Picture how it would have gone down if the Globetrotter's had arrived while Canaan was trying to muscle her down the slide and she was screaming "help me, help me!" I'm guessing they'd have responded quite differently.

I agree. And the waterpark guy looked very much like he would have loved to be anywhere else in that moment.

Oh, Russell!

SYTYCD!!!!!

Love the new set. Cat looks twelve different kinds of fabulous. I love Shankdaddy on the permanent judge panel. Paula can come rain crazy on this show any time she wants to. That Wade piece was gorgeous. The hip hop boys are better than what they were given. That said, I love me some Russell and Kevin.

I don't even have any words yet for that Tyce contemporary. Ariana was a dream, and Nathan's turn sequence was one of the best since the days of Danny. But Jakob. Jakob is . . . no words. That kid is the truth.

Which one is Jakob?

The hip hop boys are better than what they were given.

I think that NappyTab is incredibly overrated.

I know I have permanent Bianca hate goggles on because I just cannot get past how stank she was when she didn't make the show last season, but I just felt like she got outdanced in that tap number. There were moments when she was literally standing on the stage making the come hither fingers while P&P tapped circles around her. Philip was everything I expected, smooth and polished. His tapping is very old school, kind of Nicholas brothers. I was surprised how much I liked Peter! He was personality plus in that routine and his set was crazy.

I felt the Ellanore/Pauline/Mollee jazz lacked something. Those girls can do more than what they were asked to do. It was very powerful and there were some beautiful moments. All three girls on the double turns early in the routine were lovely and centered. And Ellanore had a nice moment with that extension coming out of a single turn. To turn and then hold that extension like she did is incredibly difficult. I wanted more out of the routine, though. And the wardrobe hos? Still on that monkey crack.

I'm really glad I can now keep just the good parts of these shows and string them together into one long best-of episode.

I thought the costumes kinda overpowered the girls. You couldn't really see them for all that ... ruffles and stuff.

I went to see who Jakob was and found out about the spoiler thing which is a bummer (the actual issue not that I was spoiled)

I was really squicked by Bianca's outfit in the challenge. I question the taste level of whoever picked it out. The pants didn't fit well, they hung low in the crotch, and the top was kind of hootchie.

I like the idea of an opening night where everyone gets to dance in their style. Hopefully this will mean they will really get random dance styles when they are actually competing.