The Apprentice -- 4/8

I have two words for you: Oma. Rosa.

I have a new suitor on the horizon – he stated confidently that ***** and ***** get booted in the first 20 minutes. If this turns out to be the case, there is no future to the relationship – I can’t possibly date a man who would spoil the second to last show.

So – let’s kick off the pregame show by speculating what Omarosa’s and Troy’s roles will be – minions? spoilers? jury members? spies?

I’m thinking OmaRosa is merely a promotional puppet, somebody to keep viewers’ attention. I can’t imagine that she’d have any other role in the show at this point.

Troy, on the other hand: I’m still holding out that there was an after the fact discovery that Amy and Nick’s win last week was bogus because their deal was done after the time limit. Which means that Troy is reinstated, reunites with Kwame and all is forgiven. I still can’t figure out how two people are going to be fired within the first half hour of the show. What are they going to do then? What other expensive Trump properties are there that we must visit? What other paintings of The Donald are yet to be revealed?

Not just the first half-hour, but the first twenty minutes (on the official website). Opening credits, opening commercials, and recaps take 5 - 10 minutes alone!

Anyway, I think Kwame and Nick will go first. As it’s been pointed out in the past few threads, Kwame’s a solid worker, but not someone I’d want as a Head Honcho. As for Nick, well, I just don’t like him. Haven’t liked him since the Planet Hollywood episode where he just gave up on his team.

I’d love to see the Lovers’ deal from last week overturned, and Troy let back in, but I won’t be holding my breath.

Slightly off-topic, but I just had to share:

Do any of you play Nethack? You know the falling rock trap, where it says “a door in the ceiling opens and a rock falls on your head” or some such? I’d love to change it up so that once in a great while, it would be “a door in the ceiling opens and a piece of SEE-ment falls on your head.” Then, for the next 500 turns or so, you’d have random periods of confusion, sleeping, and hallucination. Your god would get REAL angry with you, and monsters would react to you as if you were wearing a ring of “aggravate monster.”

And unlike the real falling rock trap, your hard helmet wouldn’t protect you. Assorama’s helmet hair didn’t protect her, after all!

I’ve missed the promos.

But I would love it if Nick got booted. He just strikes me as not completely up and up or all there. There is something not completely reliable or steadfast.

However, Amy could go postal any moment. She is losing her edge and realizes she cannot charm her way to the top, the hussy.

It would have to be them…that is my guess, because of the time limitation. Or maybe they mislead a client. Maybe they had sex in the Donald’s airplane bedroom. Heeeee.

I love Bill. I want him to win. That entire ‘horoscope’ thing was brilliant. I bet he made that up.

I have a feeling that The Donald will give a Fabulous Prize away on this new show…to flaunt his most excellentnessacity.

Let’s review his shameless wonderfulness, shall we:

Malagaradaora -or what ever it is in Florida, and all it’s opulence and rather cheezy portrait of The Donald and his Breck Girl/Steve Austin hair cut. Wit a Germahn Butler…ja, zhat vas perfecto.

A picnic on the grounds of Trump’s upstate NY palatial manor home. Not inside, you are not fit to eat inside his manor home, but on the lawn outside.

The obsenely decorated suite atop Trump Casinos. More lavish than a sultan’s gold plated, diamond studded camel saddle, guadier than a traveler’s jewelry box.

A helicopter ride over NYC. Trump Air?

A dinner on his luxury yacht that is bigger than Rhode Island.
What other prizes did I miss? ( I came in late to the series and was sucked in by my husband.)

Other prizes have included ten minutes of one-on-one time with The Donald himself, a tour of The Donald’s hideous gold-plated apartment, a tour of Yankee Stadium and a change to meet Steinbrenner (he and Donald luurve each other, apparently, maybe even more than Donald luurves Asshat Nick), a trip to Boston for dinner, and a round of golf at Trump’s golf course.

Someone speculated in an earlier thread that the returnees will be acting as employees for the people that are still in the show, which is the most interesting and plausable idea I’ve heard so far.

I have a quesiton about last week. In the episode when Amy and Nick started to show the apartment she was wearing a black skirt and sweater. Then she changed into a suit. And then at end (when the guy came back at the last minute) she is back in the skirt and sweater. I don’t think she would be changing clothes and then changing back, so what was going on?

From your lips to God’s ears. That’s being pretty hopeful, though!

I heard again on the news this morning about the Big O’s allegations that Ereka calling her the N word. I gotta wonder if her appearance has to do with that in some regard (?)

Yo, Twick! The email I sent you earlier in the week got bounced back. Do you know wha hoppa?

MB – it got bounced to junk mail, whence I retrieved it a couple days later – I replied with my “real” email address, and was wondering why I hadn’t heard back. I’ll try again later.

Noo, no no- I got that one. When I wrote back to you with the new addy you gave me is when it got bounced back. (?)

Oops, my bad – that should be “@msn.com,” not “@man.com

You know, something I just realized, all of these Trump-related rewards are actually very good business for Trump. It is very common, within a large businesses, that certain lines of business generate their revenue by providing services to other lines of business within the larger unit, right? Well, look at it from that angle in regards to The Apprentice.

Someone is paying the bills on any show to cover the costs. Survivor’s go to an island for a day of food and win? Someone is paying for it. The Bachelor sits in a horse-drawn carriage? Someone is paying for it. In the case of The Apprentice, Donald in the context of The Apprentice is sending people out on “rewards” but they are all on his own corporate entitites which are therefore getting compensated for their costs by the network, sponsors, and/or Mark Burnett. Nothing like making money by making money. :wink:

Anyway, as I mentioned in the Survivor thread, I’ll not be seeing anymore Apprentice or Survivor this season. So, please please please post long and descriptive summaries of what happened for each episode!!

MeanJoe

Television Without Pity - for all your recapping needs.

I’m intrigued by the idea that Amy/Nick might get fired for inappropriate behavior or somesuch. I don’t think it’ll happen that way (for one thing, they would have hinted at it in the previews), but it would be cool. I’d like to see them both fired.

However, I more expect Nick and, unfortunately, Kwame to go. A Bill/Amy final, I think.

I have no idea what they will be doing with Ass. Orama., Troy or any of the others. I don’t think it will be a jury (Didn’t Trump say in the first episode that there’s no jury?). I don’t know how bringing them back as employees can work, since they would be in a position to sabotage their ‘boss’ with no incentive to do well.

I guess I’ll have to wait. Grrrr.

To be fair, though, most real employees with a boss they hate have the same opportunities and lack of incentive. It’s so obvious I hate to say it, but part of being a good boss in not making people hate you. Part of being a really good boss is getting people to do their work and do it well, even when they do hate you.

I was real big on Amy for a long time and thought she was going to be the ultimate winner. In short, I thought she was head and shoulders above absolutely everyone else.

But it seems to me now that since she’s come to the fore she doesn’t have it together anywhere near like I thought. She’s shown her ass quite a bit, and I don’t think she impressed Trump or Carolyn with her “I don’t remember” cop out about the car rental prize. I still think she’s a contender but I’ll be dissapointed if she wins.

I know I’m in the minority here, but I’m hoping Kwame will win. If not, Bill, although for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on something about Bill puts me off.

Anyone catch Omarosa on ‘Oprah’ Thursday afternoon? The woman is truly, truly evil. And Oprah herself appears to be in concert with Omarosa. SHE actually got to sit down next to Oprah and The Donald and accuse others of racism, while poor Erika and Heidi were relegated to basically sitting in the audience. Meanwhile, Oprah all but accused Erika of using the ‘N-word’ on the ‘The Apprentice.’ She certainly didn’t let the poor girl defend herself properly to Omarosa’s allegations. Even Trump himself did little to stand up for Erika, in my opinion.

I’m guessing Omorosa will play the race card. She tried her best to set up a personal injury excuse but that was pretty well blown out of the water on the recap episode. The idiot had a private doctor and a hospital emergency room declare her injury was superficial. She’s down to claming hostile interpersonal relations.
Which is pretty sickening, actually, given her own performance. Consider her flat out lying to Amy about people hating and laughing at her as a leader, then laughing later that any mind-games were legitimate. The woman seems hellbent to portray herself as a lazy, malicious twit.
Based on absolutely nothing, I’m guessing that Kwame and Nick will go in the first round. I think Kwame is a very solid contender but Carolyn & Co. haven’t seemd that impressed with him as a leader. Nick is just plain too erratic and obvious. I can’t see him as even that great a salesman, because his people skills seem limited to narrow, by-the-book sales jargon. No way a credible leader.
I’m going with Bill against Amy in the final round.

What Trump has been doing in rewarding these people with visits to his properties and using his stuff is just one of the most excellent advertising one can have.

When they did the trip to the NJ Golf Course, which will be one of the finest in the World, according to The Donald, he said something to one of the workers there that was rather odd, but brilliant little sound bite. Something about " the smoothest dirt to put the grass over…"

Golfers everywhere just glazed over thinking to themselves…" Hmmmm, maybe my ball will roll farther to the green and I’ll get a better golf score."

The man is clearly in a win/win situation.