"The Apprentice," Season Five

But he looks like a manly version of Orlando Bloom, so he’s allowed to stay for awhile.

I can lend a healthy bit of respect to those accolades. Both require significant investment of time, skill, and aptitude. Mensa? Not so much. It’s not as if Mensa came to Tool Boy’s house and asked him, “Hey, you’re cool. Would you join our organization?”

Ah, Mensa Boy’s team loses. Even if Summer gets the boot, he’s gonna take a hell of a hit for losing. By three.

We shall see, I guess.

He might also get lit up for being so confident in the boardroom before they got the results. The girl who spoke up might get bonus points, who knows…maybe it’s not so smart to bring her in?

Man, I hate this Tarek guy already. “You’ll make yourself a target.” What a jerk.

Make sure you play The Apprentice drinking game. Any time someone says “give 110 percent” or “step up,” take a swig…

“The Russian”??

Trump calls him “The Russian”?

Get them all name tags.

I’ll take ways to die of alcohol poisoning for 100 Alex.

I’m absolutely amazed that in the 5th season of this show, people still have not learned when to shut up in the Boardroom. Rule Number One of The Apprentice is when the Donald is ripping into your opponent, keep your damn mouth shut.

Yeah, this troupe looks to be mostly clueless. Didn’t she get the memo that you NEVER interrupt Trump when it looks like he’s about to make a firing.

Justified firing, but he could have fired both of them.

When Summer realized that the phone calls weren’t productive, she could have asked for something else to do, or she could have suggested to Orlando that she needed a hook to hang the invitation on.

Theresa is grating. I like Michael, and I like Lee. He looks very much like a past Apprentice, but I’m too lazy to search to see who. He’s sort of a thinner David Schwimmer.

Charmaine is gorgeous but she reminds me of Toral. The southern accent is charming and surprising. She’s so exotic – not that Southerners can’t be exotic.

Next week looks like fun. Apprentices and food – always a good mix. :rolleyes: :smiley:

Worst part: Tarek threatening that guy (Lee?) that if he started criticizing his leadership in the boardroom, he’d just open himself as a target.

Yeah, Tarek was in much worse shape going out of the boardroom than going in. George and Carolyn pointed out he’d been thrown into that role – by his blaming and manipulating, he just ended up looking bad.

But jeez freaking louise, interrupting Trump – and then doing it again when he tells you to shut up? Has this woman never seen a single episode before?

Broke-down Bonnie Tyler got dusted. Right when Trump was going to lay into Master Jackass Tarek. Jeez, how hard is it to shut the fuck up when he’s lighting into someone? What was most puzzling was her incessant need to jump into the conversation. Once Trump signaled his annoyance, she still tried to get a word in!

That was so dumb it deserved a kicking. I still think Tarek should have gotten the boot as well for hubris and being a punk-assed bitch for bringing in Lee because he had the audacity - the nerve - to challenge the poor man’s Orlando Bloom’s leadership! Tarek showed himself to be a petty, vindictive, whingeing tyro. I loved Lenny’s “Not for long” quote. He sounded like a shady Sopranos-affiliated mobster there. Tarek will walk back to the apartment to find two people gunning for him, not to mention those who will be turned off by finding out how he conducted himself in the boardroom.

Of course, judging from the preview, it doesn’t look as if Lenny is long for this (Apprentice) world…

I’ve merged the two Apprentice threads. Keep on gabbin’.

Alas, judging by the promos, it looks like we’re going to see Brent’s version of clowning – on the street, in his underwear and bathrobe – by next episode.

Totally this season’s whackjob. :rolleyes:

I am just amazed at how dumb some of these people are. And yet Trump still keeps bragging about how he hand-picked them. I wouldn’t be so quick there to boast that you chose this pack o’ idiots, Donald m’boy.

I like Lenny. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I keep hoping he’ll send some of these folks over to Brooklyn where his cousin Sergei will take care of them for him. Heaven knows Sergei wouldn’t have any problems finding a few good candidates to thin the herd by.

That’s who he reminded me of! To the Pine Barrens with him!

Can we be shallow? I hate Brent’s bangs. Zit heaven under there.

I actually had the impression that she was trying to break in to defend Tarek on some point (she said something about wanting Tarek to get fired for the “right” thing, not whatever Trump was criticizing him for), which, while not smart game play, seems at least somewhat admirable. Anyone else get that impression?

I agree. I have to commend her for being honest and coming to Tarek’s defense.

However, interrupting The Donald was a poor way to do it.

I did, but it was hard to understand anyone, with all four of them and Trump talking at once.

Maybe she was going to comment on the lack of a marketing strategy. ?? Whatever it was, didn’t Carolyn seem unusually determined to put Summer’s head on a pike (where birds would get caught in her hair)?

Pepi looks a lot like my husband.

Whom I am now calling Pepi.

Much to his joy.

*“I love you Papa Homer.”

“I love you Pepsi. I mean Pepi.”*