The Apprentice (UK) 2012

English sparkling wine? How about this for an advertising slogan:
"It doesn't taste of piss... at least not quite as much as you thought it would!"

Has Ricky committed any massive acts of bawbaggery? I like him a lot. He seems decent, not stupid, has some people skills and can do arithmetic in his head.

AFAIK he's not done anything stupid. Going into the series, he was the lol wrestling lol Ricky Martin lol Superstar Ricky Hype slightly joke candidate. But aside from being a bit full of himself in the earlier weeks, he's turned out to be pretty competent. Same with Nick really.

OTOH Tom must literally have a goose that lays golden eggs as an integral component of his business idea. But to be fair he did take responsibility in the boardroom for the two big decisions that scuppered the task though.

He's still a twonk out of his depth though, and the "we just need to sell ONE" tactic always always fails.

Yeah, Nick seems decent too. I keep nearly warming to Jenna and Jade, but not quite. Gabrielle is just a bit meh (also put a suitcase on legs), Adam's your standard issue Apprentice twat. I can't even think about Stephen any more. Tom, blah.

Ooh, Dara's audience don't like Ricky and do like Tom. Hmmmm.

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xp It's because they've just watched the episode - in a sea of BS, Tom admitting to a couple of mistakes makes him seem honest. Rick'ys been soldi this episode but his team's performance was pretty high except for Gabrielle's gaffes. She seems to easily lose track of what needs to be focussed on in a task, relying instead on being smiley. The whole business about not asking the corporate client how much they had budgeted being a good example.

those graffiti robots(?) are all over the hoardings on the pizza shop by covent garden fopp.

Yes, the girls (I.e. my two) recognised them straightaway.

thought the lots of the art was derivative - HORROR picture obviously creature from the black lagoon for instance (not sure who they thought would buy anything like that, was expensive and nasty). better off with the original aesthetic stuff. or the funny derivative stuff. or just bright colours.

loved that abstract of snoopy's face.

as dara pointed out, the stig comment was classic.

original by john buscema & dan adkins: http://bit.ly/IWdsxC

jessop's pisspoor copy: http://bit.ly/LvCtyE

Fizzy piss!

What about 'chink'?

As usual with these 'build a marketing campaign' tasks, it's the graphic designers I feel sorry for.

Tom to go?

It's being edited to look that way. If his team lose, and he's really done nothing except piss about tasting wines with Adam, then he should go. I have to say, that again Nick looks like the most competent candidate.

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Tom being smug, even though he did a bad job.

He's heading for a fall.

I wonder if Stephen's idea is for a gadget to get rid of 5 o'clock shadow?

(which would obviously be a pocketable battery powered electric razor, but that must be why I'm not an entrepreneur)

wtf, they agreed that Ricky's campaign got to the heart of the brief more than Tom's did, then randomly decided to make them lose anyway, then passed up the golden opportunity to get that idiot Stephen out of there. I can't even watch the tv when he's on any more.

This 'Tom and Adam on the piss' montage makes me hate them both even more.

Ricky's involuntary head movements remind me of Mr. Mackay from Porridge.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1965000/images/_1967033_mackay150.jpg

Stephen: "I'm going to give 110%"

I'm going to blink 110 times. for the rest of my life. then that's me done with blinking.

Tom and Adam can just fuck off now.

Keep thinking Adam's the worst then I see Steven

Stephen's just descended to being an argumentative prick at this point. He thinks he's impressing AlSug, but really he's talking his way out of the door.

... double firing?

YES

BOOM! DOUBLE HEADSHOT!

lol Dara

"I'm the guy that will learn from his mistakes, and come back the next day and do the same thing again"

hmmm...

Jesus, we really thought Stephen was getting away with it again there.

I'm still Team Ricky, despite everything. Him and Nick. Maybe Jade at a desperate push. Adam and Tom can fuck off though.

Stephen's grown that beard in the time it took Dara to interview Gabrielle.

When Jade got the 50% Sanctuary discount, I knew the game was over...

Nick vs Jade for the final. Ricky coming across more and more as Pricky. Tom is a smirking jerk and Adam is just a bumbler.

Ricky is normally the only one they show telling potential clients why they might actually want to do business with them. Thinking about what other people might need to know, rather than what you want to say, seems to be a quality lacking in most candidates.

Nick's shown that as well, although not to the same extent. Ricky keeps on missing sales, like the 'only 100' thing this episode. Jade doesn't miss things like that, but OTOH she doesn't have Ricky's sales presentations skills.

Jade Jennie Bond has a voice that really annoys me.

Fav moment in this episode was when Ricky came out of the boardroom and Gabrielle was grinning from ear to ear. Although she was fired it must have been great to know that Stephen went too.

Good episode. Also loved that the manager at Windows gave Ricky a grand tour with no intention of striking a deal - good advertising if you can get it!

That guy was on Michel Roux Jr's programme last year where he trained unemployed kids to work in the hospitality trade, he was quite self-promoting then too. I'd have edited him out of it for cheek, but I guess the BBC quite like him.

If a luxury product is affordable, doesn't it cease to be a luxury?

oh just get Adam the fuck out of there already.

The moment he put himself forward to be PM, I knew they'd lose. And they did, even in spite of Nick's ideas and Jade's sales skills.

Thought Ricky and Tom totally nailed the brief - even without the blithering twatfest opposite them almost guaranteeing them victory by default, they looked like winners right the way through.

I have no idea why preparation and research aren't more widely-used and rewarded.