Oh, please. Like there's a single talking head on their news channel who wouldn't shoot him where he stands.

I am a little curious as to why he'd want to be on here though...

First guess: summer tour.

so glad I had this recorded so I could FF thru that.
threw up in my mouth a tiny bit

That was sick - & not in a good way.
Bleeping out the censored parts wasn't enough; they had to go to complete silence for several seconds at a time!
Totally inappropriate IMO.
Sure they can cut it for tv, but nothing cut it out for the young teenagers & kids in the live audience.

SLAP: AI producers

So you had no problems with their allowing Paul to sing about how outside, he was masturbating?

I have no idea what Paul ever sings about cause I FF thru Paul.
1. I don't like his voice.
2. I can't understand most of what he is saying so...

Quoting Jacob about the mirror thing. You will be leaving us and going to safety on the couches.

Hayley gave Ryan's fake out a snap.

The person who leaves us tonight is...Pia.

Stefano is safe.

Noooooo!

LAST EDITED ON 04-07-11 AT 08:59 PM (EST)

*echo*!

Man.

And I thought Americans were morons more often than not with their political votes. This tops the cake.

1) Why did Paul get the pimp spot last night?

2) I'm telling you the stupid Gwen Stefani pants hurt her!

She should have worn what she is wearing tonight.

My thoughts exactly!

I agree with you. Just goes to show the idiocy of the AI voting process. IMHO, Pia is gorgeous, has a great voice, and with some mentoring, will have a great musical career ahead of her. That aside, while Naima and Thea deserved to go, Pia should have tatyed to the end. Instead off the judges wasting their save on Fozzy Bear, they could have used it this week. What a bunch of sc*mbags these tweeners and teenyboppers are! Stephano and Paul suck.. they can't sing their way out of a paper bag. Jacob is a Johnny one-note, and Casey can't handle the pressure. Now that Pia is out, the only one left who deserves to win is James.

She might be able to go and do an adult contemporary album. For me, it was same ol same ol with her and it got really boring. I never got the 'passion' they claim she had...just a lot of wailing.....and now she's killing my favorite Pretenders song...again.

She's like a Carrie Underwood...Carrie was stiff her year.

So who is it they want to win?

*shakes head*

Go ahead, Nigel. Explain it away. And good luck.

At this point, it's time to start cooking the sauerkraut.

LAST EDITED ON 04-07-11 AT 09:02 PM (EST)

She so thought she had the win. I don't love her, but she sure deserves to be there more than Stefano. And the judges are absolutely dying about the fact that they used up their save.
Happy Campers: Lauren and Haley
Guilty Campers: Casey and Stefano

With the way voting has gone, a full hand of saves wouldn't reverse the perversity of it.

Maybe now AI will change the voting. (Yeah, fat chance.)

I say this every season: I don't vote because my 10 - 12 votes won't have any chance against the thousands of votes the teenage girls are casting in the 2 hour period after the show ends. And that's why we end up with skewed results like this.

I hated when the judges saved Casey. So this is perfect. They lose another female and one they really liked. Maybe they should not have wasted it on Casey.

That was ridiculous.

They need to change the voting system. Make people vote for who they want to leave, not who they want to stay. The current voting system encourages the psychology of people not voting for who they think is safe.

Ryan never said how many votes there were, did he?

Must have been a low voting night and they needed to goose up the voters.

I think Pia has an awesome voice, but was quite boring to watch. I really hate it when they encourage people to vote, then basically tell the voting public they are stupid for their vote. Maybe other people thought she was boring too!! Instead of looking for some reason why this is such a travesty we should look at the possibility that MAYBE people just didn't want to vote for her......

Well most of us got a couple of points on the bonus question. No one got any points for the elimination.

Thinking back, Pia got scant time in front of the camera before the top 24. Then she got a pimp spot.

The uber pimped from before the top 24 are all still there, one with the judges' (producers) help.

I would like to thank the judges for sending Pia home. All 3 sit up there week after week and tell America how great every single singer is and then they are surprised when America does not hate any of them? Like it or not some people are influenced by the judges and when the judges don't judge they have nobody to blame but themselves if they are outraged by America's choice.

Exactly. The judges spent lastnight telling us that all 9 are wonderful and gushing over them. Then tonight they are so upset that Pia was going home. Well someone had to go home. I wish Ryan had asked the judges who they thought should go home if Pia was the wrong choice. They never want to say anyone doesn't deserve to be there. So they are sending mixed signals to the viewers.

well Paul was sent to safety when Pia had to go to chair and JLo esp grimaced then Stefano was saved when Pia was sent home and the judges were aghast so there's those 2...just makes me want Paul to go further!!

My thoughts exactly!
Seem to remember in the past that Ryan had asked the judges when he had the B3 on the stage which should go & which should stay. Maybe JL & Steven put in their contract that they would not be "not nice". LOL

Stephano must have felt like crap. He had to know that if the judges were that upset about Pia leaving, then they had to have preferred that he be the one to go.

The Worsters say Stefano's Twitter posts have been reading as increasingly frustrated (possibly because they keep using that account to remind him of his DUI). I don't think he'll be calming down any time soon.

MC pulls the caddie up to the stage door.

Constantine runs out and jumps in the passenger side.

They share a quick kiss, a knowing look and peel out onto the highway.

It's gonna be a good night.

...Pia would be welcome.

Just sayin'.

LAST EDITED ON 04-07-11 AT 09:42 PM (EST)

Well, I had Pia on my couch with Thia as a sidekick, and now they're both gone.

No way I'd let Hayley slink onto my couch (although she'd surely be more than willing to be the yodeling seductive sultress) and Lauren isn't quite my type.

*sigh*

This season is shot already.

Lauren, Haley, or Jacob?

Lauren... if there is a dog

WOOT!!! I loved it I laughed and laughed. The faux outrage by the judges and their pimped one goes home after they waste the save on growling Casey!! No one but a WGWG will ever win this show again...it may not be Paul but Scotty has a really good chance.

I was really surprised at first it wasn't Haley but this was even better. Sorry cahaya and z

Sorry cahaya and z

No need to apologize. After all, I'm one of those non-voters who can complain all I want about the vote, but only have myself to blame for it.

imho what Steven said is bunk it's not indifference it's that the people they focus the show on the tweeners (they have little girls run up to Scotty...but they can't do that with Pia bc she wd get groped and AI has enough problems with the judges and contestant let alone the audience) will never vote for Pia like people in droves the only people willing to go all out voting are tweeners frauen and VFTW and they are all voting for WGWG

Yep, they cater to the remaining groups that will give them the ratings so they keep make money.
Then this group of judges won't be ruthless about getting rid of the people that were put on the cast that "don't deserve to win" once they get to the top 12 even though they were "too good not to win" until they were cast as finalists.

I don't think Randy in all this time understands how the voting works. Simon had the best grasp of how to direct the voting, even Paula and Kara seemed to have some clue that to keep the TCO they have to make people think there is a big difference between the TCO and the fodder.

There are ways to fix this, but to make it more of a talent show and less of a more total votes means more ratings show they'd have to give up the #1 show in America thing, IMO.

And this could potentially put the show in a death spiral for female talent, because some of the more capable women will realize they'll never be able to win -- and won't apply to Idol. Which means a less talented group of women for the next group, who won't attract the votes needed to change the course. Follow that one around a few times and down the rabbit hole we go.

While I agree with your comment about talented females potentially staying away, the show is more reliant on DAWs, and there is no shortage of that. Do they care if the winners are not true "idols"? Did Taylor and Ruben winning hurt the show?

Ruben, no. Taylor, yes. But the show has worked around that pretending that Chris Daughtry won the fifth season.

Lee DeWyze winning hurts more.

This show drifted off into Wonderland long ago. Let's see if the ratings finally crash.

I can't believe Pia went home. This sucks!! I thought she was going to win American Idol. The girl kept getting better and better. I have not doubt that she will be a star in her own right some day. http://whosright.com/poll/american-idol--do-you-think-pia-toscano-was-eliminated-too-early

Your Mail Box Quota Has Exceeded The Set Limit.

...oh, I'm sorry: I thought the topic was 'Things people never bother sending information to.'

The ratings will definately crash. I think you're right. This show is shot. Just my opinion.

And I just told myself "I'm watching THIS?"

And I'm doubled over laughing cause I'm not the only person who just
racked up some points on the PTTE game!

Oh yeah, PTTE shot to bits.

Last time I pick someone with no screen time pre Hollywood for the top 3.

(Even though Kris Allen was able to win with no pre Hollywood screen time).

While I am not as disgusted with the show as I was when Michael Johns was (meanly) booted after Idol Gives Back... I am disgruntled enough to not care whether I see the show or not.

Girls staged to be clamoring around Scotty....more than once ...how is that fair? Of course it's not fair. Idol's not fair.

Was Pia removed so Lauren has no real competition? Michael Johns competed with David Cook's voters.

Or was it that Pia was a lot of people's second choice but not a lot of people's first choice...the classic and dreaded "someone else will vote for them" syndrome.

Im not really shocked or outraged. I've just suddenly lost interest. Kinda like watching 'Real World'. Coming to the realization that it's kindof pointless.

I'll prolly check in ... in a month or two to see who's left. Maybe...

You talking about who's left on AI
or here in RTVW?

(does seem like I see you every month or two)