Dr. Drew is called in to give some much needed psycho-analysis for the dancing couples:

Lance and Lacey are struggling with feelings of negativity and frustration, so Dr. Drew tells them to just be honest with their feelings.  Warren and Kym struggle with time management because his life involves lots of travel, but he thinks he has no stress.  Maurice and Cheryl have problems with his need for perfection.

Now it's time for the Design-a-Dance contest!  The dance is the jive, the song is "Great Balls of Fire," and the two professional dancers are ...Derek and Julianne Hough!  After Derek does a solo, he opens a piano to reveal his sister, who is back and better than ever.  The only problem is that this means more incest dancing!

Julianne dances up a storm on the piano, jiving as hard as she can with her brother, even lifting him up on her shoulders.  She's definitely back from her injury.  It's so much fun that I almost forget how weird it is that they're dancing to a song made famous by a dude who married his 13-year-old cousin.

Back to Dr. Drew's analysis, Derek calls Brooke lazy, and she doesn't like that he's insulting her.  Cody is an emotional wreck and he even cries when talking about Julianne's surgery.  I must be pure evil, because I can only laugh at his tears over a chick he met a few weeks ago.

I feel better because Tom Bergeron also mocks the crying boy.

It's time for another Brad Paisley performance, accompanied by several of the professionals from the Dancing with the Stars tour.  Since my expertise seems to be focused on incest dancing, I don't have much to add for this dance.  Wake me up when Mark and Corky Ballas dance a Viennese waltz together.

It might interest some to note that Maksim Chmerkovskiy has cut off all his hair.

For filler, some professional doctor named Dr. Gray gives a lesson on the anatomy of a dancer.  This segment is called "Anatomy of a Dancer."  Really?  Couldn't they get the rights to call it "Gray's Anatomy"?

The third couple that is safe is...Brooke Burke and Derek Hough.

The couple going home is...Maurice Greene and Cheryl Burke!

Yay, that means the cute little boy gets to dance with Julianne Hough once again!  It also means both Houghs are in the semi-finals, just like in season 5.

Rather than perform a final dance with his partner, Maurice brings up his adorable little girl and dances with her.  It's enough to make even my blackened heart grow three sizes.

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-John Kubicek, BuddyTV Senior Writer