4/6/2023 0 Comments Snail masked singerHow about asking Kermit this: What the fuck happened to your voice? The stupidity piled on as Entertainment Weekly (of course) interviewed Kermit in character (ugh), as if he was a sentient being. When that reveal happened, I was like, That is so stupid. I think the new Kermit voice is an abomination, but I digress. We’ve been rewatching The Muppet Show and appreciating Jim Henson’s genius, especially his performance as Kermit. I have my childhood plush Kermit on a shelf near my TV. (The puppeteer did not revel themselves.) The Masked Singer began its fifth season by revealing that the singer inside the snail costume was a fictional character: Kermit the Frog. ![]() Okay, fine.įlash forward to this season’s premiere. Maybe he agreed to be on one episode and they came up with this. Did Mickey Rourke agree to do the show if he could only do one episode? Maybe he really surprised Nick Cannon and the judges and the producers. “It’s not that part of the show yet.” Then he called for help from the show’s on-stage extras, not the producers: “Men in Black, I need some help!” But Mickey Rourke revealed himself, and effectively quit the show.įrom his last-of-the-night performance to the bad acting from Cannon and the judges, I didn’t believe that was a surprise at all. “Gremlin, what are you doing?” Nick Cannon asked. The wheels started coming off last season, when the Gremlin sang-conveniently the last performance of the episode-and then took off his mask, eliminating himself. Was that not sustainable? Because it seems or the network and producers didn’t trust their format enough to allow it to continue. And getting to re-discover people who should need no introduction (T-Pain, Wayne Brady, Gladys Knight), or learning new things about celebrities and their talents (Ricky Lake, Kandi Burruss), has been an unexpectedly great part of The Masked Singer. (What the actual hell was Logan Paul doing on this show? After all this?!)īut the performances can be genuinely terrific, even moving. Maybe they just show up to use one of TV’s most-popular shows to launder their reputations. Perhaps they do what they already do well but introduce themselves to new fans. The celebrities are clearly doing this for fun and/or attention. It’s always been silly and extremely low-stakes, especially since there’s no prize at the end. You’re probably thinking: The Masked Singer is serious? It has credibility?! A show that cast Jenny McCarthy (please get your kids vaccinated) as one of the judges? A panel that throws out ridiculous names of A-list talent who’d never appear on a Fox reality show just to try to make their show seem more credible? A show that faked its studio audience for two full seasons?įair point. And by breaking its own rules The Masked Singer invites us to not take it seriously. Two of the five unmasked contestants this season have already been staged stunts. The problem for me is that Nick Cannon’s reveal came after a string of other bits, which suggests the show no longer cares about its own internal logic or credibility, from the introduction of the wildcard to the first unmasked contestant. The judges didn’t really seem all that surprised, so who knows what they knew. Nick Cannon and Niecy Nash after he was revealed to be the Bulldog on The Masked Singer season 5 (Photo by Michael Becker/FOX)īringing Nick Cannon back this way, okay, sure. And it was Nick Cannon, who’s been absent this season because he had C0VID-19. She announced that was the Bulldog, who pulled off his mask without waiting for the other contestants to clear. ![]() Well, I’m about to change the game completely,” Niecy Nash said after that performance, as the contestants were gathered on the stage. “I told you this was a game-changing season. The Bulldog who wore gold track suit in addition to a gold, bejeweled bulldog mask, and sang “Candy Girl” by New Edition. The last contestant was a new entry, and the second wild card of the season. The crew led him backstage to a curtained area where he was apparently able to take his mask off and cool down he eventually returned to the stage. “I’ve got to take a break,” the Crab said after performing. That’s what happened at the end of a mostly normal episode.Įarlier, there was an actual brief emergency. Not silly and fun dumb, but waste-of-time stupid.Įvery episode of The Masked Singer ends with legalese saying “All voting was administered by an independent vote tabulation company and monitored by FOX Standards and Practices.” But why even bother with that when viewers’ votes are just going to be discarded? That is exactly my problem with the show this season, its fifth, which has gone so far off the rails that it’s just dumb. “Anything can and will happen,” Niecy Nash said at the end of The Masked Singer season five’s fifth episode, her final episode as guest host.
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