07.14.2008  BY EM & LO


We've got about ten really important, topical Frontlines on PBS saved in our Tivos. So what do we watch when we sit down in front of the TV and kick up our feet? Fox's reality show, So You Think You Can Dance. We're not sure if the fact that it was the top-rated show last Wednesday between 18 and 49 year olds makes us feel better or worse about this particular television habit. But when it comes to artistic erotica this side of Skinemax, nothing else beats it.

Take last week's show, in which two partnered contestants, dressed in little abstract loin cloths, did a piece called "Adam and Eve" (see above video). There was lots of sensual touching, heavy breathing (that you could actually hear because the music was so minimal), and advanced positions we wouldn't recommend in any of our sex manuals. At one point, during a split, we could have sworn we caught a glimpse of the female dancer's cervix through her wafer-thin spandex. You know, it's good, clean fun for the whole family!

At least the dancer who played "Eve" has a more realistic body: she's strong and muscular with some meat on her bones. Which we can't help but think might be part of the reason why the judges are so hard on her (the simulated sex helped her eek eke out another week, though)...

Speaking of the judges, we are totally grossed out by executive producer Nigel Lythgoe's constant-inappropriate sexual innuendo toward the female contestants who, let's face it, are barely legal. Here you have these fresh-faced, hard-working teenage athletes, which the producers put in skimpier and skimpier ballroom gowns that could pass for bikinis, and then during their critique there's this dirty old man referencing the tent he's pitched in his pants during their number (in not so many words, of course, but he comes close). He tells the cute girls who do well that they've proved this week they're "not just a pretty face." We're just waiting for the other two female judges (one diva choreographer who takes her hats and her haircut way too seriously, and one ballroom expert whose face is so Botoxed she has to scream at the top of her lungs to convey any emotion) to say to some of the male dancers, "You proved this week that you're not just a totally hot, ripped body." Fingers crossed!

Still, it's not so offensive that we won't stop watching, plus it's a great way to keep up with what kids are listening to this summer: last week's guest performer was Katy Perry singing her ear-worm-catchy hormone-driven pop hit, "I Kissed a Girl":  "Us girls we are so magical / Soft skin, red lips, so kissable / Hard to resist so touchable / Too good to deny it / Ain't no big deal, it's innocent." It's also a fun, albeit dangerous, way to stay in shape: Lo almost threw her knee out (not to mention had a heart attack) while attempting to replicate one of the cooler moves from the awesome Bollywood number in her living room. That shit is way harder than it looks.

Tune in this Wednesday when, at this rate, one of the numbers should be straight outta Oh, Calcutta.


3 Comments

said:

Surely you mean 'eke out another week' and not 'eek'?

Em & Lo said:

This is what happens when you watch too much reality TV -- the mind starts to go. Thanks for the correction!

Colin said:

ugh. So bummed I'm out of the country again this summer missing yet another season of this.

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