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5-15 2006.06.05 |
Lesson Fifteen: Shed Your Personality Like So Many Unwanted Pounds Sean and Lee, the least memorable personages ever to grace your screen past Week Five, go head-to-head in a battle so uninteresting they don't even bother to show it. |
| 3-16 Recap |
Games of the video and Olympic varieties
Into the Stretch - Tana and Kendra continue to plug away at their final tasks. Tana pisses off just about everyone associated with her event, while Kendra charms just about everyone associated with hers. It should be more complicated than that, but...it's not. |
2005.05.12 2005.05.18 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| 3-15 Recap |
Interview to a kill
The Games People Play - Craig, Kendra, and Tana give their interviews, and Craig is quickly dispatched. Kendra and Tana get their final tasks, and they are assigned to work with the lamest members of their teams. It's kind of funny, really. |
2005.05.05 2005.05.11 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| 3-14 Recap |
Fifty years, and it's come to this
Bedazzled By A Beefy T - The now-tiny teams design commemorative T-shirts and sell them, which is about as exciting as it sounds. Alex is a drip, Tana is a flake, and Trump sends the drip packing. Adios, Alex. You never were very impressive. |
2005.04.28 2005.05.04 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-13 Recap |
Office space
I Can't Believe It's Not Clutter - The shrinking teams are assigned to produce clutter-control devices for Staples. Kendra, Craig, and Tana think you need a rotating desk organizer. Alex and Bren think you need another desk. Take a guess. Oh, and take Bren with you. |
2005.04.21 2005.04.27 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-12 Recap |
The angry young man
A Lonely Drive - It's time to sell cars, and the men of Magna are feeling confident, despite being led by Chris. When Tana and Craig bail on Kendra, she finishes the brochure on her own and brings home the victory. And Chris is finally done. And also? There is crying. |
2005.04.14 2005.04.20 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-11 Recap |
And now for something completely...uhh...
Seams Stress - The teams design clothes for American Eagle, and sort of for Nokia, and sort of for Sony, and logos are put on backwards and other calamities occur, but when Angie stammers her way through a presentation like a frightened squirrel, she gets the boot. |
2005.04.07 2005.04.12 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-10 Recap |
Get out of my face
The Pie's The Limit - It's such a great expression, and they say it so often in this episode. Alex and Chris wind up having this giant dust-up during the pizza task, you know? And Chris sort of spazzes out, and then they overstate each other's reactions, and then Stephanie gets fired anyway. Which is great. |
2005.03.31 2005.04.06 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-9 Recap |
Box of tricks
Pandora's Box - A Home Depot task challenges the teams to come up with a "clinic" for a home-improvement project. Craig's idea is so dumb that his team totally wins, and when Erin doesn't so anything on the task and then goes all bitchy in the Boardroom, she leaves, which is cool, because it's time. |
2005.03.24 2005.03.30 |
A- |
Miss Alli |
| Extra |
Second Verse, Same As The First
What You Missed...An Apprentice Recap - Little bit longer and a little bit worse! Yeah, it's the clip show, people. You know it, you hate it, you totally don't look forward to it. But here it is anyway. |
2005.03.17 2005.03.23 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-8 Recap |
Chain wallets and small potatoes
Bling It On - John leads the negotiations for Net Worth when the teams have to deal for charity auction prizes. He is badly outmaneuvered by a twitchy Tana, and the recent spate of project-manager firings is briefly interrupted long enough for John to be sent home. |
2005.03.10 2005.03.16 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-7 Recap |
Puttering around
Project Putt-Putt - This week's task is all about miniature golf, and it delivers all of the pettiness that suggests. Audrey and John have a face-off to see who's the bigger jerk, and it's kind of a photo finish, but she's a more ineffectual jerk, so it's goodbye, Audrey. |
2005.03.03 2005.03.09 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-6 Recap |
Wall of confusion
The Writing On The Wall - Who knows Harlem? Oh, reality show contestants. And they're heading out to paint an ad on a big wall. But when she gets all community-oriented, Tara shoots herself in the foot and takes her leave. Goodbye, Tara. |
2005.02.24 2005.03.02 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-5 Recap |
Trailer for sale or rent
Airstream of Consciousness - The teams are assigned to come up with a "mobile business" in a trailer, and a spa faces off against a casting couch. But not that kind. Magna loses again, and Michael's luck finally runs out. |
2005.02.17 2005.02.22 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-4 Recap |
Washing out
Soap Dopes - Both of the teams make such crap-ass body wash commercials that they both wind up in the Boardroom, where Kristen is mercifully fired. |
2005.02.10 2005.02.16 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| 3-3 Recap |
Coffee, tea, or blech
Trouble Is Brewing - Instant coffee is the order of the day, and the teams are in charge of coming up with a way to make it look less revolting. Good luck, teams! Unable to rise to the challenge, Danny goes home with his guitar. |
2005.02.03 2005.02.08 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 3-2 Recap |
The no-sell motel
Motel 666 - The candidates renovate a couple of Jersey motels and learn that paint is stinky, toilets are expensive, and there is one circumstance in which if you tell Donald Trump what to do, he'll probably do it. Want to guess what it is? |
2005.01.27 2005.02.01 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| 3-1 Recap |
Have it your way or the highway
Whopper 101 - Trump and the butt-kissing non-geniuses angling to work for him are back, and this time, it's all about jealousy and resentment, but at least it's not about gender politics. And also? There's a plastic Viking hat. |
2005.01.20 2005.01.26 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| Extra |
Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, K-E-L-L-Y...
The Bigger Finale - So the winner is Kelly. And it's almost unanimous, except for Assorama. So that was a close one. |
2004.12.16 2004.12.23 |
C |
Miss Alli |
| 2-15 Recap |
Flair, Care, And The Dirty Chair
The Big Finale - Kelly operates the Connecticut polo match while Jen runs the basketball game, and quite frankly, neither of them comes off especially well. Who will succeed? Who will fail? Does anyone care? |
2004.12.16 2004.12.19 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 2-14 Recap |
Kelly and Jen, sitting in a tree
Intellectual Horsepower - F-I-G-H-T-I-N-G. They don't like each other. We don't like them. There is polo and basketball. Is it over yet? |
2004.12.09 2004.12.14 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| 2-13 Recap |
Degradation with a crisp candy shell
Sweet and Lowdown - The paltry remains of the teams go off to sell M&M bars, only to find that the task is primarily about the proper use of stunt pricing. Ivana's late-stage effort to save her team by stripping to her underwear doesn't impress the way you might think, and she finally goes home. |
2004.12.02 2004.12.07 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| Extra |
Memories, a blight on the corners of my mind
A Look Back - Yeah, this season has been pretty random and stupid, as you will immediately notice upon watching this anemic clip show. At least Wes takes his shirt off one last time. |
2004.12.01 2004.12.04 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 2-12 Recap |
The [Pepsi] Edge of Reason
The Pepsi Challenged - Have you ever wished there were a drink with all the aftertaste of diet and all the tooth-rotting properties of regular? Enjoy Pepsi Edge, which will be marketed to you either via a hole in the bottle or a geography lesson. I know you cannot wait. Also this week: Andy makes a couple of stupid mistakes and gets fired. But for all the wrong reasons. Well, you'll see. |
2004.11.25 2004.12.02 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 2-11 Recap |
Bitchy, death...it's not an easy choice
The Butt Stops Here - Maria takes over Mosaic operations when the team is called upon to do a Levi's catalog. She blinks a lot, but she ultimately flubs the task and acts like a complete buffoon, so that will be it for her. Oh, and also for her PM Wes, who allowed the buffoonery and failed to intervene. Two firings, people. Awesome. |
2004.11.18 2004.11.24 |
A- |
Miss Alli |
| 2-10 Recap |
The vurrrry fahshunable wahhding
Runaway Pride - And the fall in this case is Chris's, when he craps out on the wedding task he so cleverly talked himself into managing. So long, sucker. |
2004.11.11 2004.11.17 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| 2-9 Recap |
Fop till you drop
Bringing Down The House - Raj does just about everything wrong during a home renovation task, and as a result, he finds himself begging for a date on his way to Loserville. Sayonara, you big weirdo. |
2004.11.04 2004.11.10 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| 2-8 Recap |
Dumb as a (cop) rock
A Tale of Two Leaders - Elizabeth is the PM, and she waffles her way to another loss, while the rest of the candidates go from bad to worse. |
2004.10.28 2004.11.03 |
B+ |
Miss Alli |
| 2-7 Recap |
For a small person, she was very annoying
Barking Up The Wrong Tree - Stacy has complained, started trouble, pissed people off, and generally done nothing of value for her team. And finally, the time has come for her to go. Oh, and they mix the teams, but that's not nearly as good as the news of Stacy's departure. |
2004.10.21 2004.10.27 |
A- |
Miss Alli |
| 2-6 Recap |
When did "capelets" become all the rage?
Crimes of Fashion - Apparently, I missed it, but when the teams are assigned to come up with a line of women's clothing, the one thing the designers agree on is that it's all capelets now. The women's capelet is better than the men's, so for once, it's the boys in the Boardroom, where pretty, pretty John takes a powder. |
2004.10.14 2004.10.20 |
B |
Miss Alli |
| 2-5 Recap |
All up in your grill
Lights! Camera! Transaction! - The teams do a little selling at QVC, where the men have better luck moving a panini grill than the women do with a bunch of magic sponges. Thanks to another group effort from her new horrible team members, Pamela -- the only woman who has done anything worthwhile so far -- finds herself going home. Greeeat. |
2004.10.07 2004.10.13 |
B |
Miss Alli |