The dream of the '90s is crushed for 'Masked Singer' contestants the Walrus and Milkshake - Yahoo Entertainment

Sunday was ‘90s Night connected The Masked Singer, with justice Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg each dressed up for the juncture arsenic Tragic Kingdom-era Gwen Stefani; big Nick Cannon cosplaying arsenic Bobby “The Crab” Brown, arsenic is his prerogative; and Tag Team introducing each clues bundle with a “Whoomp! There It Is!” refrain. We adjacent had Girl Meets World star Danielle Fishel and *NSYNC’s Lance Bass dropping by. This made Lance the 3rd *NSYNC subordinate to look connected The Masked Singer, pursuing Season 1’s Joey “The Rabbit” Fatone and this season’s Chris “The Hummingbird” Kirkpatrick, truthful each we request present is Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez to implicit the acceptable and enactment everything in, um, sync.

Yes, the imagination of the ‘90s was live connected The Masked Singer, and successful wide I’ve been loving the imagination themes this play — erstwhile episodes person included Andrew Lloyd Webber Night, TV Theme Song Night, adjacent Muppets Night. But I person recovered Season 8’s caller format, which has featured an astir contiguous double-elimination each episode, to beryllium much of a nightmare. (See my lengthy rant astir however this format alteration has sucked overmuch of the amusive and suspense retired of the series.) This week was nary exception, with 2 enigma singers already being unmasked by the specified hour-long episode’s end. All of the judges complained that this was 1 occurrence erstwhile each 3 contestants genuinely deserved to stay, and vexed fans connected Twitter seemed to agree. But the imagination of the ‘90s was sadly crushed for some the Walrus and the Milkshake.

Jenny really thought the Walrus, who enactment his ain rotation connected the Spin Doctors’ 1992 deed “Two Princes,” was the above-mentioned JC Chasez, portion her chap judges guessed that the tusk-y, somewhat husky warbler mightiness beryllium different heartthrob similar Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Stamos, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, oregon Scott Wolff. But lone Robin Thicke figured retired that Blossom sitcom prima Joey Lawrence was the Walrus. (Goo goo g'joob. Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

"I saw each the antithetic shows that you went done successful your career, and I retrieve erstwhile you released a song, I was like, 'Wow, I wanna person a video and person my opus [be similar that],' due to the fact that we looked a small similar," Robin confessed to a precise flattered Joey. Jenny was a recently converted Joey fan, exclaiming, "Where's your albums? You request albums! You request tons of albums!" — to which Joey replied that helium was so readying to marque euphony again. "You should, man; you sounded great," said Robin. So, Joey whitethorn blossom again... but it was each implicit for the Walrus.

The Milkshake besides didn’t bring each the judges oregon workplace assemblage voters to the gait (sorry, again — this clip for the off-theme mid-2000s reference), adjacent though his swaggy show of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Jump connected It” had judges Nicole Scherzinger and Ken Jeong reasoning helium was a legit hip-hop “superstar” similar LL Cool J, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Nas, Ice Cube, oregon adjacent T.I. (If this had been T.I., I’m beauteous definite T.I.’s erstwhile “Blurred Lines” collaborator Robin would’ve sussed that retired quickly.)

Instead, this dairy king turned retired to beryllium NFL moving backmost Le'Veon Bell, who attempted to tackle the Lambs connected a Roxbury-worthy duel of Haddaway’s “What Is Love,” but conscionable couldn’t vie against their blissful, blended, bleating harmonies. But this whitethorn not beryllium the past we've heard from Le'Veon, either. "I'm truly trying to showcase my talents, you know? A batch of radical cognize maine for the shot field. I conscionable wanted to get successful different lane and benignant of amusement radical that I'm much talented successful different things than conscionable football," helium explained.

So, this meant that the reigning queen, oregon queens, held onto their rubric for a 2nd week: the fluffy flock known arsenic the Lambs. These pop-starlets-in-sheep’s-clothing harmonized gloriously connected Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” and had Nicole exclaiming, “Oh my God, your voices are incredible! You dependable similar a grounds up there!” It was evident from their girl-group vocals unsocial that these philharmonic muttons-with-chops were Wilson Phillips, arsenic I guessed past week. But successful lawsuit anyone speechmaking this needs much convincing, these were the clues:

We cognize that the Lambs are puerility “besties,” positive we saw references to SoCal cities Beverly Hills and Venice — and Chynna Phillips, Carnie Wilson, and Wendy Wilson grew up unneurotic successful California. We saw the connection “FAMOUS” emblazoned crossed a brace of decorator jeans — and these women person fame successful their genes as the offspring of the Mamas and the Papas’ John and Michelle Phillips and the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson. We saw a diamond ringing — mostly similar a notation to Bridesmaids, which featured an iconic Wilson Phillips cameo. And the Lambs bragged that they’ve worked with Paul McCartney — and Wilson Phillips contributed backup vocals to McCartney’s “FourFiveSeconds” successful 2015. Other tipoffs included a notation of Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way,” which Wilson Phillips covered successful 2004; “dreaming” (either a notation to the Mamas and the Papas’ biggest deed oregon to Wilson Phillips’s ain azygous “The Dream Is Still Alive”); and “reality” (Wilson Phillips starred successful their ain world TV series, Still Holding On, successful 2012, and Carnie has appeared connected aggregate world shows). It is perfectly not an impulsive conjecture erstwhile I accidental that the Lambs are Wilson Phillips.

So, tin the Lambs clasp connected for conscionable 1 much day, and marque it to this season’s semifinals alongside Season 8’s Bracket A reigning queen, Amber “The Harp” Riley? Find retired adjacent week, erstwhile they vie against 2 much caller contestants.

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