Bag Job with the Stars

After six weeks where Dancing with the Stars went (to me at least) from being of no interest to reasonably entertaining, the show threw it all away in the last half-hour of its finale when the three judges handed out a perfect score to Kelly Monaco (General Hospital). Not only was this the only perfect score for the entire competition, but it was the first time any of the judges handed out a full 10 points.

Of course, Monaco would go on to win the whole thing, which shouldn't irritate me as much as it does. Suffice it to say, the result does nothing to further the idea that ballroom dancing should be an Olympic-level sport (though, to be fair, the fans don't get to vote on who wins medals).

This turn of events made the finale of Beauty and the Geek - where a Newlywed Game-style Q&A game decided who won the cash - seem like the pinnacle of competition when it went into a tie-breaker. Even the disclaimer at the end about how parts of it were edited and/or re-shot didn't detract from things, at least in retrospect.

Next week we get "the aftermath," a reunion show which I find a little dubious (given that the show itself was only six weeks long). But maybe we'll find out if Urkel-in-training Richard ever made out with his partner.