Every Tuesday night, starry-eyed young girls and pantless old men settle down for another episode of the CW’s latest reality show, Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. Our guide to yesterday’s installment after the click-through.
Highlights from Episode 3: “She Dances Like a Drag Queen”
- Asia chooses not to hang out with the other girls, opting instead to search her bible for a psalm that might help guide her decision to choose between hot pants or stockings.
- Robin Antin brings in Pussycat Dolls members Carmit to give the girls a lesson on “creativity,” which involves being both funky and edgy. It’s a tricky balance!
- Mariela appears to ask “What’s a bridge?” while at song training. Given her singing during the last few episodes, this lack of knowledge is hardly a revelation.
- Asia claims she wants avoid drama.
- Sisely claims that Asia “dances like a drag queen,” an obvious throwaway joke that causes Asia to stir up a lot of drama.
- Asia calls a sit-down chat with her group, where she announces that she used to get into fights while in high school, and once even had to go to court “for fighting, and stuff like that”; a Smoking Gun report has since indicated that the aforementioned charge was actually a 2003 citation for “excessive group-talk drama.”
- The contestants squeal when they’re put in a room full of some of Hollywood’s best-looking male dancers, and we are reminded again of the girls’ youthful naiveté.
- The girls are commissioned to perform a “creatively” sexy dance, and the CW experiences a rating spike among the desirable 14-year-old-males-whose-parents-are-distracted demographic.
- Perhaps sensing that the last few installments have been a little too girlish and shrieky, the producers up the Antin, with Robin appearing in just about every scene. Not surprisingly, this is her favorite episode yet.
- Mark McGrath introduces Lil’ Kim as one of the “most successful female musical performers in history,” proving why he was fired from his New Yorker fact-checking stint.
- After two so-so disco renditions, everyone is okayed for the next episode, save for Sisely and Melissa S; in the end, Melissa S. is spared, and Sisely must find another group of women to scowl at.
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Robin Antin has total Fergie face and may in fact be a man. The only reason I even keep one eye on this show is because she keeps coming up with new ways to hide her face. First it was a sideways cap, then it was bangs, next it will be a curtain made of diamonds. She is possibly the ugliest man alive.
Thank you SupraCute. There’s a reason why the camera never stays too long on her face in PCD’s videos.
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of death…”
*Clearly* a warning against cameltoe. Hot pants for you, sweetie!
Asia may dance like a drag queen, but Robin Antin is a drag queen.
I feel like these recaps would be more funky and edgy if it included screen shots of Robin.
I broke down in tears when they picked Asia to be the next PCD. All I can say is I hope they can deal with her egotistical diva behavior as was seen on the show. I have been a fan of the PCD’s since day one but not anymore. Her behavior on the show was atrocious! Would have preferred Chelsea or Melissa, I think chelsea was the sweetest, cutest and most adorable of them all and she could sing and was actually someone the PCD’s could be proud of.