DWTS5: Eights Are Enough

It was the first "two dances each" night on Dancing With The Stars and the show seemed to suffer... dance-wise that is... with the writer's striker on, Tom and Samantha (Samantha Who?) had to ad-lib their lines (no wonder she didn't flub any... just the usual rambling)...

But back to the dancing, each couple seemed to have one not-so-great dance... which meant 8s and lots of them... 17 of them! but who's counting!

While I didn't think Mel & Maks' Rumba deserved a perfect score last week... their Paso Doble was incredible... and the dancing was pretty fantastic too.  I'm talking about the costumes... Maks in leather (grrrrr!)... heck, even Mel B's outfit made me taking a second (and third!) look. 

I would put a video link/embed, but I am getting frustrated with Y0u Tubes disappearing faster than you can say "energy-charged dominatrix"... but here are some screen-caps:

Maks is such a tool!  Of course, putting his Sabrina/Cheetah homage paw-print "tattoo" on his pec... and more than happy to show it off!

A look at the scores show that things are even closer than last week!  Only 1.3% separate the top and bottom couples... so anyone can go.

Mel & Maks 54 (17.3%)
Jennie & Derek 53 (17.0%)
Helio & Julianne 52 (16.7%)
Marie & Jonathan 52 (16.7%)
Cameron & Edyta 51 (16.3%)
Jane & Tony 50 (16.0%)

I am kinda rooting against Jane & Tony at this point.  Jane has turned into the crazy loon of the season, taking it waaaay too seriously and thinking she's now a dancer and that her sh&t don't stink.  And while she has had to deal with a good deal of real life stress this season (death, wildfire, "food poisoning"), it's all starting to feel like too much Dr. Quinn, Drama Queen. 

Plus Tony comes off as an arrogant ass at times... that said, I did happen to stumble across these photos... and arrogant or not... the chest and abs are pretty nice to look at... so in another DTWS edition of "Here Google, Google" (and boy howdy, Google finds you quick!)... I present:

Tony Dovolani Shirtless