Wow! Fantastic show last night! Lots of great choreography - punctuated by Mary Murphy letting out the most obnoxious harpy-scream in the history of SYTYCD.

We know how you feel Nigel.

The guest judge was Adam Shankman again. He doesn’t give the most insightful commentary, but he seems like a nice guy.

Except when he’s buttering up the egos in the audience. Is it just me or was last night the most egregious choreographer/famous audience member wankering so far? Hey look, its Paula, and she appears to be sober!

Whoops! He’s just not that into you. Or women. I think?

And then there’s yet another famous choreographer in the audience. And she brought her bestest tranny friend along! Uh-oh… Actually I think that might be Joshua’s mom. Okay that was pretty low of me, but I swear that’s what I thought when I was watching it for the first time. Can we just get on with the show?

Not without giggling at Mary for a second..

I think she gets dressed every week by rolling around in a pile of broken glass and disco balls. You can keep either the scream or the bottomless collection of nightmare dresses. Pick one!

*****

Their Viennese Waltz was smooth and beautifully danced but nonetheless doomed to obscurity by a horrible music choice. Why do they randomly insist on making these couples perform classical dances to annoying, forgettable pop music?

I thought the lift transitions were particularly well done in this routine, but Courtney and Mark may have screwed themselves by making it look TOO easy.

Effortless.

Not buying this though. Maybe if the entire thing hadn’t been set to some David Cook (is he from American Idol?) piece of sappy mediocrity, I wouldn’t have completely forgotten about this dance by the end of the show.

Their jazz routine faired a lot better. Sonya Tayeh was back, and this time she even managed to out-weird the weirdo:

Courtney is laughing, but Mark speaks “crazy” and is therefore appropriately terrified.

The song choice was interesting for this routine and it really drove them into character. “Mirah - The Garden”.

Sonya came up with some innovative moves, and a style that was refreshing on a show that tends to circle the same ground.

This little backwards flip-roll was terrific.

I think Courtney deserves to stay another week but at this point, Mark or Twitch could leave and it wouldn’t phase me.

*****

Ahh Katee and Josh together again. Their previous partnership certainly gave them a huge boost last night.

Tyce whipped up his best choreography of the season (and he’s one of my favorites in the first place).

All by myseeeeEEEeelf. I can’t believe I enjoyed the hell out of a routine performed to Celine Dion. Next thing I know I’ll be buying Streisand CD’s and turn into one of those people that actually OWNS Titanic.

Josh is great with the overhead press. We learned that last week when Dorriana Sanchez attempted to give him a heart attack on national TV.

This move was a crowd-stunner. I wonder how long Tyce has been holding that one back for a pair who could handle it? He certainly seemed to tailor this towards Josh’s strengths and avoid having him dance a lot of traditional moves in between the lifts.

Josh may be the muscle, but Katee is so fantastically elegant and amazing to watch. I know none of these lifts and stunts would be anywhere near as good if she wasn’t holding up her end of the deal with amazing precision.

I had to go back and watch this a few times. The whole thing was just wonderful from start to finish, and Tyce is a great asset to the show. It was pretty dense with acrobatics, but Joshua managed to avoid looking clunky and awkward in the quiet parts, thanks to Tyce.

For their second go, in stark contrast to the terrible music that Courtney and Mark were saddled with for their ballroom dance, SYTYCD gave Joshua and Katee a perfect, hard-hitting, emotionally-charged piece of music for their Paso Doble.

Bam! This dance was lucky for Josh. He can’t do smooth and elegant, but he can certainly do confident and manly. Katee played his cape, and by George I believed every second of it!

This felt like one of those dances that will be remembered after the season ends.

I just realized that poor Katee spent a lot of time being flipped around, hung upside down, and dragged all over the stage last night!

I would be very surprised if either of these guys are out of the final 4. Katee is the best dancer left on the show, and Josh solidly beats out Twitch and Mark.

*****

Their first dance was a Mambo by Tony and Meredith, and sheesh it was fast-paced. Chelsie was whipping those legs around like lightning and Twitch did his best to hang on.

Chelsie rocked the hell out of that fire-engine red dress.

She even danced some of her wardrobe off. Smokin!

There really isn’t any excuse at this point in the show for one of the dancers to crap up any particular style, but I’m glad Mary made some mention of the difficulty level here. This dance looked impossible!

Their second dance was a straight-up disappointment. Tabita and Napoleon gave them a crappy routine that was 50% mugging to the camera, 25% style, and only 20% actual dancing.

The missing 5% of the recipe got lost in Chelsie’s hair.

They basically just stood around for the first quarter of their performance! Bad TabNap. BAD!

It had some moments, but this was a total miss by the choreographers. It had a great concept, good costumes, awesome music (an instrumental version of Janet Jackson’s old hit “Control”), and completely boring dancing!

Twitch and Chelsie hammed it up appropriately and did everything they were asked, but they couldn’t make those ingredients cook up into anything spectacular.

My guess is that these two are going home tonight. Twitch just isn’t as versatile as the other two, and Chelsie is great but Katee and Courtney are better. America might like Chelsie more than Courtney though since they’ve sent Court to the bottom before.

Love you Cat!

Sorry for the below average writing today. I had a mid-week Pool league playoff match last night and I ended up having to play dead last starting my match at midnight. I’m struggling hard at work today!