The show opened with the same stock helicopter NY-scapes Donald's show uses. I guess I can't really poke fun at that, like I did on The Cut because, y'know, it's still The Apprentice. The two conference room survivors from last week burst into the loft to a smattering of applause. Even though Jim and Dawn (along with the departed Jeff), had quickly emerged as the biggest douches on the show, they still got some on-camera love. Jim, who constantly sounds like a drill sergeant but looks like a drowned rat, immediately launched into a rather idiotic diatribe. I couldn't quite follow his illogical rant, but he did mention a scythe, an oak tree, killing Jeff, and, I believe, a kumquat. This dude is n-u-t-s NUTS.

Some of those who witnessed Jim's kookiness did rightly call him unstable and unpredictable. Unfortunately for his teammate Dawn, he has decided to focus all his insanity on her, even directly threatening her. Not so much physically (or he'd assuredly be booted) but more strategically. Although, Jim can hardly be called "strategic" (or even "strategical" in reality TV parlance - which I just double checked and learned is actually a real word. Apologies to the 346 reality veterans I've yelled at for using it in the past - but I still hate the word) since his supposedly cunning plan is to be a huge dick and verbally berate teammates into submission. We loved this idea on Big Brother when Howie employed it on Busto, but on The Apprentice, it makes no sense. But whatever, he thinks it's good TV and who am I to stop him? Especially since there's no way he going to be around for too much longer.