"It's been a weird week here."

This is what the host of a late-night talk show might say if that show's staff has spent an entire week investigating a beauty pageant. It's what John Oliver said last night, as the Miss America Foundation was, for better or worse, the focus of his most recent episode.Things got weird and, as Oliver so eloquently points out, the pageant just plain needs to go.

There's the superficial aspect, of course.

As Oliver says, mimicking the pageant's host as he introduces the contestants, "Just a reminder: It is 2014 and I am a fully clothed man standing in front of a line of women in swimsuits awaiting judgment." That says it all, really. It's truly remarkable that the pageant has been able to hold itself up by crying tradition for so long.

But it's not just tradition holding the pageant afloat. It's also the Miss America Foundation's repeated insistence that they are, first and foremost, a scholarship organization. It may be hard to accept this considering the overlarge role butt glue plays in the pageant, but this is their claim. More specifically, they profess to make $45 million of scholarship money available to women annually. This doesn't sound right, and when Last Week Tonight investigated is when things started to get weird.

Because the Miss America Foundation is a nonprofit organization, their tax records can be pulled. Easy. So how much money do they actually give out in scholarships? $20 million? $10 million? No, in 2012, the Miss America Foundation gave out less than $500,000 in cash scholarships, falling short of their $45 million claim by... a lot.

The way they got to $45 million is downright despicable. Oliver points out that Miss Pennsylvania offered the state's representative in the pageant scholarships to four universities. Despite the fact that a single person can only attend one school, the total cumulative value of scholarships to all four universities was added together. Even worse, Miss Alabama claims that they offered $2.6 million worth of scholarships to a single school, Troy University. This is ludicrous, of course. The truth is that the value of a single scholarship to the school was multiplied by 48, the "number of competitors who could theoretically accept it." Oh, okay. And how many did accept a scholarship? Zero. Yes, this is really happening.

It's at this point that Oliver and his staff simply gave up. It's sad how the Miss America Foundation has to doctor numbers to make it seem like it actually has a place in modern society. Watch Oliver's critique below:

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