American Idol Results Show: Paul McDonald Sent Home While Casey Abrams Romances Haley Reinhart

The guy with the radioactive glow in the dark teeth, Paul McDonald,  got the American Idol boot on Thursday, but did not get the same shocked reaction as last week's Pia Toscano's elimination did.

Paul left the show singing "Magge May," while telling America to have a good time and "not be sad about this."

I don't recollect myself ever being sad over someone leaving American Idol.

In the bottom three, with Paul, were Stefano Langone, again, and Haley Reinhart. I don't remember if Haley has been in the bottom three before.

What I do remember is seeing rumors on the Interwebs that Haley and Casey Abrams had developed a romantic liaison.

When Ryan Seacrest put Haley in the bottom three, Casey said "I love you" to Haley. Earlier in the show Haley and Casey sang a steamy duet, a song called "Moanin." It struck me odd at the time, wondering why that pair got a duet. Usually it's those tiresome group numbers on the AI results show.

The original American Idol, Kelly Clarkson, sang "Don't You Wanna Stay?" with Jason Aldean. Ryan and Kelly exchanged quips over something to do with Ryan doing something to Kelly's Twitter Tweets regarding Kelly having a crush on Casey. I really was not understanding. A Kelly crush on Casey Abrams? Or Casey James? Casey James is a Texas boy and seems more age appropriate than Casey Abrams for a Kelly crush.

Rihanna sang a song about her "California King Bed." I hit the fast forward button.

The only other thing I remember about the latest AI results show was this week's Ford commercial. Zombies were involved. I don't care for the AI Ford commercials. And the making of the AI Ford commercial bits. But, they have an hour to fill, so filler is needed.

I'm pretty sure Ryan said what next week's American Idol theme is, but I've already forgotten.

American Idol Final Three: BLAH!!!!

Well. Only one more week of the worst season of American Idol to go and this train wreck will be off the rails.

Tuesday night's sing-off between Casey James, Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze, for me, only really came alive at the end, with DeWyze's version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."

Does that song ever sound bad? And when you get it pimped with a backup chorus, it's even better.

Casey James started off the night in the dreaded first position, singing a song few had heard of, "OK, It's All Right With Me." Pretty much Casey was left on the stage with his guitar and nothing tarting up the production. No back up singers, no flashing lights, no smoke, no mirrors, no nothing, but James singing a boring song.

Casey's second song, John Mayer's "Daughters" is a song I don't care for. Again the production was barebones, compared to the big production numbers surrounding Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze. The judges did not throw Casey so heavily under the bus for his second song. Then again, I found Simon Cowell's bizarre laughing when the judges got into judging mode, of Caseys final song, to be all sorts of wrong, with no good explanation forthcoming for the laughing.

DeWyze's first song was "Simple Man." Praise was heaped. I didn't feel it. Though one of those annoying judges said he'd crushed the competition. I don't know if this was a subtle reference to DeWyze appearing to be slightly overweight or totally a comment about his singing quality.

Bowersox sang the Melissa Etheridge classic, "Come To My Window," as her first choice. I hated the harmonica and I hate her under the lip stud piercing. The judges' chose the McCartney classic, "Maybe I'm Amazed" as Crystal's second song. I liked that okay, but I didn't like her doing the cliched wandering around the stage.

Who decides how these songs are produced? Did Casey James choose not to have a production number? It somehow seems unfair to me.

And another thing, what a difference between this season and the same point last season. You never knew what Adam Lambert was going to do. Last year's final 3, Lambert, Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta, were always entertaining. None of this final 3 comes close to being that entertaining.

Anyway, I don't know if I'll bother suffering through the bloated finale. I really don't care who "wins." That and I'll be exhausted from too much television due to watching the bloated finales of LOST and 24.