Am I the only one who never watched tsf's BS tv shows? WTF is a "celebrity apprentice"?

[lindysalsagal]

Learning to be a celebrity? Makes no sense at all.

[csziggy]

1. I hated the commercials so much I quit watching NBC while it was running

I've always been repulsed by TFG and never understood how anyone could watch him. Plus, the entire premise of the show goes against everything I believe in.

So there are at least two of us who never watched it.

[dweller]

2. 3

Never watched



✌🏻

[getagrip_already]

3. never saw a single episode

just didn't like reality shows.

[northoftheborder]

8. Never watched it even once.

Dislike “reality” shows - bunch of staged stupidity

[BComplex]

14. I cannot stand "reality" tv shows. First of all, they aren't "reality".

And they've pushed out all of the actual programming, written by professionals, with regular stars and characters, and story lines that are either exciting or informative or both.

[RandySF]

4. B-level celebs like

Meat Loaf
Gene Simmons
Joan Rivers
Pierce Morgan

[mobeau69]

11. And Obama's favorite, Gary Busey!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Nope. Never watched it.

[jalan48]

6. Watching an obnoxious big mouth demeaning other people didn't appeal to me.

[brooklynite]

7. Answer: THE APPRENTICE was a competition show...

....where the winner supposedly got a job with Trump worth $250,000.

When ratings fell, they shifted to CELEBRITY APPRENTICE where B/C list celebrities competed for money for a designated charity.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Never watched it, either.

I have ZERO interest in game shows, which is what that was, not "reality" TV. Of which I also have very little interest, outside of the old "Storm Chasers" series the Weather Channel aired years ago.

[zeusdogmom]

10. Never watched Trumps's tv shows

I had WAY better things to do with my time.

I am so weary of this ugly (inside and out) human sucking up resources that could be put to much better use. The thought of him being president again causes me great angst

[NJCher]

12. I have never seen a reality show

I have never even seen a sitcom.

[getagrip_already]

16. this whole election is a reality show............

it's play to the audience without using reality to confuse people.

[NJCher]

21. LOL, thanks for the tip

I wouldn't know since I have no standard with which to judge it.
I do watch shows like Dateline and 48 Hours, so I think of it more like "crime time all the time."

[Aristus]

13. Nope.

Never watched a single second of the shows. Couldn't get away from the laughable and insufferable promos. But I never tuned in.

Trashy TV for trashy people.

If that sounds harsh, it's just because I can't imagine non-trashy people watching it, even ironically.

[Maeve]

15. I hate reality tv

Watched some Biggest Loser and Bridezillas with my daughters back in the day, but they are bogus and fake drama. And never cared for the fake show of a fake celebrity "businessman".

[blm]

17. Nope. Always avoided ANYTHING Trump since first meeting in early 80s.

He reeks of Despicable.

[nolabear]

18. I'm clearly the low class one here--lol!

I watched some of it. It was initially The Apprentice with regular people, which is where Omarosa came in. Later celebs, more or less. They formed teams, had competitions to raise money for charity, and at the end Spanky heard them at a faux board meeting and “fired” someone on the losing team. As always there was drama. It was pedestrian except for seeing. celebs be crazy.

[Tree Lady]

24. I watched it in the beginning

thought it was true that Trump did the hiring and firing.

Makes me mad what this show made Trump out to be more than he was.

To this day I think that show is why people (his people) think he's such a strong boss figure.

[nolabear]

46. I think so too. It was a more naive time.

People believed reality TV was at least in some aspect reality.

[Mossfern]

25. I watched it occasionally

just to get my mind off of "stuff". I never deliberately put it on but when looking for something mindless and it was on at that particular time, I'd watch.

[Happy Hoosier]

19. Never watched it.

I've always hated his bombastic, phony ass.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. No, you're not

[unblock]

22. I watched. No real interest in "reality" shows but mrs unblock likes, and I like watching tv with her

It was a season-long competition. Basically each week the two teams would have to compete usually by selling something. Imagine a lemonade stand or a t-shirt shop.

The teams would quickly design their product and their marketing pitch then go out and sell sell sell!

The losing team would then be brought into the "boardroom" when Donnie would berate them for losing, instigate arguments, and eventually "fire" the contestant he pinned the blame on.

In short, imagine the worst boss possible, that's Donnie.

Anyway, the last contestant left at the end of the season won.

Initially, they "won" a job working for this worst boss ever, with a salary of $250k. I don't know if they were guaranteed anything. For all I know he fired them after the first week.

Later they switched from ordinary suckups competing for a job to minor celebrities competing for their favorite charity.


Oh, I should note, the winners usually were the ones who simply called a rich buddy who would come and by $25k would have lemonade or whatever. Typical Donnie scam and turned the supposed competition into a who knows the biggest sucker game. Having the best lemonade or the best marketing pitch often didn't matter, just whose friend threw away more money.

[lindysalsagal]

23. I like "Say Yes To The Dress", "What Not To Wear" "Love Is Blind" "The Traitors"

because they're not really competitions or looking for audience input. How real they are is anyone's guess. But they're also not based on a slimy failed casino gangster. OK: Traitors is a competition, but not with a fake celebrity calling the shots. Alan Cumming is fun but he makes no decisions of import.

[JT45242]

26. Commercials only -- B through D list celebrities whoring themselves to get a job in the TFG company

As all "sort of reality shows' it was partially scripte and carefully edited.

These were has beens and never wases who wanted to be on TV again..

[MissMillie]

27. I never watched them (n/t)

.

[BigMin28]

28. Not a single episode

Benedict Donald struck me as a lying, loud mouthed braggert since I first saw him in the 80's. No one thinks as much of Donnie as Donnie does.

[Srkdqltr]

29. I watched part of one and found it rather stupid.

They had Joan Rivers, why ever she was on I don't know, selling cupcakes on the street. Just stupid. She had to be 80 at the time .
Why ever people would go on the show is beyond me.

[Liberal In Texas]

30. Alleged "reality" show that was actually scripted.

I've only seen a few minutes here and there and it looked stupid.

[Butterflylady]

31. Could not watch,

Because didn't like him then, can't stand him now. I attribute that to having good taste.

[underpants]

32. Never saw those but I've seen clips of Penn Jillette and Gene Simmons throwing his BS right back at him

Neither one lasted very long.

We did watch the first few seasons of the regular one. It featured pretty well credentialed young people basically sucking up to him. I’ve read that producers often had to scramble to create content after his “boardroom” decisions that NO ONE saw coming. Apparently one small act of a perceived criticism or lack of fealty could weeks later have him kick them out

The premise of the show was a tournament and the winner would become part of his organization. Usually there weee two teams and they had a task like creating a product or marketing something (including selling it on the street) or even making sure Tony Bennett was happy with his green room at a Trump property. Generally the lead of the losing team got FIRED!

An older gentleman and a professional looking lady sat with him at the big table advising him on that week’s decision. Don’t remember their names but I’ve not seen a mention of either in anything since including his trials.

Ivanka started showing up in season 2. Boss’s daughter. Got it. Then one week he introduced a new advisor- Don Jr. my wife and I cracked just at the look of him. We never watched again.

[Jilly_in_VA]

33. Not one.

Didn't like him then, can't stand him now.

[karynnj]

34. I never watched it. In fact, imavoided "reality" shows

I preferred drama written by talented writers. To me, "reality" shows based on the best that could be cobbled together from what was filmed - likely including "reality dos" to help the story were neither reality or good fiction.

If I wanted reality, there were excellent documentaries. If I wanted fiction, there were still good well written shows. I hated that reality shows, that were cheap to produce, likely lowered the number of fun, interesting shows.

[ananda]

35. Way back, I started to watch one Apprentice show.

I lasted about five minutes.

Trump and the show stunk.

[ananda]

36. Has anyone here seen Peter Sellars' Marriage of Figaro?

It's set in Trump Tower, and it's very good.

[Elessar Zappa]

38. I didn't watch it.

I couldn’t stand him since I became aware of him in the 90s when I was a kid.

[H2O Man]

40. Right.

I knew of him earlier than that. I don't think I could fully respect anyone who watched that show.

[H2O Man]

39. No.

I never did.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

41. Never saw it. Never intend to.

[shrike3]

42. Don't watch reality TV.

Although we were over at a relative's, and they had "The Golden Bachelor" on. I watched it to be polite. Didn't have the heart to tell them all that stuff is fake.

[3catwoman3]

43. Add me to the list of never watchers.

I find him repellant in every possible way. Always have.

[Hekate]

44. Never watched The Apprentice, was never attracted to the idea, & what I read about it repulsed me

Maybe I’m counter-culture and all that, but “reality” TV shows repel me, from concept to execution.

Ew.

[-misanthroptimist]

45. I never paid a bit of attention to Trump prior to 2016

I was aware of his existence and the fact that he was (and is) a malignant buffoon.

[LeftInTX]

47. I never watched it. Celebrity Apprentice was show where celebrities competed

Additionally, the celebrities as contestants were not vying for a job, but instead each had selected a charity for which they were playing.

Kinda like Dancing With The Stars.

I never watched Celebrity Apprentice, but I knew celebrities were the contestants.

[Wounded Bear]

48. Nope. Was never interested in the slightest...nt