The Apprentice -- 5/15/06 -- **special time**

Due to Dubya’s presentation for why we need armed guards at the border, we won’t be getting our weekly Trump fix till 10:00 Eastern. (dunno about you left-coasters.)

Yikes. I was hoping to get to bed early tonight.

At this point I don’t know why I still watch this. I hate the whole bunch of them, except Tammy, who I’m just blah about. I guess I keep watching for the Horror that is Trump. He’s such a trainwreck to watch.

Oh c’mon, watching Allie fume and fret – that’s amusing, right?

Okay, maybe not.

How about the Machivellian Lee?

Hm.

Why are we still watching this?

Well, I know the only reason I am – because my hubby is still enjoying it, so we watch it together. Quality TV time with the SO. Well, maybe not quality TV, but quality time. :smiley:

Yeah, Rysler and I hang out on IM and watch it together.

So we can all be knowledgeable viewers, here is TVGuide’s teaser for tonight’s show:

These rewards are getting more obscure all the time.

So it’s reached the point where nobody can be bothered to comment during the show?

Another cunning bit of editing tonight.

The women were arguing about whether they were rolling their eyes or raising their eyebrows? Good grief.

Little behind here on the TiVo, but Microsoft’s executive has a disturbing skull. He needs a hat or a wig… the bald look isn’t working for him.

JThunder, that little piece of TV made me want to kick all of them in the shins. I used to think Roxanne was all that but they are all such childish bints. At least Sean and Lee found a way to get along. I sort of dismissed the “Coven II” allusions people made about the women this year but I think they’re pretty much spot on.

This marks the first episode that I haven’t wanted to smack Sean through the TV. Which is saying a lot about his character rehabilitation project. At this point, how are any of the women going to stack up to either of these guys?

Katzenberg: the baldness works for him. Observe, Microsoft guy, and get your head reshaped. Nice reward, and I suspect it’s even nicer because they’ll be getting paid for their services, right?

Nobody else watching?

Tammy… a bit shrill, no? And what’s the story with her eyebrows? Quite distracting.

“At least I stepped up…” No soup for you!

Ivanka calling out Allie - nice! Bill actually doing something besides licking Trump’s asscrack by piling on as well. Allie is dead woman walking. Roxanne walked out of there surprisingly unscathed. Though I think she should be rewarded with a trip to the hair salon. Time for some curlers… something…

Well, here on the West Coast it isn’t on for nearly two more hours. Give us a chance to see it, huh? :wink:

I wonder how the previous Apprenti are doing? I wonder why only Bill gets to be Trump’s “eyes and ears?” Is it because he was the first (second?) or is he the only one that is doing a decent job? Anyone ever heard how they’re doing?

It’s too bad Trump doesn’t send them out of the room anymore, so he can confer privately with his minions. Bill did get in the comment about Allie’s eye-raising, but he needed to say more.

Tammy had no support, and Trump’s homily about getting rid of traitors made me think she’d squeak through.

She was a bit shrill though, wasn’t she?

I was really thinking (and hoping!) that Roxanne would go, especially after Trump’s homily. Nuts.

Is this the most lackluster Final Four, ever?

Gah. I was really sorry Trump fell for Allie and Roxanne’s tactics. He should pay more attention to Ivanka! She asked the right question: “We still haven’t heard what you actually did on this task, Allie. What did you do?” But Allie weaseled out of the answer, and nobody ever pinned her on it again. She’s definitely dead in the water, but I was really hoping she’d go tonight. And Roxanne. I was hoping for a double firing, since Roxanne’s nose is so firmly plantd in Allie’s butt at this point that I’m not sure they’re separable.

And the guys aren’t much better.

Frankly, I don’t care who wins. Whoever it is, Trump deserves him or her.

I heard from a reliable friend elsewhere online that apparently ratings are going downhill; the next Apprentice supposedly won’t be starting till January 2007, and will be on Sundays.

Are they going to do the interviews for the final four? It looked like there was going to be some kind of task instead. I hope they do the interviews. That’s the best part of the whole season.

Are they going to do the interviews for the final four? It looked like there was going to be some kind of task instead. I hope they do the interviews. That’s the best part of the whole season.

This must be to give all the viewers time to forget about how much this show has started to suck and actually care about it again when it starts up. Although, wasn’t he shilling the California version.

Add me to the list of those who thought Roxanne was going. I thought it was funny when she was lamenting not getting this particular reward and how she has a nice voice and would really be perfect for the movie voice-over, because her voice is one of the things I’ve hated about her. I wish I had the words to describe what I think of when I hear her talk…it’s like this weird, nasally undertone. Yeah, that didn’t explain it at all. Anyhow…

I not only went to bed early, I forgot to set the VCR. Brief recap, someone?

And January – which is only 7 months away – sounds about right. They were still recruiting candidates at the beginning of this season, so they probably won’t film till this summer.

My comments on the episode, even though I only watched the last 45 minutes or so and haven’t really watched many episodes this season:

  1. Guess I’m not exec. material, because I personally thought that the female team had a better set-up. :smack: What do I know?!

  2. Ye gods, though, did those females turn out to be whiners! Frankly, I was hoping that the Donald would do a triple play on all of them because they were that bad.

  3. I don’t really like either of the guys, but think that the winner will probably be one or the other of them.

My few observations, for what they’re worth (which is probably close to nothing! :D).