An Apprentice Love Story

We learned something very important on last night's episode of The Apprentice: LA - you should be able to look around the food court, and see that there are lots of people who don't speak English. Oh boy...

I don't usually like tasks like this - tasks whose only real point is for the advertising for a sponsor. But I liked a very important twist in this task. The folks from Priceline were Trump's "eyes and ears", rather than one of his kids. I don't know - this just seems like a better idea. We were also back to the editing showing us exactly who would lose, and who would likely get fired. We saw Derek & Jenn being told that 50% of the mall's customers were Hispanic, saw them never do anything about it (and the backup it caused at their booth), and Aimee "take charge" of Jenn's inflatable octopus. If you didn't see it coming, maybe you should try another show.

I was really surprised that Derek & Jenn didn't make signs in Spanish, or hire someone to translate. It really did seem like they were trying to throw Aimee under the bus (which Derek tried to do last week too...I'm liking him less and less each week). I also didn't understand how Surya was running the team - they really did win in spite of Surya, rather than because of him. And somehow, Surya thought he did a great job. Watching the episode back last night must have been an adventure. At least Nicole & Tim finally kissed...how long have they been teasing that for?

In the boardroom, I wish that Jenn had been fired. Aimee was right - the team didn't do it's best work for her. I wish she had spoken up a bit about the whole "noticing that there are a lot of Hispanics" thing as well. Seeing that there is a lot of diversity in the mall, and knowing that a lot of the patrons don't speak English are two very different things. It was Jenn's responsibility, and Aimee should have fought more for that. I wish, too, that Surya wasn't in the boardroom. He has friends on Kinetic, and he was clearly making sure that they didn't get fired.