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Katee & Joshua and Mark & Chelsie were the best of the night. I don't love everything Mia Michaels does (I thought last year's Neil & Lacey dead father routine was overrated), but this one was really, really good. My only disappointment was Chelsie's poufy dress -- at one point, it looked like Mark was throwing around a giant bath puff. And Even though Katee's "hip hop" solo started off shaky bordering on embarassing, the rest of the routine was great. Which was surprising since the choreographers also created the worst routine of the night. Speakng of which...

Ravyn & Jamie looked like Sesame Street Live! out there -- it was such an awful way to kick off the night. I was sooo appreciative of Dan's unkind remarks because Nigel and Mary (who's starting become the Paula of the show) were too busy patting the new choreographers on the back to make incisive comments. Just about the worst hip hop routine I've ever seen on this show, and that's saying a lot (the hip hop routines on this show usually suck balls).

OTOH, the lacing that Gev & Courtney (aka Casey Affleck & Jeanne Tripplehorn) got from Nigel seemed to come from nowhere. Courtney was a bit slow in her spins, but I'm not sure what Nigel was watching considering it was much better than at least three other performances he praised.

Also below par was Marquis & Susie's waltz. Not only was it boring and passionless, they totally screwed up the last lift. No Nigel, we all noticed. I mean, it was very obvious.

The one routine I just didn't get was Twitch & Kherington's Jazz routine. He wasn't doing anything like jazz dancing (he didn't look like anything other than a hip hop dancer, and the sneakers didn't help), and they never danced in unison or did anything that made it look like anything other than two people fumbling around. The uniform praise was a big head scratcher. I didn't see anything out there that was worthy of any praise, and it was strictly bottom three material for me.

And while you can fault Comfort for not being technical enough, at least she didn't look like she was doing hip hop like Twitch. And at least it was entertaining. Comfort goes from fug to foxy and back to fug again in nothing flat. Weird. I think "Comfort-Tree Inn" is a better nickname than "Twitchington".

Thayne & Chelsea lost out to William and Jessica for best routine choreographed by Gary Shandling and Bette Midler. Now, had they paired William and Chelsea together, they would shit all over most of the other dancers.

Matt (aka Astro Boy) and Kourtni (aka Fugly Uma) looked like they were doing some sort of Vegas magic show. Just overly cheesy and superficial. Matt looked like Lance Burton out there.

But if you ask me what the worst thing about the night was, that's easy -- the camera work was F*CKIN' AWFUL! It looks like they got the same director from Idol who swoops around incessantly and whites out the screen by pointing the camera directly into the lights. Motherf*cker, stay the f*ck put! They're dancing -- just zoom out and in sometimes. Unecessary, distracting, amateurish, and at times nauseating.