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America's Next Top Model: Season 5

12 episodes Premiered Sep 21, 2005
Previously on America's Next Top Model

Season 5 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of America's Next Top Model Season 4.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (8): Character development & subplots
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S5·E1 Mytharc

The Girl with the Twisted Catch Phrase

Sep 21, 2005

Cycle five premieres with 13 new aspiring models competing in an impromptu fashion show. This season the girls will live together in a Bel Air mansion. Former model Twiggy joins

S5·E3 Core

The Girl Who Needs a Miracle

Sep 28, 2005

The remaining girls go and get a makeover. Cassandra, cries about her new short hair, not knowing it was a mistake. At the photo shoot, the girls pair up and go head to head for

S5·E4 Core

The GIrl Who Makes a Disclaimer

Oct 5, 2005

Sarah and Kim's relationship heats up while Cassandra's getting hot and bothered by her short hair, and not in a good way. The girls learn how to walk the walk, especially on a mov

S5·E5 Core

The Girl Who Gets a Boob Job

Oct 12, 2005

The return of Janice Dickinson! The girls have to reveal their greatest flaw and learn how to turn that flaw into something great. And for the photoshoot, the girls have to get exa

S5·E6 Core

The Girl Who Loves Bubbles and Talks to Plants

Oct 19, 2005

Back stabbing all around in this episode of America's Next top model. Jayla steals some of Nik's lines while Coryn spits out some angry lines of her own at Lisa.

S5·E7 Core

The Girls Are 1940's Pin-Ups

Oct 26, 2005

The inspiration for today's photo shoot is the 1940's Pin-Up girl style. The girls pose for a potential car advertisement.

S5·E9 Mytharc

The Girl Who Talks Behind Everyone's Back

Nov 16, 2005

Emotions explode when one model is confronted about constantly talking behind her competitors' backs, and "Entertainment Tonight" correspondent Kevin Frazier teaches the girls abou

S5·E10 Core

The Girl Who Retaliates

Nov 23, 2005

Challenged by J. Alexander to pose like statues in a park, the models find the task to be a little too realistic as they're swarmed by pigeons, and after one competitor suspects an

S5·E11 Mytharc

The Girl Who Takes a Pill

Nov 30, 2005

After Barney's New York Creative Director Simon Doonan and Twiggy teach the girls about the different British fashion trends, the competitors are sent to impress top London designe

S5·E12 Mytharc

The Girl Who Is On the Cover

Dec 7, 2005

With only three models remaining, the girls are first challenged to shoot a CoverGirl commercial and a national print ad, and after one competitor is eliminated, legendary photogra