

When CJ went out into the living area to express his annoyance, Ayiiia intervened, saying, “Let me see your piglet.” (That’s the girls’ nickname for a personal part of his body.) So Joey piled on Ayiiia. He redoubled his efforts after Emilee walked in on CJ naked in bed with his new love interest, Amanda.

He yelled at her and posted signs all over the hotel suite telling her to go home. Opening with a scene of Ayiiia getting a tattoo that read “Live & Learn,” “The Real World: Cancun” mostly focused on Joey’s unrelenting efforts to get her to leave the show. Kevin summed it up to the camera: “Lydia’s into Jessie, Natalie’s into Jessie, and Jessie’s into Jessie.” Meanwhile, hostess Julie Chen called our attention to the “love triangle” that had formed among Natalie, Lydia and Jessie. We were left to assume that was Ronnie, who was befuddled by Jessie’s move. He nominated Jordan and Michelle, saying that they were both such bad players that he would have a good chance of winning the power of veto competition and could then replace one of them with someone he really wants to kick out of the house. Jessie won the head of household competition (shooting balls toward a honeycomb-like target), his second HOH victory. Though Laura succeeded in uniting the house against Ronnie, she was voted out, 8-1. Realizing she was in serious trouble, Laura told the others that Ronnie had lied when he’d said that she’d told him that Russell was on her side. When Jeff won the power of veto competition (revealing unexpected addition skills), he took himself off the block, and Ronnie surprisingly replaced Jeff with the popular Jordan. On “Big Brother” this week, with Jeff and Laura nominated for eviction, a majority of the houseguests seemed to be uniting with Ronnie and against Russell. The bottom-two guys were Jason, who hadn’t quite kept up with Kayla in their two routines, and Brandon, who had received both positive and negative reviews in his duets with Jeanine. After Janette was sent home, producer-judge Nigel Lythgoe said that she was the one he had hoped would win it all. The bottom-two girls were Kayla, who had won raves for her Broadway and zombie hip-hop routine, and Janette, whose partner, Evan, had born the brunt of the judges’ criticism. In the viewers’ votes for this week’s performances, Melissa and Ade were, unsurprisingly, kept out of the bottom two by their contemporary routine, choreographed by Tyce Diorio, which portrayed a couple confronting breast cancer and moved the judges to tears. Hok and Jaimie (from season 3) returned to perform their “hummingbird and flower” routine, which won a choreography Emmy for Wade Robson Travis and Heidi (from season 2) reprised their “park bench” routine, which won the Emmy for Mia Michaels. In a homage to Judy Garland (and a benefit for the Dizzy Feet Foundation), Katie Holmes sang “Get Happy” while strutting and kicking her legs in front of a line of male dancers.

Along with the usual eliminations, “So You Think You Can Dance” celebrated its 100th episode with some special performances.
