Seriously? A trip to see The Donald's tacky apartment and a private jet to an obscure Boston restaurant.

What kind of rewards should they be earning after each challenge, and do you think the ones previously given are a bit... well, lacking?

And of course...assuming they could get worse, what would be the most awful and shocking reward?

Oooh, ooh, I know!!!!

Appointments with Donald's stylist.

The most awful and shocking reward? Wouldn't that be spending an entire freaking year working with The Biggest Overling? I don't care how yooge the salary may be, that would be awful.

One would think that a lame-ass reward such as a Private Jet would actually be something the losers would have to suffer through, right before the boardroom meeting.

If I was the head of my winning team, I'd petition for choosing to stay in, order pizza, go for a beer run, get wasted, and just chill (and maybe watch old football videos).

This was my first venture into this thread. Wordy mcwordy.... these are the lamest rewards ever. EVER. Any guess what the "reward" might be in Week 3? I'm thinking maybe they'll get to ride around in the Donald's limo... or maybe a tour of the Taj Majal?

The Boston restaurant was Olives -- media whore Todd English's original establishment. So, while not quite "obscure" (though, curiously, NBC didn't play up the celebrity chef, giving him no on-screen credit and just a brief "welcome to my restaurant" shot), it's not like finer dining wasn't available in NYC. I guess it's the jet thing -- how else could you use the plane, and still not take the winners away for more than a few hours? Have them catch the dinner show in Newark?

I swear, I was expecting to see Tracy Ulman in the apartment pointing to a giant, upright harp:

"I was going for a swoop. You see? It's a swoop!"

I wonder if the Don explains what a "Monback" is, too.

From what I've heard, The "21" club began as a speakeasy, and in the back there's a private cellar where celebs can store their special occasion vintages (I guess Reagan's got some champagne he hasn't popped yet), you have to really duck to get back there, but see THAT would be more of a reward, since it's SO exclusive (although I guess the custodian has to go in and vacuum and have sex with his girlfriend once in a while).

Going golfing? Lamest. Reward. EVER! Ok, Trump's apartment sucked more. But not by much. Golf is a perfectly nice walk ruined by a little white ball. I seriously would have stayed home.

The golf course reward made me laugh. I don't play golf, but I've heard of famous golf courses--although not Trump's. And aside from the Boston restaurant, all the rewards have been laughably Trump-focused. (Your rewards are to see my apartment, sit at my father's table in his favorite club, and play at my golf course! Your next reward is to take your clothes to my favorite dry cleaner!)

Well, it's product placement. On Survivor, we've had Mountain Dew, Burger King, the Pontiac Aztec, etc. Here it's Trump, Trump, Trump... I swear they will be heading to Trump's Taj Majal at some point...

I have to say... golfing sucks as a reward. I think even I would have preferred a $50 gift certificate to Planet Hollywood.

As lame as I think the golf "reward" was, nobody can honestly say that they're surprised by the Trump-centric prizes. Although you and I may scoff at the blatant advertising that occurs during these shows, I bet you dollars-to-donuts that it was part of the incentive pitched to The Hair when Mark Burnett came up with this idea.

And a ton of tourists are going to want to visit the places they saw on "The Apprentice". I guarantee you.

I liked the "prize" of eating at the New York restaurant just because of the expression on Sam's face when he found out the women would be sitting at the same table used by the father of The Donald.

I think we've seen the last of the golf course. The women made just enough profit at PH to pay for all the damage they did to his course duffing it up. Michelle Wie will play 18 there before any of these women get invited back.

I'm very interested in knowing exactly what the final reward entails. I just can't believe that Donald would give one of the contestants the responsibility of running one of his companies. I'm sure there will be someone shadowing the winner's every move.

I don't get these "rewards" either. I'd rather see dinner at a restaurant in Paris (OK, maybe there isn't time, but you know what I mean), an evening at a spa, a shopping spree at Tiffany's, etc. Dinner in Boston and a round of golf don't do it for me.

I liked all of the awards except the apt. tour. 2 great meals and a day golfing sounds like fun, but an apt. tour just sounds self-congratulatory to me.

IIRC, the award is the chance to run one of his companies at (?$125,000) salary, with an equal amount paid out if the winner lasts a full year. That is, TD gets to fire at will (or, I suppose, the winner gets to quit, but really...) Something which the hoochie women should be reminded of.

Seriously!?! That's all they get?? I know $125K is a lot to many of us, but it just doesn't seem like that much for a Trump corporate president! I guess this is just an 'internship' presidency after all with lots of real seasoned Trump execs overseeing the "winner".

Sorry, but I'd rather have MB give me a mil right away (to invest) and then work at different levels of the Trump organization for free. You could learn so much and then after a year, he could decide to hire or not...you could decide to accept...or not!

Well, George did say that the winner would be working with him a lot.

PS: Donald mentions George in his latest book. "Brilliant Lawyer", and "Proper vision to keep 40 Wall Street as a commercial building".

Yea. I can see that.

I thought dinner at Olives was a pretty good reward. It's one of the best restaurants in the country, and definitely rivals anything available in Manhattan.

The worse reward it the lousy salary being offered for the year of work, granted the bonus makes it a little more fair, but if you for some reason don't do the entire year .... I see ads for folks in my line of business and for NYC they make double what I make here, but I have to imagine it's due to the cost of living in NYC. Hope they give them the suite or something as well to compensate for that "yooge" joke of a salary.

Does anyone know WHICH company the winner is going to run? I mean, who is running it now, and how are they supposed to step aside for a year and let some stranger run it? Is it a company that's now in development?

I don't think they've specified in any way, which makes sense to me. It's a large organization, so he can either create a position, or shift people around to suit whomever "wins."

If it's someone Trump really wants to give an actual job, they can put the person in a real position or create a company for them, if he doesn't, they can be like, President of Parking.

I think the meals are good rewards especially considering that they are staying in Trump Tower. I think the first reward was cheap because all they had to do was ride up the elevator to the top floor. And after seeing that particular episode where Trump assured the girls that very few people get to see his apartment, I saw Trump's episode of E! True Hollywood Story which included shots of his apartment.

Me, too, MsMystery! I guess 'The Donald' just thinks it's really a BIG deal for someone to get to see all that overdone "opulence" that is the Trumpartment *gag* in person!

The only thing missing from that apartment besides good taste, was a velvet painting of Elvis.

"A visit with George" is the lamest reward EVER! It wasn't even Baseball season, so all they saw was Steinbrenner's ugly puss.

Ummm...a van ride to meet George Fucking Steinbrenner? I'd have rather stayed at the suite and caught up on my sleep.

Exactly jth.
Where's the limo, the private jet?

I disagree. I actually liked this one better than the dinner in Boston and the golf outing, etc. But, then, I do a lot of business travel and eat at a lot of restaurants like the ones they've shown, so that stuff isn't that special to me. OTOH, I love baseball, and I can't just call up The Boss to hang out with him for awhile.

I would have thought that before Trump gave Versacorp their "reward" he would have at least, bought them dinner first.

(Tour a baseball field. Whoop-de-doo)

This was the first reward I was actually kind of jealous of. I really love the Yankees for sentimental reasons...but I'm surprised no one was knocked backward downwind of those two yuge egos coming together. I don't care, I'd take that any day over a golf course outing :).

That was the worst excuse for a reward ever. George F'ing Steinbrenner! The man is evil. Pure-Evil. Pure-utter-total-100%-evil.

Yes, I'm a Mets fan... but still... he's EVIL!!!!!!!!!!

Heh. Originally mr pseudostudent thought it was an awesome reward, because he thought they were going to go see the Yankees, but when I explained what the reward really was, he spluttered the very same thing. Hee!

Newest Versacorp t-shirt, coming to a flea(bitten) market near you:

''I busted my ass (and sometimes showed my ass* Protege members) on national tv and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. And a visit with a horny, self-absorbed ass. And George Steinbrenner''.

"Oh, I love you SOOO much!" "No, I love YOU sooo much!" "No, YOU're special!"

This is a reward? Watching two powerful guys acting like a sappy male bonding retreat while you have to sit on a couch and watch?

About the only thing Steinbrenner could say was wow what pretty girls. Nice.....

I can't wait for Miss Alli's recap of this reward.

In fairness to Steinbrenner (Lord knows I never thought I would use those words in my lifetime), he did also say something like "and a couple of fine looking men, too." I caught it on the second viewing of the show--he said it as they were headed out. I'm pretty sure he's still a lech.

eta: Hmmm, "fine-looking men." Maybe ol' George wants to do to Boyfriend Bill what he did to the Yawkey family all those years......

Up til now, I thought the rewards would be gratifying if I received them. I was wondering if maybe this reward was intended for Versacorp 1.0 (all male). But alas the guys never won.

I'm telling you, they just keep getting better and better. Next week: "And today, you lucky dogs, you get a visit with my shoeshine man."

Worst. Reward. EVER. /CBGV

Remember on Wheel of Fortune, before they started just giving them money and/or a car, they used to use the money they "earned" in the game to buy craptacular prizes? (Yes, I'm showing my age here.) And then when they got down to their last $100 or whatever, they would inevitably have to buy some ceramic monkey or some shit because it was the only thing they could afford. And they had that resigned tone to their voice, like, "I'll take the genuine ceramic monkey lamp, Pat."

And that was STILL better than the rewards on this show.

Word.

Word to the nth degree. When Trump said they were meeting George Steinbrenner, I thought it would be a package deal to see a game at Yankee Stadium as well. But no, the reward was to meet a crusty old man and hear him blab about his baseball team. And witness the odd HoYay! between Trump and George. Stupid.

As a devoted Red Sox, I can honestly say I would have given myself food poisoning to get out of that lame "prize".

"Oh whee! As our prize for winning, we get to drive to the Bronx in a crappy rented van to see a baseball stadium!"

Definitely a lame prize... It cost Trump nothing. It cost NBC nothing.

At first, I thought they would a) see a game; b) see a game in the owner's box; or c) tour the locker room. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Other rewards: visit Trump's Taj Majal; visit Century 21; and visit P. Diddy.

Maybe it was off-season. When exactly was TA filmed again?

Then again... why go there in the off-season? Doesn't Trump have other annoying Rich friends he could bother?

In general, it seems like an awfully warm, sunny time of the year for it not to be baseball season. I'm sure they chose a day when the team was out of town so that George would be available and there wouldn't have been a million people around to see who was still on the show. I find it hard to believe they didn't herd them out to Memorial Park (or whatever it's called), but the visit was about business, not baseball. I really wish someone had discussed Georgie's management style with him in exquisite detail.

The only pleasure I would have gotten from that reward was finding out that Georgie has a Joe baseball glove couch in his office just like John Ritter's dressing room did! I have one of those (in much worse shape than his, I'll admit)! I'm so proud to have something in common with one of the top loonies in NYC.

(catpower2000, I know exactly what you're talking about, except I always picture a ceramic Dalmatian.)

THANK you!! God, I was feeling a hundred years old until you chimed in. :)

Move over Catpower. Here's one more for the geezer's bench. I always thought the buying of stuff was sooooo lame! Just about as lame as a van ride to an empty stadium to see someone with bad taste in jewelry, er, um......bling.