I like that the editing freeze-framed the error for us dance-impaired viewers.

Makes the contestant who got thru in one try look VERY impressive.

Mark & Bopper set a high watermark for supportive teammating.

You know, I would have chosen the three-wheel rickshaw driving challenge in a heartbeat. I'm impressed that the one driver was so awful that she made an inadvertent wheelie.

I just got caught up with Amazing Race and OMG. If they weren't fan favorites before, they darned well better be now.

Mark & Bopper set a high watermark for supportive teammating.

Seriously. In all ways. Including the offer to leave, but also the bit where he tells him, no, I am not all right, but please just get out of my face so I can do this, and he does. And yet they're just there for each other, all the way through.

Oh, Cee Lo. Never change. That was absurd and sort of awesome.

I always like it when eliminated contestants aren't that upset -- they knew it was their time, and really appreciated the chance they've had. Although I feel bad that little James with the headband is apparently going to be on the local news tonight. I can't decide if I hope it's a live interview or not.

Yeah, tonight's choices were way easier than last week's, and I agreed with both. We're at the stage where the singers are very good, so just skating will not carry it through.

Minor notes: it annoys me that Pip anchors his mic off his chin instead of his upper lip. Sure you can see expression better, but your jaw is what moves, dude, and so does the mic, resulting in some wobbly vocs.

Minor note 2: wtf did they do to Juliette's styling? As a rocker brunette she was lovely and instantly recognizable. As a blonde, with the hair out of her eyes? Totally forgettable. She still sang the heck out of it, but man.

Cheesa keeps surprising me, and has stayed in on the power of her chops.

Right before Tony sang, I went, "He's going to do a Christina song!" But Adam was smart strategically because that only would have pissed her off more, where with this she had to at least begrudgingly appreciate the effort.

TAR: Bopper and Mark are love. They were so sweet with each other. Why can't all the teams be like that. I think one of the producers had to have pulled Bopper's coat tail and told him that was a non-elim leg because he sure changed his tune from "Let's go out with our heads heald high" to "Do it for the kids" pretty quickly. Which I don't mind because I love them, but still . . . probably just a wee bit shady.

The Voice:

X-tina was totally zoned out at the beginning.

Cee-Lo is useless as a judge and now he’s farting all over the stage. Bah. Send him home. Leave the cat.

Jamar – It’s My Life. OK. I love this song. Man, Bon Jovi is my favorite cracky pop rock band of all time maybe. Too bad this kid sings so well because I really hate him a lot. Him and his sob story and his journey. Shut up and sing. And is that his name all graffitied on the wall? Ugh. I really hate him. Can I enjoy his performance with my chair turned away from the TV? Oh, but he’s doing a funk-nasty rendition of this song and I really don’t like it and he doesn’t sound all that great so I can hate him unreservedly this week. Yay! Happy Mondays. Hahahahah. Love that Adam is taking us behind the veil on The Voice.

Katrina – Jar of Hearts. They are trying sooo hard to make this girl Adele Lite. She’s singing this song very well, but she’s not a star. Yep. That’s about all I have to say about that. Oh, except that I still love Adam and his ability to just come real with it. Damn. And on the real, I bet she’s still not one of his favorites.

Cee-Lo’s “performance”. Return of the wig. That’s kind of awesome. Jamar in Beetlejuice pants? Not awesome at all. Juliet forgetting they lyrics to Dancing in the Streets – has she been drinking from Cee-Lo’s cup? She can’t remember “swinging and swaying”? Really?

Mathai – I’m Like a Bird. Love this song. I think it’s kind of on the nose for her. She already has that sort of Nelly Furtado, quirky delivery. And she knows it, too. Hmmm, I think she should’ve stuck to her guns and picked a new song. Bad choice from Adam, not ‘cause the songs not great, but it’s not great for her. And oops, she’s under the pitch for the whole thing and it’s so distracting. I just want her to go up just a smidge, a notch, and she’d have been right there. And she totally missed on the high notes at the end. Eh. It was a’ight. Christina was totally right that he kinda forced her into the song and you could tell she really didn’t want to sing it. It showed.

James – Just the Way You Are. Wow. Unexpected choice. I don’t think he has the chops, frankly. He’s like somebody’s cute nephew singing at his little sister’s Sweet 16. He’s fine for Uncle Tony’s backyard, but he’s not a star. His voice is just not special enough yet. I see where Cee-Lo’s trying to go with this kid . . . kind of a Jon B. thing, but it just doesn’t work. His voice is too thin. You can barely hear him over the band at times. Not good enough by a long shot.

Cee-Lo performance #2 with Goodie Mob. I’d rather have an hour long show instead. I don’t need to see a whole bunch of grown ass black men dressed up like C-3PO. Although that one dude’s perm is impeccable. Gotta clap it up on that. Snoop is somewhere feeling hella jealous right now.

Tony Lucca – Hit Me Baby One More Time. Sigh. They already did this as a rock song/alternative anthem on Rock Star like seventy million years ago. You're biting off of a show hosted by Dave Navarro? Bored now. And the dancing ghoul chorus behind him is just weird. Ha! Christina still looks like she wants to take this fool out with a hammer to the back of the skull. Did he kill her puppy or something? And she’s still not wrong. This kid is one dimensional. Can I get a rousing chorus of “You’re not a star”? Amen.

Cheesa – I Have Nothing. You are no diva, my dear. You couldn’t clean Bey’s baby bottles. She’s wearing a Disney princess dress. And Whitney’s ghost is kicking her ass on this (continued...)

( continues...) song. She’s just slightly off on every “my”, on every big note, on every “me”. That was severely underwhelming. I don’t get her at all.

Pip – Somewhere Only We Know. Annoying song. Annoying kid. So that should work. He sounds really good. And the piano thing is working really well for him. And he’s not wearing the frikkin’ bow tie. Oh, he should’ve stayed sitting at the piano in that quiet pocket. I was almost liking him until he stood up. And now he’s missing so many notes in these runs. Where did Adam’s advice about being simple and clean with his vocal go? That last part from the high pitched, someone’s giving me a wedgie “So” right through to the very end was atrocious. Atrocious. Adam knows it, too. Is there any way this kid’s not toast in the instant elimination?

Adam and the Adamites. Ummm. They sound pretty good on their opening harmonies. And I don’t think I ever knew the name of this song was Instant Karma, so there you go. It was just that song from the Nike commercial. Learned something new today. Thank you, Adam.

Juliet – Crying. Aw, I love this song. I know it’s just at the beginning of the slide into Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing Aerosmith, but damn, I think this song is just good, good stuff. It was weird at the beginning but she let it go by the end. She’s got a great rock and roll voice. She looked like she was choking on all the damn feathers at the end there.

Boot-ees

Is Cee-Lo reading off his telephone? What. The. Fuck? Obviously, it’s James. Can’t argue with that.

And Pip does go. I can always count on Adam.

I'm good with who left. I could kinda lose everyone left on Adam's team and not feel bad about that at all.

Cee-Lo is useless as a judge

I kind of disagree with this, Erin aside. It seemed obvious last night that he had honestly bonded with James as well with Jamar, and Juliet has managed to surprise me in ways that I think Cee-lo had a hand in.

I thought it was funny how Adam reacting to the guy flying behind Mathai. How did he not know that was happening?

I figure Mathai is going home tonight, and probably Cheesa.

Was it here that someone said they knew Nina Flowers from RuPaul's Drag Race?