Episode Report Card Kim: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dust In The Wind
By Kim | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 04.22.2008
So then Riverdance performs. I trust you're familiar with their work and thus know what that's all about. My only connection with Irish step dancing is that my kindergarten-aged nephew was trying to do it in music class and he apparently slipped and fell right on his head. He doesn't remember how it happened and the music teacher wasn't looking at the time. And then he threw up like three times but now he's fine. I asked him to do a reenactment and he wouldn't. Coordination: It runs in the family.
So now the little kids are dancing again. I really don't like the fact that they're competing. It's one thing for them to do it at real dance competitions in front of possibly thousands of people, but this is in front of millions of people. Actually, tonight's couple seems a little older, so it's not as weird. It's still weird, but it's not as weird. In the second couple, the boy is much shorter than the girl, but he claims to be a player. He clearly hasn't hit puberty yet, and she kind of has, so that looks a bit strange. It kind of looks like a woman dancing with a little boy. This whole thing just creeps me out. I hope they don't do the little kid competition next season. I mean, it's better than the audience reaction bullshit segments, but not by much. So anyway, the mismatched couple gets sent home so we don't have to watch them anymore.
It's time for the judges to have their say. Len claims that the pressures on the judges are incredible. What's funny is that all of the celebrities have to be there early in the day for hair and makeup and the pretaped segments and all that, and the judges don't get there until right before the show airs. I heard Adam talking on his radio show about how in the first week, the men had to be there at like 1:00 PM and sit through the women's routines and all the lighting and rehearsals, for five hours. Meanwhile, the judges had stand-ins. Good planning, producers. Anyway, Len and Carrie Ann both talk about how difficult it is to watch the dances and take notes at the same time, because they don't want to look down and miss something. They also claim that their remarks aren't scripted, which is BS. I believe that they have a handful of comments pre-planned, but don't necessarily know which couple will get which remark. Especially Len and Bruno, who most often have the seemingly scripted crap. Carrie Ann seems to give more honest reactions, and tries to give each couple an idea of how they could improve. Carrie Ann jokes that they're like a married threesome, and she has two husbands who are both crazy. Len admits that he goes home sometimes and mulls over his scoring. Carrie Ann admits that she has overscored at times. Len concludes that their job is ultimately easier because they don't have the sword hanging over their heads each week.