Episode Report Card Kim: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Tuesday's Gone
By Kim | Season 8 | Episode 18 | Aired on 05.11.2009
Carrie Ann wonders if Shawn can deliver the emotional content in some dances, but she totally delivered here. Len admires Shawn's maturity and intensity and he thought it was Shawn's best performance. Bruno calls her "Catherine Zeta Shawn" and he starts singing "He Had It Coming" from Chicago. Scores: Carrie Ann 10, Len 10, and Bruno 10. That's their first perfect score of the season. Mark really needs to cut back on the eyeliner.
Ty and Chelsie are set to wrap up the ballroom round. Last week, his tango and rumba put him in the bottom two, but his fans saved him. So he takes Chelsie to ride a mechanical bull? I don't know. There are a lot of high fives. This week, they have the samba, which means that Ty has to shake his butt. He looks like a paint mixer. Their other routine is the Viennese waltz, which Ty wants to look smooth, effortless, and graceful. Ty jokes that he knows it's not likely, but he wants to show his fans that their efforts were justified. Ooh. Their waltz is to one of my favorite songs: "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Girrrrrrl. This is my jam. Remember the end of Dazed and Confused? We're going to get Aerosmith tickets? Anyway, back to their dance. Ty's frame and posture are good, and the beginning is actually quite nice. He gets a little ahead of the beat, and there's a pretty big bobble near the end with a spin. The thing that bugs me about Ty, that none of the judges have mentioned, is his facial expression. Note that it's singular; he only has one, which is terrified/pasted-on smile. He could do a perfect routine, but he lags behind the others in terms of becoming a character on the dance floor and connecting to the dance. He's never done it, but somehow he gets a pass.
Len doesn't think anyone has worked harder or tried harder than Ty to become a dancer. He knows there were some issues with the routine, but he thought it was fabulous. Bruno thinks America loves Ty for the reasons Len said, and then Bruno and Len get in an argument over whether it was smooth enough. Tom has to tell them to shut up and Carrie Ann says that she's impressed by how much the audience supports Ty, but she knows he struggled a bit. Len keeps arguing with them, defending Ty. Tom sends Ty and Chelsie backstage and the judges still seriously can't shut up so that Tom can do his little speech to give the dancers time to get backstage. Ty says that they worked hard and did the best they could. Scores: Carrie Ann 8, Len 9, and Bruno 8.