Ugh! Just ugh! Jim the Jerk from the past two weeks isn’t even human. Apparently his wife was very pregnant when the show started, because on tonight’s show, he got a phone call in the middle of the task.
“Jim honey, I’ve had the baby.”
“Oh cool, that’s great, how are you feeling, I’ll talk to you later, we’re making a wedding cake.”
Not exactly those words, but close. I got no sense that he felt bad about not being there, and not a word about plans to return home even briefly to see his wife and baby. He’s gonna be a great father.
She should just fire them all now, especially since NBC has moved the show up against Lost. (Thank Og for TiVo.)
I’ve found one to root for – Ryan was pretty cool – and one to watch going down in flames. Trouble is, if the other team keeps losing, it’ll take awhile, and when it does happen, he’ll say “That’s okay, I wanted to be with my new daughter anyway.” Jerk.
Oh god how that wedding cake by matchstick sucked! It was seriously bug ugly. I am not surprised they lost.
Jim is such a creep for even going on the Apprentice when his wife is pregnant.
Next time they should do the reward like this: first prize is dinner at Jean Georges. Second prize is dinner at Jean Georges without Donald and Melania. The music they played when the two of them pranced in was so obnoxious.
Alexis does not look a lot like her mother. She seems very reserved and tenative on camera.
I concur on the suckage of the cake but the salespeople made up for it by being desperate and sweaty and generally creepy.
Does it seem like Martha is scary smart and canny about being able to put her finger on who the real fuckups are and not falling for the scapegoating strategies? Matchstick keeps trying to Mean Girl Dawn and Martha keeps not buying it.
When that weather girl (or whatever she is) told Martha’s “George” (I don’t know his name. You know who I mean) that she should be the one to get fired if they lost, I was thinking the Donald would have canned her just for that. It was exactly the kind of stupid bravado statement that he hates. Martha seemed especially bugged by the “fake it” line. I think Martha immediately sniffed her out as a fame whore looking for a television job rather than anyone who was serious about working for Martha. It was kind of amusing to listen to her try to lecture Martha about the television industry, though.
What do those Matchstick asses have against Dawn, anyway. Right now, I think she’s the only person on that team I don’t hate.
Oh…and Jim is a sociopath. WTF is doing on that show while his wife is having a baby? Even his “delighted” reaction seemed phony and insincere.
That would be Vice President Freud. And I concur. Like I think I’ve mentioned before, the first rule of The Apprentice is very simple. Keep your fool mouth SHUT! It’s amazing how these supposedly bright people just don’t know when to zip it.
Overall, another good episode. The only disappointment for me was the fact that Martha let the PM (I forget his name, the white version of mush mouth) off the hook for bringing in the only people who actually succeeded in the task. She fired the right person, but he should have been told that his time is limited if he’s going to pull that crap again.
Amen. And we’re early on! Will he even get to see his spawn before she’s a month old? Unbelievable. I only hope his wife is as awful as he is so I don’t have to feel bad for her.
Major props to Martha for declaring, “This just isn’t right.” I swear, if she had let that craziness go down, I would have taken the show off the DVR schedule. She did absolutely the right thing.
Jim could do the voiceover for horror film trailers. He has a voice that sounds like he’s swallowing jack rocks. But at least his personality sucks. If he wasn’t hamming “I love you” for the camera, then Cher isn’t a diva.
Hey, did you guys all miss the part when Jim told us that it’s really important to his wife that he do this show? For their future? She insisted, dammit!
Alternative: she should have let the boardroom go on for just a minute, asking the PM to explain how he chose the two to bring in. When that came down to “We don’t like her” for one woman and…hell, what did he have against the baker? No one said anything about the cake not tasting good, and the limited appeal of the color scheme was chosen by others, IIRC.
Anyway, after pointing how how specious his arguments are, Martha should have declared that a manager who cannot even realize what the cause of a problem is will NEVER be able to solve it and bounced his ass.
The reason that course would have been better is that it would (hopefully) keep future PMs from doing similar stunts. As the Donald says, It isn’t personal, it’s just business.
Maybe I misheard it, but I could have sworn that, when hanging up the phone during their first conversation, he said “Good luck with your task.”
Task? Pregnancy? Did the Ob/Gyn bring 16 women from across the country into a room, inject each with sperm from a turkey baster and send camera crews following them for 9 months to see which woman would bear a child with the most birthmarks shaped as corporate logos to determine who would be his next physician’s assistant.
Also, Martha really threw newsgirl under the bus at the end of that episode. Completely deserved and it’s nice to see a famewhore actually get called on it.
God, I love this show!!! (But it’s surely the Kiss of Death that NBC has moved it opposite LOST with THE E-RING as its lead-in. Talk about incompatibility!) Well, anyway. . .
When Team Business was designing its cake, I thought to myself “train wreck,” but it actually came out pretty fine. . . and it was being sold not strictly “as is” but as samples of the shapes and styles their company could do. Very smart!
Team Matchstick just blew it. Plain and simple. Except for the flowers on the top, which were very pretty. But those nasty little bows were too pink and the un-centered ovals were just too weird. I can’t imagine anyone buying that cake, even at half price.
Jim IS a demon, but he’s fun to watch.
I don’t understand what it is that Dawn does, but I also don’t understand why the rest of the team hates her so. And it was definitly right that TV Gal get the boot.
All that being said, I don’t have a clear picture of any of the individuals on Team Business. Does anyone else?
Why wasn’t Shawn willing to change the bow colors to make a sale? I mean hell, what’s the problem? Yellow bows, or blue bows, or pink bows, or green bows. Whatever. It’s just food color.
Yes! I thought I misheard him, but I guess not. What an ass.
The only corporate candidate who’s made a good impression is Ryan. When he was talking to the engaged couple about the cake, and the woman started to get emotional, “It’s really happening, we’re getting married” – that was edited well. Ryan seemed to really connect with them, and he seemed affected by them, like he was glad to have a small part in their happy event. I liked him.
I don’t remember why Dawn’s team doesn’t like her. Was she the one writing the book in Task #1, and she was flustered because it was so noisy?
Maybe it was because their expert said pink was in. I think they could have sold some if they’d been willing to tweak the bow color. The other cake was neutral and would fit anywhere.
That was cool, watching Martha talking about Sylvia Weinstock. It looked like she was going to diss her for awhile, and then she sorta back-pedaled and ended up complimenting her.
When they were transporting the cakes, I wondered why they didn’t have a little wheeled cart or something. That’s just asking for trouble, manually hauling something that unwieldy for such a distance.
Next week: One team doesn’t finish. Anyone wanna lay odds on which team screws up? Will Martha mesh the teams at some point?
I’m assuming there were some guidelines to the process that we weren’t privy to. I bet before the expo they had to come up with the product and the price, and couldn’t change either after the show was on the road. That’s the only way I can imagine to explain ZERO DOLLARS in sales. Why didn’t they start selling those suckers for $500 a pop during the last hour? Probably because they couldn’t.
I didn’t think she was really trying to diss Weinstock, it was more like she was trying to explain that Weinstock marketed to an extremely narrow niche and that she wasn’t a good model to try to imitate (particularly since there’s a hell of a lot more to what she does than “pink frosting”). Matchstick’s market research was stupid and naive and self-satisfied. They thought they were geniuses for consulting with a high end expert but all they came away with was “pink frosting.” Their design sucked and they couldn’t sell it. It’s like they thought an offhand remark about a frosting color trend was some sort of blockbuster inside knowledge that was going to sweep them to victory.
There’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed on both shows where the narcissism of the contestants leads them to think that all their ideas are brilliant just because they thought of them. They go overboard stroking themselves over their brainstorms. An oval shape is just SO original. Putting a small ‘i’ in italian really “makes it pop.” They’re all so in love with themselves that they can’t view their crappy ideas objectively, and anyone who trys to say, “dude, that sucks” is immediately classified as a “distraction” and “not a team player” and is sure to be the one they try to throw under the bus when their crappy ideas go down in flames.
Which brings us to Dawn. The hatred for her is knee-jerk and automatic. She could say, “Thanks,” and they would rationalize how she’s being sarcastic and rude. They are so full of themselves that they cannot see that they have engineered a cartoon that they hate. Meanwhile, Dawn goes about her business and according to Martha, “hasn’t proved herself one way or the other.” Once she’s teamed with professionals, I suspect she’ll begin to excel. I’m pulling for her.
