I’m such a nerd when it comes to reality television. I love all of it, and when it comes time for “scenes” (you know, scenes from the next week’s episode), I get so excited. But it’s such a pet peeve of mine – when the scenes and the show don’t really match. And for whatever reason, this is what played out on tonight’s episode of The Apprentice.

You see, in last week’s scenes, they teased the fact that tonight’s task involved advertising for a cruise line. The thing that they highlighted was the fact that if the teams didn’t get off the ship in time, they were stuck. And thanks to some clever editing, it really did look like one of the teams didn’t make it off, or at least had a problem with the task because of the time constraint. Of course, that wasn’t the case -- the time was barely a factor.

Anyways, both teams created reasonable advertisements for the cruise line, focused on the idea of “freestyle” cruising. And Synergy won, even with the fighting between Roxanne and Andrea. Their advertisement was just better – no one wants to go on a cruise with someone covered in seaweed. And their reward was amazing – I have never seen so many diamonds in one spot before. Did you see them? Holy moly. (and did you see the locks on the vault – I would SO love to see Ocean’s 11 crack that…)

So it’s time for the boardroom. And it looks for a brief moment that we will be rid of the annoyance that is Lenny. Sure, Lee seems to be in gold medal contention for best kiss-up. But the whole idea was Lenny’s. But for some reason, Dan chooses to bring back Tarek and Lee – not Lenny. Now I’m not on The Apprentice – I think we all know I wouldn’t last one task. But even I know, that when Trump asks you “would you like to bring back Lenny?”, you bring Lenny back. I mean, come on. And why does Tarek constantly get picked on? Is Trump really that insecure in his own intelligence? (imagine that thought process…Trump silently thinking “who’s smart now, Mensa boy?”) And I think that Tarek is right – his teammates know that he’s vulnerable, so they always bring him back.

So, because Dan didn’t bring back Lenny (which Trump essentially told him to do), Dan gets the axe. And we’re stuck with another week of Lenny-isms. Great. Thanks a lot Dan.