Warning: This text comprises spoilers from the newest episode of The Masked Singer.
All people minimize footloose on the Oct. 2 episode of The Masked Singer, which noticed the contestants belting tracks from Footloose in honor of the movie’s fortieth anniversary.
Robin Thicke kicked off the present with a canopy of “Footloose” by Kenny Loggins earlier than becoming a member of the judges’ panel alongside Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy and Rita Ora.
Showbird flew up on stage first. In her clue bundle, Showbird revealed that “work turned my total life — I used to be married to it.” However “just lately, I reconnected with an previous buddy chicken who unexpectedly turned my love chicken,” she stated.
Showbird shared that she gave up on singing twenty years in the past, and her clue bundle additionally featured a purple cupcake and rings.
She sang “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” by Deniece Williams, and afterwards, she acquired a Footloose-related further clue: Kevin Bacon’s music field from the film — this one performed hip-hop beats.
“Now that’s extra my vibe as a result of again in ’94, I used to be a part of a hip-hop empire,” Showbird defined.
The panel thought Showbird may very well be Joeng’s Community costar Yvette Nicole Brown, Taraji P. Henson or Sheila E.
Bacon, 66, sent a video message to the present. “That’s so cool, and I used to be so honored to have been within the film 40 years in the past,” he stated earlier than reciting the lyrics of “Footloose.”
Ship got here aboard subsequent. “In highschool, I used to be a star cheerleader, class president and was even voted promenade queen,” Ship defined in her clue bundle that confirmed a boot and a coronary heart. “So once I injured my foot and the physician stated I needed to sit on the sidelines for a complete 12 months, my coronary heart sank. My frustration led me to the household’s piano, the place I’d sit and play for hours on finish. It was my remedy.”
Ship stated, “Music turned my paradise” and has “been an enormous supply since.”
Ship tackled “Nearly Paradise” by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson, and which led McCarthy, 51, to deem Ship a frontrunner. “You’ve gotten probably the most lovely voice, I consider, on Masked Singer season 12 thus far,” she stated.
Jeong, 55, chimed in, “All of us went overboard for the ship tonight.”
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For Ship’s Footloose clue, the boat mentioned her levels of separation from Bacon, which went by means of Melissa Etheridge and Whoopi Goldberg.
“I’m three levels away from Kevin Bacon,” Store said. “I’m linked to Melissa Etheridge, who’s linked to Whoopi Goldberg, who starred in Vacation spot Anyplace with Kevin Bacon.”
Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Amy Grant and Sarah McLachlan got here up as potentialities for Ship.
Woodpecker adopted up with a heroic efficiency. “As a younger chick, whereas most youngsters are enjoying in treehouses, I used to be planting roots in Hollywood,” Woodpecker stated within the clue bundle, which moreover featured a director’s chair, a rubber duck and a small briefcase.
Woodpecker made reference to “rising pains” and stated “everybody was all up in my enterprise” whereas rising up within the highlight.
Woodpecker tackled Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” and afterwards, Woodpecker scored Bacon’s sneakers from Footloose as an additional clue.
“One other chicken from the Masked Singer household — and likewise mine — shares the trendy obsession of sneakers with me,” Woodpecker stated.
The judges instructed Woodpecker is likely to be Regina King, Willow Smith or Letitia Wright.
Buffaloes closed out the present. “Identical to these youngsters in Footloose longing to bounce, we’re every rebels in our personal approach who in some way discovered one another alongside the path,” one Buffalo stated of their clue bundle.
One other Buffalo stated the trio “succeeded by not giving a darn what individuals assume.”
“Who cares, we’re wealthy!” the third Buffalo stated.
A poker recreation and poison popped up within the clue bundle as properly.
Buffaloes obtained the viewers revved up with their Foreigner’s “Ready for a Lady Like You.”
“Nice efficiency, method to take it into the gang and create some goosebumps,” Thicke, 47, stated.
Mo-town got here out on a trailer as Buffaloes’ further clue. “We’re just a little drained proper now as a result of we’re busy utilizing this tractor to mow lawns throughout down,” one of many Buffaloes stated.
Bell Biv DeVoe, Big Time Rush, Boyz II Men and 112 arose as potentialities’ for Buffaloes’ identification.
“All people up there may be actually shut,” host Nick Cannon stated.
After the judges and studio viewers voted for his or her favourite efficiency of the night time, Cannon, 43, revealed that Showbird acquired the fewest votes and could be unmasking. When Showbird popped off her feathery head, Jeong’s guess of his costar Brown appeared.
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The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays on 8 p.m. ET on Fox.