Precap: The Games People Play
Warning: very detailed precap follows. Anyone looking for spoiler material possibly shouldn't put too much stock into the TiVo-freeze-frame-a-thon that follows this intro. All of the candidates look pretty miserable. It looks like all of them were put through the wringer, or least given enough of a hard time so that there was footage of all of them looking stressed-out.
Announcer: Next Thursday, it's down to The Apprentice final three.
On screen: Next Thursday (against a backdrop of skyscrapers)
The usual graphic, now down to three ... Kendra on the left, looking thoughtful (with "Book Smarts" written underneath her image) "versus" Craig, with a "duh" expression on his face (it's true!), on top and Tana, smiling beneath him. "Street Smarts" is written in between their images. The headline is The Apprentice Final Three. Also, this episode will be rated TV PG. Perhaps one of the interviewers calls Craig a butthole, but don't worry, I'm sure the "hole" will be censored for our protection.
Announcer: Which means only one thing.
Tana exits Trump Tower, followed by Kendra and Craig. The camera angle switches to a street shot in time to give us a view of Kendra's legs (Tana is wearing a black pantsuit, Kendra a gray blouse and skirt and a tan coat, Craig a black suit and a bowtie).
Announcer/On screen: Bring on the interviews.
A bunch of very quick images, broken down here through the magic of TiVo-freeze-framing:
A female interviewer with Tana. The interviewer has short hair and is wearing glasses. She is wearing a teal necklace, sort of a choker, that has approximately 5,000 beaded strands layered against/on top of each-other. Perhaps it was beadchokered. That doesn't sound right. Then again, I don't think Bedazzler sounds right either. The overly-necklaced-woman has several sheafs of paper in front of her and has a pen.
Close-up of that interviewer, which probably unfairly makes her look a little shifty or skeptical. She has a couple of desks in addition to her main desk. Three desks and yet all of them have lots of things that wouldn't fit into a Desk Apprentice, like plants and a lamp. She does not appear to have enough space for a Desk Apprentice even with three desks! Oh, how I wish she would ask each of the candidates about that.
Balding White Guy with blue shirt and nice tie interviewing Craig (sorry for the unseemly reference to his receding hairline, but I need some way to shorthand way to refer to each of the interviewers). BWG also lacks space for a Desk Apprentice.
Craig leans forward, looks nervous. His eyes are half closed (or is it half-open? Is this a "glass of milk" situation?). The camera zooms in on Craig. He starts to speak.
Close-up of Old Mean Man -- an older, unsmiling, white-haired man with brown eyes, and glasses.
Kendra, also unsmiling, looking very serious, and possibly not all that happy.
Closer view of OMM, still not smiling.
40sish white dude with brown hair. Camera moves closer toward him. And closer and closer. WAYNE'S WORLD, WAYNE'S WORLD!!
He's interviewing Craig, whose tongue is protruding from between his lips. Its tip is touching the right side of his lips. He looks uneasy. His bow tie is starting to come apart. He moves his tongue toward the center. As the image leaves us it looks as though his tongue is about to flick toward the left side, but there is no way to tell for sure until if/when we see the end of his tongue's voyage next week. (it is not a journey because this is not a dating show)
Back to Teal Woman for no apparent reason.
Close-up of a man's hand taking notes.
Teal Woman: Do you think it's really possible...
Craig: ... my leadership style... (Awesome! I can't wait to hear Craig describe his leadership style!)
Assorted unintelligible gibberish from the interviews plays in the background...
Screen split into four equal images: starting at the upper left and going clockwise: a hand taking notes, Kendra speaking to an interviewer (whose shoulder is visible), Craig about to talk, and Tana, eyes down, lips pursed, and then she starts to talk.
Close-up of an interviewer's mouth, talking.
Screen split into four equal images: in the same order: Kendra talking, Craig talking to an interviewer (whose head and shoulder are visible), Tana talking, and a pen writing.
OMM, looking creepy.
40ish dude grimaces a bit. Skeptical?
Craig does the tongue thing again.
Teal Woman looks to the right.
Announcer: And it won't be easy.
The screen has one central image and many, many small images surround it. Kendra, Craig, and Tana are at the bottom, and on top. Interviewers are on each side. In the center, balding man's (I'm so sorry) image gets larger as he asks:
Balding dude: Why should Mr. Trump hire you?
Craig, glassy-eyed. He closes his eyes and starts to lower his head.
Tana, one eye half-closed.
OMM gestures while holding a pen.
40sish dude looks down while talking.
Close-up of Kendra.
Close-up of Craig, unhappy.
Close-up of Tana, eyes closed, unhappy.
Close-up of Teal Woman, smiling, but skeptically?
40sish dude looking up with an expression that seems to convey a certain "You feel lucky, punk?" attitude. Or not. Hard to tell with a millisecond-length image.
Balding, possibly entirely nice and wonderful man in boardroom. (Actually he does seem like he might be one of the less-confrontational interviewers. Maybe.)
All interviewers in boardroom. And they've brought their notes! George and Carolyn are both there with Trumpy. No business trips this week.
Teal Woman in boardroom.
40sish dude talking, with Teal Woman beside him.
40sish dude making a funny face. "Honestly, I think the guy is kind of a butt[bleep]." (this is just how it goes in my mind's eye. He could possibly be saying "That young lady needs to learn to respect her elders.").
OMM talking.
Carolyn, looking less-than-content, but wearing mildly funky earrings.
Screen split: center image of Tana, looking unhappy, with her forehead furrowed. Many images surround her. A gesturing Kendra, Craig, and Tana (again) are beneath her. Above her: Kendra almost nodding, Tana talking and smiling ... probably Craig too but I didn't jot down his presence and I am not going back to the TiVo! Interviewers are on both sides of Tana, as well as an image of clasped hands.
Announcer: And in the first half-hour
On screen: First 1/2 hour. In the background, clouds race by behind a skyscraper. The clouds spell out ... Michael comes back and is named The Apprentice. OK, not really. But, c'mon. He has a parking lot. Doesn't he deserve to win?
Announcer: The final three will fight it out.
Tana, Craig, and Kendra sitting on a couch. Tana and Kendra have their legs crossed toward Craig; body-language-wise, that allegedly means they are not feeling hostile at least. They all look nervous.
The image suddenly morphs into:
Tana, Craig, and Kendra sitting in the boardroom.
They can teleport!
The Super-Candidates: this Fall on NBC!
Carolyn, possibly looking suspicious. She looks to the right.
George, looking like ... George. That's all I got.
Tana voiceover: This is our one chance to prove ourselves. (she might have really said "ourself." It seems unlike Tana to mispronounce something or get the grammar wrong, but it doesn't matter. We is none of us perfect. ;-)).
Tana packs.
Craig packs.
Kendra puts her suitcase on the floor.
Announcer/on screen: The biggest boardroom of the season. (camera approaches the closed boardroom doors from the lobby)
Kendra, in confessional: This is it, this is my moment. (Kendra is wearing a black lowcut outfit and I think her nail polish is purple).
Tana, Craig, and Kendra stand and walk toward the boardroom. Craig is the speediest, Tana the slowest.
Close-up of boardroom doors. An ethereal shot of Trump is superimposed over them and then replaces them as he enters the boardroom.
An image of the night sky appears... and LIVE GRAND FINALE appears on the screen.
Announcer: All leading to the live grand finale.
Trump: You're hired. (At first his back is turned to the camera. He turns around in his chair to make that exciting declaration. For a moment I felt I actually had been hired, and was going to have to pull a Bren and reject him, or make him not want to hire me).
Announcer: All-new Apprentice, next Thursday.
Announcer: Next Thursday, it's down to The Apprentice final three.
On screen: Next Thursday (against a backdrop of skyscrapers)
The usual graphic, now down to three ... Kendra on the left, looking thoughtful (with "Book Smarts" written underneath her image) "versus" Craig, with a "duh" expression on his face (it's true!), on top and Tana, smiling beneath him. "Street Smarts" is written in between their images. The headline is The Apprentice Final Three. Also, this episode will be rated TV PG. Perhaps one of the interviewers calls Craig a butthole, but don't worry, I'm sure the "hole" will be censored for our protection.
Announcer: Which means only one thing.
Tana exits Trump Tower, followed by Kendra and Craig. The camera angle switches to a street shot in time to give us a view of Kendra's legs (Tana is wearing a black pantsuit, Kendra a gray blouse and skirt and a tan coat, Craig a black suit and a bowtie).
Announcer/On screen: Bring on the interviews.
A bunch of very quick images, broken down here through the magic of TiVo-freeze-framing:
A female interviewer with Tana. The interviewer has short hair and is wearing glasses. She is wearing a teal necklace, sort of a choker, that has approximately 5,000 beaded strands layered against/on top of each-other. Perhaps it was beadchokered. That doesn't sound right. Then again, I don't think Bedazzler sounds right either. The overly-necklaced-woman has several sheafs of paper in front of her and has a pen.
Close-up of that interviewer, which probably unfairly makes her look a little shifty or skeptical. She has a couple of desks in addition to her main desk. Three desks and yet all of them have lots of things that wouldn't fit into a Desk Apprentice, like plants and a lamp. She does not appear to have enough space for a Desk Apprentice even with three desks! Oh, how I wish she would ask each of the candidates about that.
Balding White Guy with blue shirt and nice tie interviewing Craig (sorry for the unseemly reference to his receding hairline, but I need some way to shorthand way to refer to each of the interviewers). BWG also lacks space for a Desk Apprentice.
Craig leans forward, looks nervous. His eyes are half closed (or is it half-open? Is this a "glass of milk" situation?). The camera zooms in on Craig. He starts to speak.
Close-up of Old Mean Man -- an older, unsmiling, white-haired man with brown eyes, and glasses.
Kendra, also unsmiling, looking very serious, and possibly not all that happy.
Closer view of OMM, still not smiling.
40sish white dude with brown hair. Camera moves closer toward him. And closer and closer. WAYNE'S WORLD, WAYNE'S WORLD!!
He's interviewing Craig, whose tongue is protruding from between his lips. Its tip is touching the right side of his lips. He looks uneasy. His bow tie is starting to come apart. He moves his tongue toward the center. As the image leaves us it looks as though his tongue is about to flick toward the left side, but there is no way to tell for sure until if/when we see the end of his tongue's voyage next week. (it is not a journey because this is not a dating show)
Back to Teal Woman for no apparent reason.
Close-up of a man's hand taking notes.
Teal Woman: Do you think it's really possible...
Craig: ... my leadership style... (Awesome! I can't wait to hear Craig describe his leadership style!)
Assorted unintelligible gibberish from the interviews plays in the background...
Screen split into four equal images: starting at the upper left and going clockwise: a hand taking notes, Kendra speaking to an interviewer (whose shoulder is visible), Craig about to talk, and Tana, eyes down, lips pursed, and then she starts to talk.
Close-up of an interviewer's mouth, talking.
Screen split into four equal images: in the same order: Kendra talking, Craig talking to an interviewer (whose head and shoulder are visible), Tana talking, and a pen writing.
OMM, looking creepy.
40ish dude grimaces a bit. Skeptical?
Craig does the tongue thing again.
Teal Woman looks to the right.
Announcer: And it won't be easy.
The screen has one central image and many, many small images surround it. Kendra, Craig, and Tana are at the bottom, and on top. Interviewers are on each side. In the center, balding man's (I'm so sorry) image gets larger as he asks:
Balding dude: Why should Mr. Trump hire you?
Craig, glassy-eyed. He closes his eyes and starts to lower his head.
Tana, one eye half-closed.
OMM gestures while holding a pen.
40sish dude looks down while talking.
Close-up of Kendra.
Close-up of Craig, unhappy.
Close-up of Tana, eyes closed, unhappy.
Close-up of Teal Woman, smiling, but skeptically?
40sish dude looking up with an expression that seems to convey a certain "You feel lucky, punk?" attitude. Or not. Hard to tell with a millisecond-length image.
Balding, possibly entirely nice and wonderful man in boardroom. (Actually he does seem like he might be one of the less-confrontational interviewers. Maybe.)
All interviewers in boardroom. And they've brought their notes! George and Carolyn are both there with Trumpy. No business trips this week.
Teal Woman in boardroom.
40sish dude talking, with Teal Woman beside him.
40sish dude making a funny face. "Honestly, I think the guy is kind of a butt[bleep]." (this is just how it goes in my mind's eye. He could possibly be saying "That young lady needs to learn to respect her elders.").
OMM talking.
Carolyn, looking less-than-content, but wearing mildly funky earrings.
Screen split: center image of Tana, looking unhappy, with her forehead furrowed. Many images surround her. A gesturing Kendra, Craig, and Tana (again) are beneath her. Above her: Kendra almost nodding, Tana talking and smiling ... probably Craig too but I didn't jot down his presence and I am not going back to the TiVo! Interviewers are on both sides of Tana, as well as an image of clasped hands.
Announcer: And in the first half-hour
On screen: First 1/2 hour. In the background, clouds race by behind a skyscraper. The clouds spell out ... Michael comes back and is named The Apprentice. OK, not really. But, c'mon. He has a parking lot. Doesn't he deserve to win?
Announcer: The final three will fight it out.
Tana, Craig, and Kendra sitting on a couch. Tana and Kendra have their legs crossed toward Craig; body-language-wise, that allegedly means they are not feeling hostile at least. They all look nervous.
The image suddenly morphs into:
Tana, Craig, and Kendra sitting in the boardroom.
They can teleport!
The Super-Candidates: this Fall on NBC!
Carolyn, possibly looking suspicious. She looks to the right.
George, looking like ... George. That's all I got.
Tana voiceover: This is our one chance to prove ourselves. (she might have really said "ourself." It seems unlike Tana to mispronounce something or get the grammar wrong, but it doesn't matter. We is none of us perfect. ;-)).
Tana packs.
Craig packs.
Kendra puts her suitcase on the floor.
Announcer/on screen: The biggest boardroom of the season. (camera approaches the closed boardroom doors from the lobby)
Kendra, in confessional: This is it, this is my moment. (Kendra is wearing a black lowcut outfit and I think her nail polish is purple).
Tana, Craig, and Kendra stand and walk toward the boardroom. Craig is the speediest, Tana the slowest.
Close-up of boardroom doors. An ethereal shot of Trump is superimposed over them and then replaces them as he enters the boardroom.
An image of the night sky appears... and LIVE GRAND FINALE appears on the screen.
Announcer: All leading to the live grand finale.
Trump: You're hired. (At first his back is turned to the camera. He turns around in his chair to make that exciting declaration. For a moment I felt I actually had been hired, and was going to have to pull a Bren and reject him, or make him not want to hire me).
Announcer: All-new Apprentice, next Thursday.
posted by trill42 at 4:44 p.m.
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40sish dude has been identified! He is none other than David Brandon, chairman and chief executive of Domino's Pizza. Yikes.
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