Milquetoasted

Last night on The Apprentice: Seattle's own Alex chose our fave, Tana, to join his solo team, which was smart in that he knew that Craig and Kendra would, as a team, likely self-destruct (or shall we say, co-destruct?).

The teams' task was to design a T-shirt to be sold at Scoop. Alex did lots of cocky talking-head interviews (always a bad omen in a Mark Burnett-produced show), and then employed his classic strategy of joining a team, then doing exactly the minimum work while keeping track of his competitors/teammates' mistakes. Normally, up against Tana, this would be a bum strategy, but unfortunately Tana got obsessed--and we mean obsessed--with getting a Bedazzler to add doodads to their shirts.

Needless to say, Team Bedazzler lost. Tana horrified us in the boardroom initially by falling for Alex's "let 'em hang themselves" strategy. Trump called a break and conferred with George and Carolyn, who both seemed to side with Alex by calling Tana "not someone we could see working for you." Tana and Alex return and we are prepped to see Alex slither by again. Tana digs her hole deeper with more Bedazzler talk--enough with the Bedazzler, lady! Trump: "I see a woman who wants to put beads on her shirt, and that's not what I'm about." Tana stands up for herself, slightly hysterical, then pause...bring it, Tana: "And my record is better than Alex's." Ding! Alex can't remember how many times he has lost, and we watch the tide turn as Alex struggles to deliver some crazy Herschel Walker analogy but won't own up to his losses. And finally, Trump sums it up by calling out Alex on the strategy he has been employing all along: "Alex, it almost seemed like you sat back and hoped that she'd fail." Fired.

Come on home, Alex!