Charm School

Thirteen of the rudest Flavorettes are back -- returning from Flavor of Love season one comes Smiley the crier, Serious the model, Goldie the puker, Pumkin the spitter, Rain the screamer, and crazy Hottie; and from season two comes Saaphyri the fighter, Bootz the hater, ghetto talkin' Buckwild, plus-size Like Dat, balcony-busting Buckeey & Krazy, and Toasteee, the drunk girl who did porn.These reality TV misfits begin their road to redemption and self-respect guided by their Headmistress and host of Charm School, celebrity comedienne Mo'Nique and her two "Deans" of Charm School:  Keith Lewis (talent agent and Miss U.S.A. pageant director), and Mikki Taylor (cover editor of Essence magazine).  After stripping away the nicknames which Flavor Flav gave them on Flavor of Love, Mo gets to work breaking the girls down so that she can build them back up.  First, Mo sends the girls on a two-mile hike into the wilderness where diva-level meltdowns ensue as the girls fight the elements, exhaustion, and each other.  After an overnight campout, the girls learn about teamwork as they compete in a mud obstacle course where ass-cheeks are bruised, faces hit the mud, sweat pours, and vomit is hurled.  At the first elimination ceremony that night, Mo'Nique evaluates the girls with the help from her two "Deans," Keith and Mikki.  The three of them give the girls a harsh reminder that Charm School is all about tough love, as well as a competition, as the first of the thirteen girls gets expelled from Charm School.  The remaining twelve girls look around at each other wondering who will be next?

This week the twelve remaining girls get trained in social grace, etiquette, and table manners.  Special guest Andrew Firestone (of The Bachelor) tests the girls in a three round competition.  The winner will assist him in presenting his new wine at his winery and be safe from being expelled.  Before the contest even begins, one girl's dress goes missing -- there's a thief in the house!  The plan works as the victim has a complete meltdown and blows it in the competition.  But when the thief is revealed, she gets what's coming to her when her dirty laundry get aired on national TV.  While the winner of the etiquette test joins Andrew at the Firestone winery the next day, the rest of the girls must cook dinner for Mo'Nique using recipes from her cookbook.  At dinner Mo gets the girls to air their issues about the dress thief as well as their personal issues with each other.  With this much bad manners to choose from, who will Mo'Nique expel this week?

This week the eleven remaining girls learn about high fashion when they have to split into two teams and put on a fashion show.  First, each team much assign each person's role:  two dress designers, one girl to do hair, one to do make-up, and one girl to be the model.  They are told to choose their roles wisely, but one team does everything but, seemingly assigning people to jobs they are least suited for.  At the fashion show the judges are knocked out by one team, and horrified by the other.  Slapped with a hearty dose of reality, members of the losing team start casting blame on each other.  It's every woman for herself as they turn on each other to save themselves from getting expelled.

This week the ten remaining girls learn about effective communication when they split into two teams for a formal debate.  The catch is that there are five people on each team, but there's only room on a debate squad for four.  Each team must bench one member, and that member will be vulnerable for expulsion even if their team wins the debate.  Of course, no one wants to be benched, and one girl storms off when she gets out-voted.  The girls surprise everyone with their reasoned, yet passionate, debate.  When the debate coach declares the winner, his decision sparks a knock-down, drag-out shouting match between Mo and her students.  After that scene, the girls need to blow off some steam so they make a stop at a local bar where they let loose and get wild.  When one girl criticized another's behavior, everything they learned in debate class goes out the window, and soon fists are flying.  At the expulsion ceremony that night, it's anyone guess who's going home.

This week the nine remaining girls learn about business acumen in this Apprentice-style challenge where they split into three teams to see who can make the most money selling their custom-made perfume on the streets of Hollywood.  Three of the girls are selected to be team CEO's, and they must fight between them to decide who is on their team.  When one of the CEO's gets bullied by the other two, she's forced to take the two girls no one else wanted.  The team who makes the most money will be safe from elimination, and the two CEO's of the losing teams will be automatically called to the carpet.  Their strategies are varied:  one team follows the adage "sex sells," another team uses a merchandise giveaway to push their perfume product, and one team takes a half-hour bathroom break before getting started.  After the competition, tensions remain high between two of the CEO's back at the house.  One of them threatens to deliver a serious beat-down if she gets eliminated.

This week the eight remaining girls learn about generosity when Mo challenges them to give away their own clothes to a thrift store that benefits AIDS research.  While some girls start packing up their designer clothes, tears fall when one girl realizes she doesn't have as much to give as the others.  But when they all find out just what the thrift store is willing to take, and for how much, every team must reevaluate what they're willing to part with, including one girl's family heirloom.  The winning team wins a shopping spree for new clothes.  One of the losing teams is so bitter than they hatch a plot to get one of the girls eliminated -- they steal one girl's picture and plant it under another girl's bed.  When the picture is discovered, fingers are pointed in many directions. At elimination, will Mo figure out who was really behind the picture theft, or will the patsy fall victim to the villain's plan?