This week's episode is all about disasters: fashion, emotional, and otherwise. Paulina meets up with the girls for a self-styling challenge, in which they have to use an assortment of binder clips and plastic water bottles and rubber bands to improve the look of ill-fitting catalog clothes. It's like MacGyver meets Newport News. Marjorie gets all freaky and nervous -- even more so than usual since a judge is around. While the other girls attribute it to a lack of confidence, Paulina explains that Europeans are just downers, and that's okay. It's cultural. She advises Marjorie to fake it. When in America, do as the happy bitches do. Samantha manages to botch the challenge again by making her clothes totally unrecognizable, and it is McKey who makes the best use of her clips and whatnots. She wins 50 extra frames at the week's photo shoot. Back at home, the girls continue to give Marjorie a hard time about being such a negative Nelly. She explains that negativity is second nature to her, as it was instilled by her parents, and that it is really "a mild form of realism." That's not the "ism" I would guess afflicts Marjorie, but I am not a trained professional. The confidence-obsessed Americans in the crowd don't buy it, and practically gang rape her. In a positive, upbeat way.

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