The Apprentice UK - Candidates in Toyland

Apparently last week the girls used all the hot water and breakfast food in the house leaving the guys starving and taking cold showers. This time when the phone rings, the guys are ready. They get the instructions to be ready to leave at 7:15am sharp. The guys let the girls sleep in so they can get the showers and breakfast. They were nice enough to wake them up with 20 minutes to go. They meet Sir Alan in a luxury car showroom. Let's see, cars on Project Runway, cars on Apprentice, I'm detecting a trend here. The assignment this week is to design a toy for children. Lindsay is the project manager for the girls and is already braced for conflict. Isn't that setting yourself up for disaster? Raj is PM for the guys and they decide right away to design something for boys. They come up with the idea to update a trading card game by making it electronic. Raj tries to encourage participation to get a name for their game but Matthew is too busy reading Sir Alan's book and says he will go along with whatever the group decides. Raj takes him aside to tell him that he is not contributing to the assignment. Why is that being chewed out sounds so much better with a British accent? Lindsay presents her idea for flashcards with symbols on them that she calls "Secret Signals". Girls are to make up a code for the symbols and flash those instead of talking. Little girls not talk? Lindsay says this is supposed to be pretend texting. How is this even remotely like texting? I think Lindsay missed out on something in her childhood and wants to relive it now. The other girls are just staring, slack-jawed at Lindsay, cue the crickets. They also had an idea of a construction type toy using electricity. Fortunately they see the flaw in that plan and came up with battling robots. Both teams go to a focus group to pitch their ideas. The girls robot idea is a big hit with the kids but Lindsay still wants to produce her cards. She calls for a vote and her team all say they want the robots. Lindsay then says she wants to meet with the kids again. They get two groups of kids, one group is split between the cards and robots while the other group wants the robots. So with three votes, mostly for the robots, Lindsay calls for yet another vote saying the other votes were split (what kind of math was she using?). Even though the last vote came out overwhelmingly for the robots, Lindsay decides they will produce both toys and she eventually didn't listen to her team and went with the cards. You knew she would. The guys are in love with their game, Switch Base. I still didn't see exactly how it worked but they seemed to like it! They present their design to the toy manufacturer and it looked like a hit, even the manufacturer was asking questions and offering suggestions. The girls presentation went over like a lead balloon even the manufacturer was yawning. The guys win again and get to go to a county home for some skeet shooting. They all could shoot pretty good which makes me wonder if all Britons are born with this talent. Sir Alan is disappointed in the girls again. In the boardroom, most of the girls are being polite but they still name Lindsay as the reason for the failure. Lindsay brings back Adele for not participating in the presentation and Miriam for I don't know what since she seemed to be Lindsay's biggest supporter. Adele's reason for not doing the presentation was that she was so against the flashcards and that Lindsay would not listen to her team or the focus groups. Well, you can imagine how Sir Alan felt about Adele not participating, he also was confused as to why Lindsay brought Miriam back. Lindsay stammers her way through the boardroom and can't come up with a good reason why she shouldn't be fired. Sir Alan lets Adele know that she is not entirely safe and fires Lindsay. Double D