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Anyone ever watch The Apprentice?


I watched part of one episode in the show's early seasons, where Trump had these hand selected business grads go toss together business ideas to hock at Central Park or somewhere. Maybe they had to choose from a few choices.

Most chose to do dog nail clipping. None did any research first. Just that part of that one episode was ridiculous and embarrassing.

Didnt finish that episode and bever considered watching the show again.

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I watched one season. "The Celebrity Apprentice" to see Gilbert Gottfried compete. Geraldo Rivera and Ian "Sharnado" Zerling were extremely competitive against each other. Everyone hate Brandi Glanville.

I would've liked to have seen the prior season with Joan Rivers since I was a huge fan of hers.

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I saw the Joan Rivers one. I loved her. They made a big deal about her and Melissa competing and how devastated Melissa was to get cut before her mom. That part seemed very staged.

I saw the one with Geraldo Rivera. He was horrible.

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Geraldo is a shadow of his former moustache

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I had never seen it until very recently when I watched a few clips. It was ok. I can’t imagine actually sitting down and watching the whole series, but I’d watch some more if I knew in advance which episodes were really good.

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Never a complete show. When channel-surfing sometimes I'd stop and check out a little of it now and then. The show appeared to me to about an asshole lecturing idiots how they could "succeed" like he did.

Except, of course, for Celebrity Apprentice. Which was more of a celebrity asshole lecturing washed-up celebrity idiots how to succeed.

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Never saw it before and also NEVER even HEARD of it either …

not until he decided to RUN for OFFICE …

which the new MICHAEL MOORE FILM (called FARENHEIT 119) explains was because he wanted a BIGGER PAY RAISE than someone else had gotten who was on some other TV SHOW.

Have also seen CLIPS from it that look like they're just as BORING as the rest of you say it was to watch.

Which is also why one can't COMPREHEND how that show made him such a BIG STAR to the people who did watch it.

Weren't they also the SAME kind of VIEWERS who also liked watching the FAKE WRESTLING SHOW???

That's also why I'd never heard of it before, because I mostly watch CABLE TV SHOWS, and that show was on the NON CABEL channel that one doesn't have to PAY FOR.








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Have also seen CLIPS from it that look like they're just as BORING as the rest of you say it was to watch.

Which is also why one can't COMPREHEND how that show made him such a BIG STAR to the people who did watch it.

Weren't they also the SAME kind of VIEWERS who also liked watching the FAKE WRESTLING SHOW???


No more than said viewers who might watch "America's Got Talent" or "Dancing With The Stars" or any other tightly scripted pseudo-"reality" programming.

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Yes, Trump was certainly a perfect "reality show" host.... for many, preventing them from tuning in was Trumps true gift.

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But YOU are tuned in, albeit involuntarily, so let's begin the therapy shall we?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E51-2B8gHtk

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The therapy is exposure, it builds up my immunities.

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Your immunity to reality is well-established now.

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Shouldn't proper names be capitalized, Reality? Finally that handle is apropos

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Follow up: One thing I am very curious about regarding this show...

Supposedly, Mark Burnett, the executive producer who owns every last point of this endeavor, is sitting on outtakes and extra footage that's supposed to show what a scumbag and idiot Donald Trump actually is. But since he's cast his lot with the Trump Anti-Christ, he's been sitting on this material and refusing to allow it's release.

I would give Queerberto's left nut to see this stuff.

My guess is since it's not economically advantageous to Burnett to release it at this time--he's still sucking off the Trump nipple of having a "friend" in the White House--as soon as the Trump era is over (2021), he'll release this excrement...and also have figured out some way to make a buck off of it. After all, that's all that Friends Of Trump really care about... Profits.

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He will certainly write a tell-all book and make millions off of it. Hell itll probably just be cobbled together from notes and correspondence by some college kid intern working for Burnett.

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I don't respect Burnett for what's he's done to American culture...but I'll concede he was a smart enough producer to manipulate the media environment and make a fortune off of it. Smart enough to also, yes, eventually "write" a tell-all book. But I'm still jonesing to see The Apprentice outtakes a lot more. After all, a picture/a thousand stories, etc etc.

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An ebook with embedded video clips!

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I watched one episode. All I saw from fatass Trump was him just sitting there nodding his head with what looked to be a dead rat on his head. Then came the you're fired. And the show was over.

It was the laziest hosting job of a reality show I'd ever seen. At least with Regis on Millionaire and that British lady from Weakest Link they were willing to be active throughout the whole show before giving out their catch phrases. Trump couldn't be bothered. I guess back then around 2005-2006 he was too busy doing other things... or people.

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I honestly watched every season, the funniest one was celebrity apprentice and Joan rivers quit because trump fired her daughter, I think it was staged. No I did not vote for trump I'm just addicted to dumb TV shows

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Well then its no wonder you chose beavis as your username

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Joan quit? I saw it lol, but I don’t remember that. I thought she won.

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she came back the next challenge, but went down the elevator together while Melissa refused to interview, I think it was staged

feel pretty stupid for knowing that but I looked it up lastnight

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Yeah, good show, it was one of NBCs top rated shows for years

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