The Apprentice

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Season 3, Episode 12, Aired 4/7/05

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This week's task is to create a line of clothing for American Eagle Outfitters. Magna made the better clothing line and had the better presentation for the win. For their reward, Magna got to shop for their own new clothing at Bergdoff Goodman. Net Worth went to the boardroom, where Angie was fired.moreless

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Love in Every Stitch? Not at all. Chris Loses a Credit Card, Tana’s Shirts get Screwed up and Angie’s Unprepared.

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By theaterguy007, Jun 19, 2005 Report Abuse

Love in Every Stitch? Not at all. Chris Loses a Credit Card, Tana's Shirts get Screwed up and Angie's Unprepared.

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Previously on...The Apprentice, Alex was chosen to move to Net Worth, Trump realizes that Stephanie's a crappy leader, and he gets rid of her with a flick of the wrist and a yell of "you're fired." Dj vu? No, silly! This happens every week on The Apprentice!

Let me be the first (or second, seeing how late this review is) to say that this episode was bad. It wasn't compelling at all. More or less, it showed me how moronic Team Magna is. Coming out of the boardroom, Alex told everyone a brief recap of what happened in the dreaded boardroom. He tells everyone "Trump asked how it felt to be on the losing team. I told him I felt like a fricken loser! And I shouldn't win this competition because I suck at life!" (Note: Loosely Paraphrased). Anyway, next thing you know the candidates are all going to see Trump in the studios of the Trump Collection, a new line of clothing "made by" the Donald. As in someone else designs everything for him. Seriously, does Trump look like a fashion guru? I don't think so. Apparently, he thinks that he's good at that. When the contestants enter the boardroom, the first think we hear him say is "I love these fabrics." And much like I responded to Phil Kheogan's comments about the "fashion police" I told the TV that the Donald's not allowed to say things like that. He just got married. Anyway, the D-Man introduces the apprentices to Michelle Scabaro, an in-house attorney who is taking the place of George for the week. And she's really hot, too. Which is good, because now that Stephanie, Erin, Kristen and Audrey are gone, we have little to look at but Kendra.

The task, to design a clothing line for American Eagle that incorporates nifty-ass gadgets. (e.g. cell phones, pagers, IPods, CD Players for all of you who don't live in the sixties where we called things like that "gadgets." I don't know what we call 'em now, but it's definitely not gadgets.) The team that creates the most compelling line of wearable technology and presents their line the best will be proclaimed the winner by the American Eagle people. Just before the candidates leave to go to the suites to brainstorm, Trump announces one more thing the people at Dominos discovered that what customers wanted was a Cheeseburger flavored pizza not a meatball pizza. I'm not gonna belittle Dominos or anything, but that sounds really gross and nasty. And their pizza gives you diarrhea. Okay, now I'm done with the insults. Except for the fact that their service sucks here in PA and their pizzas are too small.

So...hmm...anyway...back to the show. At Net Worth, Chris reveals that Alex, the Project Manager for the episode, is a "self-proclaimed metrosexual" which is where a male brings out the more feminine qualities of himself. I never actually saw that side of Alex. Until of course he crosses his legs like a woman in jeans. And don't even try to tell me that his legs are too long to cross the right way. His tactic for the challenge is to delegate making Chris go out to Best Buy to get the technology and design two or three items, Angie be in charge of the presentation as well as designing four of the items, and he leaves himself with what's left very, very little. Tana, the PM at Magna, seems to have more of a grasp on the meaning of leadership. She suggests her own ideas while also incorporating her team members'. A perfect example is when she goes out with Kendra for a field analysis, asking kids in American Eagle what the most important "gadget" is to them. Most of the kids answer that the cell phone is most important, and the two women make note of it. Later, I'm too distracted by trying to figure out if my mom has the same purse as Kendra that hot pink bag that could fit thirty thousand cell phone numbers and as many "gadgets" as you want.

Over at Net Worth, we see Chris go into Best Buy to buy all of his technological needs. Then he goes to McDonalds to meet all of his deep fried kangaroo meat and almost-nutritious French fries (after all, they were once made of potatoes). Angie gets a salad, which I still don't understand. Why go to a fast food place to order a salad? There's just as many calories in that as there is in a burger. Speaking of calories, did you know that a Starbucks frappuchino is 830 calories? I was pissed when I found out. Oh well, I guess they're just eating their troubles away. Okay, so back to Chris he goes to Best Buy, then McDonalds and then back to the AE workplace where he tells Alex that he lost the credit card (idiotic Net Worth thing #2, for those of you keeping track). The next morning, a very pissed Chris (which almost rhymes) goes into the Best Buy store and asks the people to find his credit card for him. He stays for two and a half hours, wasting all of that time, and finally gets it just when he's about to leave. He goes quietly and thankfully (even though about an hour before he said that "I hope they find the credit card so I don't have to take an aluminum bat and break someone's knees." Vicious? Or all in good fun? You can almost bet that if he was kept waiting for a few more hours, he truly would have dished out a serious can of ass-whooping.) but arrives at the AE office only a few minutes before they all have to leave. More on that later. First, we cut to Magna:

At Magna, Bren gets mad at Kendra because Kendra says that she can't design any kind of clothing, even though Craig and Bren design three together. Tana wisely stops the fight before it evolves into anything bigger and sends Craig and Bren to a silk screener to get their logo, Wearable Tech, printed onto their clothes. Well, the two go to this silk screener that has been smoking some serious reefer while listening to Bob Marley and what do you think happens? The clothes look like crap. The Wearable Tech Logo is printed backward and there's green paint on one of the sweatshirts. How much do you want to bet that Tana's not happy? I would've bet my life on it and I would've been able to keep it. As soon as she sees the backwards logo on her shirt, she bursts out with "what the f*** is this? What was he smoking?" Later, to the camera, she says of Bren and Craig: "They brought me back a piece of shit on a platter." But Craig suggests using white out on the backwards logo, and he actually winds up using his idea, whiting it out so no one can see the error.

And then it's time for the presentations. Magna completes theirs well, using Bren and Tana as presenters. Their line is very advanced and actually includes some things that I would consider buying. Several minutes before Net Worth's presentation, they're still at the AE workroom. The models arrive late, Chris arrives late and Alex is wasting time somehow. Angie and Alex shoo out the actors very quickly, forgetting one of the pieces of clothing (a jean jacket, idiotic Net Worth example # 3). The team arrives a little bit late (idiotic Net Worth example # 4) and when they do start, Angie is too flustered by the loss of the jacket and by the fact that her team arrived late. In the end, Magna is the clear winner because Net Worth needed to be more prepared and convincing. Both clothing lines were done well, but Magna had a better presentation. As a reward, Magna goes to Bergdorf Goodman and buys clothes nothing too interesting for viewers to watch.

Hours later, Net Worth makes their trip to the boardroom (the final time for one of them) and when they enter, everyone gets a nice change of color with Carolyn's nice red suit, which I really like. When Trump comes in, Angie admits to him, Carolyn and the hot girl that her presentation was horrible. Trump mentions that he's tired of seeing Angie in the boardroom, and that he's seen her six times in a row, as well as Chris. Angie blames Chris for the loss because he lost the credit card and Chris startswhat do you know?...yelling. Again. What really disturbed me about the boardroom this week (even more than Chris' yelling that doesn't even faze me anymore. He does it so much it's lost all meaning) was what Trump said to Alex about Angie and Chris. He tells Alex that "he was a star until he met these two losers. And now he's a loser. You hang out with losers, you become a loser." I thought it was just uncalled for, and it contradicted the premise of the show and what Donald says constantly. He unendingly touts the statement that more than one million people applied for the third season, and that everyone who got in (all 18) were winners, and none of them were losers. I don't agree with calling someone a loser when you're a role model for millions of people. He sets a bad example for younger people and shows that it's allright for you to say that people who fail are losers.

Trump sends the candidates out of his boardroom and asks Carolyn and Michelle what went wrong in the task. Carolyn believes that Chris should be fired but Hot Girlexcuse me. Hot Woman thinks that Angie should be fired because of her presentation. When Chris, Alex and Angie reenter the boardroom, Chris admits that "we went to the executives with crap" and blames it on Angie. Here I noticed that Alex has an angry/frustrated/confused vein that only pops out when he's angry/frustrated/confused. At the end, Carolyn's opinion seems not to matter, as he fires Angie because she choked during her presentation. I believe that Angie has more talent than Chris and I was sad to see her go. She is much more likeable than anyone left except for Tana. She's the only one that I'm rooting for now, and it seems that Angie roots for her too. In her cab ride, her final words are "Go Tana!"

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Trivia
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- This marks Networth's six consecutive loss, the longest losing streak ever recorded in Apprentice history. Edit
- For the first time ever, the teams run out of time on a task. Edit
- Strangely, the producers do not show the candidates receiving Rona's call the morning they receive the task. This is the first time this has happened. Edit
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- With George Ross on business again, Michelle Scarbrough takes his place. This is the first time George has been replaced by a woman rather than with another man. Edit
- The Project Managers in this episode are Tana for Magna and Alex for Networth. Tana is now the reigning Project Manager with two wins and no losses. Despite her win on this task, Trump does not mention to Tana on-air that she is exempt next week. Edit
- Networth Project Manager Alex is forced to bring in Chris and Angie into the final boardroom (since the team is down to three people), where, despite the fact that Alex is the most responsible for the loss, and because Trump decides he likes him more, Angie is fired. Edit
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- Tana: (About the silk screened shirts) What the f*** is this? What was he smoking? Edit
- Tana: (About Craig's and Alex's silkscreened T-Shirt) They brought me back a piece of sh** on a platter. Edit
- Trump: Alex was a star until he met these two losers. (Chris and Angie). Now he's a loser. You hang out with losers, you become a loser. Edit
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