Post by babybear on Oct 14, 2005 7:38:03 GMT -5
The Apprentice - Martha Stewart
Episode 4
A recap of last week's train wreck is up first. A seemingly endless recap.
Primarius was shocked to see that Shawn had been fired over everyone else on the Matchstick team. That is until Jim explained to them about her bonehead comment of "fake it till you make it" and how Martha's head practically spun around, like Reagan's in the Exorcist, at the mere mention of faking something.
Is it just me or does Alexis never have anything intelligent to say and she always sounds like she's half baked.
The next task is explained by Martha via video from Turkey Hill (whatever the hell that is). I don't know but she was yapping about her house and her husband. (Does she keep him locked in a basement? I've never seen him before) Anyhow back to the task... the teams have to renovate suites at the Weston to portray a theme. The room that is liked the best by the suits at Weston wins.
Charles and Alexis ask Primarius (honestly Charles asked and Alexis just sat there looking barely aware of her surroundings) who would be the strongest team leader and of course almost everyone put up their hand. Then he asked them who could lead Matchstick to victory and not one hand goes up. It was like a straight face, crickets chirping moment. You could have heard a pin drop. Finally Leslie put up her hand so she gets to lead the losers. But in true human fashion, Primarius don't need and won't miss her anyway. "What did she do on a task anyway?"
[glow=red,2,300]P[/glow] Out of all the mindless spewing of ideas all I really caught was that they were going for an Entertainment Room called "Hilton Entertainers".
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow] Back at Matchstick Leslie starts to plan everything out to the minute detail but the rest of the team want to make some real decisions and get some work done.
- Martha Stewart Living Magazine
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[glow=red,2,300]P[/glow] The team seems divided on the color and design but Amanda picks out grey paint and a cinder block looking wallpaper, despite the fact that most of them didn't like it.
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow]Still trying to come up with a concept hours and hours into the process. And while they yak and blab they have contractors and painters walking around with their thumbs up their ass waiting to be given work to do. Finally after 6 LONG HOURS, they have a concept: FLOW, meaning For Leisure or Work. Whatever in the hell that means. I'm pretty sure that the "L" really stands for losers though.
[glow=red,2,300]P[/glow] The contractors and painters have been hard at work putting the prison grey and cinder block paper on the walls. Howie comes into the suite and says it looks like, and I quote, "Atlantic City on Crack".
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow] Bethany is responsible for buying every single piece of furniture for every room in the suite... in about 8 minutes no less due to the team leaders poor time management. They find out that the contractors leave for the night at midnight and since they haven't even picked out the paint yet, they're in trouble.
The contractors say that the team will have to paint themselves overnight they're ever going to finish. Dawn immediately starts throwing a fit saying she will NOT paint all night. How does she think she could work for someone like Martha and not put in some hard work? They're painting a few small rooms not the empire state building for God's sake. This girl is one giant complaining pain in the ass.
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow] The next morning, all of the team is up and ready to leave at 6:30 am... except Dawn who is still sound asleep. They practically have to pick her up out of bed and dress her like an infant.
[glow=red,2,300]P[/glow] Amanda gives a speech about how her team is the sharpest group of people she knows and then hands them each a sharpened pencil with a ribbon tied around the end. Dear God, the cheesemeter is off the charts here.
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow] 15 minutes before the end of the task and Bethany is yelling at lost delivery drivers who have the furniture. The team runs down to the unloading dock to grab the furniture off the truck and run like Flo Jo up to the room. Sadly though... still no truck.
As I sit in here during the commercial I think that it seems almost staged that every task on every show things just conveniently go wrong at the worst possible moment. FIX!!!
The Weston execs come and inspect both rooms. At Primarius they seemed a little "meh" but who knows what they're actually thinking. When they entered Matchstick's room sans furniture Leslie did a good job of blowing smoke out of her ass trying to explain why there was no furniture but she failed miserably. One of the Weston Exects said it reminded him of his first apartment out of college when he couldn't afford furniture.
Primarius wins mainly because their room had furniture and because their theme was more obvious. Personally I liked Matchstick's design better. It had nicer colors and was sleek. Unfortunately it was empty but sleek none the less. Martha, hand on hips and a stern look on her face, said she was very disappointed in Matchstick for losing again.
At the Conference Room Martha told them she liked their design but it was lacking. (Well duh, it was lacking the furniture.) Leslie blames Bethany for the furniture and Bethany blames Leslie for poor time management. And Martha scolds Dawn for refusing to paint and not getting up on time in the morning. the whole team then starts talking over each other, blame flying all around the room until Martha Almighty interjects with "I'm losing my patience. You don't want me to lose my patience." What will she do? Fold them up using her special folding technique and wrap them in a perfectly wrapped package wrapped in homemade paper made with potato stampers and paint?
Obviously Dawn, Bethany and Leslie will be the ones to battle it out after a short deliberation between Martha and her stooges, not that Alexis ever says anything constructive that would help in making the decision. All she ever does is agree with her mother and I'm pretty sure that is her only real purpose on the show. Maybe with someone as overbearing as Martha for a mother she was never given the opportunity to form her own opinions.
The 3 come back in and start the fighting but Martha quickly tells them she doesn't have time to deal with them acting like that and she lays down the law.
-Leslie will be spared for volunteering to lead the losers ....... i mean the losing team.
-Bethany can stay because her design was nice.
-Dawn gets the ax because all she does is complain and make excuses. Basically she a lazy, waste of space but Martha would never say that.
The show ends with Charles jokingly saying him and Alexis are going to go out and find the missing furniture. [/color]
written by babybear
Episode 4
A recap of last week's train wreck is up first. A seemingly endless recap.
Primarius was shocked to see that Shawn had been fired over everyone else on the Matchstick team. That is until Jim explained to them about her bonehead comment of "fake it till you make it" and how Martha's head practically spun around, like Reagan's in the Exorcist, at the mere mention of faking something.
Is it just me or does Alexis never have anything intelligent to say and she always sounds like she's half baked.
The next task is explained by Martha via video from Turkey Hill (whatever the hell that is). I don't know but she was yapping about her house and her husband. (Does she keep him locked in a basement? I've never seen him before) Anyhow back to the task... the teams have to renovate suites at the Weston to portray a theme. The room that is liked the best by the suits at Weston wins.
Charles and Alexis ask Primarius (honestly Charles asked and Alexis just sat there looking barely aware of her surroundings) who would be the strongest team leader and of course almost everyone put up their hand. Then he asked them who could lead Matchstick to victory and not one hand goes up. It was like a straight face, crickets chirping moment. You could have heard a pin drop. Finally Leslie put up her hand so she gets to lead the losers. But in true human fashion, Primarius don't need and won't miss her anyway. "What did she do on a task anyway?"
[glow=red,2,300]P[/glow] Out of all the mindless spewing of ideas all I really caught was that they were going for an Entertainment Room called "Hilton Entertainers".
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow] Back at Matchstick Leslie starts to plan everything out to the minute detail but the rest of the team want to make some real decisions and get some work done.
- Martha Stewart Living Magazine
Plug -
[glow=red,2,300]P[/glow] The team seems divided on the color and design but Amanda picks out grey paint and a cinder block looking wallpaper, despite the fact that most of them didn't like it.
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow]Still trying to come up with a concept hours and hours into the process. And while they yak and blab they have contractors and painters walking around with their thumbs up their ass waiting to be given work to do. Finally after 6 LONG HOURS, they have a concept: FLOW, meaning For Leisure or Work. Whatever in the hell that means. I'm pretty sure that the "L" really stands for losers though.
[glow=red,2,300]P[/glow] The contractors and painters have been hard at work putting the prison grey and cinder block paper on the walls. Howie comes into the suite and says it looks like, and I quote, "Atlantic City on Crack".
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow] Bethany is responsible for buying every single piece of furniture for every room in the suite... in about 8 minutes no less due to the team leaders poor time management. They find out that the contractors leave for the night at midnight and since they haven't even picked out the paint yet, they're in trouble.
The contractors say that the team will have to paint themselves overnight they're ever going to finish. Dawn immediately starts throwing a fit saying she will NOT paint all night. How does she think she could work for someone like Martha and not put in some hard work? They're painting a few small rooms not the empire state building for God's sake. This girl is one giant complaining pain in the ass.
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow] The next morning, all of the team is up and ready to leave at 6:30 am... except Dawn who is still sound asleep. They practically have to pick her up out of bed and dress her like an infant.
[glow=red,2,300]P[/glow] Amanda gives a speech about how her team is the sharpest group of people she knows and then hands them each a sharpened pencil with a ribbon tied around the end. Dear God, the cheesemeter is off the charts here.
[glow=blue,2,300]M[/glow] 15 minutes before the end of the task and Bethany is yelling at lost delivery drivers who have the furniture. The team runs down to the unloading dock to grab the furniture off the truck and run like Flo Jo up to the room. Sadly though... still no truck.
As I sit in here during the commercial I think that it seems almost staged that every task on every show things just conveniently go wrong at the worst possible moment. FIX!!!
The Weston execs come and inspect both rooms. At Primarius they seemed a little "meh" but who knows what they're actually thinking. When they entered Matchstick's room sans furniture Leslie did a good job of blowing smoke out of her ass trying to explain why there was no furniture but she failed miserably. One of the Weston Exects said it reminded him of his first apartment out of college when he couldn't afford furniture.
Primarius wins mainly because their room had furniture and because their theme was more obvious. Personally I liked Matchstick's design better. It had nicer colors and was sleek. Unfortunately it was empty but sleek none the less. Martha, hand on hips and a stern look on her face, said she was very disappointed in Matchstick for losing again.
At the Conference Room Martha told them she liked their design but it was lacking. (Well duh, it was lacking the furniture.) Leslie blames Bethany for the furniture and Bethany blames Leslie for poor time management. And Martha scolds Dawn for refusing to paint and not getting up on time in the morning. the whole team then starts talking over each other, blame flying all around the room until Martha Almighty interjects with "I'm losing my patience. You don't want me to lose my patience." What will she do? Fold them up using her special folding technique and wrap them in a perfectly wrapped package wrapped in homemade paper made with potato stampers and paint?
Obviously Dawn, Bethany and Leslie will be the ones to battle it out after a short deliberation between Martha and her stooges, not that Alexis ever says anything constructive that would help in making the decision. All she ever does is agree with her mother and I'm pretty sure that is her only real purpose on the show. Maybe with someone as overbearing as Martha for a mother she was never given the opportunity to form her own opinions.
The 3 come back in and start the fighting but Martha quickly tells them she doesn't have time to deal with them acting like that and she lays down the law.
-Leslie will be spared for volunteering to lead the losers ....... i mean the losing team.
-Bethany can stay because her design was nice.
-Dawn gets the ax because all she does is complain and make excuses. Basically she a lazy, waste of space but Martha would never say that.
The show ends with Charles jokingly saying him and Alexis are going to go out and find the missing furniture. [/color]
written by babybear