Stinson Takes a Seat
Back to the Barre
Christi Lukasiak & Kelly Hyland
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
“You tortured us for years, now we get to torture you,” Kelly says to Bryan Stinson, co-creator of Dance Moms and today’s guest on Back to the Barre. He shares funny moments and memories from the show which he credits with sending dance class registrations across the country skyrocketing with its debut. He, Christi and Kelly discuss the show’s legacy and what they would change if they could do it all again. He answers the long-standing question as to why production didn’t show more fun and funny moments with the kids and reveals the show’s one strict drug policy that Christi managed to break.
Though he recognizes Dance Moms as “lightning in a bottle,” and marvels at how unlikely it was to find such perfect kids in one small dance studio in PA, he is nonetheless rebooting the series and explains how it will differ from the original. Kelly and Christi give their best advice to potential future cast members and Kelly reveals why she was so angry with Bryan back when they were filming, and why all was forgiven when Bryan showed his abs. They dispel common misconceptions fans still have about the show’s rehearsals and competitions.
Christi and Kelly have their own plans for future reboots involving the two of them as grandmas living in a retirement home. Christi reveals the unlikely group of parents who embraced the show while Bryan names the cast member who genuinely scared him.
Quotes
- “You guys have to be really proud of what you accomplished and what the show did around the world. It really did fill up dance classes around the world. Registration doubled based on the TV show…You guys did that. It was the first of its kind.” (30:57-31:28 | Bryan)
- ‘We were never anything but ourselves. Real people in ugly dresses and that's why people related. They said, ‘I saw that dress at Walmart, too. And we’d say, ‘I'm wearing it on national television.’” (1:04:34-1:04:51 | Christi)
- “When Kelly and I finally move into our Golden Girls house together…That's going to be a show.” (1:18:28- 1:18:45 | Christi and Kelly)
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| 0:00.0 | Baby let's just dance dance, let's just dance baby. I just wanna dance dance dance dance dance |
| 0:20.4 | Hello, bitch, that's welcome back to the bar. I feel like that |
| 0:25.0 | Kelly was not able to clap before we started |
| 0:30.9 | You were what? |
| 0:32.1 | Jaking my drink. Oh, I can't wait to hear what you're drinking. Well, this is bitch number one, |
| 0:36.5 | Christie and this is bitch number two, Kelly. Oh, we have another bitch today. |
| 0:41.6 | Do we have big bitch? You are the big bitch. There's no way you guys are drinking already. I mean, |
| 0:47.5 | it's 10 o'clock in the morning. Do you know what you know better Brian? You used to make us drink at 7 a.m. |
| 0:53.8 | Come on. Come on. We knew how bad our day was gonna be whenever we came down to our |
| 0:59.1 | makeup station and seeing what kind of drink we had for the day. Correct. Yeah, |
| 1:02.8 | we had a lot of people are like, oh, it's not gonna be too bad. If it was a martini, we were like, oh, |
| 1:07.0 | shit. Yeah, load my cat. Yeah, it's actually drink. Through the years, I felt like the dance |
| 1:15.0 | months, I stopped drinking like they did they weren't they weren't in into it. Not at competitions. |
| 1:20.6 | Maybe the ones you cast on TV, but the ones that I say competitions are still drinking trust me. |
| 1:27.0 | Correct. Well, anyway, so we have a very special guest. I was like, are you special? We have a very |
| 1:35.3 | special guest today. We have the the demon of our past, the devil of our dance mom days. |
| 1:45.2 | I call him himself. Yes, the snake. We have the snake Brian Stinson, who is one of the creators of |
| 1:54.9 | dance moms. I'm only the tables have turned. I know you're in the hot seat today. I mean, I'm |
| 2:01.7 | really, I'm actually really nervous because I feel like you've been really secretive about this. |
| 2:05.1 | So I called you yesterday. I was like, what are we gonna talk about? No, return phone call. |
| 2:10.4 | The answer. I feel like I'm gonna be ambushed today. But that would be fair. I deserve it. You do |
| 2:15.2 | deserve it. You tortured us for years. So now we have an hour to torture you. We're not even gonna |
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