• Fire the Timekeeper!

    You know, for a show whose producers are obviously worried about time issues, they sure did let Seacrest drone on and on, coming up with adjectives for the judges’ personalities. Then Seacrest and Simon went back and forth, explaining that because of said time issues, only two judges would critique each contestant, which meant only…

  • Guess Who’s Finally ‘Passed Off’!

    Oddly, no mention at all Wednesday night of the overtime glitch that left DVR viewers out in the cold for Glambert’s performance. But they did seem to have time for Seacrest to yet again make fun of Simon’s age. Isn’t that joke getting old? Apparently Frankie Avalon’s “Venus” was on the top of the charts…

  • America No Longer Voting Blindly

    Thank goodness there were still enough ladies left in the group to do a Supremes number for Motown Week. We almost had enough guys to do a Temptations AND a Four Tops homage simultaneously! After all the recent lip-syncing controversy (see previous blog), one would think that the producers would clean up their act and…

  • ‘Idol’ Gets Smokey

    I can’t believe they are still doing that lame melodramatic thing where the judges walk onto stage and are announced. Is this the reason the show is still clocking in at two hours? Ridiculous! (I also can’t believe Ryan Seacrest made an allusion to oral sex when Paula reached under the desk to get a…

  • Results Show: Gunnin’ for a Guy

    Two things stood out about the opening Travis Tritt “T-R-O-U-B-L-E” number. First of all, did anyone realize before then that the men outnumbered the girls by almost 2 to 1? America’s gunnin’ for a guy this year. Secondly, looks like the producers finally got sick of teaching the choreography to Scott MacIntyre and just stuck…