Episode Report Card Potes: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Battle Of The Blands
By Potes | Season 7 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.05.2006
Nigel says that they've got two blondes, but that they're two completely different girls. Melrose takes great photos, but doesn't have the same wow factor as Caridee. Miss J. says that's because she knows everything and has studied it. Too technical, as they like to say. Tyra says that Melrose has a history of the other girls not liking her, and that maybe it's jealousy. Jay says that they're chastising Melrose for the very things they ask of the girls in the competition: intelligence (well, I don't know about that one) and knowledge of the fashion industry. Nigel says that he really sees the passion in Caridee. Twiggy agrees, but says that Caridee is a bit of a loose cannon. She laughs again at Caridee's performance on the runway, and says that Melrose was amazing. Miss J. acknowledges that Caridee was busted. Jay says that the fashion industry loves extremes, and that Caridee is extreme. There are designers out there who would love her. Miss J. then calls her the Runaway Bride of Chucky, which is actually pretty funny. Tyra says that they have one girl who knows fashion and is strong, but might not be likable. Then there's another girl with a pureness and lightness, and who also takes great pictures, but is unpredictable slash unstable. Nigel asks whether being unpredictable is a bad thing, and Jay asks how many of the folks at the table are predictable. Tyra says, kind of charmingly, "I'm not unpredictable, child. You know I'm gonna have a hair weave, a bunch of makeup on, and a dress that's cinched at my waist." Heh.
Caridee and Melrose walk back in. They get a chance to say what the competition meant to them. Caridee loves the fashion industry and always wanted to model, but couldn't for part of her life. But now she's had the chance, and the judges believe in her. She thanks them. She's crying. Awww. Melrose says that she feels like she's having an "outer body experience." Hey, me too!
Anyway, America's Next Top Model is...Caridee. I mean, clearly. The best part of the whole thing is that Melrose is pissed. Like, visibly. She weeps and interviews that she gave her everything and that it wasn't enough, and what's more, she was called a bitch the whole way through. She totally looks like some evil Disney queen right now. She feels really misunderstood, and she's sad. She says that it's Bum City right now. I want to make an L on my forehead and sing the loser song as she exits. That's not very nice of me, is it?
Meanwhile, Caridee is happy. She's ScalyDee no longer! She has overcome the horrors of psoriasis, only to become prone to the horrors of becoming America's Next Top Model. Good for her? I think? But really, I am happy that she seems happy, and I think she's gorgeous, and we'll just wait and see if she starts to burn up the Paris runways anytime soon.