-While I think Jenn M. comes across as a little too cold to be likable, she has shown herself to be the only halfway sensible one of that horror show of a women’s team. Would’ve respected her a trifle more if she’d continued with her defense of Stacie J. last week instead of back-pedaling when Trump got in her face. But at least she made an effort, luke warm as it may have been.
-Actually like the garden gnome Stacey a little more after last night’s episode. She is definitely annoying, but I respect her for the way she handled herself with Jen C. . .who turned out to be an asshole of monolithic proprtions.
-Predicting that the brash New York guy (I still don’t have all the men’s names straight) will land into hot water sooner rather than later. You could argue that his handling of the male customers’ complaints was deft, but his inner caveman is starting to show. If Carolyn or George had been around to hear the blowjob joke, it would’ve made Pamela’s mocking of the little boy’s haircut in Week 1 seem almost trivial by comparison.
What we don’t see is that each team gets very precise written instructions about what they can and can’t do for their challenge. They also get a budget to do what needs to be done.
In this situation, Trump mentioned they each get a chef. Unfortunately, we don’t see who this is, or what their specialty is. It may be because of the chef they got that Jenn C. declared by fiat that they would do Asian Fusion. We don’t know.
Then, with the budget they have, they rent tables, chairs, tableware, and staff. The men wisely used part of their budget to hire cleaners. I’m sure the show’s producers already had caterers/rental places lined up for the teams to use. The Asian tableware that the ladies got is typical of what a wedding caterer would have on stock, for example. And so, we presume (because we didn’t see) that once they teams decided on the style of their restaurant, they contacted a caterer and ordered the tableware which arrived the morning of the next day.
I think there’s a world of difference from insulting children in front of a customer who loves children, than from implying gay guys would like a blowjob from a hot jock, and saying that far away from the customer (most gay guys would love the comment and joke about it). Is it crude and unproffessional? Yes. Is it as grossly stupid and insulting? No.
Nah, Moody Bastard, I don’t think so. If he’d made that comment out in the dining room, in front of a different table of gay guys, yes. Saying it back in the kitchen or server station, not so much. That’s why there are walls around the kitchen and the server station, after all, so you can vent about the #^$&%%^& customers out of their view and hearing.
Pamazon making that comment in the privacy of their workroom, or in the suite would have been crass and in bad taste, as was Chris’s comment about the blowjob. Pamazon making that comment right in front of the customer was just plain stooopid.
NBC: Omarosa, will you agree to write a commentary for our Apprentice Website for an agreed upon fee?
O: Certainly. Here’s the first one.
NBC: Thank-you.
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NBC: Omarosa, where’s your next article?
O: I had a headache.
NBC: Well, when will you get it to us.
O: Immediately.
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NBC: Omarosa, we’re now up to the third firing, and you’ve only given us one article. Are you going to do this?
O: Yes. Of course.
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NBC: Well? We’re waiting.
O: I understand.
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NBC: Listen, we contracted with you to write a running commentary as it’s happening and you’ve haven’t done what you’re supposed to.
O: I did write a commentary.
NBC: One! Just one! You should have given us three by now. No, a fourth one has just been fired. We want three more articles out of you.
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NBC: Omarosa! You didn’t even respond. You’re in breech of contract!!
O: No I’m not, I gave you one article and I’m working on the others.
I’m glad the Murder is being slowly demolished. I hope they don’t peck Pam to death next week.
Considering Elizabeth’s crying breakdown was on the same level as/if not worse than Stacie J’s “You guys, look!!” I’m surprised Stacy R wasn’t scared for her life. What makes breaking down over a task decision any better than shaking a magic 8ball?
I heart Jenn M. She was totally appropriate with her commentary from what I saw in the extended boardroom and I like how she called the Murder out on their scapegoating.
I’m glad Raj won as PM and the lack of face-time gives me hope that he isn’t a drama-queen/mess up. Yay my peoples (just joshing). In all seriousness, with the bowties/Hot MoRocca look I was really afraid that this was the year for Wacky-Incompetent-Indians just like last year’s Omarosa-as-psycho-black-woman.
Please, please explain to me how you can audition for this show knowing the intense debate over the Ereka Vetrini racism charge of last season and talk about “Jewish bats” or whatever it was she said? Considering what an effect a completely unfounded charge had on Ereka’s reputation WHY would you go ahead and give ANYONE an impression that you’re bigoted?
Oh, also, Chris is so Boiler Room it’s like they lifted him as an extra from the movie set and he’s still completely in character. I just expect him to start a bogus stock scheme soon.
If her father actually told her that sleeping is a waste of time, her father is an idiot.
Raj was a terrific project leader. He pretty much just pointed everyone in a direction, let them work, and kept their attitudes up. My opinion of him is much improved.
Jennifer C deserved to be fired for so many reasons. What’s funny, though, is that it appeared Bill Rancic was trying his damndest to warn her against getting herself fired. His little speech about why she shouldn’t bring in the two girls she had personal problems with was about as vehement as he ever gets; it was the Bill version of holding up a neon sign saying “IF YOU BRING THOSE TWO BACK YOU’LL BE FIRED, YOU MORON”.
Disclaimer: I hate Apex as much as anyone, don’t get me wrong. I think Ivana, Maria, Elizabeth, Sandy and Stacey are toast and I will cheer when they get fired just as I cheered when Jen C got the axe this week. The only woman I like is Jen M.
That said, the men get along so well because they keep winning. Remember how, still tense from their loss the previous week, John flipped on Raj about getting breakfast at the beginning of Task 2? If they had lost, that incident could have been a big deal. The fact that they won makes it forgettable. The same thing with Andy’s moronic million dollar sweepstakes insurance idea-- if they’d lost the task, his ass would have been grass for that. Ditto for Chris’ horrible attitude towards the customers this task. As it stands, he’s just funny.
We perceive the men as not going at each other like the women because the focus hasn’t been on them (you can predict which team will lose by determining who gets more air time in the first half-hour). Don’t worry, the long knives will come out as soon as the pressure is on. I do think that men and women go about dismembering each other in different ways, and that men are not as predisposed to the cattiness or the concommitant tears, but we’ll see.
Maybe this particular batch of women is just weak, because I don’t like Pamela either. It was the caviar comments that put me over the edge.
Yeah, yeah, a cattle-call. Rhetorical question. MB and Trump (flourish of brasses) must have aimed for filling the juicy Omorosa niche and badly overshot the mark. With this bunch it’s not choosing the best; it’s settling for the least awful.
The Apex team, with the possible exception of JennM, couldn’t manage a sorority rush project. I was pathetically grateful that Carolyn finally cut loose on them. (Did they never even notice the gimlet eyes–and examples–of the observers?) Not to mention the spitting, hissing, clawing and interrupting in the boardroom. Shee-yit, those women are stupid.
Trouble is, none of the men have exactly impressed the hell outta me either, except by contrast. Of course just about anybody would look acceptable compared to that troop of dysfunctional Girl Scouts. I did enjoy Mosaic, notably Kevin, telling them off for scapegoating StacieJ. And of course Elizabeth dissolving thereafter into adorable tears because she felt targeted and nobody liked her.
I don’t think Pamela has a chance in hell as a finalist but I hope she goes out honorably. She never really bonded with the guys–no fault there–but she had the insight and guts to bail out of Murder immediately. I wish they would have mixed the teams by gender again instead of tossing Pamela back into the Murder.
The only one I really want to see taken down hard is nasty little Stacey. The rest are fluff. She’s poison. An outsider, but poison. And Chris, because he’s a jerk.
And Wes. Let’s not forget fugly, creepy, misogynistic, ought-to-have-his-lips-severed Wes. He might be a decent candidate (we really haven’t seen him do anything yet, so who knows?), but he seems to be a horrible human being.
That’s the problem. ::hyperventilates:: This show spotlights so many degrees of suckitude that mere yuckiness fades into the background.
I still have trouble keeping the various twerps aligned by name and face, much less individual quirks.
The cup runneth over on this one when it comes to losers.
I find comfort only in the proposition that Trump will actually end up employing one of these putzes.
Did you notice the disclaimer at the bottom of O’s commentaries?
“Comments may have been edited”
Heh.
Heh heheheheheh.
Normally, one holds a print commentator to a minimum and maximum word count, and let them say what they want uncensored. One edits their work to conform to a writing style (punctuation, spelling, etc…) without going out of one’s way to let the reader know about this standard practice of stylistic editing.
But to tell the audience, “comments may <wink, wink> have been edited” is handwaving.
They might as well have said, “We had to rewrite this crap.”
I see three commentaries
You captured her passive-aggression perfectly!