Bah, I clearly came back to this thread too late to contribute. But just in case:

Hear hear. Consistently the best choreographer(s) this season. Travis is right behind - and I still maintain that the sick mom dance is great if you don't know the context. Let's just assume NapTab read AVC comments and adjusted accordingly.

I kinda wish I had a friend that made BDSM clown porn. That's someone with some stories.

To my SYTYCD peoples
Anyone in Houston wanna go see this? I feel strangely drawn to it, like SYTYCD transmitted a virus to me through the TV.

See now I would have placed a knife in my waistband for the next encounter just to scare the bejeezus out of her.

Clashes? Crushing melancholy and comedy go together like chocolate and peanut butter!

Right there with you Got Nothing, I heart broke for Louis' brother. I'm very impressed that C.K. could write and direct such a thing. I love this show far more for having the guts to go beyond comedy to a truly painful place. But then when Louis raised his hand, so did I so I think this ep was a little more personal…

I saw her a couple years ago at SXSW and was rather surprised that she didn't seem to get much of a boost from it. At the time, the scripted tightness of it came off as too polished and programmed for me. Her team's been shaping the look, sound, moves from the outset as it's pretty much the same. I'm more generous now…

New routines for the tour?
Good news. Glad I got a ticket. Wade+Amanda please!

Really? Adechike's been getting the beat-down from the judges so the results were as expected. Though when they cut to the judges after the announcement, Mia looked bummed with Adam patting her shoulder. Only Featherhead and Tasty were smiling and clapping.

Hear hear. Abdi's drawing just radiated quality, skill, and thoughtfulness in a way that nothing else has on this show. Now that I've seen what he can do I'm even more frustrated with the half-assed stuff he's put out.

Yay for Tiffany, but I was astounded that she professed to be unfamiliar with Ethiopian food because there are no such places in Dallas or Houston. Queen of Sheba has been around for something like 20 years and is a well-known restaurant. Houston has several Ethiopian joints. For shame Tiffany.

Ragan Fox is on Big Brother
This boggles my mind. Fox lived in Austin for awhile but I'm thinking that Sean O'Neal wasn't frequently in the audience for slam poetry matches or he might have said something here.

Will & Grace was a fairly gutsy premise for a primetime major network sitcom at the time, but quickly recedes in the rearview mirror as more, and more nuanced, gay characters appear. Sure it was frustrating that Will was so sexless, and that the much touted "gay kiss" was a stunt (both for the show and within the…

Ha! Taken to the extreme, imagine Ade in his old man makeup from Mia's Three Ages of Man routine sexing up Lauren in a Catholic school uniform skirt. Ugh.

Heaven is not…
Heaven is not Katie Thompson's awful cover of that Belinda Carlisle song. I don't want a version that can't be seamlessly mashed up with Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" (it's the same damn song, and I love Orbital for pointing that out so well).

Has Billy had that solo in his back pocket for awhile now? Because it's quite different from what we've seen before as well as the most interesting of the night.

I'm getting all smiley just thinking about my film school class bursting into raucous laughter and applause at the audacity of that line. Wonderful.

This was one of the great out-of-print films for the longest time. It didn't even show often on the various movie channels. Finally caught it via my Tivo and thank goodness. The response when I first saw it in film school was tremendous. We went ape-shit for the climax and talked of nothing else for days.

Gerritv, as I said above I tape some performances. I showed my sister both the Travis' Mom dance and Cancer dance without the intros and she was mesmerized by both (she loves Travis and picked it out as his choreography). I see what you're saying, but the routines are legitimately good without the (somewhat cloying)…