[extremely Anton Chigurh voice] The tea has been spilled. This week, we watched “The Girl The Lionesses Are Hunting” and witness the collapse of Pink Positive after a rooftop party gone pear-shaped. The models learn how to participate in a tea ceremony, we learn how to say “I’m hungry” in Japanese, Tyra participates in a shoot, and Erin writes “fuck this show” in her notes! Join us, won’t you? Community Bail Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd Justice for Breanna Tay...
Jun 02, 2020•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Let me ask you something - you see an episode of a reality show titled “The Girls Meet Taye Diggs,” you’d assume them meeting the star of ABC’s Day Break (2006) would be the most interesting thing that happens in the show, right? Did you know you’re wrong? This week, the models travel to Tokyo for a soup commercial, Tyra keeps forgetting about the same contestant, and we kind of think it’d be great if Mae Whitman came on the show. GET YOUR ROP x MAGGIE’S TO SHIRTS: https://bit.ly/ropxmaggies 100...
May 26, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast 'Rancho Relaxo (S03E08) What tangled webs we tooch! This week, we watched “The Girl Who Is Panic Stricken” and join the contestants for Sexy Fear Factor as they prepare to do battle with Rom The Vacuous Model and then I get yelled at after sending this episode in for a dumb Bloodborne reference. The show continues to be just utterly reprehensible to Toccara, a talent less irresponsible shows still wouldn’t deserve, Jay Manuel has a frightening, albeit brief moment of clarity about how they’re tr...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Howdy, stranger. What brings you to these parts? This week, we watched “The Girl Who Forgot Her Shoes” which, understandably, led us to assume that most of the drama this episode had to do with a girl who forgot her shoes. That was really, extremely stupid of us apparently? Anyway, this week, the models go on go-sees, there’s a doubled-up photo shoot, and, this is exciting, the show is just astonishingly awful to Toccara! Boy oh boy! We’re all really mad about it! Later, Erin and Cassie try to s...
May 12, 2020•2 hr 52 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast CONTENT WARNING: Eating disorders I considered just telling you that the episode of America’s Next Top Model we watched this week is literally just called “The Girl Who Mutilated The Precious Brownies” and leave it at that, but I suppose if for some reason you need any more to go on in order to feel like pushing play, I can tell you a little bit more about what you’ll find here. This week, a fiery dispute over baked goods, a ropes course, and the models run up multiple flights of stairs and are ...
May 05, 2020•2 hr 54 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Folks are we acclaimed mid-90s alternative rock group Semisonic? Because it’s Posing Time! This week, we watched “The Girl Who Cries When She Looks In A Mirror” and accompany the girls to a posing seminar held by Janice, who reminds us that beyond her truly reprehensible persona is one of the greatest models to ever do the damn thing. Some difficult talks about body image, a living mannequin challenge, a wonderful new euphemism for breasts - this episode’s got it all! Also, Erin tells a story ab...
Apr 28, 2020•2 hr 59 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Scratch another tally into the wall of your social-distancing cave, you made it to another episode of your favourite (I assume) podcast! This week we watch “The Girl Who Sets A Trap” and see the models work on their runway walks, take a totally innocent trip to a hot night club with absolutely no ulterior motive, and get into some real Wile E. Coyote shit when Amanda asks the timeless question, “what’s a ten dollar bill to catch a bitch?” Also, Producer Spouse tries and, depending on your outloo...
Apr 21, 2020•2 hr 57 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we’re allowing a brief break from paying off our loans to Tom Nook to discuss “The Girl Who Everyone Thinks Is A Backstabber” and watch as the models all get makeovers! One of the models has an… odd connection to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, there’s an industry event with most of the models working as caterers, and maybe some backs will get figuratively stabbed. Later, we debut a new and temporary segment, Quarantine Quorner, while we’re unable to spot nice outfits out in ...
Apr 14, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Y’all already know who it is! This week, we watched “The Girl Who Is Codependent” and see the models go on a quick little jaunt to Jamaica, as a bit. Producer Spouse accidentally gives himself a truly humiliating nickname, Cassie can’t stop referencing the 2002 thriller Swimfan (15% on Rotten Tomatoes, folks) and Erin might kill Jake if and when this quarantine ends. We find out what prizes are at stake this cycle, Kelly is extremely rich at everyone, Anne and Eva become literal fast friends and...
Apr 07, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Greetings from the Resting On Pretty Podbunker! We hope you’re staying healthy, staying safe, and are excited to start Cycle 3 of America’s Next Top Model! We watched “The Girl With A Secret” and wow, this is a barnburner of a premiere. 34 models! A girl who has an aforementioned secret! A bar fight before the act break! And the first appearance of an ANTM legend. Meanwhile, Erin and Cassie have the required-by-law Toronto based podcaster discussion about the Canadian debut of White Claw. Join u...
Mar 31, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Hi folks! Writing to you on February 29th, 2020, the day we recorded this! Leap years are so exciting. So much to look forward to, aside from, of course, something actively reshaping the global order, the wheels of history finally unstuck from the rut of technocracy by something like, dunno, just spitballing here, a massive worldwide pandemic. (EDIT: doing a final revision of these notes the week this episode is about to go up. Might just check the news and see that I’m right. But first, a big s...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast It’s been a heck of a season, and we’re hard pressed to find a better way of capping it off than with the help of the extremely funny comedian and host of Cavern Of Secrets, Lauren Mitchell! Lauren joins us to watch “The Girl Who Is America’s Next Top Model” and wax quasi-philosophical on being sexy and also sad, body image, bad self-administered haircuts and asserting the inalienable right to determine one’s own underpants. We find out who wins Cycle 2 and also settle once and for all if men de...
Mar 17, 2020•2 hr 44 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast You asked, we’ll try to answer, it’s a dang mailbag episode! After a quick recap of Cycle 2 of America’s Next Top Model, we offer our expert opinions on a range of topics including funeral fashion, shopping sprees with awful reality show judges, what faces to make in photos, and debate who the most fashionable robot is. Show Instagram: @restingonprettypodcast Email the show: podcast@restingonpretty.com
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Folks, show of hands, who’s ready for this show to get real messy? This week, we watched “The Girl Who Cheated” and let me tell you, it sure wasn’t at Settlers Of Catan! We do have a good friend who would literally just steal resources while we were haggling over sheep, so it’s very much possible to do so. I digress. The models stay in a fancy villa, kiss some boys and do a nude shoot with each other that almost definitely awakened our latent bisexuality when this episode originally aired. Then,...
Mar 03, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast CONTENT WARNING: Brief discussion of eating disorders from 55:35 - 1:03:59 Mamma mia, that’s a spicy podcast! Today, the models are hopping over to Milan for “The Girl With The Signature Walk," where there’ll be go-sees on vespas, truly exciting high fashion, and Camille attempting to be friends with Yoanna. Are her efforts duplicitous? Or does she actually just have a really cool cask of Amontillado to show her down in the cellars? Listen to find out! Also, Producer Spouse starts to lose his mi...
Feb 25, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast A spectre is haunting StringerLabs - the spectre of Netflix’s original series The Circle. If you came to our show from Sportsfeld seeking refuge, I’m afraid you’ll have to keep searching. Today, we watched “The Girl Who Is Dripping With Hypocrisy” and would you believe that it’s actually not who you'd immediately assume? Life is full of little delights such as this. Later, the models dance in a music video for Tyra and everyone dunks on Erin trying to talk about the Wu Tang Clan. S02E07: The Gir...
Feb 18, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast You know, I can’t quite put my finger on why, but for some reason I feel like ripping open a bag of satisfying and crunchy Rolitos to go with this episode. This week, we watch “The Girl Whose Lips Puffed Up” and get to see the models shoot a high concept snack food commercial. Tyra moves ever closer to coining the term “smize” and Producer Spouse has some helpful tips on how to be “flawsome” so this is a portmanteau heavy episode. Also, Cassie gets to share all the books she read this year so fa...
Feb 11, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Avast! This week, we watched “The Girl Who Is A Visual Orgasm” (blech) and the lovely ladies of Cycle 2 are headed underwater for a submerged shoot, and I get “Fathoms Below” from The Little Mermaid stuck in my head. That’s not recorded or at all evident in this episode, but take my word for it. Camille tries to manifest her presumed victory to the distaste of basically everyone, Janice Dickinson says maybe the funniest thing ever, and Erin tries to record the podcast while working on a stew in ...
Feb 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Do you want to be on top? How do you cultivate a personal style? What on god’s green earth is a jellicle cat? All these questions, and more, will be half answered on this week’s episode, as we watch “The Girl Who Needs Six Months Of Modelling School.” The girls learn about expressing themselves through fashion with the help of a cranky British misogynist, one of the models conceals her autoimmune disease, nobody is helpful to Jenascia and Cassie has a lot of thoughts about the rather confused wo...
Jan 27, 2020•2 hr 35 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Today, we’re gonna take you on a journey through “The Girl Who Can Cry At The Drop Of A Hat,” an episode that inspires discussions about crying AND hats! It’s makeover week, and almost all the girls are going to get makeovers! The girls learn all about doing their own makeup, do a shoot dangling over a weird chasm in an abandoned building and Janice Dickinson offers the same piece of stunningly useless critique on Jenascia for the third week in a row. Later, Cassie makes a rather upsetting confe...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Oh, you’re here already! Step into our office, it’s time to discuss the dreadfully titled “The Girl Who Floats Like A Butterfly And Stings Like A Bee.” This week, we meet the delightful personal trainer Martin Snow, Tyra throws a pyjama party, and two of the girls in particular are singled out for physical traits they have absolutely no control over. Covering this show makes you feel, and this is true, extremely great! Also, Erin lists all the books she read last year. It is mildly disconcerting...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast It’s a new year, it’s a new decade, it’s a new season of Resting on Pretty, it’s a 16 year old season of America’s Next Top Model! Today, we watch “The Girl Who Overslept” and meet a new slew of contestants as they get acquainted, get a bit too much rest, and are then almost immediately asked to do a nude shoot. Extremely normal and cool! Also, Producer Spouse discovers a substantive link between America’s Next Top Model and the Department of Defence (seriously). Join us, won’t you? S02E01: The ...
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast The snow’s (presumably) coming down, and we here at Resting On Pretty have a frosty after-midnight treat for you little Holiday gremlins. We watched the 2018 Hallmark Channel tentpole “A Shoe Addict’s Christmas” starring Candace Cameron Bure and discuss the film’s odd lack of focus on shoes, the genuinely revelatory performance Jean Smart turns in, and how Cassie is a sucker for a Sad Dad. Then, we enlist the help of fellow Stringer-Labs podpal Jake Goldsbie (Sportsfield, Columbia House Party) a...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast A whole season of reality TV later, what’ve we got to show for it? I’ll tell you what, it’s surprisingly more than “basically nothing”! Today, we dig a little deeper into the behind-the-scenes goings on of Cycle 1 of America’s Next Top Model, and spend some more time with Adrianne in particular to learn some rather uncomfortable truths about what it really means to participate in this odd competition. Later, Producer Spouse poses a question to the ladies about why it might be dangerous to label ...
Dec 09, 2019•55 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Look at us now folks! A whole season of this show and we’re only mildly teetering on the edge of a House Of Leaves-style madness trying to make sense of it all. Today, we talk about the Cycle 1 finale, “The Girl Becomes America’s Next Top Model” and we enlist the help of our good friend Julia Haist (Toronto-based actor, comedian, writer, director) to experience it with us. We discuss the wins, losses, heartbreaks and fashion of our three finalists and find out what all of them, including the win...
Dec 02, 2019•2 hr 54 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Got a question? Got a comment? Got a questionable comment? We put out the call and you answered! Or asked! I’m all turned around. Since the penultimate episode of each cycle of ANTM is a recap, we briefly run through the entire season thus far before dumping out our email and DM’s guts and seeing what futures we might divine in ‘em. We talk about dog models! Skin care! And then, for some light discussion, we settle once and for all what the best fashion is. S01E08: “How The Girls Got Here" Show ...
Nov 25, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Y’all mind if we get a lil cheeky this weeky? Folks, it’s time to talk about “The Girls Who Get Really Naked” and boy oh boy, they get, uh, really naked. Sort of. A lot of the nudity is implied and one model takes a rather confused moral stance about the whole affair. Guess who!!! Also, we discuss narcolepsy, which demands to be taken seriously. S01E07: “The Girls Who Get Really Naked" Show Instagram: @restingonprettypodcast Email the show: podcast@restingonpretty.com
Nov 18, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast CONTENT WARNING: Street harassment, sexual assault (48:35 - 56:10) Crank the Yann Tiersen to a respectable, unobtrusive volume, because the models are going to Paris! This week, we watch “The Girl Deals With A Pervert” and, uh, yikes. The models are tasked with attending go-sees and we nearly derail the show trying to remember the name of one specific murderer. Voici notre podcast! S01E06: “The Girl Deals With A Pervert" Show Instagram: @restingonprettypodcast Email the show: podcast@restingonpr...
Nov 11, 2019•2 hr 31 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast CONTENT WARNING: Eating disorders, domestic abuse Oh, hello. Didn’t see you there. This week, we discuss “The Girl Who Everyone Thinks Is Killing Themselves” and witness the models attend publicity training, while Robin just barely disguises her distaste for… other people’s moms. Figure that one out. Also, Cassie shares some intrepid reporting done by her fiancee Jake, host of our sister show Sportsfield. Thanks Jake! Julia Monson (our artwork artists)’s website: https://juliamonson.com/ S01E05:...
Nov 04, 2019•2 hr 53 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we discuss "The Girl Drives Everyone Crazy” and aren’t entirely sure who the eponymous girl doing all the driving is. We meet and swoon over Ebony’s girlfriend, the models shoot a commercial that proves daunting for Adrianne’s Chicago accent, and we, Erin and Cassie, issue an apology to Corys everywhere after last week’s presumably controversial episode. S01E04: “The Girl Drives Everyone Crazy" Show Instagram: @restingonprettypodcast Email the show: podcast@restingonpretty.com...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 
