The Apprentice

[philmophlegm]

Just out of interest, is there anyone on my friends list who is as big a fan of The Apprentice as I am?

This series was, I reckon, the weakest in terms of standard of contestant, but easily the best in terms of great television.

I'd love to put in links to video clips for those of you who haven't seen this, but it looks like the BBC has asked YouTube to take any down (fair enough I suppose). Anyway, my favourites from this series would be:


Rory (plummy voiced bankrupt entrepreneur with Joe Strummer hairstyle): "I am your boss."
Tre (argumentative Muslim nutter): "Bu..."
Rory: "I AM...yourboss!"


Simon (eventual winner) managing to screw a trampoline leg into a trampoline live on a shopping channel in a very suggestive manner without realising it.



Paul (chinless wonder ex-army officer), trying to sell traditional English pork sausages to a butcher in France, gets the reply: "I'm Muslim, I don't eat pork and I'm fasting as its Ramadan".



Katie (posh blond girl from Exeter, who is completely unlike the Katie I work with who is a posh blond girl from Exeter), about Christina (runner-up Irish single mother): "too orange to be taken seriously" and "Kristina is a total arse-coverer, which is more than can be said of her skirt".



If it wasn't for Rome coming back next Wednesday to take it's place, I'd be in despair!

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Everyone at work was going on about it all the time. I took a look half way through the series to see what the fuss was about. It was the one when they went to France, and I found it very funny and quite fascinating, so have been watching it since then. I've not watched the previous series, though.

However, my viewing of it has been totally skewed by watching the Kombat Opera version of it some months ago. I still occasionally expect them all the burst into song.

[chainmailmaiden]

I haven't seen all the episodes & I did manage to miss last night's one, but the bits I've seen of it have been very entertaining. We saw all of the one where they went to France as I was keen to see which products they selected to take over. Cheese from the Cash & Carry did not impress me! Neither did Paul's stupid idea for cooking the sausages. As to the bit with that butcher, did the word 'Halal' not give him any sort of clue as to the reaction he might get within...