Review/Recap of American Idol's Randy On The March 11 Show;Dawg, Stop Trying To Keep It Real!

News Type: Other — Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:18 AM EDT

I will let Vacelts and Dr. Know take care of recapping and reviewing the totality of the show. I, though, will focus on the language of Randy. I've griped before about his ~~butchering~~ abuse of the English language, particularly using terms like "dawg" and phrases like "keeping it real" which I thought most people stopped saying at least five years ago.

When Ryan announced they had a new set I immediately thought, "Oh! Maybe they finally got rid of the useless judges (Paula and Randy)." Alas twas not so. Remind me again, why do they need judges at this point in the season? Do they not trust viewers to judge on their own?

If you played my American Idol drinking game during last nite's show you'll be lucky – or Walt D or David M. - if you were not drunk by the end of the episode.

Randyisms (dumb things Randy said) that jumped out at me last nite

To Syesha: "All right, yo"
My grade of the performance: B

To Chikezie after he channeled Amanda channeling god knows who: "Dawg" and "it was dope" My grade: A

To Ramiele: (He didn't say anything dumb to her)
My grade: D. Oh, god, I agreed with Randy and Paula on something. Hell has frozen over – next I'm gonna think George Bush is a good president.

To Jason: "Are you chilling?" My grade: C

To Carly: "Yo, yo, yo" and he called her "dude"
My grade: C

To David Cook: "Check it out" and "man" and "dude" and "you're doing your thing"
My grade: B

To Brooke: "I love that, man" (Hey, at least he didn't call her dawg)
My grade: B

To David Hernandez: (Randy didn't say anything dumb to David)
My grade: D

To Amanda: "Alright, yo, check it out. I'm telling you, man" he also called her "dude"
My grade: B

To Michael: "Yo, check it out, baby, check it out" My grade: D

Kristy: "It's like a half and halfer to me"
My grade: D

To David A. "Alright, yo, David. Check it out… not your vibe"
My grade: D

My final thought comes from all the commercials promoting the Moment of Truth. Here's my new pitch for a reality show – the show would be about former Moment of Truth contestants receiving therapy on the damage they did to themselves and their family when on the show. Fox would be forced to pick up the tab for the therapy as well as for any American Gladiator equipment they need to use to "work it out," to quote a Beatles song covered.

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Vacelts, Dr. Know and any other Am Idol recappers/reviewers feel free to post below a link to your write-up

My biggest fear was that Randy would say the Beatles were "keeping it real, old school." While I'm happy he didn't say that I am still wondering this: if a white guy said the things Randy said wouldn't we mock him for trying to sound urban but instead sounding clueless and out of touch? Put another way would we not mock him even more if the "street" things he was saying if he were not black? Something to ponder.

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#1 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:20 AM EDT

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vacelts

I don't think we mock Randy more because no matter what comes out of his mouth, it's still more coherent that Paula on a good day.

Here's my recap of the show last night.

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4 votes

#2 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:00 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

I think if the Beatles were alive and on the show she'd complain they were "pitchy"

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1 vote

#2.1 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:32 PM EDT

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Dr Know

On rare occasions, Randy actually gives some good advice to the contestants. Paula on the other hand is as useless as blown fuse. She needs to GO. She is a dancer who happens to sing a little. She was at her best as a Laker Dancer.

Here is my review - Dr. Know on Idol

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3 votes

#3 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:43 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

contestants. Paula on the other hand is as useless as blown fuse. She needs to GO. She is a dancer who happens to sing a little. She was at her best as a Laker Dancer.

Yeah i've never understood her value as a judge.
Thanks for the link.

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#3.1 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:16 PM EDT

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vacelts

They needed a female.

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2 votes

#3.2 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:17 PM EDT

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Dr Know

There are plenty of females that have the talent and ability to really judge music performances. They had them on Nashville Star

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4 votes

#3.3 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:05 PM EDT

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vacelts

Apparently Idol producers aren't very picky.

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2 votes

#3.4 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:52 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

They needed a female.

They couldn't fin d a female with brains and/or talent (preferably both)

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2 votes

#3.5 - Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:47 AM EDT

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Dr Know

They found one with neither instead.

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3 votes

#3.6 - Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:16 PM EDT

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Sim2Luv

awww, come on guys, Paula is...***cough, cough...gag***sweet...and she wants the whole world to be...***gag...cough...cough***sweet...and sugar coated...excuse me...all this sugar has given me a terrible headache...I need to go lie down..................

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4 votes

#4 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:51 PM EDT

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vacelts

LOL

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3 votes

#4.1 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:57 PM EDT

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Dr Know

Can you get diabetes from watching and listening to Paula? "TV onset diabetes"?

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4 votes

#4.2 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:06 PM EDT

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Sim2Luv

Can you get diabetes from watching and listening to Paula? "TV onset diabetes"?

Hmmm, could be why I feel sick the next morning after watching American Idol...

There are plenty of females that have the talent and ability to really judge music performances.

I agree...one that comes to mind immediately is Reba..that may be just because I don't think she talks with an accent, therefore I understand everything she says!

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3 votes

#4.3 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:21 PM EDT

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Dr Know

I feel sick when the credits are rolling!

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4 votes

#4.4 - Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:24 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

I think the theme song is pitchy

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#4.5 - Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:17 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

While offline for much of the last few lines I've been reading recaps from Television Without Pity, the best recapping site in the world, or at least the snarkiest.

I'd so love to write this well.
For example, try these on for size

. "She's A Woman" starts off with a seriously bluegrass intro, with a fiddle and everything, and he slaps his knee in time to the music and then gets up and...well, damn. Good on Chikezie. He's wearing an argyle sweater and completely, totally rocking out. This is so freaking awesome! He's doing the whole Amanda thing better than Amanda has done, with weird noises and crazy loud gospel sounds, and a screech at the end that could drive you mad. You've just got to see this! It's so amazing! That is one of the best things I've ever seen on this show and I don't even know what words to use.

And this

Ramiele Malubay's job at home involves smelling like soy sauce. She'll be singing "In My Life" because she misses Danny Noriega and because she thinks that when people are eliminated from this show, they are murdered, so this is like "We Are The World" for her murdered friends like Danny Noriega. And like, it's super boring in the exact same way that she's doing things lately, but mostly I think it's funny that she has decided "I cry on Results Night" can just be her whole personality. Like on '90s Week she'll sing "Runaway Train." "Because they are never coming back," she'll say, and then weep softly.

And this

Sometimes I think that Randy has a little bowler hat under the table with scraps of paper and he just picks out four during each song and arranges them on the table and then reads them off: PITCHY FALSE DAWG PITCHY.

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#5 - Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:26 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Check this out. It's from recapper Jacob:

Ryan shows us the Top 12, in case we forgot why we're here. I see that makeovers are still coming, because David Cook and Amanda both still look like that. Ryan gives us the rundown on the Beatles, specifically John and Paul, to the point that I don't think anybody is going to say the word "Beatles" all night, which is just so Idol it's ridiculous. Every time anybody says "Liverpool," drink. I think that before this show started, somebody said "Liverpool" in front of Ryan and the judges many times, because check this out.

Ryan: Earlier I used the word "enduring." How come? Randy: "These boys put it down, dude. These songs are...all true copyrights, meaning that they will last forever." Jacob: The...@!$%# does that mean? Rewind it, please. Paula: Well these songs are full of melody and I you sang the song straight it pays great tribute but for those who are going to take the risk it better be worth the reward and I think some of them can change it up. Simon: I don't want to be here, and I hate Ryan Seacrest. Ryan: I kind of like being abused by Simon Cowell. I don't have feelings anymore.

Syesha Mercado goes on and on about nothing, nothing, nothing at all, and will be singing "Got To Get You Into My Life" in the hopes that she will spontaneously generate a personality out of nowhere. Like how in olden times they thought if you put like a sweater and some wheat or other grain in a barrel and left it, that's the recipe for how you make mice. And that's pretty much what she does: toss a crazy brass section and some terrible off notes and a pretty total lack of charisma in the barrel, and then just walks away from it and hopes that one day there will be mice. Randy asks if that boring @!$%# was Earth Wind & Fire, and it was. So now she needs to apologize to two true copyrights. Paula: "You're very very good singer and it was it started off pitch I am confused but midway through you found your zone and then it's like there's Syesha." Too true. Simon, weirdly, totally freaking loved it, but thinks she looked nervous and sucked less this week

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#5.1 - Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:47 AM EDT

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