The Apprentice

YAY! The fall TV season has begun, and do you know what that means? The Apprentice is back! I really got into the first season of this Trump reality show. If the show doesn’t suck, I am going to be watching it every week. If I’m watching every week, you bet I’ll be blogging about it. Easy material!

The show starts with The Donald and his Ego. How great he is, how big his empire is, how great a businessman he is. Funny he doesn’t mention his bankrupt casino business. He’s completely arrogant and I love it. It works for TV. What doesn’t work for TV is that comb over. Geeez.

18 candidates have been invited to NYC for this season for a 15-week show. They are a young, decent looking group.

The players: Stacy, StacyJ, Elizabeth, Maria, Ivana, Jennifer, Stacie, Pamela, Raj, John, Bradford, Wes, Kevin, Chris, Kelly, Andy, and Rob. Caroline and George are back as Trump’s advisors.

The teams are broken down men vs. women again. But this year, the project manager of the winning team is exempt from being fired in the following week. It is an incentive for being project manager.

The first order of business is to pick one of the men to go over to the women’s team and vice versa. The person who switched teams has to be the first project manager. Bradford, a balding lawyer, volunteered to go over to the women. Pamela, already described as “Cruella Deville,” decides to go to the men’s side. Her first words to the guys: “My penis is bigger already”.

I like her.

Then they set to naming their teams. The men’s team picks Mosaic, the Women end up with a list of 50 names, and it takes them forever to pick a name. They end up with Apex.

The phone rings at 6:30 the next day, and they are summoned to Toys R. Us at Times Square at 8. Somehow, 18 people make it into makeup and to the store on time. Trump makes fun of Mosaic’s name. The first task is to develop a new toy for Mattel. The team that creates the most marketable toy as judged by Mattel’s executive, wins.

Mosaic corp, lead by Pamela, removed their ties immediately and got to work. The brainstorming quickly lead to a fish tank called Crustacean Nation. Best quote, “Rob, it isn’t a good idea to try to accessorise an eel.”

Apex did some brainstorming as well. Bradford liked a football game/vehicle idea, but the women thought that wasn’t sophisticated enough. But against the women’s vehement protests, Bradford made an executive decision to go with the football game.

Then the groups meet with Mattel’s people. Bradford’s football game doesnt' fly. It morphed into a kind of car with interchangeable parts. Everyone is happy. The prototype of the cars is then brought to children in a focus group, and the kids love it. The kids manage to break the toy, but they seemed to like it. I mean come on, who doesn’t like a remote control car?

Mosaic presents the Crustacean Nation for the focus group. George and Carolyn are in the room, and Pamela begins to loudly make fun of the children. This doesn't go over very well. The kids seem interested in the toy, but it is hard to tell.

While waiting to be judged by Trump and Mattel, the women start to bicker. They decide that Stacy J is crazy for playing with a Magic 8 ball. I have no idea what the issue is, I mean, Magic 8 balls are cool!

The remote control car won, of course. Apex – the women-- are the first winners. They get to have dinner with Trump and his Fiancée Milania or whatever. Trumps home is a gaudy palace. Every inch screams, “I AM A BILLIONAIRE!”

The men of Mosaic decide to go after their leader. They are all whining because they think she didn’t tell them what to do… that doesn’t sound very Trump-like to me. However, in the boardroom, the story changes.

Pamela starts to bash Mattel. Pamela thinks Mattel was disorganized. This sets of Carolyn, who calls her unprofessional. It turns out that when Pamela was bashing the kids, their parents were in the room. Carolyn doesn’t like Pamela. Wes dumps on Rob for not being utilized. Rob bashed Pamela. Chris picked Rob as the worst player. … oh the suspense! Rob is the clear loser. Everyone thinks he is a wimp. So do I. Rob and Andy are considered with Pamela to be fired.

During the discussions with trump, Carolyn says good things about Pamela. She’s a strange fish, that Carolyn. George bashes Rob. It doesn’t look good for him. Quelle Surprise! Trump fires Rob.

Poor Rob is distraught, but I don’t know him very well, and it isn’t sad for me. He gets into his taxi, and that’s the end of him.

If you missed this show and want to see it, NBC is re-airing the premiere on Saturday with 20 never seen before minutes!