The Apprentice

Trouble Is Brewing

Season 3, Episode 3, Aired 2/3/05

Episode Summary

This week's task is to create the most buzz about NesCaf's Taster's Choice coffee. Before the task begins, an unhealthy Verna quits the show due to a high stress level and a low energy level. During the challenge, Angie leads her team to a creative campaign, while Michael slacks off for his team. The extra effort would not have hurt, seeing that Networth's team, full of energy, ultimatley creates the bigger buzz for the win, and as a reward, they are treated to a helicopter ride around Manhattan. Magna goes to the boardroom, where they try to oust Michael's exemption. Trump, sticking to the rules, fires the Project Manager, Danny, and Magna loses two members in one week.moreless

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“Does Anyone Else Wanna Quit?” If You Do, Please Make it More Interesting Than This.

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By theaterguy007, Jun 19, 2005 Report Abuse

"Does Anyone Else Wanna Quit?" If You Do, Please Make it More Interesting Than This.

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Last time on The Apprentice, Trump fired a "silly little man" that I like to call Dyin' Brian. After his little taxi-cab confession, the previews for next week's episode raved "Someone has two words for The Donald: I Quit!" making it sound like the most exciting thing since, well, the previews that raved "Two contestants have a screaming battle" from two weeks ago. Turns out that exciting to Mark Burnett is not what's exciting to viewers. Verna quitting was a very "yawn" moment. If I would have been in the crapper for those four minutes that she was shown, I wouldn't have known what had happened and I wouldn't have cared, and I probably wouldn't have even missed Verna in the episode. Actually, I wish I was in the crapper. That way, I would be relieved, but I would also not have had to witness Verna's pathetic moping session. So, on with the recap/review!

The entire Net Worth Corporation walks through the door, saying to Magna "Count us! Count us!" All 8 of them (minus the SLM) were there, and everyone was shocked. Note that this is the second time where no second boardroom was needed so early in the game (the first being Elisabeth's firing). Then they got over it within the next few scenes. Danny expresses his confidence in his team. According to him, Magna was "moving ahead. This is gonna be great." I chortled into my drink at that moment. (I had already known who would be voted off.) Verna starts complaining about needing a day of recuperation. She's physically strained. But don't be alarmed, anyone. She has a lot of "inner strength." All she got to do is take a page from the books of Big Brother 5's Michael and Drew or Nicole and Brandon from The Amazing Race 5 or Rob and Amber from Survivor: All-Stars (Wait a minute, forget that last one.) and pray to her Jesus, and he will save her on this reality show that she so desperately needs to win. It'll help her in heaven. Danny feels like taking Verna under his wing, and he brings her to the group and explains her situation of her "emotional stress." Everyone but Erin seems understanding. She says "This clearly isn't The Apprentice, this is Kindergarten." And with that, Verna leaves. She just leaves! She packs her bag and walks out of the suite with nary a goodbye to anyone but Danny. Appears that they have more in common than anyone would think. She didn't even get a walk out to the taxi or anything. I guess it's like when Osten quit Survivor: Pearl Islands and he didn't get the infamous "the tribe has spoken" words said to him. I would have liked to see what Trump would have said to Verna's decision to quit. He probably would have been all "Did I get to where I was by quitting?" Obviously not. Verna didn't get fired with any dignity, and when she left, she didn't like, throw something at someone. Now that would have made her exit unforgettable. She should have whacked herself over the head with a piece of plaster, complained of a migraine, pleaded for lunch and then quit. That would make her headline news and probably get her onto the next edition of E!'s next Reality TV Bad Girls. Which would've been a nice consolation prize, I guess.

Now that I've babbled enough, I'll get back to the recap. Trump gives his weekly advice, this time "Lead with Authority," saying that leaders think independently (Foreshadowing Alert! One of the PM's will be gone by the end of the episode. The winner is...read on!). Danny calls down to Rona, saying that Verna has chosen to "leave." Rona says back "Oh, so she quit? I'll tell Mr. Trump." At the introduction to the task, D-Dawg (that doesn't quite work, does it P? If you don't get it, don't ask. Inside Joke) says that "Verna couldn't hack it" and then he just moves on with the task. The third challenge is to create a marketing campaign for Nescafe' Taster's Choice, a new coffee by Nestle'. Project Managers are found in Danny from Magna and Angie for Net Worth. Michael, from Magna, has an exemption this week, and he immediately suggests lucrative ideas for the campaign, like having hot hookers distributing coffee wearing only whipped-cream bikinis. And people call me a pervert. Whatever. Stephanie then gets pissed off at Danny because he's a poor decision maker. Then Stephanie and the rest of the group get pissed off at Michael because he's skidding by on the task, doing nothing but suggest coffee-bean wrestling with Britney Spears and X-Tina ripping at each other's scalps (can't a guy dream?). Someone calls him a plain jackass." Terror (and rib-breaking) breaks loose when Danny takes too long to decide if he wants to hire a marketing manager or something, and even though he finally okayed it, it took him too long and their campaign, to give away a free IPod every hour or so, was a total flop in my eyes. According to Bren, Task 3 Hell, and Mike's "not happy with the mediocrity." Over at Net Worth, Angie leads her team to an awesome marketing scheme, with the platform of "Vote for Nescafe", where tasters choose (hence the name Taster's Choice) if they preferred their coffee hot or cold (like Starbuck's Frappucinos! They're so good! Even though I can't spell them!) In the end, the coffee people picked Net Worth's sterling campaign as the winner, and Trump awarded them with a helicopter ride around Manhattan. Snore.

At the suite the other team members tried to mutiny against Michael for not doing anything. They think of reasons how Michael abused his exemption and why he does not deserve it. But in the boardroom, even after all of Erin's begging (because she "feels strongly" about the issue), Trump and Carolyn denied her, saying that Rules were Rules. Everyone else blamed Danny for their loss. Trump dubbed as "the team leader. A little. If you can call it that." When told to pick two other people to take into the second boardroom with him, Danny chooses Stephanie, who was in charge of the money and the marketing campaign manager guy as well as Michael. Erin, Bren...and the rest of them were sent back to the hotel. Mike bitch-slaps Danny by saying that "just because he wears polyester suits and a guitar case, he is obviously not a very good leader." Now, come one Mike. That's like saying that older sex addicts aren't successful. If that was the case, the world would never know Hugh Heffner. Nor you, for that matter. Trump further insults the two of them, saying that they "should be ashamed" of themselves, but assures Stephanie that she will not be going home that night.

In the end, Trump decided that he "had to live by the rules." And my question to the D-Man, when has he ever played by the rules? I'll count the ways that he has broken the rules of the show (many, including rules he broke in real life, are not listed). 1. He accepted Bradford's accidental waiving of exemption. 2. He fired Wes and Maria at the same time. 3. He didn't let Elisabeth or Brian bring two other people into the second boardroom. 4. He cursed in the boardroom. 5. He blew a snot rocket at Carolyn (Watch closely in the episode where Sam is fired). 6. He appointed Chris to be the Project Manager at the end of one of the Boardrooms. Danny is fired, and for the first time, I saw someone acknowledge the bellhop guy. He gave him a thumbs-up, and it just shows how nice of a person Danny is. In honor of him, I leave you with his taxi-cab song (as well as a short preview of this week's episode).

There I was, strung out in the boardroom. / There I was, hung out left to dry. / So I was still with my integrity. / So I am here having fun. / Just a good time, me and Donald, Carolyn and George there too. / All the people on my team, did they just come through? (I don't think so). / Poor me, it's okay, it's good. / I'm still who I am. / Rock and Roll.

Holler atcha boi (pronounced "hAller at yo boy!"). Next Week...the Donald is offended when one team uses (gasp!) close to porn in their soap opera mini-movies. Yeah, yeah. And what do you call the people pile? Sexy? Or porn? And what do you call that haircut of yours, DT? Sexy? Or porn? I'm leaning to the pornography side.

- Adam Polaski
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Trivia
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- In "What You Didn't See..." it is revealed that when everyone finishes the task, Danny sings a song to cheer up the tired and exausted Magna. Edit
- TV Guide named this episode, where Verna quits the show, the "Moment of the Week." Edit
- It seems that so far, each season of this show has had an "unstable black woman." It was Omarosa in season 1, Stacie J. in season 2, and Verna in season 3. Edit
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- In the beginning of this episode, before the task even starts, Verna decides that she can't handle the grueling nature of the show, so she quits. She is the first candidate to ever do so. Edit
- The Project Managers in this episode are Magna's Danny and Networth's Angie. Edit
- Magna Project Manager Danny brings both Stephanie and Michael, even though he is exempt from his win last week, into the final boardroom, where Danny is fired. Edit
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- Erin: (About Verna) This clearly isn't The Apprentice, this is Kindergarten. Edit
- Erin: (About Michael) He quite possibly did nothing on this task. Edit
- Michael: Danny was supposed to be the mastermind behind advertising. And he was the mastermind behind nothing. Edit
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