Why was there a sign for Sanjaya poking out from under that sign for Jordin? Was this last week's audience?
And isn't the song Jordin sang, the same one Jerry Lewis sings at the end of his Telethon?

Flipit - those were some of the FUNNIEST screencaps I've EVER seen on TVGasm - well done!! I especially loved the "Don't forget to spay or neuter your new child" screencap! I think tonight's the night LaKisha gets Mandisa-ized... And rightfully so - if I have to hear her SCREAM another song I think I'll have to kill myself... I think Spanx has definitely got it in the bag - mark my words...

man you're right! creepy.

Flipit, good recap, although I think just like Simon you pulled back a little this week, but hey it's hard to make fun of people when they're raising millions for charity.

I gotta say when I heard the music theme was "Life Anthems" I was prepared for the worst cheese possible. The song choices weren't as bad as I had feared(but M-Doo and Powder's songs were way boring). The performances overall were solid. It's like a whole different show now that the Sanjaya circus has left town.

I thought Jordin's song was called "You'll Never Walk Alone". In any event she kicked ass, and I think she's going to be our Idol this year.

Anyway, if they do a top 3/bottom 3, I'm thinking Jordin, M-Doo are definitely top 2, Kiki & Blake are definitely bottom two, and it's a complete tossup which ground Timby & Powder go into.

I think it's curtains tonight for Kiki. In choosing that Fantasia song, she bit off more than she could chew last night. (Insert your own fat joke here).

Where the hell was Bono, anyway? I guess they're going to show the Bono clips tonight because they were tight on time last night with the charity pieces and having only an hour.

-JR

Flipit- another classic, hilarious, and spot on Idol posting. The images just knock it out of the park for me, I am loving this! Like I said before, I wish I could do as good as you on my idol blog. Check it out here at http://blog.scenemaker.net

TimberFake should go & I am getting increasingly more aggrevated at Blake. Whats wrong with his mouth when he sings? Not impressed at all.
Bottom 3 = Chris, Phil, and KiKi. Buh Bye Chris. Finnaly.... I never understood why America likes this guy. Though I am no JT fan... atleast I can see why people like him. He's kind-of sexy and has a good style to his songs. This Chris guy is just a poser and looks like he belongs on a street corner somewhere. Kind-of weird looking. What's the facination?

I want to know the same thing! WHERE WAS BONO???

Hi all. This is my first time posting. Great recap. I say KiKi is gonna bite the dust. Bottom three w/be Baldie(Powder),KiKi and Blake. I hate Balder but he seems to have a following. Anyhoo, does anyone know the name of the song they used in the first Africa trip segment? It sounded like it might be a ColdPlay song. Thanks in advance.

Absoulutely hilarious! The screencaps were the best. Great job!

I'm thinking Bono is showing up specifically for the charity aspect. He's not going to give advice to Idol contestants...this BONO we're talking about here, not JLo.

My bottom three:

1) Phil (Powder)
2) Chris (Timberfake...haha!)
3) Blake (dead pan)

Phil should go home. From day one this dude annoyed me and I can't remember liking ANY performance he's given.

Please, please let Lakisha go home tonight. Melinda and Jordin are the two best, but Melinda's just not a "pop star" in my mind and will have a solid career anyway -- I'm hoping Jordin takes it.

Actually, in terms of best pop stars, I think it'd be best to come down to Blake and Jordin -- Blake loses a lot when he's forced into all these different genres (and should learn to emote, darn it), but is certainly quite talented when he's in his own zone. His "Time of the Season" performance was one of the best this year, IMO.

Thanks for the smile you guys. JR, the song is called "You'll Never Walk Alone". My bad. And UptownGirl, the song is "Trouble" by Coldplay.

I hope you are all out in the world giving to someone today. LOVE

Deb, you pretty much summed up my thoughts exactly. I love Blake but the genre weeks are tough for him. Time of the Season was awesome! I think Jordin could take it, but I thought McPhee would last year.

I only watched the damn show for the Bono sighting!!! I can't believe no one sang a U2 song. "Walk On" would have been great. Not to be confused with "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel.

Awww...you didn't run with the awkward interlude between Cowell and Tink when Simon told him to stop staring at his exposed chest....

I don't understand why everyone was impressed w/ Richardson. He always looks to me like he's the dorky kid trying so desperately hard to be cool - yet failing miserably. Plus I think he sings badly, especially when he's nasal. I hope he leaves, saving KiKi for another day.

I think Melinda & Jordin were the best last night. I keep my fingers crossed for LaKisha, hoping she's going to pull out an amazing performance and it just doesn't seem to happen. Her first performance of that Jennifer Holiday song which blew everyone away, but ever since then she had not be able to match it, which is a shame...

I just don't understand why people like Blake so much. The guy NEVER smiles. He tries to be like an 'alternative' singer, I think he's trying to be like Morrissey.. or Robert Smith (the cure) but doesn't have the unique voice to pull it off. I think he or JT should goooooooo

Yeah I can't stand Chris R either.
I can not stand his singing. He always sounds nasally and then the facial expressions along with the jerky movement.
He just screams scumbag to me.

As for who is going home.. I wish it were Chris, but I think it's either going to be Blake, Phil or Lakisha

Gotta applaud Simon for the cynical P.R. (that's redundant) move to have a charity themed AI to show America that it really is relevant. American Idol cares...about the dead and dying, not just Simon's bank account.

Hoping onto the "I don't get" train, I really don't get why when Lakisha screeches her way through a song the judges (and everyone else) are all over her, but when Jordin does it two weeks in a row everyone raves about it. Her performance last night was all over the place. The beginning of it was horrible, there were tons of flat notes, she shouted her way through most of it, and that last note was just horrible. Really, I just don't get it. Someone? Anyone?

I'm hoping for a all-male bottom three.

Thanks Flipit for the song. I cosign w/you Laurie about not getting why the judges were falling all over themselves to praise Jordin for her performance last night. Jackass Jackson w/the best performance of any Idol, WTF? They are really hyping her up.

I'm just so fired up!

Idol Gives Back? Oh please, its a brand awareness marketing event to promote the Idol brand, and using charity as an excuse. Its a vehicle to make themselves richer, not save kids.

I'm sure Tink, the british self boob grabber, that drug addict and lard ass dawg could easily throw down $5mil for the under privelaged.

Why do we have to vote for these imbeciles for the sake of charity? And be subject to bad entertainment?

Go write your own check directly if you want to save kids!

KH

I'm with you KH. This is pretty cold hearted. Give us your money, and we'll give some of it to the poor. You get 2 for the price of one! You choose Americas Idol! and wipe out hunger!!!

Nice, funny recap, Flipit. I agree about LaKisha; she has so been tying her own noose lately.

I agree with Laurie (#19) and UptownGirl (#20) in that I certainly wouldn't call Jordin's performance the best of any Idol and there were definitely a few problems. It didn't help that I didn't really get the song, too. I didn't really get most of the songs they sang.

KatiesHole, please stop talking through the high horse's ass and, dredge, there was no need to get all up in there, too. So the f' what if it might be a PR move? If it helps, it helps. I have no doubt they've also gotten quite few people who wouldn't normally think about helping out to actually help out and maybe continue to do so in their own ventures. If they did make money from it, I have no doubt someone would find out, but, for many people until then, it is about the unfortunate. You know that people are going to be helped and saved because of it. Seriously, you better have helped a lot to try that self-righteous crap.

My personal favorite Blake performance was Mack the Knife. Saying that genre weeks are tough for him is a cop-out, though, because that is the ENTIRE point of the show. I believe Lakisha is a goner.

PS to Katieshole and dredge-
Are you seriously pissed because you're being asked to donate to charity? I don't understand what you're mad about. I don't understand why what Simon, Paula, Seacrest and Randy do with their own money should have any bearing on you deciding to give money to charity. Besides that, how do you know they don't already give their money to charity and don't brag about it all the time like Oprah does?

Oh yeah, and to give Chris Richardson some credibility, I read on the good old internet that Lindsay Lohan has expressed interest in him and he shot her down.

KH and dredge, I'm going to call bullshit as well. This show could have just kept steamrolling along without ever doing a charity event. Yes, Fox airs the show to make money, and everyone who appears on the show is there to further their careers, but why should that take away from raising awareness and millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor? How can you possibly slam the show for that?

I'm surprised in 2007, people can be so easily duped by whats on television.

People donate money all day long to tele-evangilists, and the concept is exactly the same.

Here's a lesson in basic marketing, 101:

This has nothing to do with charity. Yes, the charity will get something after all the other salaries and services are paid for - this is about promoting the American Idol brand, its a subtle attempt to get you to watch more and buy crap CDs when they come out. "Because, they are helping kids, well then, lets do it!" I guarantee, when the winner's CD comes out, it has a tie in to another charity donation. If you recall, Taylor Hicks CD bombed. Gotta find a way to boost sales !

Its supposed to make you feel good about picking up a telephone and voting for an idol? If you want to donate money to a charity, then do it. But don't do it this way, because a fraction of a cent will only be sent. Don't be naive!

Its about getting more viewers so they can raise advertising rates and subsequently, their own salaries. Its all about money, yes, but not for any charity.

Wake up kids!

KH

KH, Dredge-or all cynics: who's denying the IDOL cup will runneth over with profits due to this event? Doing something to contribute to the community and making money don't have to be mutually exclusive. I work for a healthcare company; sure, our products save lives, enhance ppl's health, etc. but at the end of the day my firm is looking at the bottom line-->profit, answering calls from Wall Street. IDOL'll take administrative fees, operating expenses, yada, yada, yada. But some folks are getting some aid and some folks who don't normally contribute, donate, whatevs were actively doing something. Sure it's a testament to our society's values that this event would be the motivating factor for philanthropic activity but there you have it. I do think this campaign was a novel way to get people active in the giving process (even if the monetary source was from a corp.) and may cause them/some/one to develop long-term practices.