# A non-celebrity "Apprentice" -- Fall 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031 "2010-09-16T23:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031/1 "2010-09-16T23:35:19Z")
Trump acknowledges reality – heh, kind of – by doing an _Apprentice_ season with real people: all laid-off and unemployed workers. There’s nothing else on tonight (Thurs. 9/16), so I’ll at least check out the premiere. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031/2 "2010-09-17T00:10:40Z")
I’ll probably watch it on On Demand, which only airs one commercial per break instead of the ton of cocmmercials Apprentice usually airs. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031/3 "2010-09-17T02:15:49Z")
I am digging this. I so prefer real people to celebs. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031/4 "2010-09-17T04:17:29Z")
Man, that ex-DA on the women’s team is SCARY! If I were one of them, I’d do my best to get her to be the next PM, and then we’d all do our best to sabotage the contest and then all of us would point our fingers at her… ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031/5 "2010-09-17T16:54:47Z")
I think it would be fun to pair the ex-DA from Brooklyn (Mahsa?) and wound-so-tight-he’s-gonna-snap David, the unemployed guy with 5 kids, in a challenge. Who would emerge victorious? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031/6 "2010-09-23T14:13:49Z")
Trump gave Nicole an out when he asked her if Mahsa should be fired. Nicole screwed herself when she insisted Tyana should go. The correct answer is to lay out Mahsa’s flaws: disloyal, crazy, bitchy, argumentative, etc. and let Donald decide. Nicole needed to pounce on Mahsa’s scatterbrained moment when she lost her train of thought. Bring that up early and often. Never tell Donald who he should fire. Lay out the reasons and always let the boss decide. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031/7 "2010-09-24T02:39:07Z")
Whoa. Trump is getting weird. Well, maybe not “getting.” ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-non-celebrity-apprentice-fall-2010/554031/8 "2010-09-25T04:01:33Z")
Just watched the second episode – wow, that was dull. Also, first episode the fired woman got an interview set up with some Beauty Contest group. Second episode the winning manager got an interview set up with some high powered muckety-muck. Why no consolation interview for the loser this time? Was there, perhaps, one, but they decided the good news about him getting a job was more worth the air time?