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With the lacklusterness continuing, America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 8 again brought us not much, but we did get to see the Smage Brothers ride their motorcycles.

Eric and Christlo talk about how they met because the girl one of them liked decided she liked the other instead. Not much chance of that being a problem any more because it’s apparent they’ve come out of their closet. Their bad dancing in which they really don’t move is followed by equally bad singing.

Chris, the boy with the wire hair, hangs by his hair. Unexpected. Jenny Rocha and the Painted Ladies dance with big butts. Magic of Mystique is a really bad magician.

Fatally Unique is a strong young dance team, although Piers wants them to get some new outfits. Ian Johnson is a yoyoer, which turns out to be more entertaining than you might expect. Tricky Jackson is supposed to be a bodybuilder, I guess. Taylor Davis has an unexpectedly good voice.

Tomahawk Tassels is, uh, a stripper? But not a million dollar stripper.

Cindy Chang is an unemployed housewife who sips olive oil and snort laughs. Awkward intro out of the way, she’s an excellent opera singer, even getting Piers to give her a standing ovation.

Fantastic Fig is a psychic magician/attorney with a cat named Newton. I don’t know what purpose the cat serves or why it’s standing on his shoulders, but anyway the card tricks are entertaining. And then he starts to dance. What the hell is this?

GTR stands for Girls That Rock or at least think they do. The only person enjoying this is Nick.

The Fearless Flores Family is a ninth and tenth generation daredevil act. The youngest member of the act, age 8, will be joining in the motorcycle riding with his 13 year old sister in the globe of death. Nobody at home probably has a large metal “globe of death”, but the standard warning applies: don’t try this at home.

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Snap Boogie and Landau Murphy performed in America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 7. Tonight we return to New York.

Doctors Rat & Tak are clearly going to be a waste of time. Somehow, they’re even worse singers than could have been anticipated. In spite of that, not a single X.

The Smage Brothers have brought helmets, motorbikes, and barriers to protect the audience. This sure ups the ante over the stunt bicycle riding we saw last season. Two of the brothers ride, while one serves the purpose of crash test dummy.

Ed Cole is 75 and fancies himself a bodybuilder. Well then.

Leonid the Magnificent hopes we remember him from seasons 1, 2, and 2 again. Piers does remember him, which is not a good thing. So apparently the point of this is that it’s a manic quick change act with bad singing. Piers buzzes, but the other two don’t care.

Rachel Zamstein pretty much threw in the towel on life at age 4, but discovering music got her to turn things around. Howie felt she held back, but she’s got potential. With the other two judges saying yes, she’s through to the next round.

Narcissister confuses me. I’m sure there’s some point to this. Not one that I can see. So anyway, the judges say yes to this masked chick.

Sam B (who takes a good minute to explain his name) never had any lessons in dance but got his inspiration from MC Hammer. This will not end well. But that won’t prevent the judges from letting him through.

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Atlanta brought us one (and only one) glimpse of talent in America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 6, as Anna Graceman finally brought an end to two episodes of badness. Tonight the auditions head to New York.

Best friends Paul, Emily, Kara, and Mary Kate are a Broadway act called Triple threat. Sharon promptly buzzes. Howie follows suit. And then Piers, who like me was apparently hoping things would get better (they didn’t).

Joel “The Canon” Podelsky eats a pumpkin pie in under 90 seconds, which is good because he hates pumpkin pie. The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is, somehow, what it sounds like. Michael “The Parrot Wizard” brings out a parrot that he must drag around to make it do anything.

Snap Boogie is a dancer who performs on the streets of Boston to help his mom pay their bills. Piers was excited by this untrained style of dance, and Snap is easily through to the next round.

Magician Michael Turco keeps making scantily clad women appear from a box, and Howie suggests he open up a dating service.

Riley Schillaci is a “novice” sword swallower. This won’t end well. In between her shoving objects down her throat, Piers buzzes. For her grand finale, she has Nick pull a sword out of her… while she hula hoops. From this person who is unable to smile and may have discovered this talent in an effort to off herself, Howie does not sense the joy necessary to be a performer.

Steven Retchless has been dancing since he was 8. He tells us he’s going to show something we’ve never seen before. Indeed, I have never seen a man in high heels with skimpy silver underpants and silver body paint to match. For all his training in ballet, jazz, etc., he will be… pole dancing. I don’t think there’s a lack of retching going on, but regardless he is quite good at what he does. Women and gay/closeted guys will love him. That leaves Piers and Howie out, but Howie’s reluctantly willing to give it another go anyway.

Elew is a piano player with mutant super powers. Piano playing: good. Gimmick: lame.

Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. is hoping you didn’t Tivo this because you’re not seeing him if you did. He’s an old school singer, which does not match how he looks at all. Sharon asks whether there was a tape player in the background. Tape player? Howie, who Landau loves and does a Bobby impersonation of, tells him he just changed his life.

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A second night in Seattle in America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 5 brought us, well, really not anything worth talking about. Tonight we go back to Atlanta.

Hershae Chocolateae is clearly going to be a big waste of time just based on his/her name. Piers buzzes, but the other two are gluttons for punishment. Too bad this song about this being the last dance is not true.

Attack Dance Crew is… a dance crew. They dance a style called drilling to a Justin Bieber song that I didn’t see coming. Howie compares them to a cheerleading team, but the other two say yes.

I don’t know what the hell Joseph Ravens is supposed to be. After riding a stationary bike, he walks off the stage without being judged or saying a word, so I take it we won’t be finding out.

Then Robo Mike dances like a robot, not well, and Kevin Harlow Jasper does some North Carolina hollarin, which near as I can tell is just a bunch of noise making.

Captain Stamp and his wife Maybelle are a freak show. He shoves a coat hanger down his throat, causing Piers to buzz and then turn his back. The follow up is a beam from which two cinder blocks hang. Howie enjoyed that. Sharon declines. Making the final decision, in spite of his disgust, Piers lets them through.

Necessary Diva does not seem to be either necessary or a diva.

Armand and Angelina sing popera. Yeah, popera. They think singing together is like making love, and they can’t wait to make love to millions. Appropriately, they sing the song from Titanic. Howie thinks that was so ridiculous it was wonderful. Piers just thinks it was ridiculous. Sharon agrees to give them another shot, to the booing of the audience.

Okay, we’ve gone two episodes now without any real talent. Let’s hope Alaska’s Anna Graceman, an 11 year old singer and piano player, turns the tide. She sings if I Ain’t Got You by Alicia Keys, followed by a standing ovation.

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Snowy Minneapolis didn’t have much to offer in the first 50 minutes of America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 4 before concluding with The Silhouettes and The Kinect King. Now we head back to Seattle.

On a side note, I figured out what happened to David Hasselhoff. After leaving this show for his own reality show, which got cancelled after two episodes, he got kicked out of the country but was lucky that Britain’s Got Talent was in search of new judges (what with Simon Cowell spending his spring in America and Piers on CNBC).

Brian Jackson wants to break a world record (his own), blowing up hot water bottles. Piers buzzes. In a minute and a half, he blows up 0, just 3 shy of the record. The issue: he’s never tried this brand of hot water bottle.

Alaska thinks he can dance. His state would not be proud. Nonetheless, only Piers buzzes. At least the other two tell him no. That’s not enough to prevent Nick Cannon from acting like an idiot and insisting that the particularly stupid acts get more minutes of fame than they should have had in the first place.

Geechy Guy told over 676 jokes in an hour once. He’s sweating through his sweater and his jacket, but that doesn’t stop his speed joking. He talks about his modelling career, how he’s the third one over on the evolution chart. Piers doesn’t find him funny, but the audience disagrees.

Illumni Men’s Chorale is what it sounds like, except they sing Britney Spears. Soleil Rousseau works at a fire station, so naturally she’s a pole dancer. Seth Grabel is an acrobatic magician.

Amadeus is a dog that knocks pool balls into the pockets. Cute, but I’d be impressed if they went in the right order. Piers likes an act for a change, but he is outvoted.

Brandon, Dustin, and Josh are The BGP, a band that’s been together for 15 years. Sharon wants less Elton, more them, but regardless the performance works out quite well.

The Art of Teknique are hip hop dancers age 8-10. No real need for the formality of letting them perform. We already know they’re getting through because they’re cute young kids.

Marylee writes music and lyrics for dead people, which she normally sings in her head. Like Candle in the Wind? Although Piers is not dead yet, singing a song about him is a surefire way to get at least one vote, if not two.

Next we get to listen to more of Christina Aguilera’s not at all funny inappropriate and rude comments.

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