The Donald, and his Show.

Now it is The Donald's turn. The original Apprentice aired the beginning of its fourth endeavour to find Donald Trump another errand boy/girl. Shockingly, Mr. Trump decided to shake things up, meeting his candiates on his golf course and beginning the first task with a breathtaking race to the copter. As everyone in the business world must already know - he who runs the fastest gets the deal.

AND ... there is no guaranteed exemption for the project manager of the winning team. Your team must vote you that priviledge. So I guess we know how often that will happen.

Teams were divided by sex once again (so Mr. Trump could "tell them apart") and team names were chosen : Excel, the guys. Captial Edge, the girls. Both names, much more appropriate that Martha Stewart Apprentice names Matchstick and Primarious.

Up for grabs: a cushy job, with a six figure salary, working closely with Mr. Donald Trump at one of his many companies.

The task involved selling fitness classes at two different Bally Fitness locations. Most money wins. The boys in the batcopter were able to select the best location, leaving the girls in Spanish Harlem. Kristi became PM for the girls, Markus for the boys. The boys marketed to clients already in the gym while the girls opted to use a suggestive flyer (XXX workout) to canvas people in the area of the gym (many times they were handing flyers to people who had not and would not ever smell the inside of a gym). Melissa, a woman of Hispanic heritage, decided she knew everything about fitness clubs in Spanish Harlem and spent nearly all of her time whining about Kristi (even to Carolyn!!!). Markus, boys PM, actually stopped a brainstorm to ask the guys if he could do anything better. You could hear the crickets.

In the end, the boys won by $17. Kristi was slammed in the boardroom for the suggestive flyer and poor organization but Melissa stole the show. Every other woman commented on how Melissa was negative and disruptive, prompting Melissa to announce in the final boardroom that she "can't work with women". She might just as well have said "fire me, I suck". Kristi won't last in this game but Melissa needed to go. If in all of her whining time she could have found one more customer, the girls would have won.

It will be interesting to see how the girls fair next week without their destructive influence. Ooh .. and I saw Stormtroopers in the preview for upcoming episodes ...