The Apprentice Series 4 - Episode 1
Is it a lobster? |
Selling fish
| The Task: | Sell £600 of fish at a choice of markets in London and come home with as much profit as possible. |
| Opinion: | I love this programme so much more when there is no fear I will appear on screen and the producers have done another cracking job. Is it me or are the men much better looking this year (although there seems to be a disproportionately high quota of toffs)? Watching it we probably all think “what a bunch” of idiots but believe me when they only show 1% of what they film they can make people appear however they wish. Yet again this year they clearly made the candidates “enthuse” when they arrived in the house, how embarrassing. I was surprised that there was no “twist” except making them go straight out to work, but I don’t believe this as there is a whole lot of other paraphernalia that takes place before you start. I am also loving the fact that they chose fish for the general hilarity of the outfits, obvious smell and filleting incidents. Was really glad that we saw the girls eating in the cars as when we did the tasks they didn’t let us have any food so we had to take it out the budget, which meant we went 17 hours sometimes without water or food! |
| Boy's Team: |
Chose Renaissance and poor Alex Wotherspoon is bullied into becoming project manager and we begin to delight in the experimental head and facial hair on the boys. Alex assigns roles but for some reason it takes them 4 hours to get to the market of choice (which clearly should have been Portobello). Hilariously amongst all the toffs not one of them realises that the lobster is being sold at ¼ of the price and yet again the “academic” one (Nicholas) is clearly set up to be torn apart for miscalculation! Raef is on fish identification and muddles monkfish with turbot (dur!). Nicholas goes off to carry out industrial espionage (good work for a barrister) and check out the Girls' price list. Alex then spends an enormous about of time telling Nick off rather than getting on with the job which might explain why they had to sell the last lot in a hurry. |
| Girl's Team: |
Chose Alpha, suggested by the Katie Hopkins betterlookingalike, Lucinda and Claire compares herself to a dog, which is clearly going to be on her You’re Fired episode, and becomes project manager. The girls arrive early but start trading before organising the prices and labelleing and sell a lot below wholesale price. They could use the rival fisherie next door to look at the prices. Lindi thinks that some of the fish should be labelled “turkey”! When ¾ of the stock is sold they have only made £440 and realise they better up their prices. Some of the sales tactics are pretty dreadful like saying “we just need to get rid of it”. |
| Boardroom: |
Alex Wotherspoon and Nick Hewer both look like they have lipstick on, have the make up artists got more ambitious with the years? I love the bit were SAS asks if the team leaders were any good, which is an interesting one as you don’t want to be too enthusiastic as you might get pulled back into the boardroom. The girls win, even if it was a shambles, whoopee, it is about time! The boys then squabble about whose fault it was: children, children! This is so unlike any boardroom I have been in…except that one, obviously.
Alex chooses Nick, and his little goatee and Raef, and his wig, to come back into the boardroom. Nick starts waffling on about art and culture and signs his own suicide note by mentioning that he doesn’t like football (does he know anything about SAS?), and clearly thinks he is above everyone else in the house when he talks about just how educated he is – ouch! Raef also proves himself to be a snob by talking about Princes and Paupers and how he worked till his hands bled (maybe he should have worked for Andy last year!). Nick gets Fired and we all breathe a sign of relief as clearly he is way tooooo patronising to survive on this show. |
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