Edit: Wanted to add a few more lines to this post, to help explain us to them, so I'll put edit next to each paragraph to be clear what has been added in!

It's that time of the year in the UK again and that is The Apprentice UK television show where the business magnate find his new employee to hire or in this case, gives a huge amount of prize money to invest into the winner. So what better way then to give a challenge to the contestants, for him to give them the challenge to make cartoons for kids? 

Series 17, Episode 3 (yes, the series is at number seventeen now, still hosted by the same magnate that hosted the first time around) has the contestants making cartoons but the briefing for this, was somewhat interesting as the host gives them the task. Lord Alan Sugar likes to give very novel briefings, maybe just to look good for the camera, so he somehow made a cartoon about himself, giving them the brief. Yes, he invited them Regent Street Cinema and airred the cartoon to them to brief them about the task, which his cartoon Lord Sugar and Friends!

So his character of himself walked down a street, pass the set of EastEnders and some judges from Strictly Come Dancing and Delboy from the 1980s show Only Fools and Horses, as he talks to various characters and then...

Edit: I think the idea is to give the animation extremely good cover to make the animation worth it's weight, given the history of animation the BBC and Newgrounds has, if not with any studio considering the BBC has been around for over 100 years.

he sits down and briefs the contestants to make cartoons.

Edit: I can't get over the opportunity of the people who were voice acting and it makes me think why, considering voice acting is all the rage now a days. So just in case someone makes a cartoon of Lord Sugar but have to get voice actors, yeah I think that's a benchmark for him. He's the type of kind who's out of touch but nope, it didn't stop Lord Sugar and the others to voice act.

This is for the show.

So the contestant head off and make the cartoons, between them. With 2 teams, the animations were interesting. The judges of the cartoons who decides who is the winner work in the BBC themselves. The show got very likeable judges in my opinion but they weren't afraid to hold back criticism on the animations. (and maybe wish Newgrounds got the same treatment?)

The first team concept was a giraffe with an Indian name, because the project manager was Indian but had a point that it was never been done before and the second team was an animation of two kids playing in a playground, but one of them was in a wheelchair while the other was having the time of his life running around, climbing and sliding down a slide.

So the judges saw the cartoons and started asking away. With the giraffe cartoon, one judge was quick to point out, as the giraffe was a female character, why she had a pink bow in this day of age. I'm not going to lie, as much as I know better and I've had criticism like that before (elsewhere) but I didn't notice. Clearly it was in hindsight and forget that it's no longer the 1990s. When the episode airred and I see the news being published online, so many media reporters were quick to pick that up like wild fire, quickly calling whoever had that idea, stupid, really, so I thought that was interesting.

The other team, I don't know what I can say about this:

Someone is really having a time of their life when someone in a wheelchair is watching. So take a wild guess what the judges have to say about this one?!

So the character slides down and the girl in the wheelchair feels the shade but the kid goes up to the girl and starts, what appears to be, clapping her hands but the animation really suggests something else and one of the judges had this to say. She says that it looked like they were trying to slap each other. That's what she said, she said that the characters looked like they were trying to slap each other. Obviously they criticised the lack of features on the characters like the hands and no feet. Even to ask where it went and to tell Lord Sugar's associates that the team made silly excuses when asked that question.

So after that, you can take a wild guess which team won the task. The giraffe animation won and then the other team were bought back in and someone got fired in true Apprentice fashion.

Edit: We get animations here that look like these but they can have excellent stories and they often pass around here, getting a 2 to 3 stars. This team in the show lost and someone in the team got fired. What kind of message are you giving out to anyone here, on Newgrounds, who watches this show?! The judges even asked why they weren't any hands or feet and in the boardroom, they got Lord Sugar associates to tell them that "at least they could have admitted they forgot to add it but all they did was made silly excuses" which hardly happens here, like never and maybe keep our distances from them and let the contestants and show in the UK be on their own to get to grips with animation but I suppose some respectability in seeing a scene like that in the show, considering how far the Adobe Animation scene has come.

So why am I blogging about this?! The Apprentice is filmed and airred on the BBC. The BBC is infamous around this website for trying to file a takedown against Newgrounds for their Tellytubbies parody animations, which wasn't successful and obvious this website had their say. The reason I've watched the episode (I got bored after series 9 and they're tell making the show) is that I wondered if there's any references to Newgrounds, maybe the only one being that the cartoons look like they are animated in Flash Animate (which is more of a tweaked version of Adobe Flash before Adobe reworked it heavily because of the falling repetation is had received back in 2017 to the point it had discontinued and removed everywhere at the end of 2020), so I wonder how they've moved on from it and I think this show is the best example. Yes, they really want to move on but I can't help to think they've capitalized on the idea that Flash is dead and just went on getting one of the biggest shows making cartoons.

Maybe the joke is on the folks here on this website, who've made animations this terrible as the losing team and fused that in there and watched Lord Sugar grill at them. A message maybe, who knows but that animation of the losing team did look like animations that used to be posted on this website decades ago. So maybe someone in the offices there had that vision for the show and it went their way. I think so. Thanks for reading. UltroEmo is going back under his rock!