Thank god I lived to see another week/episode of America’s Next Top Model.

This week’s episode begins with the girls (read, Lisa) berating Alison behind her back for winning the music video challenge from the week before. She's ethereal, she’s memorable, she’s about as classy as you can get on this show. They hate her.

The episode weirdly segues with Andre Leon Talley, judge and alleged fashion maven (the man worked for Vogue for godssake!), enters the house wearing a crepey, black kimono and a conical Asian hat. Fashion maven. He always looks like he’s wearing a costume, but maybe that’s how one dresses for a salon. After a weird waiters-dropping-plates act, Talley announces that they are all traveling to Greece.

After arriving in Greece, the girls learn their challenge. It is to prepare a speech for the press and dignitaries (yikes, but remember, Greece is in a terrible recession). They are also instructed to include some token Greek words in their speeches. It’s really weird and awkward for the girls, but it has to be even weirder and more awkward for the “dignitaries” to pretend they are meeting celebrities. Tyra has some serious world clout.

Alison wins again. Hopefully she won’t be murdered in her sleep. She wins some jewelry from some designer, and no one cares.

The girls are then informed that they will be working with a Greek (?) designer named Michael Cinco, who looks really convincing as a designer in a skeleton t-shirt, in designing their final runway dresses. They all speak some gibberish to him, and he obviously isn’t going to listen. If he does, he’s nuts.

Mr. J meets them on a gorgeous beach, and tells them that they will be modeling underwear in a huge Greek salad. It’s such a ridiculous shoot that it’s obvious that they want prudish Shannon out of the competition. She reminds us that only her husband gets to see her lily white panties/purity. The shoot is, of course, very literal, and they are shot posing amongst big globs of feta, tomato and cucumber. Shannon refuses to complete the shoot at all! See ya, prudie.

At panel, they like Alison, Angelea and Lisa, so it’s getting worrisome for picture-less Shannon. She has to defend herself to Tyra and the judges, and Tyra actually seems to understand her position better than Shannon herself does. The judges continue to be confused by Shannon’s position, but Tyra thinks it’s admirable that she sticks to her guns. Dominique wins top photo. Laura and Shannon are in the bottom two. Who’s out? Ah Model, you are so predictable. See ya, Shannon.