Friday, November 05, 2004

Yeah, it turns out those “Infrastructure-Bottoms Up Approach” pages were indeed not a helpful guide for pleasuring your lover at all, but simply a few tables and a bar chart. Oh well, let’s get back to the real business at hand, by which I mean the fake business which tries to pretend it’s not a game but in fact is. Jenn “Classy” M. made clear last night that she at least is well aware that it’s a game, and became the first contestant who is clearly and openly playing it as a game when she decided that Ivana was the softest target remaining and unleashed her inner bitch on her with suprising ferocity. Come to think about it, she did the same thing with Elizabeth a few times earlier, all of a sudden she just attacks, but with Elizabeth it was generally in the boardroom when asked directly what she thought, while last night she told us exactly what she was doing, convinced Raj that Ivana should be taken down (advice which he was very unwise to heed as it turns out), then marched directly into Ivana’s room and told her that she was weak and hadn’t done anything on the task (which wasn’t true, but that made it even more effective at rattling Ivana really) and should only be trusted with an Excel spreadsheet, not any sort of actual leadership responsibility. Ivana was helpless against this attack, and I think it led to her getting in some trouble in the boardroom later. Right after Jennifer had said that Stacie J. was very helpful and did a good job on this task, and other people, including Mr. Trump himself, had agreed, she felt compelled to stupidly break in with a shaky, "Although Jen did come up to me at one point and she asked that Stacie be taken off the windows because she thought that Stacie was not doing a good job." To the viewer it was clear that this was actually supposed to somehow be an attack on Jenn, but the Donald took it as the attack on Stacie that it appeared to be and asked Ivana why she was such a nasty person. I don’t know why people feel the need to break in with something after Trump has already made his thoughts clear, it always leads to them getting yelled at. Chris, of course, did the same thing right afterwards by jumping in after they had already been asked to leave the first part of the boardroom and complaining that the team had no chemistry and if it wasn’t changed again they were just going to keep on losing. Stupid, stupid, stupid, and could have gotten him fired if Raj had reconsidered and added him to the mix, but he didn’t and kept just Kevin and Ivana, another mistake which ended up being part of what got him fired himself. Nice to see him trying to get the receptionist's phone number while he waited for the elevator down to his cab, though. I’m almost out of notes now, and am supposed to be picking up some pages on the equally ribald-sounding but probably just as disappointing “Top-down Approach” (hope springs eternal, though, you can’t keep a good man down), so a few random items and I must run. There were multiple cutaways of Caroline smiling in the boardroom this week, she or the producers have definitely been influenced by the advice of Conan O’Brien that I mentioned in a previous review. The trip out to Denise Rich’s house in the Hamptons weirdly had absolutely no footage of them touring the house, which was supposed to be the whole idea, I thought, it was mostly just them romping on the beach, which just made me miss Stacy again after I thought I’d managed to put her out of my mind completely. I think it was Sandy who we heard say “I feel fat” during that sequence. And the helicopter trip out there provided a few good (by which I mean breathtakingly retarded) lines too, like when Kelly kept on exclaiming “Yeah, baby! Yeah, baby!” as they took off and flew around the city before heading toward Long Island – when did that first Austin Powers come out again? Whenever that was, it was approximately one month afterwards that saying that became instant proof that the speaker is quite lame indeed and wants the whole world to stand up and take notice of that fact. And I’m not sure whether it was Andy or Wes, but I smiled when whoever said that flying in a helicopter was just like being in the movies. And with that, the Apprentice is recapped.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bravo and many many thanks. Raj and his walking stick will be missed. Bottoms up! -ab

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