"DWTS" Week 5 Recap: A Little Disney Magic

Yo current “Dancing with the Stars” competitors, we’re really happy for you, and we’re gonna let you finish, but last night Alfonso Ribeiro and J.T. Church had one of the best “DWTS” opening numbers of ALL TIME.

Seriously: If those two had a spinoff show in which they did nothing but dance their way through magical Disney fairylands, we would totally watch that. (And shoutout to J.T.’s equally adorable partner in crime, Gracyn French.) Thank you, Mandy Moore, for conjuring up this glitter-dusted Disney Night goodness:

On to the actual competition! In a surprise to pretty much nobody, rising favorite Normani Kordei continued her leaderboard domination, thanks to her ferociously fierce paso doblé with Val Chmerkovskiy to Mulan‘s “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.” For good measure, the duo was accompanied by Donny Osmond in his very sparkliest blazer, because why not.

Also unsurprising: The consistently excellent Simone Biles earned the second-highest score of the night for her contemporary number to “How Far I’ll Go” from Moana. Strong and energetic as her performance was, though, we have to admit that we spent about 30 percent of it dying over singer Auli’i Cravalho, who’s straight-up incredible.

While many of the other competitors gave fair-to-decent performances (we were especially into Heather Morris and Alan Bersten’s sweet Frozen number), we’d like to use this space to discuss one of the stranger things we’ve ever seen on television: Nick Viall and Peta Murgatroyd as Not Sexy Pinocchio and Very Sexy Jiminy Cricket, respectively. Somehow it almost…worked? Never underestimate the power of a good pair of lederhosen, friends.

After the parade of Disney delights, Real Housewife Erika Jayne and partner Gleb Savchenko were sent packing—about right, but also a bit of a bummer after their strong Finding Dory-themed waltz. (Any Finding Dory performance that does NOT involve giant fish costumes is a win.) We cheered up quickly, though, when we heard that next week’s theme will be Boy Band vs. Girl Group. ‘Til then!