National Stay At Home Week - Day 1

National Stay At Home Week

Wow - that's such a GREAT marketing campaign, especially since TV has for the most part (except for Big Brother) SUCKED this summer. So, in an effort to be swayed by cheap marketing tactics and w/ nothing else to do on a Monday night... I Tivoed three of my favorite shows The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, & One Tree Hill and then while flipping back and forth between the Jets/Chargers game... I watched Dancing With The Stars

Dancing w/ the Stars - Season 7

Well well well... it's a new season of DWTS and the first day was awesome! Here are my thoughts on the first show.

Cody Linley & Julianne Hough - The young couple. I think they got robbed. It definitely hurt them going first. He was a little stiff and the bit about him beatboxing & rapping.. dear lord…please don’t do that again!

Judges Score: 18

My Score: 20

Rocco DiSpirito & Karina Smirnoff - I know Karina injured her ankle, but it didn’t really affect her performance. I’m not a huge fan of Rocco’s, but I did watch his show The Restaurant, which I enjoyed. The dance kinda sucked.

Judges Score: 14

My Score: 15

Toni Braxton & Alec Mazo - So, my mom and I are convinced that Alec Mazo is a sucky teacher and got lucky w/ Kelly Monaco. He has yet again gotten lucky. Tony Braxton was pretty great. They had pretty good chemistry.

Judges Score: 22

My Score: 22

Maurice Greene & Cheryl Burke – Cheryl looks like she put on some pounds. =( Maurice has rhythm, but he’s a little stiff.

Judges Score: 18

My Score: 18

Brooke Burke & Derek Hough – She was AWESOME. She’s got great lines and great “musicality” It’s surprising that she has 4 kids. She looks AMAZING. I thought they were great.

Judges Score: 23

My Score: 23

Ted McGinley & Inna Brayer – Inna’s new and she seems like she doesn’t have much of a personality, but looks like an amazing dancer. I love Ted McGinley. Married w/ Children was one of my favorite shows. You can tell he’s new to dancing, but he was pretty good and even though he messed up. He was pretty suave and kept the smile the entire time. He had good posture.

Judges Score: 18

My Score: 19

Lance Bass & Lacey Schwimmer – Lacy is also new. She’s spunky! Lance was GREAT! Of course I'm biased because I was a HUGE fan of NSYNC! Joey Fatone was in the audience. It wasn’t a traditional Cha Cha Cha, but who cares.. it was fun, entertaining, and all around awesome for a first dance!

Judges Score: 24

My Score: 24

Cloris Leachman & Corky Ballas – Now, who knew that Cloris was 82! Man, she’s so agile! Her partner is Corky Ballas, father of Mark Ballas Jr. Her dancing was not at the speed as the rest of the people, but she was better than Rocco and entertaining. She makes Len say the funniest line in a very long time – “Mind your cleavage!” hahaha

Judges Score: 16

My Score: 16

Jeffrey Ross & Edyta Slwinska – Poor poor Edyta! I think she deserves to win this thing one time! However, she always gets saddled w/ lame partners. The only one that was good was Joey Lawerence. Cameron was ok, but you knew that they didn’t really have a chance to win. Jeffrey got injured when when Edyta poked him in the eye and scratched his retina. He’s funny, but a terrible dancer. It’s sad, cause you can tell he’s a good guy. He doesn’t deserve to go home, but I think he will =(

Judges Score: 12

My Score: 14

Kim Kardashian & Mark Ballas – She’s annoying! Grr… Usually Mark has awesome dancers, let’s see how he does this season w/ a non-dancer. They didn’t really dance very much and they had no chemistry. She was really stiff.

Judges Score: 19

My Score: 17

Susan Lucci & Tony Dovolani – Oh my…Susan Lucci…the woman who took 19 emmy nominations to finally win an emmy (I think they gave it to her because it was just pathetic) got partnered with the former World champion. I like Tony.. Too bad he got the woman who can’t act… and who can’t dance. She’s so damn stiff when she acts and she’s the same way w/ her dancing. Granted she is 61. I bet that when ABC asked her to be on DWTS that she asked them to get a woman that was older so as to not reveal her age on television. Remember, this is the woman who refuses to let All My Children age her grandchildren on the show. She also has it in her contract that they aren’t allowed to call her “grandma” at any point! She’ll stay for a while because she has a HUGE fan base.

Judges Score: 15

My Score: 15

Misty May-Treanor & Maksim Chmerkovsky – aww Maks is back! Yay! I love Maks

and I love Misty. This is a good pairing. Kerri Walsh was in the audience. Misty is so built. Why does maks always get the women w/ really built bodies. This is Leyla part II. However, I think that they’ve got a shot to win this cause Misty has a big fan base and she’s pretty good dancer. There’s room for improvement, but she’s gonna be around for a while. She’s almost a shoe in for the finals

Judges Score: 21

My Score: 21

Warren Sapp & Kym Johnson – Who knew that Warren Sapp could dance? He was AWESOME. Best dance of the night for me. Technically it wasn’t the best, but it was the best in terms of entertainment! He seems fun and is my pick for the “dark horse”

Judges Score: 21

My Score: 20