The judges are smoking crack. The voguer should NEVER have been put through. WTF.

TCM:

STUPIDEST. CHALLENGE. EVER!! And that's saying something for this fucking show.

OMG, really? ROBIN ANTIN on the judges panel? I mean, I admit, I watched "Search for the Next Pussycat Doll" because I am a sucker, but...yeesh.

I watched SYTYCD last week, but aside from the very first girl they put through and the second hip hop dude, I was underwhelmed. The black girl and the blonde with the Kate Gosselin hair are candidates for repeated ass whipping.

As for tonight, well, Robin Antin! Oh my god. I just died a little bit and went to heaven. I loved the cheese that was The Search for the Next Pussycat Doll. Please, please please let her choreograph for the show this season. And let her bring Christopher.

Auditioners so far:

Devon McCullough and Michael Clark – Steppers? Huh. That’s not really dance. It’s allso much better with more people. That said, these boys are for serious steppers. That was hot. Mary looks insane. What is up with that choker? Somebody please take her away from the hoochie stores. I’ll be interested to see if these boys can actually dance.

China Smith – Obssessed with the show. Get in line missy. Name dropper. I dislike her already. She makes me dislike Pocatello, Idaho. Shit. She can dance. Those isolations are fierce. She did a lot by doing very little. Not a ton of penche or crazy shaky pirouttes. Only one flip. I enjoyed her a lot. Very grounded. Very powerful. Hate her personality. Love her dancing. Annie Gratton(?) – Why do we have to hear whose with these kids? I don’t care. She’s a total competition kid. Nothing finished. Nothing polished. Evertything for effect. That double piroutte was as wobbly as a weeble. She has no control over the talent that she clearly has. She’s all attack, no subtlety. I liked her dad better. Take that.

Dancer Montage: Lace leotard, yes. Blue shorts, no. green lime no. Robin Anton, this is not an audition for the pussy cat dolls. Stop.

Tag Gaddung – That whole one arm section? Insane. He’s adorable. Very charming. I think he’s more a charmer than he was a dancer, but OK. Straight to Vegas? Well, I probably wouldn’t have, but we’ll see.

Samantha Hillier – I don’t care about you or your mono or your amnesia. Can you dance? Alright then. Bring it. Another competition kid. And not even a good one. No connection between her moves. Those turns are atrocious. She’s mediocre at best. I don’t think they’d even let her into an elite level competition. Thank god they are bringing it to her on the real. Lines need to improve, Robin, you are right. And a lot else, too. Why send her through to choreo? She’s not good enough to make this show. Waste of time. Even if she makes it to Vegas, she’s total fodder.

Choreo round: The stepper with the ponytail kinda turned it out. Will be interesting to see what he can do in Vegas. So glad they did not send Samantha through.

Dear, Will. Not everyone can rock the dreads. Love, me. Chase Thomas – Why are you naked? Good god, man. He’s a gorgeous dancer, though. All long limbs and stretch. Needs to work on his center more. He’s a little bit tipsy tumbles when he goes into releve. He’s lovely on the floor, though.

Boy Dancer montage: Love sweat pants guy with the tour en le’aire. Love red glasses guy. Love baseball t-shirt guy. Good times.

Brittany Morgan Starr – I refuse.

Choreo with no one we even saw because apparently we needed to spend minutes of our precious show with some delusional white girl and her cracked out father. Eww.

I don’t know about Cat’s new hairdo. Too flat? Too blonde? Something is not working for me.

yes, this is a stupid challenge. and why are we seeing so much of hugh?

New York

Jason Gilkinson. Yay. I like him.

Princess Lockeroo – Groove is in the Heart was long ago and we already have a Lady Miss Kier so please try to work a new style. So, you invented whacking? Girl, some queen is going to come along and break you off something. You’re not fierce, mama and you surely didn’t invent what you just did up there on that stage. And Nigel, if you think she created that? You need to go see Paris is Burning. Immediately.

Brandon Jones – Oh my word. Gorgeous, this boy. Such control and pretty, pretty spins and leaps. I think I don’t like his hands, they are kind of lazy and thrown away, but that was the only thing. Don’t care about the dead daddy. Who doesn’t have one, seems like? Definitely think he could make the show. Kids like him don’t win, though. Dancer montage: Love green shirt, black skirt girl. Plaid shirt boy? Love him, too. The other kid, eh. He didn’t make much of an impression on me, but who knows.

Brian Henry – Get it gully? You cannot be hard when you repeat a phrase once uttered in a JLo song. I kind of love that he took it to Nigel on the whole “Krump is violent thing” though. Somebody had to do it. And kid can dance. That’s how it’s done. Krump as praise dance? That popped up on ABDC, too. What is this? The thing with Mary was weird because there’s just a culture clash there. It’s just a difference in how they communicate. And it’s fair to send him to do choreo. Lots of street dancers can’t hang.

Mary Kate Sheehan – Irish step dancing. It surely seems hard, but I’m wondering if she can do other stuff as well. That was gorgeous, what she did. Hope she can do choreo because those split leaps were phenomenal.

Lil O Gadson - Such a cutie and he’s dancing to Mark music. Dobule fun. Create is such a great song. And he threw the little pirouette in there at the end. Alright, I see you big daddy. He was a tiny bundle of fabulousness. And by tiny, I mean tiny. I’m trying to picture him partnering someone and failing spectacularly. Hard to get around that on this show.

Choreo: Brian did better than I thought he would. Mary Kate turned it out. Go Irish stepper. Awww, they made the big bad krumper cry. He will not make the show. Bet.

Jess Lopretto – Oh, no. Do we need another Kasparzak moment? Umm, no. We do not. Damn. Yes, we do. We do want a whole hell of a lot more of that. I get what the judges are saying with not selling it as much as he could have, but why put him through to choreo. Clearly, he’ll knock that out.

Kristen Dobson – Her body is sick ridiculous and I want to wear that costume to my next office party. Also, she can dance. Lacks a little hip action for a latin dancer, though. Ah, I see. Only 3 years doing ballroom. Thus the lack of hip action. Well, then, yes. For only 3 years at her craft, she’s tremendous. I’m glad they sent her to do choreo because the ballroom alone was not strong enough to put her straight through to Vegas. Not after the Anyas and Laceys and Chelsies. And what they heck, I’ll throw FP up in the mix.

Ballroom montage: Liked them all. Red dress and Captain Von Trapp were stand outs.

Dancer montages – All yes. Curly red headed black girl? Hell yes.

Robert Taylor, Jr. – If you are 30, you’re too damn old to call yourself the Woo man. It’s not cute. He’s good. Not great, but good. That will get old and he will never even make top 10, but I’m fine to see him go through to Vegas. But seriously? Enough with the woo.

Choreo: So, ballroom girl has clearly done choreo before. I was happy to see both her and Broadway go through. Let’s se what they can do with it.

There’s still no one that I love unreservedly. Where is my Jakob Karr moment? Where’s Alex Wong?

Fear not, Kat, there's still another night of auditions to go! You might yet find your One True Dancer! :)

Seriously, at one point in the show I went "are we going to see ANY ballroom people?" and then they finally did the one, and a superfast montage of the others (but didn't get to meet them). Oy.

And it’s fair to send him to do choreo. Lots of street dancers can’t hang.

They sent Russell to choreo, and then he ended up taking a few classes before Vegas, where he really turned it out.

He was a tiny bundle of fabulousness. And by tiny, I mean tiny. I’m trying to picture him partnering someone and failing spectacularly. Hard to get around that on this show.

Exactly what I was thinking. He's going to be harder to pair off than Evan was.

There’s still no one that I love unreservedly. Where is my Jakob Karr moment? Where’s Alex Wong?

As much as I preferred this week's batch of auditions over last week's, I still don't see any of these going onto my "Best of" dvd at the end of the season.

TCM - I agree that was just dumb. And I don't know why they can't just let these guys cook.

They sent Russell to choreo, and then he ended up taking a few classes before Vegas, where he really turned it out.

He clearly had years of training -- he's a dance major, and went to arts high school -- they sent him to choreo because he did a hip-hop audition. He didn't win because of the training between auditions and Vegas.

ETA: of course, the show implied that he had no training. But that was obviously false.