![]() ![]() In the episode, contestant Tiffany Richardson is kicked off in dramatic fashion, after Tyra berates her for “giving up.” Early in the episode, Richardson, faced with the challenges of eating foods, pronouncing words she didn’t know, and attempting an acting challenge that proved beyond her range of preparedness, confessed to the cameras, “I joke a lot. In an episode of the BuzzFeed podcast “ Rerun,” host Doree Shafrir and New York Times Magazine’s Jazmine Hughes discussed one of the series’ most infamous episodes, the seventh episode of Season 4,”The Girl Who Pushes Tyra Over the Edge,” which is noteworthy for touching on Tyra’s interest in exposing her contestants to greater opportunity. ![]() By watching even the clumsiest girl master a catwalk strut or the plainest girl win a modeling challenge, we grew to understand just how much grace is a strategy (rather than an innate and unteachable gift). Instead, “ANTM’s” greatest strength, at least during those earliest cycles, was in convincing young adult viewers that we were all capable of perfecting poise, of selling “it” - no matter what “it” might be in our day-to-day lives, and of smiling with only our eyes - an underrated skill if ever there were one. From its first season forward, I viewed the show less as a modeling competition and more as a cultural anthropology study (as well as the source of some seriously impressive photographs, from Yoanna House‘s to Nik Pace‘s to Eva Marcille‘s). It was never about who would win the coveted Ford modeling contract - especially after we began to realize how symbolic that contract would be for many of the winners. ![]() I didn’t watch “ANTM” past Season 4, but news of its cancellation still triggered a wave of nostalgia. ![]()
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