Last night, So Real Cru and SuperCr3w battled for the title of America's Best Dance Crew. Or, more accurately, America's Second-Best Dance Crew. Because let's face it, the real best dance crew, Fanny Pak, was sent home last week.

Yes, readers, it's seven days later and I'm still bitter. If the always outrageously entertaining Fanny Pak had been eliminated last week solely based on viewers' votes, maybe I could let it go, just chalk it up to the public's lowest-common-denominator stupidity, or maybe even homophobia. You know, "two million people CAN be wrong" and all that jazz. But since it was the judges--the supposed experts--who ultimately chose to eliminate Fanny Pak before the finale, I remain steadfastly furious.

I was still seething while I watched America's Best Dance Crew 2 last night, just imagining how much more exponentially awesome the final danceoff would have been if it had come down to SoReal Cru and Fanny Pak instead of SoReal Cru and Super Cr3w. I found last night's

I know August is a big reality-TV finale month, and sometimes it's hard to keep track of it all, what with So You Think You Can Dance wrapping up last night and the America's Best Dance Crew 2 finale in just six days, etc. But for those of you who missed the big announcement this past Monday: Melissa Lawson won season 6 of Nashville Star.

So naturally, the NStar camp is in rush-release panic mode right now. Melissa barely had time to accept congratulation kisses from her five kids or brush the celebratory confetti out of her hair before she was whisked offstage on finale night and into a press-filled interrogation room (see my interview blog here); her coronation single "What If It All Goes Right?" was the number-one iTunes country track by the following morning; as I type this, she's probably on a plane to Beijing right now to sing at the Olympics; and the Nashville Star package tour with Melissa and the rest of the top four (Gabe Garcia, Shawn Mayer, and Coffey) kicks off next month.

Much like the burning questions "Will a plus-size girl ever win on America's Next Top Model?" and "Will a rocker ever win on American Idol?," the question "Will a breakdancer ever win on So You Think You Can Dance?" is a matter I've often pondered.

It never seemed like a b-boy (or b-girl) had a chance on SYTYCD--they were always great in their own specialty genre, sure, but whenever they had to pick up choreography or, say, do a Viennese waltz, they just fell apart. (This season's Robert Muraine, winner of tonight's finale faceoff with Philip Chbeeb, is a perfect example: He got so discouraged and exasperated during this season's audition rounds, he quit against the judges' wishes.)

Well, zaftig Whitney just won ANTM this year, and of course rocker boy David Cook triumphed on AmIdol too. So maybe, I thought, 2008 would be Twitch or Josh's year, too.

But still, I never really imagined it would come down to two b-boys in the SYTYCD finale. Especially over Katee!

Yes, tonight SYTYCD

Tonight was a bittersweet occasion for So You Think You Can Dance fanatics.

Sweet, because the final four had come so far. And sweet, because all the finalists got to dance in all sorts of new configurations tonight--not just solo or in boy/girl duos, but also with same-sex partners (I mean that in a G-rated way, gutter-minded people!) and in a final four-person group number.

But tonight was still bitter, because it was the last competition round. The season comes to an end this week, you see.

Sigh. It went by fast, huh? Too fast.

You know what else I was kind of bitter about tonight? The judges' treatment of Courtney. Yes, Mary Murphy did tell her she was a role model for all the little girls out there watching--a really kind and genuine comment that brought tears to Courtney's big brown eyes. But during most of the remainder of the show, the judges slipped in these nasty little digs here and there, making it obvious that they probably would have preferred Chelsie in the top four