It is Sports activities Night time on tomorrow’s version of The Masked Singer, with company Joel McHale and Nikki Glaser available as ringside announcers for a makeshift boxing match. In Fox’s preview clip, McHale brays, “It’s an awesome day to play a guessing sport!”
“Oh sure,” agrees Glaser. “And look — the struggle is about to start out!”
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Robin Thicke and Rita Ora dance into the ring sporting silk boxing robes, raring to kick off the present with nook assist from Ken Jeong and Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg. Thicke bites his lip and strokes his air guitar earlier than breaking right into a rousing model of… “Rock You Like A Hurricane”? Actually?
Yep, with the demise toll from Hurricane Milton at 24 and counting, Fox selected this week to steer off a actuality present with a 1984 Scorpions rocker referencing killer storms. The subsequent time Califonia loses homes to muddy avalanches, ought to we count on a canopy of Stevie Nicks’ “Landslide”? “Twist and Shout” when tornadoes ravage the Midwest?
“Give The Masked Singer a break,” you is perhaps saying. In spite of everything, most of the taping for this season occurred on the finish of June. Honest sufficient. How may the producers presumably know that lethal hurricanes may hit throughout the present’s fall run?
Nicely, let’s see. Final fall’s Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth most energetic in historical past, with Idalia inflicting 12 deaths and $3.6 billion in damages in Florida. In 2022, Class 4 Hurricane Ian hit Florida with greater than six toes of storm surge. 2021 noticed a file variety of tropical cyclones within the area.
Any fool ought to have seen it coming. On the very least, why not re-edit the present as soon as the utter crassness of “Rock You Like A Hurricane” grew to become obvious? Sadly, like most of the present’s superstar vocalists, it seems The Masked Singer’s producers are tragically tone-deaf.
