http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374965

Apparently, the Apprentice 6 teams did a challenge on behalf of GNC at the halftime of an LA Galaxy game. The thread, which links to a BigSoccer.com message board, discusses the two bad presentations, with the second one apparently being much worse (in the fans' view).

Here's a description, borrowed from the linked thread.

GNC had two "Skits" which were shown on the field, each lasted about 4-5 minutes. The first one was supposed to show "Joe Normal" guy in a boxing or wrestling rink, running out of energy to fight, and then he gets some kind of help from GNC supplements and all of a sudden he wins his match. Whoever the announcer was had to try to get the fans to chant "Go GNC" or something like that. We thought that was pretty bad, but then they brought out a second skit.

This one had people in outfits that were like GNC supplement bottles, and they had an obstacle course that was supposed to show how the GNC supplements could help you go faster or something. Then there was a point where the people/supplements were running through a blocked artery or something. But the worst part of the second skit was that the two girls/women who were announcing had the most earsplitting, shrieky voices you can imagine. It was sheer torture just listening to them.

Then, at the end the fans were supposed to hold up a colored card to indicate which team/skit was better. Everyone was so disgusted that they didn't vote. So if this was a contest for the Apprentice, they'll have to do some really creative editing to show any of it and not make everyone look like fools (unless that was the intent). * * * *

It looked like the GNC Laff-a-lympics. They had giant pills running an obstacle course, basically. Who was supposed to be winning what was a mystery to me. If I had known it was for The Apprentice....no, I still would have hated it. But I could at least have carried on my one-man war to get George Ross back on the air. No, there's no reason for you to care who George Ross is. * * * *

That was embarassing. I had friends who had never seen a soccer match in person before. First the game was sloppy and then this sh!t, what the f. Very embarrasing and horrible. I wanted to shoot that chick from the second skit, very fing annoying. * * * *

These were amateurish. Grossly amateurish.

And in the second one, there was a woman MC who had a high pitched voice, and she screamed into the microphone. The sound system pumped it up to ear-splitting levels and it was painful to be in the stands.

You know, there is a real good reason people do not give 11 year old girls bullhorns for their birthday. Picture a fingernail scratching a blackboard, amped up to mega-wattage. * * * *

It was amateur, like two losing ideas on the Trump show. To call high school level is an insult to high school kids. And unfortunately they got full volume $5M sound system to yell at us. The last lady screeched so loud and high that she got applause as her voice started to break...but alas she kept going. She may have won as the kids in the lower level either are immune to being yelled at, or didn't know which side of the card to show towards the field. I really expected her to pull zero votes, however the other boxing skit was less painful but devoid of entertainment.

So, if we can identify the shrill-voiced woman, we'll know she survives to the GNC promotion.

• RE: One Apprentice 6 challenge public,Estee, 05:02 PM, 12-09-06
  • RE: One Apprentice 6 challenge public,mysticwolf, 08:19 PM, 12-19-06
    • Lawyers out there...why the Apprentice?,Palm Tree, 04:13 PM, 12-24-06
• Bump.,Estee, 11:48 AM, 02-12-07
• Bump again,Chez, 12:13 PM, 03-05-07

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Sounds like this one has the potential to be another 'everyone into the Boardroom!' fiasco, or at least 'everyone under the giant pool umbrella.' Now that we know the entire thing svcking svcked, we can also look for some major editing if anyone happens to just barely win this thing. It might be to Donald's advantage to declare this one as a double-loss, though -- with the new 'you lead until you lose' PM policy, it would let him switch out (and possibly dump) any long-timer that he was starting to get sick of.

Let's just hope this isn't the first task. If it is, we're in for a very long season.

Great find. Now are we the only ones who still even remotely pretend to care?

Nope. DH & I will pretend to care, at least until we've seen some of it. I'm just not foolish enough to publicly declare that I'll do a summary again.

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I lost my summary virginity to The Hair, and you were the only one to notice. Thank God. No need to repeat my mistake.