Oxford. World-famous seat of learning, inspiration for Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and home to Roger Bannister’s first sub-four-minute mile.

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“There are more pigs living in Oxfordshire than people. It’s renowned for the amount of pigs.”

That’s right, renowned for them.

You can’t mention Oxford without thinking instantly about all the pigs.

Much like The Apprentice series 10 may be forever etched in the memory for a classic “coach tours” episode that firmly dispelled any doubts the show remains top of the TV pile.

In the blue corner, Team Tenacity who made dopey Daniel project manager on the basis that: “The events industry is what I do every day.” (He runs pub quizzes.)

And while they packed off to the porcine paradise of the varsity city, all the entertainment (certifiable lunacy) was on the other coach to Kent, the Garden of England as Team Summit leader Sanjay explained to his pilgrims:

“Back in the olden times, that’s kind of what Kent looked like. It’s sort of most, erm, most similar as we have today as what it was back then.”

Which clears up that one.

That was, it transpired, the most informative part of the entire tour, which began with Bianca promising: “We’re going to provide entertainment on the coach with that historical learning element to it.”

Or a sing-song to One Man Went To Mow and Wheels On The Bus, if you want to split hairs.

But if that didn’t drag in the punters, Solomon had this sales pitch: “Hever Castle is insane. It’s got a maze.”

Crrrrrazy!

By the time the fools had signed up and handed over their cash it was too late to avoid Jemma guiding them to the “photo of Henry VIII” at his residence or Sanjay leading the coach party, “like the Pied Piper”, to Poundland in Canterbury.

There was always ever going to be one alpha-chump, though – Wheels On The Bus singer-in-chief and customer hassle menace James, the despicable bully who thinks he’s a gift to comedy, possesses the self-awareness of a kumquat and performs upper-body twist exercises in the boardroom.

In other words, he’s indispensible to this series, along with Daniel who claims: “There’s nothing you can throw at me that I can’t be brilliant at.”

In which case, someone lob him a grenade so he can showcase his skills over as wide an area as possible.

Fortunately for us, James has hoodwinked the likes of Sanjay into thinking he’s a great guy, which should shield him from being brought back into the boardroom for a few weeks yet.

Even if it doesn’t, His Sugarness has a long and trusted record of retaining the biggest bozos until the latter stages before blasting them with both barrels.

And next week’s show marks the halfway stage already, justifying the decision to have so many candidates.

Sarah the sliced lemon maniac may have gone, alas, but having an original 20 to fire guaranteed the fist-gnawingly stupid would be represented deep into the game.

Including Felipe who, last I looked, was still peppering the Oxford tourists with a goldmine of information: “Does anybody have any questions? Any facts you would like me to go through again?”

Yes. What was the one about the pigs again?

This week’s Couch Potato Spudulikes...

The Missing.

Peaky Blinders’ scintillating finale.

The unexpected treat of ex-Apprentice hero Stuart Baggs “The Brand” on the week’s civilian Come Dine With Me.

Strictly getting away with rock classic Black Betty in Halloween Week.

Dr Dawn Harper on This Morning’s winter colds advice slot: “A study showed that actually men do seem to have worse symptoms. So Man Flu does exist.” Ladies, (cough) we’ve been telling you (splutter) for years (ATCHOO!).

Stevi Ritchie declaring after another X Factor-saving performance: “There are a lot of doubters out there saying I can’t sing. I hope that’s proved it.” Beyond doubt, Stevi.

And Nat Geo Channel’s (David) Hasselhoff Versus The Berlin Wall. One’s a symbol of the Cold War that, after the 1989 uprisings, ended its days as a crumbling relic to a long-gone era. The other divided Berlin for 29 years.

This week’s Couch Potato Spuduhates...

Department store Christmas TV ads at the start of November. (To paraphrase Debenhams’ on-screen hashtag “#FoundIt”, shove it.)

The Great Fire extinguishing before it could reach ITN political editor Tom Bradby’s ham-fisted script.

EastEnders’ Max Branning letting Charlie Cotton run the car lot single-handed on his second day despite zero previous experience.

Citizen Khan’s dreadful, 1970s, half-hour mother-in-law joke.

And the BBC jetting Prof Brian Cox to Spain, Alabama, Svalbard, Florida and California on Human Universe’s finale. Because apparently it wasn’t enough to send him to the Bahamas, Easter Island, Utah, Japan, Djibouti, Puerto Rico, Jordan, Ethiopia, Ohio, Kazakhstan, New Mexico, Kenya, Peru, Russia, Morocco, Venice, Washington, Poland, a grand tour of India...

And Oldham.