Yes, Vegas! I'm already shocked about some and happily surprised for others.

And, you know, in love with Cat all over again.

Tyce, for all that is holy, CLOSE YOUR DAMNED MOUTH.

Man, Vegas can be heartbreaking.

Yeah, it's rough.

I'm still confused about how this season is going to work. Didn't they say Fox cut the results show?

They'll have to do audience votes at the start of the next week's show, no? Or just judges' decisions same-night.

I'm surprised every time they say his name that Adrian Lee is white, and I'm bummed he's out.

But it's supposed to be America's favorite dancer, so eventually the public has to vote, right?

Love the attitude of the Dragon House kid (Cyrus?): "I need to go ahead and step my game up. Apparently there’s another level of hard that I ain’t working and I need to get there."

I confess to being a skippy skipper who skips. Sorry, Vortex. I should've known the Buffistae would be up on Peanut's show.

bon, you and bob bob should come watch SYTYCD with me one night. I will provide the wine and snappy commentary.

Vegas! But only one night in the bright light city? That's unpossible. Why, in the good old days, we used to get basically one night per choreography round. And for what? To watch Cat cast her pearls before swine on that twirly chair, D-list celeb dating show? Feh.

Where to begin? Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

Peanut, Twitch and Comfort choreographing routines for the Vegas audition rounds made me so, so happy. Awww, look at our SYTYCD babies. All grown up! And since we can barely get two hours to cover the several days the kids and judges spend in Vegas, we didn't get to see all that much of any one routine, but on the real? That hip hop routine looked like . . . real hip hop. I think I need to sit down. I caught the vapors. I will put up with almost any ridiculous changes to the show's format this year if we can rid ourselves of the NappyTab regime. Long live Twitchfort . . .ummm, Comfitch? Long live Twitch and Comfort! Death to the celebrity portmanteau!

Miss Debbie Allen also makes me so, so happy. I was even kinda glad to see ol' Tasty (although if he really doesn't want to come off like a bitch, well, that train has already left the station) Lil' C looked passing strange without his glasses. Much like CeeLo, he is a man who should always be bespectacled. I was so pleased to see the return of Jason Gilikson, more even than Sonya, who is becoming increasingly self referential.

Most excited to see? Cat Deeley. Always. Y'all, Cat is such an amazing host. Did you see her with Cyrus after he made it through the ballroom round? And really anything with Cyrus and Cat was delightful. Well, that's in large part because Cyrus is delightful. I mean, this kid! So talented and still humble, hungry to learn and grow, thankful for the opportunity, soaking it all in and just radiating joy. And you can tell that all the other dancers adore him. Kids, Cyrus is love!I would vote for him a million, million times, you know, if I voted.

I feel like I didn't even catch all of what happened tonight. There seriously was just way too much going on, so my highly impressionistic take on tonight's show starting with who got the boot:

Booted and I was sad about it

Hampton Williams/Exorcist - Technically, he didn't get booted, he left. But I was still sad to see him go. Still, I had to respect that he recognized that the choreography was too much for him and he was incredibly respectul and classy going in front of the judges to withdraw. And they were great with him. Y'all, picking up choreography is really, really hard. Some really great dancers could just never be pros because it takes them too long to get choreography. It really doesn't have a ton to do with how talented you are (once you are at a certain level, at least). Here's what happens when a truly untrained dancer tries to pick up advanced choreography (even in his own style) . . . so that puts the lie even further to Nigel's whole untrained dancer storylines for the likes of Russell and Joshua. It just will not happen for you on a show like this if you are truly just a "street dancer" (witness what happened to Shafeek during the jazz round). I hope this kid spends the next year getting into classes and then comes back to the show because he is crazy talented.

Danielle Dominguez - And here's where the show teaches us a valuable life lesson - never help anyone when your ass is on the line. Thanks, Danielle! But seriously, what a tough, tough break. She was doing really well. I don't know that she'd have made the show, but to go out because another dancer injured you while you were doing him a favor by partnering him in a round which you'd already gotten passed through and then as a result of that to lose valuable rehearsal time on group (continued...)