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The familiar pompous march of Prokofiev's 'Dance of the Knights' heralds the way for the second episode of Young Apprentice, and the teams set about the task of designing a new, exciting parent and baby product. This is a task possibly difficult for candidates not too far out of childhood themselves and their lack of experience shows, as seen by Hannah's comment 'do you have to change a nappy every time or can you leave it for a bit', causing wincing and disdainful looks from Nick.
However, due to Gbemi's experience with looking after younger siblings she is made the project manager of the girls team and they quickly form the idea of a cushioned baby support sling called 'comfy curve'. The boys are less focused and dally with a range of ideas including Captain Vanilla's (aka James') idea of a book in which parents can record their own stories. However, they settle on a bottle warmer in the shape of a hippo (as, according to Harry M, 'monkeys can be quite intimidating') then imaginatively and alliteratively call it 'Harris the Hippo'.
The casting call for the products is a definite facepalm effort on both teams' accounts. On the boys team, when auditioning for models, Ben asks what the baby's interests are (obviously expecting further activities than eating, sleeping, pooping). Obviously the casting director Zara's artistic interests do not pull through as she makes the questionable choice to cast a white father and baby with a black mother sparking serious maternity concerns.
Onto the pitching, and the team leaders make themselves the main pitchers despite Gbemi's detached and nervous pitching leaving the panel questioning what the product actually does. Lewis' stumbling pitch also fails to impress but being either completely delusional or glory hunting (and most probably a mixture of the two) he soldiers on to deliver the next pitch. When the rest of the team can stand it no longer, Harry H steps in to save the day with an impressive and confident pitch, as does Haya for the girls team.
In the boardroom, this apparent glory hunting becomes apparent as the teams fail to gain any or relatively little orders from the first two companies. It is only the pitches that Harry H and Haya did that secure a significant amount of orders but the boys still lose by 1800 orders so are sent back to the Bridge Café, which is quickly becoming an all too familiar site for them. When Lewis brings Harry M and Ben back into the boardroom the choruses of 'actually that was my idea' recur again and Sir Alan is forced to fire Ben after not really being able to gauge what he actually did in the task. All I can say is 'poor Ben', he did seem like the nice guy in the competition but when the rest of the contestants are that feisty there isn't any room for a wallflower. While Harry M's public schoolboy persona means he takes over from Captain Vanilla as the most annoying boy and Lewis' glory hunting helped them to fail the task, at least they were memorable.
Young Apprentice continues Monday 9pm BBC1.
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