Randi and Evan: Hip Hop
Nappy Tabs teach Ranny Evs a routine where they are a young couple who discover she's pregnant.  Maybe if her butt wasn't so great, they wouldn't be in this situation.  The story is fine, but these two are just way too white to pull off hip hop, and his sweater vest isn't helping matters.  Still, it's solid enough and Randi brings it.

Janette and Brandon: Tango
Janette speaks Spanish with the choreographers, making Brandon feel left out.  Janette is one spicy tamale and her footwork is slamming and jamming.  Nigel doesn't say a word and just stands up to clap for them.  Mary and Tyce follow suit.  Nigel goes on to say it's as close to perfection as he's ever seen.  As I know nothing about the technique of dance, even I can recognize how stellar that was, but I still need emotion, so Kayla and Kopono were better for me.  Mary takes the Hot Tamale Train out of the station while Tyce morphs into Mario Cantone for a good old-fashioned freak out.


That does it for round one, where it's obvious that Kayla and Kopono and Janette and Brandon are lightyears ahead of everyone else with two routines sure to make our year-end best dances of the season list.  But now it's time to "uh, double up, uhj, uh" for the couples' second routines.

Cat springs a surprise that next week, the Top 10 will have their partners switched around.  Ooh, what a twist!


Melissa and Ada: Waltz
Their final dance as a couple is another thing of beauty.  These two are screwed next week, because they have the best chemistry of any couple and now I'm getting sad that they're  breaking up, because I wanted them to dance together all the way into the finale.    Nigel hopes he'll get a break from Mary next week, but she tells him to shut up after calling him an "English Muffin."  Cat Deeley makes a rare misstep when she takes a stab at comedy by calling Tyce her "Brooklyn Brownie."    I'd go with "Puff Pastry," but that might be deemed too homophobic.

Kayla and Kopono: Broadway
This is very different from their first routine, since it's all fun about falling in love at first sight.  This may sound odd, but I really enjoyed it, though something was off.  I honestly can't figure out what my problem was.  Maybe the costumes, or the lighting or the song, but there was some element that just didn't fit.  Nigel's problem was that there was no emotion, but that wasn't my problem.  Dangit, this is going to be like when you have a name on the tip of your tongue, and I may never know what was that one off ingredient.


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