Emmanuel Lewis. I had to explain that to Wash since they apparently didn’t get the Michael Jackson weirdness on the other side of the pond.
Well, in case anyone missed the hour-long fill…I mean, results show, as expected, P and Ashly are out. Gotta say that lengthy video sendoff at the end had the distinct flavor of Michael Corleone giving Fredo the kiss of death.
Oh, and if the Pussycat Dolls didn’t have quite enough cheese factor for one’s rarified tastes, you’re in for a real treat next week: ladies and gentlemen…Barry Manilow!!
I’m so happy!
:dance dance dance:
Thank someone!
Barry Manilow. Egad, didn’t think he was still alive.
I trust he will sing “Copacabana”, or however that should be spelled.
Yay to no more P! He was an embarrassment to the show, himself, his partner, the audience…
'Bout damn time!
(They played “Another One Bites the Dust” during their farewell dance? Count me in hysterics! :))
I’m hoping Drew or Lisa will be the ultimate winner. George is a lot of fun, and so’s Jerry, but Drew and Lisa have the verve and the chops. (It’s extremely unlikely that my biggest wish will come true, and Stacy will miraculously be voted off or completely blow a dance. I don’t think she should even be on the show in the first place – former cheerleader? Dance training since she was three years old? CHEATER CHEATER!)
Considering she’s had all that dance training, you’d think she’d do more than pose. She barely dances. It’ll be interesting to see what she does next week when she actually has to move her feet so quickly she doesn’t have time to leeeeean back and exteeeeend her leg.
Yay!
I was out tonight, and forgot to tape … did he say anything obnoxious?
Yay!
I guess there listing “hours practiced” stats made it clear he didn’t give a shit – and if he doesn’t give a shit, why should we?
Plus, next week they start doing two dances per week each – that’ll be fun, esp. since they’ve gotten rid of the last non-dancer.
I also loved during the closing interview when the host said to him, “I think that’s the longest you’ve gone this whole show without a plug!”
Well, I don’t recall the specific words, but to my recollection he made reference to the judges being ‘unfair’ to him pretty much every time the mic got within ten feet of him. These statements were delivered in some sort of bizarre, affected homeboy accent that had Bergeron remarking “I didn’t know we had Rich Little backstage”. At the end of the show they ran at least three different recap vids purporting to show highlights of P’s jolly times, which seemed to consist mostly of scenes of him looking bemusedly at Ashly as she made repeated, futile attempts to break him out of his shell. This was followed by everyone acting all lovey on stage although it was clear it was completely strained and insincere, and a ‘last dance’ that was just as lumbering and elephantine as all those that had come before. Riveting stuff, in a sick sort of way, actually.
Another show I’m kinda following mainly because my mother heard about it and finds it riveting (she’s completely lost interest in American Idol, BTW).
I’m perfectly aware that this is nothing but cheap 'n fun entertainment, and I don’t know a whole lot about any of the contestants, so I’m not too concerned about the results. I think it’s pretty fair, too, at least as these type of contrived contests go. Talk all you want about dancing history or body types; the fact is that when two people perform together in front of a crowd, there’s no telling what will happen. (I guess Jerry Rice would know that better than anybody. 
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One thing that I can really do without are the studio crowd’s incredibly tiresome Pavlovian responses to each and every single thing the judges say. (I honestly wonder if any of these folks have eyes and ears, particularly after supporting Master P no matter what.) This gets old in a big, big hurry. I’m thinking of recording this show just so I can skip over these parts.
Music selection has been okay. I’d like to see a bit more variety, but I’m fully aware that nothing on on network TV game show is going to be radical, and the music also has to fit the dance theme for the night.
This has been passable entertainment so far; should get better now that the hopeless cases have been sent packing.
Well, what the heck are we going to write about now?
I’m sorry Ashly has to go. She was really spunky and did the work of three professional dancers trying to push that rope of a lunk through lessons and performance! But if there’s a “next season” (and I’m sure there will be), she deserves to be partnered with a real contender.
That being said, last night’s results show was painnnnnnfulllly long and drawn out. Oy! I know it’s salable and ABC needs salable programming in prime time, but they’re really going to turn people off with drivel like that. It will be harder and harder to fill the time as the number of contestants dwindles. We certainly don’t need extended interviews with the “departing couples.”
The Pussycat Dolls were very Meh! The salsa dancers were good, but the camera focused too much on the sleazy male vocalist (who WAS that anyway?) and I kind of wished the judges would have analyzed what the salsa dancers did, maybe even in slo-mo so the audience could realize what they had just seen.
I love seeing the professional dancers featured, but we didn’t get enough of Anna and Jonathan while the aforementione PCD were wailing.
Well, I guess I found something to write about. . . .
This week was really a foregone conclusion, if indeed the voting method is 50/50 between the judges and audience.
Master P had 8 points total from the judges. Second lowest had 21. That’s a 13 point spread, over 1.5 times the 8 points that P garnered from the judges (and the female judge’s 4 was very generous and I think given more to Ashly than P). It was far too much of a spread to overcome, however the fan’s votes are combined with the judges*.
*My guess: the team with the highest number of fan votes gets a “fan” score equivalent to their judges score. Everybody else uses that as the curve from which to apply their own.
ie - Drew and scary brunette get the most fan votes, so their 28 from the judges gets doubled to 56. Second place in the fan voting, let’s say Stacey and her man, get 90% of the fan votes that Drew had received. They get 90% of 28 (that is, 25.2) applied to their own judges score of 29 from the judges for a total of 54.2. Showing that the fan vote COULD matter relative to the judge’s vote. And on it goes. P was getting saved because he was getting 80-90% as many votes as the highest teams, so even though he’d be getting 14 from the judges, he’d get 23-25 added to it via the fan score, keeping him safe over people like Giselle Fernandez who don’t have the same fan support, and only get 40% of the highest vote-garnering couple’s amount.
I think I remember from last year that they explained the points evaluation this way: If there are 7 contestants, highest scoring contestant gets 7 points from the judges and remaining contestants get 6,5,4, etc., with lowest scoring contestant getting 1 point. Call-in totals are apportioned the same way. Contestant with highest number of call-in votes gets 7, remaining contestants get 6,5,4, etc., with lowest contestant getting 1 vote. It’s kind of like the old “ordinals” in figure skating. Assigned points are combined, and voila, Master P either goes home or doesn’t.
Does anyone know for sure if they’re still using this method of tallying?
It’s a lot simpler than my guess. (My fiancee’s was nearly identical to mine, except out of a set max of 30 “viewer points” for the highest vote getter, and otherwise playing off the curve out of 30 as described for the rest).
In the method you used above, how do they resolved tied judges votes? Like this week, Drew and Lisa both got the same second place score.
Well, they could either assign both tied contestants the same number ( both get 6 and then 3rd place contestant would get 4 points) or they could add split the total with both tied contestants getting 5.5 and 3rd place contestant getting 4 points.
I haven’t seen that much filler since I went to a Halloween party as Dolly Parton. Thank gawd for DVRs. Commercials, fast forward. Pussy Cat Dolls, fast forward. Master P plugging his next ablum, fast forward. Honestly, I think the end result was about 3 minutes long.
ABC: Do a half hour results show and call it a day.
I am glad that Master P was able to leave on a positive note. I think they tried very hard to give him some dignity there at the end and I’m glad they did.
I cannot believe that more people voted for George Hamilton than Tia. He’s very charming, yes, but he doesn’t do all that much dancing.
Seeing how close Tia and Maksim came to going home, I may actually have to vote next week. George brings the funny, but he’s not dancing much and I’d rather see Tia stay in the competition longer.
Did anyone else crack up when they did that video montage of P taling about the Hood?
Enough!
So glad he is gone!
No, nothing about P made me crack up!