The Apprentice -- 5/12

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Well there’s nothing like being left high and dry on the toilette talkin to nobody to end your big day!

Tana looks way prettier without makeup.

I cried! I’ve been watching Kendra so long I guess our cycles are in synch. Or else I’m just a huge suck. But it’s true, they worked better for her than they did for themselves!

I think when Kendra is speaking with someone who isn’t an idiot or isn’t just the camera, she’s more pleasing to listen to. She puts on her “grown up” voice. When I see her dealing with normal people I really like her. It also seems like the more is going on, the more articulate and poised she becomes. Or maybe it’s just taking the Craig out of her life that does it.

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Well, I was originally thinking that Tana was getting worse editing than Kendra to set up a Tana win. However, they can’t make up all that whining about her team. Yeah, they suck. Get over it! It’s like every other sentence out of her mouth is whining about her team. I haven’t seen her be whiney like that before (a bit whiney, but not like this)!

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Uh oh, is that a secret? Sorry. :frowning:

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I got yelled at for talking about a show while it was still being aired. I guess I was just covering my backside :slight_smile:

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“I have more at home than Kendra does. She’s alone and I have a husband and two kids.”

Wow. Talk about the low road.

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The lowest. That actually pissed me off, and I don’t care about any of these people.

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The lack of a home life gives one candidate more time to attend to Trumpcentric concerns.

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‘This was a complete success’, said Tana…I want some of what she was smoking!

I was bummed Danny didn’t get to do a song at the video game show. But, didn’t he bring the gitar into the boardroom at the end??

Tana was a bit condescending to her team, no one should do that, and what was that hiding behind the door until they left? ASking if Pataki wanted a donut and some coffee was a bit low too. She was just losing it.

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The way I’m thinking about this is as such - Naturally, anything that goes wrong is gonna get shown on the air. The fact that they had so little on Kendra goes to show that very little went wrong, especially once the event got into swing. When the editing itself is as lopsided as this turned out, the real situation was probably even more so.

What struck me the most was the night-and-day opinions of “I had such a great team” and “There was no love. I did it all myself.” I think with both teams it was somewhere inbetween, it’s the point of view that each candidate provided that showed their true colors. Tana is an egomaniacal idiot.

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I had no idea it was in 2 parts. I didn’t read the fine print in the TV guide. I thought it was going to be to the damn point and get it over with for once.

I don’t know what Tana was trying to say with that remark about the home life. It’s as if she was agreeing that Kendra wanted it more, but only because Kendra’s life is barren–barren like her cob-webby womb. Wouldn’t it be 100 times easier and less risky to just lie and say “no I want it more!”? I don’t understand Tana. She thinks it’s opposite day.

Like for example, if you think everyone on your staff is a boob, maybe you won’t want to give them carte blanche to do things and then say “blah blah blah” when they try to get approval? And then she sits there yammering about how she’s such a model executive because she doesn’t lower herself to walk out with her staff. She’ll stay behind with her pretzel bitches, thank you! Yeah another thing executives do is sign off on artwork that’s on its way to have a billion copies printed and that your whole career is riding on. Except on opposite day. Then they just say “whatever, bitch, I hate you just do it and don’t bug me.”

I feel utterly manipulated because I spent such a long time thinking Kendra was a twit and now I’m wishing I could be more like Kendra. Making new best friends with the cool chick from Sony. Something about that Sony woman makes me want to smoke a cigarette in the bathroom with her. She was too cool for school!

Does it seem like a huge coincidence that the saying goodnight segments were so polar opposite? It seems like the contrast is so unlikely that it must be suggested to them that it’s an important scence. I can’t imagine Tana giving that idiotic speech about her preferred method of holding up her whole night to make sure the coast is clear because that’s what real executives do. Proving that she’s never met a real executive before. It just seems too much to be true.

I’m still laughing about Kendra on the toilet.

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Kristen, what the hell were you thinking? Sheesh!

Unfortunately, that huge faux pas was consistent with her previous behavior on this show.

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Tana?

Tanner?

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So unless she croaks between now and next week (or can’t get out of the toilet!), looks like Kendra will be the next Apprentice. Even though the candidates in this third cohort were the weakest so far, I did find the shows entertaining. Main negative about this last season was how predictable the show became. Many of us picked Kendra many weeks ago, and certainly the only viable candidate after Alex started stinkin’ up the joint.

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Boy, do I ever eat crow for my prediction yesterday. Tana was so inept I almost felt sorry for her. Making the Governor wait, without any clue when he will do what? A man with a minute by minute schedule, to which Tana is inexplicably oblivious. For all she knows, he had to reschedule meetings on child welfare initiatives and battered spouse housing just because the Tana Show was such a disorganized mess. And no American flag? Apparently, she was out the day they had Symbolism 101. This is a done deal. Unless Kendra jumps on the table and masturbates with a crucifix, she is the next Apprentice.

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Ugh. The Raj Ratings are less than impressed. That episode might as well have had a running scrawl across the bottom that said "Tune in next week when Trump hires Kendra. Tana had the more difficult task, an absolutely awful team, and less time to pull it together. Kendra is certainly solid, but this is pretty much like putting a ball on a batting tee for a major leaguer. They could have skipped the tasks and saved us a week and just installed Kendra as the next Apprentice. Sheesh. Season 4 had better have a much better cast of people. Give me 2 people that suck but bring drama, 2 quirks, 10 solid and capable people, and 4 potential superstars. That’ll be much better than the 8 drama queens, 8 barely competent humans, and 2 solid candidates from this time around. The clock is ticking on this show. Loudly.

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, Tara, Audrey, John, Angie, Stephanie, Bren, Alex, Craig - You were viewed as too sane and normal to be brought back to hamper the final 2. That’s good for you, but speaks more to the level of competition we have been forced to endure this year. At this point, I’d rather watch Trump give us a competition between anarchists and catholic cardinals. Pretty much any group of people would be more fun to watch than these contestants.
Brian - Fortune cookies for the fired - “You have a secret crush on someone you despise.”
Danny - “A thoughful man chooses quiet bliss over his own voice.”
Kristen - “Chinese knowledge can not help you. This is why we built a wall.”
Michael - “Strong work and silent mouth can equal redemption.”
Erin - “There will be a time when a smirk will be your downfall.”
Chris - “Your mis-directed ‘passion’ will ultimately lead to danger.”
Tana (SS) (High School) - I might as well put you here. Like Trump is hiring you after all we saw were issues, issues, issues. It was a good ride, but you ain’t winning. If your team sucks, dump them. It appears you only gave them minor tasks anyway. At the very least, cut Brian. He clearly brought out the worst in Kristen and pulled Chris down to his level. Lose him and I think the other 2 are at least manageable. And yes, you were dealt a bad hand, but get over it. Constantly complaining won’t fix anything and only makes you look undesireable as a boss. From what we saw, very poor showing.

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.

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) - Yeah, she will win but this is really as high as I can go. She had really weak competition throughout this season. You could make a case that up to 10 of the people in the cast were fired before they ever entered the suite. They were that bad. But, kudos to her for pulling it off. I’m still inclined to think she is a good manager of projects that require solo effort rather than a vast project involving lots of people. It was good to see her team apparently stepped up to the plate and that she did well. The clearest indicator of her winning is that any issues she had were shown last week and cleared up before this week’s episode. Everything bad for Tana was this week. The last impression you leave is the one that sticks with people.

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…good grief these people suck. They have sapped my will to care.
Carolyn boxing is comedy gold.

The Rancic/Perdew corollary update. I think last week someone asked what this was the corollary of. Completely forgot to answer. The initial theory is that editing shows all. This corollary specifies that, while a candidate can survive some level of goofy editing or really poor effort, for the most part that is limited to only a couple of occasions. Any more than 3 or 4 times (or fewer depending on the level of screw-up) and that person has no chance to win no matter what else is being shown.

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:smiley:

You have singlehandedly made this season worth watching, sir. I need to watch so I can get your jokes the next morning.

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Has there been word on a 4th season? Is the Martha Stewart version still in the works?

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I still think that Kendra deserves to be rated much higher than that. As Bowtie Raj pointed out, she’s the only candidate all season who hasn’t made any serious missteps. In that respect, she has outperformed even Bill and Kelly.

Sure, her competition wasn’t so tough, but neither were her teammates. One could just as easily argue that she performed well despite the people she was saddled with.

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Hampsters ate my post last night. That’s okay, much like this season, my post was nothing special.

Was Kendra’s event day really THAT issue-free??? C’mon, folks, no major event comes off without any day-of defects.

Also, I think Kendra was talking too fast in the board room. Her nervousness showed through.

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I’m disappointed that they are going to do another one of those overblown, dragout finales.

What’s the point? All of the people whose opinion they ask – except Donald, Carolyn and George – will be basing their choice only on the edited footage, just like us. Is there anyone out there who thinks Tana won?

As for the doubts about how smoothly Kendra’s thingy went, I don’t think they’re valid. For the sake of drama, they WANT us wondering at the outcome so we are dying to tune in. But look at the board room: Tana got chewed out for the lack of flag and the lack of proofreading that handout. Kendra got chewed out for…Danny having hijacked the executives before she learned they were there?

Really, if that is the worst they could find to use against her, then the occasion MUST have basically run like silk.

If that isn’t enough to convince you, contrast the editing that showed us Tana hiding from her crew and sneering at them with the Kendra team love fest. “Works well with others” anyone?
Personally, I KNEW Kendra had it locked as soon as she ordered the spotlight to follow Trump from the moment he entered. :stuck_out_tongue: