The Apprentice - Quitting is OK with Moi

When what's her face went into the boardroom last Sunday, I was thinking, she oughta just tell Trump to kiss her ass and quit. Well she did, except for the kissing part. It was obvious to me that she did a not very good job and even more obvious that the rest of her team was going to be gunning for her.

To me, it was like the scene in "Revenge of the Nerds" when the nerds were making a serious challenge for the top prize in the Greek Cup (or whatever it was called) and they had to go head to head with the Alpha Betas in the Tug of War. How do a bunch of scrawny geeks out-tug the top athletes of the football team? Since machines were not allowed and there was evidently not enough time to develop a special rope for the limp-wristed, the answer is: they don't. They pretended like the were going to tug their sub-optimized hearts out and then at the last minute let go of the rope so the jocks all went sprawling. They didn't win that round, but they metaphorically told their opponents to kiss their ass.

Upon entering the boardroom what what's her face should have said, literally, was "Mr. Trump, we obviously failed in this task. I admit I didn't make an overwhelming contribution to the effort, and given that the rest of the team went into the task wanting to drop kick me out of the campground, let me save you all the trouble of insulting me every which way from Sunday and just say, Mr. Trump, I fire myself."

Trump (I refuse to call him "The Donald") could then whine and moan about how she's a quitter. The real message he's sending is: "But my contract says I get to FIRE somebody every week."

"Think what you like, " she could reply. "I prefer to think of it as not postponing the inevitable and taking my medicine."

"But you're a quitter. How can you live with yourself."

In closing she could've said, "I could ask the same question of you, but how about you find some other way to fill the last few minutes of your lame show? I resign. Kiss my ass. I'm going home."

"Budabudabuda ... I'm supposed to get to fire somebody."

And then to hear the other Apprentice wannabes whine and complain how this brave young woman has jeopardized their chances of surviving, she could have added, "You can each kiss my ass. You were going to throw me under the bus, you'll just have to stab each other in the back and do the best you can. Enjoy another few nights in your tents."

Objectively speaking, Trump may have taken this whole Apprentice thing one season too far. With his over-the-top pomposity, overly stern visage, and overreliance on his seriously unattractive daughter, I'm watching sporadically as I surf the net, and enjoying it less. I find the man to be so annoying this season, that Rosie might lose her "Most annoying personage on television" crown and THAT, my friends, is an achievement.