Friday, April 22, 2005

Apprentice Precap: Bedazzled by a Beefy T

Announcer: They started as Teams: Book Smarts versus Street Smarts

The original Teams are shown.

Next Thursday, it's down to The Apprentice Final Four

On Screen: The Apprentice Final Four

Kendra and Alex's photos are put into adorable little "Book Smarts" boxes and lined up in opposition to Tana and Craig on the "Street Smarts" side. Is this a hint that the original theme will be brought back next week by putting Kendra on Net Worth? Oh, but these promos are so wildly misleading ... should we be afraid to trust? It would be pretty funny for the Book Smarts Team to end up entirely composed of Street Smarts candidates and vice-versa.

Alex voiceover: It is me against the world.

Alex is shown looking possibly dejected, possibly contemplative with a soupcon of ennui. Possibly worried in the wake of that whole "I thought you were a star, and you're not really a star. You're not a star, and I'm disappointed" thing. That was probably a bummer.

Announcer/On screen: The desperation

Trump: It would have been to your advantage to tell the truth.

Flash of light

Very brief black-and-white image of Tana standing in an office labeled Net Worth. It required freeze-framing the image to see this clearly. Her face is obscured by her hands, but she sure looks like Tana. A Net Worth sign is clearly visible right outside the door

Announcer/on screen: The backstabbing

Alex, in confessional: I didn't see that coming at all.

Craig puts on a jacket.

Random black-and-white image of Kendra.

Announcer/on screen: The claws are coming out.

Cab door closes.

Craig: How many times do you want me to tell you?

Kendra: I want you to just stop talking to me.

(If they're going to depict Craig and Kendra's fighting as "the claws are coming out" does that mean they were in before this episode? Wow. Then why have they been promoting their tiffs so heaviliy?)

Over a cityscape of New York, Alex and Kendra's, well, heads are superimposed above the words "Book Smarts" and then replaced by Tana and Craig's heads and the words "Street Smarts" (Yes, those were their original Teams, and remain their "identity" according to the show at least, but even without having freeze-framed the promo, it has shown us Kendra and Craig in a cab alone together next week. Not very clever if they wanted to keep the new Team line-ups a mystery. Guess they just can't resist any opportunity to show conflict, at least between those two).

Announcer: Book Smarts. Street Smarts.

Announcer/ on screen:The Apprentice Final Four

Trump: You're fired.

Announcer: NBC, next Thursday

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