This Year's Model

The Amazon Modeling Agency sends two talent scouts to Lawndale High with the promise of awarding a modeling contract to the most talented when Ms. Li strikes a deal with them, her, of course, benefiting monetarily.

When Cloud and Romonika, the two talent scouts, start visiting classrooms, Brittany, after dubbing herself “Blue”, gets accepted to the class. Later, Romonika calls the Morgendorffers to request that Quinn attend a special modeling class. At first, Helen refuses, but Romonika, in her fake French accent, manages to convince her that Quinn is a “poil een a baid of aystars”. However, Helen gets Daria to go with Quinn to keep an eye on her, under the condition that she won’t talk of redecorating her room.

When the day of the class arrives, Daria drags Jane along to sit with her in the audience. Trent shows up because he wants to see if the modeling crowd holds any prospective girlfriends. However, is pretty much disappointed when the models turn out to be Stacy, Sandi, Quinn, and some fat girl whom Cloud and Romonika say is a decoy. Brittany is also in the audience, sobbing and being comforted by Kevin, because she didn’t get accepted. The prospective models strut around the stage until Cloud, who seems to be quite perverted, decides that they need to do something more “fun”.

The Three J’s, who are there to watch Quinn, and Kevin are called up to the stage, which brings on a violent crying fit on the part of Brittany. The guys take off their shirts, and Cloud orders the girls to rub their chests. Quinn escapes by claming that she needs to go to the bathroom, and Ms. Li bustles in and is shocked when she sees the scene unfolding before her. She bans Cloud and Romonika from the campus, however, she still plans to announce the winner of the modeling contract.

When the next day arrives, all of the students are in an assembly and Li is about to make the announcement, but is interrupted and prevented from doing so by a band of mercenaries who claim she made a deal with them similar to the one that she had made with Amazon, except one “lucky” student would become a mercenary with them. Then, several newspaper reporters arrive, and Ms. Li would have certainly been sued for all she was worth if it were real life.

Anyway, it turns out that none of the girls got the contract, but the winner was Kevin, and, not surprisingly, it was Daria who called in the missionaries. Fortunately, though, the authorities never found out.

~Bridget

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