I heard about the engagement!
So are you going to be in the wedding?
Think I'm going to be in the wedding?
My mom is engaged, but she wants to keep it quiet.
Chloe, work on your solo.
OK.
Maddie, same thing-- work on your solo.
Think about the corrections.
You should work on your pirouettes and your--
Okey doke?
All right, let's everybody get to where we need to be.
Can't believe you're not more excited about the wedding!
What do you think of the ring?
Beautiful.
I love the story.
- No-- - What story?
--don't say it.
What story?
Nothing.
They weren't even supposed to talk about it.
Wait a minute, what story?
Nothing.
Come here!
Mackenzie, shh!
Tell me the story. Come here.
I don't know what story.
You're lying.
We're not supposed to tell Abby anything.
She's a blabbermouth. What?
No, seriously. I don't know the story.
You don't know the story? What's Chloe?
She's a weirdo. What's she making up?
I don't know what story they're talking about.
Tell me what story.
Kenz, come on.
Come on.
Tell Chloe I want the story.
Come here.
Send Chloe out here.
Hey, Chlo, Abby wants the story.
No, don't.
[music playing]
Ooh!
I like that one.
I actually like this one.
So the moms and I went to Babette's Bridal Shop
so we could get some inspiration for this bridal dance
that we're doing.
Are we doing long veils for the girls, or short?
No veils.
I want somebody to try this one on with all the fluff!
We got awfully sidetracked.
[laughs]
That is a poofy, poofy dress.
[gasps] Is that a wedding dress?
Silly.
I want to wear one of those.
- Ooh, I want to wear that! - Look at the back!
Oh, my god!
I remember going shopping for my wedding dress
with my mom and my sister.
It was me and my mom, my sister, and my grandmother.
And the first dress I came out in--
- That-- was that it? - I bought it.
That's it.
Well, first of all, if I got married again,
I wouldn't be wearing a big wedding gown.
- No, you wouldn't do that? - Nope.
Oh, no, somebody try that one on.
I like that one over there.
I used to get excited when I looked at wedding dresses.
I really don't anymore.
Why are you lying?
We all know you're engaged, so why won't you just admit it?
You want to go in first?
Welcome to my world-- no panties.
[laughs]
You're a bride!
Oh!
A fat one!
[laughter]
I didn't want to try on a wedding dress.
Me neither!
I came here for head pieces!
You look skinny.
You look really skinny in that.
It's because it hides your butt.
[laughs] Just kidding.
She wants to get married again and she wants a big rock.
That's right!
Maybe you should renew your vowels.
Vowels.
[laughs] I think you need to say, "will you marry me again?"
Yeah, but Melissa, you're the one who has a chance of getting
married again, not me.
I'm not wearing a wedding dress.
- Ooh! - Aw, that's so sweet.
I don't know.
I think if I was getting married again,
I'd have to have the bird thing going over my face.
I like the birdcage, too.
Yeah, to hide your wrinkles?
[gasps] No, she didn't.
[laughter]
[music playing]
And one, hip two, hip three, hip four.
Give me something there.
Come on, girls.
We do a lot of contemporary lyrical in competitions,
because that's, like, the biggest fad right now.
But it's nice to also do some novelty numbers.
And "Head Over Heels" is a novelty routine.
(SINGING) I love you, I love you.
Right.
That's good.
Just practicing. - I know.
Hello? - Hello.
What you up to?
What's on Mackenzie's top, are those bats?
They're puppies.
They look like bats from here.
Don't cross your fingers.
Ooh, those hands.
Who's your manicurist?
She should be out of work.
Girls, three more days.
We need to get this choreography fixed.
Got it?
Fire and ice.
Three more days.
Go back to the top.
Let's do it.
There's a story and a theme.
The girls are brides.
They hold nosegays.
They might even wear garters.
1, 2, up, up, down, down, jump over.
Don't touch feet.
Push.
I'm inviting the dads to come and watch the competition.
It's as though they're giving away their daughters.
But instead of giving them to some guy that's never going
to be good enough, he's going to give
them to the world of dance.
I want to marry dance, but I don't.
If I had to marry someone, I would marry Justin Bieber.
Girls, remember, your dads are coming to the competition.
They complain about all the money you spend,
all the hours you spend here at the studio, all the outfits,
all the rhinestones.
Your dad's going to sit in that audience and watch you.
You want him to say, oh, my god!
Look at my kid up there.
It's all worth it.
It's all worth it to see her up on that stage.
Look what she's accomplished.
Look how good she is.
I really hope that Chloe's dad can make it.
But I think the bigger question on everyone's mind
is, who is Melissa going to bring to represent?
Is she going to bring the dad, or the sugar dad-dy?
Their dad's not coming.
Really?
He's not going to be here, so.
Kurt's not coming at all.
Uh-uh.
This is the one time the dads are asked
to come and participate with their girls,
and Melissa can't put the drama aside.
It always has to be about her.
Did you not want him to come?
No, he's not coming because he's going
to be at a hockey tournament.
OK.
Will Greg come?
Uh-uh, no way.
If Kurt can't come, why won't you just bring Greg?
I wouldn't want to hurt Kurt's feelings, you know?
But if he couldn't be there, would he--
would his feelings be hurt?
If he knew that Greg did it, yes.
Well, I don't know why you wouldn't bring Greg.
I mean, they live with Greg, Melissa.
I mean, I would love for him to be there.
But absolutely not.
I don't know why Melissa goes crazy every time
she hears Kurt's name.
I mean, he is still Maddie and Mackenzie's dad.
So they still need to have some kind of relationship
just for the girls.
I can't wait to see how our head
pieces are all going to look.
Oh, I have something that I'm going to bring to you tomorrow.
I think I have a white thing you might want to use.
I don't know. - OK.
Oh, it would have been so cool if I had my gown.
You guys could have-- we could have cut it up,
because it has so many beautiful pieces to it.
You should have saved it!
Your kids probably would have wanted it.
Even if they didn't wear it, they-- just for a keepsake.
Right.
Well, they can help you pick out a new dress.
There won't be any new dresses.
Mark, are you able to come?
I can't.
I have a meeting I have to go to.
Oh, OK.
Well, Chloe understands.
My dad can't come to the competition today.
But that's OK, because I know he tried his hardest to get here.
- Hi, Chlo, how are you? - Good.
I love you.
I love you, too.
I'll just tell him when I get home all about it.
Oh, my goodness!
All the single girls!
I'm really excited, because the wedding
costume is my favorite costume of the year so far.
It's gorgeous.
And I'm excited, because I just got engaged.
So it's kind of fun for me.
[screaming]
[laughter]
That's gonna break it!
I got it!
All right, you two.
I wanted to catch the flowers, but the other girls
did before I could.
Your makeup.
Don't cry!
OK, let's not talk to her.
Please, please, I don't want to-- we're
going-- ready to go on stage.
Just leave her alone.
I do.
It does matter about you.
Emotional.
You're so cute.
You're so cute, honey. Hey--
Stop!
--don't cry.
All right, it's time!
Don't forget your dads are out there!
[music playing]
From the Abby Lee Dance Company,
please welcome to the stage number 201 Junior Group,
this is "Head Over Heels."
[ROBYN JOHNSON, "HEAD OVER HEELS"]
(SINGING) Treat me kind.
But really, as long as you keep me, I don't mind.
As long as you don't have to leave me I won't make a fuss.
Just as long as it's us, I don't care what they say.
They can say what they want.
I wish my dad was here, because he
could watch me dance.
(SINGING) --for better.
Yes, I'm head over heels.
Big time for real.
Oh, baby, I love you, I love you, I love you.
[applause]
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
[music playing]
From Candy Apple's Dance Center,
please welcome number 287.
This is, "A Funeral."
["a funeral" playing]
I think that Cathy actually may have some good dancers
at her studio.
The problem is they're just old.
Cathy needs to put Vivi and her two little friends
in there to bring the age down.
[music playing]
[applause]
[cheering]
Cathy doesn't know how to choreograph.
And who runs into a funeral and does an arabesque?
Vivian.
[music playing]
In our Junior Small Groups, we have
a first place overall award and that is going to number 288,
"Head Over Heels!"
[cheers and applause]
The girls actually got a platinum in their performance,
and they won the overall high score for the junior groups.
Oh, god, here they come.
Here they come.
Come on, Cathy, you have parting words?
We may be number two, and we may be trying harder.
But Abby, there will come a day when we beat you.
Because you have six kids that you have to worry about.
I have 306.
Cathy, how do you still have that membership
when you solicit students?
I'm not soliciting anybody, Abby!
She came to me in her own free will.
She called me up and said that you were a witch!
Cathy makes my blood boil.
You went as Candy Apple's Dance Center today,
so that was a win for Candy Apples.
I don't--
[yelling]
The dance world doesn't have rules,
so Cathy can poach any student that she wants.
But Jill made a big, big mistake--
big.
Yeah, I tweak it.
There's a lot of studios in Ohio that got in big trouble
for stealing choreography.
Oh, believe me, Abby, I wouldn't want
to steal your choreography.
Really!
Let's go, guys.