Tonight on America's Next Top Model: The final 6 embark on their exotic trip... to Hawaii. There, they learn how to surf, and to look like different racial identities.

No, seriously.

It's America's Next Top Model. With Tyra Banks. Aren't you just surprised they didn't try out blackface sooner?

Here's something that actually surprises me: Erin is still in the competition! Can you believe it?

To surprise the girls with their trip, Tyra goes into their house with a bunch of men in hazmat suits who use handheld vacuum cleaners to pretend to quarantine the Top Model house. And they use pink caution tape, because FIERCE!

Oh, no! Where will the models live? Tyra has an idea...

Hawaii! And if there's one thing America's Next Top Model needs, it's MORE FRUIT!

Definitely not enough already.

Anywho, for those of you who thought that a trip to Hawaii means America's Next Top Model had major budget cuts, since the other cycles have gone to actual foreign countries like Brazil and Australia, you OBVIOUSLY didn't catch that the CW spent basically a million dollars on the "Fierce Airlines" graphic:

Who knew Pixar still did contract work?

Amazing! And it's not just the animation. Tyra also pulled out all the stops for the models' Hawaiian mansion: each room has a TV set that broadcasts Jennifer's winning Covergirl commercial from last week. Even the bathroom! Oh ANTM, always spending where it really counts.

The Surfing Challenge:
The models' first task in Hawaii is to learn how to surf, because... because they're in Hawaii. The instructor claims that surfing relates to modeling, but we all know they just want footage of the girls falling over. And, if that's true, you could claim that pretty much ANY activity that requires standing up and showing some sort of physical skill "relates to modeling." I can't wait until next cycle when Tyra takes the girls to Canada and teaches them how to bowl! Fiercely, obviously.

The surfing challenge is a snore, but the editing team does their best to snazz it up with some split-screen:
 

See? Now it's 100% pure adrenaline, bro!

The challenge is to get up on the surf board and get a decent photo (while accompanied by a hot dude with washboard abs). No one really does that:

But Erin looks the least like a granny-panty wearing weirdo, so she wins! "What does she win?" you ask? She wins a helicopter tour of Maui, and she gets to take two "friends" with her. She picks Brittany (who thinks Erin is the most annoying person in the house) and Nicole, who is WAY more excited about this prize that Erin is. At least I think that's excitement:

Erin bitches about the prize because it's not "tangible," like a gift card to Wal-Mart or earrings. Jennifer says Erin has "spoiled brat syndrome." I say she needs a tangible punch to the neck! (Just kidding. But seriously, remember how you are on TV? Keep your sore winner ingratitude to yo'self.)