Episode Report Card Potes: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Featuring Janice Dickinson As Herself
By Potes | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 03.28.2006
Tyra then tells the girls that when she was eighteen or nineteen, she did an interview in Milan, in which she said that she was going to retire from modeling at twenty-three or twenty-four and have her own talk show. She says that she did make the talk-show dream come true because she always kept her mind on it. Even, I guess, when she was shaking her body (body). Keep the dream alive, children!
The girls drive to another location, where they meet Jay Manuel, who tells them that they'll be acting out their dream jobs in an editorial fashion shoot. This is code for "We don't know what actual 'work' looks like, so we'll just whore you up and stick a pen in your hand. Does that sound right?" Thomas Klementsson is the photographer. He wears a leather jacket and a beret-like skullcap that is also known as the French yarmulke. Jay tells them that today's shoot is all about being edgy. As the girls get their hair and makeup done, Jay says that he wanted to do something to bring a little more life to the shoot. Joanie interviews that they were all thinking it would be something gross, like sloths or snakes or a row of dancing snaggleteeth chomping on pork rinds. Instead, it is five half-naked guys. Eh. I'd take the snaggleteeth. Nnenna says that the male models are all cute, and that she wants to have fun. "Fun" in Nigerian means "an exchange of bodily fluids." Danielle also thanks Jesus for the hot men, who are a welcome respite from the nagging, PMS-ing bitches she has to deal with every day. I don't know. Male models always look short and tooly to me. The male models are John Thomas, also known as J.T., Skyler, Vaughn, Steven Bruns, and Zane. I think the last name "Bruns" is designed to remind you subliminally of buns, which subliminally makes you want to squeeze his, which then makes you give him a job. Well played, Mr. Buns, well played.
The girls get to chat with the models for a while. Brooke asks how you make something edgy. One of the guys says that she can be edgy, and Brooke counters that she's not very imaginative. I think Brooke has trouble with the "brain functions" in general. Nnenna talks to Vaughn, who says that he's more than happy to give her all the intensity she needs in the shoot. Nnenna notes that Vaughn good-looking, and from somewhere off in the distance, the echo-laden voice of L'il Nnenns adds that she wasn't missing her boyfriend at all.
The shoot begins, and it is utterly ridiculous. Frankly, I think the whole thing is insulting to professional women, but then again, I've always worked at non-profits, so maybe I'm just bitter because we couldn't get the funding for half-naked men. Furonda is in a black leather ensemble that shows her stomach, because what human-rights attorney worth her salt would let pass a media opportunity to show the effects of starvation. She says that she heeded a lot of Janice's advice, and thinks that her photographs will come out really well.