Whoo!
Oh, I love being early.
[upbeat music playing]
-Hey, guys, it's Paige. -Hey, guys, it's Chloe.
-Hey, everyone! I'm JoJo. -It's me, Kalani.
-It's Brooke. -It's Kendall.
We're looking back at some of-- What is it?
-And we are looking back... -...the rival...
-...studios... -...from the show.
I would say our rival studios on the show
-was obviously Candy Apple's. -Candy Apple's.
-Candy Apple's. -Candy Apple's.
Candy Apple's! Whoo!
I came up with a new plan to come back with a vengeance.
This competition is on my home turf,
and those Dance Moms aren't gonna know what hit 'em.
I always saw Candy Apple's as the true rival.
Get away from me! Because you're spitting on me.
I wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire, sweetheart.
Once we picked up the ALDC team
and started competing against Cathy,
that's when the rivalry really took off,
and they're both ruthless.
[Abby] This weekend...
we are headed to Columbus, Ohio.
Candy Apple's! Whoo!
[cheering]
The number we're doing for Rising Star
is called "The Bad Apples."
Eww! Are those our costumes?
Not my favorite.
[Kelly] Wait till we put the snood on.
[moms react in disgust]
No. The rat and the snood,
the Candy Apple's dance we did,
that was the worst one.
All around.
It literally haunts me.
I do have that one. I tried it on recently.
[eerie organ music playing]
It was horrific.
[Abby]
A little Andrews Sisters,
a little Katy Perry.
And also, a little jab...
[clicks tongue] ...to Cathy from Candy Apple.
I think the rivalry between Candy Apple's
and the Abby Lee Dance Company was both
a competition between Abby and Cathy
and also the competition between our team and their team.
I think there was only one time I competed a solo
against someone at Candy Apple's.
I think I was against that Erika girl.
[Abby] Brooke...
you're doing a solo.
Cathy has a girl entered your age.
I want you to make applesauce out of that kid.
As you know, we've just added
the Abby Lee Dance Company
as part of our repertoire of enemies,
and particularly, Brooke.
Brooke is a title winner.
Backstage, freak that kid out.
I want that kid in tears before she ever steps on that stage.
At the end of the day, it wasn't Abby vs. Cathy conflict.
Like, they were the fighting, the drama...
We were just there to dance and hopefully beat them.
Abby had to, like, mentally beat Cathy.
They had to have the last word.
[MC] Next up, Abby Lee Dance Company
with "Bad Apples."
It was just always very high-stakes.
[lively big band music playing]
[moms cheering]
[audience applauding]
[cheering]
[MC] Next up, Candy Apple's Dance Company with
"Baile Espanola."
[romantic flamenco music playing]
[audience cheering]
[Abby]
and I'm dreading it.
[MC] Number 44, "Baile Espanola."
And our top team, small group number 23,
"Apple Tree."
[Abby] I think it's time for some pork chops and applesauce!
[moms laughing]
How do you like them apples, Cathy?
[Cathy]
I am totally, totally irritated with this whole situation.
Did you see how pissed Cathy was?
Right now I don't have time to sit and brood about that.
I've gotta focus on Erika
because Erika is going up against Brooke
in a couple minutes
and I think we can still win this.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Cathy]
to bring us some justice.
[upbeat electronic dance music playing]
-[Abby cheering] -[audience applauding]
[dramatic music playing]
They're questioning Erika's age.
-[Kelly] Who is? -The competition.
Yeah, 'cause I was back there and the girl walked in.
"We need birth certificates for Cathy's students."
I have never seen a dance instructor
blatantly lie about a kid's age to try to beat me.
She probably would have won the whole thing.
But instead, she was disqualified.
[MC] First place, number 104,
"Garden of Eden," from Abby Lee Dance Company.
[cheering]
And I did win with "Garden of Eden."
[quirky music playing]
The name of our routine this week, our group routine,
is "Monster Under the Bed."
So the thing about MDP
is they were really good at what they did.
And what they did was, like, hard-hitting technical jazz.
And, I mean, we had, like, pretty little lyrical.
When you're putting a
up against, like, a pretty solid technical lyrical, but, like,
not as technical as their jazz,
I mean, we basically had no shot.
We had no shot.
Who do you think the monster is?
-[all] Abby! -[Erin] Okay, absolutely.
So what we're gonna do in this routine
is show people that you might see her as a monster,
but she's nothing more than
kind of a joke sometimes, is what I think.
Are you guys nervous that we're going against MDP?
I mean, we've beaten them before, so...
I saw yesterday they had a 12-hour rehearsal.
Yeah, I saw that.
Twelve-hour? Who rehearses for 12 hours?
I think it's good to want to push dancers to do their best
and be their best and train their hardest,
but I also think that's going to come naturally,
because, you know, if you're in the sport and you love it,
you're going to want to do better.
[MDP dancers chanting] Monster five! Monster six!
One! Monster two!
Monster three!
Monster four!
[chanting continues]
Monster six!
Girls, your teacher's gonna get mad at me,
but frankly, I don't care.
You don't act this way backstage.
-Obnoxious. -[Erin] Let's go, guys.
And the other thing is,
you should never, ever, ever jump on cement!
It baffles me
that kids who take from dance teachers who
"supposedly" work professionally in the business,
act like complete morons backstage.
You girls better be ah-mazing,
because I just told that teacher that her kids were obnoxious.
[Chloe]
I don't know if it was always necessary.
[Jill]
They think they're all that, and you know what?
We need to prove 'em wrong.
[upbeat dance music playing]
[music ends]
[applause and cheering]
I think our girls nailed it.
But, you know, it's what the judges like.
In second place...
number 66, "Voices in My Head."
Give it up!
[Abby]
I can't stand being second.
[MC] In first place...
number 67, "Monster Under My Bed!"
[tense music playing]
Hey!
[indistinct chatter]
[Holly] Well, congratulations.
Thank you. Congratulations to you guys.
I went through a lot of rivalries,
and it shaped me into who I am today, so...
perhaps it is good.
-BDA? What's BDA? -National champions!
National champions!
[all] National champions!
BDA... BAD... Whatever they are.
[sighs]
Jeanette posted...
"Going to show 'em how it's done.
We'll be waiting. Smiley face. Dot, dot, dot."
They're definitely doing "The Waiting Room." Definitely.
It's gonna be their spin on "The Waiting Room."
When I was watching the dance of "The Waiting Room,"
what a great concept.
But it lacked dancing.
It didn't have much dancing, and I think that's one reason
that it hurt them.
It was eight counts of Kalani
walking across bars in the back.
So I want to do "The Waiting Room."
But I wanna do it my way.
[Holly]
By Jeanette taking our concept and using it against us...
she has just declared war on the ALDC.
So, last time we saw each other,
I wasn't able to say goodbye to a couple of you guys
because you scooted out so quick.
If I don't like something, I can get up and leave.
That makes you look like sore losers.
That's your opinion, not some of ours.
It's kinda like them doing a recycled dance
makes them look desperate and out of ideas.
The only thing that's the same is the name.
There's nothing else the same.
Have fun with your recycled idea.
We gotta see what our national champions are doing.
-See ya. -Oh my God.
Short-lived.
They beat us once and they're like,
"Oh my God! We got this!"
BDA tried to recreate our dance, "The Waiting Room."
You can't remake an original.
I mean, you can try your best, but you will never succeed.
[MC] Judging number 20,
team group specialty,
"The Girl in the Plastic Bubble."
[cheering]
[dramatic orchestral music playing]
There's no way the hamster ball dance
is going to beat our routine.
[MC] Next up, "The Waiting Room."
[dramatic music continues]
Whoo!
[Jeanette]
they hit it technically, they hit it every way.
That's the way it should've been done.
I want to win.
It's a little embarrassing that an adult
has to recreate something just so they can prove a point.
Like, be original.
[MC] So second place in team group...
goes to entry number 29, "The Waiting Room."
You're kidding me.
[MC] First place for team group,
"The Girl in the Plastic Bubble."
[cheering]
[Kendall]
and we probably won with that dance,
and here you are, recreating it.