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America’s Next Top Model host Tyra Banks has defended the move in recent years. This took place in a very-primitive era of social media, so there was very-limited public outrage, but images from the episodes are quite shocking.

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But that sort of excuse isn’t going to help America’s Top Model and its decision in 2005 to have contestants “swap ethnicities.” This meant that some of the white models wore blackface, and others changed their skin tone and wore wigs to look as if they were Native American, Haiwaiian, or Latinx. Judging pop-culture artifacts of the past through the prism of the present can sometimes be deeply unfair.

‘America’s Next Top Model’ Asks Contestants to Swap Ethnicities.

When Scaramucci outlasts you by a factor of 11, you know you fucked up big time. For comparison, Anthony Scaramucci made it 11 days as White House communications director in 2017. He stepped down as host after taping five shows in a single day.

Within days, offensive comments he’d made on a podcast came to light, along with issues related to the treatment of models during his time working on The Price is Right.

The powers that be at Jeopardy! agreed, and they announced he was the new permanent host. And taking a page straight from the Dick Cheney 2000 playbook, he came to the completely unbiased decision that nobody was more qualified for the job than himself. Producer Mike Richards played a large role in the search for a new host. In the minds of most viewers, he was Jeopardy! and it was impossible to imagine anyone else behind the podium. The producers of Jeopardy! did not have an easy path in front of them when Alex Trebek died in 2020 after a 36-year run as the host of the show. Warning: Some of these are agonizing to relive, especially when you consider that we could all exist in a world where Lost ended in a satisfying way, MTV never aired an episode of Ridiculousness, and NBC didn’t pave the way for Donald Trump’s presidency. (If you’re interested in how a similar level of weapons-grade stupidity can play out in the world of music, here’s our list of the 50 Worst Decisions in Music History from last year.)

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This list could have easily been six times longer, since buffoons have been running networks since the earliest days of television, so feel free to add your own ideas on X (formerly Twitter) using the hashtag #BadTVDecisions. That said, a few dumb writing decisions - like the infamous Armin Tamzarian episode of The Simpsons - were hard to avoid. We instead focused on choices made at the network level by clueless suits. The goal wasn’t to center this on “Jumping the Shark” moments, which is why you won’t see entries about Felicity getting a haircut or Cousin Oliver moving in with the Brady Bunch. It wasn’t easy, but we combed through six decades and picked out the 50 worst decisions in the history of television. For every brilliant network idea, like NBC allowing Jerry Seinfeld to make a “show about nothing,” there are 100 insane ones, like ABC allowing Jim Belushi to create 182 episodes of According to Jim across eight seasons. For every groundbreaking show like Breaking Bad, Star Trek, and All in the Family that got on the air, there are 50 duds like Capitol Critters, Homeboys in Outer Space, and Joanie Loves Chachi. The history of television is a vast wasteland of terrible decisions.

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