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During the Cohutta/LeRoy elimination, my family (yes, my 11 year old is obsessed with this show, please don't call Child Services) was chanting "take the jumper!" when Cohutta had the ball. So we laughed when he actually tried it once. I really think that's your best bet when facing someone who is like twice your size. Yeah, they might block it or you might miss, but it's still a better option than trying to go man to man against someone with that kind of size discrepancy.

Laurel just continues to be the worst this season. She's just so smug. But acting like that to the one person who truly has her back was just way too much. I really do think that she has this idea that she and Jordan are some "power couple" or something, and they're going to reign over all future Challenges (despite his ass already being gone from this one). I'm convinced that Frank's presence is somehow a key variable in the "Zach Douchebag Equation." When he's not around, Zach's likable. It's weird. I was rooting for the guys to vote in Johnny, leaving us with the potential for a Johnny vs. Johnny elimination. (Who wins? America.)

It cracked me up that he was still, while giving her the dress, basically saying "well, I still think he belongs with Brooke, but not my call, so, uh, well, here's your dress."

God, could you imagine the over the top cheesy scenery chewing of that scene?

Ron does love Florencia Lozano. Or, hell, if he did go with Levi as Mac's, he'd probably just go ahead and retcon some affair with Holly. May as well make all the illegitimate Aussie kids who show up in town Holly's with everyone but Robert. Seriously, though, I hate the thought that they could make Levi Mac's kid. If he's finally going to get his own bio kid, I'd prefer that said kid not be a total asshole. Also, I know there would be no biological connection and they weren't raised knowing each other or anything, but ick to Maxie finding out she's sleeping with her father's son.

Yeah, I'll be stunned if Nina isn't fully aware of Sam/Silas and playing the innocent wheelchair bound wife. If she doesn't get up and walk around the second Silas leaves her alone at his place, it'll be truly shocking. It's going to be ridiculous when MS launches into full scenery chewing mode opposite ME and KeMo (where the most we'll get in return to said scenery devouring is a "WTF" face from KeMo).

"Nina" is actually Bill Eckert, and "Luke" is actually Nina.

Did we ever find out who killed him?

I was ready to throttle him when he played the "technically, she's not your daughter" card. Die in a fire, Levi.

Tonight was the first time I've tried voting by phone, and Maks and Meryl's number was busy for quite a while after the show. I'm hoping that's a good sign.

I perked up when CAI said "why isn't Derek having Amy dance?" And then, of course, we got that "dance with your soul" crap. Should have known she wouldn't really take him to task for that.

I can have convenient soap ethics with the best of them, but I can never get on board with the idea that, if I don't like a soap character, it's cool to steal their baby. It's not OK that Sonny, Carly, and Jason stole AJ's son from him for his entire childhood, and it's not OK that Britt stole Lulu and Dante's baby. That kid is not Britt's. Her wanting him to be, her loving him, her being "good with the baby," doesn't magically make him hers. And Lulu's hands certainly weren't clean in the whole Connie/Georgie mess, but she was on the receiving end of a huge mindfuck there. Maxie chose to lie to Lulu and Dante and not tell them about the miscarriage (thus not allowing them the chance to grieve and process that loss) and not telling them that the baby she ended up carrying was, in fact, not theirs. She handed that baby over, still allowing them to believe it was theirs, and kept her mouth shut until Brad blew her lies out of the water. I don't think anyone would handle it well when the baby they believe is theirs, who they love and bond with, is suddenly revealed to not be their child and the cruel lie perpetrated on them by their best friend, someone they trusted with something so important and personal. Britt was a whole other ball game. She always knew that baby wasn't her own. She wasn't desperate to be a mother, or even all that interested in being a mother, she merely wanted someone else's baby as her pawn to try and get a man back who didn't want her. Yeah, she finally ended up bonding with the baby, but she knew he was never hers, so that's on her and her choices and her pathetic need to have her bitch of a mother's approval so much.

Agreed. I think he'd be the one pro who I'd trust to really be fully impartial and judge on the actual dance. A 10 from him would really mean something.

This! I don't blame Amy for the fact that Derek has her sit on her ass for over half of a dance, because Derek's the one making those decisions. I blame him, and I blame the show (and, especially the 3 fools slobbering all over him every chance they get, week after week, season after season) for getting him to the point where he thinks it's totally fine to shortchange his partner's ability to learn and grow by hiding and masking. Yes, SOME of the jazz dance being done on a table (or chair) would be cool, but I swear, she took, maybe, what, six dance steps down on her feet without her ass or back on that table? That's on Derek. And it's on the judges that they fawned all over it and, even when the out of sync issues was directly mentioned, there was only one of four judges who managed to shake her lips off Derek's ass long enough to drop a point off their score for such a glaring mistake. When CAI is the rational one, the rest of them have a problem. So, yeah, any shade I'm throwing, wondering about whether Amy's freestyle is going to be her sitting on the judges' table while Derek does one of his Macy's dances, that's shade being thrown at Derek and the judges. Although, a moment of contempt for whoever did Amy's makeup for their last dance. Whenever the camera was close up she looked like a rough truck stop waitress about 20 years older than she is. Side note, I REALLY hope we're not getting a guest judge for the finals...unless turnabout is fair play and we're going to get Val sitting in that seat after Julianne doing it twice.

Total bullshit. Of course, Charlie is adorable even in defeat. I can't wait to see what piece of furniture Amy spends 90 percent of her freestyle on next week. The kitchen counter? Maybe she'll just scoot around on the judges' table? I have a question, though, is someone going to get the boot before the finals start next week? Or are this week's scores/votes basically meaningless?

Wow. Peta did a rumba and didn't come out with her in her undies and James in boxer briefs. That may be the shock of the season. CAI might want to grab a hold of her dignity, though. "I've been waiting for you to do a rumba!" and going on about James being a naturally sexual person? Honey, please. Just...stop.

What in the actual hell? If it was anyone other than Derek and Amy who just spent 90 percent of their dance with the star sitting/lying on a table? Oh here go hell come. At least CAI pointed out the beyond blatant out of sync issue (she was, what, 4 beats ahead of him for a bit?) Everyone else got down on their knees and kissed Derek's ass.

For his tween/teen fanbase, it's apparently the shit.

James and Peta were tweeting that they'd give away signed pictures to any fans who could show proof they voted for them 1,000 times last week.

Gee, I guess Maks/Meryl and Charlie/Sharna should have been bribing their fans to game the system, too?

I thought I had some vague memory of Frank saying he wasn't doing it any more, and comparing himself (favorably in his own mind) to the people who do them over and over. Not that I'm shocked he's a huge old fame whore, but I thought I remembered something along those lines.

As soon as Nikki said how much she loved that house, you knew the "big mystery" with John was going to be that he was buying it.

Well Patrick clearly considers them to still be married, since he was well aware she was leaving and told her that he loves her and will wait for her. If he thought her leaving was a deal breaker on being married, he'd have done something about it. It's not like Robin just crept out in the middle of the night with no warning. She told him what was going on, and, while he's not happy about it, he also chose to remain married to her.

We were discussing this last night, and, we were thinking it's best to go either first or last. If you go first, you have a 1 in 6 chance, which is the best odds you'll get. Going last means that you've got 5 chances ahead of you that someone else will pick it and you never even need to pick a card to flip. I think, with 6 flipping, it would be the worst to be in that 4th or 5th spot. Yes, there are chances that one of the first three get it, but if they don't, your odds suck by the time 3 or 4 blank cards have been flipped. As for the order, it should be random (and maybe it was and we just didn't see that process), like production drawing names out of a hat or the cast members drawing numbers from a hat.

I've thought for a long time that it was going to turn out that Maxie was pregnant with twins and only lost one of them when she miscarried.