Previously on Project Runway, Fat Bitch Heidi sold running shoes for people who wear a lot of grey, apparently. Also, Dollivier the Beigeian almost died in PE class and Jersey Chore went ape shit and crosseyed on poor ole Martha Plumpton for being dowdy.
Now first, I want to take a moment to address some comments about Matlock. Yes, I love him. There, I said it!! He’s mean, arrogant, bitter, sad, and extremely tired. In other words, I relate. When Kors said one of Nutless’ models had cameltoe and Matlock cheered, I cheered right along with him.

Still don’t love him? But he made a grown man cry!!

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Still no? Well, then I don’t know what else to do. How bout I just, you know, write a recap? Ok then. We open with Nutless saying he called a truce with Matlock. Uh-huh. And this is why it should be legal to burn the flag.

With someone in it.
You guys, is something wrong with Dollivier? I mean, like, physically? He’s beige, he can’t talk, and he’s always staring off into space. Fake accents kill you veeeery slooooowly.

Dribble down the chin.
Matlock is in a positive mood, which is super ugly on him. He says that he’s going to do his best not to be an asshole to anyone. WHY?!? Because when he’s a bitch it means he has to wake up and apologize, which means he has to hug nutless greasy queens who cry a lot and don’t take showers. The gays on this show are visibly dirty. I don’t call him Icktor for nuttin.

Meanwhile, over in the other apartment, Martha Plumpton is getting her positive vibes together by commiserating with her best friend.

She has moved in with the other girls, since all of her original roomies either got fired or quit because they didn’t wanna run the track. As she thanks them for making her feel welcome and sharing their carbs with her, Bimbo tells us that she isn’t a Plumpton fan. In other words, she hates old people and is in favor of Death Panels.

How’s that change workin’ out for ya?
Fat Bitch Heidi comes out on the runway looking like she just ate a food court.

She congratulates Icktor for making something that didn’t suck last week and Jersey Chore for winning on stuff he didn’t even design and making an insecure chunky girl cry. Models are terrible people.
Fat Bitch’s riddle of the day is something about going back to school. Everyone tries to think really deeply about what she might mean, but I’m pretty sure she just called y’all dumbasses. They meet Tim in Harlem and find him hiding in the bushes with some hot black teacher.

Tim, you dirty whore! That guy still has a boner!
There are a bunch of kids there too, and they’re all covering their boners, too.

They’re gonna go home and tell their parents that teacher made some old man scream in the bushes and all hell’s gonna break loose in Harlem. The challenge is to create an avant garde look inspired by the kids’ artwork. I predict there will be lots of grey sleeveless tops with grey mini skirts and scarred children. Icktor is pissed he has to work with kids. How do you think they feel? You look like Tim Burton made you.

Miss Trinidad is excited about an Art School challenge, because her parents really believed in using art to mold her. They must have been so proud when she learned how to use a video camera.

Nutless is partnered with Wu Qing. That sounds like one of those trick Scrabble words. Wu draws a picture of Nina seventy years ago.

Icktor is working with a hilarious girl named Skyy who won’t shut the fuck up. He’s all uncomfortable and eye rolly, which just makes her talk more. She tells him exactly what to sew, and makes sure he accentuates the boobs. LOL! He says he could only deal with her full time if he was drunk. AW! That’s called parenting! There’s a reason this bitch was named after cheapish vodka.

Do you like trees? I do. How come you hate the sun? And vegetables? And English? I like ponies and crossword puzzles. Do you take fish oil? You should. Why are you sweating? Do you need sugar? I knew a girl once who died cuz she didn’t have sugar. She looked like you. In her coffin, I mean. When she was alive she was really pretty. Are you on facebook? We should be friends. Call me! Where are you going? Hey come back! I wanna tell you something!
Matlock is paired with a mute, so he’s happy. There’s also a giant dick behind him, which helps.

Tim is so taking that home.
Gay Mormon is painting some demonic wolf with his kid and talking about how he can’t wait for the afterlife, where he’ll have twelve wives on his own planet instead of being devoured in the Underworld by a gay eating spawn of Satan. The teenager’s like um………..

So…you’re not a homo?
Beigian likes his teen. She seems to be fascinated that he’s actually walking and talking like a real boy. She is making a vibrant, colorful painting, so he jumps in and paints over it in different shades of beige.

She asks what kind of music he likes, and he says “weally depwessy museek.” The music stops and the camera sticks on her face.

Where the frick you from, doll boy?
Jersey Chore’s kid thinks he’s being complemented on his art when Chore lisps “it lookth like the earth is crying into itself”, but then he realizes he was looking into his compact the whole time. Bimbo takes her inspiration time to complain to an 11 year old about how mean Matlock was last week. LOL! LOVE. IT. Kai, the deepest 11 year old alive, tells her that failure is opportunity in disguise. Ah, kids. Sometimes failure is just failure not disguised as anything but failure.
Nutless and his kid made self portraits. He’s very Asian, which leads me to believe he’s admitting that he has a tiny wiener on national TV. Sometimes it’s ok to not admit your faults, mkay?

Yoko OhNothatpeepeeistiny
The kid paints crowns on their heads. He thinks she is empowering him, but I think she just doesn’t wanna have to draw his lame ass fauxhawk. She’s an artist, dammit. He points out that they are making themselves the same color as the background. Hey! You’re stepping into Dollivier’s beige territory, ya fruit! Back off my favorite jaundiced doll and find your own terrible taste to exploit!
HImberly made a really pissed of Fruit Loops bird.

I don’t know who painted this one, but I want it. It’s Kors without a hair piece and a wattle.

Back in the workroom, it’s time to sketch. Icktor says he’s never gonna have kids and the girls all laugh as ovaries across America rejoice. He wants to make something “airy”. I can’t believe, with all the gay hacky references this queen spouts, he hasn’t decided to make a tribute to Ursula the Sea Witch.


The Poor Unfortunate Soul look
Matlock’s inspiration reminds him of when he was off the wagon. He’s gonna make something Liz Taylor inspired, I bet.

Dollivier ees confusededed. Shocker. He’s going to try and work with colors today, or at least I think so. He’s holding colored pencils, but they seem to have frozen him in time. He’s just sitting there with drool dripping down his face. Color is his kryptonite. Put down the pencils, Beigeian!
Jersey Chore’s kid drew a tree, and Jersey says he only likes fake things. Once he starts looking at this as a giant veiny penis with an STD he’ll be in his element and make something leather and assless and glittery.


You’ve practiced your whole life for this.
Nutless is going all out and making…something beige. Gay Mormon thinks maybe he’ll go a little less literal, which is probably a good idea since his painting is of a giant wolf rat thing.

Let’s go to Mood! Tim’s chasing ass again.

Leave the stud alone, slut. You’re on the clock.
Guess what Dollivier’s buying!

Tim is horrified at Gay Mormon’s plan to buy fur. So is Swatch. LOL. He decides on faux fur. Just as tacky, but a quarter of the price. So he’s making a giant scary killer rat in fake fur. I think I’ve already seen that on TV this week.

I hate Teresa
He’s only spent half of his money and can’t believe that making something cheap is so cheap. Gay Mormon isn’t long for this world. Back at the workroom, Dollivier and Matlock have a dour buddy movie moment. Dollivier hates Matlock’s color, and Matlock hates humanity. They’re so cute. Icktor tells us how wrong everyone else is in their fabric choices, which makes me hope that he loses. Well, makes me hope more that he loses. He disses Miss Trinidad’s black branches, but she’s kicked his ass before and she’ll do it again. Meanwhile, Jersey Chore gets ready for bed.

Where’s Tim? Dammit he’s outside again in his underwear. Someone needs to get that whore under control.

Miss Trinidad gets to narrate to us what the challenge is in her bizarre fake accent. There are so many fake accents on this show I can’t tell what’s what in the real world anymore. Romana asked me where the garbage bags were and I told her to speak to me in real English. I currently have a bag of peas on my left eye. Fucking maids. She’s probably been legal and totes American this whole time and just keeps coming twice a week because she takes pleasure in tricking me. Sorry. Back to important things. Icktor’s digging deep for inspiration. Well, as deep as that fool gets.

Tim puts on some pants and comes to inspire them. Matlock is worried about what the challenge is exactly. Bridget Bardot? No? Eva Gardner? No? WHAT?! Tim says just not to make something red carpety! Go artistic! Matlock jiggles his giant frog wattle back and forth in deep thought for a minute and then decides avant garde must just mean to make something forward thinking. I hope when he makes flare jeans from the nineties and gets yelled at by the judges he blames Icktor.
Jersey Chore is cutting out cardboard pieces or something to resemble a forest fire. It’s fitting, really. Smart people would run from either of them. He starts crying because his mom died of ovarian cancer. Oh Jesus. So I have to be nice to him now? UGH CANCER YOU GOT ME AGAIN! Jersey says his mom was his rock and he doesn’t think he would be here without her. Um, you wouldn’t be. Cuz you wouldn’t be born. Dumbshit. He wants to carve her initials into a model in his mom’s honor. Did she teach him how to put makeup on his face? Did she give him his first eyebrow wax? Did she start that spray tanning shit? Because if so, I’d like to find an angel to send her a card for me. “Dearest Dead Momma Chore, you created a monster and now all gay people look terrible. A hole. Love, Flipit.” Seriously though, you guys, cancer’s terrible.

So this is YOUR fault.
Let’s move on. I feel uncomfortable. Let’s go over to Matlock, who looks like he’s about to kill a litter of puppies for fun.

Nutless isn’t too impressed with Gay Mormon’s fur mess. Um, Nutless, remember how last week you almost got the boot for being fucking terrible? How bout you stfu and sew something not terrible, k? Leave Barney Rubble alone. It’s either this or go back to wearing full body underwear and pretending he doesn’t wanna throw up every time his mom makes him go to ice cream socials to meet a nice pack of girls.

Notice I didn’t say you were wrong.
Matlock is struggling to keep his “don’t be an asshole” pledge, so he takes his frustration out on the dress forms and starts beating the shit out of them like they stole his val-pak right out of his mailbox.

Inconsiderate skinny bitch faces! Now I have to pay full price for my paper towels!
Bimbo is going on about how she’s making a flower dress, and to not have frayed edges, she’s burning them. “Smells like when I used to burn my Barbies.” HAHAH. Martha Plumpton, who has respect for Barbies, is not amused. I hope she pokes her with a cigarette later. Plumpton really needs to grow a pair.

Accident, sweetie.
Jersey Chore moseys on up to Plumpton to judge her dowdiness on a scale of 40 to death. He doesn’t have anything terrible to say about it. Not because the good Lord touched his helmet hair with his spirit, but because if Plumpton isn’t tacky this week it’s because of Jersey Chore’s dedicated instruction last week. You mean the part where you called her untalented and lazy until she sobbed in the girl’s room? Ass. I hope Martha did learn something last week, and now she carries a can of Aqua Net and a lighter in her purse just in case your ass decides to strike.
Bimbo starts trolling for gossip and asks Matlock if he’s gay. Instead of slapping her upside the head and telling her to respect her elders with law degrees, he says duh he’s gay. Is he married? No. How come? Husband’s dead. Was it sad? Shrug. Meh. He had AIDS. Jesus!!! He tossed that out so casually. Everyone gets quiet, cuz how can you respond to that? “I’m sorry, did you say the weather is beautiful today?” “Um, no. He had AIDS bitch mind your own beez”. The kids don’t know what to do with someone who doesn’t use their pain to sob out stories that will help the producers find excuses to keep them til the finals. Frankly, I don’t know how to deal with it either. Cuz Matlock’s husband dying of AIDS should all be about how it makes me feel, right?
He explains dourly in the diary room that he was in love at first sight and losing his man so young turned him into a raging alcoholic. But it’s all ok now and he’s enjoying his life. Can you tell?

Paaaartaaaay!
Hey Project Runway, could ya do me a favor and limit the AIDS and dead parent stories to one a week? I don’t like being reminded what a cold unfeeling sociopath I am five times an episode. Kthnx. Oh shit that storyline’s not done yet. Now Matlock’s making a video call. You know those Apple commercials, where everyone’s cute and sweet and one necked and they all love each other on video phone? Yeah. That’s not this call.

UGH how’d you kids get in the TV? I’m tryin’ ta get a neighbor off a murder charge! Your kid’s gonna be gay and you need a haircut. Are we done here? SOMEONE SHOW ME HOW TO CHANGE THE CHANNEL BACK TO MYSELF!
I’m kidding. The whole thing is super sweet. Even the part where he flips his sister off at the end.

Go fuck yourself. Talk soon hon!
At the end of day one, Gay Mormon is super excited about the pile of fur he has on the table. Bimbo tells the other girls at home that it’s stressful having to work next to him cuz that fur is so bad. Cut to him giggling about how awesome it’s gonna be. HAHAH.

It’s totes how my wives’ backs are gonna look.
Jersey Chore, with his Barney Rubble fetish, is unconditionally supportive of his friend. That’s what got his ass kicked off in the first place. There’s a word for people that tell you you’re awesome even when you’re not. LIARS.
Something that never lies? Bimbo’s yet to find botox face.

Tim brings in the kids to check on progress. Icktor isn’t happy. I hope that Icktor’s sweet, talented, strong black girl kid sees his behind the back behavior and hunts him down and pummels his pallid ass until he speaks English properly. The kids mostly just ooh and ahh and talk to the adults in the same fakey bake baby voices that they are being spoken to in. Gay Mormon’s kid gives him serious tips, though, and he writes them all down. LOL. Take talent wherever you can get it, sugar. Icktor’s kid says that if she saw his dress and it was cheap, she’d buy it. HAHAHAHAH! He so deserved that.
Tim checks on progress. Nutless has zero done. He’s pinned some felt shoe horns to the dress form. What is, this? Bible School? That’s the only place felt cutouts should be allowed.

Tim tells Miss Trinidad not to worry, he doesn’t think she can ever do anything that’s not tasteful. Even as he stands before this monstrosity. Nanny goes to prom.

Doughy Christian is making yet another Alexis Couture dress.

You’re making Alexis look tasteful and classy. How are you still here?

Warning: Alexis will cut off the sleeves.
Himberly took her Fruit Loops painting and turned it into a ballet dancer’s funeral outfit. Haven’t we already seen that this season? She throws some muslin over the tutu and Tim says Kors will have a Hiawatha moment. LOL.

Geroninono
Tim compliments Bimbo’s ruffly peach fug dress to the max, but I think Martha Plumpton’s got it right when she says it looks like a bad prom dress. Tim asks the kid what she thinks, and she says something about positivity being the fruit off the tree of life or some shit. He shrugs and walks away. Poor artistic little girl. I hope her parents don’t lose their jobs during this shit economy. It would be terrible to see her have to drop out of Art School and be put in the public heathen educational system. Her little Buddha ass will be beat senseless.
Martha Plumpton is making a simple black dress with kindergarten blocks all over the shoulder. It’s…terrible. Which I hate saying, because I’m rooting for her. Icktor says it looks like a FedEx guy came by and dropped boxes all over her. Still hate you, but HAHA nonetheless.
Matlock is making the costume from Willy Wonka when Violet turned Violet, Violet.

Himberly thinks it’s too literal, but I don’t see a skinny lady with unfortunate giant hips in his painting. Matlock tries to sell it with all his might to Tim, and Tim seems to fall for it. He asks the kid what he thinks, but Matlock has sewn his mouth shut.

Dollivier says he hates color and Tim says “no shit” in the classiest way possible. The skin is the same color as the hair which is the same color as the dress which is the same color as the dress form. He throws a little blue on there to show that he can do it without his skin melting off, but at the end of the day a beige dress is a beige dress.

Tim doesn’t think it goes far enough. Soyew no likeyeth? Tim says he didn’t say that, it’s just that it doesn’t go far enough. Soyew tinkdat I neva yoo chiffonza forebe ees no interesteen? WTF?!? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Are you talking in Pig Latin now? Pick a fake accent and stick with it ya fuckin weirdo. Tim tells him that using materials he’s never used doesn’t make it avant garde, but Doll doesn’t comprehend what he’s saying. I’m sure it’s mutual, ya freak. Just go back to beiging everything and be quiet.
Jersey Chore, still not really seeing the giant veiny penis he’s been given on a big silver platter, has made a pilgrim outfit. A bad one. That thing has me rooting for the Indians to win.

The glue gun and plastic rubies will come out in 4, 3, 2….Tim says no one wants his bs crosseyed story about cancer. It has to work on its own. Jersey crosses his eyes and pouts.

I think I said “earth swallowing its own tears” part wrong. I have a dimple though!! YOU’RE OLD AND USELESS! WAAAHHHHH!
Gay Mormon has made a dominatrix church outfit with a fake fur hat. Tim thinks it’s too literal, and Nutless says Gay Mormon isn’t refiiiined enough to compete here. Please, God, make Nutless lose and sob his eyes out tonight. PLEASE. I love nothing more than an overconfident snotty snob crying like a little bitch. And if not, there’s always last time.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

But…in the painting the rat/wolf isn’t wearing a skirt or a broach so….not literal!
Icktor tries to talk to Tim, but his kid takes over and sells the shit out of it. Hilarious. He could learn a thing or two from that kid. Ick decides he likes kids after all. I’m sure they’re all thrilled and not scared of your dead gay mortician look now.
Now let’s listen as the designers tell us that everyone else sucks. Bimbo no likey Dollivier’s too simple beigeness, and Miss Trinidad says that Gay Mormon needs to try a little harder after getting kicked off and brought back. As if he could hear her in the diary room, he instantly tries harder.

Men with hair get more respect. You’re in!! And the way the judging’s gone so far this season, it’s plausible.
Bimbo gives dirty looks to Martha Plumpton’s dress every chance she gets, and it cracks me up every time. Then Icktor says “I secretly like Matlock’s work.” LOL!!! Thirty minutes left. GayMormon is skerd shitless. Bimbo thinks he should be. Icktor says, out loud, that it looks like Carmen Miranda became a vampire. UGH WHY AM I LIKING ICKTOR!?!?! The designers stand around in a circle and agree that he’s in trouble. Dang, you guys. Jersey Chore has a Trader Joe’s bag about to walk the runway. Focus on his stupid ass and leave the nice guy alone. The clouds part, the sun shines, and my favorite thing ever happens. Man tears!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Gay Mormon feels like he’s not good enough. And he’s not. But neither are most of the dumdums here. They’re just delusional enough to get through it. So….get more delusional and stop being such a pussy, GayMo! Did Barney Rubble cry because he was a second rate sidekick? NO! He waxed his feet, got the best mole skin dress he could find, and he worked the shit out of Bedrock.

Wait. I think he ended up marrying Rosie O’Donnell. Never mind. This doesn’t have a happy ending after all. Cry your eyes out.
Gay Mormon is so sweet. I hope that he inspires other guys to be in the closet. Like maybe this one:

I actually feel sorry for that sweater thing. It was destined to live with a ten year old girl and instead it got stuck with this horror show.
The next morning, Jersey Chore is carving his mom’s initials into his model. He goes on with a story about how his mom was so inspiring and blah. I hate to sound so hateful, but come on. He’s doing that so that when he sends a hideous brown paper bag down the runway and gets called on it, he can tell the mom story and make the judges forget. Immunity or not, there’s no way he’s not getting called out for that nightmare. I’m sure his mom is real proud as her memory is used cheaply so her orange child can look better on a reality show. You have immunity. Save the dead mom card, dude.
Hair and makeup! Smoke break! Dollivier, who’s now French, tells us that he is doubting himself even though everyone (British now) tells him that (Spanish) he’s really really (deaf) talented. Everyone has their model’s hair styled HUGE, cuz that’s totes avant garde. Back to Dollivier. He can’t finish and his top is flapping off the model, so he glues it onto her. LOLOLOL!! Tim comes in to tell him that’s against the rules as Icktor screams CHEATER! in the diary room. So gluing shit to models is bad, but carving initials into them is ok? That’s fucked up.
Bimbo gives Martha Plumpton’s work some more dirty looks as Plumpton says that Bimbo’s model looks like a toilet papered Barbie. HAHAH. This could blossom into a really awesome rivalry. I hope they go at it soon. I got my money on Plumpton. There’s nothing Plump mature women hate more than skinny little bleach blondes. FIGHT!
Jersey Chore says Doughy Christian needs to go because he’s too safe. Let’s play a game: name one bitchy queen on this show that’s actually consistently good.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Waiting.
I couldn’t do it either. All y’all need to shut up with your tacky underhanded backstabbing and just stop sucking, k?
Runway time! Fat Bitch Heidi comes out looking like she’s been hooked to a Crisco IV for forty years. What an embarrassment. Let’s say hi to the judges! Hi Kors!

Hi Nina!

Wait! It’s not Nina! Nina would never wear a bikini! This is the senior editor of Marie Claire. Meh. Let’s just call her Whore Gremlin. Hi Guest Judge Kenneth Cole!

The kids are there, and Skyy is doublyy excited to see Kenneth Cole. I love Skyy. She needs a Judge show. Himberly’s Fruit Loops inspired dress is first. It’s very Kim Kardashian gets the Bird Flu.


So how is Himberly’s dress not too literal? It’s inspired by a bird and it’s covered in feathers. I guess cuz it’s black instead of bright red and aqua? Hopefully that will be explained later. Martha Plumpton had a space painting, which somehow made her think of a black dress covered in fuzzy dice.

Scented pine trees would have been avant garde.
Dollivier’s inspiration is colorful and pretty. His dress is…wait for it….beige.

I was so intent on writing beige that I forgot to type “terrible”.

His explanation? “I thing silenze ess da mosse powerful voicce”. Um….no it’s not. You can say it in as many accents as you want, but silence will always just be silent.
Jersey Chore kept the carved up model wearing a paper bag skirt, but he added a super cool orange pinata top. I really like it. Of course, I liked it when Failene made the EXACT same thing a couple of weeks ago and got kicked off for having the audacity to use brown and orange together. Interesting how Jersey hated it so much then and now boom. Same. Fuckin. Thing.


Matlock’s fat girl obsessed with Happy Meal toys look is next.

Icktor is up with his tribute to Quilted Northern.

Bimbo’s Lawrence Welk sherbet dress is up next. FUUUUG.

Doughy Christian’s Alexis Couture straightjacket dress has had a denim (?) broom skirt added. This guy is just terrible and needs to do some pushups if he’s gonna wear wife beaters every week go.

Gay Mormon should have stuck to his guns. His slutty pilgrim dress was way better with fake fur. The only way to tell cheap pilgrim hookers apart is through accessorizing, dammit!

Nutless made a nude dress with shoe horns going every which way. I don’t get how it’s avant garde, but it sure is perty.

Miss Trinidad’s saloon couch dress isn’t much different than when Tim saw it. It’s probably the most unique so far, and I wish Nina was here so she could be amazed at how Miss Trinidad learned to sew so well in four weeks. Still, though, none of this is avant garde, right?

Nutless, Gay Mormon, Dollivier (blinking furiously like an epileptic at a dance club), Bimbo, Jersey Chore and Matlock are kept on the runway. Backstage, the other designers talk trash. Everyone but Icktor thinks Matlock will be on the bottom. How the HELL is Doughy Christian safe? HOW?!?!?!? He says that if Matlock wins, he’ll jump out the window. If that’s not a reason for you to root for Matlock, I’m going to just quit trying.
The Judges all love Jersey Chore’s work, forgetting that they just called Failene too Halloweeny for the same colors a couple of weeks ago. Now look, his is way better made, but still. Hypocrites. Do they even watch this show? And that skirt is good because it’s made out of wet suit material and painted? It’s FUGLY. Gay Mormon goes on and on with his pitch, but Kors kills his dream by saying the model looks like a Victorian cocktail waitress in Vegas. HAHAH. Whore Gremlin calls it trashy, and Heidi says it’s Halloween hooker. Gay Mormon tries to stick up for it, but Whore Gremlin says that it’s universally hated. It’s not us, it’s you, sweetie. I like her.
Whore Gremlin doesn’t like Matlock’s look, and Kors agrees. It’s not art, it’s just a fat girl with shit glued to her. Fat Bitch liked it, because it might be something she could fit into. The judges keep saying no one would wear it. Isn’t this an avant garde challenge? Does it matter that no one would wear it? Why am I thinking this hard? Sorry.
The judges like Bimbo’s Lawrence Welk dress, but not fervently. Whore Gremlin doesn’t get it, but after she hears the story behind it she likes it. Wait. I thought that you were supposed to not have to hear a story? It’s supposed to stand on its own, right? Tim really needs to be a judge. He’s contradicted way too much and he’s not ever there to stand up for himself.
Dollivier talks about how his kid loves bright colors as he pitches his beige dress. HAHA. Whore Gremlin loves the top, which invalidates her entire worldview to me. She could say murder is wrong and I wouldn’t believe her at this point. Kors says Dollivier needs to not be afraid of being powerful. Or of living. Or of the sun. They all fall over Nutless’ dress, but Kenneth thinks it’s shabbily made and looks like a student did it. He’s right. It looks like total shit in closeups.

So Jersey Chore is gonna win AGAIN? I hope they hurry up and decide before his poor model bleeds out. Pretty obvious that Gay Mormon’s outta there. In private time, the judges agree that Jersey was the most creative and Bimbo’s was the most well made. Nutless made something simple and you could see someone wearing it. They say this as a compliment. ? Kenneth knocks him for the shit execution again, and we move on to the bottoms.
Kors says Dollivier’s clothes are valium clothes. HA. Heidi’s bored too, and when she’s bored she eats. So she knocks back an ice cream cake while the other judges bitch about Gay Mormon being so proud of his hooker costume. Kors says that Matlock’s work looked like a Teletubby. HAHAH. Then they all mock it and laugh and laugh. They’re horrible people. I love them. Kenneth says it looks like a toddler with toys stuck to it so they don’t lose them. Love it. They go on and on and on.
The winner is…Nutless!! Kenneth Cole gets no respect up in here. Matlock is in, cuz Fat Bitch liked the roomy trunk. It’s between Dollivier and Gay Mormon. GayMo’s out. Shocker! He giggles like a baby being strangled on a bumpy road anyway. He doesn’t even cry. Robbed! I want to feel for him, but he won’t. Stop. Laughing. Like a door creak. CYA Gay Moreman!
Next week, team challenge and Jersey Chore yells at old people some more and then blames his terrible personality and his crossed eyes on his dead mom! KEEP IT CLASSY BUDDY!
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Oh Flipit, thank you! I waited up for your recap, it wasn’t possible to go to sleep knowing that it might pop up any minute. It was totally worth the wait!
Unlike you, I like Nutless, but I think his dress could have been better. I loved the concept, but we have seen this collar before and the ‘paintbrush’ strokes should have been different sizes, direction, and shape (the way real brush strokes are), I see why Cole had problems with it. But I have always sincerely felt that Nutless should have won the first episode with his birdseed dress–so I was fine with the win and I didn’t love anyone else’s outfit more.
Otherwise, I completely agreed with you on everything. I am sick of the sob stories, Dolliver is fading fast, and Laura and Plumpton are going to go at it any day now. I too liked Gay Mormon’s dress better before he took the fur and everything else off. Icktor’s dress did look like tushy paper, and I thought Matlock’s look was beyond childish. I do not understand Heidi’s love for him–though I get yours. I couldn’t believe how you connected Doughy Christian’s red dress with Alexis Couture, what a thief! I haven’t forgiven the judges for not making him leave over the blue pee-pee pads skirt. I keep forgetting he is still on the show until he says things, and then it is like a whiff of urine saturates the air.
The kids were wonderful! I felt bad for Matlock’s kid–he clearly didn’t like what Matlock made. The art work was great and I loved the wolf. So much could have been done with it in more capable hands. And you are right, Skyy totally stole the show.
Also, it is obvious that there are some concepts that the designers don’t get–like Avant Garde. Why don’t they teach the designers a little and then send them off to make things showcasing what they learned–a new skill, term or technique? That way, when the losing designer interviews that he learned so much on the show, I might actually believe him.
Thanks again for a great job, the show is only worth watching when I know your recap is coming up next.
I couldn’t understand one single word Beigian said this week. He sounded like a mumbly Charlie Browns teacher.
No one even came close to Avant Garde which makes me question whether they even know what it is, which I find hard to believe, or whether they all decided to play safe based on the inconsistency of the judging. I mean, look at poor Gay Mormon…..everyone told him, including Tim, to get rid of the feathers for this challenge? I wanted Beigian to go home, that crap he did was just awful. I believe they thought they were getting another Mondo with him and all they got was…..beige.
At this point they should just drop the pretense and call this show “The Search for America’s Next Christian Siriano.”
OK, Beigian, I’ve had it. You are from Ohio. Ohio is my neighbor. I’ve met many people from Ohio. People from Ohio DO NOT talk like that. CUT.IT.OUT.NOW. I am seriously ready to beat your faux-accented ass until you start liking the Cleveland Browns.
funniest line ever: He says he could only deal with her full time if he was drunk. AW! That’s called parenting!
OMG. “Soyew tinkdat I neva yoo chiffonza forebe ees no interesteen? WTF?!? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Are you talking in Pig Latin now? Pick a fake accent and stick with it ya fuckin weirdo.” I just fell off my chair in hysterical laughter. You so have this person nailed. Too too too tooo funny. I love you!
I was about Jersey Chore’s age when my father died from a malignant brain tumor. And yet, I managed not to be a hissing, vicious cooze at every turn. Only when I was drunk. As it should be. His awfulness is all his and isn’t mitigated by the fact that he’s dealt with loss. That doesn’t make you a vapid, hateful, superficial bitch.
But I do love a good Patsy Stone, reference.
Icktor’s kid was spectacular. I loved when Icktor asked if all 12 year old girls are like her and I thought, only the best ones.
I thought Icktor was funny this week, too. And even likable when he was with his model getting her makeup done and made a comment about how high her cheekbones are instead of where his are and he pointed to his jaw. He developed some self-awareness.
The reason none of the looks were avant garde was because they only cast RTW designers. Not one of them showed any inkling of being artful or over the top or anything you’d need to really interpret the challenge to be “avant garde.” It’s not something that can really be taught. Kors and Cole would also fail miserably at making avant garde clothes because they’re not Martin Margiela or Rei Kawakubo or Viktor and Rolf. It’s about aesthetic and sensibility and if you only cast a bunch of people who make clothes you can see in a boutique on Beverly, don’t expect them to create some jacked up crazy beautiful dress. At least when PR was produced by Magical Elves they’d cast people like Santino or Jeffrey or Chris March or Christian Siriano or ever Kenley and they’d run with being told to do something “avant garde.” Since it’s switched to BMP, the only people I could see even having an idea of what “avant garde” even means to fashion is Seth Aaron and maybe Irina.
Oh, I forgot to mention this earlier…..I was watching Season 5 reruns and saw those boxey sleeves that Iktor (I think) was rocking on his little black dress. So much for fashion forward. And I also wish those judges would stop even mentioning fashion forward, they’ve beat it to death and that’s not what they’re about anymore.
I agree with NWMTV and vallegirl….PR has definitely gone the RTW route since going over to Lifetime.
I was liking just about everybody this week, except Jersey Chore. He’s even more insufferable now that he blames his behaviour on his dead mom. I’m looking forward to next weeks argument….I can only hope there will be hair pulling and tears.
And Mondo would have understood avant garde. Unfortunately, the show chose to reward Gretchen and her low-flow hair and muddy-looking hemp clothes, so it’s not like the judges or producers have a better grasp of the term avant garde, either.
I am on page 6 and have to go feedcap… this is so good. I love your writing and would rather watch the show silently and have you narrate it. bbl
Pretty please?
Great, fabulous recap. As I watch the show I am thinking of them as Matlock, Bimbo etc. Loved Skyy! She was about to jump out of her skin during the runway because she wanted to talk so badly. She reminded me of the girl in Ferris Bueller who explained Ferris’ absence to the teacher: “My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard it from this guy who knows the kid who is going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night.”
OMG, Flip . . . you, you, you . . . absolutely awesome recap, hitting an orgasmic stride with the runway captions!!! You are Gold-Platinum!!! F’in Uranium for heaven’s sake!!!! HEART!!!
@Valle-you said cooze-hee!
Well, as usual, I’m a bit speechless and underwhelmed. I actually thought Himberly and Miss T had better looks than the ones they singled out. Doll should have been out . . . there is something seriously wrong with that kid, besides his accents. I still kind of enjoy it, in a train wreck kind of way, but I’d rather have my nice GayMo for another week of fail, poor guy. Tim love, love, loves him . . . if you still have it on your Tivo, DVR watch how he clasps and hugs and wraps around the kid. They should have given him a pass just for Tim’s sake . . . . selfish prigs. And call me crazy, I know it was black and white, and a dom look and all, but I liked the top part, and how the shirt hung out in the back. And they talked like looking cheap and like a hooker is a bad thing!!! harrruuppmmmppphhh!!
For my money, it could have been Matlock hitting the curb. Dreadful, but I did love the snark on the runway. I still don’t like him, but he was more bearable.
EAch week I love Bimbo more . . . her face while they judged her was something else . . . I thought she might cry.
Even Plumpton had some interest, wish the squares could have been plastic or something.
Anyhoo, designers–Just think, what would GAGA wear–you can’t go wrong!!!
I too loved Skyy and the Dali Lama kid, they were all cute. Matlock’s kid, it was all about what he didn’t say . . .
STill, I love the show, no matter how weak and watered down it’s become. The tree dress-WTF!! And excellent call on Failene, there flip . . . hope they get called on that! Also agreed with CK on the paint stoke dress. He seemed to move rather slow on that, esp compared to Bimbo and the Toilet Paper Barbie dress.
xoxo
“Gretchen and her low-flow hair”…hahaha! Loved it, vallegirl. I liked this episode a lot better because it had less manufactured drama and more focus on the actual sewing. Too bad most of the garments were a big snore. I agree with the other folks who said this season’s crew couldn’t define avant garde, let alone design it.
Flipit: I love you like you love Matlock.
Who else LOVED seeing Tim chase after Swatch at Mood? That was adorable!!! Tim runs exactly the way I’d expect him to.
Accent-fraud Beigian is dissolving into thin air, and nobody really gives a rat’s ass.(Remember when Matlock was sitting next to him on the couch and didn’t even know it?) I could never understand why the judges kept giving him a pass…there is nothing inspirational in his work. And was he for real – gluing the dress on the model’s boob? Michael C. tried to get away with dress tape and they almost shitcanned his ass for it.
What more can one say about Jersey Chore…I’m in 100% agreement with everyone here. He’s a tacky, pretentious brow-queen, and if he thinks he can play the cancer card at this point, he’s as deluded as he is orange. (Initials carved in a tree, indeed.) Mondo knew how to tastefully do the pathos thing…and he also knew how to rock avante garde, both on the runway and on himself.
Speaking of avante garde (or lack thereof)…you have to agree that the designers got many mixed messages. They made a point of saying that it was “NOT A RUNWAY CHALLENGE”, but then rewarded the design that was the most wearable (Nutless and his janky hem cut & paste). They kept going on about Bimbo’s pretty flower dress – yes, it was pretty, but it was not avante garde!!! Hate to rock the boat, but Matlock’s reeedonculous FAO/Goodyear pants were the closest thing out there that Gaga would wear. (Remember, she wore a big egg.)
Btw, those kids were great. I love seeing young artists doing their thing and getting recognized for it.
1st of all…Where can I sign the petition to get Skye her own show? Loved her! Especially her “sold” snap as that tacky dress was coming down the runway.
Now, am I the only one that was annoyed when they kept calling Bimbo’s dress well made knowing that she GLUED THE WHOLE DAMN THING TOGETHER? They raked Oliver over the coals when he tried to keep his, actually sewn & semi well made dress, on his model..but she got top 3 for gluing tissue paper together? Sooo annoying!
IMO the PR of yore (oh yeah..I said YORE!:) has gone to hell in a hand basket! I haven’t seen ONE great design this whole season!! Do they even try to get a cast that has actual talent anymore or are they just going for the ‘hey girl hey’ catty bitches that make ‘good tv’? What happened to the Austins & Kara Sauns that had actual talent? Even that hack Santino was more creative than these queens. Oh what I wouldn’t give to see a Nick Verreos fish tailed skirt/dress/coat! lol..& Tim’s frustration with the mediocrity is starting to show as well. He’s mighty testy/bitchy with these frauds in the workroom! Which is AWESOME! Watching the ‘judges’ trying to be positive & convince us that the designs don’t completely suck is painful. You know Michael Kors would’ve chewed up & spit out Nutless over that ugly craft project that won if he was on an earlier season when they actually judged talent & not ‘personalities’ Seriously, go back & watch the earlier seasons & relive how he use to make grown men cry with his critique over designs that would put any of these to shame! Kenneth Cole was totally calling them out for trying to defend that nonsense & pass it off as fashion. I know he was thinking..”Seriously? WTF am I doing here, did the kids actually design the clothes as well, & what the hell happened to this show?” Sad!
Oh & BTW Oliver…you are NO Andre! Only he could lament dramatically in 5 different accents & get away with it! Guys?…’What happened to Andre?’ lol
Your imaginary summary of Skyy’s chatter had me in pain I was laughing so hard.
Mormon is ridiculous. He had the girl with actual talent and he effed it up. That’s why they got rid of him.
I thought a lot of the contestants were weak because they avoided so much of the color that was in the paintings.
Himberly- Kind of liked it. It feels like a cheaper version of something I’ve seen before.
Martha Plumpton- Apparently only saw the top half of her painting. Surprising lack of color for the “ombre” dress that’s in all of those damn promos.
Dollivier- Impressive beige-ing abilities. Seriously, so much color in that painting and…beige… Also, he made me agree with Heidi which is not cool.
Jersey Chore-Liked the skirt, hated the top, hated the cuff sleeves on the top.
Matlock- I kept trying to figure out how to make this better… Answer= impossible
Icktor- This looked terrible but I wanted to like it. There was something interesting happening with the way he manipulated the fabric in the skirt but the sleeve looked like a trussed up piece of meat and the skirt moved so awkwardly. Also, what happened to all of Skyy’s color. That outfit had nothing to do with the painting and everything to do with her name, Skyy.
Bimbo- I kind of liked Bimbo’s dress without really knowing why but it had nothing to do with the painting. I wanted to smack not-Nina everytime she commented on how she didn’t get the connection at first but she understood it when Bimbo explained it. Duh, not-Nina. That’s why people bother explaining things.
Doughy Christian- Aw. The model is pretty? I can’t even bother with this one.
Gay Mormon- Why?
Nutless- LOVE. It should have had more green as per the painting and once Kenneth Cole mentioned it, it did kind of look a little unfinished but I really loved this dress.
Miss Trinidad- This is what I imagine your mom would make you as a knockoff Alexander McQueen outfit for Halloween. So…I liked it?
This show shakes my ability to distinguish good and bad for the hour or two it’s on. I can only imagine it’ll get worse when I start Rachel Zoe and she tries to sell me on fur and maxi dresses. Damn that whole 70s trend that’s supposedly starting up.
What is, this? Bible School? That’s the only place felt cutouts should be allowed.
funniest $#!Ԏ ever!!
As much as I hate Gay Mormon, I can understand why he changed his design. He didn’t want to go home and Tim/other contestants were in his ear, telling him a literal translation was a mistake. I think they fucked him over, but he wasn’t confident enough in his ability. He was clearly overmatched in this competition. He needs to take the time to learn his aesthetic and POV and I hope we don’t have another PR Dropout forcing us to bring that loser back for a third time.
I don’t know why Matlock assumed that his “I Dream of Jeannie” outfit was even remotely “fashion forward.” If there’s a such thing as “fashion ass-backward,” that’s what that outfit was. His deaf-mute art student reminded me of Dukie from “The Wire.”
Sky = Tootie from the early seasons of “The Facts of Life.”
I’ll be honest when I say I don’t understand why you like Matlock while hating on Icktor, Nutless, Douchy Christian and Jersey Shore. How is an old mean, arrogant, bitter, sad and extremely tired queeny asshat any different than a young mean, arrogant, bitter, sad and extremely tired queeny asshat? Also does not help that I put up with whiny asshole old men on an almost daily basis at that little bar I own. Ugh.
I’d personally lock these guys up in solitary confinement for an indefinite amount of time, but all together in the same room, and let them tear each other to shreds. Give them a few days to stew, and then throw in these judges and their sucky, inexplicable decisions and let them be torn up too. I’d drink in their suffering like a tall, ice cold glass of passion fruit juice while lounging in my hammock under the shade of a tree during a hot summer day.
@ Chris, to me the difference between Matlock and the other contestants is that he owns his bitter bitchery on the runway and to the other contestant’s faces, while Nutless, Doughy Christian, and Jersey save all their cutting statements for the Diary Room. It’s one thing to be a bitch, but own your bitchiness in private as well as public. #teammatlock.
I was cracking up throughout the recap, and now I’m laughing so hard at Valle’s “hissing, vicious cooze”! That deserves a medal of some sort!
That winning dress was a complete JOKE! Unless this challenge was called, “Who can gluegun the most felt shit to a piece of fabric” then it is a fail! Was there ANY design? Any sewing? Any construction whatsoever? Um, that’s a no. Not to mention that it was in no way “avant garde.” (But then again, what here was? Maybe Bert’s, but it was so fug. Ugh.)
I cannot stand Jersey Chore, and his neoprene/pinata concoction was atrocious. I love that you pointed out the direct correlation to Fallene’s, which Kors insulted with some sort of candy corn joke. The only consistent thing on this show is inconsistency. I hate the heavy-handed producer manipulation that is ruining this show. This is not why I watch Project Runway; If I want to watch the A-List, I’ll tune in to that show, BM. Stop it, Show! I want to love you, but you have made it nearly impossible. If they continue on this trajectory, I find it hard to imagine that this show has more than one season left. There is no one even interesting from a design perspective. Maybe Kimberly, but she’s now “wowing” me, she’s just better than some of these other yahoos. I’m disappointed in the show, but I still love your recaps, Flipit! Always!
Someone save me from this show, please! It’s almost become a parody of itself. Tim just needs to stop whoring himself out to Lifetime and get a little respect for himself. He’s waaaaay too good for these people.
And I’m not just saying that because he’s my brother.
Ok,I haven’t finished watching the show or reading the recap, but before I go any further I just need to say that the Morman bald guy reminds me of Private Pile from Full Metal Jacket…. Who’s with me? Anyone? Anyone? Just sayin…….
You just know that in another episode or two, they’re finally going to reveal the horrible secret of Dolliver’s terrible condition. And it probably has something to do with having been born with a tumor in his frontal lobe, the removal of which affected both his speech functions and his ability to emote.
And then you’re going to feel real, real bad about all the things you’ve said about him, right, Flipit? Right?
Flipit?
Anyhow, I felt it important that I do a bit of research and went and watched the Miss Trinidad home video series. And I have to say… Well, there’s no way in the fucking world they’ll let her win. Even though she clearly has the most developed design sense in this bunch of hacks. Or at least she sucks (eh-hem) way less than the rest of them.
Mrs. Itchy always laughs at me for watching this show, but I point out I like the whole idea of challenging people to be creative in a limited space of time. Except this season they appear to have gone out of their way to find a crew of utterly non-creative people. And usually they at least have a few quirkily lovable types to fill in the gaps, but they’re non-existent this season too.
All they give us is Jersey Chore and Dolliver? The rest of these people are as bland as their clothing.
in defense of Ms. Trinidad as a fellow Caribbean native, her accent is not fake but you can de-emphasize it when need be depending on the situation. When around other Caribbean people,I am sure are accent is stronger but when around Americans, she tries to downplay it so its easier to understand.
Now I have no explanation for Dolliver’s contrived accent.
Is it just me or is all the glue gunning getting incredibly annoying? In the previous seasons, people would be sent home for crappy sewing skills and now every week the winner seems to have glued their look together! You could see the frayed edges of all of Nutless’ fabric strips and the spot where the glue was holding it all together!
I just don’t thin kthe talent seems like it is up to paar this season.
Also, everytime I see Jersey Chore I can think of nothing but his Hitler youth haircut. He is so annoying and tacky.
“Also, everytime I see Jersey Chore I can think of nothing but his Hitler youth haircut.”
Yeah, this is something that bothers me about him too. Wonder if he’ll wear one of those leather belts across the chest contraptions too?
Miss Trinidad’s accent is not fake, this is how people from trnidad would sound…no matter where they live!
Great recap! I thought they were all pretty heinous but at least they ain’t Wretchen.
xxx flip!