The Fantastic Four! - 
by EdHIll
It occurred to me last Wednesday when Project Runway was a repeat that it was the one and only repeat of the season, which worked out perfectly for me since I was in L.A. with the rest of the jaded Hollywood TVgasm crew and their jewel encrusted Sidekicks. You have to appreciate a show that doesn't leave you hanging with numerous season-stretching repeats. And the one repeat they did have was at the crucial moment before the big fashion show in New York, timed so we could spend a week debating who out of the final 4 was the decoy. Bravo, Bravo. Bravo.
But this week Project Runway is back, and it's a special episode. We finally get to find out who goes to Bryant Park, and since it's the second to last episode (not including the reunion special) it gives me the opportunity to use penultimate in a sentence. And if that wasn't exciting enough, stories are now out that Jeffrey may be disqualified for cheating in his final runway show for outsourcing his sewing. So how much drama was in this episode? Eh, actually not a whole lot after we found out what the big twist was. Read all about it after the jump.
In more evidence that we have come to the home stretch the episode starts with a quick two minute recap of the season so far. Angela's insanity, Vincent's masturbating and Kayne's floppy man tits. All images come flooding back. After the brief walk down memory lane, the show then goes to the morning after the last elimination. We see Uli waking up all alone in the bedroom. Angela's boner destroying hippie sack is now just a memory. A horrifying blood curdling memory. In the boys apartment Jeff nudges Michael saying it's time to wake up and "time to fight". Obviously he doesn't mean literally since he's a pudgy former junkie who prefers to pick fights with middle aged women. Michael would eat him alive. No, this fight is more of a metaphorical fashion like fight. Jeff doesn't win those either.
Then we hear Jeff talking about the final challenge and his chances of advancing. "Each of us does something very specific. If you like peasant blouses, big and flowy, Uli's in, if you like run of the mill friendly fashion them Michaels in, and if you like mothballs and chicken soup then Laura's in." OK, I get that Jeffrey is a self conscious asshole who needs to validate his own shitty talent by disparaging others, but "moth balls and chicken soup"? That's a little too random even for me. I mean I enjoy chicken soup and mothballs perform a valuable function. But aybe he means Mothballs and chicken soup. But that's just gross. Who would even like that? Oh Jeff, your metaphors confuse and frighten me!
From there we cut to everyone getting ready for their big day. Laura has got her messed up morning hair going, and it looks much better than the stern schoolmarm slicked back hair look she's been sporting all season. Add in the fact that the t-shirt she is wearing has a neckline that is above her navel and she is barely recognizable(shes wearing a Blogging Project Runway T-shirt which begs the question: Wheres the TVgasm love? When will we get a t-shirt shout out?). She is of course still riding high from her recent win.
As is Michael. He is out on the rooftop contemplating life and getting ready for his last challenge. He says that ever since he was nine years old he has wanted to be a fashion designer. This makes me a little self conscious since when I was all I wanted to do was watch cartoons and pick my nose. The more things change....
On the runway they are met by Heidi as always. This next challenge is the big one she says. It will decide who makes fashion week, and who makes fashion week as the decoy (although they don't ever say that). 
The whole experience is made more immediate by the image of just 4 designers sitting before her. It's finally come to this. Heidi says that she will not tell them what their challenge is. Instead they will go meet with Nina Garcia at Elle magazines headquarters tomorrow, located oddly enough across the hall from Cracked Magazine World Headquarters. And then Heidi brings us to the most heart wrenching moment of the show. Time for the model elimination. With Kayne gone it leaves my early pick, and current celebrity girlfriend Amanda, out in the cold.
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