Finally, we're done with all that

What a week--Sunday was the Super Bowl, Tuesday was Super Tuesday and tonight was the Duke-Carolina game. I'm exhausted. So I'll make tonight's Idol wrapup brief.

Tonight's show was pretty entertaining, but I don't have much to say about it. My favorite part was obviously the blonde who had dated the twin guys. As the guys talked about how bad she was to the cameras, she actually asked Simon "Is this Opposite Day?" when they told her she wasn't any good. What is she, six? And I also enjoyed Simon's new response to auditioners who tell them they love him--"I know." And the Dolly Parton sequence was enjoyable, although I doubt that girl will make it past the first day in Hollywood.

Otherwise, I didn't understand the love for the plus-side model who once sang at Madison Square Garden. Wasn't she basically doing a Celine Dion impression?

As for Tuesday night, I still don't really understand why that guy is sleeping in his car--because he's just a free spirit? Is that basically the explanation?--but he wasn't bad. And the guy was was two places ahead of Carrie Underwood said people tell him all the time he has star quality? I wish they'd have someone standing by during those interviews to say, "Really? Who told you that? Can we interview him or her?"

Finally, the girl who auditioned two days after her father died and then made it to Hollywood was sad and touching, but did anyone else find it a little, um, disturbing? Yeah, I know she said that her father "would have wanted her to try out for American Idol" and everyone says that, and it was probably true to an extent. But how anyone could be told that their father died tragically while they were waiting in line to audition for Idol and then stay in line for two days is beyond me. But I guess everyone is different.

So Tuesday night is a two-hour show, which I'm not crazy about because it leaves less time for blogging. But it is the Hollywood round, which is usually one of the most entertaining Idol programs of the year. And this year, apparently they're allowed to play instruments! It actually looks fresh and exciting. I'm already getting pumped up.