Like The Super Bowl, the Best Part of American Idol's Finale Was Paid for By a Sponsor

Yes, last night's American Idol finale chose David Cook as the winner, violating everything Simon Cowell said the night before about David Archuleta's "knockout." And yes, 12 million more people voted for Cook than Archuelta. And yes, an early Nielsen estimate pegs total viewers at 26.5 million, the shows best numbers since March, and which could beat last year's audience of 25.3 million. But hands down, the most interesting thing about last night's finale – and it certainly wasn't performances by Jordin Sparks, Carrie Underwood, or any of the Top 12 contestants, or even Mike Myers' The Love Guru tie-ins – was this Guitar Hero ad featuring Cook doing a riff on Tom Cruise in Risky Business. Yes, they made Archuleta do one too, but that was seriously awkward.

May 22, 2008 · Link · 6 Responses
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    No. 1 cg says:

    That's Archuelta, not Cook.

    Posted: May 22, 2008 at 10:16 am
    No. 2 incognitoo says:

    what are you talking about? the small one in the corner is clearly david cook…the second one is david archuleta

    Posted: May 22, 2008 at 2:30 pm
    No. 3 google says:

    hate you

    Posted: May 22, 2008 at 3:57 pm
    No. 4 google says:

    p.s. Hilary clinton should win..
    all you americans who voted for obama will
    regret it because he will mess up and itll be harder for recession then

    Posted: May 22, 2008 at 3:59 pm
    No. 5 C. says:

    wtf does hilary clinton have to do with this?
    cook's was way better.

    Posted: May 22, 2008 at 4:05 pm
    No. 6 Gail says:

    They both did a commercial. "little" David's was just oogie, Cook's was cute.

    Posted: May 23, 2008 at 11:56 am
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