Last night’s announcement show on So You Think You Can Dance MORE than made up for the rather meh performance finale the evening before. In fact, it was probably the most enjoyable finale show I’ve seen in ages. We got favorite performances all over the place, many of them my faves as well. Great to recall what a wonderful season it truly was. We got a peek at the contestants from yesteryears, including a group dance at the end with our own top 20 of this season. We got all of the top 20 back on this stage, and wasn’t it wild the number of them that made you go, ooooh yeah, I forgot all about that person! We got both Mary (w/Dmitry) and Nigel (with Debbie Allen Dance Academy tap kids) on stage performing. Mary’s was most amazing since she just sprained her ankle days before. I do not know how she did that and am only sorry we didn’t get to see her dance full tilt. Wow, pretty damn good legs for a 50+ year old woman. Pretty damn good everything. And Dmitry with no shirt is always a Good Thing. We got to see the completely twisted Wade Robson Dead Bunnies Dancing routine, which I completely loved for all it’s absolute freakness. Shane came back with a final top 20 hip hop routine that made me miss him so much more. Ok, so sure we inexplicably had the Jonas Brothers which was the only thing I fast forwarded through and so entirely unnecessary to the program, but the goodness completely outweighed that bit of pandering.

In the end, Courtney went first, then, to the shock of most of the audience, if not me personally, Katee went second, but received a Top Girl consolation prize of 50K, which made me and alot of people a lot happier. Then it was finally down to Twitch and Joshua and I was rooting for Josh and….he did it! I felt bad that Twitch didn’t get his video send off - they should have done one for both before announcing the winner - that was my only slight critique of the night. But Twitch was so thrilled for Josh and a very gracious runner up. Seeing Josh cry and his then the camera on his dad crying, both of them looking so identical, was sweet and cute. Great season, great fun. I wish they were coming to a venue a little closer to me. I might have actually gotten the ticket this year.

I did get the ticket to the American Idol concert (or a friend did) and we go next week. Woo hoo!

Okay, now on to the major disappointment that is this season of Project Runway. The total cutie Apolo Ohno (who lost the Anton somewhere….) was the guest judge and gave them the challenge of coming up with sportswear the women athletes could wear during opening ceremonies. (Not that the winning design would be used btw, Ralph Lauren already locked that up. And no one would be insane enough to trust this crop of designers with something so important.) Which turned out to be true as only three or four of them actually even designed anything closely resembling sportswear. You know when Stella opts for black leather for the USA athletes and it looks more sporty than over half the other things up there that the challenge has gone seriously wrong. Michael Kors summed it up best when, after seeing the entries, said, “What, did you give them the instructions to the challenge in another language?” Which…..exactly. In the end, Teri is once again a bridesmaid, Joe comes in third, and Korto wins. I was okay with that line up. In the bottom were a very sulky Daniel who I want gone now, Alice In Wonderland, and Jerrell. Alice leaves us, but any of them could have gone. None of them will win. All the designs can be seen on the website - link in the column to your right.

We also had Big Brother which was slightly more entertaining - America got to wake them up all night, which was most amusing. Jesse was booted out in a last minute destruction of the original alliance. Thank god America got that right and made Dan boot the inflatable houseguest out. Loved that. Then it all went to crap when Michelle won HOH. But at least it won’t be boring for the feed watchers this week.

Mostly, I reveled in the greatness that was the SYTYCD finale. That was made of awesome and ever so much fun. Sigh that it’s over for another year. But we do get Dancing With The Stars back next month! (With the return of Maks. Yay! More shirtless dancers! Bring it on!)

We also have a winner in this week’s innaugural New Site SHaQ Attack contest. I asked you to hunt for the title of my only non-fiction entry and you all got it right - Perfectly Plum. The winning blog babe is? Karen H from NC!! Woo hoo!! Congrats Karen!!

Tune in next week for more MAC and another SHaQ! Until then….DISH! What did you think? Did your favorite win? Who goes next on BB? And do we care that Brooke Shields is on Project Runway next week? Are we wasting the best guest judges ever on a season of meh? Poor Tim.

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