Episode Report Card Potes: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pretty Things
By Potes | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 03.21.2006
Tyra Mail! "Once upon a time, there was a top model, and she lived happily ever after." Well, we know it wasn't Naima. The girls suspect that they are going to be part of something fairy-tale-themed. They meet up with Jay Manuel the next morning, who asks them what they learned this week. There is a thunderous silence before they all mumble, "To walk?" Yes. Yes, to walk. Jay says that, sometime in their modeling careers, they might accidentally trip. Thus, they need to learn how to look pretty while falling, which is the theme of this photo shoot. And just to spice things up, they'll be dressed up like fairy-tale characters. Why not douse them in sweet and sour sauce, too? Danielle will be Rapunzel. Leslie will be a sexy Big Bad Wolf. Jade will be Little Red Riding Hood. Mollie Sue will be Little Boy Blue. Danielle will be Snow White. Gina, against type, will be Sleeping Beauty. Brooke will be a cute version of the Emperor from "The Emperor's New Clothes." Kari will be Goldilocks. Nnenna is the princess from "The Princess and the Frog." And, finally, Sara will be Gretel of "Hansel and Gretel." Tracy Bayne is the photographer. She demonstrates how the girls will fall off of a low platform and onto a springy cushion.
The girls go into hair and makeup. Jade notes that she wants to rock the shoot and impress Jay. I am sad to report that she actually does. Gina even admits that, up first, Jade set the bar way high. Joanie is next, and also seems to do pretty well. It's funny to watch the girls fall and have their big hair smash into their heads. Furonda is next, and Jay -- attempting to get her into character -- asks why, as Rapunzel, she grew the hair. "To get a man," she says. Good luck with that, Flav. Jay tells Furonda that she looks like she's clunking on a mat. Furonda looks like she's been clunking on a mat for her whole life, if you ask me. Sara notes to Sutan, the makeup artist, that she has a long way to fall. He helpfully adds, "Timber!" Jay tells Sara that she looks like a blow-up doll. Kari notes that her walk was horrible, but says that, at the end of the day, the photo shoot is the most important thing. Oh, naïve Kari. Mollie Sue tells Jay that she's ready to give a range of facial expressions. She monotonously interviews that, in the shoots, she plans to blow everyone away and show her sparkling personality. She might have said something else, but I fell asleep for a minute. Jay tells Mollie Sue that if he were as pretty as she is, maybe he wouldn't try so hard either. She asks why he thinks that she wasn't trying, and he nonsensically says that when she tries, she holds everything in. He then asks her to scream at the top of her lungs. She kind of does, but Jay tells her that she needs to come out of her shell. He interviews that he almost broke Mollie Sue down, but still got nothing. Backstage, she cries and says that she knows she's trying, but that she's coming up short. Someone who is not coming up short is Leslie, who is super-hot. Yowza. Brooke wears a nude body stocking. Nnenna does well. Danielle tells us that she got into character and felt like Snow White or, as she says, "Snow Black." Jay, who prefers to go by "Snow Orange," says that Danielle rocked the shoot. Danielle has already exceeded his expectations, as he told Tyra. Gina says that she should be rocking her photo shoots. Shoulda, coulda, woulda, didn't. Gina blames her poor performance on Jade's sour faces from the sidelines. She actually says "sour faces." Jay tells her that she got vacant. Vacant is a way of life for Gina. She interviews that she knows she can do well, but that she's letting the little petty things get to her. Petty things like photos and challenges and the fact that the other girls find it funny when she gnaws through tree-trunks in order to fashion a shelter for herself.