Does Tadd have ballroom experience? He certainly has a lot of general training.

Melanie and Marko are just adorable.

The stream died for exactly the duration of their dance. Wah.

Pssst, Mary -- If you are wearing so much make up that I can see the tear track through your face powder, you might want to dial it back a little.

And she's so spray-tanned ALL OVER. Freaks me out.

Sasha is also adorable.

That last routine was incredible, but I kept worrying the bars were going to fall over.

I was kind of annoyed that they made her wear a garter, but didn't do anything with it.

My bottom - Ricky & Ryan, Missy & Wadi (although I love them both), Iveta & Nick (although they were good, audiences don't like Bollywood) Could also be Clarice & Jess.

I sat on my couch all day and literally watched every episode so far of SYTYCD so I'd be caught up for tonight. Good day.

My three favorite couples tonight, I think, were Caitlynn & Mitchell, Melanie & Marko, and Sasha & Alexander. But everyone was good!! I also really like Nick, but Iveta has always annoyed me in all three seasons she's auditioned for, and I really can't put my finger on why. However, I am a sucker for Bollywood routines, so that was fun.

I think this is going to be a pretty solid season.

Well crap my computer froze and the stream kept freezing so I didn't get to watch the woodpeckers or anything after that.

Top 20, Take Two. Still salty about having twenty of these fools to keep up with!

Paired dance ins? Umm, no. I don’t like. Sasha/Alex and Caitlyn/Mitchell did the best. Ashley and Chris and Ryan/Ricky were awful. Miranda/Robert were pretty great, too. Iveta is killing that dress. I want to see individual dance ins. Boo.

Cat in yellow lace? Totally shouldn’t work but it does because she is magic. Magic in a yellow doily.

Debbie Reynolds!!! Oh my god, Debbie Reynolds!!! Bow down! I can’t even. I just. Wow. Yay. Oh my word. No words. I wanna hear what Debbie has to say about hip hop.

And damn, the bitch could dance. That’s the good shit right there, y’all.

Ricky and Ryan/Jazz/Mandy/Addicted to Love – I don’t think Ryan can do sexual tension. I don’t think she can do anything other than smiley. Her sex face in rehearsals is tragic. Addicted to Love. Oh, Mandy Moore. So stuuck in the 80s. God love her. Ricky is trying to serve and play to Ryan and Ryan is playing to the crowd. Her body is doing the right moves, but I don’t think she’s looked at him once. Even when she’s in a simple move like sitting on his thigh. His face is right there. Look at him! And now neither one is even looking at the other. The technique on both of them is sick, but they might as well have been doing side by side solos for all the interaction they had. Ricky did about seventeen triple turns in that routine and each one was more fierce than the last. What is that on Ryan’s breast? Super distracting. And Mary is at her most orange. So sad that they keep trying to sell this girl and she doesn’t have the it thing. Are they just not gonna deal with the fact that they never even looked at each other throughout the whole routine. I have nothing to say about it. I’ll have forgotten it by the end of the first commercial break. Competent and forgettable.

Caitlyn/Mitchell/Stacey Tookey/Contemporary/Turning Tables – And Mitchell continues to hate on unattractive people. He and I would get along so well. He’s hilarious. “ You ain’t ‘posed to say that on television.” Ha! Chairs, lamps and props. Oh, my. Excellent musical choice. Pretty from the very start. Controlled yet a sense of abandon. Nice entrance into that lift on his shoulders out of the chair. That’s a lot harder than it looks. And that leap into his arms and then she’s pushing down on his head? The leap over the chair? And then the mirrored individual work? All so challenging and all executed so, so well. Nicely synchronized and then the call back and repeating choreo at the end when they return to the chairs? That was very good choreography from Stacey. There was a lot going on. And I agree with Mary, very good partnership between the two. Cat to the rescue with the kleenex? Adorbs. She’s the best host on TV. Blood on the dance floor literally. That’s the way I like it!

Wadi/Missy/Jean Marc/Cha Cha/Cannibal - Jean Marc. Yay! When he brings it he reallly brings it. I loved watching him try to teach Wadi how to move those hips. Right at the start, Missy is doing quite well. Wadi is lacking in the hip action and in the carriage. His frame is really really bad. And he has pancake hands and really terrible arm placement. And as the dance goes on, Missy’s hip action is falling apart, too. She’s moving her feet, but not her hips. The lift was nice. The whole last half of the dance you could just see them lose steam and kind of start praying for it to be over. Also, that was not even the hardest Cha Cha Jean Marc’s done for the show. It was so slow. Agreed with Nigel, the Wadi’s lift were fine but actually dancing . . . not so much. Mary gives such good technical critiques in ballroom. I love it. Debbie is a dirty old woman. Wadi? Two weeks in, and I’m still unimpressed.

Iveta and Nick dressed like Princess Jasmine and Aladdin? I’m already skeerid.

Iveta/Nick/Bollywood/Nakul Dev Mahajan/Baawre - You are a sexy beast, girl! Work those leopard pants. And did she just say he has chicken legs? Cause that’s just funny. No Bollywood has ever reached the heights of that first Katee/Josh one. Let’s see what happens. Nice backbend there, Nick. He just kind of always turns it out. I gotta say I am still loving me this tall, pale ass white boy. They seemed to be doing OK. They were together for the most part. She’s a little manic, though, and as the routine went on, she started to get sometimes a little late on her moves. And he seems to be sharper, crisper in some way. And I’m sorry, they are just a poorly matched pair. She is spray tan orange and he is pasty white. She still looks like his mother. And they just don’t fit. I thought the routine was fine. He was stronger than she was. The judges cannot say one specific thing that they liked about this couple. Debbie has taken to talking about how excited she is to be on the show rather than even try to offer a critique. I can easily see them hitting the bottom.

Robert/Miranda/NappyTab/Hip Hop/Break Ya Neck – So it was a Hulkamania t-shirt? Oh, that is so sad. A woodpecker? Oh, for fuck’s sake. They are just . . . I’m so tired. Why are they still here? Miranda is breaking it down. Oh my word. Go ahead and get it, girl. This is actually really good if you take away the ridiculous back story. Aw, she missed the flip, but she covered really well and that doesn’t take away from the fact that she is funky, funky, hitting it hard ridiculous. And still throwing flips off the stage, what? I didn’t even watch him at all. The cancer has made Mary wise. Miranda was on another level in that routine. And so I guess we see why they “pulled” hip hop this week, right Nigel?