus far yet you know that they are keeping him on the show for ratings. Would have been fired long ago I’d say if this wasn’t a celebrity edition. Kind of reminds me of Omarosa last time around. To make it more interesting, he refused to leave his room on the day of the task.
For the most part, both teams had a very basic plan and setup. The main difference was that the women’s store looked more inviting and the men’s store looked like a clearance warehouse. Both teams tried to contact their rich friends as well. One interesting note was that Tom Green slept in a little it seemed and so his team didn’t know what was going on. In the end, the men sold 21 dresses for $63,450 and the women sold 22 dresses for $103,000.
In the boardroom it was mostly between Tom Green and Dennis Rodman. This is the first time in awhile that I saw Trump really tear a contestant a new one. For Dennis Rodman, he mentioned that he didn’t answer the door because of an allergic reaction of some sort as a result of dog or cat hair. When asked why he wouldn’t even acknowledge what was happening with him when Tom Green was knocking at his door he simply implied that he doesn’t feel the need to answer to anyone.
Trump then asked Rodman if he would do that to someone like his former NBA coach Phil Jackson or the infamous Michael Jordan. Sure enough, Dennis Rodman said that he wouldn’t even answer the door for them either if he didn’t feel like it. Interesting tidbit I thought.
It was evident though that Trump really wanted to get rid of Tom green and wow did he ever let him have it. Basically, he had no reserve saying how lousy of a leader he was and that he should have been fired weeks ago. Sure enough, he was the one to get fired. The first thing that came to my mind was that he probably didn’t see himself associating with Tom Green too much afterwards and so he didn’t care what he said. Like burning a bridge I guess you can say in one of those “I have no use for you anymore†situations.
Actually, this whole episode reminded me on how political a business setting can be as it is not always truly about results. Since the only reason I can see why Dennis Rodman is still around is for ratings, it kind of shows too how lenient Trump is to him. To a certain extent, I would say that he is pampering/sucking up to him too to keep him around. Not a far fetched scenario in the real world too with situations like this.