First up are Susan and Tony, dancing the Jive. Susan is finally pretty serious and frustrated with her progress in training, cracking her smiling facade, which is refreshing. Tony takes her to Radio City to train with the Rockettes. They practice doing crisp kicks, and Susan looks like an elf next to them all. When the dances begins, it’s decent enough, but seems to be slowed down and careful, as all of her dances do, and also like she might break in half and/or fall over at certain points. She looks at her feet quite a bit.
They finish up and Tom points out Susan’s ace bandage, which I didn’t see at all. Len says the show’s the “toughest test on TV” and that Susan’s kept a standard. Notice he doesn’t say that it’s high. Bruno says she’s got the look, and can’t take his eyes off her cleavage, which you could drive a truck through, incidentally. Tom calls him on it. Bruno also says she looked unsteady at times, but is going “the right way”. Well, sure, she hasn’t gotten worse. Carrie Ann is “bummed out” that Susan looked “timid”. When Susan and Tony both smile, there are WAY too many bright white chompers. Yikes! Backstage, Susan explains to Sam that she rolled her ankle in rehearsal this morning. Seriously, cursed. They get straight 7s, for a 21, and even Susan has street cred as she says the now obligatory “Winner, winner chicken dinner”. Mmmm, chicken. Sorry, I had cereal for dinner.
