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Oh, yeah -- I forgot that he's the Llama Whisperer! Incidentally, I just started following him on Twitter, and apparently Russell Hantz doesn't care too much for the idea that Tony is Russell 2.0. He tried to engage Tony in a bit of a trash-talk battle, and Tony shredded him. It was hilarious.

He's actually of full-blooded Greek descent. I imagine he did grow up speaking the language (Greek immigrants have pretty much always insisted on passing down the language because the Greek Orthodox Church still conducts many of its services in that language), so he's probably a true bilingual.

Exactly. That's why the rule regarding the Hidden Immunity Idol was changed after Yul's season: it simply gave the holder too much power by assuring that the holder would never have to worry about being voted out as long as everyone knew that he/she had it. No one would ever bother to vote someone out who could negate any votes cast against him/her after the fact.

You mean, it's not? And the kids' Survivor isn't that new a concept, either. Have you ever read Lord of the Flies?

But Derek has never had a Diana Nyad, a Florence Henderson, a Kirstie Alley, a Nancy Grace, a Kate Gosselin, a Cloris Leachman, a Valerie Harper, or a Macy Gray. When I see him successfully navigate a season with someone over the age of 60 or with as poor a work ethic or severe a lack of talent as Macy Gray, Pamela Anderson, Nancy Grace, or Kate Gosselin, then I'll be more persuaded that he's the true Wunderkind that he's been billed as ad nauseam. Using smoke and mirrors, multiple backup dancers, and routines that bear only a passing resemblance to the assigned dances doesn't count, either. Even with Amy, none of that was necessary, as her week with Mark and her straight-up Quickstep proved.

Your list is incomplete. Allow me to add to it: 5. Consistently breaks the rules and gets away with it because the judges refuse to penalize him appropriately and only make a show of glaring at him and lecturing him -- but then go ahead and give him a 9 or a 10 anyway because, DEREK 6. Never gets a partner with the kind of severe physical or emotional issues that many other pros *coughTristanandTonycough* have constantly had to deal with 7. Has an annoying habit of inserting himself into everything and making things more about him than they really should be *coughMacy'sStarsofDancenumbers* 8. Keeps saying that he wants to take a break from the show but never does 9. Is overrated and overhyped ad nauseam ("redefining choreography for a new generation"? Excuse me while I barf!) Ah, much better!

I don't know about that. That same year, there was a Bollywood-infused Salsa done on the Australian DWTS that I felt was light-years better than Derek and Shawn's number. To me, it was the perfect example of a Bollywood-inspired dance done right.

He was on Celebrity Apprentice -- and no, he's never been on DWTS, thank God. Given the propensity for high drama and complete lack of anything resembling a work ethic that he showed on Celebrity Apprentice, I wouldn't wish him on any of our female pros -- nobody deserves that kind of punishment. He'd make Master P look like Charlie White. In other words, no, no, a billion times just -- NO.

John Barrowman competed in and won the Strictly Come Dancing (UK) Christmas Special a couple of years ago (which has no counterpart in the US, unfortunately), and you might still be able to find that on YouTube if you do a search. He has said that he'd be open to doing a full regular season there, so that version would probably snap him up before ours did. For the same reason that Tom Delay and Bristol Palin were considered personae non gratae when they did the show a few years ago: Too many political overtones.

Because as big a fan as she is, she simply isn't interested in doing the show. As she once put it, "They've knocked on the door many times, but no one's ever been home." Nigella would be a problem -- wasn't she banned from the US recently due to drug charges?

You took the words right out of my fingers. For the love of all that's good, pure, and holy, get me some brain bleach -- stat!

Actually, that's Phil's shorthand. It means that the six-Roadblock limit only applies through the first ten legs. For the last two legs (11 and 12), each leg has three Roadblocks, which can be divided 2-1 (in other words, the six-Roadblock limit doesn't apply in the two final legs).

Hey, she's not just from Vegas, she is Vegas. And the hometown curse strikes again, apparently!

I can quote only what I'm actually replying to using that function (as I'm doing now), but I usually have to edit the post I'm quoting down to only the part I want to quote. I'm guessing that some posters may not be editing and are just quoting the entire post verbatim, which is why you see so much extra text in some quoted posts.

You didn't roll your eyes last week when Kenny Ortega told Derek that he had "redefined choreography for a new generation"? I certainly did! How come it wil only be eyeroll-worthy if it's directed at Maks?

The French show (Les Revenants) isn't based on the same book as Resurrection, so there's no comparing the two.

I see what you did there! :)

Wrong decade. Belle looked to me as though she'd somehow found a portal to Chicago circa 1927.

Yes, it was I who said that.

It's Elsa. The show doesn't have the rights to Narnia.

Yes, somebody had better put Maks on a suicide watch, because he's clearly got nothing left to live for now that he's been rejected by Abby Lee Miller!

But there's no evidence that Dr. Whale was actually in Fairy Tale Land at the time the original curse was cast. Regina specifically stated that the curse brought over only those whom she wanted to bring over, and I do not recall that she only meant that to apply to the dead. To me, Dr. Whale falls under the same category as Jefferson, i.e., someone who was actually brought directly over from his home world, as a particular punishment for his part in scamming Regina out of a heart that she thought was going to be used to resurrect Daniel.

If you're talking about the original curse, the only apparent rule was that it it brought over only those people whom Regina specifically wanted to bring over (the only exception being anyone who was under Cora's protection-spell dome). Dorothy wouldn't have been transported by that curse because (a) Regina wouldn't have even known that she existed and (b) she would already have been in our world (i.e., Kansas) when Regina cast the original curse. Similarly, I'm guessing that because Dorothy would already be in our world (albeit some 30 years older than when Zelena sent her back to Kansas), the curse cast by Snow wouldn't have brought her to Storybrooke, either.

Have you had your shots?

Maks WAS being gracious, by his standards. I've seen him be a lot worse -- and frankly, that cow would have DESERVED a lot worse! Not really. "Rumba" is the modern spelling (it is, in fact, how it is spelled in the original Spanish). "Rhumba" is an older variation that is no longer as commonly used as it once was. And while I'm on the subject, Maks and Meryl's Rumba WAS a Rumba, with plenty of basic Rumba content. The only reason that it had more of a Contemporary feeling was that Maks and Meryl were telling a story that was different from the usual "let's just tear each other's clothes off and make babies" performance that usually makes up the "dance of love." It also helps that Meryl can really act; she sold the story and the feeling of the dance better than many a professional actress could have, in my opinion!