The Australia Trip That Exposed Everything | Season 5, Episode 20 | Back to the Barre
Back to the Barre
Christi Lukasiak & Kelly Hyland
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Christi and Kelly recap and react to Dance Moms season 5, episode 20 — “Dance Moms Down Under, Part 1.”
The show heads overseas to Australia... but without Abby, who gets left behind after losing her passport. Of course, that doesn't stop her from controlling everything from thousands of miles away on the phone. She yells at Melissa over the phone, questions whether the whole team was even invited to perform, and says Maddie can just dance by herself if she is not there.
This is where the Australia episode starts to expose everything. Nia and JoJo are treated like they were never really part of the plan, the moms clash over who is tied to Abby’s Australia events, and the viral Ireland video mocking JoJo brings even more tension into the trip. Then Maddie misses rehearsal for an interview while the other girls keep working as her backup dancers, only for the episode to later handle her mistake onstage completely differently than it would have handled anyone else’s.
For Christi and Kelly, this trip is not just about a lost passport or one chaotic performance. It is about the different rules, the selective protection, and the favoritism that creeps up episode after episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Baby, let's just dance, dance, let's just dance. Baby, I just want to dance, dance, dance, dance, dance. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, little bitch, can you take it, can you come and freeze it, all of this |
| 0:12.7 | electricity. Do it right now, bye, right now, turn up on you, mouth, give me your electricity. |
| 0:21.6 | Hello, little bitchettes. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome back to the bar, bitch number one, Christy. |
| 0:25.6 | And bitch number two, Kelly. |
| 0:26.6 | And my very inappropriate microphone. |
| 0:29.6 | It's my inappropriate microphone. |
| 0:33.6 | Just so everyone knows, calm down before you get all been out of shape. We will be back |
| 0:40.0 | in the studio. We are just, we have a few things that are going on in our lives right now, |
| 0:45.8 | so we had to go back to the old school ways. So, but there are things for them. Yes. Yes. Like |
| 0:52.2 | we're filming other things. Yes, we're your mothers. |
| 0:55.5 | Doing it because we, you know, don't feel like going to the studio. We have no time to go to this. |
| 1:05.1 | We have no time. And also, it's like, you know, do you know the sacrifices your mothers make for you? |
| 1:10.8 | This is one of those cases. Yeah. It's like we do all of this for you, okay? We've given up our lives for you. So we will be back in the studio. We like it better too. But we are in the middle of recording Pillow Talk, which, by the way, is now released. |
| 1:28.3 | We have Pillow Talk. |
| 1:29.3 | I don't know what season of Pillow Talk it is, but we are recapping. |
| 1:32.7 | Is it? |
| 1:33.7 | I think. |
| 1:34.7 | Because we did Dance Mom's New Era. |
| 1:37.9 | We did AUDC and we did more. |
| 1:41.4 | Oh, but we also did Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. |
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