Hey, how’s your year going? Pretty great? Great? We’re coming to you, our dear listeners, to let you know that we’re going to be taking a brief pause on the show while Cassie recovers from a medical procedure. We love you and hope you’ll listen on with us when we return! Show Instagram: @restingonprettypodcast Email the show:restingonprettypodcast@gmail.com
We’re back! Happy new year! We missed you and hope you’re ready to immediately sully the blank slate with a truly absurd episode of America’s Next Top Model. This week, we watched “The Girl Who Wants To Step On The Pretty Flower” and “The Girl Whose Boyfriend Is Cheating On Her” and watch the girls visit a previous Top Model champ, assemble their own posses, and meet a couple of real Jackasses. Then, we all recoil in horror as Lisa ventures into exciting new diaper-related territory in a bid for...
Friends, family, elves and reindeer, it’s time for a holiday treat! This year, we decided to take a break from talking about ghastly people wearing great clothes on America’s Next Top Model, and instead decided to talk about ghastly people wearing great clothes on Gossip Girl! We discuss the season one holiday episode “Roman Holiday,” in which Blair’s father brings his boyfriend to town, and hijinks ensue. Serena searches for the perfect present, Erin and Cassie pick their favourite outfits from...
Legend tells of an incredible discovery to be made within the notes for the seventh episode of season 5 of Resting On Pretty. Nobody has succeeded in cracking the code thus far, but perhaps you, dear listener, will prevail. Best of luck. tHis week, we watched “the gIrls who are 1940s pinups” and wiTnessed tHe models run An obstacle course and get covered iN manure, cassie plays a bunch of pranKS, and there’s a very stinky go-see. FavOuRite photos are taken, there’s muLtIple Slyly writTEN tyra ma...
Writing to you on the eve of the second Toronto lockdown, enjoying the snow outside, and listening to these two goofballs talk about America’s Next Top Model. Hard to be in too bad of a mood. Try to ruin my evening, I dare you! Double dog dare! You can’t! You’ll be reading this at LEAST two days too late! Anyway, what have we got here - okay, so this week, we watched “The Girl Who Loves Bubbles And Talks To Plants”and saw the models put on food based masks, relax in a hot tub, record a secret-he...
Howdy stranger. You’re not from 'round these parts, are ya? Yeah, this town ain’t been the same since them Resting On Pretty gals came through. Wouldn’t stop talkin’ ‘bout some reality tellervision show they’d watched recently. Somethin’ ‘bout “The Girl Who Gets A Boob Job” - don’t sound like sorta thing you’d bring up in polite company, now do it? Anyway, apparently in this here episode, the models learn ‘bout their flaws, someone by the name a Janice comes through - now they seemed REAL excite...
Dear Mister “I’m Too Good To Call Or Write My Fans,” this will be the last podcast I ever send your ass! Today we watched “The Girl Who Makes A Disclaimer” and watch as a hard moral line in the sand is drawn about cutting your hair too short, witness some mildly sapphic longing, and think about the Work Bitch music video. There’s multiple runway challenges, a green screen, and both Erin and Cassie are feeling crabbier than usual for reasons outside of the podcast! All the best, your loving frien...
Folks, we’ve given it some thought and have decided that we are no longer going to cover America’s Next Top Model. Instead, we are going to drive ourselves considerably less mad watching the 1984 procedural situation comedy Night Court! Isn’t that better? Aren’t you in a better mood already? Anyways, this week we watched a really weird episode from the show’s fifth season, “The Girl Who Needs A Miracle,” in which a bunch of models get makeovers. Will Judge Stone like the Mia Farrow haircut one o...
[Transcribed audio from the last dispatch of the SS Resting On Pretty]: Something happened to my crew, it’s… it’s just me left. We… we watched “The Girls Become Superheroes” this week and… god. There was a tour of Beverly Hills… a party and runway show… Cassie made a quiche. We thought everything was going well… we though [inaudible] we were wrong, we were so WRONG. We… who’s there? Oh g[static, audio cuts off] S05E02: The Girls Become Superheroes Show Instagram: @restingonprettypodcast Email th...
When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to tell me stories of a reality television program where models would compete under the watchful eye of an elder (relative to models) guide giving bizarre advice couched in riddles, for the entertainment of millions of young millennials trying not to think about the Iraq war. Stories turned to legend, legend turned to myths, and myths turned to… forgotten… myths. But it’s true. The stories were all true. This week, we kick off Cycle 5 of America’s Ne...
Look, we know you lil Sisyphuses are as excited as we are to start the next season of ANTM. But! Before we get to pushing that boulder a fifth time, we have a little treat for you. This week, in a very special bonus episode of Resting On Pretty, we are joined by former contestant Jenascia Chakos Carter, a proud loser of Cycle 2 of the show, and one of our favourite models we’ve met in the podcast’s lifetime. Jenascia took some time (out of having recently had her second baby!!!) to talk to us ab...
We’re here, we’re clean and clear, get used to it! Folks, we’ve made it to the end of another season and witnessed another contestant become America’s Next Top Model, so it’s time to see how they, and their peers, did! We get some drinks going to celebrate not only this momentous occasion, but also, the one year anniversary of this very podcast, AND the end of Janice Dickinson’s tenure on the panel of judges. We’re going to, for lack of a better word, “miss” her. Thank you for sticking with us t...
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that this podcast has made it to the end of another season! This week, we watched as America’s Next Top Model is crowned in “The Girl Who Walks On Water” and are joined by publicist, pole dancer, and immediate best friend Fabiana to talk all about it. We admittedly had too much fun talking with her, and think you will have at least as much listening as we discuss bad looks from our youth, bizarre T...
We’re on the precipice of another exciting season finale of America’s Next Top Model, as well as our own podcast, so you know what that means - it’s time to bring everything to a screeching halt so we can answer some questions from you, dear listener! After a quick season recap, we discuss trips we’d take with the show’s judges, our favourite fall fashion trends, and a particularly model-ready dog. Plus, a previous guest of the show comes to us for shopping advice! Listen, coward. You will only ...
Legend tells of two cranky ghosts who died in a podcast studio hundreds of years ago in the throes of rage over something inexplicable Tyra Banks once said. On nights just like this, when the rss feeds are just right, you can hear them shouting at each other about how absurd the television show they are cursed to watch forever in perdition is. This week, they’re talking about “The Girl Who Is Special,” and between the ostriches, three nearly nude men, and discussions about the appropriate emotio...
At the start of every episode of America’s Next Top Model is the question “Do you want to be on top?” A fun little game you can play is see how foreboding the question sounds depending on which word you emphasize. DO you want to be on top? Do you WANT to be on top? And so on. You make joy where you can. Ugh. Let’s see - this week, in “The Girl Who Flops In The Mud” the show goes mask off and literally pits the girls against each other to see who judges the others the most effectively. It’s fun t...
We just wanted to enjoy an episode of America’s Next Top Model with cool animals in it, man. Instead, “The Girl Who The Lionesses Are Hunting,” (a title that definitely wasn’t reused, don’t go through the back catalogue to fact-check that) mostly spends its time body shaming Keenyah, which one might argue is the exact opposite of looking at cool animals! Damn. Also, they go to Africa, and Cassie tells us all about the time her dad got up to some mischief at Herman Melville’s house. What a king. ...
There’s a certain clarity of purpose one implies when they describe something as evil that should prevent the term from being thrown about lightly, but I don’t think anyone here would disagree with us saying that America’s Next Top Model is… mildly evil. That being said, this week, we watched “The Girl Who Gets Bad News” and arrive at the conclusion that it maybe didn’t get a fair shake. The models do a sinful photoshoot, there’s some bad news and no bears, Cassie can’t stop saying “absolutely,"...
The following message is intended for former America’s Next Top Model contestant Tiffany Richardson only: If you would like to come on our show, eat french fries in the afternoon and talk about literally anything other than the events of “The Girl Who Sends Tyra Over The Edge,” consider this episode description a standing invitation. We’re so sorry. This sucked. Anyway, this week Erin makes everyone do British accents, Cassie has to be talked off the edge of posting feet, and Producer Spouse has...
Folks, we’re feeling great. We’re feeling fine. We’re feeling like talking Top Model, against the recommendation of our medical practitioners and pleas and wishes of our loved ones! This week, we watched “The Girl With The Deliciously Tacky Dance” in which the girls have to fight for their right to party responsibly. Then, suddenly and without much warning, TRUCKS. Meanwhile, Cassie goes to a store, Erin talks about the one absurd and embarrassing job she actually DIDN’T get in her youth, and Pr...
The true core of what made the writing of HP Lovecraft (when it wasn’t being astonishingly racist) so memorable and frightening was the idea that god exists, and doesn’t care about you. To be known, and for that to not matter. Speaking of racism and the things a higher power allows to happen under its baleful eye, this week, we watched “The Girl Who Is Contagious,” which, true to form, is just barely about an outbreak and is largely about maybe the most horrifying photoshoot in America’s Next To...
Hey, how are ya? Have a seat. Can I get you something? Beer? Wine? Podcast? Oh I have just the one for you. This week, we watched “The Girl With The Worst Photo In History” and take umbrage with that particular use of hyperbole. There’s a photoshoot with a big jerk, a visit from Serena Williams (and some intrepid reporting from friend of the show and terrific sports writer Melissa Couto Zuber) and some astrology. Erin is mad about masks, Cassie goes on an adventure with a spooky app and Producer...
Folks, we just finished recording a podcast, and boy are our arms tired! From flapping them while we recorded the podcast! This week, we watched “The Girl Who Suddenly Collapsed” and witness a walk-off, a prank that gets scary and a photoshoot with some very, very good guests. Yes they are! Yes they are. Meanwhile, Cassie is well rested, Erin has a favourite shelf, and Spouse might just guess a Tyra mail correctly this time around. Listen and all will be revealed! juliaplaysgroove’s “Don’t Start...
[CONTENT WARNING: Brief discussion of sexual violence regarding I’ll Be Gone In The Dark during Quarantine Quorner] Folks, this week on Resting On Pretty, okxdces and the cat runs across my laptop while I’m writing the episode description. It’s makeover week! This week, as we cover "The Girls Who Hate Their Makeovers” the models do a weird photoshoot that allegedly involves aliens, and Janice may no longer be in the PTA. After a van ride to a Second Location that everyone probably feels comforta...
Boy, you really think this show has plumbed the true depths of awful episode titles and then the Cycle 4 premiere comes along, crests a new breach in the ocean floor, and here we are with “The Girl Who Is A Lady Kat. Reow!” Oof! Oof McGoof! Folks, we made it! Let’s meet some models! Let’s celebrate Two Birthdays! Let’s defend Tiffany Richardson! Let’s listen to a truly tragic tale from Cassie’s origin story! Let’s do it all, this week on Resting On Pretty! Bryn And Friends: https://www.youtube.c...
Look at us now, dad! We made it to the end of the season, which means we’re going to do a little look back at the models we’ve met - but first, of course, an Erin-designed cocktail inspired by this cycle’s winner! We’re joined by returning guest and ostensible fan favourite Julia Haist and first time champion Calum Marsh, both of the extremely charming cocktail podcast Everyday Drinking to talk about the cocktails that inspired it, and to generally get goofy. Get busy goofing or get busy dying, ...
Look, whether you’re liberal or conservative, Catholic or Protestant, Edward or Jacob, we can all agree that this is a podcast about America’s Next Top Model. And it’s time to find out who that is! This week, we watched “The Girl Who Wins It All” with our good friend and famous Instagram dog-haver Heather Gray! We witness a high stakes runway, another go-see, and a winner crowned! Cassie teaches us all about taiko drums, Erin reaches for an odd euphemism for sex, and Heather and Producer Spouse ...
As our ROP x Maggie’s TO Model Citizen shirt fundraiser winds down, we took some time to chat with Ellie Ade Kur of Maggie’s Toronto Sex Worker Action Project to discuss the work they do with local sex workers to empower them and enable them to work safely and with dignity. We discuss Maggie’s current and broader aims, the impact of COVID-19 on their work, Black Lives Matter and the push to defund the police, the effects of anti sex work legislation like SESTA/FOSTA, and what you can do to suppo...
Folks, it’s been a wild season of recording this podcast, and not just because the television program we cover on it is a danger to itself and others! Remember the start of the season, and how we recorded it in person? Remember how that was a thing you used to be able to do? Speaking of questions, after a brief recap of the season so far, we asked YOU, our dear listeners, to ask US, your dear podcast, some questions, and you delivered! We talk about defunding the police (it’s good and should hap...
Finally, history has given us exactly one human who can ask “where’s my hug” and not be totally insufferable! This week, we watched “The Girl Who Didn’t Hug Goodbye” and learn all about Japanese street style! Producer Spouse almost successfully guesses a Tyra Mail about the shoot, Ann struggles, one of the models misses a challenge and Erin and Cassie get yelled at. Also, an update on the pigeons on our balcony. Community Bail Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd Just...
