And I forgot to add – P has spent 20 hours, the others about 130? Shit.
In order, get rid of Masta P, then get rid of George Hamilton, then get rid of Jerry Rice, then get rid of Lisa Linna. The last three are the real dancers, the ones who show style, grace and ability to get into what they are doing. Not surprisingly, of course. 
Master P was such a trainwreck tonight, no, that’s not fair, trains actually move before they wreck. All he did was stand there while Ashley danced her little butt off. I think it was great that they mentioned how many hours they’ve trained in comparison with everyone else. Maybe people will finally get that he doesn’t give a damn about this competition and stop voting for him. Everyone else is working their butts off and having fun, P doesn’t want to be there and it’s obvious.
Thanks for keeping the thread alive, Twickster.
Well, the first thing that struck me was how loose the contestants were when compared to the first three episodes. Well, maybe a bit too loose in some cases, but man, there was some entertaining shit tonight, especially from the judges; best ep so far, IMO. I will now plunge onward to rate the night’s festivities, as always from the standpoint of a complete dance ignoramus.
Paso Doble:
- Lisa (!) 2. Drew 3. George 999,999,999.9. P
From what little of this dance I’ve seen previously, this one is actually quite hard to do without coming off as corny and/or a bit silly. Just my HO , but no one really carried it off except Ms. Scary Lips, who gets ‘best dance of the night honors’. Although Lachey did pretty well overall, the stolen Michael Jackson moves didn’t really work for me. Hamilton once again managed to paper over his many technical weaknesses with hilarious schtick, but the only thing that kept him off the bottom, really, was yet another jaw-droppingly clumsy and inert turn from Master P. At least this time P wore a different hat. At this point, I can only assume that the TV viwers keep voting him back in because they enjoy seeing the judges busting blood vessels over his complete lack of effort.
Foxtrot:
- Tia 2. Stacy 3. Jerry
I think this one is a bit harder for the males than the females; no really bad turns here, but nothing amazing-amazing either. Tia had a great outfit, and I liked her little vamp at the end. Stacy was technically good, but the leg kicks are getting a bit stale (not that I don’t like looking at her legs, understand; rowrr). Jerry improved drastically by simply standing up a bit more. He also gets the nod for best background video segment: " Jerry, meet your ballet teacher." Comedy gold!
Next to walk the plank: if there were any justice in the world it would be P, but if the audience once again votes with their asses, it’s likely George will soon be back to doing Jack in the Box adverts.
Prediction: Master P will last at least a couple more weeks. :mad:
I swear, the guy did nothing but walk, no, make that tromp up and down the floor. At least last week he did a couple of skipping steps.
The only hopeful note: this debacle will at least force the show to revamp their judging system. Maybe add a second week worth of the judges scores, like 1/3 the rank you got from the judges last week, 1/3 the rank you get from the judge this week, and 1/3 the rank from the people’s vote last week.
Oh, no! I didn’t realize it was on tonight. Can anyone give me a rundown?
StG
He so resembled Frankenstein’s Monster, but that’s an insult to Boris Karloff, who was much more animated than the P-ster!
Tonight I went on the ABC site for the first time, & read the message board. Disturbingly, there are some people who seem to think that they have to vote for P because his votes are so low. At first I thought it was just trollishness, but it appears to be a simple reaction to what they see as excessive abuse by the judges. :smack: :eek: :smack:
I thought last week, if the judges really want P gone, they should give him inaccurately high scores, say second from the bottom, for a couple of weeks. Then the vote to counter them may die down enough for him to vanish.
The sad thing is, between Hamilton’s tomfoolery, & Bruno & Len arguing, we don’t really need p for comic relief.
Free Ashly Del Grosso!
This is the first time I’ve watched this show, and I’m sorry to say I wasn’t really impressed. Oh well, not everything’s for everyone. But what in the bloody hell was that stomping creature P person? Why on earth did he even sign up for this show if he was going to show his partner, the audience and the producers so much disrespect? Good lord, what a jackass.
Someone should’ve reminded him about Hall of Famer and fellow wide receiver, Lynn Swan, who attributed so much of his football success to his early ballet training that he started a scholarship fund for kids to attend the renowned Pittsburg Ballet Theater. Nice guy, though, and his dancing did bring a smile to my face.
Word. That’s the factoid I hope convinces whoever is voting for him to knock it off. That’s what? One afternoon per dance? Way to show the kids in the hood how to achieve their dreams, fella.
What’s the deal with the music on this show. If I were the band director at the beginning of every episode you’d hear “And let’s say hello to our band, led by the wonderful Alan Smithee!” The music performances are ok, but the singing is atrocious. And the selections? Between the Rocky theme last week and the GOB theme this week ('The Final Countdown for you non-Arrested Dev fans), my ears seem to be producing more wax than usual in a futile attempt to block their sensitive canals from the hot mess trying to invade them. Not a moment too soon, with the Pussycat Dolls coming tomorrow night.
Speaking of which, I mentioned earlier that the local ABC Station (WFAA-TV) wasn’t showing the results show this week, opting to air some show about kids struggling with disease or something. I emailed the programming deptartment there, and they responded saying that they had planned on showing that program during the 7 o’clock hour, but ended up moving it to 8:00 PM, pre-empting ‘Injustice’ instead. So the good news is we get to see the show. The bad news, of course, is the fact that I cared enough about a dancing reality TV show to email a station about it.
I think I liked Drew the best this week. He seems like a genuinely good guy and definitely seems to be jumping in to this thing with both feet. Same goes for everyone except P-duddy for that matter.
And I have to mention that Tom Bergeron has won me over. Either he has some good writers feeding him lines or he’s pretty quick on his feet, but he’s been pretty funny the last couple episodes. Loved the crack about Master P-U promoting his album. 
Paso Doble:
I think I just don’t like this dance very much. Of the ones today, Drew’s was best - but I never need to see a Paso Doble to Thriller again. I hated Lisa & Louie’s choreography, but she did a good job of it. George could go if it weren’t for the horror that is Master P. I loved today with ABC doing everything short of saying “For the love of all that is holy, DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN!” with the stats about his lack of practice and showing Ashly saying “he’s not practicing.” I think they wanted to drive in the point that he isn’t trying. He’s not giving anything. At the very least, he could put on appropriate clothing. (This week, he looked like he was dressed badly for the jive. Of course, that was last week where he failed to do that as it was too hard then.)
Foxtrot:
I really don’t want to like Stacy, but she and her partner looked lovely doing the foxtrot. Fred & Ginger-y. (Not that level, of course). After that Tia and then Jerry. Who is not very good. But charming and trying. Really trying.
At least you emailed – I actually called and talked to a person once to inquire about whether an Apprentice episode was preempted – hoping like hell the person in the next cubicle wasn’t listening. 
BTW – I’m actually a Tom Bergeron fan. He emceed the Whoopi Goldberg Hollywood Squares and he really is that fast on his feet. Funny guy.
And Amarinth – I totally agree on the show’s producers finally trying to make it clear how little P deserves to be on the show – and hope that by being that specific about the amount of time he’s given – or hasn’t given – to the show he’s proven to be Not Worthy.
As foolsguinea so succinctly put it – Free Ashley Del Grosso!
For the record, of my three votes, I gave Drew two and Tia one. She’s improved a lot. I thought Stacey was pretty meh last night – she didn’t seem too into it.
The past two weeks, I saw zero energy from P. And this observation comes from a guy who has extreme difficulty reading body language! The judges are right, he needs to go for his own sake.
When P was asked about his low effort in hours he practices, he completely dodged the question. That’s no way, IMnshO, to get popular votes.
I considered Drew’s, Stacy’s, and George’s dances to be very entertaining. I hope George pulls his act together to earn solid 8s and 9s next week.
I compared him to Frankenstein’s monster earlier in the thread. But yeah, he’s really not as graceful or animated as the monster. He was probably more like a mannikin.
What ticks me off is that it is so obvious that he isn’t even trying but people keep feeling sorry for him and voting for him. Don’t feel sorry for him, he doesn’t care. I think his only interest in the show is as self-promotion “if they just buy my album …”. Props to the interviewer for cutting him off when he started that.
The episode where they showed him play basketball showed he could be fast on his feet and do more fancy footwork if he wanted to, but he doesn’t want to. 20 hours compared to over 100?! C’mon people how many more hints do you need?
All the other stars were working hard, really trying, learning and enjoying themselves. He’s done none of that. It’s really a shame that any one else has had to leave before him.
Earlier this week, DC101’s morning show had Tom Bergeron on as a phone guest. And Bergeron was really candid about the show, and especially P.
He dislikes P, the judges loathe him, and the other contestants (despite their on-camera “we’re all a big family” schtick) look at him as the drunk borderline-pedophiliac uncle they all try to avoid. Bergeron also likened P to the kid on the playground who takes away the kickball everybody is playing, the way that his level of suckitude just casts a pallor over the rest of the contestants.
And I hate to say it, since he does seem cut from the sleazy-smooth-Wink-Martindale school of television game show hosting, but Bergeron actually does seem like a pretty funny comedian (when he’s not tethered to Americas Lamest Home Videos).
I was glad to see Lisa Rinna get high marks this week. I’ve been impressed with her from the start, but she’s been in the shadow of Drew and of Stacey the entire season so far. I think the final will be the boy band member (shock that he’s had some previous dance training) and the wrestler who started out in entertainment as a football cheeleader (no dance training required there at all!). But I’d love to see the cosmetically enhanced MILF give them a run for their money.
Was George there again? I thought he was eliminated last week? Have I totally lost my mind? (Never mind - that’s a rhetorical question)
StG
No, we said good-bye to the lovely Giselle Fernandez last week. Does it all come back now?
That’s exactly what I feared would happen after last week’s show. The judges need to tone it down and just let their scores do the talking. Even I felt bad for Master P last week and his level of suckage was palpable. Just let him get voted off tonight.
I thought Stacy’s dance was elegant, but I agree that I’ve seen one leg extension too many from her.
I didn’t care for the music (“Final Countdown”) to Lisa’s routine. She did okay, but I thought Lachey and Tia did better.
I really enjoyed Lachey and their homage to the Thriller video. They really enjoy dancing and it shows.
I thought Tia did a wonderful job. I thought her scores would be higher.
George Hamilton does as good as he can with his limitations.
Master P
George Hamilton
Lisa Rinna
Tia Carrere
Stacy Kiefer
Drew Lachey
Can anyone explain the Webster joke? That flew right over my head.
Back in the mid '80s, when MJ was doing the first incarnation of weirdness, he’d appear at red carpet events dressed in sequins, one glove, and shades, with Brooke Shields as his date and Webster (what’s that little dude’s name?) carried along on his hip like Paris Hilton’s chihuahua.
No, really.