Hurricane Fatigue? Miss America on ABC at 9

[debo]

My favorite part are the questions, so aside from from one on hurricane relief, I expect ones political. (Miss USA won because of/in spite of answering health care is a privilege.)

Tara Lipinski will be a judge, and I bet she'll look beautiful.

This has a talent segment, and I hear there's a dynamite ventriloquist.

If there's a contestant named Irma, she'll win.

 

[BaileyCatts]

Okay, Talent doing the puppets .... haven't we seen this before? Puppets and singing Cowboy Sweetheart? Isn't there another song? I'm sure I've seen this act on Miss America before.

 

[debo]

Uh, puppets are overrated. (You have to be watching).

 

[BaileyCatts]

Yep. That first round of questions was .... Oh goody. Here come the political questions.

 

[debo]

Some of the answers were convoluted, but I think Trump lost that round bigly.

 

[shan]

Some of the talent was

I liked Miss PA's saxophone performance and was sad that she didn't make it through the next round.

 

[jkl]

Weren't like half of them doing contemporary dances?

 

[quartz]

I took a break from the hurricane coverage and read a book about fairies and a dusty old book store. Calmed me down for a while.

 

[overedge]

I was really happy to see someone win from a state that hadn't won before. But yeah, there were way too many jazz/contemporary dancers. And dammit I hate this format of not letting everyone do their talent. I'd enjoy having two more performances to snark at way more than some of the other useless segments.

Also the dresses were fugly this year.

 

[quartz]

Oooohh.....*runs off to find a link to the fugly dresses.....

 

[overedge]

I forgot to add my absolute favourite moment of the evening.

Miss Missouri - who I think said "diversity" every time she opened her mouth - did a not-very-good Bollywood dance for her talent. (She's not Indian, but that's not the problem - she just didn't do the style of dance very well.) And the ex-Miss America on the judging panel was Nina Davuluri, the Indo-American woman who did a really good Bollywood dance for her talent.

So during question time. Miss Missouri pulled Davuluri as the judge that was going to ask the question - and the question turned out to be, you guessed it, something about diversity. Miss Missouri went on about the topic and then said something to the effect of, and I want to celebrate all cultures, so for my talent I chose a dance that isn't from my culture, and it was such an honour to perform it in front of YOU! And the camera caught Davuluri giving her this gritted-teeth smile like, "B*tch, please, you really shouldn't have bothered". I was

 

[shan]

Yeah most of the dancing was mediocre or kind of bad (no offense NJ, but what the heck was that dance??? ) And of course we had the yodeling ventriloquist from Louisiana (I was reading twitter and was at all the people praying that the girl with the puppets would get to do her talent.)

I actually watched most of the broadcast for the first time in several years. It felt very rushed and so much crammed in to 2 hours. I would have liked to have seen the last 2 talents and maybe longer question/answer time.

 

[debo]

I forgot to add my absolute favourite moment of the evening.

Miss Missouri - who I think said "diversity" every time she opened her mouth - did a not-very-good Bollywood dance for her talent. (She's not Indian, but that's not the problem - she just didn't do the style of dance very well.) And the ex-Miss America on the judging panel was Nina Davuluri, the Indo-American woman who did a really good Bollywood dance for her talent.

So during question time. Miss Missouri pulled Davuluri as the judge that was going to ask the question - and the question turned out to be, you guessed it, something about diversity. Miss Missouri went on about the topic and then said something to the effect of, and I want to celebrate all cultures, so for my talent I chose a dance that isn't from my culture, and it was such an honour to perform it in front of YOU! And the camera caught Davuluri giving her this gritted-teeth smile like, "B*tch, please, you really shouldn't have bothered". I was

This is EXACTLY what happened. I'll just add that - if memory serves - the camera also cut to Davuluri immediately after the performance itself and she looked something like stunned and spaced. For some reason YouTube is blocking the clips uploaded; perhaps they know best.

 

[skatesindreams]

IiRC, the MAO has its' own YT channel.

 

[Winnipeg]

I liked the sax the best.

One of the singers was really bad too, very flat

Too many dances that were too easy IMHO

I wonder if a person could show a tape of their talent? For example, if you were a skater obviously you could not do the taken right there but it would be neat if you could show a tape instead ??

 

[debo]

You may need to go back to the Pleistocene era itself, but I could swear one year someone got a mini ice rink on stage.