fourfour: I've got the powerbitch

Ever wonder what the kiss of death looks like? It's something like:

Dianamarla1

Obviously the designer paired with Marla was going to be unlucky. She is dark-sided.

Marlaevil

Diana, however, is not.

Dianagoofy

She just sucks!

No, but really -- Marla weighed down their team, no doubt, but Diana was no pro herself. Whatever, that's what she gets for lying to us about making her clothes all techno and shit during the first episode and then never doing anything approaching that during the course of the show (yeah, I complained about this last week -- I'm bitter, or haven't you noticed?). Maybe she didn't have a real opportunity to do so, per the show's constraints, but if D.A.R.Y.L. taught us anything it's that real robots find a way.

Dianamarla

And you know what? Marla and Diana may have sucked this week, but just marginally -- I didn't feel any of this shit:

I guess I'm just not a Banana Republic kinda guy (and don't worry -- I'm fine with that).

1. Wait, who were they designing for again?

Heidibr1

Banana Republic. In about 10 minutes of screen time, Heidi managed to drop that name nine times. Here's the proof.

Heidibr2

Nice to know that she still, y'know, plays with pronunciation. Linguistically spunky, she is!

2. And let's get this out of the way:

"Lighten Up, It's Just Fashion"
Words and music by Santino Rice
Scary Clown Publishing ©2005

Santinolighten1

Fashion
Lighten up
It's just fashion

Santinolighten2

Lighten up
It's just fashion

Santinolighten3_1

Lighten up
It's just . . .

Santinolighten4

Take the corncob
Out of your asshole

Santinolighten5

Fashion
Lighten up

Santinolighten6

It's just
Fashion

Santinolighten7

Lighten up
It's just

Santinolighten8

Fashion!

I think Santino is a talented designer, but that's by far his best creation (esp. love the last, sighed "fashion"). Lovely bridge, too.

Oh, and you know that those are words Santino lives by, right?

Lightenupsantino

Right?

I should add that as brilliant a songwriter Santino has proved, he sucks at impressions. Listen to him do Diana.

Santinodoesdiana

Not even close.

3. But, y'know, he's right about Diana being ridiculous. Total worrywart.

Holddiana

In this respect, she and Marla made a great match.

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Holddiana2

Holdmarla2

Holdmarla3

Andraé wanted a piece of the action.

Holdandrae

And so did Kara.

Holdkara

4. See, Kara and Zulema's working relationship was the most tumultuous of all, thanks to Kara's bad ideas and Zulema's freak-outs. She's like some sort of drama vampire -- when the stress kicks up, she turns into batshit.

Zuhand

Zuhand2

Zunavy

Zubossy

This made Kara go from ruffled . . .

Kararuffled

. . . to pissed . . .

Karapissed

. . . to sad . . .

Karasad

. . . to tears . . .

Karacry1

. . . tears . . .

Karacry2

. . . and mo' tears . . .

Karacry4

Whatever, at least it ended well.

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Apropos of nothing (I think), Rod @ Manhattan Offender has begun to call Zulema "Zuzu." I love this. I love this mostly because "Zuzu" sounds like it could also be an abrevs., for Zoobilee Zoo. I'm tempted to slap Zuzu's face on a Zoobilee character, but I won't. That would just be silly.

5. Santino's model, Heather, is so hot.

Heather

Seriously. She makes my 4.5 Kinsey number throb.

Heather2

6. I loved when, in the beginning of the episode, Heidi reminded us all that Santino won last week's challenge. He, of course, gloated.

Santinogloat

The great part wasn't that, but Nick's reaction to the recap and/or self satisfaction in Santino that it spurred.

Nickshade_1

Icy hot!

7. At last! Michael Kors says something awesome. What are the chances?

Michael_powerbitch

"I can't quite figure out this '80s, like, powerbitch Mugler jacket," he said about the Zuzu/Kara ensemble. Powerbitch!

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He then went back to normal after Santino basically said no one cares about stupid Michael Kors. This was pretty much the only reaction he could muster:

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