Episode Report Card Potes: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lipstick on a Pigford
By Potes | Season 17 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.26.2011
Challenge winner Lisa is next, and her photo actually is pretty good. Nigel tells her that it shows her bone structure like he hasn't seen it in ages. We get a small montage of Lisa's past photos, and it's true that she can take a picture. No one mentions how busted she's currently looking in person. In any event, Lisa is safe from going home this week. She wishes the hussies behind her the best of luck, and they laugh even though they probably hate her. Kayla is next, and Tyra doesn't see enough Snooki. Kathy agrees, saying that she'd like to see a touch of Snooki's hot mess in the photo. Nigel adds that Kayla looks dazed in her picture, and Tyra says that Kayla's fashion is fantastic but her Snooki is not so sweet. Basically, she's getting a bad critique for looking too much like a model. Allison is next, and as she approaches Kathy notes that she looks like one of the Brady Bunch kids. It's true! She may have a career after Top Model in her chart-topping band The Silver Platters. Allison's photo is, according to Kathy, Snooki on a very good day. But Tyra feels all of Snooki's awkwardness and weirdness, with a model thing wrapped in it. So, I guess she's just model enough.
Bianca is up next. First of all, her face looks amazing, even though there appears to be a pickle-clutching hand growing directly out of her head. Kathy enjoys the fact that it looks like Bianca as Snooki is passed out on the motorcycle driver, and ALT says that even though it doesn't look like Snooki, it's a glamorous photo. He wishes there was more mess to it, and that Bianca could have portrayed an unattractive Snooki. Don't look so much like a model! Also be uglier! I hope all you aspiring models out there are paying attention. Nigel then gets on Bianca's case for not splashing around in the bathtub at the perfume challenge. He asks what the big deal was, and Bianca says that it didn't feel authentic to her. She adds that she's tired of being just a reality star, and wants to be taken seriously as a model. The nerve! She says that she loves being on television, and doing things with Top Model, which is why she's there. She wants to take her career to another level, and notes that she has never seen Beyonce or Rihanna in a bathtub selling perfume.
Tyra wastes no time in doling out, "You're not Beyonce, Bianca." Well, she does have a point there. She adds that Bianca is trying to get somewhere in her career, with the implication that you have to degrade yourself to succeed. If Tyra were Bianca, and the assignment was to get in the bathtub, Tyra would do it and try to win. And we all know that Tyra doesn't consider it "fiercely real" when her underlings outgrow their britches. Shannon is next as Snooki. Nigel tells her that she has the bone structure, but needs star quality as part of her personality. Tyra saw a fire in Shannon in Cycle 1, which Shannon needs to bring back.