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The 15 Craziest Tyra Banks Moments on America's Next Meridian Model

I of the hallmarks of America'southward Next Summit Modelis the campy, goofy, and pleasantly ridiculous behavior of the adult female at the long-running series' eye: your host, Tyra Banks. As ANTM packs its belongings and goes dwelling in our Reality Rumble contest, Vulture picked through the show's 20 seasons (or cycles, to aficionados), available on Hulu Plus, to detect the best of Banks's rubberband facial contortions and attempted philosophical one-liners (e.g., "are you lot model the verb, or model the noun?"). In the process, we became fifty-fifty more certain that Banks isn't only a woman with an arsenal of GIF-able silly faces and funny turns of phrase; she's also a woman who probably should have done improv at some point in her life, because whether a moment is planned or unrehearsed, Miss Tyra tin turn on the insanity similar no i else.

xv. G'24-hour interval, Tyra-roo (Cycle 8, Episode 8)
It wasn't enough that Tyra was taking cycle eight's crop of could-be models Down Under to Sydney, Australia. She needed to sweeten the bargain by bounding into the room in a plushy kangaroo costume, consummate with a existent kangaroo bouncing along behind her. Information technology was such a shock that one contestant, Natasha, didn't even realize that Tyra had fabricated an announcement until after a Joey Tribiani–approved delay of almost a whole minute.

14. Tyra's Faint of Middle (Cycle half-dozen, Episode 6)
While there was a contestant on ANTM who legitimately fainted in a judging segment, Tyra'south piffling episode was merely a ruse. While chatting with the contestants in their living room, Tyra claimed to be feeling faint, then she, well, fainted. But when anybody rushed to her side — and one girl, Furonda, got then freaked out she began to cry — Tyra hopped upwardly and cried, "I was interim, acting, ACTING!" Simply it's all skillful; I'm sure the tank tops she handed out to the girls immediately after totally made up for the trauma of thinking a supermodel had simply died in front of them.

13. Fashion Is "Beingness a Ho" (Bike viii, Episode 2)
Every once in a while, Tyra spouts a bit of model wisdom — exterior of the rubber realm of smizing and tooching one's booty — but this one landed in no man'south land. Subsequently a contestant failed to evangelize a properly sexy photograph, Tyra informed her that "modeling is being a ho, but make it style," and then proceeded to act out pornographic pantomimes before contorting them into more loftier-mode angles. At 1 betoken, her finger was then far in her own oral cavity that information technology was a wonder she didn't accidentally bite it off. Classic Tyra.

12. Gentlemen Prefer Tyra (Cycle 9, Episode ane)
While promoting Carnival Cruise lines with the subtlety of the Titanic striking an iceberg, Tyra used i of the send's theaters to perform a Marilyn Monroe–style vocal-and-dance with Las Vegas feather headdresses and hot chorus boys in Hugh Hefner helm's hats. Information technology'due south a good thing her haphazard lyrics were just a string of modeling terms — a Real Housewives move earlier in that location were Existent Housewives — because otherwise this scene would accept been completely confusing. Oh wait …

11. Beam Me Up, Mr. and Miss Jay (Cycle eleven, Episode 1)
This cycle-11 opener was so strange at every plow. It seemed impossible that anything could become weirder, but this is Tyra's world: Later entering a warehouse outside L.A. dubbed the "Height Model Institute of Technology (TMIT)," the contestants donned spacesuits, got evaluated in scanners, and eventually confronted the "Glaminator," which held Tyra, dressed equally an android with a distaste for dresses that cover her breasts. She used a robot voice for about a minute and a one-half before being beamed upwards by ANTM'south stellar graphics section. Somehow, this wasn't even the craziest matter she'south fifty-fifty done on the show.

10. The Sexy Exorcism of Tyra Banks (Bike xiii, Episode 7)
When ane contestant remarked that her makeover expect, which changed her hair from blonde to brown, fabricated her feel more than sexual, Tyra was taken aback. Naturally, she did what any shocked person would do and demonstrated how her own dark pilus makes her a sexually possessed she-devil, rubbing her breasts like genie lamps and flicking her tongue like a boa constrictor. That'll teach that girl to complain — if she managed to remember anything that happened before Tyra Banks turned into a sexual serpent.

9. Tyra Channels Jack Nicholson (Cycle 8, Episode 1)
Miss Tyra loves to open each cycle of ANTM with a bang — and past "bang," I mean "utterly ridiculous sketch." Cycle eight was no dissimilar, except that after she and some dancers performed a step routine, Tyra launched into quotes from only about every memorable military movie e'er — including the completely out-of-place line from A Few Good Men: "You lot tin can't handle the truth!" I will give Tyra props, however, for turning "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" into "I love the aroma of hair and makeup in the morning time." Robert Duvall ain't got nothin' on Tyra.

8. Trauma, Thy Name Is Tyra (Cycle five, Episode x)
Tyra's got plenty of fake-outs upwards her sleeve, only none have been more than traumatizing than this cruel bike-five twist. After lecturing Jayla and Nicole about how they, the front-runners, greatly disappointed the judges that calendar week by sinking to the lesser two, Tyra told them both to pack their numberless. She held on long enough to get them weepy so unleashed confetti and a fake Beefeater guard to tell them they were packing their bags for London, because they were both safe. But the swift swap left both girls crying and confused every bit glitter fell on their faces. Poor things.

vii. Visions of All-Stars Trip the light fantastic in Her Head (Cycle 17, Episode one)
For ANTM'due south first all-star flavor, Tyra couldn't simply start the show with her usual "I'm a earth famous model" spiel. So she opted for a dramatic nightmare sequence in which she tossed and turned in her cartoonish bed while visions of herself dressed as campy versions of past contestants danced effectually in her head. No wonder she was forced to exercise an all-star season: She had to nip that terrifying insanity in the bud.

6. Tyra Takes the Poison Apple (Cycle 11, Episode 4)
While attempting to give her models some self-esteem boosts, complete with tiaras (but not ones as big as hers, of course), so telling them near how she embraced her own less-than-modelesque curves, Tyra cut the motivational speech short in favor of acting out a Snow White–inspired sketch in which she eats a poison apple and subsequently is unable to nourish the girls' makeover the next day. Funny, though, how Tyra's totally unrelated Glenda the Practiced Witch character managed to make an advent. Huh.

5. Tyra Loses It on Tiffany (Cycle four, Episode vii)
And this list wouldn't exist consummate without the about famous of Tyra'southward crazy moments. Different most other Tyra-isms, this heated scene wasn't planned whatsoever. Instead, Tyra became enraged when eliminated contestant Tiffany seemed ambivalent to being eliminated. Considering Tyra felt a mother-ish bond to the young woman, her disappointment became outright rage, giving united states the archetype line, "I have never yelled at a girl like this in my life." That week's lesson: Don't disappoint Tyra Banks on national tv set.

4. She Has "Never" Yelled at a Girl Like This (Cycle nineteen, Episode 9)
But for every action, in that location is an equal and opposite reaction. For Tyra, that reaction would come years after during cycle 19. After one contestant "acts a fool" upon command, Tyra felt inclined to show her how it's actually done and also poked fun at herself in the process by resurrecting the infamous bicycle 4 line, "I have never yelled at a girl like this in my life." It would seem that time does heal all wounds, every bit long every bit "time" means "at to the lowest degree 15 Top Model cycles."

three. It'south a Bird, Information technology's a Plane, Information technology'southward Super Smize (Cycle 13, Episode 3)
Every ANTM fan knows what it means to "smize" or smiling with ane's optics, but non every fan made it to wheel thirteen, where Super Smize — the superhero who smizes — reared her incredibly photogenic head. Dressed à la Clark Kent, Tyra appeared on gear up with a crazed lensman, who began harassing the contestants. Tyra so ripped off her clothing, Blob-style (A NTM's writers plain aren't really neat with their superhero lore), to reveal a cape and leotard underneath, and she set upon the lensman using her incredible smizing. And thank God Super Smize was there, too, or that thespian with a faux camera would take kept up that terrible operation.

2. The Pantomime Brazilian (Bicycle ix, Episode 1)
If there is one thing no i ever needs to come across on television, it is a woman pretending — quite realistically — to go a Brazilian bikini wax. The fact that those waxes are real is painful plenty. But when an esthetician from Georgia auditioned during cycle 9, Tyra went for information technology. While the daughter's vox-over said, "If yous've seen one butt, you've seen them all," Tyra put her famous butt in the air and pretended to spread 'em for a wax while Miss Jay'south expect of abject horror said the residue.

1. Tyra-zilla Hates "Beetches" (Cycle 7, Episode ane)
This moment, smack dab in the center of Tyra's crazy behavior sweet spot, is not but Tyra'due south craziest moment, it's the longest-lasting crazy moment. On the models' first photograph shoot, Tyra showed upward pretending to be some pseudo-European diva model, screaming about "prepubescent bitches" stealing her wind, falling down and screaming like a girl in a horror picture show, and then running upwards the stairs to a balcony where she hung and howled similar Godzilla. It may have been completely planned, but merely a slightly insane person would follow through that intensely. Tyra Banks, ladies and gentlemen!

fifteen Craziest Tyra Banks Moments on ANTM