Friday, 31 October 2014

The Apprentice Episode 4 - Please Don't Watch This


Team Summit watching Meatspin


Moving on from chasing people around London with candles, the teams were set the task of creating a Youtube channel and getting Youtube dolla for going viral. A task perfect for a load of mid 20 year old candidates right? Just create ‘Fat man falls downstairs’ and you’ll be rolling in the view hits. Or not, as we learnt this week.

Both Teams came up with really frigid and awkward ideas that only serious try hard businessmen and women would think of. With many candidates saying “I don’t really have any experience with online videos”, this set the alarm bells ringing because how the hell do a load of young businessmen haven’t ever experienced YouTube or used it? No researching Youtube stars or thinking of those hilarious videos they saw during your uni days, it was just “right, let’s do the videos ourselves and completely forget what humour is”. 

Team Summit came up with “Dare to dine”, a video channel all about cooking challenges and James looking like an idiot while Rosion tried seriously hard not to knock him out with a saucepan everytime he made a shite slapstick joke. Team Tenacity on the other hand thought that fitness videos would be a great idea to do and because Felipe came up with the idea, everyone decided they should make him the fat man in the video to be bullied and chanted “fat daddy” at for hours. What we didn't see was Felipe crying in the toilets while eating a Celebrations box.
"Yeah maybe we bullied Felipe a bit *too* much..."
10 year old business man Soloman made easy work of his team’s video, injecting the right amount of entertainment and enthusiasm into the video, which clearly spread out throughout the team. It even got Jemma talking for the first time all series, making me finally be able to give her a name rather than “glasses girl”. Their video could have easily been dragged down by James’ try hard idiot “act” or the cringe worthy unfunny-ness of the video, but hey, at least they had a rough idea of how to make a Youtube video even if they really were scraping the barrel a far bit. Although next time maybe just stick with baby biting his brother or leaking Soloman’s sex tape. 

Female Ed Milliband, Ella Jade, failed to make what could have been a watchable video but instead became a montage of bullying Felipe into losing weight and regularly calling him fat. Daniel raised his hand at various points to say “this is awful guys, please can we not do this” in which everyone glared at him as if to say “yes we fucking know that but please can you help figure out Youtube’s upload system? Ta”. Then I wished he piped up again at the uploading stage because none of them realised that having a video description and tags would massively help their hit count. Oh bloody dear. What didn’t help was Steven’s typical sales pitch of introducing something as mindblowing and revolutionary with Sarah’s confusing answers to Buzzfeed's concerns about the video being offensive. Surprised Buzzfeed didn’t include Steven in a “15 people who should consider a career move” list.


Daniel gutted about not going to Iceland - he's run out of cheese.
 After the two teams struggled to make two watchable videos, Team  Summit’s ‘Dare to Dine’ video got more hits and were immediately flown to Iceland while their opposite team shouted at each other and Kate outta nowhere (RKO style) took down Sarah about her “women should wear short skirts and wear push up bras” comment. With scenes more awkward than a meeting between Oscar Pistolrous and Reeva Steenkamp’s parents, Sarah, Ella Jade and Steven were all back for further bullying from Lord Sugar. Fed up of Steven’s sass, Sarah’s ignorance and Ella Jade’s lack of personality, bollock head told everyone to fuck off and fired all three. Approximately at 9:55pm, up and down the country you could hear a mixture of laughter and “OH FUCKING HELL”, with further laughing at Ella-Jade-I-promise-you’s pleading to stay. Sorry love, but looking like Droopy dog isn’t going to help your case at all.

Next week - Tour buses. Destination - Failure City