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Hello, friends.

Tell me, do you like great barbershop quartets? Do you like great barbershop quartets singing questionably pop music? Well have I got a show for you: The Sing Off.

Maxx Factor has no chance of winning since the ultimate prize is a Sony Recording Contract and I don't think they're looking for another Susan Boyle-like act right now. However, Maxx Factor is a great female barbershop quartet being forced to sing Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" and Taylor Swift's "Love Story." I suspect they'll be booted tonight without much fanfare for straying too much from a straight barbershop sound or for staying too true to it. There will be an excuse to cut them before live voting starts for the Monday finale.

Screw SYTYCD tonight and tomorrow. Nigel announced on Twitter none of the finalists get to do a solo either night to allow for judges comments and special guests. Ridiculous. And rumor has it a certain awesome quirky dancer from NY and a married couple are being thrown under the bus, then driven over with a tractor trailer, and finally thrown in front of a speeding freight train to ensure a straightforward contemporary dancer or krumper wins. Allegedly.

well done for finishing your finals. Enjoy your drinking, and have one for me old chap.

Happy holidays!

Enjoy your party, Rusty. Margaritas in water bottles, that's a new one to me. In my day, we drank our mixed drinks from sippy cups, so as to avoid spilling when we were wasted. I suppose water bottles are a little more mature way of doing the same.

Robert - what? No solos either night? That's crap! Nigel is an idiot. We don't need "special guests" - how about we just watch the contestants DANCE?!?

And could Shankman pimp Kathryn any harder? Good lord!

Hmm, I'm packing to leave for MD tomorrow, too. I start to get mad at SoCal at this time of year for being warm and, well, SoCal. I want to stand outside and scream at the Ravens while loosing all feeling in my face, dammit.
Also, as a "proud" owner of an MA, I'm giving up on employment and going back for my MFA.

The bus-throwing was not nearly as egregious as I heard. They specifically under-complimented Elenore, Ryan, and Ashleigh whenever they were on stage with Jacob, Russel, or Kathryn (I still don't know who she is and struggled to remember her name). Nigel's comment on Ryan and Ashleigh only being their because Nigel chose to air Ryan's plea for him and his wife to advance was beyond shady. He was saying "you don't deserve to be here, but good job anyway." Disgusting. Just the crap I expect from him. Still, he didn't bash Elenore, just chose not to praise her.

As this is a Nigel Lythgoe show, I see no point in voting, as he can and will manipulate the results to get what he wants. He's the genius behind the AI clause of throwing out votes determined to be power-dialing and I'm sure the same applies here. Kathryn or Jacob will win. I'd say Russell, but Nigel keeps stressing how he's not a trained dancer - a total lie, but one that's easy to remember.

Robert, we're watching the Sing Off right now yet plan on switching in half an hour to Scrubs and Better of Ted - tell me, am I making the right choice in switching?

THANKYOU! I was thinking 'Huh, Am I the only one who can hardly remember the existence of the pretty brunette ol' whatsername?'

Russel is pretty fantastic, and Eleanor is beautiful. Ryan is HHHHHHot

But I think Jakob has it on raw talent.

Seems like they rushed the hell out of this season. They should've just waited until January to throw it out there, but of course those assholes need to make room for American Idol.

Allegedly, Fox has realized they screwed up big time with SYTYCD? having a fall season and will be switching back to a summer format from now on. That means no six-contestant finale, no non-voting weeks to weed out threats to their favorite contestants, and no denial of final solos and rehearsal packages. I was all for trying a fall season, but they messed it up as much as they possibly could.

Now if Fox would only agree to go back to the smaller stage and higher actual camera-people, not monkeys, to film the show, there might be an improvement in quality. Partner dancing involves two people and footwork, and the show constantly forgets that.

Throw the married couple under the bus, I don't care, I can't stand either one of them. They're so goddamn phony. Ryan's douchiness completely negates his hotness. If the judges didn't compliment them, it may be because they didn't deserve it. I think the other four are fabulous though. I don't have any trouble remembering Kathryn, she's a smokin' hot dancer, but I think Jakob is my favorite. He's technically fantastic but also really gets into character and projects his emotions beautifully.

Robert--the filmed-by-monkeys comment made me giggle. I hate all the weird angles and quick cuts. No, you don't want a completely static camera, but hold it still once in a while! And I don't doubt there's some rigging when it comes to voting, although I fully expected Ashleigh to be in the bottom last week and yet she made it through. They claim they choose the couples randomly, but when I see how they put the shortest people together last season (Evan and Randi, and yes, it makes sense, but doesn't seem like it was entirely by luck), and then the youngest and cutest people together this season (Mollee and Nathan), I have to question how much they leave to chance.

And yeah, fuck the special guests. I heard Jennifer Lopez was one of them. No one tunes in to watch the shitty musical acts. We just want to see people dancing, and somehow they keep forgetting that.

This fall season has been a disappointment and the way they mangled the show to conform to fall scheduling was a big mistake. 6 people is a bizarre number for a finale (2 guys and 2 girls made much more sense to me), and it was so rushed, what the hell, only one hour? So Ramsey can have yet another show where he presumably hurls abuse and doesn't teach you a damn thing? Cat was practically tossing dancers off the stage--"well done that was great now get the fuck out of the way we have a foxtrot and a hip hop number still to do move move MOVE YOUR ASSES!"

Please, go back to the summer schedule so you can give these talented people the time they deserve.

The non-voting weeks were actually because of Baseball, the World Series was happening.

Actually, Mary Murphy has been really good this season. Much less screamy and more with the constructive criticisms. Only like 3 people have been on the "hot tamale train," which may say something about the dancers this time around. Though they all seem to be grappling for this non-existant thing.

Ashleigh has a baby voice. I realized this last week when she was pleading for her life. It's a little annoying, but I do find Ryan and Ashleigh extremely precious and I like them as a couple, just not to WIN!

kilmo,
YES!!! Ashleigh begged for her existence in freaking BABY TALK!!!!!! And her face drives me crazy. She looks like Skeletor fucked a praying mantis. She and Ryan have something else going on and I wouldn't be surprised by anything I hear in the future. Swingers? Yep. Running a prostition ring? Alright. Dead hookers under the porch? Mmm-hmm. Attractive aliens put on Earth as an advance scout team? I knew it.