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  • August12th

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    So You Think You Can Recap: SYTYCD Finale Results 8/11/11

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    Cole here! This is it! The moment we’ve all been waiting for! (And really me, cuz this is the final recap I have to write and can reclaim some free time! Hooray!) The Top 20 take to the stage for a big group number set to “Wanna Get Hype” by District 78—bathed in red light and dressed in goth Rocky Horror outfits, its full of crazy energy and weird movement, which means it has to be a Sonya Tayeh routine (it is!) It’s primarily the 5-20 dancers until the end when the top four appear in a stream of white light and finish off the number. It’s a nice start to finale chock full of things you’ve seen before!

  • August11th

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    So You Think You Can Recap: SYTYCD 8/11/11 FINALE

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    It’s Cole, and Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s the So You Think You Can Dance finale(ish!) Yep, it’s the last time the Fantastic Four are going to take the stage – there’s Mr. Fantastic Marko, who’s rubbery physique allows bullets to bounce right off of him; the Invisible Woman Melanie, with a complexion so fair she’d fit right in with the Cullens; the Human Torch Sasha, who’s strong moves have her constantly on fire in the competition; and Tadd, the Thing with the crazy floor moves and abs made of bricks. (See what I did there? I could have also done analogies to Power Pack and Guardians of the Galaxy, but no one would want them, true believers!) Read More | Comments

  • August4th

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    So You Think You Can Recap: SYTYCD 8/3/11

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    Cole here! We’re getting down to the wire! It’s the Top 6, pairing up with the all-stars and each other (with solos to boot!), with the top 4 making the finale next week. Cat Deeley, wearing half dress/half pearled fisherman’s net, introduces each of the dancers and then turns to our judges (for those of you playing the will-she-or-won’t-she-say-it drinking game, this time the word came out of her mouth!). Nigel is dapper in a suit and purple tie and hanky; Mary Murphy is sporting a sparkly-shoulder-padded dress with her—TITS AHOY!—um, ballroom boobs on display; guest judge Christina “Kelly Bundy” Applegate looks darn pretty; and the self-proclaimed king of krunk, Lil C, is there to provide us with several high-scoring plays for Words With Friends. We see video of some Dance Day submissions from Sweden and Egypt, where people all over the world shake their groove thing and tolerate that crappy LMFAO song about party starting and having a good time. Read More | Comments

  • July29th

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    So You Think You Can Recap: SYTYCD 7/27/11

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    Cole here! It’s the Top 8! It’s new(ish) All-Stars! It’s a recap! Here we go…

    After the usual quick dancer intros, Cat Deely appears in a tight fitting white placemat dress and quickly introduces our JUHs (this time she took on the first syllable and let the audience fill in the rest, like that thing on Sesame Street or Electric Company or whatever it was—“Juh” “Jez”…”Juh”…”Jez”…”Juhjez!”). And my, what a colorful panel it ‘twas! Rob Marshall, director of Chicago and the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean flick, is so brightly orange he makes Mary Murphy look like Edward Cullen. Lady GaGa is here! She’s dressed like a Sgt. Pepper carnival nightmare, with giant red stilty shoes, round sunglasses, minty green hair and a red leather Captain’s cap. Mary and Nigel are there per usual as well. We learn that there are going to be twelve routines (oh lordy), each dancer with an All-Star and then paired together. Read More | Comments

  • July22nd

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    So You Think You Can Recap: SYTYCD Results 7.21.11

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    Vanessa here! Well, I haven’t watched the show since the last time I recapped, which feels like ages ago.  And from the look on Cat Deeley’s face, it was ages ago.  We are all ready for this to be over. Cole seems to be “unavailable” to do these recaps more and more frequently, and quite frankly, I am suspicious.

    That “results night” even exists is very frustrating.  This whole show could be handled in two minutes or a quick list online.  But they know it’s cheap to make and they know we will watch it.  AND WE DO.

    We start the night with a group number in BROADWAY STYLE; mind-blowingly to the song “On Broadway.”  From what I can gather, “Broadway Style” dance entails sparkly bowler hats– or if you think outside of the box, a sparkly top hat.  This whole opening number is very show-choir-meets-Burlesque and judging from the glitter-explosion at the end, Ke$ha had some h@nd in this fuckery. Read More | Comments

  • July21st

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    So You Think You Can Recap: SYTYCD 7/20/11

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    Cole here! On my command—release the All-Stars! It’s time for the top ten dancers to be matched up with some of the best and most dynamic dancers the show ever saw! After their brief individual dance intros, Cat Deely appears in a tight shiny black dress with gold details (with echoes of those Egyptian dancers from that Michael Jackson “Black or White” video) and sets the stage—in addition to their routines, each dancer will be doing a solo. It’s time to meet our—JUDGES! (Audience 1, Cat 0) and, lo and behold, it’s Neil Patrick Harris, looking dapper in a striped suit! It’s Mary Murphy, looking more and more like Chester Cheetah every time we see her. It’s executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, who evidently put on his yuk-yuk cummerbund tonight as he attempted to plant zingers throughout the show. Nigel announces the on sale date for the summer tour (July 29th, for those of you interested in trying to land some sweet seats), and Neil congratulates Nigel on the success of the show and its impact on dance. To the routines! Read More | Comments

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