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September 9, 2004

The Apprentice 2, Episode 1: Girls beat Boyz (again)

No surprise that The Donald pitted the women against the men again. The surprise part was that one from each team had to be sent to the other making them the odd man (or woman) out. Neat trick. The men started by suggesting pulling straws or putting names in the hat. Very Manly suggestions. The women started to talk it out and consider all sorts of very ladylike ways to decide (all involving lots of talk and no decision). But then Bradford did the extremely Manly thing: He "put his balls on the table" and volunteered to go. He thought it was taking the bull by the horns and showing initiative, but I wouldn't have done that. The power bitch of the women Pamela got fed up with all the nice talk and did the same thing on the women's side. She just up and decided she would go. Good initiative and probably the right thing for a woman to do (show a man's initiative).

So the team naming starts. Raj tries to sell "Empire" to the men. They really only consider two or three names before voting quickly on Mosaix. The worst idea I had ever heard. Sounded like a girl team name, or a line of cosmetics or table linen. Raj's skin crawls and that makes me like him. The women have a list of over 20 names (everyone's idea is equal girls). They suggested Empire as well, funny. They chose Apex Corp. A manly name. So the women get a manly name and the men get a girly name. Not a good start BoyZ! When the meet the next day and tell The Donald their names he winces at Mosaix and asks "do you really like that?". The men drop a notch in his book and know they are off to a bad start.

So over to Mattel to create a new toy. I wish I had counted the screen time the Mattel people and their logo got. It was like a 45 minute commercial for how neat their toy creation process is. Someone has got to know how much they paid for the privilege. So the challenge was to create a new toy for boys. I though the men would have a chance since they were all (except Pamela), well BOYZ! But things started out bad when they went for an action figure. And a line of them at that. Action figures are dolls! Boys DON'T like DOLLS! They somehow forgot what they did as kids. Only two had kids. Pamela made some very offensive comments about the focus group kids when behind the glass wall winning her Carolyn's evil eye. She obviously didn't know anything about kids, nor care. But as team leader she should have figured out a way to be good at it rather than showing open scorn for this crappy task. I say again men, DOLLS? What the hell were you thinking?

The women created a motorized transformer car. That utilized parts and themes from an existing toy line at Mattel. Brand and line extension is always better than green field. I bet this was Elizabeth's idea. So the women follow their macho trend and create a manly toy. A car that runs into walls and explodes. That is cool!

Of course the women win and the men loose. Suck'as. So Pamela takes do nothing Rob and whiney punk Andy into the boardroom. There was an interesting option for the team leader. They could choose two or three people to come with them. The idea being more people gives themselves better odds against getting fired. Pamela takes the ballsy move (since she obviously has them) and only brings two. The Donald likes it. He notes Pamela's hard edge and says he can't figure out if she will loose it or not (probably not). He says Andy is a "project". But of course he fires simple minded Rob who didn't have the self awareness to know that not stepping up and waiting to be "delegated" something was not the way to win a CEO position. His whole team was against him. I choose him to go and The Donald agreed with me.

So how is my prediction score:

1 for 1

Batting 1000 so far...

Posted by Martin at September 9, 2004 11:19 PM

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