ad promising orgy on primetime network tv fails to deliver

From This Afternoon in Drama:

For two weeks now I've been hearing about this "orgy," this debacle so shocking, so nasty, that [Tyra Banks] had to go back and re-edit the episode in the wake of Janet Jackson's nipslip. While I haven't seen the lost footage, unless it contains buck-wild, naked partner swapping and double penetration, I'm going to have to call a spade a spade. There are eighth graders in Irvine having a nastier time in the Woodflower hot tub than the girls of Top Model.

But, as is always the case on reality TV, it's the abundance of stupidity, not sex, that's shocking. Selon Stereogum:

This was allegedly the big draw of this episode: The America's Next Top Model "hot tub orgy" where Shandi fucks a stranger. But there was BY FAR a better moment that you might've missed. … While shopping alone in Milan, Shandi comes across an item of clothing she likes. The vendor tries to sell it to her, but she doesn't speak Italian. SO SHE STARTS SPEAKING ENGLISH WITH AN ITALIAN ACCENT. "No, it's-a ... toooo-beeeg," she explains to him. WTF? Shandi, if you don't speak Italian, speaking English with an Italian accent is not a passable alternative.

Posted by nchicha at March 19, 2004 01:58 AM