The show tonight features Bo Bice and Maroon 5-the last time Bo was on Idol, he sucked.  Keep your fingers crossed that he won’t tonight. The male Idol winners and runner-ups don’t seem to do much after Idol-wonder if this year will be different since it certainly looks like we’ll have a male win it all for Season 8. 

The opening of American Idol no longer even shows the images of all the previous winners….you can really only ID Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Jordin Sparks…..kind of interesting to see the Machine turn its back on their own.

51 million votes this week, with the top 3 within a million votes…. let’s see, at an Idol machine profit of even a nickel per vote…..over $2.5 million.  You’d think they could afford some better featured guests than Bo Bice and Maroon 5….

The group performance of Reeling in the years was far crappier than usual-Archuleta almost missed his cue to begin. Jason (shockingly) looks totally disconnected “Duuuuuude..” and David A has trouble keeping up for most of the performance. Wonder if Daddy-dearest was brandishing his belt at him or something-David A was very distracted.  The others did ok (Syesha and David Cook) but the ending of the song and performance was strangely abrupt…like they were just cut off without any plan to end at that point. Mandatory deduction.

Judge Judy and Kimberly Caldwell in the audience….the weekly star power seems to be fading fast this year…now we’re down to the “D” list celebs.

The recap of last night’s performances just confirmed how truly BAD Jason was.  This wont be a surprise at all.

With 10 minutes to kill, the kids all had to be Ryan-terrogated before being told they were safe….way too much info, lots of pointless yammering. The kids are scared and not ready to be profound-leave them alone and stop tormenting them!

Archie is safe…..Cookie is safe, after whining rather pitifully about “something was “off” all day yesterday”….and somehow, Syesha is safe again……

So, GOODBYE stoner-boy Jason.  He certainly seemed relieved-almost happy-to be getting the boot. He was by far the happiest person eliminated this year.  I wonder how he felt after he sobered up again?  His final performance was much worse that the disastrous performance on Wednesday-good bye Jason…see you on tour,

Maroon 5…peaked with “Songs About Jane”  and has gone downhill since. Hated the performance.

Bo Bice, looks the same as he did during Season 5…but was not as interesting and his performance explains why he will never be more than an Idol apostrophe.  Give him 5 points for being LOUD, though.

Did you catch the commercial for “Bones” next week featuring Ace Young getting murdered?  Cool beans, it’s about time.  What?  It’s only a TV show murder? 

Top 3:

David “Disney Prince” Archuleta

Syesha “wannabeadiva” Mercado

and David “the weeble winner” Cook