Crazy Enough to Work: His plan for him and Rebecca to pretend to be the other team and steal a bunch of megaphones that they had ordered played a major part in them winning the Week 10 task.
Fan Boy: He absolutely lights up when he sees that the task one week involves Star Wars. After his team missed their appointment with Lucasfilm representatives, he took it upon himself to explain everything about the franchise.
Kick the Dog: After defeating Rebecca in the final, Trump indicated that he might still hire Rebecca anyway, but Randal told him not to because that would make the show into "The Apprenti" [sic].
Oh, Crap!: His reaction after Trump fired Marshawn in Week 8, clearly being taken off-guard by one of his main allies getting sent packing by a very annoyed Trump.
Perfectly Cromulent Word: The plural of "Apprentice" is "Apprentices." No-one's quite sure where on earth he got "Apprenti" from.
We Used to Be Friends: The relationship between Randal and Trump fell apart during the latter's Presidential run in 2016. Randal accused Trump of being unfit to become President, and Trump in turn said that Randal proved useless in the job he had after winning the show.
Rebecca
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Started off poorly, and would likely have gone in a double-firing with her initial ally Toral in Week 4 had she not admitted how bad Toral actually was. After that however, she massively improved and deservedly made the final.
Handicapped Badass: Broke her ankle in the second task's reward, but still persevered through the season.
Nice Girl: Arguably one of the most kind-hearted contestants in the show's history. Even when Randall snubbed her so brutally in the finale she remained classy.
Only Friend: Ended up being this to Toral, which didn't last long.
Alla
Jerkass: What ultimately did her in. Had she just kept quiet in the final boardroom of the last regular task, Felisha would have gone without much fuss, and Alla would have made the interview round. But she subjected Felisha to such a massive torrent of abuse that Trump decided that it wasn't worth putting up with Alla, and so he fired her alongside Felisha, making this the third multi-firing this season, and put Randal and Rebecca directly through to the final.
Team Mom: Very often she was the person who actually got stuff done on the task and held the team together, especially in Week 8 where she was essentially in charge of the whole task despite Clay being the actual project managernote This led to Clay being denied an exemption for the following task when his team felt he was inadequate as a project manager, which allowed Trump to fire Clay in Week 9 .
Felisha
Nice Girl: As Trump pointed out, she was very easy-going and generally got on well with people, but she was nowhere near tough enough to handle working in his business.
Adam
The Generic Guy: Got through to the final five without ever really impressing or standing out in any way. He was far from the worst candidate, but was generally around the middle while everyone else was either impressing or bombing horribly.
Clay
Camp Gay: Not as much as the usual stereotype, though he was certainly nearer to this than the Straight Gay end of the spectrum.
Drama Queen: Was unable to let any comment or criticism just fly by, and would hold grudges against people over the slightest thing.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Not so much at first as this accolade fell to Markus, but toward the end of his time on the show it was obvious that the other candidates were getting really annoyed with him.
No Social Skills: In Week 3 he tried to get George to admit that old people are very set in their ways and unwilling to learn (in order to make an argument against Markus's ideas), something that quite annoyed George. Then, in Week 7 he tried to make a joke during Adam's presentation, but it ended up sounding like an anti-Semitic slur, causing Clay to come within an inch of being fired.
Marshawn
Blatant Lies: Refused to do the presentation for their Revenge of the Sith display, then openly lied about it in the boardroom. When she finally admitted that she just didn't want to do it, Trump was not merciful.
Broken Ace: During the first seven weeks she and Randal were considered the two frontrunners by some distance, and so everyone, even the other candidates and Trump himself, was shocked at how she completely went off the rails in Week 8.
Smug Snake: Inexplicably turned into this in Week 8, refusing to do the Star Wars presentation and then sealing her fate in the boardroom by openly lying to Trump and behaving like a massive smartass. This led to her being fired alongside Brian in the second multi-firing this season.
Brian
Artistic License – Geography: Thought that fifteen minutes would be enough time to travel across Manhattan, when in fact it took three times that. Bear in mind that Brian lives in Manhattan himself, making it an even more baffling mistake. The traffic led to Brian missing a meeting with Lucasfilm concerning advice for their task regarding Revenge of the Sith, and then directly to his team losing and his exit.
In-Series Nickname: "The Rubble Man," due to his head having a very flat top, which reminded the other men of Barney Rubble.
One-Hit Wonder: Trump accused him of not having turned in a single good performance outside of his win as project manager, which was slightly unfair, given that he also did well in the following task, though outside of those two weeks he never stood out.invoked
Too Dumb to Live: In addition to leaving later than he should of and getting caught in traffic, he also was persistent in leaving later. For a native New Yorker, this is a death sentence in common logic, and got him fired.
Markus
The Friend Nobody Likes: Nobody beside Chris and Clay hated him per se, but they found him weird and annoying. It was exemplified by the fact that he was one of only two project managers (the other being Clay) who failed to be awarded exemption by their team-mates after winning as project manager.
Motor Mouth: He took an inordinate amount of time to make even the simplest point, which was a large part of why Trump fired him even though Adam and Clay were far more directly responsible for the Week 7 loss.
One-Hit Wonder: To his credit, Markus did have one legitimately good performance on the show, when he made a well-considered suggestion to demonstrate TIVO units to senior citizens, and then did a very good job of carrying out the demonstration himself. He did technically win as project manager on the first task, though really had nothing to do with that.invoked
The Cassandra: Tended to be this in task 2 and 7 when he spotted major issues with the teams performance but was ignored and brought back into the boardroom. However his inability to come up with an solutions, along with his general inactivity on tasks, got him fired on the seventh task.
Josh
Epic Fail: He led his team to the then-biggest defeat in the show's history, causing the sales at their sports store to drop by a third.
Tragic Mistake: Was actually a very solid performer during the first five tasks, but his choosing to endorse James's idea to build a batting cage started some Disaster Dominoes of epic proportions, eventually leading to him exiting in the infamous quadruple-firing (which also happened to be the first of three multi-firings that season alone, something that hasn't been repeated since).
Honour Before Reason: Narrowly averted. Prior to the boardroom for task six, he told Mark he was only going to bring Jennifer M back into the boardroom despite warnings from Mark (and James playing a major role in the defeat). Trump (who was unaware of this) brought all four back into the boardroom… not that it helped Josh survive that task.
Jennifer M.
Accidental Misnaming: During her presentation in Week 5 she pronounced the name of the film they were supposed to be advertising as "Zenthura," despite standing right next to a carnival float that had the actual name printed on it in huge letters. Carolyn was cracking up at this, but also took a harsh tone later, as on The Apprentice, making elementary mistakes like this have a tendency to be a death sentence. The "Zenthura" event also was ruthlessly mocked by NBC in the promo for the episode that featured it.
Epic Fail: The week after the aforementioned fiasco, she sold next to nothing despite boasting about her sales prowess. This caused Trump's patience with her to finally run out, and she became the second candidate to exit in the quadruple-firing.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Averted for the most part, as she seemed relatively level-headed, but she was clearly feeling frazzled in the boardroom where she was ultimately fired, and ended up snapping at both Carolyn and even Trump himself.
Ignored Expert: During the Week 4 task she tried to protest (as did Marshawn, albeit fairly weakly) that they weren't incorporating the Dairy Queen brand into the mascot they were creating, but the rest of her team blew her concerns off and said that doing so would distract from the cute design. However, that wasn't the criteria, and so the team lost.
James
Epic Fail: Built the batting cage that took up most of his team's sale space and got ensnared in the four-way firing as a result.
Skewed Priorities: Had the task been to get kids interested in baseball in general, rather than selling sporting goods, his batting cage idea would have been a good one. What actually resulted was a defeat of epic proportions, resulting in James being victim number three of the quadruple firing.
Mark
Bystander Syndrome: Contributed very little of note during his six weeks on the show. He almost certainly would have gone in the 2nd week had Chris brought him into the boardroom, and eventually spent the Week 6 task just standing around feeding baseballs in to the pitching machine, which unsurprisingly saw him become the fourth victim of the quadruple firing.
Epic Fail: Didn't sell anything in the baseball task, which contributed directly to his team taking a massive writedown and sticking him with three other candidates in the same exit cab.
Shorter Means Smarter: As the shortest competitor from this season, she zig-zagged this trope. In the first task she was a poor project manager, but survived due to Melissa being worse. In the three tasks that followed she improved. But then in Week 5 she came up with a bad concept for their carnival float and acted like a major pain throughout the task, causing her to get fired.
Sore Loser: Made a less-than-gracious exit from the show, telling Jennifer M. to get lost after she tried to apologize for getting her fired.
Toral
Blatant Lies: Gave a vague excuse as to why she couldn't dress up as the team's mascot in Week 4, then in the boardroom claimed that she refused on religious grounds, something that even her Only Friend Rebecca said was untrue.
Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Frequently bragged about her education and how much more intelligent she was than the other women, but she never actually demonstrated this in any of the tasks, and couldn't even figure out how to work a TV set in the Week 3 task (bear in mind that this was in 2005, when TVs were much simpler than modern-day Smart TVs).
Serious Business: Claimed that she couldn't dress up as the team's mascot in Week 4 because no-one would ever take her seriously as a businesswoman afterwards. Trump disagreed, pointing out that he wore his share of ridiculous outfits on Saturday Night Live over the years and it's never hurt his career.
Smug Snake: Consciously took a backseat on all four tasks, because she thought they were beneath her talents and that she could chill out until the harder tasks later in the season. With this approach, she didn't get anywhere near said harder tasks until she was part of the finals employee team.
True Companions: With Rebecca, which bought her another week in the competition when Rebecca refused to bring her back in Week 3. The following week however, Toral refused to step up as project manager and then refused to wear the team's mascot costume during the presentation. Rebecca turned on her and Toral was fired.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Tried to work the competition from the backseat in a Survivor style. The problem with this approach was, Trump saw The Apprentice as a Job Interview, not just a game, and this approach made her a bad co-worker and sent her home early, and without a second boardroom sequence; this is the third season in a row to have this.
Jennifer W.
The Ditz: Really didn't seem very well-attuned to what was going on in the show, and even seemed under the impression that the horrible-looking expo that she was mostly responsible for actually looked great.
Rouge Angles of Satin: She somehow managed to order a cake that read "Tethno Expo" for the team's technology expo in Week 3, and didn't even notice the mistake until Carolyn pointed it out. This spelling misteak was part of the reason she was fired.
Chris
Motor Mouth: While badmouthing Markus during his exit interview and while on Rebecca's team in the final.
The Smart Guy: Trump seemed disappointed to have to dismiss Chris so early due to his Taking the Bullet decision, having been impressed with him up until then. This extended to the final too, as Rebecca had to defeat Randall in a coin toss to keep Chris on her team. Rebecca was delighted with Chris bursting full of ideas on her decor, calling him this.
Taking the Bullet: Refused to bring Mark back in the second task, despite Mark having made most of the mistakes that resulted in the team losing. Chris seemingly genuinely thought he could force Trump to fire Markus, who, while hated by the rest of the team, wasn't really at fault for the loss in any way.
Melissa
Arch-Enemy: Kristi, to the point where she was still pissed off with her in an appearance on Dr. Phil several months later.
Narcissist: Claimed that she doesn't work well with other women, because they're jealous of her looks. With that attitude, she was quickly gone from the competition.
The Scapegoat: The women's loss in the first task was almost entirely Kristi's fault, but Melissa buried herself by acting like a deluded Jerkass during the boardroom.
