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* [[Deader Than Disco]]: The non-celebrity editions were firmly established as this by Season 10, which got some of the worst viewing figures in the history of NBC, and a lot of critics lashing out at how tasteless it was to broadcast such a show during a recession.

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: Virtually all of the boardroom judges other than George, Carolyn, and possibly Bill Rancic tend to be regarded as this. Even though the Trump children -- Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric -- have all been successful businesspeople in their own right, their family connection to the contest's head honcho has left a sour taste in the mouths of certain viewers (it doesn't help that some are convinced that Ivanka is there purely to act as [[Ms. Fanservice]]).

** After the last regular task of season 2, which involved selling chocolate bars, Ivana, Kevin and Kelly ended up in the boardroom. Ivana's only real chance of survival would be to persuade Trump to fire Kevin (which wouldn't have been hard, since Kevin disobeyed Ivana and sold the chocolate bars for half the price she had set). Instead, she said that Kelly should be fired, overlooking the fact that Kelly was immune from being fired. Trump reminded her of this, so Ivana changed her mind and said that Jennifer should be fired. Slight problem -- Jennifer was on the ''winning'' team. After this brilliant display of boardroom logic, Ivana finally suffered the firing that Bradford (see above) had inadvertently saved her from during the second task.

 

 

* [[Critical Research Failure]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCh3VDK_S9Y Michael Sophocles], who claimed to be a "Good Jewish Boy" on his application form, purchased ''halal'' chicken instead of ''kosher'' chicken. Later on in the boardroom, Sir Alan (who is himself Jewish) started to crack a joke based around the Jewish greeting "L'chaim" at his expense... only to be left totally stunned when Michael admitted that he had no idea what ''that'' meant either.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Raleigh Addington in Series 6, who quit after the first episode when he was told that his brother, a soldier in the British Army, had been severely injured by a landmine explosion. It was undoubtedly the right thing to do given the circumstances, but some fans have wondered What could have been if he had stayed, given that his boardroom cry of "It was shameful!" rapidly achieved [[Memetic Mutation]] status -- and it was pretty much the only thing he said while on the show.