MrValley and I noticed that too. We were making bets as to what Carolyn and George would say, and were very disappointed that we didn’t get that scene.
And BTW, how did I make it until almost the last show without knowing that Raj is doing commentary?
So why the heck was Craig insisting that they should select a price and then stick to it, regardless of the actual demand for their shirts? As a former beauty queen, I think that’s a singularly foolish statement to make.
Huh. I didn’t know that, either. Glancing at them, I see that he has some good insights (good because I agree with them!), but it’s all presented in Raj-speak. and that turns me off. Give me Mully 's commentary any day.
I and others have said it before, but Trump is a capricious fella. Something he might think of as showing initiative and drive one day is going to strike him as stupid and a waste of time the next. In that unpredictability, I think he’s like everyone’s worst boss and it must be exhausting to try to anticipate what he wants. I mean, we know he wants bottom-line success, but anticipating the finer details would be difficult.
Another week, another ninny. Cripes, if season 4 is anything like 3, every candidate will start at the lowest rung of the Raj Ratings and never move up. Crap, I’m going to have to come up with a brand new theme, also. Massive ships and levels of schooling have worked. What can finish off my random trifecta? Honestly, the last couple of weeks of pathetic apprenticing have made me seriously question if I want to keep doing this, but I had an epiphany tonight. If I’m going to spend time watching this show and ragging on them in real life, it’s not that hard to spend another 15 minutes spitting my thoughts onto the keyboard. Plus, I have all of the fans to please. The fan clubs, the appearances, the autographs. Sometimes it’s almost too much. Except for the naked stalkers. You can never have enough of those around. But I digress…what an amazingly crummy final quartet/trio. We’ve all been saying that for a while, but seeing them in action sort of confirms it. Blah, read on and embrace the incompetence.
Nursery School - Full of crying, childish people that could use either a potty break or a nap. These folks deserve to be watched by the crooked daycares profiled on “60 Minutes”.
Todd, Brian, Danny, Kristen, Michael, Tara, Audrey, John, Erin, Stephanie, Angie, Chris, Bren - In an odd twist with another popular show, you were on a plane that crashed on a remote island and the only 2 people that survived were from the above group. Which 2 do you want it to be? I go Erin and Michael. Michael, because I would have no guilt about going Donner Party on his fleshy self should we run out of food. And, I pick Erin because I am ultimately a male driven by base instincts and she had the best body. Plus, I assume the plane crash impaired her ability to speak.
Alex (BS) (Elementary School) - Gee, none of us have seen this coming. The thing I really don’t get is how often Trump called you a star. I see forgetfully competent B-level manager that inspires his employees to heights no greater than coming up with lame impersonations of his motivational speeches. He’s like plain popcorn in those giant, Christmas themed multi-flavor popcorn bins. Every now and then, it’s nice to have plain popcorn, but if all you had were cheddar, butter, and caramel corn, life would be fantastic.
Elementary School - Some growth, but in the end it’s a place rife with playground fights, name calling, and a trip to the Principal’s office.
Craig (SS) (Elementary School) - Is there anyone that actually thinks Craig can win? He has been anywhere from maddeningly odd to quirkily competent in challenges which just won’t cut it. But yeah, interviews with executives. That’s where he’ll pull it all together. For whatever reason, he just can’t get along with Kendra. Craig is a little odd but fin, but this Kendra battle is really dragging her down. Eh, maybe that’s his plan.
Middle School - A group that might be growing up but still prone to wild swings based on playground fights, name calling, and puberty.
High School - Not quite a child, not quite an adult. Frankly, I still don’t know what to make of these folks.
Kendra (BS) (High School) - Dang, I guess she’s the winner but she is perhaps the most sour leading contestant ever. Have we seen even one clip where she comes across as the kind of person you’d want to hang out with at a party? She’d probably worsen the mood of a funeral party. She’ll win but be utterly forgettable because she just can’t make us care.
Tana (SS) (High School) - I guess I want her to win the most, but that’s kind of like me rooting for Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough to win the flavor resurrection contest from Ben & Jerry’s. Ultimately, I don’t care enough to actually vote and, were it to win, I don’t want it enough to buy it. Tana’s the same way. I can’t imagine paying $55 for a t-shirt unless is comes with the power to spit $50 bills out of the neckhole. And rhinestones. It definitely needs rhinestones.
College - Older and wiser, things are looking up. Maybe not ready to enter the real world yet, but getting close.
Grad School - These people have a clue, have some seasoning, and have a chance to make an impact.
PhD - Ready for tweed jackets, big paydays, and the chance to put rhinestones all over George’s suit.
The Rancic/Perdew corollary update. It’s pretty much over for the season. It worked out pretty well. The people that had the most bad editing moments were sent on (or in Craig’s case clearly will be). This little thing works. I figure it will pretty clearly separate 3 or 4 people by the third episode next season.
Mully – as your head groupie, I just wanna go on record as saying no, you really don’t want to see me naked. Trust me on this.
And a sad commentary it is when the most interesting question is the one about which two jettisoned contestants would you most like to be marooned with. In terms of survival competence – uh, damn. Okay, I’ll go for Bren and Angie as the two I’d most enjoy spending time with, while the three of us quickly die from a over-educated inability to deal with finding clean water, let alone food.
In the spirit of the last two seasons of the Apprentice, can I suggest Disasters? You could go with the Natural Disasters scale (Pompeii, Hurricane Andrew, on down to Krakatoa) or the Man-Made Disasters scale (Hindenburg, Titanic, on down to Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia).
I’d go with Todd and She Who Shall Not Be Named. Todd because he’s the only one I wouldn’t be predisposed to hate, and She Who Shall Not Be Named because she’d wander off into the sea after a couple days, leaving more supplies for the rest of us.
You mean: How to put together a business in 24 hours when you have access to top designers, a mock-up crew, engineers, corporate executives, etc., all paid for by NBC and The Donald? Not to mention being able to drop the Trump name whenever necessary? Yeah, I could probably do that too.
I think they should have invited you along as the guest of honor for the Apprentice “Legend” Cruise.
Hmm. I’d go with Danny and Angie.
Why Danny? I have no TV. I need entertainment. Danny’s the perfect minstrel. Hey. On a deserted island, Danny’s entertainment would go from very annoying to much needed. UNBELIEVABLE!
Why Angie? Because like Mullinator I, too, have manly needs. So why Angie? She’s not great looking, but she’s pleasant enough. And she seems to be a pretty fun person. On the desert island, you want to go for some personality with the lovin’. [sub]Plus, she seems a bit freaky; like she’d know how to do “stuff.” [/sub]
And Mully, bad call on Erin. Sure she has the great body. But even WITH the vocal impairment, she’d annoy the hell out of you with her non-verbal communication. Remember the eye rolls and over the top head nodding? You’d look away, but she’d clap her hands and grunt until you looked back. She’d be like a the bastard child of Hellen Kellar and Paris Hilton. Plus, I’ll bet she’d be narcissistic in the sack…
Hmmm? A follow up question since the season is so boring: Who would be the best LOVER of all this season’s Apprentice candidates?
I’m inclined to say Audrey. She’s hot and she seems rough around the edges. In a one nighter, I’d take her. But for the long haul, I’d go with Kendra. Hear me out! She’s such an over achiever, that I’d just tell her the sex was"pretty good." Can you imagine? The next time out she’d be coming at me with things that hadn’t been done since the fall of Sodom and Gomorrha!
I think Kendra deserves to be rated higher than that. She might not be the kind of person you’d want to party with, but that doesn’t reflect on her managerial skills. And personally, I think she seems pleasant enough, so I don’t know why anyone would say that she’s be a downer at a funeral.
She hasn’t made any major mistakes so far (IMO), and on the whole, I think she’s outshone both Bill and Kelly. And I think I’d want to hang out with her, since I kinda like cute, intelligent women. 
I agree with this. When considering her demeanor you have to take Craig into account. When her problems with Craig first started, I thought she was being overly petulant but the last couple of weeks have convinced me that Craig truly is an overbearing, relentlessly condescending asshole to women and I think Kendra is just in a state of mental exaustion from it. It’s a wonder she hasn’t just gone off on him completely. There are women from past shows who I think would have (Jenn of Nine, for instance). The fact that she’s been able to win several tasks in a row, largely by her own efforts, while being saddled with a morale sump like Craig speaks volumes in itself.
I think Craig is a relentlessly condescending asshole to Kendra because she’s not his peer and he has a stick up his ass about needing her “respect” or whatever. He’s a father of three daughters and seemed to get along fine with Tana so this “asshole to women” business doesn’t ring true.
Kendra and Tana together would have dominated that task completely. On each team, one person came up with a fantastic idea. Kendra decided to market to art collectors, Tana decided to jazz the shirt up to chart a higher price point - both Craig and Alex were pretty ineffectual.
He was an asshole to Audrey too. (remember, how “demeaningful” he was?) plus, Kendra IS his peer and even his superior in some ways. She knows a lot more about promotion and marketing, for instance.
And having daughters doesn’t mean a guy can’t be a chauvinist. I never see Craig act that way to men, and that “young lady” stuff was completely unprofessional, disrespectful and unacceptable. In any real corporate workplace anyone who talked to a coworker (not a subordinate, a coworker) the way Craig talked to Kendra would have been hauled up to HR so fast it would make his head spin.
I can’t be the only fan of the 1980’s Celtics that originally read this as Danny Ainge, which made no sense and was highly disturbing.
I agree that being saddled with Craig has sort of sapped her strength, etc. But, she has really come across as having very little in the way of a fun, engaging personality that makes someone want to root for her. She is essentially Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Nice enough person, not someone you root against, but so caught up in how other things are wronging him that he misses out on the fun parts of life.
She has probably performed the best on the tasks, but again, it comes down to 2 ideas she has used repeatedly. Poll the public and cooperate with surrounding businesses. Fine ideas, but I think we should all expect a little more from a winner. I can’t really see her as the leader of a company. Marketing department director, yes. One woman task force related to advertising. Sure. Leader of one hundred people where she has wildly diversified tasks and responsibilities. Probably not.
And, this is the person that I think is most deserving of winning at this point.
I sided with Kendra. Then I sided with Craig. Now, I am somewhat back to Kendra.
See the pattern? Kendra- PM on the Car Task. Craig- PM on the Staples task. Kendra- PM on the T-Shirt Task.
They are both obstructionists. When the other is the PM, the subordinate is insubordinate. Kind of reminds me of that scene from Big where John Heard says “I don’t get it.”
But, even though I sided with Kendra this week, she was a little annoying. When Craig was giving the unneccesary discounts, she (quite correctly) told him to stop. She did it in a polite, but firm way. Did Craig mouth off? No. He said he thought it was working, but that he would stop.
Problem Occurs. Problem Addressed. Error Acknowledged. Promise to correct action given. End of discussion, right?
Not for Kendra. She kept on about things. It was the ONE time where Craig accepted her criticism without making a stink and she dogs him out.
Heh. If it were 80’s Celtics, I’d go with Bill Walton and The Chief. I was thinking of bringing Len Bias, but he probably doesn’t count…
I was irrationally excited by the fantasy of how much they could have made if they’d been together. I thought Kendra was way low on the pricepoint. Even in Toronto, in a high-buck boutique you could reasonably expect to pay about $80 Canadian for a designer t-shirt. One thing that bugged me about Kendra and marketing though is that she said they would talk about it on the ride back from the craft store. Then, or course they didn’t show the ride back. I’m sure they had a long talk about marketing, and that the fact that neither of them came up with any ideas had nothing to do with Kendra mismanaging their time. Like she said in the boardroom, the problem was just that neither of them had the good idea.
I think Kendra’s great at leveraging her own brainpower. She didn’t so much have the idea of the email campaign as she had the seed that the artist already had patrons. Seemed like she asked his agent or whoever that woman was what they might do about that, and the agent came up with the plan to ask the galleries for help, and down the line that led to an email campaign. Kendra made good use of the designers talents on the brochure too. I get the impression that Kendra is a great leader when she has smart, capable people to lead. She’s not doing well with Craig because he’s so exasperatingly useless. I’m not sure, but I think maybe Kendra is just not accustomed to dealing with difficult people. Having said that, her exasperation gets on my nerves. Why should she have the luxury of never having to work with utter morons? But then I think about Craig standing their with his fat stomach sticking out and his comb in his hair waggling his finger and I don’t blame her.
There’s so little to work with this season that it’s really hard to judge anyone by the unflattering editing. I think they’re trying to make these people look like they have personalities and it’s not easy.
You know I meant Tana.
Point taken. Personally though, I don’t root for someone because he/she has a fun, engaging personality. And besides, I find her intelligence and creativity to be quite engaging.
I like Kendra. I want to bear her children.
I’m not sure that Kendra should win or that she woukd be a great leader but she has shown some genuine talent and ability at promotion and marketing. If I was running a bakery I would have confidence that she could bring customers into my store.
That may not sound like much but in this crop of losers, anyone who shows any authentic skill or talent at anything becomes a de facto frontrunner. So far, Only Kendra and Tana have shown that they aren’t completely useless and so are the default final two (I’m guessing Craig will get destroyed in his interviews). Of those two, I think I might prefer Tana because I suspect her management and interpersonal skill are probably better but I think that Kendra has proven she can be an effective employee in the right job.