Oh, sweet jeebus …
It was close: If Tyce had babbled one more pretentious, nonsensical sentence in that grating, girly voice of his (Mia wishes she could speak with as feminine a voice as does Tyce), I would have hurled a coffee table through my TV set. Not once the entire evening did a "critique" of his make sense.

The Rationale
Don't be hatin' on the decision to send McKell back home to her NINE-MONTH OLD BABY. (Sorry, my finger slipped on on the all-caps.) Because it gives the show a good reason to pull out one of its most popular tropes, The Rationale.

Favorite BN product placement
My favorite BN product placement was in an earlier season when Sam says something like, "Don't worry, Mike, this car has OnStar." In season one, I believe, they also used to shill the hell out of DirecTV.

A fierce Cat
Is it me or has Cat been particularly … sorry about this … catty this season? She hasn't sunk to Seacrest levels of cringe-worthy babble with delusions of irreverence, but she's really stepped up her delicate antagonism toward the judges, particularly Nigel. She's called them out for their hypocrisy,…

What the hey, Ade?
A disappointing and upsetting segment of the show was the judging for the Billy/Ade Stacey Tookey piece. I understand that the judging is for the contestant, but usually the judges manage to throw in a kind attaboy or two for the All-Star. Last night, however, they mentioned not a word about Ade,…

Fingers crossed that Nigel decides to leave SYTYCD to take the reins of Idol full-time. That way we get a (let us hope) rebooted Idol and a SYTYCD without his smug, condescending presence.

Grade A
Just checking in long enough to give this episode an A.

When you look back at the replay later, you'll see you made the right decision.

A.V. Club's four-cents' worth
I get a kick out of how, each week, the review of the results show is really a second review of the performance show, with a couple of grafs about the results show thrown in. (I'm really not being snarky; after all, I can imagine it's tough to recap a results show.)

Where's Genevieve?
Doesn't Genevieve usually write up the performance shows?

Something familiar …
Zach didn't wind up with a Jack Black castoff with this one, did he?

The animated Gargoyles series kicked ass
Disney's animated Gargoyles series was a fine show with great storytelling and voice acting (Keith David, Edward Asner, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, etc.). It took a lot of narrative chances, the biggest of which was assuming its young audience was intelligent enough to…

The same man, but not
This is as good an episode as any for a comment on how much I'm enjoying the subtle explorations, in this "modern" era of "Doctor Who," of how much of a different person The Doctor becomes from regeneration to regeneration.

Had I not already seen the web series version of "Children's Hospital," making me eager to see the CN version, I would have been so completely turned off by the annoying A.V. Club ad campaign, with its sickly colors (is that foam-green meant to suggest scrubs?) and repeating images of a glaring Rob Corddry, that I…

Sort of off-topic, but not
Can someone explain to me why the Oscar show received so many Emmy noms? Is there an Emmy for Managing to Not Suck as Much As Usual?

Yes! The "Hot Haggis Train!" Now we have a show!

Questions
1. Will the amazing Cat Deeley have a job next season, after she single-handedly dragged Nigel out onto the sidewalk and beat his face into the pavement, in front of a national TV audience, for his hypocritical remarks about Adechike?

America does the math
Donna, with all due respect to the legendary Noel, I think all of America had it pegged when Lauren was announced safe. As Granny would say, that was easy figurin'.

I preferred it when they had the All-Stars on stage to announce the genres. Even if the choices were pre-selected by the producers, at least the process seemed more personal and fun. The process last night, with the All-Stars on monitors, definitely had the appearance of being staged. (It's interesting, by the way,…

"Hungry jazz face …"
sounds like a TV dinner for hipsters.