Reality Roll Call

After two hours of performances, an overabundance of kudos, and much ado about everything, Cat Deeley announced that Joshua is America’s Favorite Dancer and $1 million richer. After the show received 60 million votes, Joshua has become the first street-dancer to win. His mother was shouting (and I mean that in the Baptist sense) in the audience. Joshua tells the world to never let anybody tell you that you can’t do anything and that with God you can do everything.

The show’s producers have also added a twist where there is a top girl and a top guy. Katee wins the top girl slot and $50,000 to boot. She was exceedingly happy. So that’s all folks, the end until next year.

Some of the night’s highlights include performances of the judges’ favorite routines from the season. These included:

Courtney and Gev’s Rumba routine

Everyone, get out your charts and make your bets, because we’ve reached the Final Four of So You Think You Can Dance!  Katee, Joshua, Twitch and Courtney are going to be dancing full out, because this is their last chance to be the favorite. Tonight’s show involved everyone dancing with each other–girl on boy, boy on boy, girl on girl–there’s a little bit of dance action for everyone. Indeed, the judges barraged the dancers with an orgy of compliments about what great performers/entertainers they were; how unexpectedly great they were; how consistently great they were; etc. etc. I was ready to shoot the hot tamale train by the end of the night—all the gushing was hurting my cavities. For you closet fashionistas out there, I’d like to note that Cat was looking especially radiant in a gold mini dress and the kind of uber-straight hair that would make Cher jealous. Though, I’m not sure what Mary’s hairdresser was thinking when she dyed about two inches of the woman’s roots a medium brunette with highlights, but left the remaining hair dark brunette. Tacky doesn’t even cover it. But, to return to all things dance-related, Mandy Moore is rounding out the judges’ panel.

by Lakiya Emerson

With seven couples remaining, the judges aren’t as forgiving of dancer’s ability (or inability) to capture styles outside of their own. The judges have hit the sonic overdrive button on their expectations. Tabitha and Napoleon D’Umo serve as guest judges tonight along with Simon Cowell. Simon was not actually on the panel, but Nigel was seriously channeling his musical partner’s surly snarkiness as he told more than one dancer that they needed to step up their game. There’s no opening choreography as each couple must dance two routines.