Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT One Flea Spare
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.29.2005
I know that your hands are full enough, what with having to watch this show eleven hours a week, and then dealing with all the third-party reports and talk show appearances and local news spots highlighting your local Idols, so I don't want to keep telling you what to watch. But now whenever I see Bo, I think "Bice, Bice, Baby," thanks to SnippyScholar, which makes me think of the David Bowie song "Under Pressure," of course, which leads directly to Nip/Tuck normally, but this week leads to Eyes, the new Tim Daly/Laura Leighton show, and I need you to know that that show is freaking awesome. Where did ABC come from all of a sudden? I haven't been this impressed with a pilot since…well, Grey's Anatomy, a couple of days ago. TV just got a lot harder to navigate.
Speaking of Honorable Mentions in the "Name the Contestant Thread" contest we've been running in the forums, thanks to katiedid for "Bo Knows: How To Make Kool-Aid" and "Bo 'Gee My Hair Smells Terrific' Bice," two of my favorite entries. He really looks nuts, and he's not so much giving it his all, so altogether this is not the best Bo's ever been. Maybe the worst, actually. The backup band is sounding very karaoke, even though you can see them clearly trying their best -- I think it's just that they are not prepared to rock quite as much as Bo is prepared to rock, which is in itself not as much as he is usually prepared to rock, so he's having to dip down into a lower register of rocking -- he seems tired, run-down. I don't know. This is his least intriguing or enjoyable performance to date. Maybe he's just had to sing this damn song too many times and can't even see his way to really living through this again. I'm already tired of this song after thirty seconds and it's been like ten years since the last time I heard it.
Paula swings the hat around in the air dangerously, and Randy and Bo giggle at each other. Bo makes a joke about how he's "mooved," which he has to explain to Randy, and thus cracks himself up. Oh, Bo. Luckily, it's adorable and he even pulls off the smile this one time. Randy would like to see him win -- well, what he said was "a rocker," but Bo's the only one we have of those -- and Paula drunkenly discusses the hat with herself for awhile, almost falls out of her chair, and finally tells him he did an awesome job, like as an afterthought. Simon didn't like the song, but nobody likes that song, so Randy has to get the crowd to boo at Simon. Paula frames her mouth with her hands to boo, but then forgets to boo and starts clapping instead. Simon calls it a wedding performance, and Ryan likes how he shook his ass in Simon's face. Sigh.