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{{quote|''"Wanna be on top?"''}}
[[Reality Show]] hosted and created by [[Tyra
The American version of the show debuted in 2003 and is still ongoing. [[Multi National Shows|The format has been replicated in many other countries, including Britain and Australia.]]
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Usually a couple each cycle. (see [[Character
* [[Always Second
* [[American
* [[Ascended
* [[Ax
* [[Back for the
* [[Bathtub
* [[Beach
* [[Belly
* [[Beware the Nice
* [[Berserk
** Tyra apparently hates girls who aren't devastated at being cut. When Tiffany in Season 4 took her elimination in stride...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53sOpQQWOOA Tyra proceeded to go absolutely INSANE on her.]
{{quote|'''Tiffany''': I'm just tired of getting upset over things I have no control over!
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** And don't say anything to C14-Alasia that is even mildly negative about her, or she will. freak. out. Became almost comical when she was screaming: "''You need to calm the f**k down''" to another contestant who was calm as a cucumber.
*** Well if you saw the clip episode, anything that got in Alasia's face when she was angry got her rage. Case in point: she screamed at toiletries due to lack of people left to yell at.
* [[Broad
* [[Bullying a
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: The previous Cycle winner usually returns for the current Cycle's finale. The girls featured in Top Model in Action also qualifies. Basically, any alumnae that guest stars.
** After being fired as a judge, Janice Dickinson was [[Commuting on a
** The eponymous contestants of the All-Stars Cycle.
* [[But Not Too Black]], A lot of ethnic diversity, but.....
** Averted by Sandra in Cycle 12, whose particularly dark skin was fawned over with the show's typical subtlety. Same for Cycle 1's Ebony and Cycle 6's Nnenna. Interestingly, all three contestants had their hair shaved off, and [[Alpha Bitch|another
** [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] during Cycle 2 when contestant Xiomara went into a crying jag after having her skin painted much darker to impersonate Grace Jones for a photoshoot.
* [[Camp
** Hell, Miss J is a better ''model'' than most of the models. Girl can [[Sein Language|
* [[Canon
* [[Cat
* [[Celebrity
* [[Character
* [[Confession
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Everytime a recurring photographer or designer guest stars once again or a studio featured in a previous cycle will be revisited, expect to have a [[Call Back]].
** A Cycle 8 photoshot was an homage to the past seven cycles memorable moments.
** The All-Star Cycle had plenty of [[Call Back|Call
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:
** Many examples, including Natasha, the possible-[[Mail Order
** Allison aka "[https://web.archive.org/web/20170525134259/https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Creepy_Chan Creepy-
* [[
* [[Cry
* [[Do-It-Yourself Theme
* [[Early-Bird
** Tiffany Richardson, Marvita Washington, Kacey Leggett and Angelea Preston were, respectively, casting week rejects of Cycles 3, 9, 11 and 12 before making it as finalists for Cycles 4, 10, 15 and 14 (and 17 for the latter).
** Cycle 9 winner Saleisha was featured in Cycle 6 as a working model. This, coupled with her participation in Tyra's modeling camp, caused controversy to her win.
** Nole Marin guested a few times in Cycle 2 before joining the panel in Cycles 3 and 4.
* [[Elimination
* [[Everything's Better with
* [[Everything's Sparkly with
* [[Everything's Worse with
* [[Expository Hairstyle
* [[Fake
** Sometimes, this overlaps with the [[Celebrity
* [[Faking the Dead]]: The [[Drop-Dead
* [[Fan
* [[Final Girl]]: The whole show usually follows the same elimination pattern as a serial killer movie.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: The panel. Except for [[Big Good|Tyra'
** The US and UK teams from Cycle 18.
* [[Freudian
* [[Genre
{{quote|'''Molly''': Alexandria needs to leave already.
'''Mikaela''': I don't think it's going to happen.
'''Molly''': It won't. One of us is going home. {{spoiler|(Mikaela is eliminated at the end of the episode.)}} }}
* [[Girl
* [[Hollywood
* [[A House Divided]]: The contestants all live together for the entire competition. Cue the instant formation of cliques.
** Cycle 18 enforced this to the British and the American girls.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Most of the contestants.
* [[I'm Not Here to Make
* [[Important
* [[Fundamentally Female
* [[It's All About
* [[
* [[Joker
* [[Large
* [[Light Feminine and Dark
* [[The Magnificent Seven
* [[The
** One episode is devoted to this concept per cycle. In each cycle there are two girls to look for -- the girl that gets a bad makeover but learns how to make it work, and the girl that gets a meh makeover and makes such a huge stink over it that she gets kicked off by next elimination.
** One girl who has to get their hair cut short, and then cries for the rest of the day, and bitches about it until they're eliminated.
* [[Male
* [[Manipulative
* [[Ms.
* [[My Friends and
{{quote|'''Heather''': Hey, pretty lady. And Tyra.}}
* [[My Greatest Second
* [[No Sense of
* [[Of Corsets
* [[One Steve
* [[Patriotic
* [[Pool
* [[Progressively
* [[Reality Show Genre
* [[Reality TV Show
* [[Red Oni, Blue
* [[Reluctant Fanservice Girl]]: Cycle 1 runner-up and All-Stars sixth placer Shannon Stewart is the quintessential example. Basically, girls who refused to pose nude, or at least sexy.
** Shannon is a strange example, as she allowed herself to be pictured in swim suits that left little to the imagination, but never underwear (even if it covered more than the swim suit) because she felt that was only for her husband to see.
* [[Remember When You Blew Up the
{{quote|'''Tyra:''' (To Shannon) "Remember where you came from because it is such a strong place. You were a runner-up. Cycle 1. And it is for a reason. Don't forget that."}}
* [[Reviewer Stock
* [[Rich Bitch]]: "and then we realised... that Robyn was ''actually shopping''..."
* [[Rip
* [[The Runner Up Takes It All]]: The winners of each cycle are often not the strongest contenders, but are stuck with the sponsored prizes. Joanie, Melrose, and Anya beat out Danielle, Caridee, and Whitney by gaining successful fashion careers, as opposed to the winners who won Covergirl sponsorship.
** Cycle 9's Heather Kuzmich, due to having [[Aspergers Syndrome|Asperger'
** Dani (Danielle Evans, Cycle 6) probably has a more successful career than Joanie. And one could go on forever listing contestants who model more frequently than the winners.
* [[Ryu and
* [[Seven Deadly
* [[She Cleans Up
* [[Shocking
* [[Something Completely
* [[Statuesque
* [[Stunt
* [[Suspiciously Similar
* [[Tall, Dark and
* [[Those Two
* [[Timed
* [[Token
* [[Too
* [[Traumatic
* [[Underdogs Never
* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: The show will frequently have sepia-toned flashbacks to events that happened just a few minutes earlier.
* [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head]]: Kristi from Cycle 3 wore a USA gown. On the other hand, the show enforced the girls in Cycle 18 to wear shirts with their corresponding nation's flag printed on it.
* [[Wham!
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: The girls' were given [[Motif|
* [[Wholesome
* [[World of
* [[A Worldwide
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