Recap of premiere episode (July 20th)
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Our stunning host, Lauren Sanchez lays down the groundwork for the high stakes competition that is So You think you Can dance. Here’s how it’s going to work, so says Sanchez: Open auditions in cities like Miami, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Las Vegas where producers will pick out the best 50 potential dancers -- 25 guys and 25 girls -- and bring them to Hollywood to see if they can hack it under the nation’s top choreographers. Then it gets pared down to 8 guys and 8 girls who will dance it out for the grand prize of a luxury high rise apartment in New York City, complete with one hundred thousand dollars cash! Every dancers dream.
Johnny P. and Miles C. sat down and watched the show. Here’s our Instant Message recap:
MC: And we're on, lets get dancing, er, watching.
JP: Whoa, a guy just did a quadruple handspring right onto a table, what do you call that? maybe a table break?
MC: It’s called painful if you collapse.
MC: Hey, Lauren Sanchez is in the middle of the street! She better get dancing.
JP: Careful, the puns have just begun.
MC: Now there’s a guy spinning wearing flesh colored shorts!
JP: Wait, is that guy wearing anything?
MC: Now, that's a spinner.
JP: I’m getting ready to get dizzy.
JP: Watch out, here are the Choreographers!
JP: So Nigel used to Dance for the Queen, wow.
MC: It is! It’s the queen of England.
MC: I think Lauren Sanchez is obsessed with Broadway.
JP: and necklaces.
JP: All these break dancers doing windmill moves, someone’s asking to get kicked in the face
JP: Krumping, Locking, tapping, Popping, pirouettes, all these descriptions sound like bad cereals.
MC: but they're good for you and offer up the daily allowance of jazz hands.
JP: Here’s a guy in an orange shirt, the color does all the talking.
MC: Ocean lifeguard as our first contestant. Will he sink or swim?
MC: Somebody throw him a buoy.
JP: This dance looks like "how to get a cramp" by jersey lifeguard.
MC: Hmm, not much confidence for Mr. lifeguard
JP: Now it’s a new dancer girl/hair colorist, Candice Latham.
JP: She said she threw this together last minute? As long as she’s wearing tassels. I'll be happy with whatever she throws together.
MC:"You spin very well" says Nigel. If I had a nickel for every time somebody has told me that…
MC: …and she’s going home.
JP: Now it’s miss small town America: Cheryl Texara
JP: Let the redundancy begin!
MC: Small town Cheryl!
JP: She can't wait to get out of her little small town.
MC: She looks just like Britney Spears, pre-baby, but, can she dance?
JP: Wait? She’s dancing to Britney Spears too? Seems a little too obvious
MC: Nigel really likes what he sees.
MC: By the way, when did the British become experts in dance? Isn't there an American who has an opinion?
JP: Indeed.
JP: And we've got a new victim, er, dancer.
JP: Here we go, Christine Delano. Hello, Christine, you’re supposed to enjoy dancing. Right?
MC: She’s doing hip hop? More like hip-slop with this one.
JP: What an adventurous color combo
MC: she works at fun zone!
MC: Hmm, maybe not so fun.
JP: Now is that Jay-z?
MC: In this round, it’s more like lay-z.
JP: Here come the crazy b-boys and b-girls.
MC: I am always impressed by somebody who can turn himself into a spider.
JP: Ouch, back landing, chiropractors everywhere are now drooling.
MC: But can these breakers do anything else?
JP: The shirts are getting pulled up, here are the belly dancers, who knew there would be so many.
MC: Nigel looks stunned by the belly dancers. I think he's had a stroke.
MC: She’s dancing with a sword! Danger!
JP: The collective number of cats owned by these women is probably astronomical.
MC: her name’s Isis! Oh mighty Isis.
MC: I'm sure we'll be kept abreast of her progress.
JP: Sounds like exuberating is her word.
MC: Indian hip hop! bringing street cred to the subcontinent!
JP: Nigel likes all the cultures, but 4 Ukrainian gymnasts?
MC: They don’t speak English, not a one.
JP: I have nothing to say, wait, neither do they.
MC: Think these chickens took a wrong turn around Kiev.
JP: Probably got lost in a flow of butter and chives.
MC: They’re doing some kind of immortal combat dance.
JP: Looks like we’ve got a Ukrainian thigh spy.
MC: I think ms. pink's outfit is a tad tight on the bottom.
MC: Now the dancers who didn’t get cut see if they can take some choreography. Some of the breakers aren’t doing to well.
JP: now they test them with partner dancing.
MC: Dance, dance, dance, cut, cut, cut. Who's going to Hollywood? No one!
JP: Everyone called back on stage for some more witty banter.
MC: But wait!
MC: Cheryl makes it!
JP: We need someone to cut later, so you're going to Hollywood!
JP: Here’s Isis again, she is going to crush someone
MC: Certainly she doesn't seem balanced.
JP: Now more break dancing
MC: Shattering good entertainment from Vegas!
JP: Again, chiropractors are drooling, dollar signs in their eyes.
MC: Musa Cooper! Street dancer extraordinaire.
JP: He literally wear's 2 hats
MC: Ah. and drinking water at the same time.
JP: The windmill!
MC: Upside down shaking? Can I have some fries with that shake?
MC: Oh, here comes the diva Camilla!
MC: She needs to stop rhyming
JP: Yea, make sure you look at all 7 cameras, she’s done this before it seems.
MC: Well, she's certainly confident.
MC: Cameras loved you, but, ah, maybe no one else.
MC: Uh oh, Anthony is next and his tiny half shirt.
JP: Twirly, ribbony, gymnastics.
MC: That's one way I'd describe it.
MC: Here comes Mandy, is she crying?
MC: I feel a Manilow song coming on. It's all so emotional.
MC: Did somebody order a bundle of nerves for one?
JP: Nigel is trying to put her at ease, is Nigel making fun of himself?
MC: Wow, empathy from the judges!
MC: If you can't dance, you're no friend of mine. Mandy can dance. Therefore, she is a friend of mine.
MC: Oh, Ashley!
JP: First we see flesh colored shorts, not a flesh colored dress
MC: BREAK
JP: Now we’re back in NYC, day 2, starting with Melissa Vella.
MC: I can see the after school special! Another small town girl, working at a day care.
JP: She’s got dreams of dancing around something other than dirty diapers.
MC: Now Brandon Jones proves that big guys can dance.
JP: He seems to be maintaining control.
MC: He also proves that he can shimmy long after he actually stopped dancing.
JP: It’s punky brewster!
MC: Next up: little wonder!
MC: Look at all those stripes, is it Waldo?
JP: Waldo isn’t hiding anymore.
MC: Oh, dear, Pamela is, in a word, frightening.
JP: Only Nigel can describe this one.
JP: Pamela might as well have said to Nigel "Sir, I strongly disagree with your memories."
MC: Confrontation scares me. If I was Nigel, I would have agreed and sent her on, just to move on.
MC: Cue: “She's come undone”.
JP: Now we’re seeing the remaining pack try to take choreography instructions. Is that guy wearing a skunk on his head?
MC: Hope he doesn't spray.
MC: 51 dancers make it thru!
JP: Who will choreograph Musa’s funny beard?
JP: Our diva made it. Humble she says, we’ll see.
MC: Camilla seems insincere.
JP: Wow, she’s lying on the ground, she's been defeated by the emotion.
MC: They think Brandon can dance!
MC: It's the feel good story of the year!
JP: He has a big heart...and big pants.
MC: Melissa makes it and, as a result, dozens of kids are left unsupervised!
JP: I'm guessing Anthony may be disappointed.
JP: you’re right, early compliments from producers equal bad outcome.
JP: The ribbon! Should have kept it hidden
MC: But ribbon is a dancer?
MC: Anddddd, he gets cut, but not without an argument.
JP: The shirt, i think he made the ribbon out of the missing shirt
MC: Bitter, party of one, your lonely table is ready.
MC: The flesh dress makes it to Hollywood! Meanwhile, does that boy sitting down even own a shirt?
MC: Now we’re in Chi-town!, better known as Chicago.
MC: Here comes Johnny B not to be confused with Johnny P.
JP: A crazy construction worker; danger!
MC: He's got Camilla's confidence.
JP: He says he’s the next tu-pac; wrong show.
MC: He’s more like no-pac.
MC: He seems rather riled up.
JP: I think he’s attacking the cameraman with rhymes; run cameraman, run!
MC: He’s dancing to “I Can't touch this”? Don't wanna.
JP: Can't touch, wouldn't touch.
MC: Next up: head spins vs. hair!
JP: MARICZA VALENTINE!
MC: She’s given up a lot; Dance vs. Marriage!
MC: Dance trumps marriage; Callous trumps hair!
JP: Step on that.
JP: or get stepped on.
JP: Now, sports bar enthusiast tries to dance after a plate of buffalo wings.
JP: Not another dance divorce.
MC: Chris, father to be, would rather compete than be at his kid's birth?
MC: So You Think You Can Divorce.
MC: We're back with more breakers, more breakers, more breakers.
JP: The suicide squeeze.
JP: Next up: Professional reality show auditionee.
MC: She's very eager to please.
JP: She owns Steve Miller’s greatest hits
JP: Here’s a unique dancer, uniquely large.
MC: Shoot him, he's in pain.
JP: The sweat, get a mop.
MC: Somebody please call 911.
MC: And, now we're learning salsa. And you said it was just a dip.
MC: Apologies for stealing your salsa definition.
JP: it's a gift
MC: Goodbye Nigel!
MC: Who goes, who stays?
JP: We're down to the wire now
JP: Mambo queen Marizca makes it, the divorce was worth it!
JP: Now we see if chris makes it, you've got a baby coming in 2 1/2 weeks.
MC: And you're gonna be there to see it born! Loser!
MC: Dance vs. baby. Baby trumps Dance.
JP: The baby is mightier than the foot.
MC: Unless the baby kicks.
JP: Here’s who made it from Chicago and New York: scott, nick, Lauren, casper kay, marizca, joe, elise, Nicholas , lisa, andrea, Rachel, Jessica, Ashley, and jonathan.
MC: So they’ve made their picks from Chicago and New York, now on onto the final city, Los Angeles.
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