So You Think You Can Dance: top 20 return for Easter special

I watch this week's episode with my mum, who's mad that I'm making her watch Dance instead of 60 Minutes (or whatever old people watch on Sunday nights) (just kidding, Mum!). She spends the entire show complaining about what she sees. I know I complain about the show a lot, but that's because I like it. My mum complains about the show because she hates it.

Mum is particularly disdainful of the horrible red puffy baby doll dress Nat Bass has donned for this episode. I have to agree that it's pretty awful:

Nat introduces the judges, who... are kind of pointless tonight. Think about it: none of the returning contestants are being purged or critiqued tonight, so what exactly are the judges supposed to do except sit around and offer meaningless nonsense?

THE TOP 20 RETURN

• Damien + Ash-Leigh return for a foxtrot choreographed by SYTYCD favourite Jason Gilkison. I miss Damien — he's cute. After the routine, Jason is unusually kind to the duo, proving that the judges have nothing insightful to say in this episode.

• Gianne + Tim (who's dressed as Steve Urkel) team up for a hip-hop routine under the guidance of Supple, whose nickname my mum rightly says is ridiculous. The routine itself is pretty boring, but I remain impressed by how amazing Tim is for a self-taught dancer.

• Stephen + Max are up next. Frankly, I never cared much for either of these two, and their dance fails to impress me. The only interesting moment is when my mum's dog barks at the television, which is an appropriate reaction.

• Emmanuel + Pania, who are a real-life couple, join forces for a hip-hop routine that's good, but not great. They're both wearing cat make-up, for no apparent reason. But it's nice for couples to do things together, right?

• Chanelle + Danny do the blondest, whitest, fake tan-iest routine ever. It's one of those lyrical contemporary dances with lots of barefoot leaping around the stage. PS, Chanelle is still gorgeous.

• Loredo + Gianne (who's doing double duties tonight) are dressed up as tribal warriors, complete with bones in their hair. Maybe I'm being a little too PC, but... isn't that kind of racist? Apparently they're meant to be Pebbles and Bam-Bam, so whatever.

• Lamb + Jesse (who?) are break-dancing tourists. While I think Jesse got a rough deal being eliminated first, this boring number doesn't really give him a chance to redeem himself.

• Penny returns to the stage. Not to dance (she's still injured), but to be on the end of one big suck-up from Nat. Jeez. I think this show embraced the Penny a little too much.

• Kat + BJ (hee, "BJ". So chuffed I get another chance to snicker at that nickname) do a routine that is notable only because she is slathered in fake tan. You can't really make it out in that photo, but her skin is darker than Tim's. She looks ridiculous.

THE TOP 4

The remaining four contestants — Amy, Ben, Charlie and Talia — finally emerge in the closing minutes of the show to do... a totally underwhelming number choreographed by Matt Lee. That over-hyped routine was not worth waiting two hours for.

"That was crap," my mother declares when it's all over. I suspect she's a little bit out of the show's target demographic...

Did you get a kick out of the Easter special... or would you have rather spent your time stuffing your face with chocolate? Have your say in the comments.