The Apprentice

[Tewdric]

There's a young lady called Luisa in this series who's a bit "lively" if her facebook pictures are anything to go by. 

Blimey charlie, that was well worth a google!

[Jaded]

Just watched the most recent episode. It was a poor one.

[rogerzilla]

The girls, except the amusingly daffy and morally flexible Luisa*, are a right bunch of faceaches this year.  Porn Star Ummagumma or whatever her name is needed to go, but the tall one with the black hair is the worst.  What a nasty piece of work.

The blokes just seem useless.  They all hate the academic one who can't cope with wiping his own bum.


* http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4933336/apprentice-luisa-zissman-orgies.html

[Jaded]

The Dr is the strongest woman, don't think there is a strongest man. It's not the Welsh Angry Bird, but I'd bet that his demise will be fun when it happens.

[Flynn]

The blokes just seem useless.  They all hate the academic one who can't cope with wiping his own bum.

There's an academic one?

[her_welshness]

The blokes just seem useless.  They all hate the academic one who can't cope with wiping his own bum.

There's an academic one?

Jason. He makes the Bullington Club look street.

[Cunobelin]

I still think that there should be a version where they take 8 people at random off a bus and put them as a team on the programme.

Couldn't do any worse and the common sense and experience of reality could be an advantage.

The amusement when the Bus team wins would also be brilliant

[rogerzilla]

It's funny seeing a posse of the "power dressed" girls trying to walk in very high heels and very tight skirts, slaying passers-by with their perfume.  One day the whole lot of them are going to topple over en masse.  The blokes, meanwhile, show the piss-up in a brewery that results when everybody wants to be Alpha Male.

When they all have to work in a pie factory or somewhere they look just as if they've been dropped in from Mars, they're so out of place.

[Flynn]

When they all have to work in a pie factory or somewhere they look just as if they've been dropped in from Mars, they're so out of place.

As highlighted when a bunch of them tried to sell beer to a wine bar.

[rogerzilla]

Vintage episode this week.  Accusations of misogyny, Spinal Tap-esque unit conversions and some very fluent Welsh ranting 

Sugar: "You say one of your idols is Napoleon...I don't think Napoleon ever got fired from Phones4U, did he?"

[Euan Uzami]

It's funny seeing a posse of the "power dressed" girls trying to walk in very high heels and very tight skirts, slaying passers-by with their perfume.  One day the whole lot of them are going to topple over en masse.  The blokes, meanwhile, show the piss-up in a brewery that results when everybody wants to be Alpha Male.

When they all have to work in a pie factory or somewhere they look just as if they've been dropped in from Mars, they're so out of place.

I'm sure he set that beer task up deliberately just so he could use the phrase "you've literally failed to organise a piss-up in a brewery."

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

We've learnt a lot since the early series when the proposal was that the contestants were useful citizens.  Now it is clear they are no more than amusing caricatures living in the never-never-land that is Thatcher's Britain.   .

[Hot Flatus]

It's a game-show featuring a bunch of venal buffoons daft enough to think that a job actually exists for them in Sugarcorp.

[rogerzilla]

It's a game-show featuring a bunch of venal buffoons daft enough to think that a job actually exists for them in Sugarcorp.

Which is absolutely true, and a winning formula 

[Valiant]

I am so glad he went though. He was an annoying twat.

[Wascally Weasel]

We've learnt a lot since the early series when the proposal was that the contestants were useful citizens.  Now it is clear they are no more than amusing caricatures living in the never-never-land that is Thatcher's Britain.   .

I used to work with Tim Campbell, the winner of the original series.  He seems to have patented the 'hide at the back for as long as possible' strategy for victory.  He was a genuinely decent bloke.  Almost everyone since would have been liquidated as fertilizer rather than put to the expense of a trip on the B-Ark.

[rogerzilla]

We've learnt a lot since the early series when the proposal was that the contestants were useful citizens.  Now it is clear they are no more than amusing caricatures living in the never-never-land that is Thatcher's Britain.   .

I used to work with Tim Campbell, the winner of the original series.  He seems to have patented the 'hide at the back for as long as possible' strategy for victory.  He was a genuinely decent bloke.  Almost everyone since would have been liquidated as fertilizer rather than put to the expense of a trip on the B-Ark.

That was indeed the winning strategy in the first few series.  Unfortunately Siralan/Lordsugar then decided that anyone trying to keep a low profile should be sacked for apparently not doing anything, so it doesn't work any more.  Tuan from our place got to about the final six but was dismissed for being a "planner" and not exciting enough.

[Wascally Weasel]

We've learnt a lot since the early series when the proposal was that the contestants were useful citizens.  Now it is clear they are no more than amusing caricatures living in the never-never-land that is Thatcher's Britain.   .

I used to work with Tim Campbell, the winner of the original series.  He seems to have patented the 'hide at the back for as long as possible' strategy for victory.  He was a genuinely decent bloke.  Almost everyone since would have been liquidated as fertilizer rather than put to the expense of a trip on the B-Ark.

That was indeed the winning strategy in the first few series.  Unfortunately Siralan/Lordsugar then decided that anyone trying to keep a low profile should be sacked for apparently not doing anything, so it doesn't work any more.  Tuan from our place got to about the final six but was dismissed for being a "planner" and not exciting enough.

Ah yes, Sugar's dislike of planners.  Probably why his products were often substandard (speaking as an ex- Amstrad computer owner).

[rogerzilla]

Myles, while not the worst of the blokes, is going to come unstuck with his Big Idea, which is to focus on luxury brands.  I have never heard a worse strategic fit than Amstrad and luxury.  Admittedly, Sugar got out of consumer electronics some time ago (except for Viglen, which is inconsequential) but his forte has always been shifting cheap volume products.

[LEE]

Let's not kid ourselves.  It's a similar format to the X-Factor heats, where they trot out a stream of talentless idiots and the hard-of-thinking.

It's about giving the audience people to point and laugh at.

There's always been a market for that and always will be.

I'm not sure that's how they envisaged it when the idea was first conceived but that's the "winning formula" they discovered and have since aimed for (It's clear they now choose the absolute worst candidates for business but the best candidates for ridicule).

[Si]

I used to think that they edited it just to make the contestants look much worse than they really are.  However, I was briefly at uni with one of this year's crop.....and I'm afraid to say that this person came over on the TV a lot better than in real life!

[citoyen]

Let's not kid ourselves.  It's a similar format to the X-Factor heats, where they trot out a stream of talentless idiots and the hard-of-thinking.

Indeed. It's a TV game show. It's not real.

If I had a business idea and needed £250k investment to get it off the ground, applying to be on The Apprentice isn't how I'd go about it. Not even if I'd identified Lord Sugar as my ideal business partner. Which would be highly unlikely anyway.

I probably wouldn't go down the Dragons' Den route either, though it has spawned several genuine business success stories (but that's probably more because they were good business ideas than the fact that they were on Dragons' Den).

[Jakob]

Finally watched this weeks episode and man, what a twat.

[Jacomus]

I was very much hoping that Natalie and Leah would tear Zeeshaan apart when he took them back into the boardroom. I was not disappointed!

 

[rogerzilla]

He did come across as a grade A nobber.