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Mars in Pop Culture: Literature
Why is it that people tend to talk of "Martians," rather than, say, "Saturnians" or "Jovians," when the topic of extraterrestrial life is broached? Historically, Mars was thought to be the most likely of the planets to harbor life. Popular culture in the form of literature, and then later radio and film, reflected such beliefs.
Public fascination with Martians began in the late 19th century when, in 1877, astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli reported observations of large canali (meaning "channels") on Mars. Unfortunately, the term "canali" was mistranslated as "canals" in English. The Suez Canal, an engineering marvel of its time, had been completed in 1869, suggesting to some people that innovative Martians must have built the martian canals.
In 1897, H. G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds" was the first major work to explore the concept of the extraterrestrial invader. This concept exerted a considerable influence on the public psyche, and consequently, Mars began to take a special place in popular culture around the turn of the 20th century. Even astronomers such as Percival Lowell seriously countenanced the possibility of advanced lifeforms as described in his book, "Mars as the Abode of Life" (1910).
Of course, this is not to belittle the unique role Mars has played in the history of science. In particular, the recorded movement of Mars in the night sky led Johannes Kepler to formulate his three laws of planetary motion (two in 1609 and the third in 1618). These laws shattered medieval, anthropocentric notions of astronomy, and laid the foundations for the discoveries of Isaac Newton.
By looking at how Mars is represented in literature, radio and film, we can see how it has inspired human imagination, sometimes in rather peculiar ways.
The following is a review of Mars in the history of literature.
|Gulliver's Travel, by J.Swift
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the great Irish writer and satirist, makes a curious reference to Mars's satellites in Gulliver's Travels. In the book, astronomers on the fictional island of Laputa (whose king is fond of solving mathematical problems) are said to have discovered two satellites around Mars. Swift details the orbital mechanics with reference to Kepler's laws.
Part III, Chapter 3:
"[The astronomers] have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half; so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distance from the center of Mars, which evidently shows them to be governed by the same law of gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies."
Mars does have two moons – Phobos, the inner satellite, and Deimos, the outer one. By they were not discovered until 1877, by the American astronomer Asaph Hall. Was the assumption of two satellites just a lucky guess on Swift's part? And was it also coincidental that he correctly guessed that the inner satellite orbited Mars in less than a day? (Phobos has an orbital period of 0.32 of a day; Deimos 1.26 of a day).
Kepler had speculated that Mars had two moons, and Swift was almost certainly aware of this. Kepler based his speculation on naive mathematical intuition: because Venus had no moon and Earth had one moon, Mars must have two moons as an outwards progression from the sun.
Read Gulliver's Travels online.
Herbert G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (serialized: 1897; book: 1898)
"The Wars of the Worlds" is the story of the invasion of Earth by technologically-advanced Martians. The Martians flee their dying planet and descend in ten immense rocket capsules in southern England. Their plan, to take over the Earth and its resources, begins with an attack on London. People flee in panic, helpless against the superior weaponry of the Martians, which includes a Heat Ray and poisonous Black Smoke. Victory seems secure when suddenly the Martians succumb to a fatal infection by terrestrial germs.
The 1890s were unhappy times for Wells as a struggling writer but fortunate ones for his literature. "The Wars of the Worlds" is a classic of English literature and much unlike the tawdry, sensationalist sci-fi writing and films that have imitated and recapitulated Wells's ideas. In the novel, a Wells-like writer on philosophy and science narrates the story. The book reflects a period when a transition was occurring in Wells's thinking from the entirely pessimistic worldview of his earlier "The Time Machine" (1895) to a more optimistic vision for future mankind evident in Wells's later writing.
|"War of the Worlds" has shaped the popular view of the red planet. Is Mars the planet of war?
Historically, "The Wars of the Worlds" followed a series of semi-documentary novels that predicted war in Europe following the unification and militarization of Germany beginning with George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking" (1871). In addition, "The War of the Worlds" is very much a product of ideas that were at the forefront of Wells's nineteenth century mind. These include Darwinism, i.e. cumulative selection in biological systems, and a growing awareness of the unpleasant side effects of technology such as industrial slums, instruments of war, and irresponsible power. The monstrous Martians, the narrator tells us, have mutated with the help of technology from their once humanoid form to a disgusting, vampire-like state — they are a possible future for mankind. Apparent progress has somehow led to decline.
Indeed, this idea is inherent in the vulnerability of the Martians: "Micro-organisms…have either never appeared on Mars or Martian sanitary science eliminated them ages ago". So it is biology that ultimately defeats the Martians:
"These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things – taken toll of our pre-human ancestors since life began here…By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all-comers…For neither do men live nor die in vain."
The last sentence, which ordinarily would be a cliché of Victorian sentimentality, is a Darwinist insight in this context. The moral, perhaps, to Wells's story is that technology will not defeat us or turn us into the nightmare Martians as long as we hold fast to our diverse biological heritage — a moral which is just as relevant to our environmentally-threatened world today as it was to Victorian England.
Famous opening paragraph: (note how the ubiquitous micro-organisms which prove crucial later in the plot are mentioned here at the very beginning of the novel)
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment."
The whole text of "The War of the Worlds" is available online.
Edgar Rice Burroughs – The Martian Tales
Perhaps better known as the creator of "Tarzan of the Apes," Edgar Rice Burroughs also wrote westerns and science fiction – a total of 97 stories. Burroughs's series of Mars novels, also known as "The Martian Tales," is comprised of eleven novels which describe the adventures of a nineteenth century Confederate Civil War veteran (like Burroughs's father) named John Carter who is transported to Mars, where he must adapt to its strange cultures.
|Was Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan's creator, thinking of a martian jungle?
Carter, as a classic fictional hero, frequently encounters life-threatening situations which he only narrowly escapes. Carter marries, has children, rises to the top of Martian politics, and there fights for justice. His noble actions reflect Burroughs's personal moral beliefs. Burroughs, like many other writers, envisions a dying Mars with oceans that are drying up and constantly warring kingdoms fighting desperately against the peril of a vanishing atmosphere and against each other.
From "A Princess on Mars" (written in 1911, first published hardback in 1917):
"I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. I was not asleep, no need for pinching here; my inner consciousness told me as plainly that I was upon Mars as your conscious mind tells you that you are upon Earth. You do not question the fact; neither did I."
The often used phrase "little green men" to refer to aliens may have come from Burroughs's first book on Mars, "A Princess on Mars." He describes the "green men of Mars," and they reappear frequently in his other Martian novels. Still, he never uses the exact phrase.
The Oxford English Dictionary's first reference for "little green man" is from Kipling's "Puck of Pook's Hill" (1906). Its use here refers to an actual person who has been tattooed green, and so although it coins the phrase "little green man," it does not appear to be a reference to aliens. The next OED reference to "little green men" is not until 1961, from Partridge's Dictionary of Slang: "Little green men, mysterious beings alleged to have been seen emerging from flying saucers."
Burroughs's works can be accessed online.
Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles (1951, also published as "The Silver Locusts")
Ray Bradbury's thought-provoking science fiction, written in highly literate prose, arguably makes him one of the world's best science fiction authors. "The Martian Chronicles" is a collection of loosely tied short stories, which together comprise the story of man's conquest of Mars. Many of the chapters in "The Martian Chronicles" were published separately, sometimes with minor changes, sometimes with different titles; these include "There Will Come Soft Rains," "The Fire Balloons," and others.
|Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury.
In early science fiction, Martians are the most common culprits for invasions of Earth – a trend that started with "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells. In Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles," it is the other way around: humans are the alien invaders on Mars. As in H. G. Wells's seminal novel, the Martians are killed by terrestrial bacteria. But this time the Martians are a beautiful, wise and ancient civilization. The book raises important questions about human behavior, and how people should react when they encounter alien races. It is a study of man's selfishness, in particular, the destruction of culture by ignorant politicians and businessmen.
"…The Men of Earth came to Mars. They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims. There was a reason for each man. They were leaving bad wives or bad towns; they were coming to find something or leave something or get something, to dig up something or bury something or leave something alone. They were coming with small dreams or large dreams or none at all….it was not unusual that the first men were few. The numbers grew steadily in proportion to the census of Earth Men already on Mars. There was comfort in numbers. But the first Lonely Ones had to stand by themselves…"
For further information, see: The Martian Chronicles Study Guide and The Ray Bradbury Page.
Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
"I have been a stranger in a strange land," Exodus 2:22, gave the title to Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land." This book tends to be a favorite amongst sci-fi fans — it won a Hugo award in 1962. It was the first book by a devoted science-fiction writer to reach the New York Times best-seller list.
|Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein.
Valentine Michael Smith, born on Mars, is the sole survivor of the first manned mission to the planet. Subsequently, he is raised and educated by Martians. When Smith visits Earth as a young man, he has human instincts but an alien perspective and superhuman psychic powers.
The time is roughly the 1990s, as written from the 1960s, and terrestrial society is envisioned to be highly commercialized and corrupt ("He's an honest politician. He stays bought."). Smith progresses from a total ignorance of this (essentially western) culture to an understanding of human psychology. Eventually, his efforts to reconcile human and Martian sensibilities give rise to a new "free love" religion through which people achieve spiritual transformation. There is a tragic but unsurprising ending.
Kim Stanley Robinson – Red Mars (1993), Green Mars (1995), Blue Mars (1997).
This trilogy is a thought-provoking story of terraforming Mars that stretches more than three centuries into the future. What distinguishes Kim Stanley Robinson's books from other science fiction is the sheer array of socio-economic issues that is confronted: post-corporate governance, environmental ethics, population growth, human longevity, and natural capital issues. On the other hand, the trilogy does suffer from the intransigent assumptions of a "technological optimist" worldview. (Is terraforming Mars really possible, I ask?)
|Blue Mars, from Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Red Mars describes the colonization efforts of the first hundred settlers on Mars. Splits develop between colonists favoring rapid terraforming to a "Green Mars" and a minority of "Reds" who want to see Mars preserved in its present state. Issues of corporate control versus democracy eventually culminate in an attempt by the Martians to gain independence from Earth and its transnationals.
The second book, "Green Mars," deals with the transition of Mars to an Earth-like world with a breathable atmosphere in the late 21st century. Meanwhile Earth itself is undergoing severe environmental catastrophes due to environmental degradation by the cumulative effects of industrial pollution.
"Blue Mars" describes the resolution of conflicts in terrestrial and Martian societies.
This discussion of books about Mars is by no means exhaustive, but merely presents some highlights. Other contemporary Mars novels worth mentioning include Ben Bova's "Mars" and "Return to Mars," Greg Bear's "Moving Mars," Geoffrey Landis's "Mars Crossing," and C. K. Anderson's "A Step Beyond."
Related Web Pages
Mars Rovers/JPL
Mars Movie Guide
Giving Mars Back its Heartbeat
Looking for Martian Life
Should We Terraform?
Walking Naked on the Red Planet
United Nations of Mars
Living on Mars
The Martian Future


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In Cuba on Tuesday, residents reported seeing a bright light in the sky and a loud explosion that shook windows and walls, although there were no reports of any injuries or damage.
One resident of the city of Rodas, near Cienfuegos, described the light as "bigger than the sun". He said: "On Tuesday we left home to fish around five in the afternoon, and around 8:00 we saw a light in the heavens and then a big ball of fire, bigger than the sun."
Another resident said described how her home was "completely shaken" by the explosion. She added: "I had never heard such a strange thing."
There were also numerous unconfirmed reports of a bright streak of light over the San Francisco Bay area on Friday night.
Scientists at the Chabot Space and Science Center, in Oakland, said it had received calls describing what appeared to be a fireball flying west, but it was not clear what the object was.
Gerald McKeegan, an astronomer, said the centre's telescopes did not pick up the object.
The reports came hours after a meteor exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,000 people and an asteroid passed relatively close to Earth.
The 55 foot wide rock, said by Nasa to have a mass of 10,000 tonnes, lit up the sky above the Urals region on Friday morning, causing shockwaves that injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes in an event unprecedented in modern times.
Nasa estimated that the energy released as the meteor's disintigrated in the atmosphere was 500 kilotons, around 30 times the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
It entered the atmosphere at 44,000 miles per hour, taking 32.5 seconds to break up at an altitude of around 15 miles above the earth's surface.
The resulting explosion created a shockwave that blew out windows and set of car alarms in Chelyabinsk two and a half minutes later.
The drama in Russia developed just hours before an asteroid - a space object similar to a tiny planet orbiting the sun - whizzed safely past Earth at the unprecedented distance of 17,200 miles.
That put it closer to the ground then some distant satellites and sent off alarm bells ringing in some Russian circles about this being the time for joint global action on the space safety front.
"Instead of fighting on Earth, people should be creating a joint system of asteroid defence," the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee chief Alexei Pushkov wrote on his Twitter account late Friday.
"Instead of creating a (military) European space defence system, the United States should join us and China in creating the AADS - the Anti-Asteroid Defence System," the close ally of President Vladimir Putin wrote.
The US space agency said the 2012 DA 14 asteroid's passing was "the closest-ever predicted approach to Earth for an object this large."
Nasa estimated that a smallish asteroid such as the 2012 DA 14 flies close to Earth every 40 years on average while only hitting the planet once every 1,200 years.
Astronomers have detected some 9,500 celestial bodies of various sizes that pass near Earth.


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Uberlawyer David Boies said Tuesday that a loss on Proposition 8 in the Supreme Court this month won't be the end of the fight he and Ted Olson are waging for marriage equality.
"We will bring lawsuits in other states to force the 38 that ban same-sex marriage to recognize them under the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution," he said.
And Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand, D-NY, said Congress still needs to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act even if the Supreme Court overturns the law this month. That's because the court will rule only on Section 3, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages, but not Section 2, which allows a state to refuse to recognize a same-sex marriage from another state.
Gillibrand said that means a same-sex couple married in New York who retires to Florida or any other state that does not not allow same-sex marriages would not have their marriage recognized. "We will repeal DOMA regardless" of how the court rules, Gillibrand said. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is the lead sponsor of the repeal bill, the Respect for Marriage Act.
Gillibrand and Boies, a lead lawyer with former Solicitor General Olson in the case that challenges California's Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage, spoke at an event sponsored by the Third Way, a Washington think tank. The group has a useful graphic explaining the complex permutations of possible rulings in the two cases.
Legal analysts widely expect the court to strike down DOMA in United States v. Windsor, in which lesbian widow Edith Windsor of New York was forced to pay the government $360,000 in estate taxes she would not have owed had her marriage been recognized.
Analysts expect the court to reject the argument by Boies and Olson in Hollingsworth v. Perry that California's Prop. 8 violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution, thus extending the right to same-sex marriage across all 50 states. The Court is expected instead to deny the Prop. 8 appeal, allowing lower court decisions that overturn the initiative to stand and in effect making same-sex marriage legal only in California.
Jane Schacter, a Stanford University professor of constitutional law, said even repealing DOMA would not solve the question of state recognition.
"Even if DOMA were repealed tomorrow, states traditionally have relied on their own principles and public policies to decide to recognize another state's marriage," Schacter said. "It's not as if DOMA for the first time empowered them to do that."
For decades, states differed on marriage rules, such as whether to allow first cousins to marry. Schacter said the Supreme Court has never applied the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution to compel states to recognize out-of-state marriages that are illegal in their own state.
Differences in state laws on same-sex marriage are "going to complicate things, no question about that," Schacter said. "Just getting rid of DOMA doesn't get rid of that complication."


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America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model (2003–18) is an American reality television show created and hosted by Tyra Banks in which several young women (regularly called "girls" on the show) compete to win a modeling contract. Each "cycle" of the show constitutes roughly half of a regular U.S. TV season (9–14 episodes).
- 1 Cycle 1
- 1.1 The Girl Who Wants It So Bad [1.1]
- 1.2 The Girl Who Is Here to Win, Not Make Friends [1.2]
- 1.3 The Girl Who Gets Rushed to the Emergency Room [1.3]
- 1.4 The Girl Who Drives Everyone Crazy [1.4]
- 1.5 The Girl Who Everyone Thinks is Killing Herself [1.5]
- 1.6 The Girl Who Deals With A Pervert [1.6]
- 1.7 The Girls Who Get Really Naked [1.7]
- 1.8 The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model [1.9]
- 2 Cycle 2
- 2.1 The Girl Who Overslept [2.1]
- 2.2 The Girl Has a Temper [2.2]
- 2.3 The Girl Who Can Cry at the Drop of a Hat [2.3]
- 2.4 The Girl Who Needs Six Months of Modeling School [2.4]
- 2.5 The Girl is a Visual Orgasm [2.5]
- 2.6 The Girl Whose Lips Puffed Up [2.6]
- 2.7 The Girl is Dripping with Hypocrisy [2.7]
- 2.8 The Girl Goes to Milan [2.8]
- 2.9 The Girl Who is Afraid of Snakes [2.9]
- 2.10 The Girl Who Cheated [2.10]
- 2.11 The Girl Who Is America's Next Top Model [2.11]
- 2.12 The Runway Ahead [2.12]
- 3 Cycle 3
- 3.1 The Girl With the Secret [3.1]
- 3.2 The Girl Who is Co-Dependent [3.2]
- 3.3 The Girl Everyone Thinks is a Backstabber [3.3]
- 3.4 The Girl Who Sets a Trap [3.4]
- 3.5 The Girl Who Cries When She Looks in the Mirror [3.5]
- 3.6 The Girl Who Mutilated the Precious Brownies [3.6]
- 3.7 The Girl Who Forgot Her Shoes [3.7]
- 3.8 The Girl Who Is Panic Stricken [3.8]
- 3.9 The Girls Meet Taye Diggs [3.9]
- 3.10 The Girl Who Goes Ballistic [3.10]
- 3.11 The Girl The Lionesses Are Hunting [3.11]
- 3.12 The Girl Who Didn't Hug Goodbye [3.12]
- 3.13 The Girl Who Wins It All [3.13]
- 4 Cycle 4
- 5 Cycle 5
- 5.1 The Girl with the Twisted Catch Phrase/The Girls Become Super Heroes [5.2]
- 5.2 The Girl Who Needs a Miracle [5.3]
- 5.3 The Girl Who Makes a Disclaimer [5.4]
- 5.4 The Girl Who Loves Bubbles and Talks to Plants [5.6]
- 5.5 The Girl Whose Boyfriend Is Cheating on Her [5.9]
- 5.6 The Girl Who Retaliates [5.11]
- 6 Cycle 6
- 6.1 America's Next Top Model: Where the Girls Are [6.1]
- 6.2 The Girl Who Learns How to Dance, The Girls Go Bald [6.2]
- 6.3 The Girl Who is A True Miss Diva [6.3]
- 6.4 The Girl Who Kissed the Roach [6.4]
- 6.5 The Girl Who Kissed A Male Model [6.5]
- 6.6 The Girl With Two Bad Takes [6.6]
- 6.7 The Girl Who Has a Temper [6.7]
- 6.8 The Girl Who Has Surgery [6.8]
- 6.9 The Girl Who is a Model, Not a Masseuse [6.9]
- 6.10 The Girl Who is Going to the Moon [6.10]
- 6.11 The Girl Who is Rushed To The Emergency Room [6.11]
- 6.12 The Girls Go To Phuket [6.12]
- 6.13 The Girl Who Walked Through The Ancient City [6.13]
- 7 Cycle 7
- 7.1 The Girl Who Marks Her Territory [7.1]
- 7.2 The Girl Who Hates Her Hair [7.2]
- 7.3 The Girl Who Goes to Texas [7.3]
- 7.4 The Girl Who Joined the Circus [7.4]
- 7.5 The Girl Who Punk'd Ashton [7.5]
- 7.6 The Girl Who Graduates [7.6]
- 7.7 The Girl Who Wrecks the Car [7.8]
- 7.8 The Girl Who Breaks Down [7.9]
- 7.9 The Girl Who Sticks Her Foot In Her Mouth [7.10]
- 7.10 The Girl Who Grates [7.11]
- 7.11 The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model [7.12]
- 8 Cycle 8
- 8.1 The Girl Who Won't Stop Talking, Part 1 [8.1]
- 8.2 The Girl Who Won't Stop Talking, Part 2 [8.2]
- 8.3 The Girls Who Go To Prom [8.3]
- 8.4 The Girl Who Cries All Time [8.4]
- 8.5 The Girl Who Changes Her Attitude [8.5]
- 8.6 The Girl Who Takes Credit [8.6]
- 8.7 The Girl Who Gets Thrown in the Pool [8.7]
- 8.8 The Girl Who Impresses Pedro [8.8]
- 8.9 The Girl Who Blames the Taxi Driver [8.10]
- 8.10 The Girl Who Does Not Want To Dance [8.11]
- 9 Cycle 9
- 9.1 The Girls Go Cruisin' [9.1]
- 9.2 The Models Go Green [9.2]
- 9.3 The Girls Go Rock Climbing [9.3]
- 9.4 The Girl Who Goes Bald [9.4]
- 9.5 The Girl Who Is Afraid of Heights [9.5]
- 9.6 The Girl Who Gets a Mango [9.6]
- 9.7 The Girl Who Runs Into the Glass Door [9.7]
- 9.8 The Girls Who Crawl [9.8]
- 9.9 The Girl Who Starts to Lose Her Cool [9.9]
- 9.10 The Girls Go to Shanghai [9.10]
- 9.11 The Girls Go on Go-See Adventures [9.11]
- 9.12 The Girls Go to the Great Wall [9.12]
- 9.13 The Warrior Within [9.13]
- 9.14 The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model [9.14]
- 10 Cycle 10
- 10.1 Welcome to Top Model Prep [10.1]
- 10.2 New York City, Here We Come [10.2]
- 10.3 Top Model Makeovers [10.3]
- 10.4 Where's the Beef? [10.4]
- 10.5 Top Model Takes It to the Streets [10.5]
- 10.6 House of Pain [10.6]
- 10.7 If You Can't Make It Here, You Can't Make It Anywhere [10.7]
- 10.8 Top Model 10 Confidential [10.8]
- 10.9 For Those About to Walk, We Salute You [10.9]
- 10.10 Viva Italia! [10.10]
- 10.11 We Are Spartans! [10.11]
- 10.12 Ready for My Close Up [10.12]
- 10.13 And the Winner Is ... [10.13]
- 11 Cycle 11
- 12 Cycle 12
- 13 Cycle 13
- 14 Cycle 14
- 15 Cycle 15
- 15.1 Welcome to High Fashion [15.1]
- 15.2 Diane von Furstenberg [15.2]
- 15.3 Patricia Field [15.3]
- 15.4 Matthew Rolston [15.4]
- 15.5 Karolina Kurkova [15.5]
- 15.6 Patrick Demarchelier [15.6]
- 15.7 Francesco Carrozzini [15.7]
- 15.8 Zac Posen [15.8]
- 15.9 Margherita Missoni [15.9]
- 15.10 Franca Sozzani [15.11]
- 15.11 Roberto Cavalli [15.13]
- 16 Cycle 16
- 17 External links
Cycle 1Edit
Originally aired May 20 – July 8, 2003.
The Girl Who Wants It So Bad [1.1]Edit
- Janice: America's Next Top Model is not a plus-sized model!
- Douglas Bizzaro: [about Shannon] I can tell she tans a lot, and I can tell her skin on her face is starting to get a little leathery.
- Tyra Banks: What I'm looking for is a star. That's all I'm looking for.
- Tessa Carlson: [on being eliminated first in the competition] I tried, and you can't do any better than that. And everything happens for a reason, right?
- Robin Manning: [on the prospect of getting a Brazilian bikini wax] There's only two people that's been down there: myself and my gynecologist—and I give him crap.
- Elyse: I really think I did poorly. I was rarely incapable of doing anything. Eliminate me. Do it!
The Girl Who Is Here to Win, Not Make Friends [1.2]Edit
- J. Alexander: My motto is, walk like it's for sale and the rent is due tonight.
- Elyse: [about Ebony] Her jaw was clenched. She didn't say a word to anybody—for once.
- Elyse: [in the confessional] I do not have the will to walk on the catwalk like I give a damn! ... But I don't want to be model. I don't. I can't. It is so—augh! It's so irrelevant. Eliminate me. Do it!
- Elyse: I am a militant atheist, and Robin actually showed me this Bible verse. [reading from the Bible at the request of Robin] "Foolish is the man who says there is no God..." That was a really forward thing to do. I don't believe in God, and it was offensive.
- Elyse: [in the confessional] Robin, how fucking dare you show me that "foolish is the atheist" Bible verse this morning, and ask me "what do i think of it?" What the fuck am I supposed to think of it? And you know what I think of you? Foolish is the woman who believes that goddamn tripe. Giselle, you fucking worthless cunt. You're so wasteful, bitchy, stupid—you're worthless. Your parents must be ashamed of you. Adrianne, stop interrupting me. Stop quoting Jay and Silent Bob right next to my ear. I've had enough of you. I don't want to hear the same stories over and over. Jay, you offended me today. I know medical school is hard work. How could I possibly not be aware of that? And secondly, how dare you imply that I'm uppity because I want to be a life saver and you don't? It takes a fucking ass to cover every seat, you shit slice. What else? Katie, I don't believe a word that comes out of your mouth. You're the most insincere person I've ever met. God damn it. Let me fucking die. You bitches.
- Elyse: [in the confessional] Robin sort of, calmed everyone down by...making us all say a prayer.
- Robin: People are taking the word, "competitiveness", and have turned this definition around, Lord. And Lord, I ask that you remove any negative thing...that is...anything that is not like you, that is not of you. And Lord, only one person can win, and the awesome thing about it is that you already know who that person is. Lord, give us a clean spirit, Lord. Pure and whole, Jesus. Clear our minds, Lord.
- Elyse: [in the confessional] I was really emotional during the prayer because...I was so uncomfortable with the entire situation.
- Robin: And don't let us...look to be vindictive and catty and...self-righteous, and all those other things that are of demonic presence. And Lord, you don't have to believe in order to know that...it's just about being a good person, Lord. And I know that's not fashionable, being a good person. And behind Satan, Jesus. Amen.
- Ebony: Robin, this is not a Bible study program. This is not a... sorority. I'm sorry, this is a model competition.
- Giselle: Elyse, I love her, but her dream is to become a doctor. It's like, well, why are you here? That really, really pisses me off.
- Katie: I love runway. It's like a whole different way to express yourself. Some girls don't have it naturally. I think that I've got a natural walk.
- Elyse: [on Robin] That prayer was so inappropriate.
The Girl Who Gets Rushed to the Emergency Room [1.3]Edit
- Jay Manuel: The make-up artist is your last front to the world, so you never want to piss them off, because they'll mess you up.
- John Ward: [after photographing the contestants] I think if I was going to book a girl today based on where they are right now, I would probably pick Adrianne. She's very beautiful, she has a good time, I think she'd be fun to work with.
- Jay: [referring to Robin] If you didn't want to be in the game, you might as well go home and just be Miss Soymilk, or whatever.
- Robin: I look like an albino prostitute.
- Elyse: I completely didn't understand Robin's assertion that her haircut made her look like a prostitute, but then again, I'm not familiar with...prostitute trends.
- Ebony: It is very upsetting to an African American woman to walk into a salon and have the person do her hair incorrectly! It is very inappropriate!
- Adrianne: Robin was very scared to take her old weave out, because she wanted everybody to think it was natural, but it wasn't.
The Girl Who Drives Everyone Crazy [1.4]Edit
- Adrianne Curry: [About when Giselle is going to confront Ebony] What is she going to tell her?
- Elyse Sewell: I don't know but I hope I'm there for it.
- Tyra Banks: [to Ebony] You are beautiful, your smile is breathtaking, but you have anger that makes you push yourself too hard, to the point where you lose focus and become difficult to work with.
- Elyse: [about her commercial] It was embarrassing. Can't wait to see that and laugh at it.
- Adrianne: [about Ka, Ebony's girlfriend] I have so many gay friends, I don't care. She was really, really cool and she really loves her girlfriend.
- Robin Manning: Ebony is a lesbian, and I found this offensive. I cannot pass judgment on her, but I just know that some people who claim to love the Lord and are Christian are not always, you know, cut the right way.
- Elyse: Ebony-esque freak out...
- Elyse: Everybody gets together and shakes their donk-donk for a prize. I don't think I'm going to participate in that.
The Girl Who Everyone Thinks is Killing Herself [1.5]Edit
- Giselle: Britney Spears did Star Search and she lost, and look at where she's at now. I don't consider myself a loser.
- Janice: [About Elyse] She looks like a gazelle from the American Ballet Theatre. I love this photograph.
- Adrianne: I really missed my mom, and it kicks ass to have her here...a lot of ass!
- Christine: [About Adrianne] I gave birth to such a beautiful human being.
- Elyse: I'm not willing to alienate Giselle, because she's the only one with a straightening iron.
- Adrianne: [About Elyse] She's killing herself. There's no other way to put it. This girl is killing herself.
- Elyse: Robin, you're an idiot, and frankly, you're starting to act like a bitch too.
- Adrianne: Giselle found out that pretending to be so negative about yourself and so insecure is a great way to fish for compliments.
- Giselle: I need to build some freakin' confidence. How do I do that?
- Elyse: You get out of puberty.
- Janice: [About Kesse's photo] This looks like she escaped from a mental institution. This is the worst photograph I've ever seen! You look deranged! Your arms look amputeed [sic], your legs look amputeed [sic], and it looks like you have a penis! I'm sorry.
The Girl Who Deals With A Pervert [1.6]Edit
- Adrianne: There was this man, who started brushing my leg like there was something on my knee, so I was thinking "Oh, there might be something on my knee." Then he proceeded to try to shove his hand up my skirt towards my crotch. I was very upset. I was right by the agency, but I just couldn't go in at all.
- Tyra: [To Elyse] You were the one girl who took Paris by storm.
- Photographer Michel Haddi: [About Elyse] She was fabulous...like a little fawn out of a Walt Disney movie.
- Shannon: [About masturbating] I didn't know we could do it to ourselves.
- Adrianne: [About Shannon] I think she's just so crazy, because she's never done anything. She's never touched herself, she's never watched a porn, she's never done anything.
- Adrianne: This place is the most beautiful place in the world. New York was the most beautiful place in the world last week, but this week it's Paris.
- Shannon: Please, Lord, send me somebody sometime.
- Shannon: Oh, my word!
The Girls Who Get Really Naked [1.7]Edit
- Adrianne: [about Robin] She doesn't seem very Christ-like to me. In fact, I think she secretly worships the devil.
- Tyra: Human is beautiful; perfect is boring.
- Jay: [About Robin] She opened up the drape, and she was just in a panty, no bra, and was like, shaking her boobs at me. What she didn't know was Tyra was standing right next to me, around the corner.
- Tyra: [To Robin] I don't understand how you can say no to something like that, but then, in the dressing room, when you think no one is looking...I saw you open the dressing room at the couture house, and you were nude, and you shook your chest at Jay...You're shaking your chest, jiggle, shimmy, I saw them go round and round and up and down...
- Beau: [To Shannon] Do you have any idea what it's like backstage at a fashion show?... Because you've got 30 girls that have to just strip completely naked.
- Tyra: [To Elyse] I think you look so sexy, and your booty looks kind of big and juicy. That's great!
- Adrianne: [About Robin] If there really is this big wonderful man in the sky, then he's gonna whup her ass when she gets up there.
- Adrianne: [About Robin] I didn't want to listen to what that bitch had to say. She's psychotic.
- Adrianne: I do believe in God...I'm just not psychotic about it.
The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model [1.9]Edit
- Adrianne Curry: Tomorrow we fight to the death!
- Janice Dickinson: [At the Baby Phat fashion show] Shannon was dope last night...
- Beau: You can tell Adrianne's lived a little more. There's something cooking behind Adrianne's eyes.
- Tyra: Hopefully it was fierce. Hopefully it was perfect. And if it wasn't, then the whole room, and the whole world, just saw you screw up.
- Tyra: You should know your real measurements and your fake measurements.
- Adrianne: [About Elyse] She hates everything we do, yet she's the best at it.
- Adrianne: I don't know what to feel. I feel I love Janice Dickinson.
- Janice: Well, I didn't vote for you.
- Adrianne Curry: I'm gonna have a good life now. My family's gonna have a good life now. A lot is going to change, and it kicks so much ass.
Cycle 2Edit
Originally aired January 13 – May 11, 2004.
The Girl Who Overslept [2.1]Edit
- Jenascia: I don't know why they didn't wake me up this morning, but if this doesn't get me eliminated, it's on. It's so fucking on!
- Camille: Maybe I'm just a little more, um, educated than some of these girls.
- J. Alexander: Okay girls, so that was your first fashion experience, and personally I think you all sucked.
- Jenascia: I'm really not that nice of a person, I don't know what's come over me.
- J. Alexander: Walk like it's for sale and the rent is due tonight!
- Sara: I can tell that Camille is going to be somebody that causes a lot of problems. I think she just really believes that she's…the stuff.
- Bethany: I have a lot more talent than the boobs.
- Anna: I do not regret any decisions that I made here, That I've got knocked out and knocked down it hurts for a few moments, But I'm stronger now and you know I can get back up and still keep going. I'm excited to go back and see my son and my husband.
The Girl Has a Temper [2.2]Edit
- Bethany: I have more talent then most of these girls.
- J. Alexander: [To Xiomara] Girl, you walk like you're on crack. Your eyes are so bugged out of your head like something just scared the hell out of you.
- Carmen Marc Valvo: [To Yoanna] If you came in for a casting, and you looked the way that you look, I probably wouldn't even ask you to put on a dress. Usually ugly women put on a lot of makeup.
- Camille: Don't play me. You have a better chance playing Lotto.
- J. Alexander: [To Yoanna] Your walk was as useless as a flashlight with no batteries in the dark.
- J. Alexander: [To Camille] Oh! Black girls always have to give that something extra. I ain't mad at chu though!
- Yoanna: Camille is the most exhausting experience I've ever encountered.
- Yoanna: [To Camille] ...so negative in this house, the energy is driving me crazy! It's like we have to open the windows and... Wait! Just... I'm not finished! Just wait! Because you know why it's just so built up!
The Girl Who Can Cry at the Drop of a Hat [2.3]Edit
- Shandi: Everything's come together and I feel so pretty... right now.
- Xiomara: [About Camille] Her butt is taking up the whole counter space!
- Catie: This is a once in a lifetime thing, I am not gonna care what they do to my hair.
- Sara: I see a lot of unattractive models and a lot of girls that they put magazines, and I'm just like, 'Why the hell do they put these girls in this magazine?' But it's because it draws people to them.
- Tyra: [To Catie] You are a girl, you still have titties and a booty.
- Heather: One man's trash is another man's treasure, I'm trash here and I'll guess I'll go be a treasure somewhere else.
The Girl Who Needs Six Months of Modeling School [2.4]Edit
- Jenascia: This house is totally gonna suck without me, now I'm gonna go back to slinging chicken wings at Hooters and back to my friends and being the happy person that I am.
- Photographer: April is that unique find that comes along every now and again.
- Adrianne: That's what you deal with in the real world, these bitches don't care.
- Simon Doonan: [To Catie] I think there's a little bit too much hooker style going on... Go down where the hookers hang out by the docks, see what they're wearing, and avoid it.
- Jenascia: I'm short and I don't care. Look how short I am!
The Girl is a Visual Orgasm [2.5]Edit
- Eric: [To Yoanna] Your picture looks a bit like an adult ultrasound.
- Nolé Marin: [to Mercedes] You are a visual orgasm.
- Pyschic Suzannah Galland: [To Camille] I don't care if you punch me, but I'm going to level with you. You put people off.
- Camille: [Reading the list of what the other girls think of her] Superior, relentless, headstrong, defiant, outspoken, cunning, aggressive, opinionated, demanding and single-minded.
- April: I haven't been connected with my Japanese heritage and I'm not going to pretend I have. I'm not going to market myself to just Asian girls.
- Nolé Marin: April was like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The Matrix... she was FABULOUS!
- Nolé Marin: [About Shandi] She looked petrified... just like a drowning chicken.
- Nolé Marin: [About Xiomara] Absolutely gorgeous girl, but underwater she looked like a walrus wearing chiffon. It was a disaster from start to finish.
- Janice: I was offended that she called me a bitch. I am a member of the PTA.
The Girl Whose Lips Puffed Up [2.6]Edit
- Tasha Smith-Arquese: [To Camille] Come on, you're sucking right now!
- Eric: She's kinda the girl next door, but I think America's Next Top Model has to be like, the girl way over there.
- Tyra: Down the street and around the corner!
- Eric: EX-actly.
- Jay Manuel: Talk tough superhero, not tough Bronx.
- Mercedes:Well, I'm from Jersey!
- Mercedes: [About Camille] Where the hell did the Cuban come from? I'm more Cuban than her, Honey, and I'm not even Latin!
- Tasha Smith-Arquese: [To Camille] I just feel like you're still on the surface. There's stuff inside your heart that you just refuse to let out... You just want to have this perfect mask on. God bless you in your career, but you're just boring.
- Mercedes: [About April] I love her but she's going to die of a heart attack before she hits 27 because she puts so much stress on the little things and doesn't listen to the positive things.
- Janice: [About Catie] She looks like a child prostitute in this picture.
- Janice: Convince me that you are funny, just once.
The Girl is Dripping with Hypocrisy [2.7]Edit
- April: The competition is not just about winning... it's honestly something that my heart really desires.
- Shandi: [About her boyfriend] Going to the movies, that's like our secret thing that we shared, and it really hurt when he said that.
- Tony Michaels: [About Shandi] You don't look at her and think 'top model' off the bat, but by the second glance you see, wow, she's got it.
- Yoanna: I think it's sad being away from your own home and not having a cake, and plus, I wanted some cake too!
The Girl Goes to Milan [2.8]Edit
- Camille: This is my signature walk and this is the walk that's gonna make me famous.
- Tyra: [Imitating Camille] Look, bitch, I was chosen out of a million people, I don't know what your problem is.
- Jay: We should do a word count of how many times Nole says fabulous in a day.
- Shandi: [About Liliana Rolando, casting director] She's a meany and she is a bad woman and I don't like her!
- Mercedes: My little Italian man, he did not speak that much English, but other than that, I'm having fun.
- Janice: [About April's photograph] She looks like the batteries died in her vibrator.
The Girl Who is Afraid of Snakes [2.9]Edit
- Jay: [About Heather's photo] She looks like a porno star.
- Janice: No, she does not!
- Jay: Yes... she does.
- Janice: So do you!
- Jay: We're talking Silicone Valley on the other end of the table.
- Xiomara: Of course I want to stay here, I don't want to go. I want to stay but if I'm not what someone wants, I'm cool with that. Like I'm not going to sit here and beat myself up because I'm not what someone wants.
- Tyra: Your moms have that responsbility to keep you sane because this business is insane.
- Janice: If a photographer offered you guaranteed fame if you slept with him for a cover of a magazine or a makeup campaign, what would you do?
- April: Is he attractive?
- Sara: [Betting Heather to run around the house naked] I dare you... I swear to God I'll give you $5 dollars if you do it.
- Jenascia: You see how when I'm upset and can still be funny? You see how I do that? I'm fucking great!
- J. Alexander: [To Jenascia] There's a boy somewhere inside of you, you gotta beat him outta you.
The Girl Who Cheated [2.10]Edit
- Mercedes: Modeling is art, but I wasn't ready for this type of art. Especially with April!
- April: DING! Hold on a minute Shandi, you've got a boyfriend!
- April: These girls, myself included, have been like monkeys in a cage, and you drop big bananas inside, of course they're going to tear the peels off.
The Girl Who Is America's Next Top Model [2.11]Edit
- Mercedes: Yoanna is a great person, I've shared a lot with her but if Yoanna wins, I'm gonna pull her hair out and yell, 'It wasn't meant to be!'
- Shandi: I've grown into a person I like and appreciate more.
- Janice: [To Mercedes] Never touch your face, girl, or I will come after you. You are beautiful!
- DSquared: A girl who hangs up their own clothes is better loved. I hate those bitches that just throw them on the floor!
- Mercedes: Oh Bitch, you ain't go gonna go nowhere! [pause] Sorry!
The Runway Ahead [2.12]Edit
- April: I'm a mutt, loud and proud.
- Jenascia: [To Hooters customers] Do you guys need anything? Good, because I didn't want to get it anyways!
- Shandi: When I get home, I won't feel so lost. I won't feel so insecure.
- Anna: Their coochie was showing...
- Jermaine: Eww, baby you can't say that on television!
- Catie: [During preliminaries] If they said, "Catie, to make it you're going to have to shave your head", my hair's gone!
- April: I like the feeling I get when I'm creating art with my body.
Cycle 3Edit
Originally aired September 22 – December 15, 2004.
The Girl With the Secret [3.1]Edit
- Amanda: I'm legally blind. And I'm going to be about 30 when I go completely blind. It's a disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and I just wanted ya'll to know I will always see your face. Please don't cry, I've had 10 years to get used to this. I've seen my son smile and that's all I ever wanted.
- Amanda: My child is so wonderful, he will blossom. It's like a rose growing through a concrete crack.
- J. Alexander: [About Toccara's breasts] Baby when she released those puppies, they were full grown dogs.
- Toccara: I love my skin and I'm workin' it. I'm hittin 200 in the butt, what?
- Norelle: I'm the only one with braces. I'm the only one with bling-bling on my grill, ok?
- Cassie: I might look like the All-American girl, but I don't have the All-American job because I'm a stripper.
- J. Alexander: That's the All-American job to me!
- Tyra: And I have some nicknames for them. Jay Manuel is Mr. Jay and J. Alexander is Mrs. Jay.
- Eva: Everyone has their bathing suit on. Why not get in the water instead of standing next to it, ya dumbasses!
The Girl Who is Co-Dependent [3.2]Edit
- Janice: [To Toccara] Oh, I dunno. You might be giving these skinny little bitches a run for their money.
- Tyra: [To Amanda] You continue to raise your eyebrow. You know, the Zoolander.
- Janice: I used to be able to do it, but I have so much botox in my face I can't really do it anymore.
- Janice: [About Kelle] The hand coming through your legs looks like something that is on a man.
- Tyra: Nolé is a very prominent fashion editor and a stylist. And of course, we can't forget...
- Nolé Marin: Empress Mini, the legendary girl herself.
- Amanda: It's really easy for somebody to pass a judgement on something without knowing all the information.
- Toccara: Ann, big deal, tough tittie!
- Kelle: Tyra had arranged a huge SUV limo to pick us up which is you know, we're all big pimpin'.
- Jay Manuel: OK, Norelle, that one feels a little like you're taking a dump.
- J. Alexander: [To Kristi] It looks like you got gas baby, like you gotta fart.
- Eva: Kelle, she's just so white-washed it's not even funny.
The Girl Everyone Thinks is a Backstabber [3.3]Edit
- Toccara: You can shave my head off bald and I'll still walk around here like I'm a goddess.
- Amanda: The girls are starting to feel intimidated by me and its really making me feel good as hell.
- Yaya: Julie cracks me up. It's nice to see someone proud of where they come from.
- Tyra: You guys look like the pretty girls walking down the street. Maybe she can model but ehh...
- Danilo: [To Amanda] How does it feel waking up with it? Does it feel possessed by the previous owner?
- Amanda: What I did to Cassie was bring her secret out in the open. It wasn't my place to do it and now I'm the evil person, and everyone thinks I'm a backstabber.
- Nicole: I'm excited actually for eliminations. I'm going, 'Let's get some of these bitches outta here!
- Nolé Marin: Where'd you come from, baby?
- Amanda: Your dreams.
The Girl Who Sets a Trap [3.4]Edit
- Jay Manuel: Norelle was trying to show me how gorgeous her boobs were, which they are! She's got gorgeous boobs, but that doesn't mean she's gonna be America's Next Top Model.
- Eva: Have you seen Ann's biceps? Ann will beat your ass, Jenn.
- Kelle: Does anyone have a pair of sunglasses? [repeated line]
- Ann: Don't ever touch me again or you'll see you'll get knocked out.
- Jennipher: Oh, I'd like to see it.
- Amanda: What's a 10 dollar bill to catch a bitch, hmm?
- Amanda: [Singing] I'm missing 100 dollars and my laundry's gone. Cuz of a certain bitch, uh, certain bitch, certain bitch.
- Norelle: My biggest dream, Heatherette fashion show. My worst nightmare: falling. All in the same night!
- Eva: Toccara actually exposes to me that she thought she was gonna win because she got a lot of applause. You got applause because your titties are out girl.
- J. Alexander: Their show is usually the hottest ticket in town during New York Fashion week. It's so hot that I don't get a ticket.
- J. Alexander: It's really funny because it's about to fall but you're not lettin' it happen.
- Eva: It's not gonna fall.
- Yoanna: So I know what you guys are going through, but it's worth it. It's such a short time, and you're so young and you'll sleep when you're dead, so...
- Toccara: Ms J. comes down and she has her little apple, she's just fabulous.
- J. Alexander: You walk like you're chewin' gum between your legs.
- Eva: First of all, I didn't even know you were a bitch!
- Kelle: I look like a platypus!
The Girl Who Cries When She Looks in the Mirror [3.5]Edit
- Jay Manuel: Kelle just told me that you won the posing competition, which I still find hard to believe, but alright, work it out girl!
- Norelle: I look like one of those dolls that's like, so pretty but if you look at it at night, you'd be running out of the room screaming. I loved it.
- Simon Doonan: Jennipher, she's a little dull, slash very dull.
- Simon Doonan: You've gotta look alluring, you've gotta look interesting, but you can't look cheap and slutty.
- Kelle: The past 3 panels, I've had probably the worst photos in the group. I've had a penis, I've been a deer in the headlights in the middle of a cemetery, I've been a platypus that's just came from a dentist...!
- Janice: [To Ann] Bring motion to those stringy thingies!
- Toccara: I was sweatin' soo hard...I don't think I like yoga.
The Girl Who Mutilated the Precious Brownies [3.6]Edit
- Jay Manuel: Ten people will say, 'Don't do this. Don't do this.' You know what you're going to end up with? Nothing.
- Eva: [about Yaya's facial prize for winning the challenge] The person that needed the facial got the facial.
- Eva: Cassie is the biggest punk I have ever met.
- Yaya: Someone had the audicity to mutilate her precious brownies.
- Amanda: It's like living with eight other beautiful...pigs.
- Kelle: Daddy, I don't have intensity in my eyes.
- Yaya: Some people think it's funny to kill people. That doesn't make it funny.
The Girl Who Forgot Her Shoes [3.7]Edit
- Janice: Eva's still short.
- Nigel: Perhaps she'll grow by next week?
- Toccara: I wanna know why all the girls were so nice lookin', and here I am looking like I work at Home Depot.
- Cassie: [About Jay in drag] This woman walks out, I thought, this is a really ugly woman.
- Cassie: I don't want to be here anymore, but I don't want to be known as the girl who quit.
- Norelle: I may not be good enough now, but I'll be good enough someday.
- Norelle's Mom: You're good enough now.
- Toccara: I'm very happy for Yaya, and at the same time, I was getting nervous and scared because you don't see a lot of negroes in high fashion.
- Marc Bouwer: [To Amanda] Alright, let's try to walk without tripping this time!
The Girl Who Is Panic Stricken [3.8]Edit
- Yaya: Maybe there's a wall, you know, with nine blocks that spell out 'competition'.
- Tyra: Toccara, I knew from day one that you wanted this and was f-a-b-o
- Toccara: I am fabulous and I want this.
- Toccara: I'm proud of myself. I'm the largest girl to get here and I made it this far. Someone has to start to break the barrier, so hopefully the next plus size girl that comes along, she makes it a little bit further. It's gonna take time, it doesn't happen over night. But I'm just grateful that maybe I made a path for someone else.
- Tyra: Yaya, it was like you were on this pedestal and this hat smelt like dookie!
- Tyra: [To Yaya] You want your outfit to be, 'Look at me' and this outfit is 'Look over there'.
- Nolé Marin: [To Yaya] You're I feel... half African, half cowgirl. Looks like you're about to ride a giraffe.
- Eva: You see this face? This is a confused face!
- Sarah Pyper: Who's the most annoying girl in the group?
- Eva: Everyone's equally annoying!
- Eva: Everyone freakin' says to me that I'm a diva! So how do I not be a diva?
The Girls Meet Taye Diggs [3.9]Edit
- Tyra: [To Yaya] Now we need you to eat the product because I've never heard of a girl having a commercial and not tasting the product.
- Janice: Eat! Eat! Eat!
- Norelle: The first thing we saw was a hospital bed. Prepare to die? I'm sorry, but I am not a good die-er.
- Tyra: [To Yaya] I suggest you go to the nearest bakery in Japan and order up the biggest slice of humble pie.
- Nolé Marin: [About Eva] In your commercial, she was an absolute Tokyo disaster.
- Tyra: She was a typhoon!
- Nolé Marin: She was a typhoon, a buffoon, she was a cocoa puff mess.
- Amanda: I just look like a pair of ears on an onion.
- Yaya: There's one person eliminated every single time. And that one person should not be me. And if it is, I need to have a talk with the judges.
- Norelle: I can barely speak English, and you want me to speak Japanese?
- Norelle: I don't know if they're called Japanese people if they are from Tokyo, or Tokyians?
- Taye: Julia? Julia? That's a cruel trick. That's a cruel trick, Julia.
- Taye: You died in your favourite shoes.
- Nicole: The first thing I saw was not appropriate, so I had to just say I didn't see anything!
The Girl Who Goes Ballistic [3.10]Edit
- Jessie, Yaya's sister: [On phone with Yaya, who is crying] Regardless of what people think about you, continue to bless people with your compassion and your wisdom. They have the blessing of being with you.
- Eva: And I have all that fucking tension and animosity...
- Yaya: Sorry, one second. I CAN'T HEAR, I'M ON THE PHONE!
- Norelle: [after brief pause] ... go on.
- Norelle: [To Ann and Eva] Hopefully, one of us makes it to number one. And hopefully, it's us three!
- Yaya: Don't exoticize me!
- Norelle: Holy crap, Toccara. Your boobs are as big as my head.
- Toccara: [About Amanda] Her eyes are too blue, and her hair is just...it's scary. I mean, I don't want to be around her at nighttime when she's walking down the hallway!
- Ann: Taye Diggs wants me. [laughs]
- Eva: Taye Diggs is so married.
- Ann: He's married?
- Eva: So married.
- Ann: To who?
- Eva: To his wife!
- Tyra: Now 5 girls remain. Eva, the controversial diva. Ann, the All-American athlete. Yaya, the wordly Ivy League graduate. Amanda, the free-spirited mom who's going blind. And Norelle, the Orange County Cinderella. Don't miss out on the drama as we find out who will be America's Next Top Model!
The Girl The Lionesses Are Hunting [3.11]Edit
- Norelle: Opening a sliding door in Japan seriously takes five minutes.
- Amanda: With my blindness I appreciate every sunrise, butterfly, the dew drop on a petal.
- Norelle: Eva had said that she hoped I did bad so I would go home and then Eva was like, "Oh yeah? Ann, well you think Norelle's ugly and fat!"
- Tyra: Well, Norelle, you're one of the top 5. And you have to realize that's what makes beauty interesting, is when it's debatable. Do you know what I mean? There's so many people that say, 'Oh Tyra Banks is beautiful.' And there's so many people that say, 'Tyra Banks has a big ass forehead and I think shes ugly!' One thing you need to realize is everybody talks about everybody.
- Eva: I think Ann knows I've been nothing but a friend to her. So for her to bring that situation on the table, without trying to understand me or try to clear it up, is like 'Woah. That's...you very whack right now homie. Like, you are so whack'.
- Norelle: I was so confused. Pink Positive, what's going on? Are we getting a divorce?
- Amanda: When the lionesses are hunting in a pack, when there's a flaw, you see it. And everybody goes for it.
- Amanda: Yaya has won like, 5 times? More power to her, 'cause I'm sharing in the fruits of her labor.
- Norelle: Oh my god! I don't understand Japanese food. I do not eat Japanese food. If I do, I eat like... Panda Express?
- Norelle: [about a Japanese tea ceremony] Uhh! There is so much detail. You think have tea is going to your friend's house, have time for tea? Woo... It's not. It's so hard.
- Amanda: I feel like a lot of people in the house don't necessarily want to be around Eva. The house has to have a target. That's just mob mentality and human nature and competition.
The Girl Who Didn't Hug Goodbye [3.12]Edit
- Yaya: I did the girls a favor because my nonpresence there gave someone else a chance to win.
- Ann: We're still Ann and Eva even though we've had some marriage problems.
- Jay Manuel: [To Ann] You're lucky you're still in this competition. You barely got a photograph.
- Amanda: It's good to have family around, even if it's not your own.
- Ann: [About Japanese street fashion] When I first saw it, I was kinda like, Ok, where was your mirror this morning?
- Amanda: When you're looking for something, vision's important!
- Eva: My idea was find things that don't go together and look really stupid and you'll win. How dumb do I look?
- Eva: Ahh! Lost my shoe! I'm flying, rolling down the street honey!
The Girl Who Wins It All [3.13]Edit
- Amanda: I want to inspire people that have disabilities, or you know, shortcomings to just like, work through it and to find joy and everything.
- Janice: [To Amanda] Japanda!
- Yaya: The skirt was kinda see through. I didn't want to be disrespectful, but if that idea had been done in the States, it could look very...hoochie.
- Amanda: I was serving up a piping hot plate of smile!
- Amanda: I was really trying to utilize my inner joy. You know, my really strong personality and my appreciation for bunny rabbits and France.
- Yaya: If there were anything that Amanda and I could do to make Eva feel more included or comfortable, I don't think we would.
- Tyra: Will it be Yaya, the Ivy League grad who's road to become a top model had more than a few bumps on it?
- Eva: I'm 5'7, but I don't have to be tall to be great!
- Eva: Watch out world, here comes Eva!
Cycle 4Edit
Originally aired March 1 – May 18, 2005.
The Girl with the Worst Photo in History [4.5]Edit
- Beverly Johnson: [referring to Rebecca's "Virgo" photograph] Even though you're the virgin, you're the virgin that everybody wants.
- Nigel: Right.
- Beverly Johnson: So you have to be very sensual.
- Janice: Tyra, when you're strutting down the runway doing Victoria's Secret, wearing those bat wings, what are you thinking?
- Tyra: I ain't thinking I'm no virgin.
- Noelle:[about tennis shoot photographer] I dont know whether he wasn't hugged enough as a child or what.
The Girl Who is Contagious [4.6]Edit
- Kahlen: I think the reason Mr. Jay dressed up was to show us that even though Michelle has scabies, she can still be beautiful.
The Girl Who Pushes Tyra Over The Edge [4.8]Edit
- Tyra: [after eliminating Tiffany and Rebecca] Can you guys stand in front of me? I just want to say one more thing to you. Rebecca, I admire your emotion right now. It shows to me that this is something that's very important to you. Tiffany, I'm extremely disappointed in you. This is a joke to you. You've been through anger management, you've been through your grandmother getting her lights turned off to buy you a swimsuit for this competition, and you go over there and you joke, and you laugh? This is serious to these girls, and this should be serious to you.
- Tiffany: Looks can be deceiving. I'm hurt. I am, but...I can't change it, Tyra. I-I've been...
- Tyra: You can't change what?
- Tiffany: I'm sick of crying about stuff that I cannot change. I'm sick of being disappointed, I'm sick of all of it. I'm not...
- Tyra: You're not sick of being disappointed.
- Tiffany: Obviously, I am.
- Tyra: No, you're not. If you were sick of being disappointed, you would stand up, and you would take control of your destiny. Do you know that you had a possibility to win? Do you know that all of America is rooting for you? Do you know that? And then you come in here, and you treat this like a joke? You come in here and look at that, and say, "I can't read that?" You read ten times better than half of those girls over there!
- Nigel and Nole: You did.
- Tyra: And you come in here with a defeatist attitude.
- Tiffany: I don't have a bad attitude! Maybe I am angry inside! I've been through stuff, so I'm angry!
- Tyra: Be quiet, Tiffany. Be quiet! What is wrong with you? STOP IT! I have never in my life yelled at a girl like this! When my mother yells like this it's because she loves me. I was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you! How dare you?! Learn something from this! When you go to bed at night, you lay there and you take responsibility for yourself, because nobody's going to take responsibility for you. You're rolling your eyes and you act like it's because you've heard it all before - you've heard it all before - you don't know where the hell I come from! You have no idea what I've been through. But I'm not a victim; I grow from it and I learn. Take responsibility for yourself!
- Janice: Kahlen, where'd that man come from?
The Girl Who Gets Bad News [4.9]Edit
- Naima: [referring to a photo shoot at the bottom of a grave] Michelle's a little weird, so she's like "This is cool! This is cool!"—and I'm like, "This is freaky."
The Girls the Lionesses Are Hunting [4.10]Edit
- Nole: Girl, that's a drag queen after my own heart. A girl in high heels running.
- Nigel: [about Brittany] She's an exaggeration. She's like a walking exclamation mark. And it's not pretty.
- Gerda: [about Kahlen's picture] She really got this deer, and I know this animal well.
- Janice: How well do you know it?
- Gerda: It's my national animal.
- Kahlen: [[after feeding a bear a marshmellow from her mouth] I want to go home and brush my teeth for the next 5 days.
The Girl Who Walks on Water [4.14]Edit
- Naima:I am speechless.
Cycle 5Edit
Originally aired September 21 – December 14, 2005.
The Girl with the Twisted Catch Phrase/The Girls Become Super Heroes [5.2]Edit
- Ebony Taylor: Don't get it twisted.
- Jay Alexander: So you're on the Jehovah's layaway plan.
- Jayla: Yes, that's it.
- Jay Alexander: Buy now, pray later.
The Girl Who Needs a Miracle [5.3]Edit
- Cassandra: If this doesn't work for me, then I'm definitely going to go back to pageants because I think that really helps you develop more as a woman, where modeling is just more of a career.
The Girl Who Makes a Disclaimer [5.4]Edit
- Jay Manuel: [to Cassandra] So, are you ready to cut your hair?
- Cassandra: No!
- Jay Manuel: You know, I really don't have time for this today so... you just gotta leave my set.
The Girl Who Loves Bubbles and Talks to Plants [5.6]Edit
- Lisa: You're the only one that seriously, like, dislikes me, and so-
- Coryn: I'm the only one that told you to your face that I do not like you.
- Coryn: [to Lisa] Will you shut up? Why are you still talking to me? Shut up!
- Lisa: Okay, well...
- Coryn: I do not like you. I've told you that a long time ago.
- Lisa: Then don't talk about me, don't talk to me, don't make snappy comments to me. Just pretend I don't exist.
- Coryn: Shut up, and I can pretend like you don't exist.
- Lisa: That is so rude! Grow up, Coryn. You're basically presenting yourself like a moron! Okay?
- Coryn: And what are you doing, alcoholic bitch?
The Girl Whose Boyfriend Is Cheating on Her [5.9]Edit
- Kim: The person who would most likely get along with the Wild Boyz is disgusting, crazy: Lisa.
- Nik: I just kept seeing everyone laugh, and I knew they weren't laughing at me, cause whatever I was doing wasn't that funny.
- Lisa: [to the Wild Boyz, upon entering in a diaper] I'm wearing you guy's underwear!
- Steve-O: Why?
- Lisa: Why not?
- Bre: Why is she wearing a diaper again?
- Jayla: I don't know.
- Bre: Oh, just thought I'd ask.
- Lisa: We have to see if they work!
- Bre: Lisa don't pee in it! [in confessional, referring to Lisa] Then Lisa announces that she's going to pee in a diaper. No woman of class, especially a supermodel in the making, is going to do something as disgusting as pee on herself at her job!
- Nicole: [referring to Lisa] I feel disgusted!
- Bre: Lisa, she's a sick individual, and if she wins this competition I hope she uses that $100,000 and checks herself into a psych ward, ASAP.
- Lisa: [in the confessional] Everybody's looking at me like I'm crazy... Everybody's taking themselves way too serious... Everybody just needs to calm down. Calm down! Take a break. [takes out a jar of cookies] Eat a cookie!
- Tyra: [to Jayla and Nicole] Well Jayla and Nicole, please step forward. You two are exquisite, beautiful girls. You take beautiful pictures, but when you open your mouths, they [referring to the judges] say, that there is no way that they can represent a product. You both are the top of the pack, but now you stand before me, at the bottom. With modeling, you guys have to be on point, you have to be fierce, you have to be ready. But the judges were so disappointed in you that tonight both of you must pack your bags... [pauses] Because we're all going to London!
The Girl Who Retaliates [5.11]Edit
- Nicole: [referring to Bre] She's like the spawn of the devil or something. Freak!
Cycle 6Edit
Originally aired March 8 – May 17, 2006.
America's Next Top Model: Where the Girls Are [6.1]Edit
- Leah: I'm awesome. I'm like the best go go dancer ever to be created.
The Girl Who Learns How to Dance, The Girls Go Bald [6.2]Edit
- Kathy: I feel like a penis with ears.
- Dani: I know what I feel, and I am not a racist.
The Girl Who is A True Miss Diva [6.3]Edit
(prior to makeovers, Tyra is telling each girl what they're going to get) Tyra: Brooke, when we look at you, we think Victoria's Secret, we think high fashion, so you know who's hair you're gonna get? Miss J. Alexander: Mine. (everyone starts laughing)
- Tyra: Jade you are standing right in front of me because you have a lot of excuses, that you don't take responsibility for your actions.
- Jade: Long hair, baby! Furonda is really feeling this hair, now that is a true Miss Diva.
- Sara: [About Jade] I think the Peroxide's are starting to mess with her head.
- Joanie: [about Jade] She's not from this planet, so she says. And you know what? I think I believe it.
- Jade: This is a competition! This is not America's Next Top Best Friend!I wanna be America's Next Top Model, because I feel that I have everything that it takes to be that. Broke ass crown don't even got diamonds.
- Wendy: You need to not take your attitude out on other people!
- Jade: Goodbye, J-Lo! Goodbye, J-Lo!
- Jade: I'm not worried about Furonda right now because she did really bad.
- ...
- J. Alexander: Furonda really impressed me. She did much better than last time!
The Girl Who Kissed the Roach [6.4]Edit
- Nigel: [about Danielle spraining her ankle] Falling is definitely your expertise.
Jay:Right now you look like your clunkin on a mat.
Furronda: Really? What does my face look like?
Jay:Like you're clunkin on a mat.
The Girl Who Kissed A Male Model [6.5]Edit
- Joanie: [After Nnenna kisses the male model] He totally pitched a tent while they were in Africa. And not one you camp in.
- Danielle: It's just so random to hear Jade say she wants to be a kindergarten teacher. I would homeschool my child before they went to Jade's class.
The Girl With Two Bad Takes [6.6]Edit
- Nick Cannon: The next game is called Questions.
- Furonda: The questions game is where you would ask a question, and the person would ask a question back.
- Nick: A TV and a remote.
- Brooke: Why do you keep change me all the time?
- Joanie: Why is your antennae all crooked?
- Nick: A job interview.
- Jade: I'm sorry you don't have the right qualifications. [A negative buzzer rings and a big red x appears on screen saying Not a Question]
- Nick: See, you gotta ask a question.
- Jade: See, this is confusing.
- Joanie: Jade, she just sucks at all of the stuff that we do.
- Nick: Start with who, what, when, where and why. If you start with one of those, you're gonna be good.
- Jade: Alright, man.
- Nick: I'ma give one where you can figure it out. A rich man and a poor man.
- Jade: My dick is bigger than yours.[Another negative buzzer rings and a big red x appears on screen saying Definitely Not a Question]
- Joanie: You totally just lost!
- Jade: You know, even though it was fun, laughter and jokes, that was humor to me. I was like what? [affirmative buzzer rings with a green checkmark, saying "question"]] What? [Buzzer rings again] What? [buzzer rings again]
- Danielle: [Rapping] Roses are red, violets are blue, i'm a win the title, and you look like boo-boo.
- Nnenna: [Rapping] You are a model, I knew that (laughs). But you could at least? Learn how to talk!
- Mollie Sue: [Rapping] Walk is good, might not fall, your head's as shiny as a big rubber ball.
- Joanie: [Rapping] Yeah, my name is Joanie, you know what I mean, it's me and this white dude on this here black team, I got a volleyball diva, a hot Latina and two African, queens!
- Jade: [Rapping] My name is Jade. The ace of spades. Furonda, my dear, I know your skin is bumpy, but my skin is flawless and you look really lumpy.
- Joanie: [about Jade's rap] Nobody else took it there, like nobody was like, "Yo Jade, you look like an 85 year old woman."
- Jade: [Rapping] Yo, you're blonde, you're too tall for this industry, you know what, i'm in this real, if you're not, because let me tell you they're gonna not blow up your **** body.
- Sara: [Rapping] I think i'm gonna puke in the bottle if I hear one more thing about Jade, the undiscovered supermodel.
- Jade: That doesn't rhyme. [silence voice]
- Furonda: [Rapping] I hate the bust on you, cause I know it's your world, hey man get rid of your "s" curl.
- Jade: [before Furonda picks someone to share her prize PSA] I volunteer.
- Furonda: [in a behind the scene interview] Jade and I are not friends. We're not friends. [back to the present] I'm going to pick Nnenna.
- Jay: [about Jade's bad takes for a Cover Girl commercial] She doesn't quite grasp the fact that she's got to improvise in this scene. It was thirty seconds of me listening to her heels clap on the concrete.
- [Later...]
- Jay: She's a drag queen! [after Jade curses] Cover Girls don't say that!
- J. Alexander: [about Brooke] She looks like a trout, but I love her.
The Girl Who Has a Temper [6.7]Edit
- Dani: You see the sun rise, you see it set, you see the Eiffel Tower, you see the crows cock...all that going on, and Nnenna's still on the phone.
- Brooke: [About Nnenna] She's from Africa? Go back to Africa if it's so damn great.
- Joanie: [with a basket on her head] I'm a basket case!
The Girl Who Has Surgery [6.8]Edit
Sutan [Make-Up Artist]: Every morning when I wake up, little Woodland animals come to greet me.
The Girl Who is a Model, Not a Masseuse [6.9]Edit
- Jade: Sometimes I keep wondering why I am landing in the bottom two, but I'm coming back with a vengeance, I'm coming back strong.
- Furonda: I don't really get to know this stuff, I am a model, not a masseuse.
- Jade: [during her interview] I'm an exotic biracial butterfly.
- Joanie: [About the products used by the makeup artists] I own that one! And the one for your face too!
- Joanie: [during the mermaid photo shoot] My boobs are falling out. I would be extremely embarassed if the boobs fell out.
- Twiggy: Jade frightens me. Don't leave me in a room with Jade!
The Girl Who is Going to the Moon [6.10]Edit
- Danielle: I'll give you a hundred dollars if you eat this.
- Joanie: Get out of here!
- Danielle: A hundred dollars.
- Joanie: A hundred dollars, I'll have E. coli and be dead at 6 am!
- Danielle: But you'll have a hundred dollars. Furonda! You want some money? These girls are filthy! They eat and leave things everywhere. Look at this. Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
- Joanie: What else can we throw away?!
The Girl Who is Rushed To The Emergency Room [6.11]Edit
- Joanie: [about Furonda's dance] It wasn't anything Thai, it was hula, it was club, it was everywhere.
- Jade: Posing with an elephant, it's like posing with an ancient dinosaur. And elephants are in the dinosaur family.
- Furonda: When I hear Jade and Joanie fighting I was like whonk whonk whonk whonk whonk whonk whonk, I was trying to tune them down.
The Girls Go To Phuket [6.12]Edit
- Jade: If it was up to me, I wouldn't have chose to ride in the toot-toot...hoop-hoop...pu-pu...tut-tut...hoopty. Okay?
The Girl Who Walked Through The Ancient City [6.13]Edit
- Joanie: The best girl won!
Cycle 7Edit
Originally aired September 20 – December 6, 2006.
The Girl Who Marks Her Territory [7.1]Edit
- J. Alexander: I love one of the twins, I just can't remember which one it is.
- Tyra: [about Melrose's attitude during the shoot] I'm just so disappointed in her performance on the set. And to be talking back to Mr. Jay and flipping out and blaming this and blaming that. It's like, "Honey, this is the first week. You could be cut like that." If you're a bitch...hide it.
The Girl Who Hates Her Hair [7.2]Edit
- Tyra: [to Jaeda] Maybe you should go home and count the days till your hair grows back.
- Monique: [noticing the other girls distracting her while she's on the phone] I'm just enjoying this phone call. It's great!
- Amanda: [in confessional, impersonating Monique] "I'm really enjoying my phone conversation!" Who does that?! Two-year olds do that!
- [Later, Anchal barges in after Monique talks on the phone for over three hours]
- Anchal: There's people who gotta pay for their fucking apartment!
- Monique: And you don't know what the hell I'm on the phone talking about, okay?! So, you get out of my face, and go in there! I'm not here to make friends with you guys. I could care less.
- Anchal: Learn to respect other people!
- Monique: This is my time, I'm not getting off the phone.
The Girl Who Goes to Texas [7.3]Edit
The Girl Who Joined the Circus [7.4]Edit
The Girl Who Punk'd Ashton [7.5]Edit
- CariDee: [in a "red carpet interview" challenge with Janice Dickenson] Why, why, why—Why are you so over-pungent?
- Janice: Over-pungent!?
- Jaeda: [same challenge] I don't know what to say?
- Janice: Fine, gimme the mic! [grabs microphone out of her hand] Bye! Yeah, I got the mic...
- Brooke: [same challenge] What makes you so bitchy?
- Janice: [walks away without saying anything]
- Janice: [to AJ, after red-carpet challenge] Yo, why are you still wearing that ugly pink thing on your head?
- AJ: [later, to camera] I don't care what she said, I love my hat
- AJ: [during photoshoot as Marc Anthony] God, what am I doing?
- Michelle: I might be—gay.
The Girl Who Graduates [7.6]Edit
- Brooke: I got eliminated on my freaking high school graduation! I gave everything up to come here and ironically enough this the night that I get chosen to go home.
The Girl Who Wrecks the Car [7.8]Edit
- Eugena: [After a 30 second shopping spree race, where only one constant walks away with everything] We were all in the back laughing, because Melrose grabs everything. Because Melrose understood the rules, but the other girls didn't.
The Girl Who Breaks Down [7.9]Edit
- Eugena: [About Melrose] I think she might be bipolar or something.
- Amanda: Spanish guys and American guys are very similar. They all have the same jokes and stuff. But Spanish guys smell better.
The Girl Who Sticks Her Foot In Her Mouth [7.10]Edit
- CariDee: [to Nigel] Did you just remove that (referring to a large stick Nigel held) from your ass from the last panel?
- Melrose: I can't believe she said that!
- Eugena: Mr. Jay didn't look like a matador at all. He looked like.. Mr. Jay in a matador costume.
- Tyra: [during the evaluation at Eugena's bullfighting pictures] Eugena this week is like model, slash, acrobat...
- Miss J.: ...and slash Miss J.
The Girl Who Grates [7.11]Edit
- Jay Manuel: Today was a typical Eugena shoot -- flat, boring, and it looked like she was drowning in the water.
- CariDee: I don't respect Melrose... if Melrose becomes America's Next Top Model I'm going to puke... all over. I'll just puke.
- CariDee: Melrose has three different personalities and she's really good at it, she's really convincing... it's creepy... maybe she should be medicated.
The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model [7.12]Edit
- CariDee: I'm America's Next Top Model, baby! Yeah!
- Melrose: I'm pissed. I've put my heart and soul into this, and it wasn't enough. And I got called a bitch the whole way through it and it sucks. And I feel really misunderstood and I'm sad.
Cycle 8Edit
Originally aired February 28 – May 16, 2007.
The Girl Who Won't Stop Talking, Part 1 [8.1]Edit
- Jay: [about Dionne] I love that she has diarrhea of the mouth because we don't have to hear in a photograph.
- Natalie: I really like Audrey Hepburn. I love her in Dinner at Tiffany's.
- Tyra: Dinner at Tiffany's?
- Natalie: I'm sorry. Lunch at, brunch at Tiffany's. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Tyra: [laughing] Lunch at Tiffany's?
- Jay: Guess what honey? It was breakfast at Tiffany's!
- Samantha: [about her hometown] I think the biggest thing that ever happened was the Butter Bean Festival.
- Kathleen: My Grandma has no booty. My Mama has no booty. Then therefore I have no booty. Okay, I'm a black girl with no ass. But I have... That's what I have. I have... [flashes other girls]
- Tyra: And I want you to be all you can be, not bitch all you can bitch.
- Jael: It's just modeling. We're not curing cancer here.
- Brittany: I get very loud. I talk probably almost at this level like when I'm sitting at home.
- Tyra: Have you ever had your hearing tested? You think that has something to do with it?
- Brittany: Pardon?
- Tyra: Why you screaming so loud?
- Kathleen: Cause you're so pretty! Oh my God!!!
- J. Alexander: What about me?
The Girl Who Won't Stop Talking, Part 2 [8.2]Edit
- Twiggy: You kinda want to take Kathleen home and look after her.
- J. Alexander: I don't!
- Kathleen: I believe that if the animal's alive you shouldn't kill it to make a coat of anything, but if it's already dead than you can take the skin off and just make a coat.
- Tyra: How would it already be dead? Like, uh . . .
- Kathleen: Let's say, 'cuz animals fight each other in the jungle, right, in the woods?
- Kathleen: I think every model wants to date Nigel Barker, 'cuz he's so tall.
- Kathleen: My theme today is anti-fur, like I hate fur. Actually, I really do like fur. I mean, it makes you look hot.
- Kathleen: [at her photoshoot] Should I look at the fur like it's stank?
- Jay: [during a shoot about gay marriage] I like the smiling, why don't you guys have a happy moment? Lesbians aren't serious all the time.
The Girls Who Go To Prom [8.3]Edit
- Samantha: [about her photo shoot] Last week I was a lesbian, and now I'm a ho. [laughs] So much fun.
- Jay: [to Samantha] put your hands between your thighs, pretend that you're all alone and you're masturbating!
- Jael: [about Sarah flashing the high school students] I thought it was very liberating for her, and I'm so proud of it. She got to experience that next to me!
The Girl Who Cries All Time [8.4]Edit
- Renee: [to Brittany] For a 21 year old, you still act like you're in high school.
- Sarah: [watching Natasha during her shoot] She looks like Kate Moss.
- Renee: No she doesn't. Do you know who Kate Moss is?
- Dionne: You know what, Jay? I think I'm more comfortable naked.
- Jay: That's uh... interesting.
The Girl Who Changes Her Attitude [8.5]Edit
- Renee: I feel like a lot of the girls in the house don't understand me, like they're just looking for ways to be offended by me. I don't know why; I feel like they just don't like me.
- Jay: [after Brittany does a shoot on a wet, grimy bathroom floor] Someone get this girl a towel and a tetanus shot.
- Jay: I already told them you were really good.
- Renee: Oh! They already hate me enough as it is!
- Jay: Oh, they do? Why? What happened?
- Renee: I'm a bitch.
The Girl Who Takes Credit [8.6]Edit
- Jay: [as Natasha is doing very well in her photo shoot] There is a reason those Russian people compete and get gold!
- Jay: Tell me again why you want to be America's Next Top Model.
- Diana: Just...'cause.
- Sarah: [about how Natasha can explain away any negative feedback] Natasha is the used car salesman of America's Next Top Model.
- Sarah: [about Natasha] She looks like Kate Moss.
- Renee: No she doesn't. Do you know who kate Moss is?
The Girl Who Gets Thrown in the Pool [8.7]Edit
- Jael: Thank you for coming to our party.
- 50 Cent: This is actually my party, you know, Smart Water all over the place?
- Jael: Well you know how us from Detroit have a smart ass mouth.
- Jael: Listen, my mom is Black and my dad's a Jew, I'm Blewish, you can't hang with that!
- Whitney:[in the confessional] Jael has a very "in-your-face" personality, and I say this time after time, after time: you can hate it or you can love it.
- 50 Cent: I asked you to leave.
- Jael: Be a man!
- 50 Cent: [pushes Jael into the swimming pool]
- Dionne: [in confessional] Jael deserved it, because she didn't leave that man alone.
The Girl Who Impresses Pedro [8.8]Edit
- Dionne: [on doing a lesbian kissing photoshoot] Hold up. I'm no fucking lesbo! I'll give you a hug, but that kissing shit, I don't even kiss my own damn boyfriend!
- Dionne: I see my mom, my sister, and my baby. And the first thing that came to my mind is...what the fuck is wrong with my baby's hair?
The Girl Who Blames the Taxi Driver [8.10]Edit
- [Natasha and Brittany are disqualified from the go-see for being late, and are standing outside the modeling agency]
- Natasha: I was late for thirty seconds.
- Brittany: I asked my fucking cab driver to meet me on Cooper Street, and he didn't fucking show up! I have a cab driver who didn't listen.
- Natasha: It's okay.
- Brittany: It's not okay! It sucks because it's not my fucking fault, it's his, 'cause I asked him to meet me over there!
- Natasha: I just want to tell you that some people have war in their countries. Don't be...please don't be—
- Brittany: STOP TELLING ME NOT TO BE UPSET! I can be upset if I want to! I have a cab driver that doesn't listen, and I get fucked!
- Jaslene: I make it back to Priscilla's a minute before, and I'm like, "Where's Natasha, where's Brittany?" We have two slackers.
The Girl Who Does Not Want To Dance [8.11]Edit
- Dionne: I don't wanna do no damn dance, what do you mean, dance?
- Natasha: [during her interpretive dance] When I used to be a child, I was very weak.
- Dionne: I see her lips moving, but I don't hear a thing.
Cycle 9Edit
Originally aired September 19 – December 12, 2007.
The Girls Go Cruisin' [9.1]Edit
- Heather: [in front of Tyra and J. Alexander] Hey pretty lady—and Tyra.
- Ebony: Let's play a game and see who has an eating disorder.
- Marvita: Why would someone say something like that?
- Ebony: [tilts head] Because I wanted to.
- Marvita: When was your last damn meal? 'Cause you look anorexic.
- Janet: [about her home town] We just got a Walmart.
The Models Go Green [9.2]Edit
The Girls Go Rock Climbing [9.3]Edit
- Bianca: [to Saleisha] Check your thighs out in the mirror—and I'm done!
The Girl Who Goes Bald [9.4]Edit
The Girl Who Is Afraid of Heights [9.5]Edit
The Girl Who Gets a Mango [9.6]Edit
The Girl Who Runs Into the Glass Door [9.7]Edit
The Girls Who Crawl [9.8]Edit
The Girl Who Starts to Lose Her Cool [9.9]Edit
The Girls Go to Shanghai [9.10]Edit
The Girls Go on Go-See Adventures [9.11]Edit
The Girls Go to the Great Wall [9.12]Edit
The Warrior Within [9.13]Edit
The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model [9.14]Edit
Cycle 10Edit
Originally aired February 20 – May 14, 2008.
Welcome to Top Model Prep [10.1]Edit
- Dominique: I showed him that you can't put a price on all of this.
- Tyra: What is, "all of this?"
- Dominique: Pretty!
New York City, Here We Come [10.2]Edit
Top Model Makeovers [10.3]Edit
Where's the Beef? [10.4]Edit
Top Model Takes It to the Streets [10.5]Edit
House of Pain [10.6]Edit
(The models have just done a music-themed photo shoot. Upon evaluating Katarzyna's "emo" photo):
Miss J: See I'm confused, this looks grunge to me. Tyra: well, this is emo. Miss J: (squinting at the photo): this is white music? Paulina Porizkova: (almost deadpan): yeah, this is white music. Welcome to our world Jay. (the models all burst into laughter)
If You Can't Make It Here, You Can't Make It Anywhere [10.7]Edit
Top Model 10 Confidential [10.8]Edit
For Those About to Walk, We Salute You [10.9]Edit
Viva Italia! [10.10]Edit
Anya: "My first steps into Rome and I eat it on the ground."
We Are Spartans! [10.11]Edit
Ready for My Close Up [10.12]Edit
And the Winner Is ... [10.13]Edit
Cycle 11Edit
Originally aired September 3 – November 19, 2008.
Cycle 12Edit
Originally aired March 4 – May 13, 2009.
Fun and Games [12.2]Edit
- Tyra: Once there lived a supermodel who wanted to guide a future girl, so she broke out the rules to own your inner fierceness.
Do You Light the Way I Look? [12.3]Edit
- Tyra: When beauty is reflected, beauty is perfected.
New York's Finest [12.4]Edit
- Tyra: Sometimes getting lost is the only way to be discovered.
Put Your Best Face Forward [12.5]Edit
- Tyra: As a Top Model, you'll have to travel to many foreign places.
- Celia: Tyra, with all due respect, I think there's something you should know. Tahlia did express that she did not want to be in this competition anymore, and that she did not feel that this was a wise career move on her part. It's quite unfair for someone who doesn't even want to here, to remain in the competition.
- Tyra: You know what I think is unfair? That you're saying this, and not Tahlia. Tahlia did not say that to me, she did not say that to the judges. So what is truly unfair...is you saying that to me.
- Celia: I apologize.
- Tyra: So, the judges have made their decision. Take your place, Celia.
Here's Your Test [12.6]Edit
- Tyra: You need to paint on your game face, and show the industry your true colors.
Take Me to the Photo Shoot [12.9]Edit
- Tyra: Music always helps a model find her own rhythm.
The Amazing Model Race [12.10]Edit
- Tyra: Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.
Let's Go See the City [12.11]Edit
- Tyra: Work hard, perfect your poses, and life will seem like a day at the beach.
Cycle 13Edit
Originally aired September 9 – November 18, 2009.
Cycle 14Edit
Originally aired March 17 – May 19, 2010.
Cycle 15Edit
Originally aired September 8 – December 1, 2010.
Welcome to High Fashion [15.1]Edit
- Tyra Banks: I think Kayla is killing Jane in this picture.
- J. Alexander: And she's not trying.
- Tyra: She's not doing a damn thing.
- Jay Manuel: [about contestant Esther Petrack's "30 G" bust] Having that bust size is gonna be a problem... We're not talking D, we're talking G.
- Tyra: She holds her Gs better than my Ds!
- Tyra: And I understand that you're pure.
- Kendal Brown: [coyly] Yes.
- Tyra: Tell me why being, um, intimate with a guy grosses you out, or freaks you out.
- Kendal: Like—I don't like semen. I don't like semen on my hand. I don't like—I'm like, kinda... grossed out about it.
- Tyra: So you've seen it before?
- Kendal: Yeah I seen—[catches self and laughs] Yes, I've seen it before. Yes.
- Kendal: I just like to cuddle. Something wrong with cuddling?
- Chris White: Lemme lift the weave. [lifts a strand of hair above her ear] Lemme hear it.
- Chris: [showing Tyra how she poses] Tick, tick, tick, tick, flash!
Diane von Furstenberg [15.2]Edit
- Chris White: ...We're gonna find you a man... What's your type?
- Ann Ward: Uh, hobos are kinda hot.
- Chris: [later in same conversation] What's the oldest you'll go to?
- Ann: Sixty. [laughs]
- Chris: What kind of man do you want!?
- Ann: He has to be a warlock, and he has to spit fire, and he has to know how to make sushi.
- Chris: You're gonna be single.
- Ann: [to camera] Yeah, I'm a weirdo.
- Tyra Banks: [at first judging, referring to contestants] André, do you see any dreckitude right now?
- André Leon Talley: Mmm, let's discuss.
- Tyra: [to contestants] That means "yes".
Patricia Field [15.3]Edit
- Terra White: [when asked why she was becoming emotional during her makeover] Like somebody cut all your hair off, you wouldn't be sad?
- J. Alexander: Girl, they didn't cut my hair because my shit was fallin' out—from stress.
Matthew Rolston [15.4]Edit
- Tyra Banks: [after spending "tea time" with 3 contestants] There's no more carrot cake—so that means it's time to go. [laughs]
Karolina Kurkova [15.5]Edit
[The contestants often try to predict upcoming challenges based on hints given in "Tyra Mail" messages]
- Several contestants simultaneously: Tyra Mail!
- Kayla Ferrel: [reading Tyra's words] "Don't let the competition throw you."
- All: [reading] "Love, Tyra!"
- Chris White: Somebody's gonna throw us.
- Liz Williams: Guess what? We're about to get thrown out of a helicopter. I'm gonna be acting like, [poses with hand behind her head, smiling] "Aaagh!" [sinking to the floor] all the way down.
- Nigel Barker: [critiquing contestant Ann Ward's photo] Look at your eyes!
- André Leon Talley: And the mouth!
- Nigel: And the eyes!
- André: And the mouth!
- Nigel: The eyes!
Patrick Demarchelier [15.6]Edit
- Ann Ward: [to camera and in voice-over] My confidence is just really high right now—being able to go from not being sure about myself to getting top photo four times in a row. So, you know, I actually do feel like, uh, I'm a model, and I'm not just the gangly girl that sits in the back of class. So, I really do feel pretty now. So, I'm really happy here.
- Patrick Demarchelier: [looking at a picture he just took of Tyra on a monitor] Who's this girl? I think she's going to win this. She's going to win the Next Top Model.
- Tyra Banks: Thank you! [points to photo] I hear she's the bitch in the house. [laughs]
- Kayla Ferrel: [to camera, describing photo shoot with Demarchelier] Patrick—I think he's speaking English to me, but I'm not really sure.
- Patrick: [to Tyra, during photo shoot] Sometimes they look at me like I speaks [sic] Chinese, eh?
- Tyra: [critiquing a good photo of Ann] Ann, walking down the street in person: perhaps one of the most awkward photo shoots, in person, I've ever seen in my life. And then I look at the film, and it's shot after shot like this. I don't get it.
- Tyra: [at elimination] Best cumulative photos this week—Ann. [facetiously] Ann, you're making this so not interesting!
- Ann: [quietly] I'm sorry.
- Tyra: Do apologize for being amazing!
Francesco Carrozzini [15.7]Edit
- Liz Williams: [on losing best picture the previous week] I was so upset that I didn't win it, 'cause I was so friggin' close. It just brought me down. And then I said, "Hmm—alcohol!"
- Tyra Banks: [to Nigel Barker and other panelists before judging] I never told you this, but the first time I met you in person, and I was like, [mouth agape] "I'm gonna shoot with this fine-ass man?" And I was like, "I'm gonna be naked?" Augh! And he was like, [adopts British accent] "All right, Tyra, stand right there." And I was like, [cradles breasts] "OK, baby!" [laughs] And now he's like, Nigel, my friend.
Zac Posen [15.8]Edit
[the competitors must shoot a TV commercial for the fictional product H2T water, the opening line of which is: "Looking good on the outside starts with feeling good on the inside." The commercial includes a list of ingredients including acai berry, guarana, and chromium.]
- Kayla Ferrel: Looking good on the inside starts with feelingggg— [long pause] great on the outside? Hold on. [thinks] Ok, can I start over?
- Kayla: [in her "best take" shown at judging] Looking good on the inside starts with feeling good on the outside. With seven ingredients including asabi [phonetic transcription] berry, gorona [phon.], and chron—and— [shrugs] grabana [phon.]. And when you feel beautiful on the outside, you always feel beautiful on the inside. H2T: feel beautiful inside and out.
- Nigel Barker: [mocking Kayla's performance] This water has an iguana in it, and Corona in it, and it has some Asahi berries.
Margherita Missoni [15.9]Edit
- Liz Williams: [to camera] When I hear "Milan", I think Mulan—like, the movie? So, I'm thinkin' Japan, dragons—you know, I don't even know where my mind was at. But, of course, I always looked at Chelsea, 'cause if Chelsea's freakin' out, it must be something big.
- Tyra Banks: I like this picture of you, Chris, in the wide. It has a—a sexuality that borders on a slight hoochie, but you didn't get off on the hoochie stop. You've stayed on the train.
Franca Sozzani [15.11]Edit
[An acting coach is helping the contestants to present themselves in a strong, friendly manner]
- Barbara Terrinoni: [to Ann] You.
- Ann Ward: [barely audible] Hello, I'm Ann.
- Barbara: [inhales sharply] Are you sure you're alive?
- Barbara: Smile. [Ann smiles] Not like Frankenstein. Smile!
- André Leon Talley: [describing Ann] There's some super power pushing her. There's a force of nature that's propelling her.
Roberto Cavalli [15.13]Edit
- Ann Ward: [on how people used to treat her] All these comments about being too tall, or just being not normal—
- Nigel Barker: Guess what? You're not normal. You're America's next top model.
Cycle 16Edit
Originally aired February 23 – May 18, 2011.
Erin Wasson [16.1]Edit
- Tyra Banks: [spoofing stereotypical contestant] I'm 19 years old and my favorite designer is Hello Kitty. I would do anything, anything, anything to become America's Next Top Model—except cut my hair.
- Tyra: [spoofing stereotypical contestant] I want this. My name is [pointing to letters tattoed on arm] Angora Nylandra Tafatia Michaels. I'm not here to make friends.
- Jay Manuel: [referring to "sexiness" of contestant Monique Weingart] You might be bringin' the wrong crowd to the table.
- J. Alexander: Or the right crowd, if you ask me. Go on, baby!
- Tyra: [pretending that this season's contestants have been eliminated] So, unfortunately, you guys have to go home now. But you don't have to go far. [pushes button to reveal this season's "model house"] Because you're home!
- Dominique Waldrup: Today we were inside of this big-ass bubble, lookin' like a fuckin' gerbil.
- André Leon Talley: [to Tyra, referring to contesant Molly O'Connell's choice of wardrobe for the first judging] Would you go to your first go-see with your midriff showing like that?
- Tyra: I wouldn't go to my last go-see with my midriff— [trails off amidst laughter]
- Nigel Barker: Nicole isn't truly present in this shot—and the mouth, you know, it's too tight. [unintelligible] sort of cat's bottom. [purses his lips to illustrate]
Alek Wek [16.2]Edit
- [after contestant Ondrei Edwards has voluntarily quit the competition during the judging session, the judges have just finished deliberating over who will be formally eliminated, her or another contestant]
- Tyra Banks: We've reached a decision.
- André Leon Talley: We've reached a decision.
- Nigel Barker: No, we haven't!
- André: Yes, we have!
- Nigel: No, we have not!
- Tyra: Yes, we have!
- Nigel: No, we haven't!
- Tyra: [alluding to the uncertainty over whether another contestant will actually be eliminated this week] Twelve beautiful girls stand before me—and who knows how many photos I have in my hands.
Lori Goldstein [16.3]Edit
- [the contestants address the camera after learning what styles will be given in the coming "makeovers" but not who will get which each style]
- Monique Weingart: [whining] I just really like my hair, and I don't want to cut it.
- Jaclyn Poole: I don't want blonde. Please don't give me blonde hair!
- Brittani Kline: I really, really, really, really, really, really want the red hair!
- Sara Longoria: [on feeling less attractive than the other contestants after getting made over with "manly short brown spikes"] I feel like dirty Sméagol in the corner, like, trying not to be jealous.
- [Note: "panel" is the judging session after which someone is eliminated]
- Sara: [to camera] I am always nervous about panel. I shake like a little housebroken Chihuahua.
- Tyra Banks: [on the need to upstage the other girl in a two-model shot] So many models that when they get to a certain level, they're like, "I don't do doubles. I don't do doubles." I never said no to a double; I just said, "Back up, bitch."
- André Leon Talley: [praising the swan-like neck extension of the models in a photo] And both Kasia and Molly have taken us to the level of swandom!
Eric Daman [16.7]Edit
- Tyra Banks: A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.
External linksEdit
- America's Next Top Model quotes at the Internet Movie Database
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- America's Next Top Model fansite
- America's Next Top Model at BuddyTV