Givin' Me The Ol' Song and Dunce - 
by sg-dub
Another week, another Martha Stewart Apprentice closer to the end. They are doing a live finale too - and I'm very much looking forward to that. Martha won't be happy that her show is a failed lame-duck and she's infamous for wearing her displeasure on her sleeve. But I'm getting ahead of myself, as that show is a full 2 weeks off. This week, there were still five people left with a fun task in front of them. And since the previews for this week clearly showed Jim acting like a drunken fool, we were in for a treat. And since the previews to this show have never been misleading in the past, I was positively excited.
Okay, that last sentence was soaking with sarcasm, as this show has hoodwinked us on multiple occasions with promises of hijinx only to come with another boring episode. But Jim was REALLY drunk in the previews this time, I swear! (Actually, Jim was never drunk during this episode and aside from one disturbing moment of simian infantilism, he was once again one of the better contributors.) God, it KILLS me to say that. Because, as you all know, I don't like Jim. Pompous, obnoxious, uncouth, immature, conniving Jim who refers to himself in the third person. Only one person at a time can refer to himself in the 3rd person per year. This year (several years running actually), it's Diddy. Mr. T had a vice-like grip on the 80's and, of course, the 90's were ruled by Ian Ziering.
Ryan and Marcela arrived back at the loft and the final five began thinking ahead. Ryan, trying to make his partner Marcela feel better, reminded her that her overall record was 3-7 and she was 0-2 as Project Manager. Go get 'em Marcela! This bit of negativism made little Marcela think that if she and Ryan were to lose, it would be an automatic that she'd be sent home. Can't say she didn't make sense, but the girl needs a lesson in positive thinking regardless. And besides, there simply HAD to be a challenge that delved into more of the "Martha" realm which would benefit Marcela a bit more. I mean, another marketing challenge at this point would just be stupid - Martha's all about baking and tastemaking and decorating, not just marketing products on the street week in and week out... Right?
It was at this point that Jim decided to hop up onto the kitchen island and act like a baby gorilla. Not just for a second for a cheap laugh, but for what seemed like an eternity. You know how some jokes are mildly humorous in the initial seconds, but then aren't funny for a pretty long time, until they become funny again? Well, Jim was going for that third phase where his buffoonery became funny again. Unfortunately for him, acting like a baby gorilla for no apparent reason still isn't funny again. (He did state the he did it to, "Make Dawna lose focus." Um, okay, but you were doing it a full 12 hours or so before Martha even laid out the task. So in other words, he was acting like a monkey for no reason whatsoever.)
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