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Heroes Season 3 Episode 19

Claire helped Alex escape in Heroes Season 3 Episode 18. Just as she thought things were going okay, she got a visit Eric, the creepy puppetmaster. Parkman, meanwhile, is standing outside the Capitol with a bomb strapped to his chest.

He’s happier to see Barbie than she is to see him. He wants to go back to a normal life. Rebel sent a fake call, so the agents who were outside are at least distracted for the time being. He claims to be a changed person, and he won’t force her to help him.

A dazed and confused Parkman has now attracted a lot of attention. Nathan arrives on the scene to profess his innocence and blame Danko. Danko decides to activate the weapon and make the hero Senator a martyr to his own cause.

The drugs are starting to wear off, so Parkman’s able to get into the mind of one of the techs. He hears red wire… that would be the one not to touch. How about the black wire? Nathan decides to just pull it, and it’s the right move, just in time to prevent themselves from being blown up. Now it’s time to let the people surrounding them capture Matt.

Sylar’s found dear old dad, who tells him to go right ahead and kill him before the cancer does.

Tracy comes up on the monitor and is screaming that Nathan’s one of them.

Then she gets her own message on the monitors that help is coming.

Nathan goes in to see Tracy. He’s been helping her all along, or so he says. She pretty much still hates his guts. Danko comes in, and it’s his turn to talk to her alone. He wants to know everything she knows about Nathan. So anyway… what’s an ability?

Sandra doesn’t want Rebel sending any more psychopaths to her front door, so Claire decides to take Alex’s job at the comic book store. Despite her lack of experience in retail, she’s got enough experience in getting guys to stare at her to get the job.

Sylar’s dad has some abilities, but he doesn’t seem to have much left in him. He wants to know why Sylar just picks easy targets like he does, yet he runs away from the agents. Meanwhile, he can eliminate the threat that’s in the room with him now (a bunny).

HRG tosses a file on Danko’s desk: Angela Petrelli. He’s worried that Nathan’s on thin ice and is moving too fast.

Claire calls her dad for answers, but she doesn’t know whether she wants to feel better or if she wants the truth, so he doesn’t know what the right answer is.

Then she gets a text from Rebel, who tells her Doyle’s being chased by agents. The chick with the gun points it at him, so he turns the tables and gets her to point at herself. He decides to let her live, and Barbie’s there to meet Doyle as requested.

Danko visits Angela to talk about genetics. He doesn’t believe that Nathan was the misfit who didn’t inherit anything from his parents. As for Danko, she’s surprised he survived that incident in Angola.

Sylar’s dad doesn’t even remember killing his mom. Didn’t matter to him. Thanks to his cheerleader ability, Sylar plans to live forever, which just means he has that much longer to suffer. This is a power his dad wants, though, and all of a sudden his powers are just fine. He flings some arrows at Sylar. His plan is to kill again, but this time he’ll get it right. Too bad he’s no match for his son, who again has a reason to want revenge. The best revenge will be to let him die slowly and painfully of his sickness. Time to go look for bigger game to hunt.

Nathan’s got what he needs to get rid of Danko. The President is eager to meet Danko’s replacement, which obviously will be HRG. Before they can go, though, Danko pulls out his gun, then he shoves Nathan out the window.

Claire gives Eric his new identity. It’s not about him. It’s about her and who she needs to be. So did he mean what he said about how he changed?

Hiro and Ando arrive in LA to find Parkman. He seems to be… a baby. Apparently, they’re his new babysitters.

Danko arrives home, where Sylar is waiting for him. As for Sandy’s normal life, she’s got agents raiding her house, while Claire and Nathan watch from outside.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 20 Cold Snap, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 2

Andrew Dice Clay pretty much did nothing in The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 1 and was eventually eliminated because he wanted to quit (or at least that’s what Trump said).

Clint Black wants to see the team be able to be subordinate, although in order to do so they actually need a project manager telling them what to do.

The teams will be working with Zappos to create a comic character communicating their focus on customer service. The women pick clothing company owner Khloe Kardashian. She doesn’t get the connection between herself and shoe seller Zappos. The men pick Scott Hamilton. CNBC news anchor Erin Burnett (no apparent relation to show creator Mark Burnett) will be following one of the teams.

They first meet with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. He wants to convey their brand and culture. They can decide what to do with it from there, and he offers little insight beyond the customer service team. The girls can’t even figure out whether he likes blondes or brunettes.

Khloe very quickly loses control of her very talkative group. Claudia Jordan wishes for one superpower: to shut up the rest of her team.

The women have wasted their morning talking and have nothing to show for it.

Annie Duke suggests a design group and a script group. She suggests being in the script group, and she wants Claudia to be with her. Joan doesn’t like this because she says she’s written some things.

Dennis Rodman and Tom Green are talking about having a transvestite comic book character who turns into a woman. Sadly, that’s about the best idea they have.

Khloe is slowly becoming more able to speak her mind.

Clint Black wants to talk a lot, and he doesn’t want anyone else talking when he’s talking. Dennis isn’t having any of this, so he yells back.

The girls have settled on having a female character because that will appeal to both men and women. Joan comes up with the name Mizz Z. Claudia’s idea is an average Jane, cute but not beautiful, which goes against their original concept of appealing to men with a hot chick. At least it sounded like her idea, until little Donnie walks into the room, when Melissa Rivers says it’s her idea.

The focus group, typical comic book readers, finds it odd to be discussing comic books with a Playmate.

Because Scott has no control over things, Tom Green goes on a tangent that turns into a performance. They pitch some ideas… except they’re not really ideas at all.

Tom wants Senor Zappos. Clint wants every woman at her best. Jesse James mostly just wants to be able to get out of there and get a costume done. They all need Scott to make a decision. Doesn’t look like he wants to.

Joan asks Natalie Gulbis to be Mizz Z. Those two and Tionne will be going off to work on the costume. Joan’s still bitter that Annie offered to be the writer.

After another 3 hours of arguing, the men opt for a normal every day woman who’s got a smile on her face after being sucked into the computer and shopping.

Clint, Herschel, Scott, and Tom will be working on the character, while the rest of the team does the design.

Erin believes the men are disorganized, but that they at least took some time to figure out what they are doing.

Scott is tired of hearing Tom’s voice because Tom is actually coming up with ideas. Ignoring starting their character name with a Z, Scott instead opts for the name EEE (everywhere, everything, every time), believing there’s no way they can come up with another name. Tom hates the name. Clint is not crazy about it but is willing to support his project manager.

The costume team for the women apparently get Natalie to dress up like a dominatrix.

The costume design team for the men doesn’t have measurements or really much to go on. They get a call from Scott, who tells them the name is EEE. They’re confused.

Claudia claims she’s sick. She asks to go home.

Tom wants to be of some use. Scott, Clint, and Herschel don’t want his assistance on anything. So he just keeps talking just to keep himself entertained.

While Scott’s bashing Tom in his confessional, Tom interrupts, like he’s been doing all along.

Dennis wants someone animated making the presentation, rather than Clint, who he considers boring. Jesse considers Clint to have too big an ego.

Brande Roderick is wearing inappropriate footwear, so she runs barefoot through 5th Avenue.

Somehow, it comes up that Tom should do the presentation, and so Scott gives in and asks if he wants to do it. He agrees, but he doesn’t like that he’s not involved in the writing of the presentation, like he wasn’t involved in anything the day before. Herschel calls him a liar and says he was involved.

The teams will be making the pitch to the Zappos CEO and Donald Trump.

Claudia gives the presentation for the women. A regular woman like Claudia and Tony… oh wait, he’s not a woman… is frustrated with the customer service she’s been getting. When she’s pulled into her computer, she’s transformed into Mizz Z. She has inspired the customer service employees she’s come into contact with. Claudia is fumbling over her words and gives herself a C. Donald asks Natalie if she would wear the outfit at the US Open. She responds that she wouldn’t wear it in the hallways, although she would wear it on this show with 10 million viewers.

Tom Green does the pitch for the men. Their concept is every woman at her best, who is transformed into EEE by Zappos.

Tony liked the men’s presentation in that they focused on the customer. However, he did not like that they focused on the letter E. He wants to focus on the letter Z, like Tom suggested.

As for the women, they focused on the obvious letter Z and captured the core values of the company, although Claudia stumbled and did not know the name of the company she was pitching, saying Zappo instead of Zappos.

Trump tells Khloe he’s a little surprised. He heard she did a very good job.

Tom feels they got behind schedule, and he blames Scott. When he says that they didn’t allow any of his ideas through, Scott starts laughing.

Brian believes they have too many chiefs.

Joan thinks that Khloe grew into the project manager role, but would have grown into it faster if the beginning weren’t so chaotic. They have too many chiefs as well. Yeah, she’s still bitter at Annie about the writing thing. When Annie tries to defend herself, Trump cuts her off.

Cut to Melissa, who again takes credit for the idea. Khloe, however, says that Claudia came up with the idea.

Natalie realizes that her comment about the outfit may have swayed their decision. Why wasn’t Brande in the outfit instead? In her defense, but not so much that of her team, their idea was about normal people, who probably wouldn’t flash that much skin.

Trump passes around the comics. They realize that they both did similar concepts. Natalie can’t make any sense out of this EEE character, though.

Tom doesn’t think they won. EEE was not a good name.

Trump points out that Claudia stumbled during her presentation, which she knew he would. She was “sent home” (aka asked to leave) and blames being sick. Brande’s version of the story is that Claudia didn’t want to go home.

The women have won. With that name, the men really had no chance. Since the women have won, their project manager Khloe Kardashian will be able to give $20,000 to her charity, The Brent Shapiro Foundation.

Tom fought the name, but Scott pretty much just chose it to go against what he was saying.

Herschel would fire Tom.

Brian would fire whoever came up with that name. If you notice on the costume, there’s a Z.

Dennis would fire Scott for being too soft.

Jesse would fire Clint. That’s different. Clint just wants to argue with everybody other than Scott. Joan thinks Clint’s a snake, and Claudia thought there was something mean about him when she met him.

Clint would fire Tom because he was undermining Scott on purpose. Scott agrees.

Scott asks: do I have to pick two? The people who have not picked as many people as Trump wanted them to pick got fired because it angered Trump. Scott only wants to pick Tom, but he will also bring back Herschel because he will support him.

Outside in the waiting room, Tom’s still talking, and he’s still being ignored.

Erin can’t imagine continuing with both Tom and Scott. Don Jr. doesn’t get why Herschel is coming back rather than Clint.

Scott suggests that maybe Tom’s ideas weren’t good. Yet EEE was.

Trump tells Herschel to get lost because he shouldn’t have been brought back. That was kind of pointless. He thinks Scott may be fired.

Tom wants Scott fired because he was unable to control the team, and he wants to be the next project manager.

Scott didn’t bring back Clint because he did as he was told. He wants Tom fired because he derailed everything.

At this point, we’re pretty much just going in the same circles we’ve been going in for the past hour. It’s pretty obvious what’s going to happen here, so make a decision already.

Regardless of whatever else happened on the task, the name was just too big an error. Scott has been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 2 episode 3, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 14 Episode 4

Having missed their connecting flight in The Amazing Race 14 Episode 3, Brad & Victoria were eliminated.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Mel & Mike – 10:49PM
Second: Amanda & Kris – 10:53PM
Third: Kisha & Jen – 10:55PM
Fourth: Margie & Luke – 11:06PM
Fifth: Mark & Michael – 11:07PM
Sixth: Christie & Jodi – 11:08PM
Seventh: Jaime & Cara – 11:29PM
Eighth: Tammy & Victor – 1:30AM

Teams will fly to Moscow and go to Krasnoyarsk, deep in the heart of Siberia. Based on the departure times, we should see all the teams bunched at the airport (even Tammy & Victor, who did ridulously poorly last time). Then they’ll head via taxi to the Soviet era hydroelectric dam on the back of the 10 ruble note.

Mark & Michael have learned their lesson from before. They ask their taxi driver for his phone. He dials… another taxi. Jaime & Cara’s taxi. They play along and pretend to work for Lufthansa.

Christie & Jodi are hoping their flight attendant experience will start to pay off, and they go to an Internet cafe, where they believe they’ve found the best flight.

It turns out that the teams have all kinds of options, perhaps too many. They can catch all kinds of flights via cities throughout Europe. Regardless of which of the four flights teams have chosen, they are all scheduled to take the same flight from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk, so it really doesn’t seem to matter. If it does matter, it’ll come down to dumb luck.

5 of the teams get unlucky. Jaime & Cara, Amanda & Kris, Margie & Luke, Tammy & Victor, and Mel & Mike miss their scheduled flight and will have to try to get another one. The other three teams, meanwhile, are greeted by an hours of operation. They don’t have to worry about catching another flight, but they won’t be going anywhere any time soon. At 8:30 the next morning, the top three teams (Mark & Michael, Christie & Jodi, and Kisha & Jen) are allowed to go with no sight of the others. The point of that wait? To get a clue telling them to go to a church.

The detour is a choice between stack or construct. In stack, teams travel to the river bank and use a traditional method to stack a pile of firewood. In construct, teams will build a set of wood shutters and install them on a house.

All teams choose stack, at least initially. Mark & Michael are doing well, but their stack collapses and takes out the back stack as well (if they take out the back stack, they have to rebuild both). They switch to construct. Kisha & Jen and Christie & Jodi pass the task without much trouble. Mel & Mike’s stack collapses. Jaime & Cara have a minor stack collapse but still seem to be in it. Amanda & Kris (or rather, just Kris) have their stack collapse as well. Mel & Mike aren’t even going to bother finishing with everybody else’s collapsing, so they switch to construct. Mark & Michael have been walking around for a while looking for the house in need of repair, which they can’t find, so they opt instead to finish the construction first and find the house after. Margie & Luke have completed their detour, as have Tammy & Victor. It says they’re in fourth, which means that Mark & Michael’s lead has evaporated. Amanda & Kris opt to switch to the other detour. The three construct teams are all working together: Mark & Michael, Amanda & Kris, and Mel & Mike. Mark & Michael stick around with the others because they couldn’t figure out where the house was. Jaime & Cara have completed their stacking task. That leaves the other three teams in last, all bunched up together. Mel & Mike finally figure out that the house is right near them. Mel & Mike finish, with Mark & Michael close behind. That leaves Amanda & Kris in last.

A U-turn is ahead. The new twist is that it’s a blind U-turn. They don’t have to post their picture when U-turning someone else.

Kisha & Jen aren’t going to bother making enemies unnecessarily, and opt instead to not use the U-turn. Even if they’re safe, it would be a nice chance to eliminate a threat like Amanda & Kris. Christie & Jodi have the same philosophy and do not U-turn. Margie & Luke have decided to do what I would have done: they U-turn Amanda & Kris.

Amanda & Kris, who bailed on the stacking in the first place, now have to go back and do it again, and it’s pretty obvious they will finish last. They believe Kisha & Jen are to blame. Either them or the untrustworthy blondes. Margie & Luke aren’t even suspects.

The road block is to ride a bobsled in under 4 minutes while looking for 7 letters on the course. They’ll then have to unscramble the letters to come up with the name of a famous Russian playright, Chekhov (good luck spelling that without Google).

Road block (in order of arrival): Kisha, Christie, Victor, Luke, Jaime, Michael, Mel, Kris

Kisha does her first run in time but only gets 6 letters. Christie hits 4 minutes exactly. Kisha is successful on her second try. Kisha figures out the puzzle. Christie eventually figures it out as well. Victor knows immediately what it is (apparently everybody does). Luke is just making random guesses, like the first two teams had done. He’s very quickly getting frustrated, but he figures it out eventually. Jaime just guesses and is right on her first try. Mel gets the answer without trouble. Michael misses a letter the first time but gets the answer quickly after riding down again. Kris doesn’t have any idea but ends up guessing like everybody else.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is the theater of musical comedy. Good luck sleeping in there. Mark & Michael are unable to pay their cab driver, leading to a last bit of drama, but it’s obvious Amanda & Kris are too far behind to overcome it.

First: Christie & Jodi (win motorcycles)
Second: Kisha & Jen
Third: Tammy & Victor
Fourth: Margie & Luke
Fifth: Jaime & Cara
Sixth: Mel & Mike
Seventh: Mark & Michael
Eliminated: Amanda & Kris

Because of the U-turn and some dumb luck at the airport, Amanda & Kris are eliminated. They were a strong team, or at least Kris was a strong competitor anyway.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 14 Episode 5 She’s a Little Scared of Stick, but I Think She’ll Be OK, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 4

The Dollhouse had to deal with a depressed pop star in Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 3.

Echo and Sierra are eating lunch together. They’re instinctively grouping. That’s not something any memory wiping can eliminate.

Echo’s new assignment is for a bachelor party. She’s not exactly shy. Eventually, she ends up running out of the hotel room and saying the guys hurt her. The hotel worker she runs to wants to give her a stack of cash, $10,000 to get her to not sue the hotel or the guests. As if blackmail is somehow going to help the hotel’s legal stance any. After rejecting this, she knocks the guy down, and she’s in. She now knows the door code to bust in. That makes a little more sense. The client is paying a premium for no kill, so he gets no kill.

What they will be doing, however, is breaking into the other side of the wall, where the high security building will be in a gray hour as they make sure their security system is impenetrable. During that hour, however, it will be completely penetrable. The first step is to blow up the wall.

Then they break into the vault, where they find millions of dollars worth of old stuff: a bunch of stolen art and high quality counterfeits.

Ballard hears a noise and pulls out a gun. It’s Lubov, who wants help (witness protection), and insists he didn’t set him up. Ballard wants to know who the pretty girl, Caroline, is. Lubov got the tip from a man with a Georgian accent, Russian Georgia not sweet home Georgia. They know the two of them have been talking, so Lubov assumes he’s a dead man. If Ballard helps him, he never hears from him again.

Echo and her band of thieves believe they are not technically stealing stolen art. The Turks who controlled Athens during the 7th century granted permission to remove the marble from the Parthenon. Echo suggests they stop speculating who the client is because finding out about a client who doesn’t want to be known is usually is not healthy. One of the guys grabs something, stabs another guy with a sword, and runs out, leaving the others behind. It’s a good thing that Echo’s got reception on her cell phone. She makes a call to Boyd to warn about the double crosser. Then she drops the phone and gets a blank look on her face and asks whether she fell asleep.

Brain mapping requires a very specialized diet: pizza squares, ice cream bites, and beef jerky. Breakfast of champions. Topher also wants some juice boxes.

Echo’s in the middle of a nervous breakdown. A promise of getting a drink doesn’t help. Slapping her doesn’t help.

Boyd demands the bag from the double crosser. Perhaps the gun he’s holding will convince him. He’s either got to turn it over or get shot. Then he doesn’t get paid. Or breathe. He hands over the bag. Boyd shoots him anyway, but not lethally.

Topher tries to call Echo, but she’s not answering. They play back her call with Boyd, and Topher’s pretty sure that she was remotely wiped. How do they undo that? They don’t. Somebody figured out their frequency and hacked into their call, then remotely wiped Echo’s memory, something Topher didn’t believe was possible. He worries that she could go into a coma state, or she could turn into Carrie at the prom. They have to help her because she won’t be able to help herself.

Now that Echo, the original Taffy, is gone, it’s time for Sierra to be programmed to be her.

Before they can proceed, they’ll have to get Sierra over her bruised ego about not being chosen first.

Topher believes they’ve been hit by a gigantic multi-pronged conspiracy.

Boyd wants a map from his captive. As if his life depended on it.

Echo sees a painting of a mountain. When she’s there, her name’s not Taffy.

If Echo’s as good as they say, Sierra doesn’t need to get inside. She just needs a phone.

Conspiracy theories abound, Topher’s decided that the only person he knows who could achieve a remote wipe is dead.

Sierra’s unable to get Echo to answer her phone, and their time’s run out. Finally, though, she realizes she has a phone in her pocket, so she picks up. She’s carrying a vile of resin and a “nozzle thingy” that she can drill with. She will have to drill through the door, spray the resin into the hole, and then drill some more. This should cause the glass in the door to crack, rather than shattering, hopefully avoiding the alarm going off and the resulting armed response. The response she gets is an alarm and the lights going out. This is probably not a good thing. They have 7 minutes until the police respond. Sierra wishes them good luck with the girl.

Echo now has a decision. Get broken or do the breaking. Point the gun at the bad guys and shoot, or else be shot. Rather than taking orders from the maniac telling her to shoot the guards, she stabs him with a needle. The injured guy wants to help her out, so he throws a smoke bomb to allow her to escape without being seen. Boyd arrives to find Echo escorting him out of there.

Lubov isn’t exactly being assisted by Ballard. Instead, he’s being set up. He won’t be able to leave LA by plane, train, or automobile.

Topher has put Echo through every test he could think of, and whatever happened to her in the vault didn’t cause any permanent damage. She’s fresh, with no pesky human evolution bits lingering around.

It must have been Alpha who pulled off the remote wipe. Topher’s not fired. Rather, his security clearance has been increased.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 5 True Believer, which airs Friday at 9/8c on Fox.

Heroes Season 4 Likely

Despite the series low ratings for this expensive show and the resulting speculation surrounding what that would mean for its future, NBC entertainment president Angela Bromstad told THR that Heroes is not considered “on the bubble” for renewal. Additionally, she indicated that Heroes season 4 will be 18-20 episodes, somewhat abridged from a typical season order (the current season is 23 episodes).

Granted, regardless of how much people are talking about Heroes ratings decline, it is still tied with The Office as NBC’s top show among the key 18-49 demographic. Additionally, Day One, the upcoming show about a group of survivors in the wake of a catastrophic global event, may make a good combination with Heroes for a sci fi block.

While this news does not serve as official confirmation of the series receiving a renewal, it sure would seem that it’s unlikely that it will be cancelled.

Hell’s Kitchen 5 Episode 5

Seth finally got to the end of his rope in Hell’s Kitchen 5 Episode 4.

The girls are jumping up and down. Lacey’s the other team’s problem now. They’re honest with her and tell her she may well be dead weight just like Seth.

The chefs head to an Asian market to participate in Asian fusion. They will each select one poultry, one seafood, and one meat dish with a strong Asian influence. The teams have 25 minutes and $100.

Andrea has a loud voice and loud thoughts. Carol doesn’t believe loud always makes a good leader.

Lacey just wants to be heard at all. Her new team doesn’t care any more than her old team did.

Both teams are able to get to the checkout in time and on budget. Now they’ll have an hour to make the meals.

Red team tells Chef Ramsay they’re working on tuna wrapped in seaweed. He wants Asian fusion. Not boring. The whole team will need to try to fix the dish.

Does anybody need anything from Lacey? That would be a no.

Tanya Steel, editor-in-chief of Epicurious, which everybody in the world knows (I had to look up how to spell it personally), is going to be the judge.

Carol and Coi make pomegranate cinnamon glazed chicken breast. Slightly boring presentation. A little dry. Nice flavor.

Robert and Danny make a traditional pad thai with BBQ chicken. Nice. This dish is the winner.

Paula and LA made ahi tuna tempura. Perfectly cooked.

Ben and Lacey made pan seared scallops with sea urchin and caviar sauce. The girls win in a nice team effort. Perhaps Ben should have actually utilized his partner.

Colleen and Andrea made a kobe beef sashimi brushed with a Korean style sauce. Clumsy seasoning. Shame because the beef’s delicious.

J and Giovanni made some sort of beef. J doesn’t know what it is. Perhaps Giovanni should have brought the dish up because he knows it’s pizzaiola style beef. Way undercooked rice. Red team wins, and they take the challenge win 2-1.

Blue team will be preparing homemade fortune cookies, and they will decorate the whole restaurant with origami. The cookies are supposed to be extremely difficult, and the directions on the origami say that at first it will seem impossible.

Lacey’s sick of losing, and she’s ready to go home. Ben tells her they need her. Oh really?

For their reward, the women are watching wannabe sumo wrestlers: Chef Ramsay and Jean Philippe. After Ramsay beats up JP, the girls get to hop into the sumo suits.

While the men struggle with the origami, Lacey seems to be the only one able to get it. Ironically, this punishment has united the team, at least for the time being.

The women return, and they’re drunk from the sake.

Red team continues to focus on how much they hate Lacey.

Chef Ramsay says that the tuna dish, the one he thought was going to be boring, was one of the best dishes he’s ever seen on this show.

Ramsay likes Giovanni’s risotto, and he likes LA’s as well.

Appetizers are flying out of the kitchens, but the customers with the biggest appetites just arrived. The sumo wrestlers want one of everything on the menu. Each team will need to split that duty.

The boys are impressed by Lacey’s performance.

Andrea has burned her wellingtons and decides to hide them. J’s having the opposite problem. His are still rare. The fan’s on low instead of high.

Colleen has left the oven door open. She doesn’t think she did, but it’s open, so it would appear she did.

So where are the women’s wellingtons? Hiding. Not very well. Ramsay ends up finding them.

Chef Ramsay keeps calling Robert Bobby. His name’s not Bobby. That was his dad’s name, and he apparently hated his dad. He’s throwing a bit of a tantrum, so Ramsay takes him into another room and screams at him some more.

Andrea’s still trying to recover from her earlier issues. She’s making up random numbers as to how far behind she is.

J’s chicken is raw, and no entrees have left their kitchen in nearly 14 minutes. He doesn’t even know what they need.

Red team has moved on to rock hard and raw dessert from Colleen.

Dinner service has collapsed. Again. Both teams lose for the second week in a row. The good news is that Giovanni and LA did a good job. Otherwise, it was a disaster. One individual from each team will be nominated.

The chef wants to see Bobby in his office. He doesn’t want to be called Bobby any more.

Andrea’s okay with being nominated because she screwed up so bad. Colleen’s okay with being nominated because she believes the blue team will be sent home.

On the other team, Lacey’s safe. It’s between J and Robert.

Red team has nominated Andrea. Blue team nominates J.

Ramsay disregards the nominations. He wants Robert to wake up. All that aside, Colleen has been sent home.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 6, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.

American Idol Season 8 Top 12

These 12 contestants have made it to the American Idol season 8 top 12:

Adam Lambert
Alexis Grace
Allison Iraheta
Danny Gokey
Jasmine Murray
Jorge Nunez
Kris Allen
Lil Rounds
Matt Giraud
Megan Joy Corkrey
Michael Sarver
Scott MacIntyre

But it doesn’t end there. In a surprise twist, the judges have decided to put through one additional contestant and make it a top 13 instead:

Anoop Desai

American Idol Season 8 Episode 18

Tonight marks the return of the wild card round, something I felt was sorely lacking the past few seasons. Eight contestants have been given a second chance, and three of them will advance to the top 12 tonight, with the judges deciding.

Jesse Langseth
Song: Tell Me Something Good by Rufus and Chaka Khan
Randy: Interesting song choice. A lot of interesting (not good) note choices.
Kara: Some notes not on key, but you’ve got a swagger (I guess that’s intended to mean something).
Paula: Strong as can be. A lot of soul.
Simon: Glad you were chosen. Slightly indulgent.

Matt Giraud
Song: Who’s Loving You by Jackson 5
Kara: Thank you for bringing back the bluesy soulful Matt. Amazing riffs. A little over the top.
Paula: This is the right zone for you.
Simon: A billion times better than last week. Great song choice. Hate what you’re wearing. Bits of Taylor Hicks coming through.
Randy: Made everybody else scared.

Megan Joy Corkrey
Song: Black Horse & The Cherry Tree by KT Tunstall
Paula: Right song. Joyful.
Simon: Always liked you. Still like you. Current. Not the best vocal but terrific nonetheless.
Randy: Back in the right range.
Kara: Give some variety to what’s already up there. Hope you stay.

Von Smith
Song: Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word by Elton John
Simon: Didn’t start very well. Beginning to become a bit boring. Didn’t really get it from you. Mr. serious.
Randy: Too serious. Wrong pitch at the beginning but beautiful tone at the middle.
Kara: Serious and dark. You have what it takes, but you haven’t hit your stride.
Paula: Not letting the pure essence of Von Smith out. Thinking too hard.

Jasmine Murray
Song: Reflection by Christina Aguilera
Randy: Improved. Still too big for you. Some flat and sharp moments but some bright spots.
Kara: Didn’t even know you had that big of a voice.
Paula: Beautiful song. Determined. Some notes that fell off.
Simon: Pretty special compared to earlier. Brave song choice. Sounded at times like a young girl trying to sound grown up. Back in the running.

Ricky Braddy
Song: Superstition by Stevie Wonder
Kara: You can sing your butt off. Loosened up tonight.
Paula: Loved the way you loosened up. Nailed it.
Simon: Sounded good. But a bit karaoke and clumsy.
Randy: Not quite the song for you. A little self indulgent.

Tatiana del Toro (why?)
Song: Saving All My Love for You by Whitney Houston
Paula: Blah blah blah.
Simon: I think we’ve heard you sing that three times now. What happens if you make it through to the next round?
Randy: Mixed bag of tricks.
Kara: It’s like the adventures of Tatiana. Today this is a new personality. At least she’s not crying.

She’s got a good voice, but she’s just way too obnoxious to win this popularity contest, or even get very far.

Anoop Desai
Song: My Prerogative by Bobby Brown
Simon: Like an enthusiastic dog. Not the best singer, but people like you.
Randy: Better this time than the last time you sang the song.
Kara: Wanted to get up and dance.
Paula: Certainly are the showman. Everyone loved that performance.

The judges have made their decisions.

Jasmine Murray is advancing, despite a performance that was a little on the painful side.

Ricky Braddy has been eliminated. This is a joke, right?

Between Tatiana and Megan, Megan Joy Corkrey is the one advancing. Time for one last breakdown by Tatiana.

Jesse Langseth is out.

Von Smith is also out.

That means it’s down to Matt and Anoop. Matt Giraud gets the final stool. It’s not over yet, though. They’ve decided to make it a top 13. Anoop Desai is also through.

These four contestants round out the top 13.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol Season 8 episode 19, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.