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Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, October 28, 2005 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
So, like, since they'd moved Martha's show opposite "Lost", I hadn't watched it. Since "Lost" was a rerun this week, I actually watched this week. Argh!

I cannot believe Jim is still there! Seriously. The only reason he is is because he makes "good TV". But honestly, I don't think he *does* make "good TV." And the way he gloated that it was HIS win? Um, please. You were really really concerned there for quite a while, till that last auction went over $13K. And it seems to me that it was your TEAM that had the win, not you. I think your TEAM was the ones who negotiated the higher bid auctions, not you.

Turns out Marcelas is from San Diego. I guess she does haute cuisine Mexican food (a blend of French and Mexican). And David is also local. Of course, I can't remember who he is so no big deal. Anyways, Marcelas clearly admits that her strength is food, so I really don't think she's long for this show. She really was a nonentity as a PM, and Martha recognized that.

I didn't realize David was "so young." But if had no experience in business, other than as an entrepreneur starting his own Internet company, then that makes sense. But it did sound like Martha would be open to "listening to his ideas." (Which, honestly, smacked to me of wanting to listen and steal his ideas, but then again, maybe I'm a bit of a cynic! <grin>)

I was glad that the auctions netted so much... what a great cause. I do think some of the auctions (those that didn't do well) were kinda, well, kinda dumb. The ones that did the best were those that related to Broadway. Barks for Broadway. Broadway stars? Hmmm... ya think?

I'm still not liking this show all that much. I'm thinking a large part of it is Jim. His behavior at the restaurant (and oh, yeah, OUTBACK? in friggin' NYC, they go to dinner at the OUTBACK? majorly ick!) was out of control! Putting his feet on the table? Making faces? Talking about getting drunk. Yeah, that's real professional dude!

Scottiee
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10-25-2005

Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scottiee a private message Print Post    
Jim is crazy, but I like him.

Rehtse
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08-17-2005

Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 11:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rehtse a private message Print Post    
When I watch the show, I am glued to the t.v. because I love Martha, but I guess my mind wanders while I watch b/c I totally missed the shows. Tacky!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, October 31, 2005 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Here's an article about Martha and the show.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/stewart_fortune_111405/index.htm

Her comments about how she thought it was going to work with respect to Trump's show are interesting.

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Monday, October 31, 2005 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
Interesting article. Thanks for the link Jimmer.

Auntiemike
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09-17-2001

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Auntiemike a private message Print Post    
Is this show even on tonight? Or, is everyone watching "Trading Spouses"?



Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Primarius looked ridiculous tonight. White people should never rap.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
So what happened tonight? What did they do? Who won? And which two got the boot? (According to TV Guide, two people were getting goodbye letters.)

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
The teams had to create mobile billboard campaigns for the Tide To Go stain removing stick. Matchstick had Ryan dressed as a character/hero named Tide To Go Joe. He "fought" and defeated ketchup(Marcela). They also made a character out of the product by adding some arms to it and putting up a cut-out on the sidewalk.

Primarius. I'm sorry but no mere words can do justice to the sheer awfulness of their presentation. I'm surprised they didn't get stoned by the crowd. Carrie & Sarah got axed to leave.

If you missed it consider yourself lucky.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 8:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
LOL he defeated Ketchup!

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
grrrrrrrrrr

Curlyq
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07-10-2002

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 8:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Curlyq a private message Print Post    
Was that supposed to be rapping? It sounded more like cheerleading. The chant they chose sounded like they were wishing Tide would go away.

Can't dispute that decision. I do hope Bethany goes soon, though. Her behavior in the board room was a little too high school ("Are you insane?!"), and she really is too much of a sourpuss. I can't believe Jim was actually the MVP this week. He sure knows how to keep himself out of the line of fire.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 9:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I think Martha was right on with her “firings” this week. Primarius’ performance was beyond words. And they received a complete trashing for it.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 10:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
LOL KL!

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 11:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Sooooo......is it painfully obvious that Martha and Trump are doing the same things during the same weeks? Trump fires more than one, and now Martha??

Let me see something different in Martha's show!!!

Primarius was HORRIBLE. Sarah obviously didn't know the true meaning of "brainstorming" if she told everyone to SILENTLY brainstorm. Yikes.

I'm glad she fired both women. They were like the Reesealike and the Russian chick on the Apprentice. Like this little blonde squad, out to get everyone else. What is with the blondes gravitating toward each other on all of these shows?

I missed the first part of the show. I would have LOVED to have seen identical "pitches" from both teams.

I think Jim is finally getting the credit he deserves. A couple of weeks ago, Bethenny said something about her and Jim being the hardest workers there. I think Jim isn't given enough credit, because he says things that people don't like, so they kill the messenger. Truth hurts, and I think Jim is just guilty of telling the truth. If Jim were really so horrible, he and Howie wouldn't have gotten along so well after their little spat.

Can't wait for next week. I am loving this show.

I found it creepy that Martha wanted to eat some of Marcella's sugar bun. Marcella didn't make them herself. Weren't there enough on the table? Is Martha one of those people (like my boyfriend) who will eat off other people's plates if the others have the last of what they like?

I don't care who you are, I hate sharing food.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Ms. Stewart didn't tell Marcella that "can I have some of your sugar bun?" was her pick up line in Alderson.

Sunrvrose
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08-13-2001

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 12:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunrvrose a private message Print Post    
Well, it looks like Jim might just finally go next week. From the previews, it looks like he makes a complete a** of himself, literally.

This is about the only good show on Wednesday for me. I used Trading Spouses for my "commercial show" and what I saw was just icky.

I think that Martha is simply remarkable. To be able to do this show, wearing that stupid ankle device, and to show such grace, what a woman.

I believe that asking for some of Marcella's sugar bun was meant to be a high compliment, and Marcella took it that way. I missed how those buns played in the breakfast, was it Marcella's recipe?

Sharing food...I don't mind at all, so long as the person hasn't bitten, forked into, or drank from. If the food can be torn off, cut into portions, etc, it's ok with me. But to eat off of food that has in any way touched someone else's mouth, NO WAY! But on the show, the bun was clearly torn and shared, not eaten from. I'm fine with that.

I so hope that the ratings aren't horrible. I'm afraid I'll have to agree with what someone said way way upthread, that Jim was kept for his ratings value.

Anyway, my favs are, in order, Howie, Marcella, Bethany, and Ryan. Sorry, I really would like a woman to win, but I think Howie is the best of the bunch.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 12:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
Actually, I noticed DT has stolen Martha's idea of naming her own Boardroom returnees.

Last week DT didnt let the PM choose. I noticed that MS has not let the PM choose since week two when it became obvious that it was a popularity contest and not about legitimate fault-finding.

Tonight's show was hard to watch. Whomever casted these people should be fired and never allowed to cast a show again. Talk about uncreative losers...and Yes, Jim is doing better since he is finally learning to keep his mouth shut and do the ONE THING he is capable of...graphics.

I really dislike the concept of teams on both Apprentices. These people are competeing against each other...it means that many times a team chooses not to work together with the premise that they WANT the PM (or another target) gone!!

I found it interesting that Bethany, Howie and Jim were shown humiliating themselves on the float yet the people truly responsible for the fiasco did the easy, less visible jobs.

BUT!!...surely Howie, Jim and Bethany could have quickly come up with something more than Tide to GO! rap. Jim had a whole page of rhymes/ promo lines from the brainstorming session. Maybe if someone had taken control the loss wouldnt have been so embarrassing.

The looks on some of the passersby faces was Hilarious!! stunned disbelief, kids crying, people holding their ears as they walked by LOL

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 6:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I'm willing to bet that Jim had more ideas, and they were shot down my Stacy. I think the producers alluded to her "shooting down" good ideas, when Howie proposed the boxing thing. They can't show her vetoing everything, but I'm willing to bet that's what happened.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Martha did give Bethany credit for her exuberant "cheering".

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 7:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Did you mean Sarah, Eeyore? She was horrible. That chant really did say to me "Tide must go." Like Tide is terrible, it must leave...

Funny how Jim did look very competent and capable last night.

I agree with Sunshyne about how the 2 people who were most responsible for the embarrassment did not get up and humiliate themselves, but the other three did. (not that Jim minded!)

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 7:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
Who'd have thought Jim could be so likeable...and focused...and competent? If the Jim we saw tonight was the Jim we saw every week, I'd be pulling for him to win it all.

I knew there'd be some trouble when they gave out the assignment and asked them to create a buzz, but didn't specifically say it needed to be a positive buzz! I just don't know what Sarah was thinking...did she really think that if they just managed to give out all their samples they'd have it in the bag? She seemed kind of delusional.

I also suspected trouble with the "silent brainstorming", as I thought brainstorming was about throwing out ideas and feeding off each others creativity...like the other team was doing. I vaguely remember silent brainstorming being a problem in another Apprentice episode...but don't remember the team or the season.

In the conference room, did everyone notice that Carrie defended the fact that she did very little by saying "I did the accounting", but after Martha and cigar-man questioned the difficulty of the accouting, she admitted it was pretty much a nothing-task and said she'd never "hide behind that" to explain not doing other work. Which was what she had just done. I was surprised she didn't get called on that.

Overall, glad to see them both go. I think they were the reasons for the lame event. The others on the team had some ideas and at least seemed to get that the event should promote the product.

Curly, I thought the same thing about their "Time to go, it's time for Tide to go" thing...definitely sounded like they were saying it was time for tide to get the heck out of there!

Sunshyne, I actually was laughing out loud at the passersby! And the look on Peter's face was pretty priceless, too!

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puzzled a private message Print Post    
Their caterwauling was supposed to be rap?? The guy who covered his ears was hilarious.

ROFL--I think first-graders could have put on a better show. Couldn't help laughing.

It's just so hard to believe that they thought they could succeed without a theme. That's what you get when you have "silent brainstorming." What an oxymoron.



Survivoraddict
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09-02-2005

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Survivoraddict a private message Print Post    
Cigar man!!!!!!-ROFL Cdgba! I was quite suprised at how decent and quiet Jim appeared last night. Maybe that's why they let him loose on TV in the clips of next week.

Jodied75
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08-26-2004

Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodied75 a private message Print Post    
That cigar is really annoying. That alone is actually making me dislike Charles!