Quit Giving Back, Idol

As many of you know, though I am always ashamed to admit it, Charlotte and I usually watch American Idol every week.

The show has been scheming for some months to do a big charity show incorporated into a regular two-night format, entitled "Idol Gives Back". The aim of this much-to-do event was to raise money for starving children in Africa and parts of the U.S. As you well know, this is the ilk of sheepish publicity every actor loves to attach himself to, so they tried to pack the show out with as many big names as possible. The only problem was, what to do with these actors? Is it enough to just have a quick cut scene of them droning on about starvation and how we need to help?

Apparently not. What to do with these random celebs who hardly have any discernible talent outside of acting?

The answer may both shock and disgust you:



And, as if this little segment that looks like it was a failed project from a junior high audio/visual club wasn't enough unsettling weirdness for one night, they had to do something even more pointless and more creepy.

So, in the words of the Amazing Mr. Seacrest, "...prepare to startled, prepare for magnificence, prepare for a duet you thought, was impossible..."



(Of all the combinations of duets I thought were impossible, this is--by far--the most impressive and most impossible.)