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
They are doing the tango, and he starts doing more of the "Jagger" style at the beginning until they meet in the middle of the Union Jack on the floor and take hold. His arms are weak, and when he looks away from her, it seems like he's counting in his head. Also, his feet really seem to be out of place, like he's not landing solidly or something. The death drop works out OK, and he ends up spinning around on the floor to end the dance picking up all the dust bunnies. Up in the gallery, he's only getting a smattering of applause.
Carrie Ann says that she loved it even though it was funky and weird. She says his biggest problem was that he was too smooth, and the tango should be staccato. Len says he like the humor, and that he was doing the spin, but he wanted more attack and aggression. He comments that his footwork should have been more panther like. Bruno says that the feet also didn't work, but he loved the performance of it. Jaleel says he was feeling the music and did kicks, and seems confused. He adds that he did his George Jefferson, because he thinks that TV's most famous drycleaner and Jagger had the same strut. Judges: Carrie Ann 8, Len 7, Bruno 7.
Tom reminds us about the forthcoming dance-off between the bottom two celebrities (which start tomorrow or next week, the wording is very confusing) and while it works on So You Think You Can Dance, I don't think it is fitting here. This has always been a glorified popularity contest, and not sending the lowest vote-getter home undermines that. Still, I guess we'll see how it plays out. Right now it just seems like the judges were pouting that they had to sit around looking pretty and getting paid on Tuesdays without really doing all that much.
The guys from KISS are still hanging out, and Tom calls the show, Mimes Gone Wild. That actually made me laugh. In rehearsal, there is some trouble, as Melissa doesn't really know how to do angry mean girl that the paso needs Finally, Maks pushes her and uses his off-putting rude coaching style, and she gets pissed off. And then she nearly steps on his junk. This could be a disaster... for Maks.
As they are introduced, we see actually bullhorns moving towards Maks, who is swathed in red lights, and we even hear some snorting. I thought it might be Melissa, but it seems like a bored camera operator. They are dancing to "Conquest," which is kind of cheating the rock theme a little bit. It's a matador song that The White Stripes covered, but it isn't really rock-rock, if you know what I mean. It certainly doesn't offer up much of a challenge.