Some of the other ideas were equally poor and some of the other entrepreneurs even more odd. One guy had this idea for this personal aircraft thing. He said that they could be sold, one assumes at a profit, for 75,000 pounds. They were this weird looking helicopter-airplane combo thing. He said that he'd applied for the patents, but he still refused to talk about the way the engines were built (if he'd applied for the patents he could discuss it without fear of it being stolen). He then refused to talk about why he refused to talk about it. There was something more than a little fishy about it and he scared all the investors away.

While that guy was weird, he was no match for the two guys who wanted to sell their web software idea when they didn't own the program code and didn't have anyone on their team that could write code. Sure, they had permission to use the software they needed, but surely they had to have someone on their team that could handle the software.

There were good bits of the show, too; some of the entrepreneurs weren't crazy and it's fun to watch the dragons try and get deals done, but they were overshadowed this week. Sigh. Maybe next week will go better.

And, yes, to answer your next question, I watched Burn Notice too, and that show I really enjoy. It's just good fun to watch. It seems to both honor and subvert the great spy movies. It's well-acted and Michael's voiceover just can't be beat (see, Dragons' Den, that's how you do good voiceover). Plus, it does a solid job of handling the single episode stories and the season long arc.

Maybe we'll discuss it more next week, because I feel your attention wavering. But you should definitely be watching, you won't regret it.