Idol Recap: Megan Is Free As A Bird

During the results shows, we always feel a little bad for the contestants since their flaws are re-pointed out for the purpose of bringing everyone up to speed, and then we feel bad for being critical too. While we tend to flip-flop our support for Anoop Desai and Matt Giraud, we do stand by our criticisms of Megan Joy, and finally this week America also seemed to get sick of her too. Anoop and (for some unknown reason) Allison Iraheta were also in the bottom three (seriously America, what’s your beef with Allison?), but poor Megan was sent home to weepily reunite with her baby and caw softly to him to her heart’s content. Some of our other favorite moments follow.

5. The Get-Along Gang

During the “What do these guys do all week?” video we learned a lot about what goes on at their Hollywood mansion – a chef comes in and makes Scott MacIntyre special chocolate cake, Kris Allen practices his sexyface in the mirror, and everyone gets along. There’s a lot of hugging and laughing at the mansion. These guys like each other so much that they do impressions of each other and the songs they’ve all sung. Trust us when we say that we once learned the hard way that doing what you think is a hilarious impression of a friend can lead to severed ties, so we’re impressed that these guys are so good-natured about it. Ryan made them all do some of the impressions on stage, with Matt Giraud and Allison Iraheta impersonating a riff-happy Danny Gokey and Anoop impersonating a yelly Kris Allen. Awkward much?

4. Don’t Stop Believin’ That We’re Singing This Group Song Live

For the group song this week, we were treated to one of the most downloaded songs ever, “Don’t Stop Believin’.” All we could think was that it’s funny that the song is so beloved in karaoke bars everywhere, because it was even more obvious that the kids were lip-syncing this week (it seemed like Allison was the worst offender for not quite singing in time, and Danny had the good sense to hold the microphone as close to his mouth as he could to avoid detection).

3. David Cook Gets Misty

We still don’t get the huge fascination with David Cook – his voice is fine, but he just sings generi-rock. However, it was nice to see him awarded with a platinum album (handed to him by … two chicks in tank tops?), he seemed genuinely touched. He was also wearing more makeup last night than anyone should. Let your skin breathe, David!

2. Lady Gaga’s Poker Face, Now With Zippers

Lady Gaga is like no other, and her performance of “Poker Face” was so riveting we couldn’t look away. First we were too distracted by her Carol Channing wig to notice that she was tickling the ivories on a pink lucite piano filled with bubbles and starfish with an eyepatch/zipper thing on her face. Then there was her robo-dancing. Of course all of this was overshadowed by the name of her song – if our stool jokes are any indicator, you can imagine the number of times we kept giggling to ourselves “Poker Face? I don’t even know her!” Yes, we’re fully aware that we have turned into the worst stereotype of a corny dad ever and the joke doesn’t even make sense.

1. Megan Gets Sent Home

Bird calls. Weird Outbursts. Awkward hand gestures. Now that Megan is taking all those things home with her, we’re not sure who will fill the quirky void she’s leaving behind. (The girl bird-flapped her way over to the Bottom 3 Stools, come on!) As irritating as her voice eventually became, it was a sad, abrupt departure, with Simon telling her they were not even going to contemplate using the Judges’ Save for her stung. During her farewell montage, we did feel a little bad for being so hard on her lately, especially after she said endearingly “Maybe I’m gonna walk the plank, but its my plank. Let’s party!”

Final Thoughts:
- Ford Video or Ugly Betty opening credits?

- Simon having a conversation with Alexis Grace who was sitting behind him, while Ryan talks to the other judges? You bet. We wish we had that “I don’t give a shit” ‘tude Simon has. All eyes on him, but he’s got other people to talk to. Whatevs.

[Photos: Michael Becker / FOX]