Dancing with the Stars Elimination Night: Week Three

The show began with a dance in honor of Misty May-Treanor. The routine that sent her into surgery yesterday was performed by Maksim and Edetya. When you watch two of the pros together, it’s such a heavy reminder of just how bad some of these “stars” are. With Maks and Edetya, there are no moments of nail-biting, “Will they pull this off?”; It’s just two minutes of pure entertainment.

Brooke and Derek are the first couple declared safe (duh), followed by Cloris and Corky (WHAT? Sympathy votes should only go so far).

Kool and the Gang were the evening’s first musical guests performing a disco medley of all the songs people get down to at weddings and bar mitzvahs. When they finished their 1986-style revelry, Maurice and Cheryl are told their safe (deservedly, even if we hate her homewrecking ass).

Then the Radio City Rockettes took the stage for a slightly bizarre though winningly retro number primarily comprised of kick lines. Very 1930’s Vegas gone Busby Berkley for ABC. As soon as they made their silver spangled way off the DWTS stage, Jennifer Hudson performed a remix of her new single “Spotlight.” Jennifer needs to stick to singing. Watching her act in anything besides Dreamgirls (and even that got a little hammy at times) is just excruciating. She wasn’t single handedly responsible for ruining Sex and the City: The Movie, but she was one of the worst of the bad bunch, which is saying A LOT. She looked beautiful, but the song kind of sucks.

Luckily, Derek and Julianne Hough danced to it, and the brother and sister did an outstanding job! Theirs is one talented family. We can’t deny it, we have a sudden fever for Derek’s flava, big ol’ nostrils and all. We like it.

The next two safe couples are Warren and Kym (of course) and Toni and Alec (seriously? Their dance was awful!). With four couples waiting to hear who is and isn’t safe (Susan and Tony, Rocco and Karina, Lance and Lacey and Cody and Julianne) Tom Bergeron announces no couple will be sent home that week since Misty and Maks were out (that means no Kim Kardashian!!! Yay!) but the couple who would have been going home is revealed, meaning next week they need to majorly score with both the fans and the judges in order to stay alive.

The couple on the brink of elimination, who would have gone home, is…Rocco and Karina.

But, as Lacey assured them, they’re safe for one more week, if dancing on borrowed time.

Until next week.