Now that boring Gina was wittled from the pack, it was time this week for the remaining girls to start sweating bullets.  With no one else to pick on, should Jade finally start worrying about her real competition?  Since Brooke was just recently in the bottom two, would she need to quickly find her good angles?  Did Mollie Sue need to make sure she didn’t take over Gina’s persona-less place? Would Nnenna’s increasingly obsessive, and annoying boyfriend, cause her to be distracted from her ultimate goal?

The girls started off the show with another one of Tyra’s get-to-know-you sessions.  While Tyra probed the girls about the competition’s difficulties, she looked visibly tired and weak.  She apologized to the girls for feeling light-headed and said she had been working too hard lately.  When she gets up to walk away, she faints in front of them all.  The girls, who apparently didn’t know how to react in a crisis, all stood motionless just crying out her name.  Tyra then quickly bounced up from her fetal position and told the girls that she was just simply acting.  Apparently this would be the lesson for the week:  How To Scare The Crap Out Of Your Friends.  Tyra did such an amazing job fainting (she didn’t star in Higher Learning for nothing) that she made Furonda visibly upset.  C’mon Furonda—didn’t you wonder why no one in the camera crew bothered to help Tyra out? 

Getting past Furonda’s emotional state, Tyra explained that acting skills were important for commercial work.  To help them hone their skills, the girls went to visit The Groundlings sketch comedy theater.  The Groundlings helped to produce some of the biggest comedic stars of today including Will Ferrell.  There the ladies were forced to humiliate themselves by performing various improvised sketches.  Their teacher said that this would help them bring their personality through.  Unfortunately, all they managed to was make the viewers at home wince.

Arned with the lessons they learned at The Groundlings, the girls moved on to their next humiliating task.  They met up with Nick Cannon, host of the improv show Wild ‘n Out.  The girls were told that they would playing a few of the ‘games’ that are part of their show.  The person deemed the funniest would ultimately get a minor role on an upcoming episode of Veronica Mars.  In other words, they would be helping UPN cross-promote their shows.  The games resembled those you would also see on Whose Line Is It Anyway?  The girls improvised storylines around random props handed to them… they created spontaneous songs/raps.. and they asked each other questions based on the characters/objects they were playing.  Although most of the girls were able to play along and follow instructions, Jade just couldn’t get into the program.  Instead of creating humorous raps, she used them as an opportunity to insult her competitors.  Jade even failed miserably when it came to asking questions, apparently confusing that part of grammar with statements.  Of course, Jade argued that she could have done a lot better had she been given better direction.  In the end, Furonda was chosen as the winner of the mini-competition.  In addition to her stint on Mars, she got to choose another competitor to help film a public service announcement.  Furonda chose Nnenna to join her on a PSA about HIV/AIDS.

For their major photo shoot of the week, the girls were instructed to improvise a commercial for Cover Girl’s clean liquid makeup.  The girls would need to maneuver through a live party setting while delivering their lines.  All they were required to do was make sure they they recited two specific lines about Cover Girl at the very end of their spot.  With only two takes allowable per person, a range of problems surfaced during the shoots.  Sara not only held the CG product out of frame, but she held it equally as high as the alcoholic drink she was carrying.  Furonda delivered some good improvised lines, but was too bouncy and cheesy at the end.  Joanie was too busy ‘partying’ with the actors around her and forgot to smile.  Leslie spoke too quickly and sounded like she was promoting a pharmaceutical.  Mollie Sue was completely thrown off by the whole thing and screwed up her two required lines.  Danielle’s accent overshadowed her plug and she couldn’t manage to hold the CG product straight.  Babbling Brooke came off sounding like a Valley Girl.  Nnenna mowed down party-goers trying to get to the camera.  As for Jade, she spent so much time twirling and loving herself that she came off as a drag queen.  She didn’t even say anything until she directly faced the camera—and even then, she couldn’t manage to get a word out.  Once again, Jade cited a lack of direction for all her problems.

When it came down to the elimination time, Mollie Sue and Jade settled in at the bottom.  Mollie Sue was singled out for her continuous lack of persona (Hello Gina!) and for being seemingly robotic.  The judges thought her star was not shining as brightly as it could be.  Jade was criticized again for her attitude.  She didn’t know as much about modeling as she kept bragging she did.  The judges were also tiring of her blame game routine.  With any luck, she will soon be eliminated like last year’s Know-It-All, Lisa.

In the end, the judges felt that it was easier to work on someone’s attitude than someone’s burnt out star.  LOSER: Mollie Sue.