America's favorite dancer?

Another season of So You Think You Can Dance has come and gone. Before I scare anyone off who hasn't watched the finale yet, I am NOT going to spoil any results. So simma donna.

Before I get to the point of this post, I would just like to say how sad I am that they didn't bring back Janette and Brandon's Wade Robson cartoony thief routine. That was by far my favorite and WHY ARE YOU BRINGING BACK DANCES THAT WE JUST SAW LAST NIGHT? Whatevs.

So we crowned America's favorite dancer tonight, and I kind of want to turn to one Mr. Nigel Lythgoe and any other decision makers on this show and say, "Really? America's Favorite Dancer? This is the best you can come up with?"

Let's think about other titles that people can win on reality shows. Top Chef! America's Next Top Model! And in the case of Project Runway (among others), just the straight up WINNER. All those titles are powerful. They denote pure awesomeness. America's favorite dancer? Meh.

We, as a country, have such a short attention span that we can't focus on anything for more than 2 seconds. We love Britney Spears! We hate Britney Spears! France is awesome! The French suck! Oh wait, it's cool to eat French Fries again! Michael Jackson is the shit! Michael Jackson is a creepy child molester! Michael Jackson is THE GREATEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED!

You see, we're a bunch of morons and we don't hold the same opinion of anything for longer than it takes to Twitter about it. One person may have won America's favorite dancer tonight, but we all know that in one month's time when the new season starts, that title will pretty much be null and void. And even though we may continue to award people the titles of Top Chef or Top Model or Top Upside Down Juggling Tricyclist, those titles, while we may forget about the people who hold them, are far less ephemeral than something that is so blatantly based on the opinion of people whose opinions don't matter.

You know what else? No one gives a crap about anyone else's favorite anything.

MY FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR IS COOKIES AND CREAM.

How many of you care about that? Oh, zero. Because no one cares what I think even if I'm right (suck it, butter pecan).

I'm not trying to detract from SYTYCD winners, past, present or future. I'm trying to make a point that we need to come up with a better title for them - something a bit more worthy of how hard they work to get there. I would like to suggest something along the lines of, "The Best Dancer In the Universe," or "America's Bestest Awesomest Top Dancer!" or "Seriously, why didn't any of the judges want to see that Janette and Brandon routine and I'm thinking of going to the SYTYCD tour in Boston by myself because no one will go with me and if they don't do that dance I'm going to sic creepy Kupono on someone's ass." (PS, I love Kupono even if he's kind of scary).

Just, you know, throwing that out there.