Teflon Milquetoast

Un-freakin'-believable! Seattle's own Alex (shown here, laughing at all of us) performed even worse than his last two pitiful outings, and yet it's Bren who was sent packing.

This week, Alex and Bren were a team. The challenge was to develop a new clutter-reducing product to be sold at Staples. Alex and Bren didn't bother to meet with the Staples executives who would be judging the competition, and they didn't bother to talk to any consumers. They didn't even bother to go to Staples.

Needless to say, Tana and crew did all these things and came up with a moderately goofy but judge-wowing Lazy-Susan desk organizer. (You can buy the sucker--wittily called "the desk apprentice"--at Staples...how's that for product placement?)

Alex designed...a second desk. So for their presentation, he wheeled his new desk up next to a cluttered desk and transferred all of the clutter to the new desk, leaving the original desk clutter-free, but leaving a second desk next to the original desk. As the piece de resistance, the new desk had a hinged plexiglas top which covered the in and out boxes, making them inaccessible. We've decided that the next time our car gets filled up with junk, instead of cleaning it out we'll buy a new car and transfer all the receipts, maps, single playing cards, printed-out Mapquest directions and random crud to it, thus eliminating the clutter in our original car! Genius. Hire us.

Bren made the fatal mistake of talking too much in the boardroom--a mistake that Alex deftly avoids, week after week. Alex took Bren's opening (Bren announced that he's "not much of a risk-taker") and blew it open, Bren put up very little fight, bye-bye Bren. We give Bren points for noting, in his Loser Cab Interview, that Alex went after him in the boardroom in a way that he vowed he wouldn't beforehand.

Alex's personal website looks like that of an aspiring politician. Curiously, he describes a stint at the USDA where he lobbied about apples; the USDA says he worked as an intern for three months.

We're gonna call it: Craig and Kendra take each other out; Tana and Alex as the final two.