Episode Report Card Kim: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Twice as Hard
By Kim | Season 15 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.09.2012
So where do these couples stand? Shawn and Apolo and their partners are all safe. Drew and Anna are in jeopardy. Val and Kelly are also safe. Val lifts up Kelly in celebration like she's a little rag doll. Did you ever see that episode of Happy Days with the dance marathon? Of course you did. Anyway, you know that couple that goes to the end with Joanie and Fonzie, the tiny girl and the huge dude? That's what they looked like.
We're halfway through the episode, so they're fixing to eliminate someone right now. It's either going to be Kirstie and Maks or Drew and Anna. Please be Kirstie. Please be Kirstie. Please be Kirstie. I'm sure it's Drew, but please be Kirstie. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge. It's Drew and Anna. Blech. Drew says he wouldn't change a thing, and he came back because it was fun. Tom seems genuinely sad to see Drew go.
So what did everyone think about this new twist where the couples get to pick each other's dances? The pros are actually quite concerned since Tom said that some of the dances have rarely or never been featured on the show, so it could be, like, the polka. Mark hopes Derek gets to choose for him and chooses the tango. He'd be a fool to help out a buddy, though, right?
Brooke and Tom are ready to reveal the dance styles that the couples will have to assign. They are: bolero, Bollywood, Broadway, Charleston, contemporary, disco, hip hop, jitterbug, mambo, and rock and roll. Are some of those even actual dance styles? Like Broadway? Or rock and roll? Some of the pros look befuddled and some look psyched. Tom announces that each couple will have only ten seconds to choose a style. The couple with the lowest cumulative score will choose for the couple with the highest cumulative score, and so on through the ranks. The graphic they show still has Drew and Anna on it though.
Bristol and Mark get to choose for Gilles and Peta. Mark tells Bristol to choose Bollywood and she does. Gilles already has some moves at the ready. I think he could actually rock that. Kirstie and Maks choose disco for Sabrina and Louis, maybe hoping Sabrina is so young that she won't know the moves? But she's partnered with Louis, who's probably a disco king. They should have chosen Broadway. Helio and Chelsie choose mambo for Shawn and Derek. That's probably a good choice because a lot of it is in hold, which is tough to them due to the height differential.
Next, Val and Kelly have to choose for Emmitt and Cheryl, and they choose bolero. Melissa and Tony choose hip hop for Apolo and Karina, which is totally dumb because Apolo's hip hop freestyle is always brought up as a classic routine. They should have picked Broadway or contemporary. Anyway, now the roles are reversed, and Apolo and Karina choose jitterbug for Melissa and Tony, which is also dumb since they just rocked their jive and it's not that different.