Irony was the name of the game in this week’s episode of Skating With Celebrities. And not because of the liberal use of the word “celebrity.” First off, you could be watching actual Olympic level ice skating – instead, so many of you chose to watch Bruce Jenner. That’s right, while the actual pairs figure skating competition was going on, millions of Americans watched “celebrities” skate. Oh, the irony.

The good news is that two of the performances were actually pretty good. Jillian & John were great again. I love the lifts that they did, especially after I watched the “things to look for in lifts” segment during the Olympics (yes, that’s right, I watched the real pairs competition…reality tv got the tivo). Did you know that one key to a lift is that the male skater should have the same speed when he ends the lift as when he started it (so keeping the speed throughout)? And John did a nice job of that. I don’t understand why their marks weren’t higher. This gets me to another bit of irony. They were marked down for doing some of the exact same lifts and spins two weeks in a row. Yet later in the show, those same judges commented that a pair should have a “signature move,” and do it each performance. Wait. So should they have done that crazy spin lift both times or not?

So that brings us to Bruce and Tai. More irony here, as the name of the game was speed. Did you see any speed? Because I sure didn’t. It was almost painful to watch. Kurt Browning must be at home watching this just baffled as to why he’s out and these two are in.

With the only fairly judged performance of the night (and maybe of the competition), Kristy and Lloyd’s performance was the highlight of the night. They were really excellent, and you can tell just how athletic Lloyd really is. And they really deserved the high marks to not have to participate in the skate off.

After the skate off (and come on, a skate off???), the irony was palpable. John Nicks (aka, “Simon of the skating show”) said, “In my opinion, you are the best skaters in this entire competition, but here you are, fighting for your lives to get to the next round. I don’t understand it at all.” You don’t understand it at all? Really? It’s because you and the other two judges keep giving them lower scores than other pairs. It’s because you keep giving Bruce & Tai high marks. You really don’t understand? Wow.

At least justice was served in the end, and the two best pairs are in the finals. It should make for an interesting show.