Dance Moms recap Season 5 episode 12: A bad case of Melanie-oma

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Welcome back, Dance Moms Nation. Whose NCAA bracket is still worth the paper it’s printed on? Who picked the Badgers to take it all? You are my special favorites.

Speaking of competitions … this week we start at the front desk where Abby is all a’twinkle over Maddie’s new Sia video, Elastic Heart, which — if you’re the one person on earth who hasn’t seen it yet — features Maddie in Chandelier gear having one serious nightmare of a (bird)cage match with a brief-wearing Shia LaBeouf. Since we’re going to get all worked about it multiple times throughout the episode, here. Refresh your memory.

It’s kinda icky, but Abby says that’s what makes it art.

Jill wants to know if Maddie likes this video better than the first one, and she says it’s just different.
Jess wants to know why she was dirty. Because she was playing a wolf who was living in that cage for a year. (Yeah, but where’d the dirt come from?)
Jill wants to know is Shia is an animal, too? No, he’s a person. (Insert your own joke here.)
Jill doesn’t get it, but that’s how it goes with high art.

The Inquisition of Maddie ends when we get distracted by something on Kira’s phone — a “social media post” that says Candy Apples Cathy will be competing a whole new team against the ALDC this week.

Who’s freakin’ out?!

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This one right here is!

Kira says that everyone on the scab team — we’ll call them the Canned Apples — has been to multiple Abby Lee auditions and two of them, Tessa Wilkinson and Haley Huelsman, are from Abby’s Ultimate, just like Kalani. And Jo Jo. And Asia. And Hadley. And whomever else I’m forgetting who has been trotted through here for a few moments …or many.

Abby is going to be so mad, says Melissa. So she’s barely through the studio door when she tells her all about it.

Yep. She’s mad.

Abby says Tessa has become a fine little dancer since leaving AUDC — and besides, her mother is fun. A friend, even. (Which, in Abby’s mind, is kinda one and the same). Bad mom, bad dancer. Good mom, good dancer. The world according to Abby.

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Speaking of Bad Mom, apparently Haley’s mom, Melanie, showed up at one of Abby’s book signings and SIGNED ONE OF ABBY’S BOOKS! Excuse me while I nurse a little giggle fit. I remember Melanie being a real piece of work, but that is tacky, even for her. Abby says she’s just out for revenge.

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Pyramid time. It’s all kinds of wonked up this time.

Kendall and Nia make up the base for not placing with their solos.
Midsection is Kalani, Mackenzie and Jo Jo. They were all great in the failing group dance, but Abby only likes winners. Like Maddie. Who is tops.

This week we are headed to Energy National Dance Competition. “To go against the Candy Apples!” chortles Melissa, who just cannot get over it.

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No solos this week, because there just ain’t no other Maddie in the bunch. Instead, we will be honoring the wonder that is Elastic Heart with three duets.

Yaaaaaaay!

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Yaaaaaaaaay!

Maddie and Kalani will pair up on Walking Through the Storm. Kinda like Dancing In The Rain, only just two dancers. And walking.

Jo Jo and Kendall will partner on a dance based on Freaky Friday, which Jo Jo has clearly never heard of in her whole entire life. Kendall says she’s going to have to work extra hard because she’s the total opposite of Jo Jo — no sequins, no rhinestones, no Nebraska.

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LOL.

That leaves Mack and Nia to perform The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane. Holly loves it.

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Or not.

Group routine is a killer, too. But the hows and whys are overshadowed by the news that in two weeks, we are headed back to L.A. Squeeeeee! Now run along, mothers.

What in the what is this thing?

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According to my wildly unsuccessful Google image search, it is some combination of horse jumpers, skydivers … and these guys.

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Someone help me out — what is this thing I shall christen Unihorsquito and where can I find it? Because I must find it. It is my spirit animal.

After a quick montage of my beloved Ohio sign and other arty Ohio landmark shots (Ohio must have pushed back against the perpetual cows, pigs and yard trash that represented it previously), we head for the Candy Apples.

Cathy — sporting some funky new highlights — welcomes the newbies and reminds them that she didn’t not like the team that just got ousted. They just needed to take a break. It’s not you, other team. It’s me. I promise. Do not cry. Even though I just called you losers.

These guys are winners.

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And apparently it’s up to this guy to make sure they are.

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He is Chehon (say KEE-yon), the real-deal Season 9 winner of So You Think You Can Dance. If you’re wondering why he’s doing the Cher thing with his name, I’m guessing it has to do with having the surname Wespi-Tschopp, which is hard to say and even worse to spell.

Not wasting a minute where making an impression is concerned, Melanie (whose neighbors, I sincerely hope, are not missing a few fluffy white cats) reminds her new coach that she and Haley are out to make her proud. Well, and also get Abby. Same difference.

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Cathy says the mothers must shun Abby or they and their Louis Vuittons will be dismissed.

Back in Pittsburgh, there has been …

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… and it’s a mystery. Along with the equal mystery of why Abby insists on perpetually foisting the past on these young girls. The dance is based on the board game Clue. Oh boy. Who is stuck being Colonel Mustard? Or Professor Plum. The corpse will be the one who does the dance the worst, says Abby, looking at poor Mack.

Up in the Mom Loft, we’re trying to decide if the dance is lyrical or not. Kira says the Apples will certainly be doing a lyrical dance, but they need to find out who is choreographing it. The moms pressure Jess into calling Renee to do a little spy-teching.

Ring ring!

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Jessalyn calling!

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Alrighty!

When we come back from commercial break, a reporter from the Nashville Star is at the studio to interview Maddie about the Elastic Heart video. Oh suuuuuuuuuure, that dude gets invited to the studio and here I sit, growing mold in Beertown. WHATever.

The Candy Apples will indeed be doing a lyrical dance and Cathy is feeling good about the idea that she’s amassed a crop of winners. Her lecture is interrupted by a phone call.

IT’S TMZ! ERRRR MEEERRRR GERRRRRRHD, it’s TMZ! Why are you calling, TMZ?

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How does Cathy feel about it? Well, since you asked, she almost threw up. Also, shame on the parents. Not an art form. About time Maddie “falls off the boogie board.”

Er, Ohioans, I know I’m leaning on you hard tonight, but in addition to telling me what the Unihorsquito actually is, could you also tell me what “falls off the boogie board” means in this context … and if it’s an Ohio thing or just a Nesbitt-Stein thing?

Buh-bye, now.

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Back at the ALDC, Mack and Nia are practicing their Little Girl duet, which Abby says was inspired by their work on last year’s Amber Alert group dance.

Speaking of life-threatening situations, check out what Holly’s up to, on the sacred grounds of ALDC.

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… says Aubrey O’Day Recording Artist. Holly tells her that they will be back in L.A. shortly and Nia has been wanting to do a music video. Here she is to tell you herself. (Quick quiz: What’s more dangerous than talking to Aubrey on Abby’s turf? Answer: Pulling Nia out of Abby’s dance class to talk to Aubrey on Abby’s turf!)

Melissa is appalled. Never mind that Maddie just got done doing an in-studio interview. It wasn’t during class. Never mind that class got rescheduled to accommodate the interview. Just …never mind.

When Holly returns to the Mom Loft, Jessalyn tattles on Melissa, who has instant amnesia about what she just said and drops an F-bomb to punctuate.

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Abby says Kalani and Maddie are her best dancers, therefore everyone wants to see them fail. Meanwhile, Melissa’s problems are only getting worse. She gets wind of Cathy’s chat with TMZ and, since she mentioned it, Jill adds that Sia did apologize for the video, so there’s that. Surely Melissa knows. No?

Melissa doesn’t know. Also Melissa doesn’t read the negative $#1+. The other mothers say well she better before Maddie finds out about it from other, less over-protective people.

In comes a basket of Clue-appropriate props, but rehearsal is interrupted by a camera crew from Entertainment Tonight. Whoops. Jill says they can’t compete with Maddie’s fame.

Time to head for Highland, MI.

Since they are the first to arrive, Cathy and the Canned Apples decide to scope out the ALDC get-ready before heading to their own. Wait! Let’s do a funny and hide behind the curtain until the Pitt Crew shows up! So so funny! And hey — there’s food! To eat or to spit, that is the question. In the meantime…

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Cathy’s prank backfires a bit when Jill discovers them and Abby pulls Fun Renee into a cozy hug. Uh uh uh, says Cathy. What did she say about shunning Abby? Little tough to do when you’ve invaded their room, Cath, but it’s your world. Nope. It’s Abby’s. The latter says the every one of the Canned Apples would come running to the ALDC if she beckoned them.

“Do you guys want to touch Jo Jo’s jacket?” hollers Jessalyn. “It’s probably the closest you’ll get to an Abby Lee jacket.” Abby beams like a proud mother. Melanie freaks.

In the CADC get-ready, Cathy — who’s having a little trouble sticking to her own rules today — takes Fun Renee to task for her niceties with Abby, and when Abby shows up to defend her, Cathy orders her out of their dressing room. Can Abby not read? C-A-D-C, not A-L-D-C.

Remembering her role in today’s episode, Fun Renee looks enormously uncomfortable and delivers her big line:

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Not very fun at all, huh, Fun Renee?
Abby could care less either way.

Back in the ALDC get-ready the mothers remind their charges to act, act, act. Good prep for L.A. Melissa asks Kalani and Maddie if they are emotionally attached and they nod unemotionally. Let’s do this.

Kendall and Jo Jo go first with Play to Win. Timing’s a little off, but it’s cute and sassy. Jo Jo wins the hair thingie. Jill is feeling meh about the whole deal.

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Mack and Nia, in shades of purple, are next. As per the usual, Holly looks like she’s about to witness a bullfight. The girls dance remarkably well together and the dance is surprisingly sophisticated. Holly says the girls could possibly win.

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Melanie says this:

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Game on.

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Melissa says Melanie is embarrassing herself in front of a lot of people. Melanie says Melissa should be embarrassed about letting her daughter act all freaky with Shia. The brawl grows loud enough for Kalani and Maddie to hear it backstage. Kira asks the audience to cheer if they’re on Maddie’s side.

Maddie and Kalani’s duet is pretty but they don’t seem terribly connected on stage. Ten bucks says it’s a winner, though.

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In the ALDC get-ready, Abby is livid about Melanie’s diss. She howls that you never, not ever, say something negative in the audience, because you don’t know who is sitting around you. Pots and kettles, I say, but whatever.

Then she turns it up to eleven and screeches that Melanie would sell her kid to any Tom, Dick or Harry on the street corner if it would land her some face time on TV. Oof!  Probably not the best choice of words, there, Abs. Especially given your run of legal woes. Especially when a camera is capturing it all.

Dance Moms Fashion Moment! ’70s PARTY! That necklace would lay me flat out!

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Time for the group dances. ALDC first.

If you’re keeping track, the only thing that differentiates one character from the other is the color of their headpieces. Going by that, I would say that Maddie is Colonel Mustard, Kalani is Miss Scarlet, Mack is Mrs. White, Nia is Mr. Green, Kendall is Mrs. Peacock and Jo Jo is Professor Plum. Mrs. White turns into Mr. Boddy. Not sure via whom or with what, but anyway. Wheeeeee!

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Mrs. Acken likes it … more than I thought I would. But it’s Professor Holly with the doubt in the audience that’s the killer.

The Canned Apples costumes remind me of something ALDC, but I can’t put my finger on what. The dance starts out a little bit The Last Text…

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…then morphs into a lot of rolling around on the ground …

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…then lifts a little from Amber Alert …

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…and in between is a lot like every lyrical deal Abby has ever choreographed.

Not a chance in Che-hell this thing is going to win. And even less chance that it was ever intended to. Poor Chehon. Poor girls.

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Feeling weirdly charitable, Abby says she liked the choreography and thought the dance was interesting (of course you did — it was a steaming casserole of your own stuff) and that she’ll never forgive herself if her dance loses. Wait, what? Forgive yourself? I thought everything was Nia’s fault. <Rewind, rewind, rewind>. Yep. She said, “Forgive myself.” <Rewind, rewind, rewind>. Yep. She did.

Awards time.

Jo Jo and Kendall get third.
Nia and Mack get second.
And it’s a clean sweep for the ALDC in the duet department.

The Canned Apples group dance gets third.
Get a Clue gets a win.

Let’s fight. Nope. Let’s do this instead.

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Wha’? We went head-to-head with the Apples and no one is throwing down in the hallway? We’re crying? You’re losing your edge, ladies. But thank you for that. Sincerely.

With her mothers promising they’ll try even harder next time, Cathy dries her sniffles and says they’ll regroup and come back to deal the ALDC an L-O-S-S  before they leave for L.A.

Next week on Dance Moms, Abby really, really, really wants to zigazig ah!

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So what say you, Dance Moms Nation? Is Melanie some welcome comic relief or a giant pain in the ass? Who else feels sorry for Renee? Who feels worse for their girls? Anything left to say about Elastic Heart or are we over it? Or did we never hate it in the first place? And WHAT IS THE UNIHORSQUITO??? Sound off in the comments section below.

New episodes of Dance Moms premiere Tuesday nights at 9/8CT on Lifetime.

 

22 Comments

  1. Unihosquito is actually a sculpture titled “Shutterbug” by the late Ohio Artist richard McDermott Miller.

    Quote from *Artwatch*: “Wherever there’s a town that wants junk art, I’ll be there.” And he’s here again in downtown Canton with yet another of his critters made from recycled stuff, this one called “Shutterbug,” located in the parking lot across the street (the 500 block of Cleveland Avenue NW) from the Joseph Saxton Gallery of Photography.”

    Miller died in 2005.

    “New York sculptor Richard McDermott Miller, 82, died in Manhattan. He was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He had more than twelve solo exhibitions in New York, and in other cities. Among the museums that have works by Richard McDermott Miller are the Hirshhorn Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ohio’s Canton Art Institute, the Butler Institute of Amercan Art as well as in South Carolina’s Brookgreen Gardens and North Carolina’s Weatherspoon Art Gallery.”

    “Richard McDermott Miller has received two gold medals from the National Academy of Design, the art award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Hakone Open-Air Museum Award along with one from Classical America, particularly honoring him for his “single-minded dedication” to the human figure.”

    • OOPS!
      I messed that all up…the actual artist of *Shutterbug* is P.R. Miller. This Miller is still alive it seems, my apologies to P.R..

      gallery15.com/artists/p-r-miller/

      • Thanks for the research you did on Unihorsquito, John Linen! (Lori’s name for that work of “art” is so much more descriptive than “Shutterbug,” so I will stick with it.) It is good to know that Cathy Nesbitt-Stein is not the only scary thing in Canton, Ohio.

      • “Wherever there is a cable network that wants junk TV, I’ll be there.” ~ Jeff Collins

  2. I thought it was hilarious how worked up Melissa got when Holly called Aubrey and pulled Nia out of class for literally two minutes to speak to her. Heaven forbid any of the other girls get any attention. It might take the spotlight off of Maddie for just one second. I’ve never cared for Melissa and this episode showed exactly why. She’s so sneaky and is such a liar. She will do whatever it takes to make sure Maddie is on top and it’s absolutely disgusting. She’s just a terrible person all the way around. There’s a huge difference between doing what it right for your child and doing whatever it takes to make sure your child is the best/favorite, even if that means taking down others to do so. I also agree with Jill that Melissa and Abby need to stop sheltering Maddie from any negativity. Not everyone is going to like you or your work. It’s called life.

    • Watching her expressions and reactions, I think Melissa is just completely in over her head. One minute, she’s a Pittsburgh mom with the usual suburban dramas, the next figuring out how to wrangle Abby and her contracts with the show and ALDC and the sudden burst of fame that came with Maddie’s association with Sia. Either one would be a fine pickle in and of itself — together? Oy. I think the family could possibly use more professional representation, but I’m just speculating.

      • I completely agree, keeping Maddie in a bubble (or cage as the video suggests) is only going to hurt her, she needs to see the ugly side of “fame”. Who knows, she may decide that it isn’t for her after all…..hey we can dream can’t we? LOL

      • After the way melissa snubbed Sia’s mom, in her home town, I doubt she will have to wrangle anymore time with Sia videos. That is unless Sia is willing to throw her own mom under melissa’s bus. Who knows,,,maybe the notoriety means more to her.

  3. I was soooo glad that the tone of the show was back to moderate. The interactions between the moms and with Cathy were jabs versus knock down fights (and no megaphone). For some reason I was very taken with Maddie and Nia. First Maddie, I watch with focused dancer and when interviewed how humble and confident she is. You forget that she is still a fun loving kids. She got excited about going to Hollywood, was spinning Mack Z around, and later met each dancer as they came off stage. She seems to truly love her time with the team in the dance studio.
    I watched the last 3-4 episodes again and was very impressed with Nia work in the group numbers. In some of them she was very visible as she was in the middle. She always shows me that she knows her limits as a dancer but is confident in what she can do. She has the unique skill to block out the fights between Holly and Abby, and not get down with the results of her solos. She is a real professional and takes on the next dance with all her heart. Has anyone notice that there is less yelling at Nia regarding her dance skills.
    Kendall and Jojo – I did not see much in this dance. As always both girls looked great. Just a thought, if one dancer was graceful and the other was doing (sorry folks) the hurky-jerky moves of the Mannequin dance and they switched styles during the dance it could have been AMAZING (that was a Jill comment).
    Nia and Mack Z – Nia was the star in this dance. The contrast between Nia’s strong persona and Z’s graceful persona was on point. Nia used her face and powerful body movements to make this dance the best it could be. I was glad for both of them to win their age category and get 2nd overall.
    Maddie and Kalani – Best dancers, best dance. Of course this was setup by the comment in the audience. My guess is that one of the staff yelled at M and K to get them to look at the camera. This is why I love DM’s because it is truly reality TV. We know that the video was released 10 weeks ago, was controversial, and was the hot topic at dance competitions.
    Group Dance – Did not connect with me. Abby kept saying you need to act. Were the girl’s lovely, yes. Did the girls show dance skills, yes. Did the girls demonstrate acting skills, NO.
    Note – There is a video of Nia (with an appearance from Jojo) doing her new song in Melbourne on March 20th.

    • I agree with you on all points. I saw the video of Nia in Melbourne, and as impressive as her stage presence is, and will grow to be with experience singing and dancing at the same time, the sound quality was horrendous, you could barely hear her vocals at all. That being said, the kid has more star quality than MackZ and Brooke (sorry Brooke, but it’s true) when it comes to the performing aspect of being a pop star. Mack can only do the cutesy, little girly thing for so long, and unless Brooke has improved a ton, she just doesn’t have the vocal chops to make a career out of it.

  4. I kinda thought this episode was a ‘damage control’ episode. After the last several ‘Abby showing her ugly true colors and ‘we’re hemorrhaging viewers’ episodes, ‘we better show her in a better light or there will be nothing left!’ The beginning of this episode reminded me of the scene in Misery where Kathy Bates character rants and raves about the serial movies where the new episodes would always show the hero unscathed when we know ‘he didn’t get out of the cockadoody car!’ We start this episode like there was none of the ugliness of last episode and the only reminder we have is the ‘last episode’ stuff before we started. Everyone is mellow. There’s Nia looking just fine. There’s Holly looking just fine. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. No, everyone…Holly never stalked off after Abby said, ‘if you don’t like it, get out’ We are all just fine. We now include Kendall in the ‘you didn’t place, so you don’t get any solo’s for a while’ thing instead of Abby only giving Nia the ultimatum last episode. Everything is just fiiiiiiiiiinnnnne! Everything is just fiiiiiiinnne. Abby isn’t a psycho hose beast…..she would never say mean things to the girls…..keeeeeeeep watching while we go back to L.AAAAAAAA. despite nothing having changed. ‘
    Are you buying it anyone?? I put the show on pause and came into the computer to watch the new Sia video and had to admit that it was extremely icky! The ickiest part in my opinion, was Maddie overacting her ‘I am a crazy wolf” faces, which before she explained that she was a wolf, I took as meaning that she was a crazy ‘person’ locked in a psych ward and Shia was the doctor. Wasn’t her character in the first video a crazy person? I thought it was a continuation of the first video since she was still wearing the same wig. I have to say that it looked like it tried really hard not to seem like there was anything untoward between Maddie’s character and Shia’s character, it was still icky the way that she crawls all over him and then he falls over her body once in a ‘rape’ type pose. That upset me terribly and I wondered what in the hell Melissa, or Abby or Sia or anybody was thinking when they allowed an 11 or 12 year old girl (no matter how good a dancer she is) to be in this psycho mess. I couldn’t understand the lyrics enough to understand what the hell was going on other than making me wonder why, if she could get out of the cage all along, she would have been in there a year. Gah! Here we see the end of Maddie’s short lived career.
    Now next week we get to see Melissa’s further disconnect between real life and reality when we see Abby berating Mackenzie about how she is no one except Maddie’s little sister. Is it just me, or has Mackenzie become more and more lackluster each week as Maddie’s star rises. Her dancing doesn’t seem as powerful. She looks like she is over it all. There is no joy in her face. Most of the time she looks to the side and her face breaks my heart. I was pleased to see that she and Nia seemed to have a good time working together and I liked their duet and was glad that it placed higher than Kendall and JoJo.
    I always wonder what the heck Cathy is thinking when she always comes into these ‘fight’s’ with Abby all full of gusto and insults and then gets her balloon popped and it’s all ‘let’s slink out of here’ when she loses again. I can’t understand anybody wanting to be on her team when her whole goal in life is just to beat Abby’s team. Who is she sleeping with or paying huge bucks to that keep bringing in all these well known (to the dance world) people from ‘So you think you can dance’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ who have all shunned Abby just to lose to Abby. I can’t believe that the number we saw the new Candy Apples do last night was really choreographed by Chehon. It was very lackluster and wasted a lot of the talent that they had. He was such a dynamic dancer. By the same token, the clue dance wasn’t that great either and there were some real flaws.
    Anyway, I think that Abby zeroing in on Mackenzie next week will be another thing that LT is going to have to run another damage control episode over. We will see.

  5. I think I’m the only person in the free world who had never seen the new Sia video, and now after watching it……….ewwwww. I mean, first of all, Maddie may as well have been bare-@ssed naked in that leotard. At least with Chandelier, the lighting was dim ninety percent of the time, but this was just…….sorry I have to say it……a pedophile’s dream. It’s bad enough that she’s 12 years old and still has the body of a little girl, but some of those movements and positions, and crawling all over Shia……what the hell was Sia thinking????? I don’t care how “artful” and “interesting” the concept is, seeing a pre-pubescent little girl looking like that is absolutely disgusting to me. Give it a year, and the kid is going to have dirty old men stalking her and she’ll be putting out restraining orders.

    Now, enough with the creepiness, I actually ENJOYED ABBY this week…..and I never thought I would ever say that. She didn’t pick on the girls, she paired them well for duets (although Jojo and Kendall’s didn’t seem to fit the whole Freaky Friday thing, I didn’t get it) and she took the high road with Cathy and her new minions.

    Oh Melissa……c’mon, even you have to admit you got busted with your lying crap this week……it’s just laughable how delusional and clueless and dangerously in denial you are. Oh wait……you’re the one who lets your child get groped and tossed around by a grown man while she’s practically naked.

    • I have yet to see the video. I’ve just never wanted to. The concept seems controversial, I wasn’t a huge fan of Chandelier to begin with… and I personally don’t like Sia’s music. Those three things just didn’t mesh well.

      • Video is up there in the blog post if you care to see it, Christian. There’s no question Maddie dances brilliantly in it, but as far as good taste goes…

  6. For years Christi and Kelly called Melissa out on lies that the audience never saw. This episode really showed her true colors. They must have been editing the other to look crazy even more than it seemed. The whole show and what these parents will do and say in front of a camera to keep a sliver of spotlight on their kids is pathetic.

  7. SMELLS LIKE ABBY SPIRIT

    Load up on snacks, bring your friends
    It’s fun to win and to pretend
    She’s over-fed and self-assured
    Oh no, they bleeped a dirty word

    Hello, hello, hello, how low
    Hello, hello, hello, how low
    Hello, hello, hello, how low
    Hello, hello, hello

    With lawsuits out, it’s less dangerous
    Here we are now, entertain us
    I feel stupid and contagious
    Here we are now, entertain us
    A gelato, a fat wino, a unihorsquito, a flesh speedo
    Yeah, hey, yeh

    And I forget just why I watch
    Oh yeah, Lori’s blog makes me smile
    I found it hard, it’s hard to find
    Oh well, whatever, never mind

          • I hope Orange Pants Guy swats the image of Unihorsquito out of my mind. I found it much more disturbing than the Elastic hearts video. May I never come face to face with that abomination as I’m driving around lost in Ohio. (Note to self: never go to Ohio.)

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