"Dancing" update: rear-slapping not condoned

It is absurdly disrespectful!

October 20, 2010 at 1:59PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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ABC handout picture (AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A writer for People faces a deadline, looks at the picture of someone in a monkey suit, and wonders what one could possibly say. Something witty that plays off the monkey suit, but communicates a sense of peril, too. What? What? Oh, wait! I know!

Monkey suits for the Monkees. Brilliant. Good thing the theme wasn't "77 Sunset Strip," or they would have dressed up as pavement. As it turned out, Bristol stayed and Florence left:

Do we know that for sure? Was there a phone number Brady Bunch fans could call to express their shock?

Of course, it would not be reality TV without CONTROVERSY about the way someone felt they were treated:

Will these dramas rip the show apart? No.

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