Ralph Macchio gave a performance last night on 'Dancing With the Stars' that would have done Mr. Miyagi proud. Recovering from a painful Baker's cyst, the actor, who starred in the 'Karate Kid' movies, managed to perform two difficult dances, a waltz and a cha cha, despite his injury.

Alas, he and partner Karina Smirnoff scored the lowest of the night with a total of 46 points, trailing leaders Chelsea Kane and Mark Ballas by 9 points.

Macchio, Kane and the other three remaining season 12 celebrities -- Kirstie Alley, Romeo and Hines Ward -- walked the post-show press line in order to share their thoughts on their performances and just how badly they all want to make next week's coveted semifinals.

One of the most impressive moves of the evening was Maksim Chmerkovskiy giving Alley a lift during their dance, a move that's perfectly legal in the Argentine Tango.

"He tricked me," Alley told TV Squad. "In the first rehearsal he told me to put my arms in the air so I did. He [then] had me up in the air and down the stairs. If I had said, 'I'm going to do a lift,' I would have said, 'No, you can't lift me.' I would have freaked."

Alley's lost a good amount of weight since the competition began. She suspects she weighs about what she did when she did her famous bikini dance on 'Oprah.'

"I need to be even less than that because I thought I looked like a rapper's girlfriend when I was on 'Oprah.' Too much on the thighs, too much on the butt, but I sort of look like that."

Alley was bleeped out by the censors after she responded with a profanity during the judges' comments portion of the telecast.

"It's the family hour, right?" she joked.

Chelsie Hightower, Romeo's partner, admitted that there's a great deal of stress doing two dances a night, especially when one is an "instant dance" to a mystery song. "Once you've done everything you can and you're prepared you have to let it all go," she said.

Ward and partner Kym Johnson fielded questions about a recent incident in which Hines and an unidentified woman were pulled over by the police and briefly questioned because the woman, who had reported her car stolen, neglected to update the report after she recovered her auto.

"It's a non-story that was made into a big story," Hines shrugged. "At first I thought it was funny, but to have to step out of the car and have [police] guns pointed at you is not a funny sight. By the time it got to the east coast my mom thought I'd been shot by the police so it wasn't a good deal."

While Hines' auto confusion was cleared up, it remains to be seen who's going to make the semi-finals next week. "Anyone in this final five could have this mirror ball trophy," Johnson said. "It's going to come down to who the audience likes best. It's going to be very tight."

Even though Ballas and Kane scored highest, the two-time winner isn't choreographing his freestyle finale just yet. "We do have to get our song selections in to the producers early in case they don't clear," Ballas said. "We have to give them a heads up of what we want to do, but it's definitely not a focus. We have another week to get through."

Macchio and Smirnoff are hoping that viewer votes will help propel them to the semi-finals and that his injury will soon heal. "The problem is I'm putting a lot of strain on it still," he said. "If I'm okay on Thursday, boy it would suck not having the opportunity to get back in it."

Smirnoff pretended to use a magic touch in the couple's second dance to "heal" his leg.

"I told Ralph that if it really worked then we should tap into some other kind of business," Smirnoff joked.