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
Meanwhile, Nicole's Life As A Cover Girl gets ever more exciting as she has an interview with Star magazine. Jeane Dixon predicts, "Nicole will suffer a tragic head injury when a cue card, angry at its mistreatment, flings itself at her violently." The sad part is that when Tyra puts the Stepford Nicole robot in her place, we won't even know the difference.
The girls lounge in bed. Brooke says she thinks she did the worst in the challenge. She interviews that it's important for her to do well in this week's photo shoot, since she hasn't done well in the past. Mollie Sue feels the same way.
Tyra Mail! "At ten years old, you said, 'When I grow up, I want to be a model.' I hope you're not still saying that when you're my age." No, when they're Tyra's age, they'll be spouting some nonsense about "dead eyes" and "looking fierce" and "I have only one photo in my hands." Everyone is characteristically befuddled. Leslie gets to interview something non-important, which at least gives me a little chance to reflect on how foxy she is.
The girls head to CBS Studios and are escorted to the green room of The Tyra Banks Show, which is actually blue. My friend Nadia works for The Tony Danza Show, and I once hung out in the green room there. Patrick Swayze was the main guest that day, and his face looked like it was melting off. Other than that, the whole experience wasn't too eventful. The girls applaud as Tyra greets them backstage. She says that they are actually in her dressing room. I know she's put on a few pounds, but I don't think she needs that much space to get dressed. Tyra says that, from the age of fifteen or sixteen, she dedicated herself to modeling, but that she always knew it was a temporary career. She says that she wants to raise strong women as well as strong models, and asks the girls what their future goals are.
Danielle says that when she was a little girl she always wanted to be a singer. Even though she can't sing at all. I don't think the assignment was "Name a fantasy career"; otherwise Tyra would have said "singer," too. Furonda says that she wants to be a human-rights attorney, because it's the human-rights attorneys who get to wear the cool fluffy tiaras. Leslie wants to go into criminal justice. Mollie Sue wants to remain in the fashion industry, even if that means working in hair or makeup. Gina is interested in fashion design. Joanie -- fighting against type by naming neither "stripper" nor "orthodontist" as her future career -- says she thinks that being a mother is an important job. Tyra reminds us that it's all about her by saying that she's wanted children for so long, but feels that she has to be at a more settled place in her life before doing so. If she wants to wait until she's through exploiting the dumb and interviewing pedophiles and such, I really can't find fault with that. Jade wastes no time jumping in and saying how much she loves kids and that she wants to be a kindergarten teacher. Jade possesses such a distinct flavor of evil that I really thought her choice would be "recapper." ["Uhhhhh...she can be on Sars's team?" -- Wing Chun] Danielle interviews that it's so random to hear Jade say that she wants to be a teacher, and adds that she would home-school her child before sending her to Jade's class. Well done, Danielle. Sara says that she would like to be a prosecutor. Nnenna has a degree in Chemistry and would like to do drug research in Africa. And then there's Brooke, who says, "I want to be a nurse necessitist?" Just like that, "nurse necessitist, question mark," does Brooke name her totally authentic dream career. Tyra very slowly asks, "Meaning, 'anesthetist'?" and then explains that this means Brooke wants to put people under. If you mean "put people under an IQ of 100," Brooke already has a leg up.