Everyone stop what you’re doing and read this sentence:
“The Voice” coach Cee Lo Green is replacing his fan-favorite feline sidekick with a cockatoo for the singing competition’s upcoming third season, he tells People. [TV Guide]
It’s insane that we live in a world where that statement makes sense. Just think about all the individual parts that make it up:
- One of the coaches/judges on a popular televised singing competition had a sidekick.
Here is a list of people who need sidekicks: superheroes, crime-solvers. List complete.
- The sidekick was a cat.
Cats lack the fundamental skills (the ability to speak, the ability to recognize exceptional vocal talent, etc.) to judge singing competitions.
- The cat sidekick was “a fan-favorite.”
Translation: The viewers of the show responded well to the concept of a cat helping a strange little bald man select the winner of a singing competition, even though, as mentioned above, cats cannot judge singing competitions.
- At the end of the show’s second season, the coach/judge decided to get rid of his popular cat sidekick.
Related: I always liked the second Aunt Viv more than the first one. She seemed nicer.
- He replaced it with a bird.
Seems reasonable.
- The bird is a pink cockatoo named Lady.
Of course it is. Never change, Cee Lo.
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Cee Lo, I love you, I really do, but cats > birds.
Truer words were never spoken.
The only way I would watch The Voice would be if they replaced the rest of the judges with the other members of Goodie Mob. Preferably they would each have their own animal sidekick.
Big Gipp with a chimpanzee or GTFO.
Khujo should have a parrot to match his peg leg.
Provided the chimpanzee had dreads and knows the lyrics to “They Don’t Dance No Mo”, I’ll allow it.
I wish I was joking when I say that Cee Lo looks like the black version of a guy I dated years ago.
Cats are infinitely better than birds
“Cats lack the fundamental skills (the ability to speak, the ability to recognize exceptional vocal talent”
Not true. Whenever I sing, no matter where she is, my cat always comes and jumps on my lap. Oh, wait. She is probably just trying to shut me up.
I desperately want to palm his skull. It’s a sickness.
didn’t roger the alien do the same thing in american dad?
The worst part of this story is that the unspoken fact that it will enable Kenan Thompson to stick around one more year.
I wish somebody had the balls to go up to Cee Lo and ask him if he has aspergers.
I strongly doubt that anyone would, but since you ask…no
Both Aunt Vivians had their ups and downs but I generally prefer the second one as well.
So, Ceelo is sportin’ a Moluccan Cockatoo. These parrots are very sensitive and can be needy, Sometimes they tend to self-mutilate (pluck themselves) when unhappy. I hope it wasn’t just a “fad” for him and I hope he takes very seriously the care and nurturing of this beautiful, intelligent and exotic bird.