'Dancing With the Stars' season finale recap: Shawn and Mark Flip Out

Lady Gaga always looks like an alien, but seeing her robot-dance her way around DWTS' technicolor staircase made me suspect she is perhaps a special ballroom alien, beamed down to instigate needless sequin wars and torment the hair department with her army of weaves. That said, she fit in perfectly to the DWTS environment. A welcome adversary! During ''Just Dance,'' I kept hoping the cameras would pull out — I too was wondering ''what's going on on the floor?'' and hoped it would involve Our Pros (there needs to be an html coding that allows me to surround 'Our Pros' in hearts and rosettes. I'll work on this for next season), but, oh well. Do you think Lady Gaga and her merry band of backup dancers would like to tag-team the cleaning of my toilet with that ''disco stick''?

Hidden Gems of the Week Reader Amy picked Monday's: ''I think the hidden gem was clearly when Cheryl was trying to grab Melissa's hand after the Paso Doble and Melissa completely ignored her. The look on Cheryl's face was priceless!!!!!!'' And I had to throw in a bonus gem from Tuesday night: After the judges scored the final dance of the season (Gilles' Argentine Tango), DANCMSTR was so exhausted he had to fan himself off with his paddle.

Special finale week treat! Click here for a fun photo-based retrospective: Costume designer Randall Christensen told me about his 10 favorite looks from season 8. It's not often that a lowly fringe fairy like myself gets to interview one of her Top 5 Personal Heroes Ever, you know. (Now that I've had a taste...if you happen to be Lucille Bluth, Cookie Monster, the Pillsbury Doughboy, or whoever came up with Mountain Dew, watch out. I'll be calling.)

Thanks for riding my disco shtick for 11 weeks, DANCMSTRs. I'll miss you like Edyta misses her legwarmers on laundry day. Go forth and comment! I'll see you for season 9...(you know what comes next)…liiiiiiiiiiiiive.

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