SPOILERS!! DWTS Season 15, Week 4 – Who Got the Boot??
Well, it was an interesting night. Sorta. But….well, not really. π
They put three couples in jeopardy: Apolo/Karina, Bristol/Mark and Kirstie/Maks. Β Now when they put the three lowest couples in jeopardy, I automatically think the low score is going home. Β I don’t know why. There is no rule. I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO BE WRONG. Β π Buh bye, Bristol. Nice knowin’ ya. Now don’t ever darken our dance floor again.
How did us wimen do?? Β Sans Vogue (she’s back tomorrow at some point – thank you baby Jesus), we said:
Heidi said: Kirstie going home with a second choice of Sabrina
Courtney said: Sabrina going home, second choice being Bristol
We were both wrong, but Court got closer. She’s more optimistic than I am. π
I told you guys not to worry about Apolo. And I have to say, Gilles ego will be his downfall in the team dance. Crappy picks. Derek hated the song, but I think Gilles gave him exactly the team he wanted. π
Praise the Lord that Shawn picked Melissa! That made me the happiest viewer watching tonight! I would have to say: Team Gilles has the better song… BUT! Team Shawn hands down has the better choreographers. Does anyone else second that sentiment?? Or is that just me? lol
Gilles’ strategy was totally predictable π
*does a cartwheel*
Thanks for posting this. I’m in Australia on vacation and can’t watch it until I get back to the States and/or someone posts on YouTube. So happy Bristol is gone; I was afraid she’d stick around until the finals again.
It’s about dang time Bristol goes!
Yay Bristol has hung her dancing shoes… And Apolo is SAFE and I swear, Is he 3000 times more sexy than even yesterday!!
I think it’s funny that Peta wanted her boyfriends brother before her boyfriend…..
What’s up with that?
I was scared that Apolo would get the boot. Thankfully that didn’t happen and Bristol got eliminated. Now I’ll be a little less afraid of better dancers leaving. Just a little.
The problem with having the better song? They will rely on it too heavily and bring little to the table.
And what happens when Derek is challenged with a song he doesn’t care for?
Yeahhh. I’m not going to say more. The boy is fallible. Never lost a team dance and there’s a first time for everything.
I just REALLY want Gilles ego to be his downfall.
Re:#6 Well, Kelly is a better dancer than Kirstie, which may be why Peta said to grab them first. Plus, Kirstie was in jeopardy.
I don’t know if Gilles song is actually that good, we already know that they are going to do the horse move and stuff, and Gilles wants to make looks sexy, there is nothing sexy about that song at all. Kristie is not a good dancer, Kelly is good but messy, the choreo is going to be weak, Val and Cheryl in the same team, HOT MESS.
The other team is already much stronger when it comes to actual dance, Shawn, Sabrina and Melissa are great wit lifts and tricks. They can make the dance cute, and this group they are all actually friends unlike the other group. And of course they have Derek, Tony is great with lifts too and Karina and Louis are great together, AWESOME.
I was so wrong about Sabrina going home tonight, and I am happy about it. I guess Bristol’s fan base wasn’t as powerful this time around as they thought. Now, that Gilles…..what is with his arrogance???
Can anyone share what the two songs are?? I couldn’t watch it tonight!
Peta prolly picked Val first, cause he and Kelly are great dancers….Maks is too, but his partner is Kirstie…she tries hard , but no way can she do difficult choreo. LOL, neither team wanted to get stuck with Bristol..thankfully both were spared.
I think one of the reasons (and really, I’m just grabbing at air, I don’t know what went through Derek’s head) that Derek might not be happy with “Call Me Maybe” is how limited the song can lend to a dance? Really, I picture Cha-Cha before Freestyle…plus, he does have the help of 3 other choreographers, but there is always that one pro that takes the lead, and in this case, it’s almost always Derek… So… hmm…
Im excited for this team dance! it’s going to be team comedy vs team dance ability, so accordingly, i think each team got the appropriate song. Im trying to imagine Maks, Emmitt, and kirstie doing gangnam style…how do you even choreograph seriously to that song-that’s going to be a challenge.
gangnam style – team gilles (can you imagine the band with this song, kkkkkkkkk)
Call me maybe – Team Shawn
Woohoo!! Happy dance!! I’m watching the debate because I totally thought someone good would get the boot over Bristol and I just couldn’t watch. Had I known she was being axed I would have clicked over.
I can enjoy my show again!
Team Gilles/Kelly/Kirstie/Emmitt – Gangnam Style
Team Shawn/Melissa/Sabrina/Apolo – Call Me Maybe
Well, Call Me Maybe sucks for a ‘freestyle’ song but I don’t think Gangnam Style is good either. They can make it funny and goofy but I think it could be too goofy of a song to do anything truly great to.
And then their are the Teams – The Best 4 Celeb Dancers and the better pro choreographers on one team?? This is a no-brainer!
Can’t believe how poorly Gilles stacked his team….or wait, maybe I can.
I think Derek can do tons with that song and he picked the perfect team for it – Melissa, Shawn and Sabrina will be perfect for it! And who wouldn’t want Apolo to call you maybe?!? I think Gilles’ song, as C. said, will just be a repeat of what everybody is doing to it. Boring!
Why do I get the feeling that the reason Apolo is put in jeopardy is because he’s getting a lot of votes and TPTB wants people to stick around until the end?
Yep, so happy to be wrong too, I was calling Sabrina to go home. Whew.. there is hope for this season after all. π
Cue Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus”…
Thank GAWD Bristol got the boot! One more week of her whining and “dancing” would have put me over the edge. I think Derek has a great team with Apolo and Shawn and Melissa and he’ll choreograph an amazing dance despite music he’s not crazy about. Can’t wait to see it!
I definitely agree team Shawn is probably going to do great, regardless of the song, but I was kind of with Derek on the song. The heavy pop beat can be a bit overbearing, especially for a freestyle since it’s not fast enough to be impressive, but not slow enough to choreograph around. Should be interesting though!
Isn’t it split with the older celebrities on Gilles’s team and the younger ones on Shawn’s? If so, that is pretty cool.
Well, pretty much all my favorite couples this season made it on to Team Shawn – yay! Overall, I would probably rank Kelly and Val as a favorite over Louis and Sabrina – but that’s mostly because Louis is being annoying. And Sabrina is a good dancer and is very happy to be there.
@mczetting 21: Yes! I’m in agreement with you!
I’m so happy! Bye bye Bristol. Did anyone catch Gilles comment that “I just want my team to be good looking.” I think that team dance is going to be a mess. I can’t stand the song or the dance myself. Derek and his team are going to nail it. They’ll work together and pull off something amazing.
Mark was missing him some Shawn, huh? Cheering and hugging her. Wonder what was going through Bristol’s mind.
I am with Derek on the song. “Call Me Maybe”? Really? But they have the better dancers on their team. Gilles got the better song and they’re probably going to rely on that a lot.
Definately never will be a fan of Gilles, I see. He’s that unlikable. But I must ask…do you think he has a chance of winning this thing? hmm?
Doing my happy dance now the Bristol is gone. With that said I can now say that I am looking forward to the rest of the season and seeing it become a real competition.
Hope no one minds my asking, but was there an encore dance?
I was very perturbed with the Mark that they showed us tonight, in the packages….. On one hand, yes, I am glad that he was happy that one of his former partners (Shawn) is doing so well, but on the other hand, it just felt like showing him cheering for “his girl” the way he was, pretty much put into words and pictures, what Bristol said a couple weeks ago, that she felt he would really prefer Shawn or Sabrina, and really didn’t want to be stuck with her…. No, I really didn’t care for Bristol… Her dancing or her attitude, or… Anything, but still…. There was just…… “Something” that rubbed me wrong about this tonight. It almost made me feel sorry for Bristol, and I don’t really care for her!
Looking forward to the Cheesecake this weekend, I am SURE that PH and C can find some juicy morsels for us! After all, we had Paula Abdul Out-Brunoing Bruno Tonioli! We had Divas, both male and female… We had Tom! Does anyone else watch the show, and see things happen on screen, and think, “I can’t wait til the cheesecake and see what C and PH make of this?”
Mark was so cute with Shawn tonight.
Linn- so true, team shawn has all the young one, shawn 20, sabrina 28, melissa 29, and apolo 30.
I think that Team Shawn, despite a mediocre song, will dance circles around Team Gilles. They have the talent and great choreographers to do so!!! Serves arrogan Gilles right for that wanting a “good looking” team nonsense.. Is he serious???
Not to defend Gilles, but I think Val may have said it, too. Regardless, it’s just kind of a dick thing to say. But hey guys, glad you got your “good looking” team – good luck with the dancing part, you’re gonna need it. And I still think Team Shawn is cumulatively more sesky…He of the Tree Trunk Legs & Firm Hindquarters single-handedly raises the hotness quotient of that team, like, a bajillion times π
I’ve tried to explain numerous times that Bristol’s fanbase isn’t as all powerful as some of you seem to believe. It’s not just Bristol’s fanbase that’s been saving her – but also the relative lack of voting fanbase of the people she’s beaten.
If Team Gilles have any sense they will let Cheryl be their leader. Cheryl is he only one in that team that know one thing or two about team dances, but still no competition , Team Shawn is going to dance in circle around team gilles
I can’t wait for the team dances… Karina, Shawn, Apolo ,Derek and company … they got the moves!!! There are no make-up mirrors on the dance floor.
Actually Gilles said they wanted to make it entertaining but also sexy, but yes not a very good choice of words either way. I’m just having trouble picturing Kirstie dancing to gangnam style, and they will probably play the comedy angle for her, question is will it work or backfire? This will def be interesting next week. Wish the teams could switch songs!
I bet Mark is relieved to be rid of Bristol. He has looked very unhappy the past couple of weeks. Of course, I’ve got the feeling that Bristol is not well liked by the rest of the case.
WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH-HHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! π π π π
It’s 2 weeks and 2 better dancers too late, but FINALLY the pox on our glittery, spray-tanned dancing house have been REMOVED!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, the fat lady was finally singing for Bristol. π
So true, Court, between Mr “3000 times more sexy” (who’s now 30,000 times more sexy to me for being so sweet to Karina-bear) and Derek of the tantalizing treasure-trail, Team Shawn is exponentially more sexy.
It was a good night on all counts *happy sigh*
Funny that I think last night Bristol had her best dance and her least offensive package (not saying much, but still) and that’s when she gets voted off. Maybe her inability to do anything more than the most basic steps or maybe her fans let their guards down because of it, or maybe they swung to help Sabrina cause she was in the bottom two, but whatever it is, thank god.
I’m so happy that Apolo is safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Still sobbing in happiness!
I’m THRILLED w/ the dancers on Team Shawn, even if I think the freestyle song stinks. They’ll do something fabulous anyway!
Right person went home. Yay!
I don’t know if this is a dumb question to ask, but @Courtney, you said Gilles strategy was so predictable? What makes you say that? What was his strategy? (I wasn’t home, so I didn’t see the show tonight and still haven’t watched it). But this team thing is interesting…Team Shawn is going to destroy Team Gilles. Just the lineups are almost unfair.
I’m not that crazy about “Call Me Maybe” either – but Derek knows how to work the music. Look what he did to “Material Girl”. I’m not saying he will slow the song down, but he could change it to be bearable. I think it has more musicality than Gangnam Style. If anyone can take lemons and make lemonade, it’s Derek. He’ll come up with something great. Maybe he will also teach LVA some humility. Hope LVA won’t be a PITA.
I thought Val said he wants the team to be good looking. I think Kelly & Val smoked what Paula had last night. I don’t watch soap operas, but if that’s her acting skills…yikes.
Wonder what Derek said to Shawn when it was their second turn to pick and she shook her head no twice. I wonder if he told her to pick Bristol and Mark figuring he works well with Mark as does Sabrina and Shawn, but the Bristol factor was not worth it. You knew that Peta wouldn’t pick Apolo so Shawn didn’t have to call him first and that way she gets Melissa. I got my dream freestyle team….I’ll deal with Sabrina & Louis lol.
@ Jennifer (#31)
There was no encore dance – and since they would probably have given it to Gilles since Shawn had last week’s, just as well!
Go Team Shawn – four very good to great celebrity dancers, and four pros that know what they’re doing. (I include Cheryl in that because she works much better with people who can dance than she does with teaching non-dancers, IMO. Besides, she’s with Apollo – hands down the best male celebrity dancer this season.)
Thrilled Apolo was safe (pretty sure he would be, but you never know this season), relieved Bristol is finally, finally gone. Really surprised Sabrina wasn’t at least in the bottom 2, she must have more fans than I thought.
Both team songs suck, but Gangnam Style is very limiting. Relatively speaking, Derek’s song has more potential for interesting choreography IMO. And Gangnam really clashes with Gilles’ preferred style of dancing. Loving the whole Derek team, lots of dancing and choreographic talent. And should get along a lot better than the other team.
My Post #47 – that was supposed to be Karina, not Cheryl. Temporary euphoria over the elimination tonight!
Court, I am enjoying your lustful thoughts this season on Apolo, because that’s exactly what I would have wrote if I have your writing skills. lol When was the last time you were this ‘lustful’?
@Anna – I just had a feeling his team would be comprised mainly of members of the Chmerkovskiy entourage…and that he’d deliberately avoid picking those by whom he felt “wronged”: Mark & Apolo.
Well finally the right person was eliminated.
I’m so stoked for Team Shawn and no matter the song Derek will come up with something great and he has great “backup choreographers”.
I believe it was Val that said he wanted to be on a good looking team – really????
Do you think they’ll be accumulating scores from next week into the following week for the double elimination? Just trying to figure out how it will work. Not liking double elimination.
YAY! Bye bye Bristol! Can’t wait to see what Derek comes up with to choreo this dance and since it’s Team Shawn and not Team Sabrine, I hope LVA isn’t too much of an ass or gives Derek grief!
Thanks, Lee (#48), for the reply. π
I think Team Shawn has the definite advantage with its members, but with the judging this season, I don’t want to count my chickens before they’re hatched.
Without “sexy” Gilles has nothing. Well, at least he knows it.
Thank goodness for Apolo and Karina. I was sweating bullets for them tonight. Shame the double elimin couldn’t have been tonight though. Would have been just to see both of tonight’s bottom two go.
I was positively shocked that Apolo was in the bottom three!! I really thought his fans would step up to the plate last night of all nights. I know he’s already a great dancer (my favorite of the season) but he’s really going to have to bring it from now on because apparently people are crazy and not giving that golden piece of Olympic hotness the votes he deserves!!
At least Bristol the bummer got the boot tonight, so I guess I can’t talk TOO much shit about the voters. I really thought she was going to be the herpes of this season too. (Really irritating and won’t go away no matter how much you want it to) but it looks like that title is going to go to Gilles this go ’round.
Speaking of old Gilles, he really pissed in his apple juice with his selections for team dance. Shawn and Derek definitely got the best couples and despite the poppy little teeny-bopper song they have to dance too, they’re gonna–I may be pushing the “language” a bit here, but well–they’re gonna knock old Gilles’s dick in the dirt. And tbh, he needs to be knocked down a peg or two.
All that said, it was a pretty good show tonight: Bristol finally hit the pike, Gilles screwed himself with his team dance selections and it was great to see Carson Kressly, even if it was only briefly. I obviously was crushed to see Apolo in the bottom three, but I guess it was worth dealing with that bit of anxiety to see Bristol finally beating the pavement!! ***Ding-dong the bitch is gone, which old bitch? The stupid bitch!***
Hello all! I don’t wanna seem like I have been living under a rock, but I just want to know…how exactly are Gilles and Mark not getting along? Was it a past thing? Was it this season and did someone say something that could have offended the other person? Some please explain, hehe!
I absolutely love Team Shawn by the way!!! They are going to be brilliant no matter whattttt!!!
Courtney,
there are sesky ladies on team shawn/derek who have nice hindquarters and tree trunk legs (well maybe not tree trunk but nice) also. lol Sorry, couldnt resist esp. with the sesky… too cute to pass up!
Apolo was not identified in the bottom three, he was “in jeopardy” for dramatic purposes
I might be wrong, but I think Apolo and Karina were only ‘in jeopardy’ as opposed to being in the ‘bottom three’. The actual bottom TWO was really Bristol and Kirstie. One day I know everyone will get this wording straight, I just know it! *LOL*
I’m SO happy that Bristol went before Kirstie. I mean, I know Kirstie is far from the best dancer left, but she makes me smile, she tries her damnedest and she didn’t deserve to go before that girl who refused to even put in the minimum of work.
So whatever happens now, I’m good. I’m looking forward to entertainment and fun and a good dose of silliness from the rest of the season. I also think that choosing those two songs for the team dances was a hoot. They were the biggest songs of the spring and summer, both gone totally viral. It’s All Stars, after all. Makes total sense to me. π
I’d smoke ’em if I had ’em now… and if I still smoked. *LOL*
Just to double-check, Kirstie was real bottom 2 and Apolo was just “in jeopardy,” correct? I kind of boycotted watching the show b/c of Bristol, so did not actual hear what was said about the elimination.
I apologize if I offended anyone’s sensibilities with some of the language in my last post. I just read over it and I didn’t mean for it to sound quite that crass. All I have to say to that is I’ve been drinking cheap wine tonight.
Yes, Apolo was just in jeopardy, not necessarily in the bottom three. It was most likely for dramatic reasons as I’m SURE he is getting more votes than most, and at the very least Sabrina and probably Melissa.
Wait, so the three couples “in jeopardy” aren’t necessarily the three couples with the lowest composite score?
And thus the great “in jeopardy vs. in the bottom 2″ debate rages on…this clearly requires a post of its own to clear the air. *sigh*
Apolo & Karina = in jeopardy, which doesn’t mean shit except that they’re just going to stall telling us their fate until the end of the show. For all we know, Apolo could have gotten the most votes last night…”in jeopardy” means nothing in terms of how many votes a couple is getting.
Kirstie & Maks = in the bottom 2, staying. These two actually were the 2nd-lowest combined scorers after the judges scores & voting.
Bristol & Mark = in the bottom 2, going home. Bristol had the lowest combined total of judges’ scores & votes.
Watch me have to copy & paste this into about 5 more comments sections before the debate begins anew next Tuesday…
Bristol
Von Riot #63 … Maybe you could ask Gilles to share his $400 bottle of wine so you’re not drinking the cheap stuff?
Poor Court and Heidi… They’ll be on their knees kissing the ground Vogue walks on when she gets back into town.
I’m happy with the results. DWTS is once again politics free with the boot of Bristol.
So so happy that Bristol is gone. Just watching the news and apparently she left Mark to speak to the press. Such a baby!
I’m really happy that Apolo is on Shawn’s team – I think they have a great group. Looking forward to next week.
Courtney,
I apologize for stirring up the confusion. I just found this site a couple of weeks ago so I guess I’m also a little new to the DWTS terminology. It’s seems a little misleading and conniving to me to deem a couple NOT in the bottom three as “in jeopardy.”
I also want to say that I think you and the other ladies are doing a phenomenal job with this site. It has really helped fill a gap between dance and results shows and gives some much needed explanations as to how things work on DWTS. So thanks for all the hard work you put in writing articles, answering questions and doing damage control when some poor idiot like me says something like “Apolo was in the bottom three.”
I agree with everyone about the real bottom 2, Apolo wasn’t necessary the one with the third lowest total votes and scores combine. I still think he, along with Shawn and Emmitt are the ones with the biggest fan base. Sorry Gilles, don’t think you gonna win this.
Lol, Hurricane Bristol came in this season knocking over Joey,Drew and Helio. Tonight she was down-graded to a storm! Yes, I can see a rainbow too.
Wait, what did I do to start getting “moderated”?
@Millie, lol, I guess “Bristol the Pistol” fired her last bullet, eh? Seriously, SO glad she’s gone.
So Gilles got a rumba (I think), I bet the judges will go crazy over, Shawn also has the rumba.
Actually Len doesn’t like over the top hot rumbas, and I’m pretty sure that gilles will go over the top in the rumba again, and she actually liked shawn first rumba.
Laila, Gilles doesn’t really have to dance. Guaranteed high scores of the night for their ABC employee.
Item: Sarah Palin did NOT send a tweet asking her followers to vote for Bristol and Mark this week.
Item: Mark Ballas blatantly tells the world that he has to dumb down the choreography for Bristol, baldly throwing her under the bus. The producers choose to show this footage.
Item: The judges give Bristol scores that are not the bottom of the leader board, and all 4 offer high praise obviously unrelated to the dance performance we witnessed from Bristol.
Item: Bristol and Mark are sent home.
Conspiracy theory: Was Bristol eased out of the show by mutual agreement between the producers and Mark and the Palins? It appears to me that both the producers and Sarah Palin played their role in this outcome, doing everything possible to discourage voting for Bristol.
Any thoughts?
They could have thrown Bristol under the bus last week with their fight, instead they chose to edit the package to make Mark look bad, which he shouldn’t have given the full context of the situation. I truly and highly doubt that Sarah Palin wanted out of the spotlight, or that the producers would accommodate her in such a way if she did.
On any other team dance i would say team shawn would run a circle around and then wipe the floor with team gilles scoring about 6 points higher. I mean they are younger, have the best dancers, and have arguably the best choreographer in derek.
my only big BUT is that this is a freestyle team dance, and what do the judges usually judge freestyles on? entertainment value
so if team gilles brings the comedy with some half-way decent dancing, it might actually be a lot closer than in looks on paper. I still leaning team shawn, but i think its going to be close.
i dont buy into the conspiracy theory that mark the palins and tptb set this up obviously this week Bristol didnt cover the spread. I think a lot of their fans started to vote for Sabrina tonight since a lot of Mark fans r Sabrina fans and didn’t vote for Bristol I had a feeling it was gonna be Kristy and Bristol in the bottom 3. Good thing we don’t need to see another Bristol train wreck dance till the finale :D.
Seriously, I’m sooooo happy about team Shawn right now, that I can look past the song. These four couples are my favorites right now, and I’m pretty sure they are going to do something great!
Gilles made some bad choices.
I think it was very smart of Derek to pick Sabrina and LVA first. Not only is Sabrina a great dancer but besides Derek LVA is the best at team dance choreo IMO.
My favourite team dance is still their season 9 tango (Joanna & Derek, Kelly & LVA and Donny & Kym)
so who do you guys and gals think the people who were firmly behind bristol will start voting for mostly now? perhaps sabrina or shawn because they are former partners of mark? just a little thought that popped in my head.
80 coents posted thanking god Bristol went ships ahoy! π
BOTH songs suck for the team dances and yes Team Shawn got the top 4 remaining dancers IMO. I hd not heard “Call Me Maybe” before so I youtube’d it, annoying.
What’s going on with Val and Kelly? I thought she was married? As an aside she’s from my neck of the woods. Her playboy shoot was taken at Harvey’s Lake in Pa. on a sailboat owned by a local doctor. Gosh that was so long ago. I’m happy to see her success.
I don’t think there is any conspiracy theory about Bristol and Sarah…Sarah loves the limelight…and interesting she was there every week this time…so I don’t buy it because people are dropping her like spilt milk on many networks. I do think Mark saying how much he had to dumb down the routine hurt her…finally he spoke the truth. Also I heard him earlier in the season talk very nicely about Sabrina too and how he felt she was robbed the first time she was on.
As far as the song “Call me Maybe”, knowing Derek as I do (umm not at all…just wishful thinking…lol) I wonder if his issue with the song was really just that it has been done and over done…by God and everyone over the season. I like the song, but really it has started to wear on me, whereas the other song is still gaining some momentum although thinking of that team doing the song makes me think “train wreck” but then I thought Gilles was a train wreck this week and he got these high scores. So who knows?
I am so glad Bristol is gone…oh can I just say it one more time….ding dong the witch is gone…the wicked witch is gone….okay maybe that was over the top. LOL
Courtney, what’s the backstory of the Mark & Gilles beef? I understand that Gilles feels “slighted” by Apolo doing his dance, but what’s his problem with Mark?
The Mark & Gilles beef has to do with Gilles’ claims that he’s “not a dancer” and an incident about a bogarted massage table. Behind-the-scenes douchebaggery by Gilles, basically.
@Lynne #84 Feel free to go way over the top! π
This is a complete and total subject change… @Jimmy, I think we’re not too far from each other….. I have heard of Harvey’s Lake, my mom’s family is originally from Pittston, PA, and from Montrose, PA. I grew up, and still live, just a tiny bit further north, just over the state border.
And back to subject… Shawn and Derek DEFINITELY built their team with the better strategy…. I think the entirety of Gilles and Peta’s strategy was to build a good looking team, and making sure Peta and her boyfriend and his brother were all together. And the choreography? On that team, Cheryl is by far the strongest choreographer, and she still seems to be taking the easy way out on everything this season, and for the past few seasons, actually. And the 3 ChmerFam? Cheryl is the strongest choreographer.
Then Team Shawn…. There is Derek, who has never met a challenge he didn’t love, and succeed beyond what anyone could ever imagine… LVA, who is an INCREDIBLE choreographer for the pros, when he’s not being a Diva with a partner, Karina, who I do think has become a much better choreographer lately than Cheryl, and she does focus on her partner. Tony’s the weak link pro, but with the other 3, he can rise to the occasion…
# Lori commented on October 16, 2012:
Does anyone else watch the show, and see things happen on screen, and think, βI canβt wait til the cheesecake and see what C and PH make of this?β
I DO, I DO!!!!
The key here is that Shawn and Derek got Louis, Karina, and Derek on the same team. They are incredibly strong choreographers. Louis especially is excellent at creating dances for other pros. I also feel that they are likely to have the more committed, harder-working team.
Also, the band trying to perform ‘gangnam style’ will be *hilarious.* The advantage they have with CMM is that it’s a pretty clear cha-cha. They’ll be able to have a lot of ballroom content without modifying the spacing too much.
Do you think, because there are 2 nights of competition, that maybe Carly Rae Jepson & Psy will be performing for the team dances on separate nights? Just a thought….because I can not see the band singing Korean…..
Gilles, or should I say PETAs, strategy was stupid. Team dances are still to be judged on the CELEBRITY dancing, not the pros. Yes, Val & Maks are great choreographers (Val is actually quite talented, we just haven’t been able to see alot of his stuff yet) but she should have been able to choreo the whole dance herself, so who really cares which pro you choose? Gilles has a bromance going on with Maks anyway…
Oh, CMM does seem more “Cha Cha” however, I could see some modern hip hop to this as well. Gangham I can see more humorous, but I hope they don’t really go too cheesy. Obviously will have to do the “dance”, but it can be done tastefully, and BRIEFLY.
@Dee – I think it’s possible. There is going to be one team dance and 4 individual dances each night, so they would have time. I just don’t know how “in demand” Psy & Carly are, and if they’d be able to get them.
Also, it depends if Psy is in USA next week… I’m not sure if he is right now.
I was thinking the same thing – that we’d see the actual performers sing the songs instead of the band. It would not surprise me in the least.
I ma glad Bristol is gone, and really looking forward to the next couple of weeks, team dance should be fun; I am really worried about Apollo and Karina, Karina seems to put too much pressure on herself, and this is the best way to get in trouble.
Setting up accounts to vote for them, LOL.
:::sigh::: Again, it’s not just about Sabrina having more fans than you thought. Both Kirstie and Bristol had to cover a VERY LARGE spread for Sabrina to be in jeopardy. 17k and 10k respectively. That was too much for them to overcome. Sabrina could actually have fewer fans that both Kirstie and Bristol – it’s just not so many fewer that either of them could cover the spread.
May I add to the joy of others that Bristol is finally gone. I really believed that we were going to have her for at least a couple of more weeks. I heard that she refused to do the press and had sent Mark to handle it. Does anyone know if she did the Jimmy Kimmel show? I just know that now I can enjoy the show.
I had read on another site that covers all reality tv shows where people were making comments that Karina was wrong for giving up on Apollo and thought their number was not great to begin with. Same with the network boards which I looked at for the first time. It seemed like everyone was talking about Bristol and very little about Apollo. When Apollo was first put in jeporady I admit to being concerned for him. So happy that it worked out the way it did.
As far as the team dance I agree that Derek is an amazing choreographer and will work his magic. All you have to do is watch what he has done this season and all his past seasons to know that it will be spectacular.
Winter I do not see any basis for the rest of the cast treating Bristol with anything but support and affection especially among the pro dancers. All of these pro dancers have been down this path before and they all try and be supportive of all the celebs on the show , young , old , skinny , fat liberal or conservative. The pros work hard to keep celebs happy and healthy. The proof of this is that many celebs and pros who weren’t not partners remain friendly long after the season ends
Based on my off-the-top of my head recollection, the judges usually score the team dances pretty evenly, usually within a point or two of the other, and leave the individual couple dances to determine the point spread among the couples. Each team brings its own strengths, and the judges scores will likely reflect that to keep the team scores close.
I’m looking forward to seeing each couple’s guilty pleasures dance. Wasn’t it in Kirstie’s last guilty pleasures dance that Maks got the charleyhorse in his leg and fell? I forget whether or not he actually dropped Kirstie, but I remember him falling. They’ll surely be referencing that in their package.
@sandra77, no that was Kirstie’s personal stories Rumba. Her guilty pleasure was Britney Spears “Baby (One More Time)” – which I think was a samba.
And everyone lives happily ever after….well, except the Palins,Mark, and VFTW
LOL – I forgot about Vote For the Worst. Big blow to their credibility and anyone who touts them. π
OMG Let us just soak in the fact that we are going to have a team that consists of Shawn, Apolo, Sabrina and Flipping Melissa!!! Oh the Epic-ness that awaits us. I don’t want to have such high expectations, but holy cow!!!
I was so upset when Gilles/PETA chose Kelly first. I was like “Noooooooo!!!!” So as much as I love Kelly, I will support her individual dance but I will most look forward to Team Shawn’s Group Dance. Although I do worry that even if Team Shawn does amazing, the Judges will kiss up to Gilles and King Derek will be dethroned from his record or that one team might be exempt from elimination for scoring higher. I will cringe and die. LOL
And BYE BYE BRISTOL!!!
Call Me Maybe is a horrendous free style song…good choreographer or not, this will def be challenging. I hope they either speed it up or slow it down and keep Louis and Tony’s sometimes corny choreography out of it….the judges know that Shawn’s team are the better “actual” dancers but they do love to push those ABC employees…i guess all we can say is lets wait and see.
Vote for the Worst is comprised of a bunch of internet trolls who are legends in their own mind. No street cred as an entity that can actually influence the outcome of a show.
ABC is trying hard as (CENSORED) to cancel General Hospital. Frankly, I was shocked when Kelly got the last spot. And did they even try to cross promote GH yet? Well, that is another topic.
As for “Call Me Maybe” yeah, it is tough but so were the 50’s Paso and Futuristic Paso. Now, I am curious to see how Louis handles it when Derek takes the lead. *Insert Evil Laugh* I hope to see Derek coaching Sabrina just a tad π .
Who knows. Team Gilles has the better song, but if Team Shawn wins, then I expect hearing cries of “Derek always wins…look he had the better team! Yeah, Gilles had the better song but who cares because I want to wizz on Derek dang it” π
Why doesn’t Gilles like Apolo? I guess I missed something.
Am I remembering correctly that one season the person who was eliminated had to come from the losing team? I doubt that would work this season because of the elimination show being skipped this week, but I’m still curious about how scores will be combined this time and if week six will be the next double elimination.
@Karen T, the eliminated person does not HAVE to come from the losing team; however, history shows that the eliminated contestant always ends up coming from the losing team. Generally it is because they have the fewest combined scores/votes between a lower team dance score, individual score, and viewer votes.
@Mary Eberlein, I think it is because Gilles thought it was disrespectful to do another contestants dance for the Iconic Dance Week, and Apolo chose Gilles foxtrot. Apolo thought it was an honorable thing; Gilles thought it dishonorable.
@Karen – I don’t believe there was ever a rule that said the eliminated person had to come from the losing team. However, logic would often dictate that the eliminated celeb would likely come from the losing team, based on the fact that they have the lower score. But it’s not a hard and fast rule – I would say the eliminated person often comes from the winning team because it is assumed that they’re “safe” and thus they get fewer votes. And week 6 will be the next double elim. Not sure yet how the voting will work.
Mary Eberlein, I believe it’s because Apolo chose one of Gilles’ dances for iconic dance week. Gilles felt it was rude to pick a dance from someone currently on the all-star season. By contrast, Helio chose Apolo’s quickstep, and Apolo said that he was flattered.
Dee, “always” is not correct. Pam was eliminated and she was on Derek’s team for the team dance.
Thank you for all the information. I thought I had a vague recollection of their being a twist one season where the winning team had immunity but I am probably misremembering something.
Wow, if they combine scores from week 5 and week 6 for the double elimination, that’s a whole lotta points. That could make for some really small margins, especially if each couple has 2 dances in week 6. Curious to see if there will be voting in both weeks.
I stand corrected PH. In fact, Jaleel was also on the winning team and was eliminated. I should have said “almost always”. Derek once said normally someone from the losing team goes home and that always stuck in my head. My bad.
ABC may be trying to cancel General Hospital..I don’t know…but I have seen commercials for DWTS starring only Kelly with lots of hype for GH…I don’t ever remember ABC promoting one dancer on an entire commercial before this season…I thought it was inappropriate.
Yes Derek does normally say it…but it did not apply last year in season 14…Jaleel did go home that night and team tango won.
Couple questions:
1. Why was Derek peeved at “Call Me Maybe”? Is it cuz there’s no dance craze to the song like “Gangnam Style” (unless you count the Harvard baseball team’s YouTube video lol)?
2. If they knew there was gonna be a non-elimination week, why did we get a double elimination week last week π ? We could’ve seen Helio’s broadway..
I think Derek either doesn’t like that song or he listens to it and doesn’t see “freestyle”. Or both. Frankly, I think he’s going to turn out to be the lucky one, because the urge the other team will have to follow the internet craze aspect will be strong and I think they might have more to live up to. Or maybe it’s just too overdone.
The double elimination thing is simple math. To get to 3 couples in week 10 AND have no elimination the week of the debates, you have to have two double eliminations.
Just watched the results show, and noticed that Emmitt must have said something funny that the mics didn’t pick up. It was in the skybox after he, Apolo, and Gilles got done talking to Brooke just before they went down for their results. Everyone around him totally cracked up. Any of the insiders know what he said?
Three words: MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY!
Derek does hate the song, it’s uninspiring and the music goes nowhere. But I still think they got the better song, I HATE the other team’s song. And yes bet your money that they are going to go for full on cheese and copying the video.
I honestly thing Gangnam Style could have been a great song if they didn’t try to copy the videos – but as Buttercup confirms, they most certainly are doing that : /
It’ll play great in Peoria. π (And with the regular viewing audience, I would think.) Ah… maybe it won’t be so bad.
Vogue! Welcome home! I bet I’m not the first to say that! PH and C. did a great job while you were away, but I think they’re ready for a wee break right now! π
Thanks Megs!!!! π xxx
Welcome back, Vogue! I hope you had a GREAT vacation! π
I will miss Bristol. Of the remaining eight, there are only two that I would consider voting for. It would be three if Shawn was not partnered with Derek.
@MelissaC What’s wrong with Shawn being partnered with Derek? Those two are fantastic together!