I have to admit, Dancing with the Stars is losing steam for me a little bit. I didn't even realize that it was on last night, we watched the Patriots game instead. So we were happy enough with the recap. We get it, the Cheetah girl and the race car driver are way out in front. We actually tried watching Cavemen (blah) and Carpoolers (I liked, Kerry didn't) before Dancing, so that we could buffer it up and Tivo our way through it.
The encore dance goes to the race car driver, whose partner is Julianne, the champion. I think that most of his points are coming from the crazy choreography she puts together. She did that last season too, with Apolo. Remember the whole dance around the chair? And the blindfolded one? She's good, I like her.
Queen Latifah is the guest star. I wonder what it really says about your career when you basically put out an album of "standards"? Instead of seeing the dancers we know this week, we see some champions. They are good, sure, but who cares about them? Part of the appeal of the show is in having your favorites, and wanting to see them. When there's no one on stage you know, you reduce your audience down to just the people who watch for the ballroom, and that's not as many as you might think.
An actual funny bit with Jimmy Kimmel (I know, can you believe it?) when they go behind the scenes to look at how the votes are counted, and they discover that they're being counted by…well, The Count. From Sesame Street. They then completely kill the joke by having him counting votes for "Mel B" and "Scary Spice" independently, and when Jimmy says "You know those are the same person, right?" the Count just says, "Are you serious? Now I have to start over!" and they leave him picking up the phones again. Haha? I don't get it.
Albert the young model with the crotch action goes home this week. I don't care about him one way or the other, had no idea who he was and I assume that fanbase did him in. The other guy, Cameron, fills in the "hot guy" category apparently. What bums me out is that his partner was Anna, the peppy little red head who only just came back this season. I'd liked her in earlier seasons and was hoping to see more of her. I have to see more of Cheryl Smith and Wayne Newton, but the one I like goes home. Feh.