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WTF Moment: Lee Joon and Lizzy’s Couple Dance

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Written by On January 31, 2012

Lee Joon and Lizzy are one of the couples on “Pit A Pat Shake,” K-pop’s latest and greatest fake-dating-esque variety show. The duo performed an acrobatic dance on the show for the Lunar New Year. There are all kinds of whack going on in this video, and I think one must watch the video from beginning to end in order to fully understand the degree of its WTFery.

There is a reason why men should never wear short shorts, and Joon is the perfect example why. The boy has a great body, but that doesn’t mean everyone wants to see him in short shorts.  I understand that, being a couple and all, they are supposed to match, but that doesn’t mean they have to wear the same exact outfit. Judging by the tightness of Joon’s outfit it seemed like he was wearing the same exact sized outfit as Lizzy. And not only is there are a lot of unnecessary leg showing, but the top features a deep V-neck.

Mentally scarring fashion choices aside, the dance was interesting, to say the least. It started out with them wearing capes and entering with dramatic music. From that alone, I’m legitimately confused as to whether or not this is some sort of parody or not. He proceeds to give Lizzy a rose, at which the both of them drop their capes like it’s hot…and then they suddenly launch into an acrobatic routine — if one could call it that. Honestly, I couldn’t see the acrobatic element of the dance at all. If anything, it reminded me of a Richard Simmons exercise video more. I was half expecting Richard Simmons to randomly teleport into the middle of the performance but alas, no show.

The song then suddenly changes to dramatic music with Lee Joon’s ballet skills making an entrance, but not long after, it switches back to nineties exercise music and finishes off with a dramatic prima donna flair.

I have to give Lizzy serious props for keeping a straight face throughout that whole performance, because I certainly couldn’t.

What are your thoughts? Was Joon a sexy ballerina or should he be forever banned from short shorts?

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  • http://twitter.com/Laava90 Lava

    Joon is a good ballerina when he’s doing ballet, but this was just on another level of wtf?? I really didn’t know what to think lol

    • Meanie

      LOL. I saw the whole episode where they had to pick out the outfits, but this wasn’t the outfit they picked out first, and Joon was not feeling it when they found out the routine they had to do. Yeah I wish we could post gifs to express the level of wtf.

      • http://twitter.com/Laava90 Lava

        Yeah I watched the episode and felt so bad for him lol, but the other outfit was worse than this one!! Imagine he got stuck with that?! Didn’t it have like see-through pants or something?? It was weird =S 
        Neither of them were feeling it at all I think, the part where they had to take the cards off the board both of them were hoping to not get the acrobatics one if I remember it properly lol

    • whatthefrell

      I didn’t know what to think either.
      I however, did not watch the entire episode.
      But the moment or two I did catch on Friday were painful…  
      I don’t know whether to find relief 
      in the knowledge that he too 
      was not too pleased with the outcome, 
      or if I should find the pain even more 
      excruciating at the thought that Joonie 
      was oh so miserable throughout 
      this unfortunate experience.
      More power to him for pushing 
      through it — that’s called professionalism. 

      • http://twitter.com/Laava90 Lava

        Yeah he was being really professional about, I don’t think he looked bad in the outfit but just the outfit was such an ugly design. It didn’t seem like either of them were comfortable but Joon was more professsional, Lizzy was trying to hold back her laughs all throughout the performance >_<

  • Andi

    “Men and V-necks never go together” Oh, really? You can go ahead and take a seat and never stand up again. Also, his legs looked better than hers in those shorts. So much fail in this “article”.

    • Mwpg

      Angry, aren’t you? There’s no need to feel so upset over Gil’s opinion. She doesn’t like V-necks and short shorts on men – get over it.

  • Saramc1695

    Hmmm, Not knowing him of course personally I can only imagine he was NOT to crazy about doing this routine or wearing the outfit! If you had watched all of the episode you would realize he was embarrassed as well at the choice they picked. Also I feel, nothing against Lizzy of course, but I don’t think she’s to athletic so he had to compensate alot… It took huge…umm… yah…to do this aerobic routine and to wear the skimpy clothes. At least he’s confident in his manhood to do it in front of thousands. Props to him!!!  

  • nell123

    To be honest this reminds me more of an aerobics composition than a dance.

    • Anonymous

      Exactly. If any of y’all have watched Sex is Zero, they do this aerobics routine competition with dances and costumes veeeery similar to what they were doing-

      I reacted the way the audience reacted: it was funny and strange, but I wasn’t all “WTF?” about it.

    • http://twitter.com/Laava90 Lava

      It was supposed to be an aerobics routine, not a dance, the lizzy/joon cut is somewhere on youtube and they were with an aerobics instructor

  • VeryCuticle

    oh poor lee joon LMAO

  • isti

    No, just no. I watched and I cringed. The two could have pulled off something waaaay better. Joon used to do ballet and be good at it-this gives him points in body control and flexibility. And isn’t Lizzy flexible, etc.? It was bad, and awkward.

    • Anonymous

      Lizzy’s actually is not very athletic, nor is she flexible — so I’m pretty sure they had to dumb down the routine for her because Lee Joon definitely could have done more with his ability.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=615125898 Mindaugas Vidžys

    Scarred for life. So is my sexuality

  • kc

    they really got the short end of the stick -.- I mean even when the professionals were dancing this routine it looked corny, so very very corny…

  • oobie

    What a wonderfully unique Korean mating ritual!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FS52P3WGP37JJ6YJNRLPPBVS4E A

    That’s fine that you did not like the concept, or the cape (which I found a ridiculous addition) but the outfit itself is fairly standard of male aerobic gymnastics and nothing too out of the norm. Really, I think it’s kind of rude to diss something that is pretty uniform in that sport.

    And, imo, I think his thigh muscles were pretty hot but to each her own. ~_^

  • Anonymous

    Lol I dunno, Gil, I think Joon looks mighty fine in that outfit. Typically, I don’t like short shorts on men, but when you’re built like an Olympic swimmer, I don’t see why there should be a problem ;) .

  • Anonymous

    “There is a reason why men should never wear short shorts”

    Hm, so it’s okay to see female idols’ naked legs 24/7 but OMG men should never wear short shorts?

    I think the problem of their outfits was not the length or the fabric, but the design. It’s rather hideous. The dance sequence came out awkwardly funny, but this clearly wasn’t supposed to be a ‘sexy’ performance.

    And personally, I’d LOVE to see more yummy muscular thighs in K-pop [and firm male asses shaking in tight suggestive outfits...*fantasizing*]

  • http://twitter.com/MonicaDBSK Monica

    Should have added lee taesung and seungyeon’s performance, I thought that was very awkward too.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FS52P3WGP37JJ6YJNRLPPBVS4E A

      they were a potentially cute couple that was ruined by an awful awful performance choice (bubbles?! wtf?!). And, they seem to have edited out a lot (the singing, the kiss, etc).
      More than Seungyeon, I was charmed by Lee Taesung and hope to see him in more places.

  • http://www.twitter.com/hipployta Hipployta

    I wish you included context. It’s not like Join was happy about it but it is the standard outfit males wear in that sport. He was being professional. Besides though this design is bad the other option was worse. Joonie looks hot though and I like v-necks on guys

  • jess1

    It really was a WTF moment. lmao

    LJ’s outfit didn’t bother much since I know acrobat/aerobic dancers wear that kind of thing. What bothered was the choreo. It looked like they fused aerobics and ballet. Not cool. 

    Disagree about men and v-necks, though. V-necks and Simon Cowell, hell no. V-necks and MBLAQ members, especially Seungho and G.O, hell yeah! Just not the super-fit ones. Well, as if Seungho would wear a fit one, though. XD 

  • Lara.D

    I won’t complain about the outfit because I actually watched the first episode and he was close to wearing something more horrendous :S 
    Anyways, what is up with the choreo.  I just couldn’t stop cringing, and they actually practiced and stuff to put on this life scarring performance on…..

  • Mika~

    Imagine how sad Joon would be if he read this article criticizing the design of his clothes… He was so reluctant to part with his money – he didn’t want the clothes either, but to spend so much money on something he didn’t want, AND that’s considered ugly? Now that’s sad. (Good thing his English sucks.)

    I have to say, though, they make a funny couple. Especially considering the way Lizzy was feeling him up (hands all over his chest, yunno) when she was trying to guess who he was. And then guessing the wrong person.

  • Anonymous

    I snickered the whole way through .__.

  • Nana

    That was awkward as fuck lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1112091495 Annie Xiong

    The Romeo and Juliet theme song just totally got ruined -________- 

  • http://twitter.com/kaylanurul Nurul Rochayati

    forever banned!! who’s on earth mighty think that couple gymnastic wear like those wore by joon is sexy for fake date??

  • Foreverwithyou

    So much fail in this performance, and in the show too. Seriously, the routine was lazy, and I agree that the routine was watered down for Lizzy’s sake. The choreo looked rushed, the outfits were just… no, and there was no spark from either of them. And yes, it is standard ballet gear, but the design was not flattering at all. At all.

    That whole show was disappointing, I only watched for Joon and was met with much second-hand embarrassment. I admit. But in his defense, I checked out some of the other performances, and it’s not like any of them were particularly stunning. Like, at all. The idea for this show was interesting (couples performing), but such a let down. I wish they chose a more talented cast. Taesung and Seungyeon were just weird to watch, and Sunhwa and the non-entity guy weren’t all that hot either. I was pretty let down.

    But on another note, how great were Hyorin and Sungmin? They were pretty much the saving grace of the show. Sungmin had a few small hiccups, but he matched up to Hyorin really well!. Why did they have to give them an Opera performance? They were blazing. They should have been given a more contemporary, pop performance to do. Heck, I would have taken this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8W7DyPhsI

  • G.

    THE FUCK WAS THIS. O___O

  • Anonymous

    This is just the worst performance of that show, rivaled by the awkward Seungyeon and Taesung. Joon and Lizzy have great chemistry when they are just being a young couple (be it for the show or not), but for this performance is just big no.