# The Masked Singer Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149 "2019-01-03T14:54:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/81 "2019-01-17T23:15:46Z")
I just watch the clips on YouTube. They strip out the annoying stuff you’re all describing and just show 90 seconds of people in weird costumes singing. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/82 "2019-01-17T23:17:44Z")
It doesn’t seem that confusing to me. Whether the studio audience votes for the best singer, or who they think is the worst, so far every time it has ended up with the worst singer being the one revealed. The audience at home has nothing to do with who is revealed so the actual details of the voting process don’t really matter. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/83 "2019-01-18T00:41:40Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I don’t have many impressions from/thoughts about last night’s show, except I’m starting to wonder if ALL of the singers are going to be either old (last night and last week) or athletes who non-fans don’t know (the first week). > > Props to **Sir T-Cups** for guessing Deer in the OP! _fist bump_ > > Unicorn sang worse last night than the previous time. Monster, Peacock, and Lion were all great. > > I decided to watch the show live-ish this week: I recorded it and started watching around 9:30pm, and was done by a little after 10pm. I definitely enjoy it more now that I’ve started fast-forwarding through everything but the clues and the performances (or at least the beginnings of them; I couldn’t finish Unicorn’s). Which is good, because I think I’m in too deep at this point to walk away without finding out who everyone is. 😃 Thank you, thank you. I want to be impressed with myself too because I called last week’s celeb too…but I just got the easiest ones. I’m slowly being convinced by Mrs. Cups that monster is T-Pain. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/84 "2019-01-18T00:44:29Z")
I just turned it on, and Lion is rockin it. But seriously, not one mention here of whatever the heck Nick Cannon is wearing on his head?!? Why has he got my Grandmother’s morning hat on? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/85 "2019-01-18T00:54:39Z")
BTW this clip came by on social media this week, and I have to say, I’m jealous. Our show is just nothing like what’s going on over there! I guessed this one just a few measures into the song. Answer in spoiler below for those living in a cave. It’s Ryan Reynolds ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/86 "2019-01-18T04:00:57Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > BTW this clip came by on social media this week, and I have to say, I’m jealous. Our show is just nothing like what’s going on over there! > > I guessed this one just a few measures into the song. Answer in spoiler below for those living in a cave. > > It’s Ryan Reynolds Shhh…we’re supposed to only talk about this trainwreck of a show and not acknowledge the far, far, far superior original! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/87 "2019-01-18T14:00:06Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I know I’m late to the game, but I was thinking about checking this out. However, I tend to avoid anything having anything to do with Jenny McCarthy. Just how annoying is she on this? Eleven. > [@TruCelt](#): > > I just turned it on, and Lion is rockin it. But seriously, not one mention here of whatever the heck Nick Cannon is wearing on his head?!? Why has he got my Grandmother’s morning hat on? My husband and I were confused as well. The very next morning after the show we saw an old lady in the grocery store parking lot…“She’s got that guy’s hat!” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/88 "2019-01-18T14:01:54Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I just turned it on, and Lion is rockin it. But seriously, not one mention here of whatever the heck Nick Cannon is wearing on his head?!? Why has he got my Grandmother’s morning hat on? After the first ep, I was going to make a “what’s going on with his _hair_?” comment but was afraid people would take it as a race thing (it’s not). Maybe that’s going to be his gimmick for the show; different hair stylings and accoutrements. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/89 "2019-01-18T20:59:37Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > But seriously, not one mention here of whatever the heck Nick Cannon is wearing on his head?!? I assumed that at first it was because of the mask he was wearing at the very start – to protect his 'do (and/or his head) – but I didn’t understand why it was still on after the first commercial break. Maybe his 'do is really, really hard to do? ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/90 "2019-01-19T16:32:06Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I tend to avoid anything having anything to do with Jenny McCarthy. Just how annoying is she on this? I keep hoping she will have to leave because she has measles. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/91 "2019-01-20T18:32:56Z")
Eyebrows of Doom - Yeah I get that…kinda…but again, if it’s just a popularity contest and the breathless “who is it?” has no real bearing, why have it at all? And for that matter, why have eliminations at all, especially since there’s no home vote so Cannon can’t even chest-beat about vote totals? It’d make a lot more sense to have everyone on until the end, have everyone do the same number of songs, get all the clues out there, and then we can have suspense to the end and see who got the most right. As it is, this show has the same problem as nearly every reality program I’ve watched: I don’t give a damn who wins. The contestants on Hell’s Kitchen are largely interchangable slobs, any of which would be lucky to last three months in the dream job that awaits them. The winner of The Voice is completely engulfed in the judge’s shadow from day one and will be a widely ridiculed flash in the pan _at best_. The Titan Games’ athletes are so much alike and compete for so short a time that I can’t even develop rooting interests. The Amazing Race is a complete crapshoot, with bunchups reigning supreme and skill and knowledge playing a very small part in who crosses the finish line first. Whoever wins The Masked Singer will…go back to what (s)he’s been doing before, the same as all the other contestants. What is even the point? Absolutely no excuse to not completely embrace the goofiness, and it has to worship at the altar of anudda-wun-bi-da-dus. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/92 "2019-01-24T02:26:26Z")
As the show is going on right now, and before it’s done, I want to put down all my guesses so I can refer to them later without going to multiple pages Peacock – Donny Osmond \*Hippo – Never had a guess (tuned in late) Monster – T-Pain (so says mrs. Cups) Unicorn – Tori Spelling but only because that’s what everyone else says Deer - Terry Bradshaw Lion – Can’t remember right now Rabbit – Joey Fatone Alien – Best we got is LaToya Jackson Raven – Ricki Lake \*Pineapple – Tommy Chong. Poodle – No Idea Bee – Gladys Knight ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/93 "2019-01-24T13:10:47Z")
Dern, I was sure that poodle was Kathy Griffin! I’m gratified to see that she was an actual celebrity that even I have heard of (Margaret Cho). This show’s doing better on that front than Dancing With the Stars! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/94 "2019-01-24T16:54:42Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > She also mentioned 415 - the area code for San Francisco. The consensus is, Margaret Cho. Good Call! Poodle is one of two that I honestly have no idea about. And if the internet is to be believed with Tori Spelling then that is the other one that I never would have gotten in a million years. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/95 "2019-01-25T18:59:29Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > As the show is going on right now, and before it’s done, I want to put down all my guesses so I can refer to them later without going to multiple pages > . . . > Rabbit – Joey Fatone > . . . [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vVLrFb6b1mw/maxresdefault.jpg "Joey Fatone on The Jenny McCarthy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLrFb6b1mw&t=228) ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/96 "2019-01-28T06:59:03Z")
The best way to improve this show is to give fewer clues. They definitely need to not give the heights because that makes it too easy. I think the rest have pretty much been ID’d by the internet. Is there anybody left who doesn’t know that the Bee is Gladys Knight after the Georgia clue? FTR, I agree with Sir T-Cups’ list. Lion is Rumer Willis. Alien is definitely LaToya. And I should have trusted my first instinct about poodle since I posted here that I initially had her right. I just didn’t know that she could sing. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/97 "2019-01-28T15:37:18Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > [https://youtu.be/vVLrFb6b1mw?t=228](https://youtu.be/vVLrFb6b1mw?t=228) Pshhhhhh he _would_ say that… ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/98 "2019-01-28T20:48:42Z")
Just getting around to streaming it, and already I have to pause it to ask: What the actual F\*\*\* does Nick HAve on his HEAD?!? Really? When your wife gave you that she meant to wear it while you put your stage make-up on. She didn’t mean you should wear that thing in PUBLIC! Holy jebus with toast!! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/99 "2019-01-29T17:32:49Z")
So what happens if the judges do guess who it is? They seem reluctant to speak up once they are really sure. Jenny McCarthy was absolutely certain she was right but turned out to be dead wrong. Think she’ll learn from that? Yeah, no, probably not. . . Here’s my update [old guesses]: Peacock – Shaun Cassidy Monster – Philly rapper Meek Mills Unicorn – Tori Amos Lion – Rumor Willis [black woman, Hollywood child - 5’6” so it can’t be EJ Johnson as I originally thought.] Rabbit – Lance Bass [Lance Bass & Joey Fatone singing I want it that way - Backstreet boys / April 14,2016 #DirtyPopAtSea - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXAVAECCO6g) [Psychobunny, is that you ?!? LOL! Seriously, what is that twitching about?!? Creepy.] Alien – Nicole Richie? [I have a lot of sisters = Moulin Rouge. Li’l Kim] Raven – I’m sold on the Ricki Lake guess. [Wynonna Judd.] Bee – Queen Latifa? [Gladys Night] \*Hippo – Antonio Brown \*Pineapple – Tommy Chong. I had no clue until the panel said Cheech. Then I recognized Chong. \*Deer - [6’3” boxer or wrestler or defensive lineman. Denver Broncos?] \*Poodle – Margaret Cho. So what was the “I have come for your Honors” about? [Hilton Honors is their hotel loyalty points program. Paris Hilton.] ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149/100 "2019-01-31T02:41:36Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > As the show is going on right now, and before it’s done, I want to put down all my guesses so I can refer to them later without going to multiple pages > > Peacock – Donny Osmond > \*Hippo – Never had a guess (tuned in late) > Monster – T-Pain (so says mrs. Cups) > Unicorn – Tori Spelling but only because that’s what everyone else says > Deer - Terry Bradshaw > Lion – Can’t remember right now > Rabbit – Joey Fatone > Alien – Best we got is LaToya Jackson > Raven – Ricki Lake > \*Pineapple – Tommy Chong. > Poodle – No Idea > Bee – Gladys Knight SAying this now in the off chance she’s eliminated…LaToya as the alien absolutely confirmed. Her prop was a police badge from when she was on “Armed and Famous” instantly recognized by me as it was filmed in Muncie, IN the home to MY Ball State Cardinals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-thread/827149.md?page=6)