Work of Art of pretended like it sold out only this week, which is completely laughable. It’s a reality TV show and the winner wins big money at the end of the competition, so let’s not play make believe that we’re really trying to find the next Pollack here or something. Plus, they sell out every week, winning $15-, $25- or even $30-thousand dollars per challenge. These artists sold out long ago; remember, they are on TV.

Regardless, Work of Art still insists on pretending—and encouraging viewers to pretend, too—that they’re doing this all in earnest. That’s why the challenge this week, and the artists’ reactions to the challenge, are so laughable.

The challenge is to sell art on the street. They are to work in teams of two selling their homemade wares, and whichever team sells the most is spared from elimination for the week. They also win a whopping $30,000 a piece for their win.

Sarah J. pairs off with Young. Sarah J. makes some really interesting water color and ink-line drawings and eventually starts creating portraiture of people on the street. It’s a cool project. Young makes some stupid smiley underpants, and gets reamed by the judges for not hanging the undergarments up on the wall of the gallery. Go figure.

Sarah K. pairs off with Lola. Lola is a bad influence on all of her partners, the little would-be vixen. The pair sets up a stand called “Naughty Bits,” and Sarah K. makes the strange choice of creating construction-paper headdresses and spray paint-and-stencil boob shirts. This woman is a college professor of art—how embarrassing! Lola poses naked, which is oh-so daring according to the judges, and puts secrets on the photograph that the audience doesn’t get to see. We can tell what the show’s priorities really are: naked ladies!

Dusty pairs off with Kymia. Kymia has an interesting last-minute idea of selling her signature—a jokey (I think) idea of the worth of her signature when she’s famous—in exchange for signatures from her patrons. Young makes so semi-popular shirt with a red outline of the United States and a surveillance camera in the middle of it. It doesn’t translate well to the gallery, however, and the judges call it awful.

In the end, Sarah J. and Young sold the most merchandise, thereby winning the challenge. Young has racked up almost $70,000 by now—he doesn’t really need to win anymore. The bottom two are Dusty and Sarah K. Sarah K. is sent home for her terrible Thanksgiving-themed child’s drawing. She’s going back to Ohio to face what I expect will be embarrassment for her piece this week.