In this episode the teams were tasked with writing a children’s book and performing it in front of an audience of 4 and 5 year olds. The winning Project Manager would get $20,000 for their charity. ASAP chose Lisa Rinna as their Project Manager and Meat Loaf decided to lead Backbone. ASAP’s brainstorming session was not organized, while Backbone’s seemed to be more on task. The celebrities had to come up costumes and act out the book, which was fun to watch. The judges ultimately chose Backbone’s as being the better of the two. At the end of the Board Room, Lisa Rinna was fired.
I enjoyed watching this episode. I thought it was funny to see Jose Canseco dressed as a school teacher. He had some pivotal lines in the play and was nervous right before he went out on stage. ASAP’s brainstorming session was terrible (but it made for some good TV!) Marlee Matlin was so frustrated with Dionne Warwick. I douldn’t believe what Dionne said about deaf people in general! When it came time to put the autor’s name on the book, Star Jones and Dionne Warwick wanted top billing. That was so childish. As if they haven’t done enough in their lives already that they need their names on the cover of this book. I was glad to see Lisa stand up to them and chose to put the team’s name on the cover.
I loved the costume / prop debacle on Team Backbone. Jose Canseco was getting angry with the situation and Gary Busey looked like he was egging him on. The highlight of the show for me came when a passerby asked, “are you a movie star?” Without missing a beat, Jose said, “famous porn star.” The way Jose said that was so hilarious to me!
As the teams were in the Board Room getting the results, I felt sorry for Gary Busey. Meat Loaf told Trump that Gary was tough to keep focused. Even though Meat Loaf may be right, Gary did a great job on stage. If the men keep calling each other out like that, I have a feeling that fireworks are going to erupt on Backbone soon.