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12-1-2009 100

Tyra delights with moderate insanity

While clicking around on Youtube yesterday, I came across this clip of Tyra Banks interviewing Twilight stat Robert Pattinson. I've seen every season of America's Next Top Model, so I KNOW how over the top and inappropriate Banks can be sometimes (OK, all the time). But I have class at noon when her talk show airs, so I never get to see it in its entirety. Instead, I have to rely on clips like this:

What amazes me about this interview is how simple it could have been. Pattinson is part of a franchise that almost every female from age 13 to 35 is drooling over--all she had to do was ask him how it all feels and let her audience squeal. Instead, she speaks to her British guest in a fake British accent, asks him to bite her on the neck (!) and then confuses him with rapid-fire questions about which episode of her show was his favorite (The one where she was a stripper?).

Poor Tyra. Sure, her craziness brings in viewers, but I worry that she actually thinks it's her "abilities" as a host that keeps her semi-relevant. Still, there is something almost endearing about watching her make a fool out of herself. I couldn't help but compile a list of her most insane and inappropriate moments:

5. Tyra gets so scared of an animal she literally falls backwards out of her chair on camera:

4. Apparently, even squatting in public bathrooms is unsanitary. Let Tyra show you step by step (with her couch representing the toilet) how to fix the problem:

3. Tyra gropes former American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee:

2. Trying to prove that women are wearing the wrong jeans, Tyra invites a row of audience members to take off their pants and then flashes her underwear for the camera:

1. In possibly the most insane moment of television I have ever seen, Tyra and her audience go bananas over tiny containers of Vaseline, complete with rolling around on the floor and screaming like Oprah had just given them all free cars:

--Kristen


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