Time for a Celebrity Couple to sing, "Consider Me Gone!"
~DWTS Season 10 Week 3 Results Show QuickCap~

Big Tom kicked off the show with a brief recap of Week 3 Performance Show and asked if we would be surprised on Week 3 Result Show. Hmmm.

Quickly moved to a few results where we learned that the first couple safe to dance again was Aiden and Edyta (Edyta looked shocked. NO confidence in Aiden, folks) and the other couple safe was Erin and Maks.

Len gave us his perspective on the Performance Night routines in his Lenny Goodman style. TOUGH but supportive. Len blasted Nicole and Derek's performance AGAIN and the dude needed to let. it. GO. Kate was proud of her lame Paso Doble and Len said Buzz was charming but his dancing was alarming. Oh, and Lenny admitted that he should have scored Erin and Maks' waltz lower due to it really lacked the dance content. (Liked Big Tom's saying that Len was retroactively cranky! Heh!)

Encore performance was Evan and Anna's Quickstep which was no real surprise that Len would pick that one though the AUDIENCE would have rather seen Nicole and Derek's routine if truth had been told. Just sayin'.

CW Artist, Reba, rocked the DWTS house with a couple of songs while the pro dancers danced.

Big Tom ran down the performance judges scores and then it was time for more result announcements and the next couple saved was . . . Niecy and Louis.

Derek and Chelsie's acoustic Paso Doble was in-CRED-able! Seriously, it was one of the best dance routines we've seen on this show. (And Derek and Mark Ballas mad guitar skillz were a HUGE bonus, baby!)

Brooke interviewed some of the SAFE couples (Snore Segment of the Show) and then Len threw down ANOTHER dance challenge for Week 4 so DWTS Season Ten has become DWTS Season TENsion. (Sigh. Yeah. Clever.)

The next safe couple was . . . Nicole and Derek. (You know this was a NON-surprise week when they didn't kick it off with one of the better couples in the bottom two right away)

Reba rocked it again with some singin' and there was dancin' and then Big Tom and Brooke threw it to Melissa Rycroft for a little segment on being a studio audience member for DWTS and I have to admit I'm kind of a sucker for backstage/ behind the scenes stuff so I thought it was well done. (Funny that the security guard didn't know Melissa from last season. Hee!)

Two more couples that were safe were . . . Evan and Anna and Chad and Cheryl.

Brooke interviews more of the safe couples and we did find out that Derek blamed the MUSIC for his questionable choreography and Chad plans to DO IT on the dance floor next week while dancing the Rumba and Brooke got a bit flustered by it all but Big Tom saved the "awkward" moment with his "Pay-per-View" comment and asking "whose going to clean THAT up." (SNORT!)

Another Behind the Scenes segment how all the stars are one, big, happy family . . . right. Whatever.

Next couple safe was . . . Pamela and Damian. That left Jake and Chelsie, Buzz and Ashly, and Kate and Tony.

And who FINALLY got the hook for Week 3? Buzz and Ashly. That was a good elimination though I SO wanted to see Kate leave (Sorry Tony) cause I'm tired of her and all her drama.

Next week let's getting ready to RUMBA!!!

It was the Best of Whines, it was the Worst of Whines . .

~DWTS Season 10 Week 3 Performance Quickcap~

[ Editor's Note: Due to schedule constraints Jeff will no longer be doing full recaps. I know, I know, he's a long winded writer but will strive to make brevity the name of the game with a new format]

Week 3 and Shannen was gone but NOT the celebrity whining. Big Tom and Brooke kicked of the show by telling us that DWTS Season 10 is THE most watched show on TV right now (so stick it, AI fans!) and then we were into the star staircase intros. . . . After giving the stars and their pros ample camera mugging time we moved right into the performances.

Performance Spotlights:

Evan and Anna's Quickstep was by far the best overall dance of the night hands down and Evan is positioning himself into one of the finalist positions. (Anna speaking the THICK, Russian accent in rehearsal paid off big time.) I'm tellin' ya the public likes its Olympic athletes and since Evan CAN dance he should go far.

One of the other really good dances of the night was Nicole and Derek's nautical "Quickstep" (Yes, the finger quotes are intentional) as it had great energy and audience entertainment value. Sure it about caused Len to blow a gasket what with the lift (Nicole lifting Derek btw. Heh!) and the hold breaks and somewhat lack of Quickstepping they did, but as Carrie Ann honestly admitted she would want to see that number again and sit in the front row. (So Len and Bruno? You know what you Brit boys can do with the "mickey" . . .).

ESPN Erin and Maks performed a beautiful Waltz (Erin's dress was quite lovely) and she did part of it BLINDFOLDED! ( Ooooo, risky!!) Len hates props and thought it took them forEVEH to get to the dancing but otherwise, nicely done.

Niecy Nash and Louise also turned in a graceful and elegant Waltz though I didn't really see much of the story between those two and perhaps the costuming could have been better to really bring home the 60's feel and the political/ cultural controversy they were trying to create with their "forbidden" love. Oh, and Louise came out that night (Like most of us didn't already guess. Hey, just sayin')

Performance Lowlights:

By far the two worst performances of the night were Buzz Aldrin's and Kate Gosslin's but for very different reasons. Look Buzz is old, ok? There is NO way he is going to compete with the younger dancers in this venue and what I can respect about Buzz is that he KNOWS this. He went on DWTS ("Shuffling with The Stars" may have been a better choice though) to be an ambassador for a generation that did a lot for this country and among them putting a man on the moon. I thought Buzz and Ashly's performance was a nice dignified although technically not good waltz. Len a bit heavy handed in bashing Buzz, but he was right.

Kate's performance was a mess AGAIN! The paso doble that she and Tony did was just . . . frightening in its horribleness. Carrie Ann's comments that it was odd and hard to watch was spot on and I totally agreed. The acting coach didn't help at ALL as she looked pretty emotionless and when she did show emotion it was these weird grimaces that totally creeped me out (yeah, some Super Beach from hell? Not so much). Sigh. Ok, enough hate on Kate this week. Maybe viewers will vote her out and we won't have to watch her Steppford Dancer performances anymore.

Performance Sidelights:

Mr. 85, Chad, whined in rehearsal and then did a mediocre paso doble (Cheryl helped their performance by wearing a muy caliente red dress)

Mr. Whine and Roses himself, Jake, The Bachelor, whined that Chelsie was being "the super beach from hell" in rehearsal and walked out then ended up doing just an okay quickstep.

Soap Star, Aiden, didn't really whine in Week 3 and he and his partner Edyta also danced the Quickstep to so so results. And what was up with the DWTS vocalist for the song, "Soul Sister?" Man, that was surprisingly bad.

Pam Anderson didn't have to channel Charo in Week 3 cause Charo herself showed up during their rehearsal for Pam and Damian's Paso Doble. Again, though I'm not a big Pam Anderson fan, I have to say she can dance and I thought she did a decent Paso Doble despite the somewhat mixed comments from the Judges. Guess we'll have to see if that performance keeps her out of the red light come results night.

Week 3 Score Results:

Evan & Anna 26

Nicole & Derek 23

Erin & Maks 23

Pam & Damiam 21

Niecy & Louis 21

Jake & Chelsie 21

Chad & Cheryl 20

Aiden & Edyta 20

Kate & Tony 15

Buzz & Ashly 13