i hate musicals but...

Ha ha - i didn't watch 'The Applicants' tonight, which is a kind of opera-lite interpretation of The Apprentice, which is presented in the UK by Alan Sugar. I did just catch the closing credits, however, waiting for Match of the Day 2, and witnessed a frankly hilarious closing there purely, it seems, because they could get away with it. Given that the show's prime influence is clearly Stewart Lee's Jerry Springer Opera, which raised such a furore for it's colourful language, I'll bet that the writers of this enjoyed ending the show with an operatic tune ending with the cast singing, in a typically histrionic manner, 'Applicants! Applicants! Applicants!'. For the final three lines the opera vocal is restricted to merely 'Appli', leaving John Thompson, doing a convincing impression of Alan Sugar, to finish each word, deadpan, in a sarf london accent. Hence:

Chorus: Appli...
Thomson: cants.
Chorus: Appli....
Thomspon: Caaants.
Chorus: Appli...
Thomson: Cunts.

Show ends. Remarkable.