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My wife's contractions are 8 minutes apart. That has nothing to do with this week's episode of The Apprentice, but I'm just giving you fair warning; she's 38 weeks pregnant with twins and you never know when my review stop in the middle of. . .

Ha! Caught you napping there, didn't I?  Just wanted to make sure you were paying attention.

Oh, one more item before we begin. Apparently we have been pronouncing the word 'industry' incorrectly for all of these years. I say this after hearing Donald Trump talking about the cruise ship 'in-DUST-try' during the task introduction.

And now, the roller coaster ride known as The Apprentice.

I was looking forward to seeing what the reaction was from the Gold Rush team when Synergy came back to the suite without big man Brent. I wasn't disappointed as a good portion of the contestants rejoiced. Now where is all of the stress going to come from? Perhaps Andrea, who seems to be making a stand after everyone fawned over Tammy in last week's episode. 

This week's task was to make a 30-second commercial about Norwegian Cruise Line's free-style cruising (no set times for dining, for example). The twist here is that they need to complete the commercial by 3 P.M. or else they become stowaways as the ship departs. Gold Rush's project leader was Dan who came up with the theme of 'castaway' (actually Lee and Lenny came up with the idea). Roxanne, who had a bit of a disagreement with Andrea at the beginning of the show, is project leader and their theme is 'fun'. It looks like Roxanne will be one of the weaker leader's for Synergy.

Oh my lord! They just had a scene of Leslie and Charmaine in bathroom stalls discussing Dan. What the heck was that whole scene about? It would have been better if Leslie asked Charmaine 'Can you spare a square?' and Charmaine replied 'I don't have a square to spare'. Gosh, I miss Seinfield.

Let me get back to the review. Synergy and Gold Rush team members actually managed to get off the ship before it set sail. Back on dry land Roxanne and Andrea continued their little tiff with Roxanne eventually asking for a little respect from her team members. Lenny and Tarek also have a bit of a disagreement on the positioning of their ad; Lenny said they should have a voice over while Tarek thought that a silent ad with text worked better. Take a look at the next paragraph to see who was right.

At the NCL offices both teams presented their commercials. At first I thought that Synergy was going to lose with their commercial, but then I saw Gold Rush's ad and had second thoughts. The NCL executives liked both ads, but thought the voice over on Synergy's commercial gave it the edge. Synergy won the challenge and, even though on the opposite team, Lenny was vindicated.

In the boardroom it's the usual blame game for Gold Rush. This team does not work very well at all and I'm looking forward to the team swap. The team of Trump, Bill and Carolyn really take Dan to task on his leadership. Trump is a bit stunned that Dan, Tarek, who is a member of MENSA, could make such a blunder. Dan decides to take Lee and Tarek back to the boardroom for final judgment.

Trump believes that Lee should not be back in the boardroom; Lenny should be there instead. He also believes that Tarek is doing a poor job. In the end, because the concept was bad and he didn't bring Lenny back in, Dan was fired. Trump concluded by saying that Lenny didn't have far to go before he was tossed out of the building.

A final thought . . .Despite Gold Rush being a team of crybabies that lack a good leader they are very gracious to each other when one of them is fired. This week both Tarek and Lee wished good tidings to Dan.

Next week, something about songs, and the possible birth of our twins.