America’s Got Talent Season 4 Episode 13

Now that the audition rounds are over, we found out who the top 40 this year are in America’s Got Talent Season 4 Episode 12.

Tonight ten of the top 40 acts perform, but first comes the call from Simon Cowell. He’s asking them to reconsider some people. Eight acts have been giving a second chance.

Tonight’s two wild card acts are:
The Diva League
Lake Houston Dance

Also performing are:
Thia Megia
The Platt Brothers
Arcadian Broad
Acrodunk
Grandma Lee
Mosaic
Breaksk8
Drew Thomas Magic
Manuela Horn
Kevin Skinner

Breaksk8 won their dance off to get to Hollywood. Hoff says they need to have a story to win America. They don’t have a story. They have brought some chicks and a Michael Jackson inspired dance, though. Piers still has a problem with them: the skates. Without the skates, though, they’re just another dance group. Sharon, however, thought it was a great way to open the show. Hoff wants to see more of the skating. They can bring back the ladies if they insist.

Thia Megia is up next. She’s a 14 year old singer, singing The Climb by Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana. Sounds better than Miley does live if the American Idol performance of this is any indication. A lot of big notes in this song that can be difficult to pull off outside a studio. Sharon was not disappointed, and she likes that she’s innocent and not dressing like most girls her age. She really got to Hoff, who calls her a shooting star. Piers is allowed one word: brilliant.

The Platt Brothers are the brothers who grew up in the middle of nowhere with no TV, video games, or other forms of fun, so they created their own performing act to entertain themselves. As unique acts go, this certainly is up there. David liked the humor and the physicality. Piers doesn’t know what their act is. It’s all a little bit unfocused. Sharon agrees with Piers. Too much crammed into that small space.

The Diva League returns as a wild card. They are a drag queen dance group, although only one of them is actually a trained dancer. Their act for the night: glampires. Piers buzzes. He doesn’t have to worry. The odds of this group advancing are pretty close to 0. Piers was quite disturbed. A bunch of lip synching drag queens who can’t dance isn’t going to cut it. Sharon loves it. She wants Piers to have a bit of imagination and pretend that was fun.

Manuela Horn is a yodeling dominatrix. No matter how you slice it, it’s all just weird. This week, she’s dressed up as Lucille Ball, singing Don’t Cha by the Pussycat Dolls with a bunch of horndog guys after her. As she begins to strip, Hoff buzzes her. Then Sharon buzzes her. When the yodel starts, Piers buzzes. He wants the dominatrix back, and he insists they put through a great act. Really?

Grandma Lee has decided what she wants to do when she grows up. She will tell jokes. She’s still chasing after Piers, and her plan is to keep it semi-clean. She starts off with a joke about a blind date (actually, it was cataracts) and ends up pulling out underpants that David and Piers left behind with her. David wants to know: who did she have first, Piers or him? He says she deserves to be in Vegas. Piers enjoyed her confidence, stage presence, and art of comic timing. Sharon makes the mistake of asking who was better. Now she’s dragged into this threesome, too.

Mosaic moved to Vegas to try to make it big, but it’s been tough. America’s Got Talent is their chance for a break. They are an a capella group and sing Superstitious by Stevie Wonder. Hoff thought they got better and better. They need the energy they had at the end all the way through. Piers calls it nearly very good. Like David, Sharon thought it got better as it went on.

Acrodunk was in this show in the first season, and now they’re back trying again. Sharon has seen proof that this can be taken into Vegas and be a show. Hoff thought they were awesome. Piers calls it one of the most extraordinary acts he’s seen on this show.

Arcadian Broad is a 13 year old dancer. He adds a new element to his act: piano playing. Huh? While he’s a talented piano player, this isn’t why people want to watch him. When he’s done with the piano, he dances to Footloose. Hoff says he will go a long way and might even win. Those people who teased him are watching him now. Piers doesn’t want to see him playing the piano ever again. Don’t play the piano. Dance. Sharon loves him so much, and she liked to see the other talent, although the piano playing was a tad too long.

Drew Thomas is a magician, who got his start at age 6. Sharon wants to see something she’s never seen before again. He promises that she will get her wish, with a trick nobody’s ever done before, including himself. He locks up his Charlie’s Angels, then he gets locked up in another box and is suspended in the air. The box in the air is empty, the men who were sealing the boxes are inside one of them, the women are wearing the men’s clothing and on the stage, and Drew appears in the audience to scare the judges from behind. Didn’t see that coming. Piers says wow. But he wants him to start looking like a proper Vegas performer. Sharon has again never seen that before, but she does want him to step up the wardrobe. Hoff wants him to stick around.

Unemployed chicken catcher Kevin Skinner quickly became a Youtube sensation. He’s cleaned up nicely since then. Tonight he sings and plays guitar to Garth Brooks’ Make You Feel My Love. Sharon calls him an honest, special man. Hoff’s a little choked up because he believes every word he sings. Piers gives him credit for the best performance of the night thus far.

The final act of the night is the second wild card act, Lake Houston Dance, a group that was cut in the mean-spirited minute after Vegas landing elimination. How were they not good enough to consider for any longer, yet good enough to bring back? Their act this time is to dress up in pajamas (much better idea than the wigs), and they dance to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, which was apparently covered by Miley Cyrus. The problem with an act with so many people is that there’s really nobody who stands out. Hasselhoff is so glad they’ve come back and gotten rid of their afros. Piers didn’t think it was as good as the audition. There were too many props. It was a bit of a mess. Sharon loved the song choice, but there’s just too many people to be able to focus on anyone.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 4 Episode 14, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.