Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Heart of Rock and Roll Stops Beating
By Monty Ashley | Season 16 | Episode 5 | Aired on 04.02.2013
It's time for a dance! The male pros and the male members of the troupe are here to do some sort of dance fight. You know how guys are always out there in leather vests, pretending to fight. I think it might be a mistake to take a bunch of professional dancers and give them a fancy choreographed dance, then expect the amateurs to look good next to that. But we're in the sixteenth season of this extremely popular show, so I guess it's possible they know what they're doing. This dance was choreographed by Jason Gilkison, if you're interested.
More footage from last night. You like seeing Andy Dick shirtless, right? And there are some more confessionals, in which nothing interesting is said. Let's look at some results! Because this is supposed to be the "results" show. Sean and Peta are safe. Lisa and Gleb are in jeopardy. Victor and Lindsay are safe. Andy and Sharna are in jeopardy. Andy was very interested in finding out his status, but he's not that surprised to be in trouble.
And now there's a segment about whether celebrity men or celebrity women have it easier. If you're interested in the scores, the women have done a bit better, although the men have more mirrorball trophies 8-7. Apparently male celebrities aren't really leading; the female pro is leading him while going backwards. Tom brings up the quote about Ginger Rogers doing everything Fred Astaire did, but "backwards and in heels." Then he vamps for a bit while Demi Lovato's stage gets set up behind him.
Brooke chats with Victor, Lindsay, Lisa, and Gleb. Lisa has decided to blame Gleb for not being cute enough. Time has been killed! Back to Tom, who throws to a taped dance. It's being shown backwards, which is pretty fancy. It takes a lot of choreography to make a dance hit all the right beats when it's shown backwards. There's a lot of jumping around from level to level, which lets the dancers look like they're making impossible jumps. And some of the segments are shot in regular time (instead of running it backwards) to enhance the weirdness. Good work by Nick Florez and R.J. Durell choregraphing that!
Now it's time for Demi Lovato. She sings a song called "Heart Attack." I'm not really into it, but she's got more energy than Huey Lewis.
After even more footage from last night (seriously, are there people who watch the results show but not the performance?) it's time to get to some more results. Aly and Mark are safe. Ingo and Kim are safe. Wynonna and Tony, of course, are in jeopardy. The audience boos, but they can't really be surprised, can they?