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America's Next Top Model : Cycle 5 Recaps:
Episode 6
“The Girl Who Loves Bubbles and Talks to Plants”
by Karman Kregloe

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The girls get fruity
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The girls break out some serious crazy tonight. I’m talking change-of-personality crazy.  No, not just Drunk Lisa versus Sober Lisa. It’s much worse than that.  

Early in the episode, Jayla takes off her happy mask and tells us that she will claw her way to the top if that’s what it takes.  What happened here? I thought Jayla was the good-natured, Rachel Dratch-y party girl. One good haircut seems to have pushed her into the land of hateful.

Coryn reminds us that she can’t stand Lisa and is counting on her elimination from the show.  “She thinks she knows everything. I’m hoping she goes.” Kim notes, “Lisa needs to be the center of attention.” Not like Kim herself. Or the rest of them, for that matter. 

Kyle chimes in, even if more discreetly, “There’s something weird about Lisa but I can’t put my finger on it.”  Cut to Lisa stumbling around in their backyard drunk, wearing only some bath bubbles and a cowboy hat, slurring, “I don’t understand why I don’t have any friends.”

Evil Jay arrives unannounced (rude!) and presents a dazzling array of food items in their kitchen. No, it’s not a cook-off, it’s a skincare workshop—hosted by supermodel/rock-wife Iman!  She is here to tell the girls that skin care will be the key to their success, and that some of the best skin care products can be found right here in the kitchen!  However, in real life, there is no way that Iman is making facial masks out of her own leftovers. Iman reminds me of a reserved, unapproachable Tyra. (Iman would not make a fake Top Model audition tape of herself dancing around in someone’s backyard in Inglewood. No, that is all Tyra.)

As Iman spouts earth-mama sounding advice about vegetables and skin care and inner beauty, the girls rub the food all over their faces. This works better with avocado and lemons than some of the other more questionable ingredients.  I don’t know what Kim slathered all over herself, but it looks likes like Lisa got trashed and threw up on her face.

Of course, the real point of this little potluck is that it will segue into the next challenge.  The girls are going to be spokesmodels for a banana-honey skin product.  They’ll be given some talking points and are expected to memorize and use them in a sales pitch for the product. 

Inexplicably, Tyra has hired “stand-up comedian extraordinaire” Chris Spencer to hear the girls pitch the product and to judge the challenge.  I don’t know why they bothered to hire a comic when he isn’t even funny. Unless you think it’s funny when jerky guys interrupt women in order to talk about themselves.

As the other girls make their pitches, Lisa tells us that she has her lines down and feels really confident about this challenge--which is what Lisa always says.  I feel confident that by the end of the day Lisa will be getting smashed in the hot tub and the other models will still hate her.

Comic Spencer finds Jayla “boring” (i.e. she didn’t laugh at his unfunny jokes), but Kyle flirts with him makes a good pitch.  Despite having her lines “down,” Lisa references ingredients that aren’t even in the product.  When she realizes that she is starting to crash and burn, she jumps up and does some “sexy” dancing for Spencer.  Spencer doesn’t seem to notice that Lisa has wandered into Anna Nicole Smith territory, he just finds her “too cocky” (i.e. she had some self-esteem). 

Kim is busted for having a cheat sheet--the talking points are written on her palm of her hand! Hey, is this how she got through Wesleyan?

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