Oh! My! Gawd! That's it. Immunity. Brilliant. Last one on Simon's prong gets it.

P.S. -- DeadWife? Love it.

The twist is NOT that they eliminate two contestants (that was stated outright).

The twist can be found in the clue Ryan Seacrest gave us:

"It changes the premise of the show."

The premise of the show is that AMERICA (not the judges) decide who goes on.

The twist will be that the judges will decide which two of the four lowest vote getters will go home.

Wouldn't it be funny if three of their best are left standing (e.g. Allison, Jorge and Matt Giraud) along with the mediocre Scott MacIntyre. The judges' hypocrisy would be exposed when they are forced to choose -- out of political correctness alone -- to allow AI's first visually-impaired (but unfortunately weak-singing) contestant to continue on. (No-one wants to admit that he never would have made the show at all based on his "talent" if his vision was 20-20).

The producers of "American Idol" have obviously decided that, no matter how bad Scott is, he must remain "untouchable" through to the "Idol Gives Back" episode.

I thought there was going to be no Idol Gives Back this year.

I hope the big change is that they altered the rules so that this web site can't make a difference in the voting. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you have to spoil it for people who do. Get a life!

And just because you don't like this site doesn't mean you have to spoil it for people who do. Pot, meet Kettle -- who has more of a life than registering and posting on a website that you don't like.

Funny how hypocrisy works, isn't it?

Just a guess as to the "big twist"... with all the new technology, they probably set up a self-updating database to interface with caller-ID so that it tracks whenever someone calls in and only allows each phone number to cast a single vote (or at least a single vote per contestant). This would severely cut their weekly record-breaking fifteen-kajillion votes, but it would at least make the show a bit more fair (one person, one vote, whether or not they are susceptible to the psychology of the "pimp spot").

I guess they're saving "Thriller" for the group number tonight. The make-up should make for a great laugh, and if Blind Scott runs into anyone/anything they can just play it off as being zombie choreography.

paula was as high as a plane.

i loved kris allen's wife's reaction to simon saying "you should have saved the wife for later in the show." classic. someone should make that into an avatar.

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