Yikes, almost forgot to start the thread tonight!
Okay – is it Lenny’s night? Tarek’s? Starving But Strong’s numbers seem to indicate it will be one or the other…
Ah, phooey, not on till 10. I wish they wouldn’t mess with me this way.
I think my favorite thing about reality TV is the high level of self-delusion among the participants. See, e.g., Tarek, The Apprentice, 4/3/06.
What a tool.
What is a “natural chicken product?”
“We didn’t realize we were late.”
WTF?
Those jingles are both godawful. The second was probably worse but both are pretty much unusable.
Man, Gold Rush is toast!
I’m certain that all Apprenti will want this tape burned after it airs. I’m embarassed for all of them.
I hate hate hate these music tasks. There is absolutely no way on god’s green earth The Donald (who dances even worse than I would have guessed) would ever have a single thing to do with writing a jingle.
It is not an executive task, people!
So who will they try to throw under the bus? I don’t think they can blame Lenny. Who was responsible for the lyrics?
Am I the only one who was reminded of that WKRP episode where they recorded a jingle and the sponsor they were recording it for was doing that exact same dance?
I think Charmaine and Leslie wrote most of the lyrics.
Bryce is an idiot bringing Lee. I think the pile-up on Lenny is bullshit. So he doesn’t know how to write a jingle. So what? He tried to contribute and even Bryce admitted he wasn’t a negative influence.
Charmaine is the one who should be fired but since Bryce is too much of an idiot to know who to bring back, he’s the one who’s going.
Bryce is toast.
Best line of the night from Carolyn: “Why don’t you just say ‘Fire me, Mr. Trump?’”
Bryce, you fucking idiot. Bringing in Lee after Trump said NOT to was dumb. Given Tarek’s hanging-by-a-string status and Charmaine’s general ineptitude, a fourth-grader could have figured out who needed to be in the boardroom.
It’s a contest, people. Tarek’s barely alive. Lee is golden. Lenny’s been solid, though he was run through the ringer last week.
I liked his bowing up to Trump though.
Ah crap, didn’t know it was on late tonight. I guess I’ll have to tivo the MSNBC rerun.
So many issues today. First, Sean is gross. I have a hard time believing that his rap is so convincingly sexy. I live in Boston. People with English accents are a dime-a-dozen!
Bryce gets props for trying to facilitate a beef-airing session with his team. I think the guy has redeemed himself significantly since his hissy fit vs. Lenny. I thought his rally for the team was nice, but what I don’t get is the same thing about American Idol. It’s a competition. If you want to win, you have to be strategic. Good people are going to get fired. But his brain apparently went off during the boardroom.
Charmaine is quite mediocre and somehow has avoided the boardroom. Tarek is the walking dead. Those two were no-brainer boardroom candidates. As KSO noted, Carolyn pretty much let Bryce know he was done, done, done. What got me, though, is that he claimed to be the best candidate for the job, when all he did was commit a giant flop job in the boardroom. Part of working for Trumpy is being able to verbally spar with some agility with a coherent argument. I couldn’t figure out what Bryce’s argument was, aside from the fact that he’s a “stand-up guy.”
I want Tarek fired for his profligate use of “step up” and other stupid business jargon.
Well, Bryce was trying to get fired, it looks like. So, you have to take that into account when looking at his behavior.
Well, at least now we know how playing nice and standing up for your team works in the board room.
Bryce was right. If it hadn’t been for Charmaine and Tarek, they wouldn’t have had a jingle at all. Lenny didn’t contribute but he didn’t hurt them either. He brought Lee in because Trump told him to bring two, and everyone else worked hard and they worked together.
Bryce is right. Trump needs to listen once in awhile.
That said, I think Bryce is a bit of a phony. He knew from the start that as PM, if they lost, he’d be likely to go. Didn’t we see an angry, confrontational Bryce in the first or second week? Where’d this new Bryce come from?
It seemed like his tactic was to present a united front, with no finger pointing. He wasn’t going to place blame and he gave the impression to his team that he’d be the sacrificial lamb.
Did he think Trump was going to do another first and not fire anybody? “Gee, I’ve never seen this before! Nobody’s blaming anybody! I might have to change my whole management style. This could shake up corporations everywhere! Let’s all be nice. We’ll get rich!”
Jingles are stupid. There hasn’t been a good original jingle in years. “Have it your way” is the only one I can think of. Who does jingles?
And yeah, what’s “natural” chicken? Not processed? They didn’t say “organic”. I doubt Arby’s is the only chain selling natural chicken. The last chicken sandwich I had at McDonald’s was a whole breast fillet, under all that breading.
See, if I’m going to believe that, why didn’t he just fall on his sword and say, “Trump, my team worked hard on this task and I refuse to find someone responsible for the loss. I’d like to resign my position.” I think Trump might have given him props and a pass if he did.
Charmaine needed her ass kicked. She scheduled the meeting with practically no time for travel. Gold Rush was fucked from jump street because the execs were pissed. That permanently tainted them. I think Tarek was actually pretty helpful, just not as good as the creative folks on Synergy - but he has the stink of death on him. Furthermore, the rule on The Apprentice is that someone’s responsible. The ones who put together the jingle, whether it was the only one they had or not, were responsible.
I wasn’t impressed with Bryce’s defense. What was his point exactly? If he wanted the boot he should have made that clear instead of fumbling around with the suicide-by-Lee-in-the-boardroom thing.