Episode Report Card Kim: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Oh Boy!
By Kim | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 03.17.2009
Next up, Jewel (seated, due to her injury) is going to sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" while Chelsie and Dmitry dance. I really used to be a huge Jewel fan, during the "Pieces of You" era. Then she published that book of poetry. I worked in a bookstore when that happened, and every 13-year-old girl came in looking for it, and I got turned off. Hey, Chelsie is dancing barefoot. Len must be peeved; he hates that. These two dance beautifully together. Do you think Mickey Rooney is thinking about Judy Garland? I also just noticed that Jewel has weird claw hands. It's kind of freaking me out. Thankfully, the song is ending.
It's trash-talking time! Okay, it's not at all trash-talking. It's everyone saying, "Oh, she's so handsome! So funny! So beautiful!" BORING! It's all very scripted because I refuse to believe the 90 percent of these people could come up with the mildly clever lines we've heard tonight. Probably DAG. That's about it.
So now we're going to find out who is safe and who will be participating in the dance-off. As they review the chances of each remaining couple, Samantha wonders if Steve-O will ever have the chance to dance live again. Well, he definitely will. He'll either dance live right now in the dance-off, or he'll make it through and dance live next week. Dummy. So Holly and Dmitry are safe, as are Ty and Chelsie. When they announced Ty and Chelsie, the camera was totally on Steve-O and Lacey, which was weird. Also safe are Steve-O and Lacey. I think that might have been a directing mishap or something. Samantha states the obvious: Belinda and Jonathan and Woz and Karina will compete in the dance-off. I really think Lacey thought they were goners. She looked sad and exhausted. I wonder if Steve-O would have been able to dance at all, or if they would have had to forfeit.
When we return, the bottom two couples are standing on the dance floor back-to-back. Tom explains that they will each repeat one of their first two routines. The judges will score them, and those scores will be combined with the viewer votes from the last two weeks to determine who stays and who goes.
Belinda and Jonathan go first. They decide to redo their salsa, and Jonathan works with Belinda in the studio to increase her hip action. Their routine begins and I love how Belinda is singing to Jonathan. She just looks like she's having fun out there. I kind of get the vibe that she doesn't really give a shit if she stays or not. She screws up some of the moves and she doesn't really point her toes when she kicks. And I forgot about the weird slow part in the middle. I don't know if she's in bad shape and can't dance any faster or what. Jonathan is used to accommodating for his celebs, since he was wacky Marie Osmond's partner. They still end with that ill-advised handstand and then head over for judging. Len thought there was more hip action than last night, but she made a few mistakes. Bruno knows she must be nervous and she lost her footwork as a result. Carrie Ann thought she had more passion but she lost the plot. Belinda says throughout that she knows she screwed up. Samantha asks some typically dumb questions backstage and then the scores: Carrie Ann 5, Len 6 and Bruno 6 for a total of 17. That's one lower than they got last night.