Tim Gunn channeled a wispy Willy Wonka this week as Project Runway's product placement sunk to new lows—designers were taken to the Hershey Store in Times Square and told to create garments from whatever they could find. Yeah, seriously. Despite a Hershey rep's insistence on saying the word "sweet" an inordinate number of times, this challenge was pretty okay and produced one of the more enjoyable, if thin, episodes this season.

Most of the designers chose to play it safe and used pillows and stuffed bears as materials. Despite the nature of the challenge, Jillian was the only one smart enough to use actual candy for her design, so to the producers' tangible dismay, she obviously wasn't going anywhere. The majority of the episode was devoted to Jillian's comic attempts to make Twizzlers into a dress and corset. (Is there anything licorice can't do?)

Also featured was what we might lovingly, or at least amusingly, refer to as The Passion of Elisa ... if by passion you'll permit us to mean crazy. And oh yes did Elisa deliver the crazy.

Apparently, Elisa had been in a unfortunate car accident years ago that cracked open her skull and left her in a five-day coma (extremely sad). The show, however, was edited to suggest that this is the reason for her insanity (extremely hilarious): The crash story is told in the midst of her deciding to make a magical-looking dress for her daughter, a dress curiously based on the concept of a "twisted Gretel" of Hansel and Gretel lore. Of course, never mind the fact that the story originated in Germany and there are no traces of anything even slightly Teutonic in the ultimately monstrous design. It resembled at best an early '80s Barbie prom dress.

Even beside Victorya's cryptic Ice Queen gown and Sweet P's midnight hour Home-Ec garb, Elisa's design was by and far the worst. Still, she didn't seem too broken up about being shoved into a metaphorical chocolate river and shipped out of the factory—sugar highs and insanity are often indistinguishable.