Tonight on Lifetime Abby Lee Miller’s Dance Moms continues with an all new Tuesday May 17 season 6 episode 20 called, “The Girls Say Goodbye,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, Jai Rodriguez hosts a farewell event for Maddie and Mackenzie.
On the last episode, Jai Rodriguez reunited the cast following Maddie and Mackenzie’s last performance with the team. Did you watch the episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the Lifetime synopsis, “Jai Rodriguez hosts a farewell event for Maddie and Mackenzie. Later, Todrick Hall joins the girls for a performance.”
Tonight’s episode is going to be another drama packed evening, which you won’t want to miss. So be sure to tune in for our live coverage of Lifetime’s Dance Mom’s season 6 episode 20– tonight at 9 PM EST! While you wait for our recap, hit the comments and let us know how excited you are about this new episode of Dance Moms tonight!
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#DanceMoms tonight is all about saying goodbye to Maddie and Mackenzie. Jai Rodriguez is hosting and says he’s a huge fan of Dance Moms. He says they won’t be sad, they’ll celebrate. The Boys of Temecula open the show with a hip hop number.
Then Jai brings out Brynn, JoJo, Kalani, Kendall and Nia. They join the number with the guys. Now it’s Maddie and Mackenzie that come out and join the number. Jai says he’s a legit fan of the show and has watched for years.
Maddie says Nia, Mackenzie and her are the only original cast members. She says she and Mackenzie were six and eight and Nia was nine when it started. Mackenzie says she didn’t know until they said it at pyramid and Maddie says her sister is a blabbermouth.
Kendall says they have been through so much and traveled together. Jai shows the clip where the team finds out they’re leaving. Nia says she knew them before the show even started and that’s why she’s crying. JoJo says she and Maddie got really close and it was hard.
Maddie says after the last group dance at the last competition, that’s when it really hit them. Jai plays the clip of them at the awards ceremony of the last competition. Mackenzie says she was too upset to really talk then and Maddie wipes her runny mascara.
JoJo says it’s going to be weird without them. Kendall says Maddie won’t be at the top of the pyramid now and Kalani says she has a shot. Jai says Maddie was gone working a lot the last season and says everyone was talking about who is the next Maddie.
Maddie says Abby said it was Brynn but she thinks people need to be their own person not the next them. Brynn says it’s hard being the new kid. Kendall says it’s good to have a new team member and she’s been there and says she was on probation when she came in.
The other girls mentioned that Brynn had a lot of solos and Brynn says she didn’t like Abby putting pressure on her to be Maddie and win. Mackenzie says she and Brynn got really close and she’s a good addition to the team.
Jai then brings up the minis and Mackenzie says she related to them. JoJo says it’s a hot mess and Kalani says they have the craziest outfits. Then Jai plays a farewell video including Cathy from the Candy Apples and her daughter. She calls Abby and awful crone but says the girls will soar.
Also shown is a message from Black Patsy and Nicaya who says she heard they got paroled from ALDC. Jeanette and Ava also sent a message. Also shown is Gino from Jeanette’s team. There’s Shangela Laquifa also sent a message and says she’s thankful to be a little part of their journey.
Gino asks Maddie if she remembers the kiss and says they were so young when it happened and says he hopes they get back to their friendship. Jeanette says Maddie is a pleasure to watch on stage and Mackenzie always makes her smile. Cathy says they love them.
The girls talk about the Gino and Maddie kiss and she’s embarrassed. Mackenzie says Cathy picked on the moms and it was always funny and Vivi always gave them a laugh. Now the girls do Mackenzie’s favorite group number of the season Boss Ladies.
Jai says he watches Kendall’s YouTube channel and says it’s so good. He says her channel is like Dance Moms trivia. She says she had the girl make up the questions and they dumped food on her when she got answers wrong. Jai wants to play it now.
They call up someone from the audience. A bunch of girls scream for the chance. Kendall asks Mackenzie what was Maddie’s first solo in Season One. She gets it right – it was Cry. Now she asks Maddie what was Mackenzie’s firt solo from Season One. Maddie gets it wrong.
The poor volunteer gets Hawaiian Punch dumped on her. Kendall asks Mackenzie whose hat fell off in the Pink Lemonade number. She guesses Paige. It was Chloe. Now the poor girl gets salad dressing on her. Now Kendall asks Mackenzie and Maddie about a bribe Jill gave Abby.
They guess that she gave her a bench at the studio. Nope it was Chanel perfume on the bus. Now the girl gets shredded cheese and then ketchup. Jai tells Anika she smells delicious and she says she’s so sad that Maddie and Mackenzie are leaving and the girls take a pic with her.
Jai asks JoJo how Maddie and Mackenzie helped her and she says they have her great advice especially about social media haters. JoJo shows her new video Boomerang as the girls dance. Kendall plays one of the mean girls in the video. Jill was in the video too playing a teacher. Cute song!
The girls talk about finding their voices this season and Mackenzie says Maddie never says anything to Abby. Then we see clips of arguments and Kendall storming out angry. Kendall says she’s growing up and has to stand up for herself.
Jai asks the girls what they would say to Abby and he holds up an Abby mask. Nia says keep your tissues to yourself and says she blows her nose and leaves them around. Kalani says if Abby uses something, give it back. JoJo says Abby used her sweatshirt as a rib napkin.
Then they show clips of Abby licking her mouth and acting weird. Jessa is laughing at her and Abby sticks her tongue out at her. Mackenzie also does her single and we see her music video I Gotta Dance. The Boys of Temecula dance along.
Jai then says Dance Moms has touched people all over the world. JoJo says it inspired a lot of people to dance and seeing where they started. We see clips back to when Maddie and Mackenzie when they were young and just starting. They were so adorable.
There’s a tiny Nia there too hugging them. Then we see when Mackenzie beat her and says game over. Then we see Gino and Maddie’s duet and Maddie says that was not the way to have her first kiss and says it was horrible. Then we see the good luck ritual.
Then we see the farewell party at the last competition. Maddie says she has a lot of memories with the girls and cherishes them. Maddie is teared up and Mackenzie says they are her sisters and she doesn’t want to leave them. Now Maddie gets ready to do a solo. Maddie does Bond Girl for the crowd.
Brynn says she’s so attached to them and says she does everything with Mackenzie and starts crying. Mackenzie runs to hug her and they both cry. JoJo says to Maddie when she first came, she was really nice to her and says it’s impossible to fill her shoes and says Kenzie is literally like her best friend.
JoJo says love you guys. Kalani says it’s hard to see them leave but knows they are moving on to incredible things. Kendall says Mackenzie is like her little sister and she doesn’t know what she’ll do without her then she hugs Maddie and says she has no words.
Mackenzie thanks them for being good sisters and says she can’t imagine life without them. Maddie says they are her best friends. They’re all crying and JoJo says we all look so ugly. Nia says she doesn’t remember life without them and will miss them.
They do a group hug and they’re all crying. Even Jai is crying and says let’s see them dance one last time and it will be Maddie and Mackenzie’s last number with the ALDC girls and Todrick Hall comes out to dance with them. They all sing and dance to Freaks Like Me.
THE END!
