We enter a busy New York scene and find our girls recording a promo for the tour at Atlantic Records while a man in a glass box awkwardly holds up a sheet of paper, which I guess is a very tiny cue card. The girls seem confident and excited. Brillo is doing his own promo over at TRL and manages to cram in a little flirting with the ladies while there. Watch out, Brill Boy! Too much flirting will cause Orangebrey to lunge out of the bushes and scratch your little puffy-headed face off. He also seems confident and excited.

Across town, Day26 is promoting the tour on a radio station. Aaaaaaaaand is where the confidence fizzles. Brian tells us that he's nervous, and Will says they have a lot riding on them, so there's pressure to pull it off. They sit around the table at the station and stare off blankly. What else is new. Don't these guys realize that they have, oh I dunno, an ENORMOUS record deal with Diddy and a NUMBER ONE single?! Look alive, folks!

The groups head off to the venue for a sound check. Because Danity Kane is the headliner, they get to do the soundcheck first. They hop on stage and stomp around, figuring out their choreography and lighting. It's surprising because no one is there telling them what to do or what to watch for. Apparently, they are left to their own devices on this one.

The guys, of course, are bored. Holy Christ. Can't they at least try to surprise us one of these days? Whereas they could be doing something productive, like - GASP! - practicing, they are complaining about the size of their dressing room and dozing off.

The girls have never used headsets before, so they are struggling with getting used to those, and it's making their soundcheck run long. Like by a couple hours. The guys are annoyed that they have to wait, but obviously DK is going to work until it's right. And I agree. It doesn't really make much sense to stop if they can't hear themselves in their own headsets. That's kinda just a tiny bit important. And someday if the boys work hard enough, then maybe they'll get to be headliners with their own headsets and permission to suck up all the stage time. Wait a minute...boys work hard enough? Yeah, what are the odds of that? I guess being just an opener will have to do!

But enough of that! Time for "Diddy's Fit Club." As always, it's rather humorous. Diddy gains a lot of weight and can't even talk about it. He looks down and says to just continue with the show. Okay, Diddy. You are starting to remind of that teeny tiny sorority girl who everyone knows. You know, the one who wears a size two and yet still insists that she's fat? And then who eats a peanut at dinner because nothing else can manage to fit into her teeny tiny belly!? And all the other girls look down at themselves and think, "Well if THAT girl is fat, then what does that make me!?" And thus begins the self-esteem chain reaction...

The guys have been waiting five hours when Boomcat arrives. Finally, someone who will make them use their time productively. She gets them all to gather in the dressing room for a meeting. Noticing that all the boys seem bored and soulless, she tries to rile them up. She says that they're in the ninth inning and this is what they LIVE FOR! An emotion barely seems to register on any of their faces.

Danity is finally done, and Day26 is up. Boomcat watches all of their choreography carefully, coaching their every move. It's awesome. They are running into each other, and microphones are screeching! They look as though they have just been wasting time backstage instead of actually getting focused or practicing. Oh wait. BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING.

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