This was seriously the lamest season of ABDC ever. I was happy with the winners given the group of contestants they had, but honestly, the winners would've been middle of the pack in any of the previous seasons. AfroBorike making the finals was a joke. Setting aside arguments about whether they were hip-hop enough, they just weren't very good even in their own genre. I've definitely seen better salseros and stronger afro-latin infused dancers. They got over on putting the girls in skimpy costumes and being stank and nasty in almost every single routine they choreo'd. Shane's favorite move? Yeah, no. In addition to the stankitude, it wasn't even done well. All out of synch and those boys couldn't even really grind half as well as the kids in Massive Monkeys and they were B-Boys, for crying out loud! Ewww. No.

Anyway, I would've switched out AfroBorike for Rhythm City. They were a clean crew and they usually had very crisp, if not overly imaginative, choreography. I totally agreed with my fictional boy band husband, JC, when he went to the mat for them over Massive Monkeys against Shane and Lil Mama. I also loved Vogue Evolution and thought Lil Mama sandbagging them by jumping on Leomiy for being a diva was ten different flavors of wrong. I sincerely hope they turn up some better crews for the next season because this group just was not on point.

Maybe I shouldn't have watched the entire season in one long marathon?

Anyway, I would've switched out AfroBorike for Rhythm City. They were a clean crew and they usually had very crisp, if not overly imaginative, choreography.

I liked that RC tended to tell stories with their choreography. Each dance was a little tale all its own--very refreshing to see.

Vogue Evolution was terrific in its own way, but all those flailing arms tended to be too frenetic with the faster paced music (they needed slower songs), and they needed to be stronger on their feet. Leomi nailed the splits and other terrific fall-to-the-floor moves, but the others didn't stand out in their dance skills to me.

I was amazed at how well VE did in the group number with We Are Heroes and Donyelle's group. They turned that choreography out. I think they can all dance very well, even though I'd best most of them are not trained dancers. The thing with them was that vogueing is flail-y like that, especially in that whole ball scene. It really is kind of controlled chaos. And it is definitely not a crew type atmosphere. Even when they are competing for their House in the ball scene, it's really still about individual competition and self expression. I mean, they don't do choreographed group routines as such, or at least not from what I've seen. But I get what you are saying about the flail of it all. I just adored them, though. I'm still salty that We Are Heroes got Madonna's Vogue performance as their iconic VMA moment to recreate the week after VE was voted off. Really, show? Really? Way to kick a queen when she's down.

I like the gay brothers and the 2 friends where one has Asbergers, and the father son team.

These are my favorites.

I'm already tired of the weight-lifting lawyer and the poker chicks. Too many screechy couples again.

Yes. I hated Tiffany Michelle at the World Series of Poker and she hasn't improved here. I was happy to see their stupid story didn't last long. I knew somebody would eventually recognize her.

ABDC:

I'm still salty that We Are Heroes got Madonna's Vogue performance as their iconic VMA moment to recreate the week after VE was voted off. Really, show? Really? Way to kick a queen when she's down.

I KNOW!

But yeah, all that being said, given the choices I'm glad that Heroes won. I agree that those shouldn't have been the final two, though. I would have put Rhythm City and probably Massive Monkeys in there.

TAR: Yay, TAR! I can die happy now that I've seen Harlem Globetrotters herding geese across a bridge.

That wasabi challenge was mad! That was a dang lot of wasabi. I was shouting to the SO in the other room that whole scene. I would have rocked that challenge, though. I would have been all, okay, this is my food challenge! I mean, c'mon, free sushi!

I would not have rocked the next bit, though. I would definitely have been lost. It's kinda crazy to have them in an Asian country right away where they can't even get contextual clues from the alphabets. But I am lousy at big crowd navigation like that.

Glad the poker chicks got seen through right away. "I know exactly who you are." Hee.

It's early to know who I'll like, but it's clear who I don't, and all of them were up for elimination at some point during this show, so good on the show. It's just too bad which leg turned out to be non-elim.

Oh, and re: couple knocked out. Dontcha just love it when the guy spends the whole leg talking about how his partner has a short temper, which we did not see, and then totally explodes with the mad himself? Ah, irony.

A thought on "DwtS":

Just remember kids: a vote for Kathy Ireland is a vote against Tom DeLay. They both suck, but which one do you want on your TV screen next week?

I loved We Are Heroes They set the stage on fire. LITERALLY! I could not have loved them more in that moment.

I HATED AfroBorike. I thought that their moves were misogynistic, and I hate all non African Americans with dreadlocks. And he had the nerve to dye them blonde! And not touch up the roots.

I lost some respect for Shane for complimenting the hateful "hold the girls by the back of the neck and grind on them" move.

I lost some respect for Shane for complimenting the hateful "hold the girls by the back of the neck and grind on them" move.

Yeah, but consider the source -- Shane, who never saw a woman shaking her ass in his face that he didn't drool over.

Is Top Chef a rerun this week? It looks like it from when I tried to find it to record this week. If so, anyone know why?

Tom Collichio hair transplant went awry.