TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Week 3 - Page 2

I still wonder if it isn't part of some larger scheme, this slotting of deadly dull dancers into the series to encourage a quick and tidy first few weeks, giving the more exceptional dancers time to relax and find their footing (hardy-har-har) a bit before the REAL competition begins.

I know it definitely makes for pretty banal TV. Even when there's good routines mixed in there, watching lesser dancers struggle through their paces can be excruciating.

A case in point is one of the few numbers I did manage to catch while conscious, Chelsea and Thayne doing the fox trot to "You Can’t Hurry Love" by Phil Collins. Chelsea also went home this week, which is what should happen when you dance to Phil Collins — you should be eliminated from something or other. You should be fired from your job, or ejected from your country club, or perhaps just beaten about the face and head outside your car in the parking lot.

There are worse sins than dancing the fox trot to Phil Collins, but I can't imagine what they would be. So if you want to know why I fell asleep this week during SYTYCD, crank up Phil Collins next time you hear him on the radio, and dance a little. You'll fall asleep too, standing up.

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