Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Lenni G gives us her thoughts on last night's elimination.

Yes, people, it was another two hour DWTS extravaganza. The first 60 minutes were all about the importance of the free style dance on finals night. We now know that if you can't do the free style, you just can't win. Alrighty then! And, we got to see Cheryl and Drew Lachey do their "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" free style routine which was voted the best dance ever by DWTS viewers. Looking good, Drew, looking good.

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Lenni G gives us her thoughts on last night's show.

It was a busy, busy semi-finals night with each couple doing two individual dances plus a "winner takes all" cha cha elimination complete with brackets. It's March Madness in May, DWTS style.

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Chuck gives us his thoughts on tonight's elimination.

Tonight's results show is leaning heavily on the story of Ralph Macchio's injury. The judges ask Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy to reprise the Argentine tango. And yes, it's hotter than night one's! It would be a shame to see them leave tonight, but there's a possibility of that (their Instant Dance was ho-hum).

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Chuck gives us his thoughts on tonight's episode.

With next week's semi-finals coming up, tonight will be the night that shows which stars really have a shot at the mirrorball -- and which one fell just short of contention. Tonight, each dancer has two individual performances, including the return of the "Instant Dance" -- the feature in which the star and the pro find out what song they're dancing to less than an hour before they hit the floor.

Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke kick things off, and Tom is oddly off-balance, making a crack about Brooke's spray tan after Brooke talks about the Instant Dance format that sounds like a complete nonsequitur. Hope the rest of the evening isn't as odd.

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Chuck gives us his thoughts on tonight's episode.

Preceded by a one-hour recap of Monday night, tonight's results show feels especially padded, with two musical guests (James Blunt and Nicki Minaj), Wayne Brady in the Macy's Stars of Dance segment and 17- year-old ballerina Patricia Zhou in a spotlight segment.

Tom Bergeron asks the judges what dance they want for the encore. (I actually wouldn't have been surprised to see Kendra/Louis.) The repeat dance goes to Team Chelsea, and the team does at least as well as the night before. But Mark Ballas continues to outdance his tmmates, and it gets old fast! Mark's not much of a team player.

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Chuck gives us his thoughts on tonight's episode.

We're "celebrating ballroom greatness," Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke say, in the introduction to tonight's episode. We'll see. Sixteen-time world professional Latin champion Donnie Burns is a guest judge, saying, "Nobody but nobody does show business like you Americans." (Fawn much?)

The remaining six competitors are dressed in teams in extremely garish outfits. Team Chelsea, evidently inspired by Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Barry's "Catwoman" outfits, are Chelsea Kane/Mark Ballas, Romeo/Chelsie Hightower and Ralph Macchio/Karina Smirnoff. Ralph is feeling fish out of water because he hasn't done the cha-cha yet and he's older than his teammates. Romeo and Chelsea are trying to help Ralph make the dance look sexy. Mark is pushing everyone to stay on the beat. Romeo and Chelsie are grinding a bit.

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Lenni G gives us her thoughts on last night's elimination.

What has two one-hour parts, replays, 3 aging boy bands, replays, in-depth analysis with replays, an encore (aka replay), guest dancers, replays, a rejected Idol contestant, replays, and finally, two hours later, results! 

That would be DWTS, the Tuesday night extravaganza show.  I am just exhausted.  Let's cut to the chase . . .
 

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Lenni G gives us her thoughts on last night's show.

I am so confused. Never in all my life have I thought of the brothers Hanson singing their immortal "MMMBop" as representative of "guilty pleasures". Well maybe it's the MMM part as in, "MMM, I love candy, both dark chocolate and eye." Let's move on.

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Lenni G gives us her thoughts on last night's show.

So, it's "American Week" and the stars will be dancing to patriotic American songs. OK, sounds like a plan. At this point, I'm thinking we'll be seeing dances like the jive and the quick step.

And, I would be wrong. Well, mostly wrong.

Our 'Dancing with the Stars' correspondents Chuck Small and Lenni G will be back on the job for us with recaps throughout Season 12. Chuck gives us his thoughts on tonight's elimination.

The results show gets a connection from last night's instrumental night with David Garrett doing "Walk This Way" in a very cool rock- meets-classical performance, with the new "DWTS" troupe. It's really making me want to see the rest of the season without singers!

Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke get started with the three top couples from Monday night: Chelsea Kane/Mark Ballas, Hines Ward/Kym Johnson and Ralph Macchio/Karina Smirnoff. Two are safe, and one is still "in jeopardy" (which I don't believe for a second ... but there needs to be some drama, doesn't there?).