With only an hour (thank you, programming gods!), Carson gets straight to the point tonight and introduces the finalists. Some “millions” of Americans have voted, but he doesn’t give a specific number, so I’m guessing it isn’t quite as big as an Idol finale. Blake’s wife Miranda Lambert, Ryan Tedder (who was just on Platinum Hit this week), Pat Monahan and Stevie Nicks are all on hand to perform duets with the final four. Now, I kind of love Beverly McClellan, but can someone explain to me while she’s dressed as Uncle Fester from the Addams Family musical? I somehow hold Christina responsible for this.

The foursome are ushered away as we’re “treated” to a recap of last night’s original tunes and their duets with their coach mentors. I want to fast-forward, but I’m probably not supposed to. At least I get to see that crazy Cee Lo costume again. After the little montage, we see, stuck up in the cheap seats, all the other contestants who were kicked to the curb.

Crap. Remember when I thought we were going to get to the point here and the show would just be about star-studded performances and the results? Yeah, that didn’t happen. Instead, we have to see what happened backstage in Jay Leno’s green (technically yellow) room when the finalists were on The Tonight Show. You know, I was just thinking that the one thing that could make this show better was more Jay Leno. Actually, I was thinking that this show was perfectly fine the way it was and that Jay Leno makes me want to gouge my eyes out, but whatever. He’s here now and Beverly is super excited to meet him. And now we get to see the actual Tonight Show episode, because that didn’t already air or anything.

Twelve minutes in, we get another recap of Vicci’s journey and the chair spinning and the development of her war dance and the drumming. And now we get to see Vicci singing with “one of her favorite artists,” Pat Monahan from Train and they’re doing “Drops of Jupiter.” Yeah, that soy latte lyric is as stupid as it was when this song was first released. She sounds way better than he does and her glittery pants are hot as heck. He just needs to brush his hair, as he currently seems to be looking like a cross between Peter Gallagher and Tommy Lee and the results aren’t all that attractive. The Biggest Loser‘s Alison Sweeney is in the audience and just loving it. Cee Lo thanks Pat because that song is sensitive subject matter for him. OK, soy lattes are a touchy subject. Got it. Cee Lo just gushes all over Vicci for awhile.

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