The Apprentice
4.5
2004
Reality
The Apprentice is an American reality television program that judges the business skills of a group of contestants. Contestants compete for a job as an apprentice to billionaire American Donald Trump.
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- Cast:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Episode 15 : Season Finale
April. 15,2004
The final two contestants face off for the job opportunity of a lifetime.
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Episode 14 : Down to The Wire
April. 08,2004
Face an interview with four of Trump's executives. Two people will be fired.
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Episode 13 : The Price is Height
April. 01,2004
This week's task is to rent out a luxurious penthouse for one evening at Trump World Tower for no less than $20,000 for one night.
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Episode 12 : Circus, Circus
March. 25,2004
The teams head to Atlantic City, New Jersey where they will be responsible for registering gamblers at the Trump Taj Mahal Resort and Casino. The team whose registered gamblers wager the most money wins.
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Episode 11 : A Look Back
March. 18,2004
Recap of first ten weeks, along with previously unaired footage.
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Episode 10 : Wheeling and Dealing
March. 11,2004
The teams take over a pedicab shift. Protégé Corporation sells prepaid punch cards, modeled after Troy's phased-sales plan that was the winner on the Trump Ice task. Versacorp sells advertising on the rickshaws that they ride.
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Episode 9 : DNA, Heads and the Undead Kitty
March. 04,2004
This week's task is to pick one artist from an array of controversial and strange painters, sculptors, and other kinds of artists. Then they must sell this art in a showing at a gallery. Protégé picks a surrealist artist named Meghan Boody, while Versacorp sticks with a more mainstream artist named Andrei Petrov, who specializes in abstract paintings.
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Episode 8 : Ice Escapades
February. 26,2004
Both teams sell bottled water called "Trump Ice" with Donald Trump's photo on each bottle.
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Episode 7 : Dupe-lex
February. 19,2004
The teams must restore and rent out apartments.
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Episode 6 : Tit for Tat
February. 12,2004
This week's task is to raise money for charity at a Sotheby's celebrity auction. The teams are told to sign up celebrities for an auction to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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Episode 5 : Trading Places
February. 05,2004
Starting with seed money, the teams are required to purchase items and sell them at the greatest profit return at an open-air flea market.
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Episode 4 : Ethics Schmethics
January. 29,2004
The teams are required to collectively manage the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square on successive evenings, with the performance judged by the increase in profits over the same day the previous year.
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Episode 3 : Respect
January. 21,2004
The teams are given a scavenger list of items which they are required to purchase during the day at the lowest possible total price.
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Episode 2 : Sex, Lies and Altitude
January. 15,2004
Both teams are to design an advertising campaign to sell private jet service, which they must pitch to the owner of the company and Donny Deutsch.
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Episode 1 : Meet the Billionaire
January. 08,2004
Starting with seed money of $250, purchase supplies and sell lemonade on the streets of New York.
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Seasons
Season 15
Along with the change of host and location, the catch phrase that accompanied a candidate's termination was changed from "You're fired" to "You're terminated"
The women named their team Prima. The men named their team Arete.
Season 14
The candidates were divided into two teams, males versus females. The women named their team Infinity. The men named their team Vortex.
Season 13
Unlike prior seasons of Celebrity Apprentice which were laid out as men vs. women, Mr. Trump made Trace Adkins and Bret Michaels team captains due to their previous success on the show and allowed them to pick their teams.
Season 12
The candidates were divided into two teams, males versus females. The women named their team Forte. The men named their team Unanimous.
Season 11
The candidates were divided into two teams, males versus females. The women named their team A.S.A.P., an acronym for Artists, Singers, Authors, and Professionals for a Purpose. The men named their team Backbone.
Season 10
The format of the show is much the same as was employed between the first and fifth seasons, with the changes introduced in The Apprentice: Los Angeles being discarded. The biggest change is to the rewards—unlike the often lavish rewards that had been granted in prior seasons to the winning teams, in this season, the winning Project Managers are rewarded with one-on-one meetings with some of America's best-known business leaders and CEOs.
Season 9
The candidates were divided into two teams, male versus female (as in seasons 1, 2, 4 & 5). The womens team was named Tenacity. The mens team was named Rocksolid.
Season 8
The candidates are divided into two teams, male versus female (as in seasons 1, 2, and 4). The women named their team Athena, after the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategic warfare and heroic endeavor. The men named their team KOTU, an acronym for Kings Of The Universe.
Season 7
This is the first season where the candidates did not reside in a communal penthouse of Trump Tower which was more as a meeting vicinity and also the boardroom. The celebrities lived in Trump International Hotel and Tower. There are also no traditionally given rewards to the winning team apart from the winning project manager receiving an amount of $20,000 along with available proceeds from the tasks to be donated to his or her favorite charity. Nevertheless, the firing rule remained.
Season 6
In addition to the change of locale, the following changes (including some "Apprentice firsts") have been made in the show's structure for the sixth season:
- Candidates must earn the right to live in the provided Beverly Hills mansion by simply winning the weekly task. Otherwise, the candidates will live in "Tent City", a location across the hedge from the mansion's swimming pool.
- This season at the request of Trump is a battle between the "haves" (in the Mansion) and the "have nots" (in Tent City).
- The project manager from the winning team will continue to be the project manager for that team until the team loses.
- The project manager from the winning team will be allowed to attend and participate in the boardroom firings for the losing team.
Season 5
As with the previous season of the show, Trump hand-picked the candidates. Furthermore, Trump personally selected Tarek and Allie to be the very first project managers and to draft their own teams before the first task is issued. This is the first time in the history of The Apprentice that the teams were not formed by a certain set of characteristics, such as gender (Seasons 1, 2, 4) or educational status (Season 3).
Season 4
Unhappy with both the choice of candidates and the "street smarts" vs. "book smarts" premise from the preceding season, Trump went to the auditions and hand-picked 17 of the 18 candidates in season 4. In addition to candidate handpicking, Trump decided to go back to the premise of men versus women (there was eventually corporate restructuring). The all-women team named their corporation Capital Edge while the all-men team named their corporation Excel.
The winning project manager, throughout the season, may be exempt from firing for the following week only if the majority of the other members in their team believed he/she did a satisfactory job. In the previous two seasons, the winning project manager would automatically be exempt from firing.
Season 3
In this season, two groups of nine were divided into book smarts (who took the name Magna Corp) and street smarts (called Net Worth) referring to those with and without a completed college education. This replaced the Battle of the Sexes concept used on The Apprentice 1 and The Apprentice 2.
Season 2
This season featured 18 candidates, whereas the first season only had 16.
Three new twists were introduced to The Apprentice this season. First, each team was unexpectedly forced at the season's outset to make a 1-for-1 player swap, resulting in a male on the female team (Bradford), and a female on the male team (Pamela). The traded members then became the project managers for the first task. Second, it was revealed that a project manager for the winning team would be immune from being fired the following week.
Season 1
The season started with 16 contestants, eight men and eight women from around the United States. Each had been successful in various enterprises, including real estate, restaurant management, political consulting, and sales. During the show, the contestants lived communally in a suite at Trump Tower in Manhattan, located on the fourth floor. Elimination took the form of one contestant being "fired" by Trump at the conclusion of each week's episode.