The Milquetoast Exemption
Blink and you could have missed them. Both Alex and Willard, our Seattle reality-TV representatives, were tiny blips on the television screen last night.
Since Alex's team won under his leadership last week, he was exempt from elimination this week. The teams were asked to create mini-golfs at Chelsea Piers, a yuppie rec center in New York. The challenge was odd; they basically were given pre-made mini-golf courses and then expected to decorate and market them. Magna Corp, Alex's "book-smart" team, pulled some exclusive deals with the other operations at Chelsea Piers, thus ensuring a higher flow of traffic to their "safari golf" and hence more bucks. Plus: no embarrassing outfits. Net Worth, the "street-smart" team, dressed up as clowns and bickered with each other.
The only moment of drama in the episode--besides Trump chewing out a Net Worther who had a dip in while dressed in a clown outfit and trying to get children into their mini-golf--was Net Worth project manager Audrey's "I'm so beautiful you must hate me" rant to her team. We thought that her cab ride home--after she sucked and was fired--was priceless. She looked just like Gloria Swanson at the end of Sunset Boulevard, though in this case Trump replaces Cecil B. DeMille: "Mr. Trump did say I was beautiful."
Meanwhile, over in Palau, Bellevue lawyer Willard continued to not quite impress us. The reward challenge was swim-based, so the tribe (smartly) sat him out. 
The team went out and hunted snakes for meat, then the blood from the snakes attracted sharks to their beach so there was a high-comedy moment of Ian and Tom throwing sticks at sharks, fruitlessly. Willard? Nowhere to be found.
Immunity challenge involved walking through water while wearing weights; Willard dropped out quickly but his team pulled out the win. Willard lives another week.
Willard popularity watch: he's dropped out of the top three, but is still loved more than hated. Can one love an invisible man?
