History WhatAnIdiot / TheApprentice

"'You'd Expect:'" For project manager Asif to realise that he's been given an essential godsend of a prompt that could secure the investment to win the task, and agree that it is supposed to be surreal. It may throw his team for a loop on how to discuss the game's merits as it's not what they had prepared, but the expert is clearly supportive of what they've produced and keeping them on board is tantamount to success.\\
"'Instead:'" He instantly rejects any notion that his game is meant to be anything but realistic. This not only earns a scornful verbal response from the experts but loses Supream a potential further £100,000 investment which they would have received if Asif had agreed that the game was intentionally surreal.

* In Week 3, the teams have to design their own virtual escape rooms. Team Supream's concept, Fallen Escape, involves participants playing the parts of soldiers escaping from a downed helicopter. Along the way, they encounter bears as an obstacle near a gas station, which for some reason perform a little dance when the game is won. This element in particular is singled out by the experts assessing the games, with one outright telling the team that if it's meant to be surreal then it's a brilliant concept.
"'You'd Expect:'" For project manager Asif to realise that he's been given an essential godsend of a prompt that could secure the investment to win the task, and agree that it is supposed to be surreal. It may throw his team for a loop on how to discuss the game's merits as it's not what they had prepared, but the expert is clearly supportive of what they've produced and keeping them on board is tantamount to success.

[[folder:Season 17]]

'''Instead:''' She has the "O" replaced with bowls, which makes the brand name look like "First Time Dies".\\

'''Instead''': Natasha keeps on insisting they invested heavily on day one and need to shift the stock they have, Jim makes repeated requests to reinvest but Natasha only lets him invest £20 pounds.
** '''Result''': Lord Sugar is furious when he discovers Natasha's refusal to reinvest and strips Venture of their reward.\\

* Team Logic members Melody and Helen firmly grasp the IdiotBall with the reinvestment task, by adopting a strategy of selling to retailers directly. They get a potential duvet order from a shop owner, but to get the stock, Helen must stop selling on the second day and go on a long car journey across London.
** '''You'd Expect''': For both Helen and Melody to abandon this flawed strategy and for Helen to carry on selling.\\
** '''Instead''': Melody tells Helen to buy the duvets.\\
** '''Result''': By the time Helen gets back with the duvets, the shop has closed, making the whole journey AllForNothing. This leads to Helen losing her first task and her retail strategy being heavily criticised by Lord Sugar.
* During the task Tom advises Melody that the stock of nodding dogs have sold very well.
** '''You'd Expect''': For Melody to buy more nodding dogs when going to the wholesalers as the whole point of the task is to reinvest in stock that sells well.\\
** '''Instead''': Melody ignores Tom's advice and buys digital items.\\
** '''Result''': Melody's team lose the task and she gets fired.

'''As a Result:''' What followed was the first ''multi-firing'' of the show's history, as Trump [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech criticized all of them]] in detail before unceremoniously telling the four of them to go home (and they were forced to share the exit cab in a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny moment]].

* In the tenth episode, both teams are given £250 of items to sell to the public, reinvesting in items that sell well. Ventura elects Natasha to be their team leader, they reinvest heavily on day one and sell, Jim then asks Natasha about reinvestment.\\

** '''Result''': Lord Sugar is furious when he discovers Natasha's refusal to reinvest and strips Ventura of their reward.\\
'''Worse Still''': Natasha goes into NeverMyFault mode and feels that Susan, who she argued with is responsible for the loss.

* In the twelfth episode, each team must invent a new fast-food outlet, Jim is Team Leader for Ventura and decides to create a Mexican themed restaurant. Natasha has boasted about having a degree in hospitality and Jim decides to have her handle the production of the food. However, Natasha says she can't cook and asks to be on the branding team, which has Susan who she does not get along with.\\

'''Result''': Ventura ends up losing the task due to providing a poor service and an embarrassing pitch in front of Lord Sugar and his industry expert who evaluate their concept. Jim is left under intense scrutiny and has Susan and Natasha gang up on him in the Boardroom. However, Lord Sugar fires Natasha for not using her degree.

* Team Logic members Melody and Helen firmly grasp the IdiotBall with the reinvestment task, by adopting a strategy of selling to retailers directly. They get a potential duvet order from a shop owner, but to gt the stock, Helen must stop selling on the second day and go on a long car journey across London.

* Team Logic members Melody and Helen firmly grasp the IdiotBall with the reinvestment task, by adopting a strategy of selling to retailers directly. They get a potential duvet order from a shop owner, but to get them, Helen must stop selling on the second day and go on a long journey across London.

** '''Instead''': Melody tells Helen to buy the duvets, forcing Helen to go on a long car for the rest of the day.\\
** '''Result''': By the time Helen gets back with the duvets the shop has closed, making the whole journey AllForNothing. This leads to Helen losing her first task and her retail strategy being heavily criticised by Lord Sugar.

'''As a result:''' Both Natalie and Vana turn on Aisha in the boardroom, and despite Natalie’s poor defence, Lord Sugar considers Aisha completely responsible and fires her.\\

* The second episode of the season (create an advertising campaign for a bottle of shampoo) sees the girl team lose decisively with PM Aisha being accused of a dictator on multiple front. However she claims that no one else had idea when designing the bottle. She has to decide who to bring back.
'''You’d Expect:''' Aisha would bring back Natalie (who delivered a poor pitch despite her experience) and Selina (who directed the awful TV advert), both of whom played a major role in the task failure.
'''Or:''' She could bring back April and Elle, both of which did nothing on the task, the latter of whom spent most of the time complaining about things without finding solutions. This would prove her previous statement and her original statement that “anyone not contributing would be brought back”.
''' Instead:''' She brings in Natalie… and Vana, who pushed for the grey-pound (over 50s) market against Aisha wanting to push for a universal market, which had nothing to do with the failure of the task.
'''As a result:''' Both Natalie and Vana turn on Aisha in the boardroom, and despite Natalie’s poor defence, Lord Sugar considers Aisha completely responsible and fires her.

‘’’You’d Expect:’’’ Aisha would bring back Natalie (who delivered a poor pitch despite her experience) and Selina (who directed the awful TV advert), both of whom played a major role in the task failure.
‘’’Or:’’’ She could bring back April and Elle, both of which did nothing on the task, the latter of whom spent most of the time complaining about things without finding solutions. This would prove her previous statement and her original statement that “anyone not contributing would be brought back”.
‘’’Instead:’’’ She brings in Natalie… and Vana, who pushed for the grey-pound (over 50s) market against Aisha wanting to push for a universal market, which had nothing to do with the failure of the task.
‘’’As a result:’’’ Both Natalie and Vana turn on Aisha in the boardroom, and despite Natalie’s poor defence, Lord Sugar considers Aisha completely responsible and fires her.

* In the tenth episode, both teams are given £250 o items to sell to the public, reinvesting in items that sell well. Lord Sugar makes it clear that any leftover stock is fine. Ventura elects Natasha to be their team leader, they reinvest heavily on day one and sell a lot of stock due to Jim, who asks Natasha about reinvestment.\\

'''Instead''': Natasha keeps on insisting they have invested heavily on day one and need to shift the stock they have, Jim makes repeated requests to reinvest but Natasha only lets him invest £20 pounds.
** '''Result''': Lord Sugar is left furious when he discovers Natasha's refusal to reinvest and accuses her of not having any courage and strips them of their reward.\\

** '''You'd Expect''': For both Helen and Melody to simply abandon this flawed strategy and for Helen to carry on selling.\\

** '''Result''': Melody's purchases and actions cause her team to lose and she is fired.

* In the tenth episode, both teams are given £250 of wholesale items to sell to the public over two days, reinvesting in items that sell well. Lord Sugar makes it clear that any leftover stock is fine. Ventura elects Natasha to be their team leader, they reinvest heavily on day one and sell a lot of stock due to Jim, who phones Natasha and asks about reinvestment.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Natasha to remember the key goal of the task is to reinvest and any leftover stock is fine.\\
'''Instead''': Natasha keeps on insisting that they've invested heavily on day one and need to shift the stock they have, Jim makes repeated requests to reinvest yet Natasha only lets him invest £20 pounds.
** '''Result''': Lord Sugar is left furious when he discovers Natasha's refusal to reinvest and doesn't accept her excuse of having invested heavily on day one. Sugar accuses her of not having any courage and even though Ventura wins the task, he strips them of their reward because of Natasha's actions.\\
'''Worse Still''': Natasha goes into NeverMyFault mode and feels that Susan, who she argued with is responsible for their loss.
* Team Logic members Melody and Helen firmly grasp the IdiotBall with the reinvestment task. Firstly, by adopting the strategy of selling to retailers directly instead of the public. They get a potential duvet order from a shop owner, but to get them, Helen must stop selling on the second day and go on a long journey across London.
** '''You'd Expect''': For both Helen and Melody to simply abandon this flawed strategy and for Helen to carry on selling the stock she has.\\
** '''Instead''': Melody tells Helen to buy the duvets, forcing Helen to go on a long car ride through London for the rest of the day.\\

* During the task Tom sells the stock Lord Sugar provides, he advises Melody that the stock of nodding dogs have sold very well.

** '''Instead''': Melody completely disregards Tom's advice and buys a load of digital stock.\\
** '''Result''': Melody's purchases and strategy cause her team to lose and she is fired.
* In the twelfth episode, each team must invent a new fast-food outlet, Jim is Team Leader for Ventura and decides to create a Mexican themed restaurant. Natasha has boasted about having a degree in hospitality and Jim decides to have her handle the production of the food. However, Natasha says she can't cook and asks to be on the branding team, which has Susan who she does not get along with at all.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Jim to force Natasha to go on the food production team as she is refusing to use her degree for the task. If not, then Jim can just take Susan with him to create the food for their restaurant as she recommended Mexican food and leave Natasha to do the branding alone to avoid any arguments.\\
'''Instead''': Jim leaves Susan and Natasha on the branding team and handles food production by himself. This ends up backfiring due to Susan and Natasha being unable to work together and constantly call Jim to act as peacemaker. Lord Sugar aide Karren notes that this was not a good decision as they're not using Natasha's skill set.\\
'''Result''': Ventura ends up losing the task due to providing a poor service and an embarrassing pitch in front of Lord Sugar and his industry expert who evaluate their concept. Jim is left under intense scrutiny and has Susan and Natasha gang up on him in the Boardroom. However, Lord Sugar ends up firing Natasha for not using her degree.