Dear Los Angeles:

I'm really sorry that creepy guy is your mayor. I thought our Thomas Menino was creepy, but yours is much worse. Sorry.

NotWithoutMyTV

P.S. I was not even aware Althea had boobs until they almost became competitors in their own right this episode! How have I been missing those things?

P.P.S. Who sucked all the life out of Carol Hannah's big bulgy racoon eyes? They scare me now. Not as much as Gordy's Transylvanian weepy spiritual nosferatu act, but...

Oh, and I guess there was fashion, but I sure don't remember any of it. That can't be good.

I can't believe Gordy's gone. I'm going to miss all the flipithausen nicknames. :(

Great recap Flipit, as always. Was I the only one who screamed "DUH!" out loud at the TV when Nina said she felt like she didn't have a clue who Gordana was as a designer? ARG! It's because Nina was NEVER there! Of COURSE she didn't know her! I'm surprised Nina remembered any of their names. Sigh. I still love me some Nina tho. And both Nina and Kors said they will be at every judging panel next season, so maybe we won't have this inconsistent wackadoodle judging next time.

I'm willing to give this lame season a pass since they had the lawsuit hanging over their heads the whole time it was being filmed. Next season better kick it up a notch, tho or PR may lose me. I'll have to resort to living vicariously through Flipit's recaps. Not a bad way to follow a show! :) Thanks again, Flip!

More evidence I don't understand this show...I believe Gordana and her knees were robbed. Her dress was gorgeous, and even if I hadn't been told what her inspiration was, it was clear to me just from looking at it.

I thought Irina's dress was hideous.

Ditto, cattyfan. I guess I am just not fashion-forward enough because some of the clothes that have won this season look butt ugly to me.

I thought they were all terrible!

CH's had some elegance, but it was way too safe & boring. Just think! of what Epperson or Ra'mon would've done!

Gordunderdoghausen looked like - ah a Georgie O'Keefe painting, is the best way I can describe it.

This really is the worst season.

Dearest Flipit,
The only thing I liked about this season was the creative ways in which you killed off Irina, repeatedly, each episode. Looking forward to the final episode for this reason alone.
Hugs, K_Lo

AAAAWwwwwwrrrrgggghhhh... ldkjfakdjfeuohbfjhgf. See, I feel just like you, Flipit: "I haven't understood most of the season, so this week I'm just CONSISTENT! YAY I WIIIIIN!!!" Gawd. What K_Lo said goes for me too, by the way. Except I also enjoyed the Flipithausen names (good call, allycatt!) and learning not to drink anything while I read the recaps, because it will come out of my nose and spray out of my mouth as I try not to laugh too hard because exactly that will happen.

And speaking of drinks, I forget which one of you proposed the drinking game last week where we all take a shot when MN tents his hands over his pixy nose. Well, thanks! Between the epi and flipit's screencaps, I'm still drunk.

Hutchlover, I also totally thought vajayjay. I know you said it in a much gentler and (appropriately to this episode) artistic way, but what can I say, my mind is too coarse to take the G O'K detour.

I would have given it to Gordi (you may want to know that's a Spanish term of endearment that means Fatty, flip) just because she picked a Monet Rouen Cathedral. Not one of my favorites, but still a Rouen Cathedral. You just can never tell what's gonna blow your stilettos off (and thanks for the tip, flipit, I will try sitting on a traffic cone sometime...) and for some reason being face to face with one of the paintings in that series did it for me once. But her dress was also cool. And CH's also had a big zipper in the back. And Irina's looked like the stuff my mom used to wear in the 70's, complete with turban and everything. Except my mom was in her late 30's-early 40's in the 70s, so she probably wore her skirt a little shorter so she wouldn't look like an old lady. And if you look in the Rate the Runway thingy on Lifetime, you can see that Althea's dress was a big giant mess complete with strips of fabric coming off the skirt and undone hems. And MN... oh MN. Let's all tent our hands over our noses and look down in contemplation of how sad it is that he has to go back to his little town which is apparently hundreds of thousands of miles away from the slightest access to art, information, books,or just plain civilization. How he caterwauled about what an incredible opportunity it was to visit the Getty and get his little humble self some exposure to that awesome world of art which might as well be from Mars for all the opportunities he's ever had to get exposed to something like that. Hey buddy, the Minneapolis Institute of Art can't be that far from where you live. I just looked it up and it looks pretty up to par, they have themselves some Rembrandts and Van Goghs and Goyas and even, hey, he might learn something unexpected there, some Georgia O'Keefes! This is the kind of insincere guy who whines and whines about all those nice things he would looooooove to do, but poor li'l him never had the chance. But in truth he doesn't give a shit and he's lying as bad as Meth Johnny, because why would he go to an art museum when he can just go to the mall, catch a Jennifer Aniston movie, do some shopping, and get back home in time to watch "The Real Housewives". Not that I don't do that kind of stuff, but shit, I don't whine about how hard I have it. If I want to look at art, I get on my car, hop on a ferry, and 2 1/2 hours later I'm at the art museum. Then again, if he's going to be all taken by a rock, he can look at the gravel on his driveway and save himself the trip. Whiner.

So sad that Robotchickenhausen is out!

Boooo Project Runway and your revolving door of "judges" who like to say, "I'd wear that." What kind of judging is that?

Yay MN finally went home.

Boo Villarigosa. Get off my TV and go plant some trees and fix some potholes, loopytunes.

Yay Flipit for another glorious recap!

I found it wholly amusing to discover that what MN considers himself to be as a designer is a rock with some fungus on it.

Can't believe they didn't let him go through. I can only imagine the crap he'd have done with 12 pieces to do. Although they all seem convinced of his talent, so what the hell do I know?

Hell, I come from a small town and look at me now. Um. Ooops. I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere...

Speaking of small towns... He was outclassed by Althea? Everytime I see her I can only think of that girl back home, you know, the one with the 'reputation' who always hung out behind the bleachers... (this was back when 'reputation' meant something bad, for you young fuck-buddy kids.)

Still, the only one on the show who even remotely resembles a designer is Irina. Sure, she obviously designs for the Russian expatriate set, and, by extension, most of Florida, but that is a real market after all.

You'll see. Next year all the b-girls will start dressing like 1970s porn stars too.

CH just looks more and more like a zombie chipmunk. Can't wait to see her toss her cookies at the finale -- who wants to bet that she'll spray Irina's clothes?

Oh, why would Ra'men or Epperdeedoodah do any better. Seems to me they both sucked too?

While I was definitely sad to see Beaverhausen go, I can't wait to see what kind of shitstorm Althea puts up. You just know her collection is going to be full of weird things that make zero sense.

Couldn't stand MN. I literally cheered and said Thank God when Heidi Auf'd him.

I hope poor CH doesn't have the swine flu. If she does, I hope she has dressers for her models and a surgical mask and gloves because...damn. I would NOT want to be around that.

I've never warmed to Althea. Except for a couple of dresses which were pretty, her stuff seems to consist of a scrap of fabric made to resemble a poorly made tank top (with no boob support whatsoever) and an overly pleated/gathered/manipulated bottom. Sometimes with a jacket. And NONE OF IT IS FLATTERING! She seems to love a paper bag waist but what REAL person ever wears them? Ok, so I had a couple of pants like that... in the 80s when I weighed 100 pounds (at 5'6" that's pretty thin!). And they weren't even flattering then! They made my very thin body bulge at the waistline like those kids in the Sally Struthers commercials. Not a good look.

I think that Gordana has a lot of talent. However, I don't think she was good at thinking on her feet for the challeges. I would have loved to have seen what she would have done with the money and time to create a collection. I bet it would have been really beautiful.

I'm ok with the rest of the decisions. CH and Irina deserve to go to Bryant Park and MN doesn't. So the universe is good regarding them.

I do have to bring up one thing which really annoyed me. Did any of you hear about or read the bullshit spewed by some crap journalist about how Project Runway is homophobic? HOMOPHOBIC?! Our Project Runway? I think not. Apparently there were two gay guys who fell in love during season 5 and it wasn't shown on the show even though the two were holding hands on the runway etc. They pointed to the fact that the CH/Logan thing was featured and theirs wasn't. WTF?? PR didn't feature the CH/Logan thing... the media did. The only thing that PR showed was CH saying he was cute (along with almost every other person on the show male or female and all the models) and Logan saying he thought she was funny with her southern sayings. So anyways... these two guys? Well one of them was eliminated in the SECOND episode. Yeah... the second episode. The viewers don't even know the contestants' names yet and they want Bravo to focus in on their romance which was less than a week old? I hate idiots that report garbage like this. There are real issues out there and hacks like that one just focus attention where no attention needs to be focused.

*deep breath* Ok.. I'll get off my soapbox.

Anyway, love you Flip and your recap was as funny as ever. Thanks!

SnootyBootches, that would be Daniel & Wesley (he of the cute shorts).

And by the finale, they had apparently broken up, so WHY WOULD THE PRODUCERS SHOW SOMETHING THAT COULD BE PAINFUL?

Considering that Project Runway makes even me want to kick back and watch a Liza Minelli film festival, I'm not too worried about the show being homophobic.

My favorite line was when Tim said of MN's dress (I think) that "it looks like sta-LAC-tites."

Excellent re-caps for the what has to be the lamest season of PR so far. Nothing really exciting or new or different. Kind of wish Feather Duster was still around.

Kudos to you on the inspired writing.

So we're off to Bryant Park. Hooray! Soon this season will be in the bag. Is next week the last week or are there two more? Then will the next season start right away since it's already been filmed?

This week the only decent looking outfits were by Jordana and CH. They were both beautiful. The other three should hang their heads in shame for showing that crap in the final challenge. I knew that Irina and CH would be going no matter what, and MN wouldn't. I just wasn't sure between Althea and Jordy. And based on this week, it should have been Jordy. I think she would have produced a beautiful collection for Fashion week. Ah well.

Here's to hoping that Althea gets her roots done by the time we see her next week!!

I think the three designers that are going are probably the best of the remaining five. I just wish Althea would close her lips when she uses words that REQUIRE that - like M, B, P. Drove me bananas. And Irina? I would love to be sitting in the room with her when she watches this show. Will she see how utterly hateful she is? And she can toot her own horn all she wants, that dress was horrible. CH doesn't bother me so much.

Baffled, I get the feeling that Irina is a lot like Corrine the Devil Spawn from Survivor a couple of seasons ago. She totally got off on people thinking she was evil.

I have to get it off my chest since this will be my last time....

Greatgrapeapehausen
HandRPuffinstuffhausen
Deputydoghausen
Joseyandthepussycatshausen
Landofthelosthausen
Rockyandbullwinklehausen
Jabberjawshausen

Awww..Saturday morning TV in the seventies!
Thanks Flipit!
Love.

Well, it's getting to the end, and though I'll miss you killing irina week after week, Flip, I won't be missing this season.

The season before this had some ?able talent too (suede, and liscious for two) the judging had some wonk moments as well . . .

It seems SigmondtheseamonsterHausen was built for this type of show, week to week challenges all requiring something else. I agree with Nina (cough-barelythere-cough) that she didn't really seem to have a cohesive style.

Take Irina,

she obviously designs for the Russian expatriate set, and, by extension, most of Florida,

As Itchy can see, she obviously has a style . . . which I was mistakenly calling "Granny" and Nina called "Dowdy"

Say-huh, it was I with the drinking game, and I was soooo annoyed at how much he did it, and when he ever said this piece represents "him" more than anything, I thought, what about the rock with the moss? Good call on the gravel!

Why do I wish they would do an allstar season with all my favorite also rans, is it nostalgia, boredom, a need to have a routine . . .

Anyhoo, I'm kinda glad it's almost over and will look forward to the next season, and hopefully, making dresses out of rubble they can sift out of the LA river . . .

Great recaps of a shitty year Flipit! So many LOL moments to think back on.
@ Michigan I was also thinking HRPuffinstuffhausen and Landofthelosthausen. (God I hate showing my age!)