LAST EDITED ON 07-25-07 AT 00:49 AM (EST)On average I thought the show last week was better than the show this week. But there were a few surprises.
Second Story Guys led off on what must be the tallest stilts yet and, no pun, really stepped it up a notch. 9
Southern Girl came out halfway between being and-the-Supremes and Wilson/Philips, I thought it their best performance yet but the socalled judges weren't happy. 7
Popovich Comedy Pet Theater then came out with the bomb of the evening; actually, I enjoyed the performance, but they really shouldn't have pulled out a standard maudlin century-old skit at this point in the competition. 5
Cas Haley wore some a bit finer duds this time and really pleased the audience with his singin' and strummin', such a shame he's from the Junior Samples School of Sophistication. 8
Terry Fator combined singing with comedic ventriloquism with a really fun act, and honestly it was spooky how much that turtle resembled Kermit. 8
The Fault Line surprisingly took it down a notch with a not entirely horrible Michael Jackson takeoff that basically bore no resemblance whatsoever to anything by the creepy yet supertalented superstar. 5
Well, speaking of creepy, we all knew it was going to happen sometime during this show, and then...
Boy Britney dropped the Shakira horror show and gave a genuinely entertaining comedic impersonation in which he by golly lipsynced just as good as the real thing, it was actually good! -- creepy but good. 6
Jason Pritchette stepped it up, leaving his guitar backstage he sang and danced around, and then the judges gave it to him for not bringing his faithful guitar, completely ignoring the fact that he just doesn't have what it takes to both sing and dance at the same time. 5
The Calypso Tumblers then showed everyone some really great dancing and even some of their tumbling and a few other tricks that Leonid wished he could do. 8
The Duttons finished the evening by wrecking "La Bamba" but probably not as bad as Jonny Come Lately would have, and I have to give them credit for diversifying their performances. 7
SMILES ARE FREE