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The Apprentice, Week 15: Interviews, Best Buy, Sony PlayStation, Electronic Arts,
and the Olympics
Original Air Date: 5/5/05
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Asked what her ideal job is, Kendra says selling real estate or development. The old guy points out that she has no background in development, although, honestly, what kind of background did Bill Rancic or Kelly—What’s-His-Face—Perdew have either? “You have to start somewhere,” she says brightly. “My goal is to become a developer, so Donald Trump can either hire me—or I’m going to be his competition.” Ooh, that comment could have gone so, so wrong if she weren’t cute and wearing sparkly eye shadow. Which leads me to the single most burning question of the day: why is Kendra wearing sparkly eye shadow during an interview?
The questions start coming in faster. The editors can’t cut fast enough. They want to make it look as intense and gueling as possible. Mostly it’s just Craig going, “I’ve, I’ve, uhhhh.” Mostly. Kendra is asked when it’s appropriate to bend the rules. “I bend the rules every day. In real estate, there’s a lot of legal loopholes and tax loopholes.” Once again, could have gone so, so wrong.
Someone wants to know what kind of job Craig could do for Trump, and he turns it into some sort of do-gooder program, which is so not what Trump does! Even the executive can’t hide his disbelief over Craig’s complete incompetence—and responds incredulously, “You want Donald Trump to do low cost housing or subsidized housing?” Uhhhh. “If that was something he’s interested in…” Uhhhh.
Blah blah blah. How important is education to you? Sounds unethical to me. Who’s on your enemy list? Why should Mr. Trump hire you?
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Trump meets with the four execs, and asks their opinions. Basically everyone tells him to shove Craig out the door. No two ways about it. “He talked a lot, but there’s not a lot of substance there.” is the uncontested consensus. A couple find Kendra “a little too assertive;” one says her answers seemed like they “had been scripted or in some way preconceived;” someone else thought Tana rocked the house; while others find it hard to deal with how small town Tana is and are all about Kendra by default.
Bringing back in the troops, Trump wants to know what they thought of the execs. Craig, being all assertive and confident, because Trump once told him to, jumps in, “I think they’re incredible. They can discern a good business mind.” Trump is all, oooh, schnap. Well, Craig, “the executives felt that you weren’t deep enough.” And by that they meant, condescending; sometimes has a hard time articulating without adding extra syllables to words; and well, not the sharpest tack in the box. It’s all so obvious that it’s a tad anticlimactic when Trump fires Craig. But I can let out a final, Woo hoo! for that.
On the cab ride to oblivion, Craig makes the obligatory gracious comment and manages to not diss Kendra along the way, for which I’m happy.
It’s down to Tana and Kendra: two white women on opposing Street Smarts/Book Smarts teams. Wow. That’s so fitting. What a, um, coincidence. Still, it’s quite cute when the two make it back to the suite and squeal. It is rather nice not to have a man in the end for once— they all feel the need to be so stoic and secretive.
The ladies have champagne waiting, and…a photo album? Damn, I was so about to do my own retrospective on each fallen cast member, and they totally stole my idea. Oh, wait—they took it from Survivor. Okay, well, in any case, here it goes:
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He talked a lot, but there’s not a lot of substance there.
