‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Your top 10 are revealed

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‘Oh great,’ is what Thayne Jasperson must have thought when he saw that he’d be in the bottom three guys with Twitch Boss and Will Wingfield. Thayne’s a great dancer, certainly, but there was no way that he’d be sent home after those previous two, who are not only fan and judge favorites but who clearly would be missed in the ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ tour (especially after both of their amazing solos).

You know who else will be missed on the tour? Comfort Fedoke. If anything, I thought that if the judges were having a hard time deciding whether she or Jessica King should be sent home, they’d consider who would more completely round out the top 10 dancers who would make up the tour. Nigel was right: Comfort pulled out her best solo performance tonight, and while Jessica’s was good, I didn’t get a sense of who she was, really, which is something I think Comfort has had over her this whole season. Jessica must feel a bit the way Kristy Lee Cook did on ‘American Idol’: that she’s around for a limited time only. Tonight Mary Murphy promised that she would do everything she could to keep Jessica and Will from being eliminated (which seemed a little unfair), but Jessica will no longer have the safety net of being paired with St. Will.

I’m going to miss hearing Comfort’s name mentioned. Of the more unusual first names of the season, hers always brought a sense of, oh, I don’t know what the word is. Some sense of solace, or safety, or soothing, or something. It’s on the tip of my tongue.

What I won’t miss is getting Katy Perry’s song out of my head. I only just realized that her ‘I Kissed a Girl’ is different from the 1995 version by Jill Sobule but after hearing it twice in real life, I’ve been hearing it in my head nonstop, and it makes me want to punch a girl.

Hey ‘SYTYCD’ fans: Stay tuned next week for a special live chat on Thursday afternoon: details to follow. I know that I’d like to ask fellow Show Tracker Stephanie Lysaght a) who made the shoes that Cat Deeley was wearing tonight and b) if she can steal them for me.

-- Claire Zulkey