Well, forget analysing the management skills of the Apprentice candidates this week and just watch a classic episode full of people falling out and shouting at each other…

A variation of the “creative task” with a TV ad, character and cereal box needed in two days.

All should appeal to health conscious parents AND kids wanting fun and adventure at breakfast time.

Marketing whiz Kimberley should really have walked this and their “Pants Man” character (box printed on only 1 side and as Suralan called it in colours that would normally found on the household cleaning aisle) was doomed to failure.

The boardroom excuse of “we didn’t have enough time” is surely one from GCSE Business Studies than the cutting edge of UK business talent.

I think that if the candidates were actually paying the going hourly rate for the professionals who help them (voice over artists, mac operators etc they would be much more likely to focus on the job in hand rather than spend time allocating blame for events that have not or might not happen.

Although it is still very early, the winner must surely come from the winning team on Wednesday – the other team (and I always lose track of the team names…) seems so dysfunctional so as not to be effective.

Even last weeks villain Ben seemed to get along well.

The editing (which we have discussed before) even tried to show upset in the winning team – by showing the voice over being replaced after only one listen.

I can’t help feeling though that the standard of candidate is lower than in recent years and I don’t think Suralan would have allowed shouting and bawling at each other in previous years.

Can’t wait for next week (and how long before Suralan mixes the teams up again…)

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