America's Most Smartest Model

I started watching this show between commercials of a different show, and I got hooked on it. From the title, I thought it would be really pathetic, with the judges (Mary Alice Stephenson and the ubiquitous Ben Stein, who brings smarts cred just by sitting next to Mary Alice) poking fun at the models' attempt to be not just pretty faces.

They do poke at them, and there is some genuine contempt shown, particularly by Mary Alice, who is coming off like yer basic school marm (more on that later), and one of the models, Andre, a Russian, has contempt for everyone and everything American. Boo, hiss. But I like most of the other models and the tasks they have to perform are creative at least, so I keep tuning in.

There was one particularly brainless contestant, blonde Rachael (there's an Aussie Rachael too), who finally got sent home on last night's episode - she had been leeching off the other models, barely scraping by in the tasks, and last night she hit her all-time low, by insisting that Daniel, one of the smartest (sorry, MOST smartest) models in the competition, had to be her partner. He was acting the gentleman and allowed her to glom onto him and of course, they failed the task - which involved cutting out geometric shapes to specific specifications - miserably; Rachael couldn't cut out even one of the shapes and therefore they lost.

Mary Alice was so (can't resist) bent out of shape by Rachael's fiasco and by her attempt to drag Daniel down with her that she called her out before the show's actual elimination phase to sternly inform her that she was booted. Felt like I was watching a high school reality show where one of the student's behavior was so disgraceful that she had to be seriously chastised and immediately expelled. Although she did deserve to go home long ago, I thought this was handled very poorly by Mary Alice (whom I think was also reacting to some catty comments that Rachael had made about her on camera). I personally would like to send Mary Alice home, but that's just me.

12/18: So it's over now and VJ won, which is OK with me, I mean it would've been pretty brutal if America's Most Smartest Model turned out to be a Soviet. And Andre is an unsufferable prick who, near the end, actually tried to pass himself off as a caring and loving individual. Hilarious.

What is the point of this stupid forsaken show? I have shouted this question in the faces of billions of people and still no one can tell me which proves this show has no point. How did they come up with such a stupid concept? "Hey you know what a great show would be let's get some models and then ask them all regular questions and then when they get questions wrong we can show the world how stupid they are! HAHAHAHHAAAHAHAHA! People will love this show! And I like it because they are better looking than me so when they get simple questions wrong I can laugh at them and know that I am better than them where it really counts - in the brains department." "Yep you're smart all right." "Let's think up some more shows where paralyzed people marry millionaires and circus freaks!" "You are so smart!"

I found this new reality show to be quite fun and enjoyable. Following the typical reality formula, they take a group of people and have them live together in a house. The group in this case is made up of models who consider themselves smart. The models compete in challenges combining their modeling and intellectual talents. In each episode, one or two models are cut based on their performance in the challenges. The last one remaining wins a prize of $100,000.

Ben Stein is amusing as always and the producers found a pretty good cast of models. The show is a bit mean spirited, but quite fun nonetheless, especially after having been subjected to so many hours of "America's Top Model" by female members of my household.