Oh, boy. Another HORTON HEARS A WHO ad. I guess the opening for every other week’s results show will be a movie promotion, eh?

Jim Carrey is there, in full elephant regalia. Curiously, the camera angle is showing the teleprompter behind Jim. This exchange is scripted, of course. Except Carrey doesn’t stick to the script at all. He has the vague outline and goes off on tangents of his own. To his credit, Ryan does the same.

Next week’s theme week - Lennon/McCartney again. Poor David Archuleta. On the bright side, it gives me another shot to be right about my Beatles/iTunes prediction!

First, a musical montage of those songs. I wonder if Archuleta will get a solo in this one, given how little of it he knows. Michael Johns is the harmony guy, there to back up the girls. Ooh, Johns can’t dance in line with the rest of them. Hernandez can dance just fine, not shockingly. Chikezie sounds good. Johns is now shaking sweat when he shakes his head.

They really need to STOP cutting to Carrey in the audience.

I’m trying to figure out if it’s the arrangements or dropped lyrics, but there are times when people aren’t singing that they look like they’re supposed to be. Odd.

Carly’s husband is keeping to the shadows in the crowd. Given his tattoo coverage, that’s likely a good thing.

Onto the results:

Jason is safe, so my prediction is already at least 1/3rd wrong. Syesha IS in the bottom three, so now I’m wrong on 2 of 3 counts. She looks in shock as she starts her song. Ohmigod. She wouldn’t shut up. She made sure to sing an extra couple of unnecessary notes long after the band stopped playing. She had to stretch out “her moment” just a couple seconds longer, didn’t she?

“The Distance” is this week’s Ford music video. I’m competely out of touch. I have no idea what that song was.

Now, we see the contestants at the Horton Hears A Who premiere. And they say the movie title often. I’m surprised their schedule includes time to go see a movie. Maybe they were just there for the orange carpet?

Ryan is teasing the fact that they’ll be taking live phone call questions during the show. I’m calling it now - that will not end well, no matter how well they’ve prepped the caller to stick to a script.

Back to the results: Kristy is asking for her microphone. She’s not dumb. But, then, she already said she thought she was going home last week. She is in the bottom three. And she’s apologizing to Simon with a smile already that he’s going to have to hear the song again. If they can just tone down the banjo, then the song will have a chance. Michael Johns and Jason Castro start doing a jig at the side of the stage. Didn’t last long. Ryan clapped along to the song for a change, though.

Simon still hates it.

Still no Apple commercial tonight. They usually have one by the end of the second commercial break.

Oh, thank goodness. They’re not taking live phone calls. They’re going with questions from the ‘net. Ryan has an unnecessary prop computer to sell the concept.

No, it IS a phone call. But the 12 year old girl is sticking to the script very well.

Second caller is a wannabe singer. Typical. Simon tells the caller to get another job. I LOVE IT. This might be OK after all.

The problem with this segment is that the caller’s question is on the screen already. There’s no need for the voice. They could just have Ryan repeat the question and save the amateur hour bit.

It’s time for Katharine McPhee, who didn’t change her name after her nuptuals. She’s singing “Something.” She sounds great. The right person won that season. (Really, my mind turned to mush last night after typing for an hour.  Just ignore that line.)  She’s still got the power, and can handle the softer parts just fine. She did shop at the same costume shop as Carly Smithson, obviously. The front row had an interesting view, I’m sure.

Jim Carrey is still hanging around.

Archuleta should be kicked off the show for the double popped collar. That look was ugly two years ago when it first reared its head. It’s 2008. There’s no excuse anymore, not even his youth.

The last person in the bottom three is — David Hernandez. Ramiele is safe and I’m completely wrong on the bottom three this week.

I’m fast forwarding through this song. I can’t listen to him talking about dancing again. It’s too creepy.

David has a girl on each arm. Again, creepy.

Paula just said she’s never seen a “more stronger bottom three.” Putting aside grammatical issues, I guess she forgot about that Three Divas week a few years back when Jennifer Hudson went home.

Syesha is safe.

29 million votes can’t be wrong. Kristy is safe. David is gone. The country voters came through as I predicted yesterday. The Dancer is gone. Whew. He had a good voice, but a REALLY bad week. REALLY REALLY bad. I am sad that the first person to do a Jim Steinman song is out already.

Whoops, in the middle of the “journey” video, they cut to a live shot of the darkened theater with the Idol signs the only thing aglow. Ruben has a predictably boring song to play us out.

It just now dawns on me that for the first time in many many years, I didn’t predict the order in which these top 12 will go out this season. Crap. Too late now.

De Blieck Out!

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