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[edit] Candidates

Since The Apprentice is essentially a job interview, the contestants are referred to as "applicants":

Team 1 Team 2
Protégé Versacorp
Candidate Age Hometown Result
David Gould - Venture Capitalist 31 New York City, New York Fired in Week 1
Jason Curis - Real Estate Manager 24 Detroit, Michigan Fired in Week 2
Sam Solovey - Business Director 27 Chevy Chase, Maryland Fired in Week 3
Bowie Hogg - Account Executive 25 Arlington, Texas Fired in Week 4
Kristi Frank - Restaurant Owner 30 Bel Air, California Fired in Week 5
Amelia "Amy" Henry - Account Manager 30 Austin, Texas
Bill Rancic - Cigar Business Owner 32 Chicago, Illinois
Ereka Vetrini - Marketing Manager 27 New York City, New York
Heidi Bressler - Senior Account Executive 30 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jessie Connors - Chiropractic Business Owner 21 New Richmond, Wisconsin
Katrina Campins - Real Estate Agent 24 Coral Gables, Florida
Kwame Jackson - Investment Manager 29 New York City, New York
Nick Warnock - Copier Salesman 27 Los Angeles, California
Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth - Political Consultant 29 Washington, DC
Tammy Lee - Stockbroker 36 Seattle, Washington
Troy McClain - Mortgage Broker 32 Boise, Idaho

[edit] Teams/Results

To see a list of project managers, go to the episode summary section.

Candidate Original Team Week 5 Team Application Result
David Gould Versacorp Fired - Week 1
Jason Curis Versacorp Fired - Week 2
Sam Solovey Versacorp Fired - Week 3
Bowie Hogg Versacorp Fired - Week 4
Kristi Frank Protégé Protégé Fired - Week 5
Amy (Amelia) Henry Protégé Versacorp
Bill Rancic Versacorp Versacorp
Ereka Vetrini Protégé Versacorp
Heidi Bressler Protégé Protégé
Jessie Connors Protégé Protégé
Katrina Campins Protégé Versacorp
Kwame Jackson Versacorp Protégé
Nick Warnock Versacorp Versacorp
Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth Protégé Protégé
Tammy Lee Protégé Versacorp
Troy McClain Versacorp Protégé
Elimination Chart
Candidate 1 2 3 4 5 6
Amy WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
Bill LOSE LOSE LOSE LOSE WIN
Ereka WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
Heidi WIN WIN WIN WIN NOM
Jessie WIN WIN WIN WIN LOSE
Katrina WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
Kwame LOSE LOSE NOM NOM LOSE
Nick LOSE NOM LOSE NOM WIN
Omarosa WIN WIN WIN WIN NOM
Tammy WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
Troy NOM LOSE LOSE LOSE LOSE
Kristi WIN WIN WIN WIN FIRED
Bowie LOSE LOSE NOM FIRED
Sam NOM NOM FIRED
Jason LOSE FIRED
David FIRED

     This candidate won the competition of The Apprentice

     This candidate finished in second place

     This candidate was fired, among the people in the boardroom

     The candidates who won the task

     The candidates who lost the task

     The candidates who were in the boardroom when Trump announced the fired candidate. These are also the candidates who are not fired.

[edit] Weekly Summary

[edit] Week 1: "Meet the Billionaire"

  • Air date: January 8, 2004
  • Task: Starting with seed money, purchase supplies and sell lemonade on the streets of New York.
  • Protégé project manager: Ereka
  • Versacorp project manager: Troy
  • Winning team: Protégé Corporation
    • Reasons for win: The women won by 3-1 margin of earnings. They stay in Midtown and use the promises of kisses to sell lemonade for five dollars a glass.
    • Reward: Visit Donald Trump in his penthouse suite, taking in the pleasures of true fortune.
  • Dramatic tension: Sam, one of the members of Versacorp, begins to get on the other's nerves by his crazy antics, including fruitlessly trying to sell a single glass of lemonade for $1,000.
  • Sent to Boardroom: David, Sam & Troy
  • Fired: David
  • Notes:
    • Episode recap from NBC.com
    • Though originally 90 minutes long, the repeated airing of the episode was cut to 60 minutes.
    • 18.5 million people watched this episode’s initial airing, fulfilling NBC's expectations for the much-anticipated premiere. In fact, the series premiere came in 7th place for the week it aired.
    • When Versacorp enters the boardroom, Trump is already sitting in his chair. This is the only Apprentice episode ever where Trump arrives in the boardroom before the candidates.

[edit] Week 2: "Sex, Lies and Altitude"

  • Air date: January 15, 2004
  • Task sponsor: Marquis Jet Card
  • Task: Both teams are to design an advertising campaign to sell private jet service, which they must pitch to the owner of the company.
  • Protégé project manager: Amy
  • Versacorp project manager: Jason
  • Winning team: Protégé
    • Reasons for win: The women take Donny Deutsch's advice to "swing for the fences" by creating a sexy and edgy print and screen ads. They design a campaign showing depicting parts of the aircraft in black and white artistic shots with sexual overtones and pitch it to the owner wearing flight attendant outfits.
    • Reward: A dinner in Boston.
  • Losing team: Versacorp
    • Reasons for loss: The men, lagged down with Jason's commanding and overly aggressive leadership style and Sam's inability to focus on the job, choose a safer route, something that all ad agencies have seen before. They design a functional campaign with photos of the cockpit and passengers designed to illustrate the utility and convenience of the service.
    • Sent to boardroom: Jason, Nick, and Sam
    • Trump's comments: Trump is aghast that Jason, the Versacorp project manager, did not meet with company's owner at the beginning and thereby learn that he wanted a flashier campaign.
  • Fired: Jason, for not meeting with the client at the start of the task. Trump felt that the decision was tough but had no choice but to fire Jason since it is really important to meet up with the client in the business world. Since Jason didn't meet up with the client and Trump apparently liked Jason, Jason had to go since to Trump, what is called "a firing mistake" was made.
    • Dramatic tension: Sam further aggravates his team members and is excoriated for taking a nap on the floor during the afternoon.
  • Notes:
    • Episode recap from NBC.com
    • Controversy surrounds this episode because Omarosa claims that Ereka called her the N-word. However, Ereka denies the claims, going so far as to take lie detector tests to prove that she did not verbally assault Omarosa.
    • This episode is the first time that the Project Manager has the words "Project Manager" in their name at the bottom of the screen instead of their job.
    • 20.2 million people watched this episode’s initial airing. The episode, which came in 5th for the week it aired, converted about two million more Apprentice-wannabees.

[edit] Week 3: "Respect"

  • Air date: January 22, 2004
  • Task: The teams are given a scavenger list of items which they are required to purchase during the day at the lowest possible total price.
  • Protégé project manager: Jessie
  • Versacorp project manager: Sam
    • In a "put up or shut up" maneuver, Sam is appointed project manager by the men. He splits the men into two teams, with him and two others staying back at the suite to perform reconnaissance by phone and over the web.
  • Winning team: Protégé
    • Reasons for win: The women split into two groups, each of which goes into the city. The women used their sexual appeal to seduce the sellers into selling their goods at a lower price, namely the gold bar.
    • Reward: Dinner at the 21 Club restaurant.
  • Losing team: Versacorp
    • Reasons for loss: Sam, believing that it is important to purchase the gold bar early in the day, directs the men away from other tasks to purchase it, but they are unable to buy it with any discount.
    • Sent to boardroom: Sam, Kwame, and Bowie
  • Trump's comments: Trump is disgusted at the men's failure for the third week in a row and Sam's incompetence, especially in regard to the decision to send his team members away from other tasks to buy the gold bar, which would have a very small discount compared to the other items on the list.
  • Fired: Sam, in the "easiest decision yet", according to Trump and his associates. Trump says his trademark dismissal quote, "You're fired!" to Sam four times and for good reason—Sam's leadership was considered to be too weak, which coupled with his bizarre antics.
  • Dramatic tension: Ereka and Omarosa get into a fight in the last episode, and it continues in this episode, and Katrina stepped in and tried to make them reconcile, but it didn't work.
  • Notes:
    • Episode recap from NBC.com
    • Sam’s firing in this episode was named number 96 on TV Guide / TV Land’s 100 Most Memorable TV Moments in December 2004.

[edit] Week 4: "Ethics Schmethics"

  • Air date: January 29, 2004
  • Task sponsors: Planet Hollywood
  • Task: 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.
  • Protégé project manager: Katrina
  • Versacorp project manager: Kwame
  • Winning team: Protégé
    • Reasons for win: The women go first, and choose to focus on increasing alcohol sales. The women again used their sexual appeal to increase sales.
    • Reward: Protegé won a trip to a top-notch golfcourse where they enjoyed the driving range and the course. There, Donald Trump informed the ladies that they have more to show than just their sex appeal and that he would like to see more of that.
  • Losing team: Versacorp
    • Reasons for loss: On the next night, the men keep several of their members on the sidewalk hawking coupons and sell basketballs autographed by Kwame, who is African American, with the tacit assumption that he is a basketball star (although never stating so). Nick gets disgusted at the ploy, which had been originally suggested by Troy, and is attacked by his teammates and Trump for quitting the challenge and his lack of enthusiasm.
    • Sent to boardroom: Kwame, Bowie, and Nick
    • Trump's comments: Increasing alcohol sales was the key, which the men missed.
  • Fired: Bowie, mostly by process of elimination. Bowie's firing is one of the rare instances which Trump elected to fire someone through an elimination process. Trump stated that he saw qualities in Kwame that he knows he could do something good with it. He also wanted Nick to be project manager for the next week. Trump, giving no further explanation for the firing of Bowie, later mentioned how much he liked Bowie and what a difficult decision the firing had been.
  • Notes:

[edit] Week 5: "Trading Places"

  • Air date: February 5, 2004
    • The teams are reorganized by "corporate restructuring", with the names retained but now mixed by sex.
  • Task: 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.
  • Protégé project manager: Kristi
  • Versacorp project manager: Nick
  • Winning team: Versacorp
    • Reasons for win: The Versacorp team yielded a profit of over $600, whereas Protégé finished in the red.
    • Reward: A tour of the Yankee Stadium.
  • Losing team: Protégé
    • Reasons for loss: The members of Protégé lost $183 on this task, and its location could not be accounted for.
    • Sent to boardroom: Kristi, Heidi, and Omarosa
  • Fired: Kristi, for not defending herself, poor decision making styles and leadership. She was heavily criticized for failing to secure the money.
  • Notes:
    • Episode recap from NBC.com
    • Protégé's first loss ends Versacorp's 4-week losing streak.
    • Donald Trump warns the new teams sex appeal won't cut it in the real world in reorganising the teams.
    • This episode marks the first time that women are ever pulled into the final boardroom. Protégé’s Project Manager, Kristi, chooses to bring Heidi and Omarosa into the final boardroom, where Kristi becomes the first woman fired on The Apprentice.
    • George Ross does not appear in this episode because of a business trip. He is replaced (temporarily) by Bernie Diamond.