The Apprentice 6×03 – “Bakery”
Episode Grade: A
6:30 AM, Alex, who is already up and fully dressed, and possibly does not actually require sleep, takes the phone call this time. There’s the usual 30 minutes, and Stuart Baggs™ is looking particularly out of it this morning, and the Apprenti are off to Fortnum and Mason. In the car, Liz says that F&M are “famous for their hampers”, although no famous enough for me personally to have ever heard of them, and Melissa thinks maybe the task is to “create a hamper that speaks to certain people”, and Stuart Baggs™ makes a dumb joke about talking hampers that falls completely flat. What’s he doing in their car? Did they mix the teams already and nobody told me? I’d hate to miss that.
F&M. There’s some lovely looking cakes arranged on trays, and very regal music playing, and Nick and Karren (two r’s, as I have now realised. Sorry about that.) standing stiffly, and then LSAS hops into the picture in that way he always does where he looks like he’s going to throw out the jazz hands and say “wahey!”. It totally ruins the moment every time, I love it. The segue to the task is awfully direct; cakes, pastries, “turning flour into serious dough”, which actually elicits a groan out of someone, while everyone else fake-laughs. LSAS has “laid on two bakeries”. They weren’t particularly comfortable. Really, where does the ‘laid on’ thing come from? He says it all the time, it’s weird. Anyway, essentially, this is the same task as week one, but with bread and cakes and muffins instead of sausages, and also there are a few meetings with big business pre-arranged.
And now, because all LSAS has seen for the past two weeks is apparently “arguing and cackling”, he’s hoping that mixing the teams will settle that down a bit. I love team mixing, it’s like my favourite part of the show. I don’t know why. It’s best when the Apprenti get to choose for themselves, but this is pretty fun too; Chris and Shippy are sent to Apollo, while Melissa and Joanna join Synergy. I think he was deliberately aiming for the weakest members on each team. Certainly, Melissa is the obvious problem child on Apollo, while Joanna has been incorrectly identified as such. And Chris is definitely a problem child for Synergy, emphasis on the child, and Shibby, well, we’ll see how that goes. It would have been more parallel if Stuart Baggs™ had been sent over, I guess, since he’s in the same spot as Joanna right now.
