Top 8 Couples

Tonight’s Judges: Nigel Lithgoe, Mary Murphy, Adam Shankman

Cyd Charisse, the famous dancer, died this week at age 86. Nigel talked about her for a moment to open the show. After that and the usual time-filling babble, they get on to the dancing:

Kherington and Twitch – This week they’ve drawn hip hop and choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon. Music: “Don’t Touch Me (Throw Da Water On ‘Em),” Busta Rhymes. The story is a prison break, and they’re dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, ski caps, and for some reason, nerd glasses. It’s not flattering. In the rehearsal montage Twitch says that Kherington is “more ganster than me.” The dancing is good, with all the synchronized parts pretty tight. There were some cute parts where they’d lip-sync a specific phrase along with the music. There was a lot of comedy in it, actually. At one point Twitch stops dancing and steps to the side, fanning himself, and there is a sort of exchange along the lines of yeah, this dancing is making us hot, and then he lip-syncs a lyric about it “getting hot in here.” The story was cool, the characters were neat, and they looked like they were having fun.

Nigel said that he would list the good qualities first, and said that they were brilliant dancers, good spirit, lots of energy, he liked the choreography, etc. Then he said he would list the bad qualities. There was a pause and he said “I can’t think of any.” Mary seems drunk. She is wearing a really stupid shirt with a bunch of bling on it. The entire top half is encrusted with big rhinestone things, some of them at least an inch across. She looked like some sort of armored dinosaur—perhaps an Ankylosaurus.
She says there is an “ancient Murphy proverb” handed down over the generations in her family. I saw it coming and sure enough, it was just the loud, obnoxious, screeching scream. God I want to punch her right in her freakish teeth. Adam starts to talk but Mary is leaning over to him making a big puckery kissy face (this is where she really looked drunk) and he doesn’t quite know what to do. She doesn’t knock it off and so he awkwardly gives her a peck on the lips. It’s embarrassing for everybody. He says the dance was awesome, and gives the couple some advice since he thinks they will “be around for a while.”

Courtney and Gev – They draw the rhumba. Tony Merideth and Melanie are the choreographers. In the rehearsal footage it is so incredibly obvious that Gev has a massive crush on Courtney. They talk about a part in the choreography where he has to grab her butt, which he clearly enjoys. Music: “Wishing On A Star,” Rose Royce. It started a little shaky with her sliding down his back and leg to the floor—it just wasn’t smooth, and then she got the heel of her shoe caught on the hem of her dress. Fortunately she was able to fix it pretty unobtrusively before she had to stand up. Speaking of her dress… wow. It’s incredibly slinky. It’s long and flowy one side, but on the other side the fabric from the front doesn’t even meet the fabric from the back—there is some kind of clear material filling the gap, so you see skin all the way from head to toe. As I’m watching them dance, I am thinking to myself “are they going to start making out? Should we give them some privacy or something?”

Nigel said it was hot, and that Gev’s passion reminded him of Dominic from last season (who was in the audience) and said he was happy that the wardrobe department could only afford half a dress. Gev said he was happy about that, too. Mary loved it, said the chemistry was believable, and was proud of them. Adam says he thinks Mary looks like a disco ball. As for the dancing, he “really, really loved it” and goes on a bit. He tells Gev that he should work on his hands and starts to kind of ramble. The other judges start harassing him and eventually they pretend to be asleep.

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