(dramatic music)
Ken jeong: Welcome to the brand new season
Of america's favorite guessing game:
I can see your voice!
(overlapping singing)
Cheryl: What?!
Ken: This year, the game is tougher.
Dionne: Oh! This is hard!
Ken: The performances are shocking.
And emotions are running higher than ever.
Contestant: This could literally change my life.
Ken: And get ready for theme nights.
We've got elvis, queen, doppelgangers and many more.
Using your detective skills,
Can you spot who are good singers...
(singer vocalizes musically) gavin degraw: Wow!
(ken) ..And who are bad singers...
(vocalizing tunelessly)
(ken) ..Without ever hearing them sing a note?
(lauren) it's so hard! Just by looking at them?!
(ken) tonight, helping our contestant are: Cheryl hines...
I'm flabbergasted!
Ken: Adrienne bailon-houghton.
You better sing! Ken: Nikki glaser!
You look like an animatronic at chuck e. Cheese!
Ken: Deray davis!
Bad singer good! (imitates record scratch)
Oh!
Ken: And tonight's musical superstar -
Lauren alaina!
I need a drink.
Ken: It all comes down
To the life-changing $100,000 decision.
Bret, do you want to risk it all?
(dramatic music)
I'm lockin' it in!
Adrienne: That was unexpected.
(upbeat music) (audience cheering)
Good evening! I'm your host ken jeong.
Welcome to another wild and wonderful season
Of america's favorite guessing game,
I can see your voice!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Yes, we are back!
Ken: Lauren alaina!
So happy to have you here! How you feelin'?
Thank you! I'm feeling good. I'm excited.
I don't really know what I'm doing here
But I'm glad to be here! (audience laughs)
Well, I've been here for three years and I still
Don't know what I'm doing. (all laughing)
Now let's meet tonight's contestant.
Ken: Give it up for bret! (audience cheer and applaud)
Go, bret!
Tell us about yourself, please.
My name is bret finau. I live in sarasota, florida.
I work in local banking,
And tonight I have my lovely wife, tammy.
Ken: Hi, tammy.
Bret: And she has been with me for 29 years.
Female panelists: Oh my god!
Bret: We've raised four children together.
Cheryl: That's impressive. What would you do with the cash?
I had a heart attack about a year and a half ago.
Oh my god. (gasps from audience)
If it weren't for my wife, tammy, I wouldn't be here today.
It was her split-second decision that literally saved my life.
Ken: Oh, man. Bret: And with a little money,
I can finally take her on that dream vacation
That she rightly deserves.
Ken: Awesome. Give it up for tammy!
Okay, america. Let's get the investigation going
And reveal tonight's secret voices.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Number 1. She dished out lunch to schoolkids
For years alongside her mom
Until she managed to score a principal role of sour kangaroo
In seussical the musical. It's lunch lady.
Deray: Oh, wow.
Ken: Number 2.
He secured a gig as a red carpet correspondent after going viral
Singing the national anthem at a basketball game.
Tonight the mic is all his. It's red carpet correspondent!
Nikki: Oh boy!
Ken: Number 3. She loves nothing more
Than a night around the campfire, but many moons ago,
She was playing bryana 'baby girl' thomkins
In the bernie mac show
And winning the national high school musical theatre award.
It's the camper!
Adrienne: Woo!
Ken: Number 4. She's been in her sorority for three years
But now this sister is doing it for herself,
Notching almost 6 million views on tiktok
With her performance of jack harlow's 'first class'.
It's sorority sister!
Lauren: Sorority girls on tiktok are usually drunk
And they're not good at singing.
Ken: Number 5.
As handy with a hammer as he is with a microphone,
This brooklyn-based vocalist now plays many of new york's
Intimate music venues, including webster hall.
It's woodworker!
Nikki: Yes!
Ken: Number 6. This life-saving medic has a musical past
That has taken her from the church choir
To performing with her band at the southern soul blues fest.
She's here to save your life
With the sound of her beautiful voice.
It's medic! Cheryl: Fascinating.
Now, let's get a quick recap of the rules.
There are six secret voices up on that stage
But you'll never know how many are good singers
And how many are bad. In the first five rounds,
You will use clues, logic and intuition
To eliminate the bad singers. If they're a good singer,
Everything you hear will be true.
But if they're a bad singer, anything could be a lie.
(siren sounds) for each correct guess,
You will earn $15,000.
Your goal is to eliminate all the bad singers
So that the last one standing is a good singer
Because that secret voice will be dueting with lauren alaina
And if they're a good singer, you could win $100,000.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Deray: Go, bret! Lauren: Yes!
Ken: Okay, let's get down to business
With our first lip sync showdown.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: And as usual, the secret voices will be performing
Two at a time, and you get to choose which two voices you see.
But at the end of each round, you must eliminate one of them.
Now, bret, do you think you can tell
If someone can sing from their lip-syncing abilities?
I grew up in the milli vanilli era...
(everyone laughing)
Bret: ..And I bought their albums. So, no.
Hilarious.
Remember, to win $15,000 in this round, bret, bad is good...
(everyone joins in) good is bad!
I think for this first round, I am gonna go with the lunch lady.
I think she mentioned seussical the musical.
My daughters performed in that. I think she's a good singer.
Yes!
Ken: Who would you like to see them share the stage with?
I wanna go with the sorority sister.
Right off the bat, I felt like she was a bad singer so I want
To put her up against someone who I think is a good singer.
Cheryl: I like that. Adrienne: Little combo!
Ken: Let's get ready for the first
Lip-sync showdown of the season.
It's sorority sister...
(audience rallying)
Ken: ..And lunch lady!
(audience rallying)
(piano intro)
Sorority girl is focused!
♪ right from the start you were a thief ♪
♪ you stole my heart cheryl: What?!
Lauren: Oh! ♪ and I, your willing victim
♪ just give me a reason
♪ just a little bit's enough
♪ just a second
♪ we're not broken, just bent ♪
♪ and we can learn to love again ♪
♪ it's in the stars
♪ it's been written in the scars on our hearts ♪
♪ we're not broken, just bent
♪ and we can learn to love again ♪
(music ends) (audience cheer and applaud)
Whoa! Lauren: I don't know.
I didn't see that voice coming out of her.
(upbeat midtempo intro)
Oh!
♪ seems like everybody's got a price ♪
♪ I wonder how they sleep at night ♪
♪ when the sale comes first and the truth comes second ♪
Lauren: She's a singer! Come on! ♪ stop for a minute and smile
♪ everybody look to the left, yeah ♪
♪ everybody look to the right ♪ can ya feel that? Yeah
♪ we're payin' with love tonight ♪
♪ it's not about the money, money, money ♪
♪ we don't need your money, money, money ♪
♪ we just wanna make the world dance ♪
Lauren: Oh, come on! ♪ forget about the price tag
(music ends) ken: Wow!
I think both are bad singers. Lauren: You do?
Ken: Panel, what do you think?
Cheryl: I'm flabbergasted! (audience laughing)
I was not expecting that voice to come from the sorority sister
And for that reason, it makes me think
That perhaps she is a good singer.
I've been taking voice lessons recently and I realized
That singers need to open their mouth a lot more than you think.
Like, I really think the sorority sister can sing.
I actually think that
Sorority sister is a bad singer
Because the sound we heard was so round.
Yep.
Adrienne: And yet the mouth was giving bright.
Lauren: Bright, yes.
It was like a "aww" but she was giving "ehh".
Ken: And, lunch lady... Deray, what do you think?
Lunch lady does have a nice poise
Like she's about to belt out "pizza!," for everybody.
(everyone laughing) I'll say she's a good singer.
(lauren) I'm gonna tell ya, she moves better
Than anybody I've ever seen. I think she's a good singer.
I think she got all y'all fooled.
Cheryl: No, no. I really do.
I believe that she is a performer
But this was very over the top
Ken: Very good. Excellent. Bret?
(dramatic music)
Whew!
Bret: I think most of the panel agrees
The lunch lady is a good singer.
Based on the voice not matching...
I think the sorority sister...
...Is a bad singer.
Lockin' it in!
Ken: Lunch lady, you are staying in the game.
Now, sorority sister, for the first time this season, let's...
(everyone joins in) see your voice!
Please be bad! Please be bad!
Be bad for bret!
(dramatic minor chord intro)
Here we go.
(singing in tune) ♪ there is a house
♪ in new orleans cheryl: What?!
♪ they call the rising sun
What is happening?!
(gravelly style) ♪ and it's been the ruin
♪ of many a poor boy
♪ and, god, I know I am one
♪ oh yeah! (sustained)
♪ oh, mother, tell your children ♪
Cheryl: Oh-oh! Adrienne: Yeah. Shocking.
(slight yodel) ♪ not to do what I have done
(audience cheer and applaud) ♪ don't spend your life
♪ in sin and misery
♪ in the house of the rising
♪ sun! (sustained)
(audience cheer and applaud)
Adrienne: That was unexpected.
Ken: Sorority sister! Who are you?
I'm abigail smith. I'm 21 years old.
I'm a sorority sister from alabama.
Lauren: Roll tide! Abigail: Roll tide!
What made you wanna do the show?
It's very unexpected for me to sound how I look,
And, you know, it's unique, it's deep
And I used to be kind of insecure about that
And this show really, it's like a celebration,
Like it's a good thing to be different.
Lauren: Yes! Adrienne: Oh yeah! So special.
Ken: Cheryl?
Cheryl: That really got me emotional.
You're crying there. Cheryl: It was so beautiful
And it was so inspiring.
Thank you. (applause)
Ken: Give it up, you were incredible, for sorority sister.
You are a star.
So good!
Oh, bret, bret... (sighs) you didn't make any money
But don't worry, there's still a lot of show to go.
Don't go anywhere. After the break,
Bret will be choosing two more secret voices
To battle it out on his mission
To take home that $100,000.
This is I can see your voice,
The season premiere, only on fox.
Oh, my god! I don't know why that hit me.
Oh, I know! Cheryl: But when that music
Started, I was like... If she sounds like that,
Then that's the song that she would sing.
(all agreeing) nikki: Yes, exactly!
Ken: Welcome back to the brand new season
Of I can see your voice - the only show
Where spotting terrible talent can make you really rich.
(laughter) ken: Bret, before the break,
You eliminated sorority sister,
And unfortunately made nothing, but you still have
Four remaining secret voices left to choose from.
Remember, your goal is to find as many bad singers as you can
Because if the last one standing is a good one, you could win
$100,000.
(audience cheers and applauds)
So, bret, it is time for our second lip sync showdown.
Bret: I am gonna go with the red carpet correspondent.
He does look comfortable up there.
I liked his backstory. I think he's a good singer.
And I would like to see camper.
I think she's trying to pull a fast one here.
(all laughing) I think she is the bad singer.
Ken: Okay, let's get ready for camper...
Ken: ...And red carpet correspondent.
(upbeat latino intro)
♪ let's get loud, let's get loud ♪
♪ turn the music up
♪ let's do it, come on, people
♪ if you wanna live your life, live it all the way ♪
♪ and don't you waste it
♪ every feelin', every beat, can be so very sweet ♪
♪ you gotta taste it
Lauren: Hey!
♪ let's get loud, let's get loud ♪
♪ turn the music up to hear that sound ♪
♪ let's get loud, let's get loud ♪
♪ ain't nobody got to tell you ♪
♪ what you got to do, oh, no
(cheering and applause)
I believe her.
Lauren: Got a little mic-stand action.
♪ hold
♪ hold on
♪ hold on to me
♪ 'cause I'm a little unsteady
♪ a little unsteady (audience applauding)
♪ mama, come here
♪ approach, appear
♪ daddy, I'm alone
♪ 'cause this house don't feel
♪ like home (sustained)
♪ hold on, hold on to me
Adrienne: Oh. Let's go.
Wow!
Man! Bret, what are you thinking right now?
(everyone chuckling)
Ken: I feel like the same way. Cheryl?
(frustrated groan) (audience laughs)
Cheryl: Camper, that does sound like the voice
I imagine her to have, but it also felt like that tiktok-y,
"I'm having fun, I can dance, I can sort of do it all,"
But maybe she's not a good singer in real life.
I like the way she gave the eye contact and the booty move
But that just seems like not a
Professional singer thing to do, to me.
Nikki: I'm positive that both of these people are good singers.
The camper - every little tremble of her voice
Matched the way her lips move.
And then the red carpet correspondent -
I definitely think he is a good singer.
The performance speaks for itself.
And also, I have tried to sing the national anthem before.
They don't let you unless you're a good singer.
(laughter) I'll say he's a good singer
Because the mic stand is important, how you vibe with it.
Maybe I'm just bein' that way due to my stand-up
So I'll say good singer for that reason.
Ken: Alright. Adrienne?
Adrienne: Red carpet correspondent almost
Made me think that he might be
A professional lip sync-er.
I agree with adrienne.
Adrienne: I think he is a bad singer.
Ken: Wow. Bret, it is time to make a decision.
(tense music)
Bret: The camper - maybe overplayed it a little bit.
I felt that the red carpet correspondent
Was spot-on with his lip sync.
I think I have two good singers.
Since I have to choose one,
I'm gonna choose the camper as the bad singer.
And I'm lockin' it in!
(cheering and applause)
Ken: Okay, red carpet correspondent,
Return to your podium. You are still in the game.
Now, camper, let's...
(everyone joins in) see your voice!
Adrienne: Please be bad!
I'm stressed.
(gentle piano intro) adrienne: Aw! Not shania!
(croaky singing) ♪ looks like we made it
(rapturous cheers) ♪ look how far we've come
(panelist whooping) ♪ my baby
♪ they said, "I'll bet they'll never make it" ♪
♪ but just look at us
♪ holdin' on
Yes!
(sustained croaky ending) ♪ you're still the one
Woohoo! (audience cheer and applaud)
Ken: Camper! Give it up! She rules!
Killed it! Ken: So who are you really?
My name is dee dee davis.
I played bryana thomkins, aka 'baby girl' when I was four.
(audience cheering) oh my gosh!
Yes!
Ken: Give it up for camper!
Yes! Ken: Bret, you've eliminated
One good singer and one bad singer,
Meaning you have $15,000, bret! Bret: Let's go!
More of america's favorite guessing game,
I can see your voice, after the break.
Welcome back to I can see your voice.
Bret, you've eliminated one good singer and one bad singer,
And now have a total of $15,000!
Woo!
Ken: It is time for our third and final lip sync showdown.
You got this! Ken: Get ready for medic.
Ken: And woodworker.
(midtempo r&b intro)
♪ I bust the windows
♪ out your car
♪ and no it didn't mend my broken heart ♪
♪ I'll probably always have these ugly scars ♪
♪ but right now I don't care about that part ♪
♪ I bust the windows out your car ♪
(music ends) cheryl: Oh!
That sounded just like jazmine sullivan.
Am I buggin'?
(laid-back whistling intro)
♪ I don't know what you've been told ♪
♪ but time is running out, no need to take it slow ♪
♪ I'm stepping to you toe-to-toe ♪
♪ I should be scared, honey, maybe so ♪
♪ but I ain't worried 'bout it right now ♪
♪ keeping dreams alive, 1999, heroes ♪
♪ I ain't worried 'bout it right now ♪
♪ swimmin' in the floods, dancin' on the clouds below ♪
♪ I ain't worried 'bout it (music ends)
(audience cheer and applaud) ken: Yet another fantastic
Lip sync showdown. Bret, what are you thinking right now?
I think my initial decision maybe is changing a little bit
So I'm curious to see what my panel of experts say
On this one. Ken: Yes.
I feel for sure the woodworker guy is not a good singer.
I imagine if my boyfriend came on this show,
That's exactly what he would do. (everyone laughing)
He knows he can't sing! And he would do the weird kick thing.
He was like "hwah-chow"! (audience laughing)
I think this guy can sing,
And I think maybe he's used to singing different songs.
Like, the kick was something he pulls out with a different song.
But I don't know why, I think he's a good singer.
I just got a feeling that he wasn't a good singer
And that he actually was in this just to have some fun,
And I feel like that's where the kick came in.
(lauren laughs wildly) (audience laughs and applauds)
Adrienne: When the medic started performing,
I almost was convinced! (all laughing)
But then I said, "not possible!"
Actually, it was almost too similar
To the original artist vocal.
She was absolutely lip-syncing to someone else's voice.
The medic, I mean, she's so cute
But I didn't feel like
She captured that... The nuance of the song.
I think she's a bad singer.
She don't have time to lip-sync
If she tryin' to save lives. (lauren laughing)
There's a simplicity to how she performs,
Like she's been doin' this a long time.
Medic is a good singer.
Ken: Bret, it is time to make a decision.
(dramatic sound effects)
I was surprised with both of them.
A little let down on the medic.
And a little bit surprised on the performance
Of the woodworker.
I feel like the woodworker... (audience gasping)
I don't know, y'know.
Ken: Okay, bret, I need an answer.
Bret: I'm gonna go with the woodworker as the bad singer.
And I'm lockin' it in. (applause)
Ken: Woodworker, let's
(everyone joins in) see your voice!
(dramatic sound effects)
(audience applauds)
(upbeat rock 'n' roll intro)
Adrienne: See? This seems more like his vibe.
(singing out of tune) ♪ we're going down, down...
♪ and, sugar, we're going down swinging ♪
♪ I'll be your number one with a bullet ♪
♪ a loaded god complex, cock it and pull it ♪
(voice cracking) ♪ we're going down, down in an earlier round ♪
♪ and, sugar, we're going down swingin' ♪
Lauren: That's my boyfriend! ♪ number one with a bullet
♪ a loaded god complex, cock it and pull it ♪
(drumbeat ending)
(audience cheering wildly)
Ken: Woodworker! Who are you? Are you really a woodworker?
Woodworker: Yes, I am. My name is zach welsh.
I am from brooklyn. I am a woodworker.
Can we see the kick one more time?
(everyone whooping and cheering) ken: There ya go!
Ken: Give it up for woodworker! (panelists cheering)
Ken: And what's even better than that, bret,
Your total is $30,000!
(everyone cheering) ken: And remember,
There are still three remaining secret voices
Left to choose from, and if the last one standing
On that stage is a good singer,
Bret, you could be taking home $100,000.
Woo!
Ken: Let's get into it after the break.
This is I can see your voice.
He was kicking the wood down!
(drumbeat ending)
Ken: Welcome back to I can see your voice.
Bret is up $30,000!
Ken: We're three down, three to go, and none of us know
How many are good and how many are bad singers.
And, bret, please remind us what you're playing for.
For my wife, tammy. (cheering and applause)
Recently we moved to florida.
Just went through our first major hurricane.
I'm playing to make that home
A little bit more hurricane-proof.
Bret, you are a survivor, my friend.
Now it's the time of the show
Where I get to say to you those three special words:
Unlock my life!
Adrienne: Yes!
We've interviewed the closest confidants
Of each of the secret voices,
Getting them to reveal all kinds of information.
But just like always, you only get to learn about one.
Remember, if it's a good singer, you'll be hearing the truth.
But if the singer is bad, then the interview will be
A string of lies.
Medic, she changed for me after her performance.
I think she is the bad singer.
Bret: Lunch lady, I think she's a stage performer
And I think she's a good singer.
But I'm gonna go with red carpet correspondent.
I think he really hit it out of the park
With his performance and his lip sync.
This is the time to confirm he's a good singer.
Final answer?
Yeah. Ken: Okay, let's play
Unlock my life: The inside scoop.
(jude-ann) his whole life growing up,
My son was never shy.
He was always the center of attention,
Dancing and singing everywhere he went.
He sang the national anthem at a local college basketball game
And the video went viral. Lauren: Boom!
I guess that video got the attention of the producers
At the ellen show, and that's when they contacted us
To have him come and be the red carpet correspondent.
Cheryl: He was so cute!
Through all of these experiences,
It's given him an opportunity
To meet and work with many of the artists
That he's looked up to for such a long time.
Adrienne: Is that him?
And I'm so proud watching him develop
As his own artist. I love you, honey!
(applause) now I'm gonna cry!
Okay, bret. What's your initial reaction to that?
I'm a little more confused, I think, than I was initially.
Panelists, like, what do you think?
I thought for a second, maybe he is not a singer.
Maybe a comedian or something. That's how he got on ellen.
And why would singer become a red carpet correspondent?
That's what I was thinking! Nikki: But all the pictures
Were him, like, singi-- like, you never do comedy like this
Unless I'm bombing and I'm just like "what did I just say?!"
(laughter) I think he's a good singer.
Right. Deray? Deray: Moms don't lie.
(deray and audience laughing)
I loved her confidence in him.
She sounded like she believed in his dreams,
And I think he's a... Good singer.
I think that those pictures that were of him as a child...
I have about a gazillion of those.
And the national anthem, I think I have that exact picture
Of myself as a child. So, I think he's a good singer.
It's almost too good to be true
But a lot of his pictures were from he was young.
Does that always carry over to a young adult good singer?
I think he's a bad singer.
Ken: Okay, bret, it's time to make a decision.
(dramatic sound effects)
The red carpet correspondent,
I still think he might be a good singer.
Medic, on the other hand,
I'm not convinced that it was her voice.
Lunch lady, I don't quite know about
But she was my gut go-to from the beginning.
So I'm gonna go with the medic as the bad singer.
I'm lockin' it in! (audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Okay, medic, head to the stage of truth.
So, bret, have you correctly chosen a bad singer
And made yourself another $15,000?
Ken: Now, medic, let's...
(everyone joins in) see your voice!
(dramatic sound effects)
(gentle piano intro)
Adrienne: I'm a little worried.
(intro continues) nikki: I am, too.
Cheryl: Oh, no.
(out of tune) ♪ strummin' my pain
♪ with his fingers (bret whooping)
♪ singin' my life with his words ♪
♪ killing me softly with his song ♪
♪ killing me softly with his... ♪
♪ song (sustains out-of-tune note)
Oh, no!
(cheering and applause) nikki: Oh! Terrible! Terrible!
Ken: Give it up for the medic.
Cheryl: That was great! Ken: Who are you really?
My name is janet stockdale. I didn't want to give anybody
A heart attack but this is me and my husband's--
It's our favorite show, so I just wanted to come
And bless y'all with this gift I got.
Adrienne: You did, thank you!
Ken: Give it up for medic!
Bret, you just made $15,000,
Taking your total to $45,000!
Bret, the pressure is going to get insane.
('killing me softly' melody) this is I can see your voice
Only on fox. (audience applauds)
Welcome back to I can see your voice!
Bret, you have now eliminated one good singer
And three bad singers,
And have a total of $45,000.
Deray: Yeah.
Ken: It is time for our final challenge.
It's interrogation.
Ken: Bret, you're about to get the opportunity to grill
Either one of our remaining secret voices,
And hear their unaltered voice for the first time.
You'll get 30 seconds to ask them whatever you want,
But then you have to eliminate one of them.
Bret: Lunch lady - we don't know anything about her.
We did dive into red carpet correspondent's life
With the video. So I'm going to interrogate the lunch lady.
(dramatic thud) (adrienne whoops)
Ken: Okay! Bret, prepare yourself.
Your 30 seconds starts in three, two, one, go.
Bret: How would you describe your voice?
Lunch lady: Like adele.
Bret: What is your favorite ballad to perform?
L. Lady: Adele's 'one and only.'
Bret: Do you play any instruments?
Lunch lady: I don't.
Bret: Who's an artist you wish you could tour with?
Lunch lady: Yebba. Oh, my god.
Bret: What is your go-to karaoke song?
Lunch lady: Jessie j's domino.
Bret: Which music star is your inspiration?
Whitney houston.
What is your one food a singer would avoid?
Whole-milk ice cream. Lauren: She's a singer.
(audience applauding)
Ken: Panel?
Okay, I think it is the voice
That we heard sing earlier today.
The fact that she said that you cannot have
Whole-milk ice cream-- you cannot have dairy as a singer.
Is that public knowledge? (audience members pitch in)
Nikki: I don't think it's common knowledge. She's a singer.
Deray: She's a good singer. I felt it from the beginning.
If not, she's one of the best liars I've ever met in my life.
I'm looking at what I believe are two good singers.
Ken: If you had to eliminate one?
Deray: I would pick red carpet correspondent.
Lauren: Yeah. I am with you because of the lack
Of pictures of him with a microphone as an adult.
Cheryl: Yes. Some people, you look at them and they're like,
"I can't wait to sing and show america what I've got."
(laughing) I don't get that vibe from red carpet correspondent.
Lunch lady is a performer. I don't believe she is
A good singer. I think you've got two bad singers here.
Nikki: Ooh, wow.
Ken: Bret, it's time to make a decision.
(dramatic sound effects)
I was really glad that I interrogated the lunch lady.
It was good to hear her voice, and it was not common knowledge
To me about the dairy.
(sharp exhale)
I feel less confident about the red carpet correspondent,
Especially after that video. It just didn't sit with me.
A big decision! (sharp exhale)
Red carpet correspondent,
You're a bad singer. I'm lockin' it in!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Okay, that means, lunch lady, you're about to duet
With none other than lauren alaina!
(enthusiastic cheering and applause)
Ken: But before we do that, red carpet correspondent,
We need to know the truth. (dramatic music)
Uh-oh. Red carpet.
Okay, don't panic.
Adrienne: Oh, you get it? Red carpet!
Nikki: Makes sense. Ken: Red carpet correspondent,
(audience join in) let's see your voice!
(sentimental intro, piano)
Adrienne: Please be bad.
(vocalizing)
(powerful, tuneful singing) ♪ now the day bleeds
♪ into nightfall, and you're not here ♪
♪ to get me through it all
♪ I let my guard down, and then you pulled the rug ♪
♪ I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved ♪
♪ I need somebody to know
♪ somebody to heal, somebody to have ♪
♪ just to know how it feels, it's easy to say ♪
♪ but it's never the same
♪ I guess I kinda liked the way you helped me ♪
♪ escape (sustained)
(rapturous cheers and applause)
(on-point vocalizing continues) adrienne: So good.
♪ I let my guard down, and then you pulled the rug ♪
♪ I was getting kinda used to
♪ being someone you loved
(audience applauding and cheering wildly)
Nikki: I'm so sad!
Ken: Wow. Red carpet correspondent,
That was absolutely amazing. Red carpet corr.: Thank you.
Ken: Please tell us about yourself.
My name's anthony gargiula. Um, ellen found me from a video
Of me singing the national anthem.
I went out, sang on her show a few times...
Panelists: Oh. ..And then she invited me
To be a red carpet correspondent.
Cheryl: Aww! Deray: That's dope.
Ken: Please give it up for red carpet correspondent!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ken: Bret, this is it. (tense music)
We're down to our last secret voice.
(sharp exhale)
And if that secret voice is a good singer,
You could be taking home $100,000.
(audience applauding)
Ken: You need to make the biggest decision
Of your life.
After the break! This is I can see your voice.
Adrienne: Lunch lady, even if you're not a good singer,
Find the good singer inside of yourself!
Cheryl: Find it deep inside!
Ken: Welcome back to the season premiere
Of I can see your voice.
Bret, all game long you've been trying to find
And eliminate the bad singers so that a good singer
Is left standing up there to duet with lauren alaina.
Ken: But here's the decision you have to make.
Bret, you can either walk away with the $45,000
Or you can play on,
And if lunch lady turns out to be a good singer,
Your winnings will shoot up
To $100,000.
(applause) adrienne: 100,000.
Ken: However, if lunch lady turns out to be a bad singer,
You'll go home with nothing.
Ken: So, panel,
What decision should bret make?
Nikki: Bret, man, that 100k seems so good.
I do believe that she is a good singer,
And I do believe that you should risk it all
And go for the hundred grand on that.
Adrienne: I'm looking back at your wife, tammy,
And I'm thinking about what 45 grand could do for you guys.
(tense music) if I were you,
I would walk away with the sure thing.
(indistinct advice from audience)
Cheryl: Those answers were so specific.
Her lip-sync was right on.
How many times in your life
Do you have a chance to make $100,000?
Whoo!
We have been tricked earlier. We have been fooled.
I'm a go-for-it kinda guy. If I was you, I'd go for it.
If I was you. But if I was me, I'm going home.
(audience laughing)
With all of my heart, I believe that she can sing.
I would go for it. (dramatic thud)
Ken: Bret, do you want to risk it all?
Bret: Oh, this is a tough, tough decision.
Bret: I thought early on, lunch lady was a good singer.
She performed amazing in her lip-sync
And the answers were spot-on. But 45,000 is a lot of money.
Whoo! Baby!
Bret: And working in a conservative industry
Like banking, you don't take those chances.
Bret: But... Everyone: Ooh!
Lauren: Oh boy!
...I've had a new lease on life.
Taking chances - that's why I'm here today.
And I agree with cheryl. (cheryl gasps)
You don't come by this chance very often, if ever.
(inaudible)
Bret: So, ken...
(lauren laughs tensely)
..I think the lunch lady is a good singer.
(adrienne sighs nervously)
(tense music continues)
(sharp exhale) lauren: Oh.
And I'm gonna get that $100,000.
I'm gonna go for it. (audience whooping nervously)
And I'm lockin' it in!
(whooping and applause)
Ken: Lauren, please go and join lunch lady on the stage of truth
For the grand duet finale. (audience cheers and applauds)
He can not lose all this money.
Ooh-hoo!
Please put your hands together for lauren alaina
And lunch lady! (audience cheers and applauds)
Lauren: Please be good.
(uptempo country beat) (audience cheer and clap)
♪ headin' down south to the land of the pines ♪
♪ thumbin' my way into north carolina ♪
♪ starin' down the road
♪ prayin' to god I see headlights ♪
♪ I made it down the coast in 17 hours ♪
♪ pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers ♪
♪ and I'm a-hopin' for raleigh, I can see my baby tonight ♪
(rhythm continues lightly) nikki: Oh, come on!
Cheryl: Oh, gosh! (screams) come on, lunch lady!
(in-tune vocal riff) ♪ so...
(solid vocals) ♪ rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel ♪
♪ rock me, mama, any way you feel ♪
(both harmonizing perfectly) ♪ hey, mama, rock me
Woo! ♪ oh, rock me, mama
♪ like the wind and the rain
♪ rock me, mama, like a southbound train ♪
(both harmonizing perfectly) ♪ hey, mama, rock me
♪ rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel ♪
♪ rock me, mama, any way you feel ♪
♪ hey, mama, rock me
Lauren: You better sing, girlfriend!
♪ oh, rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain ♪
♪ rock me, mama, like a southbound train ♪
♪ hey
(harmonized ending, sustained) ♪ mama, rock me
(everyone cheering ecstatically)
Woo!
Bret, you did it!
You won $100,000!
Bret, what is going through
Your mind right now?
Oh! This is just... So amazing!
Thank you! Thank you for being a good singer!
Oh! Nikki: Congratulations!
Deray: Congratulations, man!
Ken: Lunch lady, who are you really?
My name is beda spindola.
So what made you want to do this show?
I wanted to show that even though I can serve hot meals,
I can also serve hot vocals. (cutesy growl)
(cheering and applause)
Ken: Give it up for lunch lady!
Adrienne: Yes!
Give it up for lauren alaina! (rapturous cheers)
Ken: Adrienne bailon-houghton!
Ken: Nikki glaser, deray davis, cheryl hines.
Give it up for bret! Thank you for watching.
Goodnight, everybody.