Episode Report Card Angel Cohn: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Soft Rock
By Angel Cohn | Season 14 | Episode 6 | Aired on 04.09.2012
More screaming, which makes me concerned for the vocal chords of the women in the audience. His kicks seem sharp -- they are moving very quickly, and it looks great. Well, until he tries to swing Cheryl under his legs and gets all tripped up and they lose about four counts trying to cover that up. When they get back in hold and jive he looks like he's staring at her for help. He's definitely thrown off. Started good, ended poorly.
Cheryl lost part of her shoe and kept dancing. Len reminds William that he messed up this week, which wouldn't be bad, but he also screwed something up last week. It is a bad pattern that pretty can't cover up. Bruno says that he rocks, but he went off and never got it back. Carrie Ann says he's got something special, but he needs to focus. The guys from Steel Panther are in the audience and super psyched that anyone acknowledges their existence. KISS is still hanging out on the tricky new staircase, making the weird trek even more awkward and time consuming. Judges: Carrie Ann 7, Len 7, Bruno 8.
Roshon's doing the Viennese Waltz... for Rock Week. Some producer had poor planning. In rehearsal, he fumbles over his long limbs, and he gets frustrated... so he raps it out. Then there's hugging. He's hoping he can improve enough that Len will say, "Good job, dawg." I think Roshon thinks that Len is Randy Jackson.
They look like they are going to prom, with Chelsie in a hot pink gown and him in a matching shirt. And they are dancing with David Cook's "The Time of My Life," which is decidedly not rock and roll. It's not even power ballad. They look great, until they stop moving in the middle to do a pose where Chelsie wraps her arms around his neck and they bobble a little. Did someone wax the floor this afternoon? They seem to get back into their groove quickly, though.
Bruno likes his lines and movement and says it was elegant. Carrie Ann says it was like he end of a Disney movie, and says he's the best male dancer. Len says, "Good job, dawg." He thought it had style and panache, calls out the stumble in the middle, but it was lovely. Upstairs, Donald slaps him on the ass on the way in, and Roshon is just really happy that Carrie Ann called him a man and not a boy. Judges: Carrie Ann 9, Len 8, Bruno 9.
It seems that the crew is lowering Stonehenge on to the dance floor while Tom introduces Maria's clip package. But then we never see it again. Weird. Just some random Spinal Tap reference that they hoped people got? Maria and Derek are doing, "School's Out," so of course she's dressed like a naughty schoolgirl. During rehearsal, her foot starts hurting. She's just really falling apart. At the doctor's, she's told she's got stress fractures in her feet, but she refuses to quit even though she may have broken feet. I hope she's got some amazing painkillers at least.