The Good Rabbi's Blog

It started as an arcade game, quickly became a fad, morphed into a fitness routine, and now it's about to become a TV show on a major national network. That's right, Dance Dance Revolution is about to become more than just a way for kids to get all sweaty at the movie theater arcade. This fall, CBS will debut its new series, Dance Revolution (apparently they decided "Dance Dance" was redundant), featuring the best and brightest of America's youth pounding out the beats and showing off their moves. I'm not remotely convinced that televised DDR will prove to be the spectacle CBS is probably hoping for, but it's no dumber than competitive air guitar.