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DWTS Super Bowl Night: 11 couples, one halftime show each

Each of the eleven remaining couples must reinterpret some of the most iconic performances from Super Bowls past; it is a lot of sequins for one night.

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Watch it as it aired: Vera Bullock, Kenji Moonfield and Hank Ledger on this story, from The Couch Panel at 5:36 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are The Hollywood Reporter's, the jokes are ours.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Hollywood Reporter says Dancing With the Stars has its Super Bowl Night, where the eleven remaining couples reinterpret halftime shows like Kendrick Lamar's and Bad Bunny's.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo here is the question: is the halftime show the best part of the Super Bowl?

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNo. The game is the best part of the Super Bowl, and I say that as a man who has watched exactly one halftime show all the way through.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentExactly one? Hank, I've seen Bad Bunny's set nineteen times, and in my group chat it's the only part anyone remembers.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAs a former pageant girl, I will defend the halftime show to my grave.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI once did a baton routine in a parking garage and it was a career highlight.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA garage.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe acoustics must have been unreal. And that's why I'm changing sides: if Vera is for it, I need to be against it.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYou switched sides over a baton, Kenji.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat is the pettiest thing anyone has done on this couch since Hank refused to learn the word podcast.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFine, I'll say it.

  12. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIf the dancers need eleven couples to redo one halftime, the original was clearly too much work for one man with a guitar.

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentChat, hands up if you'd watch Hank do the Lamar routine. Vera says yes, Hank says no, and I say the toaster is his partner.

  14. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe toaster stays unplugged.

  15. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt already replicated. That's your second toaster, and now you have a finale partner.

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