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Old 25-11-2010, 13:16
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The tasks are like homework.

The boardroom where Sugar discusses how good/bad each team has done is like going to the classroom after the teacher has assessed your work and your grade is announced.

The final three back in the boardroom is like the teacher keeping three pupils back after the end of the lesson.

The candidates' attempts to stay in the show "I shouldn't be fired because blah blah blah..." is like a pupil trying to explain why he/she didn't do the homework or why he/she didn't get a good grade: "my dog eat most of my homework and I didn't have time to rewrite it."

The candidate being fired is like a pupil getting expelled from school.

The relationship between Sugar and the candidates is like a teacher and his pupils. "Good morning Lord Sugar" is like going to school and saying "good morning, sir" to a teacher.

Sugar's comments like "I think I should sack the bloody lot of you" is like a teacher saying "you pupils never behave, never learn anything!"

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Old 25-11-2010, 13:32
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It completely IS.
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Old 25-11-2010, 14:48
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Hmm, Laura in a school uniform...

Sorry.
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Old 26-11-2010, 01:46
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Nick and Karren are the class snitches, making the candidates look bad by telling Lord Sugar "what really happened..."!
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Old 26-11-2010, 02:29
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Very creative thread.
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Old 26-11-2010, 08:21
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I'm sure this is a large part of the reason i enjoy it so much
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Old 26-11-2010, 09:22
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Being an adult is just a grown up version of being a teenager. Same sh!te, different toilet
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Old 26-11-2010, 11:25
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Sugar reminds me of my games master.....

Scary
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Old 26-11-2010, 11:35
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What happens behind the bike sheds?
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Old 26-11-2010, 12:49
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What happens behind the bike sheds?
Dare we talk about such things? Im sure nobody wants to go where Katie and Paul did the dirty.

Plus im shocked that this school hasnt been closed Only six passing students so far? (Tim, Michelle, Simon, Lee, Yasmina and Arjun)
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Old 26-11-2010, 14:16
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Nick and Karren are the class snitches, making the candidates look bad by telling Lord Sugar "what really happened..."!
Lol ! - so true
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Old 26-11-2010, 18:48
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I totally agree The Apprentice is very similar to school.
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Old 27-11-2010, 02:29
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Brilliant analysis. It is so much more like a classroom than a boardroom (not that it's a real boardroom anyway). I hope Sugar doesn't run his companies like this for real.

Nick and Karren are the class snitches, making the candidates look bad by telling Lord Sugar "what really happened..."!
I see them as the school prefects.
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Old 27-11-2010, 11:27
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I see them as the school prefects.
Same thing
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Old 30-11-2010, 12:36
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Hmm, Laura in a school uniform...

Sorry.
Don't be!

Can we add Stella as strict teacher, Joanne and Liz?
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Old 30-11-2010, 16:18
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Its even more like school in the US version. You can see the groups divide into jocks/cheerleaders and geeks/weirdos almost immediately and the 'pretty' ones do what they can to make the lives of the others hell. The shock on their pretty faces when they realise their looks are not going to save them in the boardroom is the very reason i keep watching lol
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Old 30-11-2010, 16:34
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It is
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