February 2012 – dingoRUE

American Idol Season 11 Episode 15

The top 12 boys plus 1 wild card performed in American Idol Season 11 Episode 14. Tonight the girls get their shot.

Chelsea Sorrell
Song: Cowboy Cassanova by Carrie Underwood
Randy: Showed your huge big voice with that note at the end. Wondering if that was the best choice.
Jennifer: Don’t feel like everybody got to hear the best part of you.
Steven: Watch your phrasing and timing.

Erika van Pelt
Song: What about Love by Heart
Jennifer: Feel like you could have gone a bit further.
Randy: First time I heard this whole kind of Adele vibe.

Jen Hirsh
Song: One and Only by Adele
Jennifer: First person who came out here and let loose.
Randy: One of the greatest singers in this competition this year.

Brielle von Hugel
Song: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
Steven: Great sense of the blues.
Jennifer: True performer.
Randy: Key was a little too low for the first half of the song, but you got in your sweet spot in the middle.

Hallie Day
Song: Feeling Good from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
Jennifer: Lost a little bit of control for a few moments, but really beautiful job.
Randy: Where does this all fit? What kind of artist would you be?

Skylar Laine
Song: Stay with Me by Faces
Randy: First time we’ve had a rocking performing great country singer. Reba mixed with Kelly Clarkson.
Jennifer: It’s like Tina Turner went country.

Baylie Brown
Song: Amazed by Lonestar
Steven: Not the best song you could have picked tonight.
Jennifer: A little shaky.
Randy: Never seized control of the song.

Hollie Cavanagh
Song: Reflection by Christina Aguilera
Steven: Hit your notes so perfectly.
Jennifer: Still think you can win this.
Randy: One of my favorites. Would have been nice to see you let go a little bit. The parts that were brilliant were genius.

Haley Johnsen
Song: Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics
Jennifer: You really do have skills. Not the perfect song.
Randy: Bit of a nightmare. Pitchy all over the place.

Shannon Magrane
Song: Go Light Your World
Randy: That’s what it’s all about.
Jennifer: Sing with such passion for a 16 year old. Gave me goosies.

Jessica Sanchez
Song: Love You I Do by Jennifer Hudson
Randy: That girl can really sing. One of the best of the last two nights. Voice to be reckoned with.
Steven: Perfect voice, perfect pitch.

Elise Testone
Song: One and Only by Adele
Steven: Blew it out of the water.
Jennifer: One to watch.
Randy: Hope America gets you. One of the best voices here.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 16, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.

Survivor: One World Episode 3

After her constant yapping about how useless others on the tribe were in Survivor: One World Episode 2, Nina found herself packing for Ponderosa.

Immediately after tribal council, Colton goes up to the women as he always does, and he invites them to join him if the weather gets rough. They decline. A storm immediately begins. A little creepy. They experience a wet, sleepless night, and their fire goes out. So the boys invite them over to sit by their fire. Matt’s not happy to find them there on his return.

The challenge is a memory test in which they must put a series of item in the same order as the original one they are shown. Two people from each tribe will approach and study the items, then one of them will drop the curtain on both of them. Reward is fishing gear and a canoe. Tarzan and Leif sit out for the men. Matt is incorrect, and Sabrina takes the 1-0 lead. Colton is incorrect, and Monica takes a 2-0 lead. These guys are confident but not very good. Alicia is correct to take a 3-0 lead. They bump it up to 8 items from 6, which takes Troyzan about half a second to study. He is not even close, but Kat is also incorrect. They are wrong a second time. Then a third. Sixth. Kat finally gets it right for a 4-0 lead. Christina is correct. Women win reward.

After the challenge, the women go begging for fire. I thought this was over now that they have flint, but apparently not. The men ask to use the canoe in exchange, but they are not interested in a trade. They just want a hand out, which they receive. Then they return to stand by the men’s fire. The men complain, rightfully so. If you want someone to give you something, offer something other than being cute and charming, which can only get you so far in the land of Survivor.

One thing they do accomplish is catch some fish. Perhaps they are starting to understand why they are there.

At the immunity challenge, they will gather puzzle pieces while blindfolded in pairs based on the instructions of a caller, who will then solve the puzzle (with some assistance from the rest of the tribe). Colton and Jay sit out for the men. Phil and Sabrina are the callers. Men grab their first bag first. Then their second. And third. The women finally grab their first. Then the men take the 4-1 lead. Christina and Monica are shouting for a lackluster Sabrina to guide them somewhere. The women grab their second, followed by the men grabbing their fifth and final bag. We’ve seen larger leads evaporate due to puzzles, but this is not looking good. Eventually, the women manage to grab all of their pieces, but the men have built a good lead. After some relatively quick puzzle solving, it’s tied at 6 pieces solved each. Bill’s retaining a very narrow lead, but Sabrina passes him on the second to last piece. Women win immunity. They failed miserably on the part of the challenge that involved communication, but apparently the men suck at puzzles worse than the women can’t communicate.

Colton has decided he hates Bill’s guts, so that’s the target.

Jay receives an offer to join the 5 to get rid of the other 3. Matt then comes up to them, but he fails to receive the same offer. Instead, he makes Troyzan an offer he can refuse, but the whole conversation shakes up Troyzan about Matt even more than he had been before.

Votes
Colton
Bill
Matt
Matt
Matt
Matt
Matt

With 5 votes, Matt has been voted off the island.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: One World Episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

American Idol Season 11 Episode 14

The top 24 were revealed in American Idol Season 11 Episode 13. Tonight the top 12 boys perform.

Reed Grimm
Song: Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera
Randy: Kind of wild. Definitely a very musical kind of guy.
Jennifer: Showed who you are. Jazzy, musical.
Steven: Love the voice.

Adam Brock
Song: Think by Aretha Franklin
Steven: Brilliant.
Jennifer: That big finish is exactly what you needed to do.
Randy: Like a 70s blue eyed soul singer.

Deandre Brackensick
Jennifer: Your voice is so perfect to me.
Randy: One of the most commercial guys. Ready to go now.

Colton Dixon
Song: Decode by Paramore
Randy: Didn’t even know you could perform like that.
Jennifer: You really sing from your heart. You’re a relevant artist.

Jeremy Rosado
Song: Gravity by Sara Bareilles
Steven: Beautiful.
Jennifer: Such a beautiful voice.
Randy: So impressed with the tender moments and the big booming vocals.

Aaron Marcellus
Song: Never Can Say Goodbye by Jackson 5
Randy: Old school veteran. Beautiful vocals.
Jennifer: Always believed in you. You can sing everything.
Steven: The whole package.

Chase Likens
Song: Storm Warning by Hunter Hayes
Jennifer: Showed America who you are. Grown so much.
Randy: Definitely have range.

Creighton Fraker
Song: True Colors by Cyndi Lauper
Jennifer: I don’t want you to go home.
Randy: You can definitely sing.

Phillip Phillips
Song: In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins
Jennifer: Last year we came back talking about Lauren and Scotty. This year we came back talking about Phillip Phillips.
Randy: Not sure I was jumping up and down.

Eben Franckewitz
Song: Set Fire to the Rain by Adele
Randy: Not all perfect. Really brought it home at the end.
Steven: A little pitchy in the middle.

Heejun Han
Song: Angels by Robbie Williams
Jennifer: Not sure that song showed off how beautiful your voice is.
Steven: Not the right song.

Joshua Ledet
Song: You Pulled Me Through by Jennifer Hudson
Randy: Can I get an amen?
Jennifer: You could be a gospel star, you could be an R&B star, you can do whatever you want.
Steven: The voice the world’s been waiting to hear.

Jermaine Jones
Song: Dance with My Father by Luther Vandross
Randy: So different, so unique.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 15, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.

The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 9

In one of the most ridiculous displays in the history of the show, the entire black team threw the weigh-in in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 8 in an effort to get rid of Daphne, who also gained weight for the sake of leaving the house and drama, a request her team happily granted.

Alison warns them they’re not done yet, and she calls the red team into the elimination room. It’s time to face all of their excuses. Everybody is going home tomorrow. They will be there for 18 days. This long time could perhaps negate the black team’s huge advantage of having lost next to nothing last week. For each person who loses 5% of their body weight, that person will be immune. If everybody accomplishes this goal, there will be no elimination.

Their challenge is to row 10,000 meters. Reward is $1 per meter. Rowing machines are delivered to each of their homes so they can begin right now. Chism is the first to hit 3000 meters, and Kim is behind him. Jeremy mostly just wants to beat his sister sitting next to him. Mark started off slower than the others but manages to overtake Kim. At the 7300 mark, he starts to look to take the lead from his son. They’re neck and neck heading into the final 1000. What happens after that, we’ll have to wait to find out.

With the challenge over, so begins the lengthy discussion of how everything is a temptation.

When they return to the ranch, before they weigh in, they get the results of the competition. Places 4-11 are Emily, Jeremy, Megan, Conda, Kimmy, Cassandra, Buddy, and Chris. Chism beats his dad by 7 seconds, and Kim places third.

Buddy: 294 pounds (-23, 7.26%, immune)
Jeremy: 289 pounds (-20, 6.47%, immune)
Kimmy: 169 pounds (-10, 5.59%, immune)
Mark: 215 pounds (-11, 4.87%)
Kim: 186 pounds (-7, 3.63%)
Red Total: 1153 pounds (-71, 5.80%)

Conda: 231 pounds (-14, 5.71%, immune)
Emily: 199 pounds (-17, 7.87%, immune)
Megan: 205 pounds (-12, 5.53%, immune)
Chris: 185 pounds (-11, 5.61%, immune)
Cassandra: 175 pounds (-13, 6.91%, immune)
Chism: 282 pounds (-11, 3.75%)
Black Total: 1277 pounds (-78, 5.76%)

After the black team loses by 1 pound, as the only person without immunity on his team, Chism has been eliminated. His father begs them to let him fall on his sword instead, but those are the rules. If he really wanted things to be different, he should have thrown the weigh in. Chism realizes this is inevitable and accepts that he will just have to keep going at home.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 10, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 2

Raising her hand to be fired, Cheryl Tiegs made Trump’s decision easy in The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 1.

Victoria warns them they all better watch out. And sleep with one eye open they presume. She tells them every last one of them is a bitch.

This week’s task is to create a 15 minute Medieval Times show. Ivanka is not around this week, but James Lipton is. He tells us he’s a knight.

Penn is nominated as the project manager for the men; Lisa will be the PM for the women. Adam is away from the men’s team. He has to host a wedding. As good excuses go, I would not suggest that one.

Lisa quickly warns her team not to interrupt her.

The women decide to be The Unreal Housewives of Camelot, who are vying for the affection of Donald Trump. This doesn’t seem particularly suitable after they just got done talking to the executive, who told them this is a family show. Dayana tries to express that concern, but Lisa doesn’t want to hear it. Oh, and by the way, they want Dayana to wear a nude body suit. Granted, this is exactly what Trump said he wanted to see. Everybody gets a role other than Victoria, who is relegated to sound and lighting.

The men will be using their star power. Aresnio is a host, along with the man with the big voice, Penn. Clay will sing. Paul rides on a motorcycle that looks like it’s from the medieval days, if they had motorcycles then. The macho men Lou and Paul will joust for the hand of the fair maiden, Dee Snyder. Ultimately, they have no real plot. It’s just a bunch of celebrities telling jokes.

While they’re choosing outfits, Lisa goes crazy. She thought she told them not to interrupt her.

The next morning, feeling as if she’s being ignored, Victoria threatens to leave and join the men’s team. Lisa pretends that Victoria is the most important person of the day to make her feel better.

Nobody wants to listen to Dayana, who has decided that all they want her to do is sit on a horse and look good, which Lisa says is all she’s good at.

Clay’s struggle with George is that he’s not following the script. He agrees to read from it.

As Dee rides the horse into the arena, he stumbles off. He thinks he broke a finger. The EMT says he needs to go to the hospital, but the show must go on.

Back from the hospital, Dee’s diagnose is a severe fracture, and he may have to get a pin put in it.

In spite of the tension, Victoria says that she thinks Lisa did a fabulous job.

Paul says that Penn was phenomenal, and Michael agrees.

Penn says that everyone was great, but he’ll play by the rules. If they lose, he will bring back Lou and George, who are less versatile than the rest of the team because they’re actors. Lou is insulted. Nothing Trump likes more than pointless manufactured drama. George, however, still admires Penn.

Arsenio would fire Penn, who created and ran the whole show.

Lisa would definitely bring Victoria back, and she has a lengthy explanation to support it. Her next target is Dayana, who she doesn’t feel can do anything other than shop and be pretty.

Patricia would fire someone who came up with the concept: Lisa or her right hand girl Aubrey.

Debbie points out something, or at least tries to before she gets cut off. Like the rest of the week, 5 people are not saying much while the others are doing all the talking.

The men received 558 votes; the women received 363 votes. Penn receives $40,000 for his charity, Opportunity Village.

Don Jr. thinks the women appealed to the men in the crowd, but lacked the diversity to appeal to the entire audience, which was at least 1/4-1/2 children, a fact they were entirely aware of but chose to ignore in their quest to focus on hot babes and Jersey.

Patricia has a different answer now. She would fire Victoria. Aubrey would fire Dayana. Dayana and Victoria would fire Lisa.

Unsurprisingly, Dayana and Victoria are going back to the boardroom with Lisa.

Don Jr. doesn’t understand why Dayana is being brought back, but he could see either of the other two being fired.

So begins much yelling and crying.

Once the fighting is done, Dayana says that Lisa has tried to be heard more and has more energy. With that in mind and the fact that Victoria thought about quitting the team, Victoria has been fired. Great, now we get to listen to Lisa yell at some more people.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 5 Episode 3, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 20 Episode 2

After wandering around the pit stop for a while in The Amazing Race 20 Episode 1, Misa & Maiya were eliminated.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Dave & Rachel – 2:46AM
Second: Rachel & Brendon – 2:48AM
Third: Art & JJ – 2:49AM
Fourth: Nary & Jamie – 3:21AM
Fifth: Vanessa & Ralph – 3:31AM
Sixth: Elliott & Andrew – 4:21AM
Seventh: Kerri & Stacy – 5:23AM
Eighth: David & Cherie – 5:27AM
Ninth: Bopper & Mark – 5:29AM
Tenth: Joey & Danny – 5:35AM

At the Cafayate Town Square, they will receive their next clue from a mounted postman, who arrives at sunrise, equalizing everybody.

The detour is a choice between boil my water or light my fire. In boil my water, they will visit one of three isolated villages and provide them with a means of cooking, assembling a basic solar kitchen, then boiling water with it. In light my fire, they will gather firewood and clay, load it on a donkey, and transport it 1 mile. Working with animals is always problematic, but I could see where constructing something just based on the picture and then being at the mercy of the sun could be trouble.

Boil my water: Brendon & Rachel, Kerri & Stacy, Rachel & Dave, Vanessa & Ralph, Dave & Cherie, Joey & Danny, Bopper & Mark, Nary & Jamie, Elliott & Andrew
Light my fire: Art & JJ

Art & JJ are the only ones who did not select the solar kitchen building, and they find themselves searching for the fire task instead after everyone else has already begun. They assume it will be hard because it’s too early for the sun to be of much use, while those actually on the task complain about how hot it is. For all the drama, it pays off because they manage to leapfrog everybody but the country boys, who surprised even themselves by taking the lead with their building skills. The rest of the teams are mostly just waiting for their tea to boil.

Teams will now take an 18 hour bus ride to Buenos Aires.

First bus: Brendon & Rachel, Mark & Bopper, Art & JJ, Rachel & Dave
Second bus: Dave & Cherie, Elliott & Andrew, Vanessa & Ralph, Joey & Danny
Third bus: Kerri & Stacy, Nary & Jamie

All the teams are pretty close, so now it’s just a question of how this lengthy bus ride goes. Bus 2 stops in the middle of the night when one of their windows implodes. Bus 1 arrives first, followed by bus 3. The trailing teams reveal they have been delayed about 2 hours, which is going to be too much for them to make up, so one of them is heading home.

The road block is to count cattle and calculate the average weight per head during an auction, without using their calculators. Long division without Excel. Like the olden days.

Road block (in order of arrival): Rachel, JJ, Rachel, Mark, Stacy, Nary, Vanessa, Joey, Dave, Andrew

Rachel and JJ work together to get the answer. The other Rachel (Big Brother) gets stressed out. You don’t say. Eventually she decides to work with Mark, who unlike Art & JJ who have decided they hate Rachel & Brendon, is willing to team up. The teams who tried to play like this against Rob & Amber regretted it, though that was arguably because those teams sucked. The Jersey guys and the twins also work together, leaving the clown to eat their dust.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is El Gomero, a 200 year old tree.

First: Rachel & Dave (win a trip to Grenada)
Second: Art & JJ
Third: Bopper & Mark
Fourth: Brendon & Rachel
Fifth: Kerri & Stacy
Sixth: Nary & Jamie
Seventh: Vanessa & Ralph
Eighth: Joey & Danny
Ninth: Elliott & Andrew
Eliminated: Dave & Cherie

After a bit of bad luck, Dave & Cherie have been eliminated from the race, but they depart with their typically positive attitude.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 20 Episode 3, which airs Sunday at 8/7cish on CBS.

American Idol Season 11 Episode 13

The top 24 started to be revealed in American Idol Season 11 Episode 12. Tonight concludes the painfully long process.

Top 12 Boys
Aaron Marcellus
Adam Brock
Chase Likens
Colton Dixon
Creighton Fraker
Deandre Brackensick
Eben Franckewitz
Heejun Han
Jeremy Rosado
Joshua Ledet
Phil Phillips
Reed Grimm

Top 12 Girls
Baylie Brown
Brielle von Hugel
Chelsea Sorrell
Elise Testone
Erika van Pelt
Haley Johnsen
Hallie Day
Hollie Cavanaugh
Jen Hirsh
Jessica Sanchez
Shannon Magrane
Skylar Laine

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 14, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

American Idol Season 11 Episode 12

Some more cuts got us down to the top 42 in American Idol Season 11 Episode 11. Tonight begins the very lengthy process of an additional 18 cuts, most of whom we have never heard of before. Yes, it’s an evening (two actually) of much filler, complete with flashbacks of all the other episodes from earlier in the season and a lot of babbling from the judges. Looks like about 10 minutes of actual content.

Top Girls
Baylie Brown
Brielle von Hugel
Chelsea Sorrell
Elise Testone
Erika van Pelt
Haley Johnsen
Jen Hirsh
Jessica Sanchez

Top Boys
Colton Dixon
Creighton Fraker
Heejun Han
Joshua Ledet
Phil Phillips
Reed Grimm

Eliminated
Blaire Sieber
Caleb Johnson
Clayton Farhat
Lauren Gray
Naomi Gillies
Neco Starr
Richie Law
River St. James

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 13, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.