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The Apprentice, Week 16:
NYC 2012 Athlete Challenge and Best Buy Video Game World Championship
Original Air Date: 5/12/05
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Kendra may be no Erin, but she’s certainly has her own swath of confidence about her feminine wiles. She nudges Fabolous and gives him the eye, saying, “Hey, thanks for doing this.” Now I have no issue with people selling out, because I have little integrity myself, but doesn’t a guy who markets himself as a hard-core Brooklynite rapper have at least some qualms about appearing on The Apprentice?
Kendra has her own moment of Zen when she explains to us, “This is like running the longest marathon of my life. I’m realizing that this is it. This is my moment.” I’d so make fun of her, but sadly I’m spending my moment watching this show, so I’m gonna have to let the woman have her moment.
Trump climbs into the boxing ring and introduces Fabolous. “My daughter likes you,” he announces in a way that’s kind of like, “Eww. I can’t believe she likes you.” The competition begins, with sixteen, count ‘em sixteen, video gamers. Not, you know sixteen world class Olympic athletes and the Governor. See what I mean about the unfair tasking? Kendra says happily,” I strove to make the sponsors happy. That’s what this is about, making the sponsors happy—and I pulled it off. Pulled it off!”
At the end of Tana’s event, she parts with her team. “Thank you guys so much for everything you did. Hopefully it came through, and if it didn’t, it wasn’t my destiny.” Everyone kind of nods, without smiling, while they wander away. Then Tana explains, “We said our goodbyes. There’s no need for us all walking together.” Now that’s all well and fine, if you just don’t want to walk and make small talk with people who hate you. But then she pretends that she’s doing it out of some rule from the Dummy’s Guide for Being Boss: “It’s best when the boss just lets their employees go on ahead of them. So they can feel like an employee, and I’ll stay back here like an executive and let them go get in their SUV.” And there we’ve had our first (and hopefully last) installment of Tana’s Lesson of the Week.
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The boss routine gets even creepier when she sneaks into the garage and peeks out the window to make sure everyone has left before getting into her own car. She then has her own “You go, girl!” moment: “My day started off bad, then I shifted gears, busted my a**, and this event could not have gone any better.” As a result, “I feel it in my heart that this is a done deal—signed, sealed and delivered. I can’t wait to hear the words, ‘You’re hired.’” It all ends kind of lamely when she flubs what was supposed to be a snappy closing: “We ain’t in, uh, Iowa anymore, Toto.”
By the end of Kendra’s event, one of the guys there clearly wants to bang her. He’s all nervous-looking and grinning while he says, “I’m very serious about this. I don’t know if you want to work in the video game industry, but if you ever did, we’d love to hire you.” She giggles and tosses her hair, and he walks away still looking back at her and grinning. You know the signs.
Ooh, Kendra has now burst into tears, and well, it’s not her best look, but I’ve seen worse criers. She hugs her team and tells us, “It really meant a lot to me that Danny, Erin and Michael could look me straight in the eye and say, ‘Hey, I’m really proud of you.’” Which makes me realize that I have very little idea what these people did all day, while we got lots of footage of Tana’s team screwing up.
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We said our goodbyes. There’s no need for us all walking together. It’s best when the boss just lets their employees go on ahead of them.
