The Masked Singer (2019–…): Season 4, Episode 2 - The Group B Premiere - Six More Masks - full transcript
Meeting the all new celebrity contestants in group B.
The anticipation for last week's
"masked singer"
premiere was astronomical,
but group a did not disappoint.
Oh, my god.
And it all came to a fiery end
when dragon was the first star
unmasked in season four.
Take it off!
The only and only busta rhymes!
Tonight,
you got a front row seat
to the most exclusive
unveiling in town.
Get your cameras ready
for the strange
and shocking display of our
most untamed characters yet...
Group b.
Crocodile,
seahorse,
gremlin,
whatchamacallit,
serpent,
and our very first toddler,
baby alien.
♪ Who is that? ♪
These masked masterpieces
are ready to wow...
yeah!
You've gotta be a megastar
under there.
- ...And confuse us all.
- What is this?
Goochie, goochie, goochie.
Goochie, goochie, goochie.
And for the first time
in history...
- What is happening?
Men in black,
I need some help!
- We haven't even voted!
- ...It's an unmasking
that shatters all the rules.
- No!
- Oh, my god!
- We are in the presence of greatness.
- Oh, my god!
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who ♪
♪ come on, tell me,
who are you? ♪
- ♪ who are you? ♪ - whoo!
♪ Who, who, who, who ♪
♪ oh, I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
Welcome, everyone,
to "the masked singer."
already our panel is calling it
our strongest season yet.
- Yeah!
- Now tonight the pressure is on
for the six brand new singers
of group b.
Whoo! Group b!
- They are crocodile...
- Yeah!
Baby alien, seahorse...
- Seahorse?
- ...Whatchamacallit,
- the serpent, and gremlin.
- Whoa.
Now, let's say hello
to our celebrity sleuths.
- It's our panel.
- Whoo!
- Yeah!
- What's up?
- Hello.
- I love his shirt.
- I love.
- Thank you, thank you.
You look like you rented me
a cabana at the pool
and you only gave me two towels.
- Hey, it's a two towel max.
- Two towel max.
Well, I wanted four.
I was with my family.
You're gonna have to speak
to my manager.
All right,
well, let's get to it.
Kicking things off is among the
most feared animals in nature.
- Please release the crocodile.
- Yeah!
♪ Throw some perm
on your attitude ♪
♪ girl, you gotta relax ♪
- oh, my gosh. He's so cool.
- Oh!
♪ Let me show you
what you got to do ♪
crocodile coming out
looking like me.
- Oh, he's got some moves.
- Uh-oh.
Okay. He's got style.
♪ All right ♪
- wow.
- Now, if you're shedding crocodile tears,
here's some clues that will
hopefully snap you out of it.
Welcome to lover's lagoon,
where soon I'll croon
and make you swoon.
Becoming the crocodile
was a natural selection
because I'm happiest in water.
And ever since I was a kid,
growing up in hollywood...
Grew up in hollywood. Child star,
maybe?
...Surrounded
heartache and instability,
I was forced to
develop a thick skin.
- Ooh, italian flag.
- Is that an italian flag?
But see, crocodiles get a
bad rep for being cold-blooded,
when actually inside,
I'm a warm, sensitive creature
- who just wants to be loved back.
- Aww.
And I can't wait to
share my hidden talent...
- Vegas vibes.
- ...As I make a wicked big splash.
♪ This ain't a song for
the broken-hearted ♪
♪ no silent prayer
for faith departed ♪
♪ I ain't gonna be just
a face in the crowd ♪
♪ you're gonna hear my
voice when I shout it out loud ♪
♪ it's my life ♪
♪ it's now or never ♪
♪ I ain't gonna live forever ♪
♪ I just want to
live while I'm alive ♪
yeah! Go on!
♪ It's my life ♪
maybe it is bon jovi!
♪ You better stand tall
when they're calling you out ♪
♪ don't beg, don't break,
baby, don't back down ♪
♪ it's my life ♪
- ♪ it's now or
never ♪ - come on!
♪ I ain't gonna live forever ♪
♪ I just want to
live while I'm alive ♪
♪ it's my life ♪
♪ the heart is like
an open highway ♪
♪ like frankie said,
I did it my way ♪
♪ I just want to
live while I'm alive ♪
♪ it's my life ♪
- Oh, my god!
- Yeah!
- Yeah! - Way to go!
Crocodile! - Yes!
- Wow.
- That was incredible.
Crocodile rocking it.
- Man!
- I just want to say I am loving season four so much.
Oh,
my gosh. That was electrifying.
The vocals,
I was so impressed. You gave everything.
And then you did choreography and
you came out with your little pimp walk.
I mean,
that was... That was crazy.
Wow!
Okay,
it's time for the first impression guesses.
Panel,
write down your crocodile guesses.
We'll do this after
each first performance.
- Oh, this is hard. -
and tonight, you're going to drop
your guesses into the vault train.
Look at that! - What?
Hey!
♪ It's called the vault train,
the vault train ♪
oh, my god! There's a
little nick cannon in there.
- I drive the train. - Hi, nick.
- Hey, nick!
- Hey, nick, can I come?
Ken,
stop waving at me. Drop it in.
Hey, nick.
Nicole,
just put your vote in the vault.
Hey! - There you have it.
Ken, stop waving at me
and sit your ass down, man.
Exact same size.
Tonight's about getting to know
our brand new group b singers,
so what made you come on
stage as a giant pink crocodile?
I've had to have tough
skin my whole life to survive
because I'm really
sensitive on the inside.
And being anonymous
gives me the opportunity
to share my true
self to the world.
- I love that.
- Well, okay, panel, does that help anything?
- I think I will begin. - Okay.
In the package,
you talked about hollywood instability.
And if you're the
person I'm thinking of,
you struggled for many
years as an actor...
- Ah.
- ...Before his iconic role as don draper on "mad men."
- what?
- I saw the pineapple in the package.
You know,
and what goes with pineapple?
Pizza. What else goes
with a pineapple on pizza?
- Ham.
- As in a-lister jon hamm.
The croc does not agree with you,
ken jeong.
Yeah, he's gotta do that.
That's what hamm would do.
I respect his hamm game.
I love jon hamm, but I'm feeling
like it's someone from a boy band.
- Yes.
- Now this person had a very public breakup
and had some heartache.
I'm thinking, like,
I don't know,
could it be a nick lachey type?
- Good guess. That's a good guess.
- That's a good guess.
Pretty good.
- I'm definitely getting the boy bander vibe.
- Totally.
And in the package,
he said "wicked big,"
- so I'm thinking he's someone from boston.
- Oh.
And I know we've been down
this road many times before, jenny,
but I think it might be your
boo in all pink up there.
- That's donnie wahlberg.
- Yes!
- Oh, my gosh!
- Could this be the og new kid on the block?
Could donnie
sing like that? Yes.
Could donnie
move like that? Yes.
Does donnie have that swag? Yes.
- He's definitely got swag.
- He does.
Donnie, is it you, baby?
Yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Ah, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh you know what?
- He does have the right stuff.
- Have the right stuff.
He got the right stuff.
Well, we definitely know
whoever is under
this crocodile mask,
- they're extremely talented.
- Yeah!
- Great job, croc.
- Love you, croc.
It's definitely a wahlberg.
Did the panel's guesses rock
or were they a load of crock?
Tell us what you think.
Don't go anywhere.
What is happening?
It's an unmasking
you'll never forget.
No one has ever done this.
No! No!
Men in black, I need some help!
- ♪ who is that? ♪ - welcome
back to "the masked singer"
- group b premiere. - Yeah!
Next up,
it's a true intergalactic life force.
Everybody get fired
up for the baby alien!
- So excited.
- ♪ I never met a girl that makes me feel ♪
♪ the way that you do ♪
♪ you're all right ♪
what is this?
♪ You're out of sight ♪
wow. This is amazing.
- What? - ♪ So get ready ♪
- ♪ so get ready ♪ -
it is a real baby alien.
Raising the roof.
Oh, my god. He's so cute.
It's a season of firsts,
and this is our
first character ever
that has a moving mouth.
Now, get out your telescope
and pay attention
to these clues.
Baby alien? Mm, baby alien?
"ferris bueller" in space.
It's time for my rebirth.
See,
I've been stuck in second gear for awhile.
"friends" reference.
Back when I was the
cream of the crop circle,
I was in the theatre every week,
even beamed onto the tony award stage,
baby.
Broadway, baby.
But before long,
I became a second thought,
lost in space.
So I've opened my baby
eyes to other passions,
navigating a new route
where as the puppet master,
my destiny is in my hands.
And I got, got,
gotta get the golden mask in my crib.
We can't guess height,
weight, anything.
Is it a man or a
woman under there?
We don't know if it's
a man or a woman.
♪ Well,
I guess it would be nice ♪
♪ if I could touch your body ♪
♪ I know not everybody's
got a body like you ♪
♪ oh, but I gotta think twice ♪
♪ before I give my heart away ♪
♪ and I know all the
games you play ♪
♪ because I played them, too ♪
♪ oh, but I need some time off ♪
♪ from that emotion ♪
♪ time to pick my
heart up off the floor ♪
♪ oh,
when that love comes down ♪
♪ without devotion ♪
♪ well, it takes a strong man,
baby ♪
♪ but I'm showing you the door ♪
♪ 'cause I gotta have faith ♪
♪ ooh, I gotta have faith ♪
♪ 'cause I gotta have faith,
faith ♪
♪ I gotta have faith,
faith, faith ♪
♪ because I've
gotta have faith ♪
♪ I gotta have faith ♪
♪ got to, got to,
got to have faith ♪
♪ before this river
becomes an ocean ♪
♪ before you throw my
heart back on the floor ♪
♪ oh, baby, I reconsider ♪
♪ my foolish notion ♪
♪ and I need
someone to hold me ♪
♪ but I'll wait for
something more ♪
♪ 'cause I gotta have faith ♪
♪ ooh, I gotta have faith ♪
♪ because I've gotta have faith,
faith, faith ♪
♪ I've gotta have faith,
faith, faith ♪
Whoo! Yeah!
I loved it, I loved it,
I loved it, I loved this!
Truly out of this world.
Baby alien having the faith.
- Wow.
- Were you expecting that?
- That was great.
- I'm gonna adopt baby alien.
No,
I'm adopting baby alien. I wanna take him.
Whoever that is under there,
that must be so hard to sing,
work the mouth and
the hands as well.
Like,
you're like a true puppet master.
Goochie, goochie,
goochie. Goochie, goochie, goochie.
Goochie, goochie, goochie!
Well,
first impression guesses are up.
Write down your gut instincts
for who the baby alien is.
- Oh, brother.
- Oh, that's hard.
Put your guesses
in the vault train.
♪ Start a love train,
love train ♪
- ♪ people all over the
world ♪ - nicole: Get it, ken!
- ♪ join hands ♪ -
jenny: There we go.
♪ Start a love train,
love train ♪
- yeah!
- All right. I got a question for you, baby alien.
Why did you come here today?
I come to
planet earth and share a hidden talent.
- What?
- A big fan of pussycat doll.
- Also big fan jenny mccarthy.
- Thank you.
Had a poster on
wall as... As teenager.
Poster on wall!
So, you're from, like,
planet eastern europe?
Definitely a comedian.
What are you feeling, jenny?
I'm gonna have
to go off of the clues here.
I saw the karate,
and this person also
replaced matthew broderick
in "how to succeed in
business" on broadway.
- Oh.
- And there was a lot of ferris bueller references.
- Yes.
- So I think my best bet is saying ralph macchio.
Wow. Wow.
- Nicole?
- If I'm going off
of the clues in
the clue package,
it said "stuck in second gear,"
right?
- The lyrics to "friends."
- yes.
Said "lost in
space." matt leblanc.
But I don't know if matt leblanc's
done anything with the tonys.
I do know that david schwimmer
actually has his own theatre company.
- Yeah.
- So, I'm feeling the david schwimmer vibe right now.
- All right.
- Great guess.
I was picking up on the "friends" clues,
too.
This person
guest-starred on "friends."
- yeah.
- His character on "friends" loved hand puppets.
Also in the clue package,
there was a vampire stake.
- Yeah.
- And this person was married to buffy, the vampire slayer.
- Oh.
- This could be freddie prinze, jr.
So I guess I'm slaying this guess,
yo.
- Right, baby alien? - No.
Well, it's the year 2020.
We've been waiting for an
alien invasion any day now,
and here it is on
"the masked singer."
Yeah!
Look what I got for you, baby.
Keep it going for baby alien.
We have never been more stumped.
These are the
panel's baby alien guesses.
Do they need to be
brought back down to earth?
♪ Who is that? ♪
♪ Who is that? ♪
Welcome back to the game
that's too tough
for even the fbi.
- It is "the masked singer"!
- Yes!
It is now time to dive in
together and meet the seahorse.
Oh.
♪ Cover girl ♪
♪ put the bass in your walk ♪
♪ head to toe ♪
- ♪ let your whole
body talk ♪ - robin: Oh!
- Oh, my god, it's gorgeous!
- Oh, yes!
- I love it!
- Look at that!
- Wow. - Looks like a dancer.
Work! That is the sassiest
seahorse I've ever seen.
That's what I want
to be for Halloween.
All right, pay close attention.
Here are some clues
about the seahorse.
Howdy, partners.
Y'all ain't from these parts,
are you?
You know...
all my life I've felt trapped
by my insecurities and shyness,
too scared to release
the fire burning inside.
And you may call
me melodramatic,
but at times I felt
lost in this world...
Hogwarts. A hog with warts.
...Like I was always
swimming upstream.
But here, I get the chance
to stop playing
tug-of-war with myself
and finally expose the
dauntless diva within.
- "dauntless diva"? - Kesha?
Underneath this
camouflaged armor,
I'm harnessing the
power of the seahorse
to show shiny new
sides of myself,
leaving all of my
prior fears behind
on this path to glory to
"the masked singer" stage.
See-haw!
♪ La, la, la, la ♪
♪ la, la, la, la ♪
♪ I want you to love me ♪
♪ like I'm a hot ride ♪
♪ yeah ♪
♪ be thinking of me ♪
♪ doing what you like ♪
♪ yeah ♪
♪ so boy forget
about the world ♪
♪ 'cause it's only
me and you tonight ♪
- whoo. - Damn, she can sing.
♪ I'm gonna make
you beg for it ♪
♪ then I'ma make you
swallow your pride ♪
♪ oh ♪
♪ want you to make me feel ♪
♪ like I'm the only
girl in the world ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
that you'll ever love ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
who knows your heart ♪
what?
♪ Only girl in the world ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
who's in command ♪
♪ 'cause I'm the only
one who understands ♪
♪ how to make you feel like a man,
yeah ♪
♪ want you to make me feel ♪
♪ like I'm the only girl in the world,
hey ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
that you'll ever love ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
who knows your heart ♪
♪ only girl in the world ♪
♪ girl in the world ♪
♪ only girl in the world ♪
♪ girl in the world ♪
♪ hey ♪
- wow. Wow. - Jeez, louise.
Wow. We got a pop
princess in the building.
- Wow. - That was amazing.
Nick, we might be looking at the
winner of season four right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Wow.
I don't know if anybody want to swim
with seahorse right now. Let me tell you.
- Fact.
- I mean, the sun is very strong.
She's a good competitor
against her. But I have a feeling...
The sun don't shine where the
seahorse swims, let me tell you.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Well,
you know what? It's that time.
First impression guesses.
Put your guesses in...
- I don't know.
- ...The vault train.
Oh, who is that?
♪ People all over the world ♪
♪ join hands ♪
♪ start a love train ♪
♪ love train ♪
♪ people all over the world ♪
- ♪ join hands ♪ - you
almost missed the train, ken.
- ♪ start a love train ♪ - hey.
- ♪ love train ♪ - all right,
that's enough of the "love train."
okay,
might as well talk to this superstar.
How is it being the seahorse?
It's so fun to just have this alter ego,
honestly.
And something about
putting a mask on,
you really just
get to let it shine.
Oh,
okay. You guys picking up on anything?
I mean, it's so difficult
because I feel like you are
one of the biggest artists ever
and we should know your voice,
but I'm gonna go off the clues.
I saw the rainbow frog, and this
artist is big in the lgbtq community.
- Ah.
- And then you also said "fire burning inside,"
and you have a big
song called "angel on fire."
I think this might be "hal-sey."
Great guess. - "hall-sey."
- I'm from chicago. That's what we say.
- Hal-sey, hal-sey.
After I eat some breakfast hot dogs,
I think of hal-sey.
We park the car
by the bar and we have a beer.
Well,
I feel like I know who it is.
I think seahorse is flamingo.
No, but seriously,
going off of the clues,
there was a big western theme,
right?
- Yes.
- There's someone on this season
that is oscar-nominated.
This girl could be the one.
Oscar-nominated
for "true grit"...
- Yeah! - Hailee steinfeld.
- Ooh, that's good.
- She has an amazing voice. S great little singer.
- Good guess. That's a really good guess.
- It is a great guess.
There is a young singer
who's very talented,
at the top of her
game right now.
Mostly known for her
work in country music,
and we did see a
lot of o.K. Corral,
- a lot of country type stuff.
- Yeah.
- So I was thinking bebe rexha.
- Oh, yeah. I like bebe.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I like it, I like it.
You know what? She has a
strong voice like that, bebe,
but she's one of my friends,
and bebe is like...
She, like,
shaped like an hourglass, like...
Yasss, queen!
Well, seahorse,
we don't know who you are yet, sis,
but you got an epic voice.
You gotta be a
megastar under there.
Indeed. Ladies and gentlemen,
the one and only seahorse.
- Yes! - Yes.
Swim backstage.
We'll see you in a bit.
Did the panel's guesses
for seahorse hold water?
Tell us what you think.
Next up in group b,
it's time we meet a
character so insane,
so unimaginable,
it makes season two's
thingamajig look like snoopy.
- Ooh, nicole.
- Unleash the watchamacallit.
- No way! Oh, my god!
- Oh, no!
You guys! - What the?
Oh, my god.
And "hair" he is.
Whoa!
- Is that his eyeball?
- He's a one-eyed monster.
- What the? - He's pretty tall.
Watch this and maybe you'll spot
some clues about the whatchamacallit.
Whoo!
Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi.
I'm magical, mythical,
fit as a phystical,
jazzy and snazzy
and full of pizazzy.
You see,
people think I'm a shy guy,
especially because I've let
others absorb my spotlight.
Maybe athlete who was
number two on his team?
But as a bright hairball
I can shine alone,
as this world is wide open.
I can dance with the stars,
surf candy bars,
buzz with the bees,
and swing from the keys.
Black panther.
Michael b. Jordan.
It's time to turn the
tables on the world
because I don't want to be "hair" today,
gone tomorrow.
What's happening?
What the... whoa!
Whoa! Oh, my god!
♪ I wish I was a little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller ♪
♪ I wish I had a girl who looked good,
I would call her ♪
♪ I wish I had a
rabbit in a hat ♪
♪ with a bat and
a six-four impala ♪
♪ I wish I was, like,
six-foot-nine ♪
♪ so I can get with leoshi ♪
♪ 'cause she don't know me,
but, yo, she's really fine ♪
♪ you know I see her all
the time everywhere I go ♪
♪ and even in my dreams I can
scheme on ways to make her mine ♪
♪ 'cause I know
she's living phat ♪
♪ her boyfriend's tall
and he plays ball ♪
♪ so how am I gonna
compete with that? ♪
♪ 'cause when it comes
to playing basketball ♪
♪ I'm always last to get picked and
in some cases never picked at all ♪
- hey!
- ♪ so I just sit up in the wall ♪
♪ or lean up in the bleachers
with the rest of the girls ♪
♪ who came to
watch they man ball ♪
♪ dang, y'all,
I never understood that ♪
♪ why the jocks get the fly girls and me,
I get the hoodrats? ♪
♪ I tell 'em scat,
skittle, scabobble ♪
♪ got hit with a bottle,
put in a hospital for talking that mess ♪
♪ I confess it's a shame
when you living in a city ♪
♪ that's the size of a box and
nobody knows your name ♪
♪ glad I came to my senses ♪
♪ like quick-quick got
sick-sick to my stomach ♪
♪ overcommeth by thoughts
of me and her together, right? ♪
♪ So when I asked her out,
she said I wasn't her type ♪
♪ I wish I was a little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller ♪
♪ I wish I had a girl who looked good,
I would call her ♪
♪ I wish I had a
rabbit in a hat ♪
- ♪ with a bat and a
six-four impala ♪ - oh!
♪ I wish I was a little bit taller,
wish I was a baller ♪
♪ wish I had a girl who looked good,
I would call her ♪
♪ I wish I had a
rabbit in a hat ♪
♪ with a bat and
a six-four impala ♪
- oh, yes! - He got swag.
- He's good.
- Like, really good.
The whatchamacallit. I
think I noticed that tone.
- You know who he is already?
- No! I'm just saying, like, the voice sounds familiar.
- It does sound familiar.
- The voice is so familiar.
And can I tell you how freaking
amazing that was, whatchamacallit?
Yeah! - Jenny: Honestly.
I feel like it's a professional artist
because he just had too much swag.
He was rapping,
he was in the flow, he was perfect.
Yes.
- Oh, my gosh.
- All right, well,
it's time for the first
impression guesses.
Drop your guesses
into the vault train.
- ♪ join hands ♪ - come on,
nicole.
♪ Start a love train ♪
♪ love train ♪
ken,
stop playing with the train!
In no way will
this ever get old.
♪ Start a love train ♪
all right, mr. Whatchamacallit,
what made you choose
this crazy costume?
Because I love the
name whatchamacallit
because I can be whoever
I want to be inside this,
and to me, that's my true
self to present to the world.
Great answer right there. Are you
guys picking up on any clues? Nicole?
I saw in the clue
package swinging keys.
Who does that remind
you of? Alicia keys.
Who is she married
to? Swizz beatz.
There was a little
record-like turntable situation.
- Yes.
- He's not a dj, but he is a producer.
- Well said.
- Okay. Swizz beatz.
- That's actually a good guess.
- Yeah.
So,
nicole's pointed out... I'm a huge nba fan.
There's a player, dame lillard,
from the portland trailblazers
- who really is, like, an amazing rapper.
- Yep.
And he's got a song
called "shot clock,"
- and there was a clock in the package.
- Ooh.
Dame has all these hidden talents
and that's what "the masked singer" is for.
- So I'm going with dame lillard.
- Wow.
- A good guess.
- You can see dame lillard backstage
putting that on right now
before he came out here?
He has the same
eyeball as dame lillard.
- All right?
- Well, what do you got, robin?
Nothing better.
You know what?
I think this is the wordiest
clue package we've ever seen.
There was "dancing with the stars,"
"surfing candy bars,"
"hair today, gone tomorrow."
so I started
thinking of a lyricist
and who would put
on something like this
and feel very natural
and very comfortable in it.
There was turntables.
He's know as dj stank daddy.
There was some orange slices.
He worked on "channel
orange" with frank ocean.
I think it might be tyler,
the creator.
Wow. - I like that.
That's good. High-five,
high-five.
Obviously we have no idea who you are,
whatchamacallit.
- No idea.
- But we know you are amazing.
Ladies and gentlemen,
keep in going for whatchamacallit.
Whatchama-think
about our panel's
whatchamacallit guesses?
♪ Who is that? ♪
Welcome back to
"the masked singer,"
the show with pyrotechnics,
explosive performances,
crazy costumes,
and that's just in ken
jeong's dressing room.
Our next singer is full
of venom and vigor.
Let's all collectively
hiss for the serpent.
♪ He's a coldhearted snake ♪
♪ look into his eyes ♪
- oh, my god! - Whoa!
Oh, my god.
- Wow.
- ♪ He don't play by rules ♪
- - whoa! That
is a venomous serpent!
I think we got
an athlete on our hands.
- ♪ cold-hearted snake ♪ - whoa! Dude,
it's moving!
- It's moving!
- Oh, my god. That is crazy!
So, just who is behind the sly,
scaly skin of this snake?
It's the loveable,
kind of scary tale
of the serpent.
'sssup, friends?
It took an insane chain of
miraculous events to get here,
starting when I was young.
Musicology and medicine.
It's neil patrick harris.
Mischievous and devious,
a trouble-making snakeling.
Troublemaker. Oh,
my god. Is it johnny knoxville again?
I was slithering furiously down
a path towards destruction.
But my pops saved me,
buying me a one-way ticket
away from the wrong crowd
and onto a path
towards success...
Serpent sr.? Maybe
he's a "junior."
...Lighting a fire inside me
to "asp-ire" to new heights.
I didn't want to cause pain,
but heal pain.
And I hope to lift everyone's
spirits tonight, all right.
♪ When I wake up, well,
I know I'm gonna be ♪
♪ I'm gonna be the man
who wakes up next you ♪
- whoa! - ♪ and when I go out ♪
♪ well, I know I'm gonna be ♪
♪ I'm gonna be the man
who goes along with you ♪
♪ but I would walk 500 miles ♪
♪ and I would walk 500 more ♪
♪ just to be the man who
walked a thousand miles ♪
♪ to fall down at your door ♪
♪ and I would walk 500 miles ♪
♪ and I would walk 500 more ♪
♪ to be the man who
walked a thousand miles ♪
♪ to fall down at your door ♪
yeah!
♪ But I would walk 500 miles ♪
♪ and I would walk 500 more ♪
oh, my god.
- Wow.
- I mean, what the heck?
Once again,
we are in the presence of greatness.
I know that voice. Talk to me,
nicole.
- What language is that?
- Right?
That's how I feel right now,
nick.
- He's amazing though, right?
- He's amazing.
He has, like, the most beautiful,
delicate voice.
And then he came in with
all that power in the chorus.
First of all,
it's one of my favorite songs ever,
- and that is the most beautiful rendition.
- Yes.
- Thank you so much for that.
- Oh, my god.
Wow. All right.
It's time for the first
impression guesses.
Panel,
drop your guess into the vault train.
♪ People all over the world ♪
I feel like I know
that voice for sure.
Oh, yeah. If I'm wrong,
then maybe you're right.
♪ People all over the world ♪
♪ join hands ♪
Ken, you missed the train!
♪ Love train ♪
ken, what song are you dancing to,
ken?
- Sit your ass down, man.
- All right, all right.
Well, let's talk to him. All right,
mr. Serpent, how are you feeling?
It's so surreal
to be on this
stage as a serpent.
Music has the power
to heal the world,
and I love to be able to
share this gift with you.
Ah! You okay?
He is definitely in
character as the serpent.
Right? You know,
we heard "pops,"
so I immediately
think pop singer.
- Yeah.
- And then there was a book
"how to be a good serpent,"
and this artist has an amazing
song called "good morning,"
and he's got that voice
that john legend has.
So I'm thinking
it's john legend.
Ah, that's a good one.
You made some good points,
but "hiss-tory" manual
for "hamilton" maybe.
Won a tony and a grammy for it,
you know?
And the clue "dig
yourself out of debt."
last name diggs. Maybe like daveed diggs,
huh? Maybe?
That's actually a good guess.
I,
My brother from another mother over here,
is kind of on his tip
with the "hamilton" vibes.
Now I know there was serpent,
sr., in there,
so maybe this is serpent, jr.
And I know that he
played a doctor in a movie.
"murder on the orient express."
so, I'm going with leslie odom,
jr., guys.
- That's that confidence.
- Because I love him so much
and I want him
to be on this show.
- Come on, leslie. Let's go!
- Yeah!
Well,
one thing we're confident about
is that was an
amazing performance.
Give it up for the
sensational serpent!
That was great.
Are you charmed by the
panel's guesses for the serpent?
Tell us what you think.
- This is our strongest season yet.
- Oh, yeah.
And group b? It's unpredictable.
Just when you think
it's going one way,
they throw another
curveball at us.
I think group b stands for boom!
♪ Who is that? ♪
Welcome back to
"the masked singer"!
Now it's time to introduce
our final singer of the night.
Ladies and gentlemen,
let's say hello to the gremlin.
Hey! Come on, gremlin!
♪ And dance till
you feel better ♪
- ♪ get up offa that thing ♪ - oh,
that's awesome!
- ♪ and dance till you sing
it now ♪ - robin: Wow! Yeah!
♪ Get up offa that thing ♪
- oh.
- ♪ And try to release that pressure ♪
- ♪ get up offa that
thing ♪ - nick: Gremlin.
- So cute!
- ♪ And try to release that pressure ♪
I like this guy.
I like the vibes.
Now, who could be under
this mask? We never know.
Here are some clues that
may help you figure it out.
Greetings.
I'm gremlin.
Despite my checkered history,
I can actually be
quite charming.
A true romantic.
"true romance."
christopher walken?
You may have heard I
can be a bit combative.
But I have a fluffy side, too.
I adore all animals...
So many animals. Jack hanna?
...Long spins on the beach,
a little feng shui,
and bashing worthy opponents
with foreign objects
for maximum impact.
- I also love to cook.
- Cooking? Chopping carrots?
Carrot top?
If you like what you see,
I'd love to have you for dinner.
I mean,
have you over for dinner.
But first,
let's snuggle up as I serenade you.
♪ When the night has come ♪
♪ and the land is dark ♪
♪ and the moon ♪
♪ is the only light we'll see ♪
♪ if the sky we look upon ♪
♪ should tumble and fall ♪
♪ and the mountains ♪
♪ could crumble to the sea ♪
whoo!
♪ I won't cry ♪
♪ I won't cry ♪
♪ no, I won't shed a tear ♪
♪ just as long ♪
♪ just as long as
you stand by me ♪
♪ and darling, darling ♪
♪ stand by me ♪
♪ oh, darling ♪
♪ stand by me ♪
♪ oh, darling ♪
♪ won't you stand by ♪
♪ stand by me ♪
yeah!
Gremlin!
Is he, like,
a hundred years old?
I... I don't know.
I don't know where the gremlin's going,
but keep it going for him.
Hey! Hey, gremlin,
we're over here.
Now, brother, hey.
I'ma stand by you,
player. I'm with you.
- Right?
- I love gremlin. I loved his voice.
It had so many different layers
and it was, like,
at the texture in it.
- It was yummy. That's some seasoning.
- It's seasoned.
That's somebody who's seasoned.
That's why I said it was yummy,
all them seasonings.
All right, panel,
it's time for the first
impression guesses.
- Man.
- You know what to do. Drop it in the vault train.
- Can I put two names on here?
- Write it down and remember.
We're gonna hold
you to these guesses.
I need a name. I need a
name. I don't have anyone.
Robin missed the chance.
You know what to do. Drop it in,
jenny.
♪ Love train ♪
♪ people all over the world ♪
- ♪ start a love train ♪ - time's up,
panel.
- ♪ love train ♪ - all right,
the guesses are in the love train.
Tell us, gremlin,
what did it truly mean to you
to be here performing that song?
Well,
it meant a lot because this song was sang
by one of my best friends ever.
His name was willy deville.
Willy passed away years ago,
and I've missed him for a long,
long time.
- Oh.
- And I think the other night for some reason
willy sent me down this song,
so it...
- yeah.
- There was real emotion in that.
He did this for willy.
Robin, you look... you look
a little perplexed over there.
You deep in thought
for the gremlin.
That's because I
definitely know that voice.
It's reminding me of, like,
a chicken noodle soup.
- It's just... it's warm.
- Soothing to the soul.
Yeah, it's warm and...
He said he liked you,
gremlin. I gotta hold the gremlin back.
No, I'm saying, like,
it's something that...
It's a voice that I
know and I can't put
my finger on it just yet,
but if I'm going off the clues...
Checkered past,
and he's definitely been through a lot,
I think it might be one
of the great rock
and rollers of all time,
- jerry lee lewis.
- Jerry lee lewis?
That's actually a pretty good guess,
but other clues
in the package were,
like, a fighter, a wrestler,
and that kind of growly voice.
Maybe I was thinking
sylvester stallone.
And then I remembered
on my radio show
we played some
audio of an actor,
and his voice sounds
very much like this.
He was also in the
movie "the wrestler."
and to me it sounds
like mickey rourke.
That's not bad, jenny,
but in my opinion this
has gotta be an athlete.
Just off the clue package was,
like, a wrestler,
people think he's combative.
I think maybe this could
be stone cold steve austin.
- Oh! - And I'll tell you why.
Because he does, and I quote,
enjoy long spins on the beach.
Look it up. And he had a
legendary feud with vince mcmahon.
- I think he's saying hurry up.
- Okay, all right, all right.
Stone cold steve austin.
All right, that's a good one.
Wait, gremlin,
what are you doing?
- Gremlin?
- No, I want to take this off right now.
What's happening?
The gremlin's telling me
he wants to take this off.
- It's too damn hot. - What?
Gremlin, you can't do...
That's not part of the show.
Hold on. Hold on. You can't...
- No, no.
- But we haven't even voted!
It's not that part
of the show yet.
You can't take your mask off.
- We have to vote.
- What is happening?
I don't know what
happened to the vote.
He's just gonna
take it off right now?
- No!
- No, you can't do that.
- He's ready to go! - No, no!
- Men in black, I need some help!
- What is happening?
We've lost control.
It's the gremlin's show!
No! No!
Oh, my god! Wow.
Wait, gremlin,
what are you doing?
- No, I want to take this off right now.
- What is happening?
The gremlin's telling me
he wants to take this off.
It's too damn hot.
- What?
- It's not that part of the show yet!
- You can't do that.
- Men in black, I need some help!
- What is happening?
- I say let's go for it.
We've lost control.
It's the gremlin's show.
- No! No! - Do it!
Oh, my god! Mickey rourke!
Oh, my god!
Legendary actor,
oscar nominee, the one and only!
- My friend mickey rourke!
- I can't believe it.
Jenny! You were right!
- I cannot believe it.
- Mickey rourke!
- There's our oscar nominee.
- Yes!
- Wow.
- Jenny mccarthy wahlberg guessed you.
I don't know what's happening,
ladies and gentlemen.
This is a "masked singer"
first. We didn't get to vote.
The other people
didn't get to come out.
Mickey said, "damn it,
it's hot. I'm taking it off."
- I love it.
- No one has ever done this.
Man, you're such a legend.
What would make you
do "the masked singer"
and come have fun with us?
I was in the neighborhood.
"had my gremlin costume. I was like,
'I'm pulling up.'"
I do like the show. I watched,
like, four episodes
you know, when they asked me,
"would you be interested?"
so I watched, like,
from the very beginning
- and all that, you know?
- And all that, yeah.
Mickey,
you thought robin knew who you were, huh?
- I should have.
- I had to hold him back.
He was like,
"I'm about to go whoop his ass."
I was like, "no,
no. Gremlin, calm down."
we've hung out a few times
together down in miami.
I bet you have.
The legendary icon
mickey rourke in the building.
- Taking over "the masked singer."
- he took it over.
All the other characters,
you guys are safe because
he unmasked himself.
Our very first ever
self-elimination.
The artist formerly
known as the gremlin!
Make some noise for the
one and only mickey rourke!
I'm with you,
baby. Let's do it. I got you.
♪ If the sky ♪
♪ that we look upon ♪
♪ should tumble and fall ♪
- there we go.
- ♪ and the mountain ♪
♪ should crumble to the sea ♪
this is the part where we get
emotional. You know, for willy.
♪ I won't cry, I won't cry ♪
- ♪ no, I won't ♪ - whoo!
- ♪ shed a tear ♪ - come on!
♪ Just as long ♪
- ♪ as you stand ♪ - here we go.
♪ Stand by me ♪
mickey rourke,
ladies and gentlemen!
Whoo!
You have been watching
"mickey rourke presents
the masked singer."
thank you!
And he's out!
- I don't know what just happened.
- That's it.
That was it.
Top that, ken jeong!
"masked singer"
premiere was astronomical,
but group a did not disappoint.
Oh, my god.
And it all came to a fiery end
when dragon was the first star
unmasked in season four.
Take it off!
The only and only busta rhymes!
Tonight,
you got a front row seat
to the most exclusive
unveiling in town.
Get your cameras ready
for the strange
and shocking display of our
most untamed characters yet...
Group b.
Crocodile,
seahorse,
gremlin,
whatchamacallit,
serpent,
and our very first toddler,
baby alien.
♪ Who is that? ♪
These masked masterpieces
are ready to wow...
yeah!
You've gotta be a megastar
under there.
- ...And confuse us all.
- What is this?
Goochie, goochie, goochie.
Goochie, goochie, goochie.
And for the first time
in history...
- What is happening?
Men in black,
I need some help!
- We haven't even voted!
- ...It's an unmasking
that shatters all the rules.
- No!
- Oh, my god!
- We are in the presence of greatness.
- Oh, my god!
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who ♪
♪ come on, tell me,
who are you? ♪
- ♪ who are you? ♪ - whoo!
♪ Who, who, who, who ♪
♪ oh, I really wanna know ♪
♪ who are you? ♪
Welcome, everyone,
to "the masked singer."
already our panel is calling it
our strongest season yet.
- Yeah!
- Now tonight the pressure is on
for the six brand new singers
of group b.
Whoo! Group b!
- They are crocodile...
- Yeah!
Baby alien, seahorse...
- Seahorse?
- ...Whatchamacallit,
- the serpent, and gremlin.
- Whoa.
Now, let's say hello
to our celebrity sleuths.
- It's our panel.
- Whoo!
- Yeah!
- What's up?
- Hello.
- I love his shirt.
- I love.
- Thank you, thank you.
You look like you rented me
a cabana at the pool
and you only gave me two towels.
- Hey, it's a two towel max.
- Two towel max.
Well, I wanted four.
I was with my family.
You're gonna have to speak
to my manager.
All right,
well, let's get to it.
Kicking things off is among the
most feared animals in nature.
- Please release the crocodile.
- Yeah!
♪ Throw some perm
on your attitude ♪
♪ girl, you gotta relax ♪
- oh, my gosh. He's so cool.
- Oh!
♪ Let me show you
what you got to do ♪
crocodile coming out
looking like me.
- Oh, he's got some moves.
- Uh-oh.
Okay. He's got style.
♪ All right ♪
- wow.
- Now, if you're shedding crocodile tears,
here's some clues that will
hopefully snap you out of it.
Welcome to lover's lagoon,
where soon I'll croon
and make you swoon.
Becoming the crocodile
was a natural selection
because I'm happiest in water.
And ever since I was a kid,
growing up in hollywood...
Grew up in hollywood. Child star,
maybe?
...Surrounded
heartache and instability,
I was forced to
develop a thick skin.
- Ooh, italian flag.
- Is that an italian flag?
But see, crocodiles get a
bad rep for being cold-blooded,
when actually inside,
I'm a warm, sensitive creature
- who just wants to be loved back.
- Aww.
And I can't wait to
share my hidden talent...
- Vegas vibes.
- ...As I make a wicked big splash.
♪ This ain't a song for
the broken-hearted ♪
♪ no silent prayer
for faith departed ♪
♪ I ain't gonna be just
a face in the crowd ♪
♪ you're gonna hear my
voice when I shout it out loud ♪
♪ it's my life ♪
♪ it's now or never ♪
♪ I ain't gonna live forever ♪
♪ I just want to
live while I'm alive ♪
yeah! Go on!
♪ It's my life ♪
maybe it is bon jovi!
♪ You better stand tall
when they're calling you out ♪
♪ don't beg, don't break,
baby, don't back down ♪
♪ it's my life ♪
- ♪ it's now or
never ♪ - come on!
♪ I ain't gonna live forever ♪
♪ I just want to
live while I'm alive ♪
♪ it's my life ♪
♪ the heart is like
an open highway ♪
♪ like frankie said,
I did it my way ♪
♪ I just want to
live while I'm alive ♪
♪ it's my life ♪
- Oh, my god!
- Yeah!
- Yeah! - Way to go!
Crocodile! - Yes!
- Wow.
- That was incredible.
Crocodile rocking it.
- Man!
- I just want to say I am loving season four so much.
Oh,
my gosh. That was electrifying.
The vocals,
I was so impressed. You gave everything.
And then you did choreography and
you came out with your little pimp walk.
I mean,
that was... That was crazy.
Wow!
Okay,
it's time for the first impression guesses.
Panel,
write down your crocodile guesses.
We'll do this after
each first performance.
- Oh, this is hard. -
and tonight, you're going to drop
your guesses into the vault train.
Look at that! - What?
Hey!
♪ It's called the vault train,
the vault train ♪
oh, my god! There's a
little nick cannon in there.
- I drive the train. - Hi, nick.
- Hey, nick!
- Hey, nick, can I come?
Ken,
stop waving at me. Drop it in.
Hey, nick.
Nicole,
just put your vote in the vault.
Hey! - There you have it.
Ken, stop waving at me
and sit your ass down, man.
Exact same size.
Tonight's about getting to know
our brand new group b singers,
so what made you come on
stage as a giant pink crocodile?
I've had to have tough
skin my whole life to survive
because I'm really
sensitive on the inside.
And being anonymous
gives me the opportunity
to share my true
self to the world.
- I love that.
- Well, okay, panel, does that help anything?
- I think I will begin. - Okay.
In the package,
you talked about hollywood instability.
And if you're the
person I'm thinking of,
you struggled for many
years as an actor...
- Ah.
- ...Before his iconic role as don draper on "mad men."
- what?
- I saw the pineapple in the package.
You know,
and what goes with pineapple?
Pizza. What else goes
with a pineapple on pizza?
- Ham.
- As in a-lister jon hamm.
The croc does not agree with you,
ken jeong.
Yeah, he's gotta do that.
That's what hamm would do.
I respect his hamm game.
I love jon hamm, but I'm feeling
like it's someone from a boy band.
- Yes.
- Now this person had a very public breakup
and had some heartache.
I'm thinking, like,
I don't know,
could it be a nick lachey type?
- Good guess. That's a good guess.
- That's a good guess.
Pretty good.
- I'm definitely getting the boy bander vibe.
- Totally.
And in the package,
he said "wicked big,"
- so I'm thinking he's someone from boston.
- Oh.
And I know we've been down
this road many times before, jenny,
but I think it might be your
boo in all pink up there.
- That's donnie wahlberg.
- Yes!
- Oh, my gosh!
- Could this be the og new kid on the block?
Could donnie
sing like that? Yes.
Could donnie
move like that? Yes.
Does donnie have that swag? Yes.
- He's definitely got swag.
- He does.
Donnie, is it you, baby?
Yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Ah, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh you know what?
- He does have the right stuff.
- Have the right stuff.
He got the right stuff.
Well, we definitely know
whoever is under
this crocodile mask,
- they're extremely talented.
- Yeah!
- Great job, croc.
- Love you, croc.
It's definitely a wahlberg.
Did the panel's guesses rock
or were they a load of crock?
Tell us what you think.
Don't go anywhere.
What is happening?
It's an unmasking
you'll never forget.
No one has ever done this.
No! No!
Men in black, I need some help!
- ♪ who is that? ♪ - welcome
back to "the masked singer"
- group b premiere. - Yeah!
Next up,
it's a true intergalactic life force.
Everybody get fired
up for the baby alien!
- So excited.
- ♪ I never met a girl that makes me feel ♪
♪ the way that you do ♪
♪ you're all right ♪
what is this?
♪ You're out of sight ♪
wow. This is amazing.
- What? - ♪ So get ready ♪
- ♪ so get ready ♪ -
it is a real baby alien.
Raising the roof.
Oh, my god. He's so cute.
It's a season of firsts,
and this is our
first character ever
that has a moving mouth.
Now, get out your telescope
and pay attention
to these clues.
Baby alien? Mm, baby alien?
"ferris bueller" in space.
It's time for my rebirth.
See,
I've been stuck in second gear for awhile.
"friends" reference.
Back when I was the
cream of the crop circle,
I was in the theatre every week,
even beamed onto the tony award stage,
baby.
Broadway, baby.
But before long,
I became a second thought,
lost in space.
So I've opened my baby
eyes to other passions,
navigating a new route
where as the puppet master,
my destiny is in my hands.
And I got, got,
gotta get the golden mask in my crib.
We can't guess height,
weight, anything.
Is it a man or a
woman under there?
We don't know if it's
a man or a woman.
♪ Well,
I guess it would be nice ♪
♪ if I could touch your body ♪
♪ I know not everybody's
got a body like you ♪
♪ oh, but I gotta think twice ♪
♪ before I give my heart away ♪
♪ and I know all the
games you play ♪
♪ because I played them, too ♪
♪ oh, but I need some time off ♪
♪ from that emotion ♪
♪ time to pick my
heart up off the floor ♪
♪ oh,
when that love comes down ♪
♪ without devotion ♪
♪ well, it takes a strong man,
baby ♪
♪ but I'm showing you the door ♪
♪ 'cause I gotta have faith ♪
♪ ooh, I gotta have faith ♪
♪ 'cause I gotta have faith,
faith ♪
♪ I gotta have faith,
faith, faith ♪
♪ because I've
gotta have faith ♪
♪ I gotta have faith ♪
♪ got to, got to,
got to have faith ♪
♪ before this river
becomes an ocean ♪
♪ before you throw my
heart back on the floor ♪
♪ oh, baby, I reconsider ♪
♪ my foolish notion ♪
♪ and I need
someone to hold me ♪
♪ but I'll wait for
something more ♪
♪ 'cause I gotta have faith ♪
♪ ooh, I gotta have faith ♪
♪ because I've gotta have faith,
faith, faith ♪
♪ I've gotta have faith,
faith, faith ♪
Whoo! Yeah!
I loved it, I loved it,
I loved it, I loved this!
Truly out of this world.
Baby alien having the faith.
- Wow.
- Were you expecting that?
- That was great.
- I'm gonna adopt baby alien.
No,
I'm adopting baby alien. I wanna take him.
Whoever that is under there,
that must be so hard to sing,
work the mouth and
the hands as well.
Like,
you're like a true puppet master.
Goochie, goochie,
goochie. Goochie, goochie, goochie.
Goochie, goochie, goochie!
Well,
first impression guesses are up.
Write down your gut instincts
for who the baby alien is.
- Oh, brother.
- Oh, that's hard.
Put your guesses
in the vault train.
♪ Start a love train,
love train ♪
- ♪ people all over the
world ♪ - nicole: Get it, ken!
- ♪ join hands ♪ -
jenny: There we go.
♪ Start a love train,
love train ♪
- yeah!
- All right. I got a question for you, baby alien.
Why did you come here today?
I come to
planet earth and share a hidden talent.
- What?
- A big fan of pussycat doll.
- Also big fan jenny mccarthy.
- Thank you.
Had a poster on
wall as... As teenager.
Poster on wall!
So, you're from, like,
planet eastern europe?
Definitely a comedian.
What are you feeling, jenny?
I'm gonna have
to go off of the clues here.
I saw the karate,
and this person also
replaced matthew broderick
in "how to succeed in
business" on broadway.
- Oh.
- And there was a lot of ferris bueller references.
- Yes.
- So I think my best bet is saying ralph macchio.
Wow. Wow.
- Nicole?
- If I'm going off
of the clues in
the clue package,
it said "stuck in second gear,"
right?
- The lyrics to "friends."
- yes.
Said "lost in
space." matt leblanc.
But I don't know if matt leblanc's
done anything with the tonys.
I do know that david schwimmer
actually has his own theatre company.
- Yeah.
- So, I'm feeling the david schwimmer vibe right now.
- All right.
- Great guess.
I was picking up on the "friends" clues,
too.
This person
guest-starred on "friends."
- yeah.
- His character on "friends" loved hand puppets.
Also in the clue package,
there was a vampire stake.
- Yeah.
- And this person was married to buffy, the vampire slayer.
- Oh.
- This could be freddie prinze, jr.
So I guess I'm slaying this guess,
yo.
- Right, baby alien? - No.
Well, it's the year 2020.
We've been waiting for an
alien invasion any day now,
and here it is on
"the masked singer."
Yeah!
Look what I got for you, baby.
Keep it going for baby alien.
We have never been more stumped.
These are the
panel's baby alien guesses.
Do they need to be
brought back down to earth?
♪ Who is that? ♪
♪ Who is that? ♪
Welcome back to the game
that's too tough
for even the fbi.
- It is "the masked singer"!
- Yes!
It is now time to dive in
together and meet the seahorse.
Oh.
♪ Cover girl ♪
♪ put the bass in your walk ♪
♪ head to toe ♪
- ♪ let your whole
body talk ♪ - robin: Oh!
- Oh, my god, it's gorgeous!
- Oh, yes!
- I love it!
- Look at that!
- Wow. - Looks like a dancer.
Work! That is the sassiest
seahorse I've ever seen.
That's what I want
to be for Halloween.
All right, pay close attention.
Here are some clues
about the seahorse.
Howdy, partners.
Y'all ain't from these parts,
are you?
You know...
all my life I've felt trapped
by my insecurities and shyness,
too scared to release
the fire burning inside.
And you may call
me melodramatic,
but at times I felt
lost in this world...
Hogwarts. A hog with warts.
...Like I was always
swimming upstream.
But here, I get the chance
to stop playing
tug-of-war with myself
and finally expose the
dauntless diva within.
- "dauntless diva"? - Kesha?
Underneath this
camouflaged armor,
I'm harnessing the
power of the seahorse
to show shiny new
sides of myself,
leaving all of my
prior fears behind
on this path to glory to
"the masked singer" stage.
See-haw!
♪ La, la, la, la ♪
♪ la, la, la, la ♪
♪ I want you to love me ♪
♪ like I'm a hot ride ♪
♪ yeah ♪
♪ be thinking of me ♪
♪ doing what you like ♪
♪ yeah ♪
♪ so boy forget
about the world ♪
♪ 'cause it's only
me and you tonight ♪
- whoo. - Damn, she can sing.
♪ I'm gonna make
you beg for it ♪
♪ then I'ma make you
swallow your pride ♪
♪ oh ♪
♪ want you to make me feel ♪
♪ like I'm the only
girl in the world ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
that you'll ever love ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
who knows your heart ♪
what?
♪ Only girl in the world ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
who's in command ♪
♪ 'cause I'm the only
one who understands ♪
♪ how to make you feel like a man,
yeah ♪
♪ want you to make me feel ♪
♪ like I'm the only girl in the world,
hey ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
that you'll ever love ♪
♪ like I'm the only one
who knows your heart ♪
♪ only girl in the world ♪
♪ girl in the world ♪
♪ only girl in the world ♪
♪ girl in the world ♪
♪ hey ♪
- wow. Wow. - Jeez, louise.
Wow. We got a pop
princess in the building.
- Wow. - That was amazing.
Nick, we might be looking at the
winner of season four right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Wow.
I don't know if anybody want to swim
with seahorse right now. Let me tell you.
- Fact.
- I mean, the sun is very strong.
She's a good competitor
against her. But I have a feeling...
The sun don't shine where the
seahorse swims, let me tell you.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Well,
you know what? It's that time.
First impression guesses.
Put your guesses in...
- I don't know.
- ...The vault train.
Oh, who is that?
♪ People all over the world ♪
♪ join hands ♪
♪ start a love train ♪
♪ love train ♪
♪ people all over the world ♪
- ♪ join hands ♪ - you
almost missed the train, ken.
- ♪ start a love train ♪ - hey.
- ♪ love train ♪ - all right,
that's enough of the "love train."
okay,
might as well talk to this superstar.
How is it being the seahorse?
It's so fun to just have this alter ego,
honestly.
And something about
putting a mask on,
you really just
get to let it shine.
Oh,
okay. You guys picking up on anything?
I mean, it's so difficult
because I feel like you are
one of the biggest artists ever
and we should know your voice,
but I'm gonna go off the clues.
I saw the rainbow frog, and this
artist is big in the lgbtq community.
- Ah.
- And then you also said "fire burning inside,"
and you have a big
song called "angel on fire."
I think this might be "hal-sey."
Great guess. - "hall-sey."
- I'm from chicago. That's what we say.
- Hal-sey, hal-sey.
After I eat some breakfast hot dogs,
I think of hal-sey.
We park the car
by the bar and we have a beer.
Well,
I feel like I know who it is.
I think seahorse is flamingo.
No, but seriously,
going off of the clues,
there was a big western theme,
right?
- Yes.
- There's someone on this season
that is oscar-nominated.
This girl could be the one.
Oscar-nominated
for "true grit"...
- Yeah! - Hailee steinfeld.
- Ooh, that's good.
- She has an amazing voice. S great little singer.
- Good guess. That's a really good guess.
- It is a great guess.
There is a young singer
who's very talented,
at the top of her
game right now.
Mostly known for her
work in country music,
and we did see a
lot of o.K. Corral,
- a lot of country type stuff.
- Yeah.
- So I was thinking bebe rexha.
- Oh, yeah. I like bebe.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I like it, I like it.
You know what? She has a
strong voice like that, bebe,
but she's one of my friends,
and bebe is like...
She, like,
shaped like an hourglass, like...
Yasss, queen!
Well, seahorse,
we don't know who you are yet, sis,
but you got an epic voice.
You gotta be a
megastar under there.
Indeed. Ladies and gentlemen,
the one and only seahorse.
- Yes! - Yes.
Swim backstage.
We'll see you in a bit.
Did the panel's guesses
for seahorse hold water?
Tell us what you think.
Next up in group b,
it's time we meet a
character so insane,
so unimaginable,
it makes season two's
thingamajig look like snoopy.
- Ooh, nicole.
- Unleash the watchamacallit.
- No way! Oh, my god!
- Oh, no!
You guys! - What the?
Oh, my god.
And "hair" he is.
Whoa!
- Is that his eyeball?
- He's a one-eyed monster.
- What the? - He's pretty tall.
Watch this and maybe you'll spot
some clues about the whatchamacallit.
Whoo!
Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi.
I'm magical, mythical,
fit as a phystical,
jazzy and snazzy
and full of pizazzy.
You see,
people think I'm a shy guy,
especially because I've let
others absorb my spotlight.
Maybe athlete who was
number two on his team?
But as a bright hairball
I can shine alone,
as this world is wide open.
I can dance with the stars,
surf candy bars,
buzz with the bees,
and swing from the keys.
Black panther.
Michael b. Jordan.
It's time to turn the
tables on the world
because I don't want to be "hair" today,
gone tomorrow.
What's happening?
What the... whoa!
Whoa! Oh, my god!
♪ I wish I was a little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller ♪
♪ I wish I had a girl who looked good,
I would call her ♪
♪ I wish I had a
rabbit in a hat ♪
♪ with a bat and
a six-four impala ♪
♪ I wish I was, like,
six-foot-nine ♪
♪ so I can get with leoshi ♪
♪ 'cause she don't know me,
but, yo, she's really fine ♪
♪ you know I see her all
the time everywhere I go ♪
♪ and even in my dreams I can
scheme on ways to make her mine ♪
♪ 'cause I know
she's living phat ♪
♪ her boyfriend's tall
and he plays ball ♪
♪ so how am I gonna
compete with that? ♪
♪ 'cause when it comes
to playing basketball ♪
♪ I'm always last to get picked and
in some cases never picked at all ♪
- hey!
- ♪ so I just sit up in the wall ♪
♪ or lean up in the bleachers
with the rest of the girls ♪
♪ who came to
watch they man ball ♪
♪ dang, y'all,
I never understood that ♪
♪ why the jocks get the fly girls and me,
I get the hoodrats? ♪
♪ I tell 'em scat,
skittle, scabobble ♪
♪ got hit with a bottle,
put in a hospital for talking that mess ♪
♪ I confess it's a shame
when you living in a city ♪
♪ that's the size of a box and
nobody knows your name ♪
♪ glad I came to my senses ♪
♪ like quick-quick got
sick-sick to my stomach ♪
♪ overcommeth by thoughts
of me and her together, right? ♪
♪ So when I asked her out,
she said I wasn't her type ♪
♪ I wish I was a little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller ♪
♪ I wish I had a girl who looked good,
I would call her ♪
♪ I wish I had a
rabbit in a hat ♪
- ♪ with a bat and a
six-four impala ♪ - oh!
♪ I wish I was a little bit taller,
wish I was a baller ♪
♪ wish I had a girl who looked good,
I would call her ♪
♪ I wish I had a
rabbit in a hat ♪
♪ with a bat and
a six-four impala ♪
- oh, yes! - He got swag.
- He's good.
- Like, really good.
The whatchamacallit. I
think I noticed that tone.
- You know who he is already?
- No! I'm just saying, like, the voice sounds familiar.
- It does sound familiar.
- The voice is so familiar.
And can I tell you how freaking
amazing that was, whatchamacallit?
Yeah! - Jenny: Honestly.
I feel like it's a professional artist
because he just had too much swag.
He was rapping,
he was in the flow, he was perfect.
Yes.
- Oh, my gosh.
- All right, well,
it's time for the first
impression guesses.
Drop your guesses
into the vault train.
- ♪ join hands ♪ - come on,
nicole.
♪ Start a love train ♪
♪ love train ♪
ken,
stop playing with the train!
In no way will
this ever get old.
♪ Start a love train ♪
all right, mr. Whatchamacallit,
what made you choose
this crazy costume?
Because I love the
name whatchamacallit
because I can be whoever
I want to be inside this,
and to me, that's my true
self to present to the world.
Great answer right there. Are you
guys picking up on any clues? Nicole?
I saw in the clue
package swinging keys.
Who does that remind
you of? Alicia keys.
Who is she married
to? Swizz beatz.
There was a little
record-like turntable situation.
- Yes.
- He's not a dj, but he is a producer.
- Well said.
- Okay. Swizz beatz.
- That's actually a good guess.
- Yeah.
So,
nicole's pointed out... I'm a huge nba fan.
There's a player, dame lillard,
from the portland trailblazers
- who really is, like, an amazing rapper.
- Yep.
And he's got a song
called "shot clock,"
- and there was a clock in the package.
- Ooh.
Dame has all these hidden talents
and that's what "the masked singer" is for.
- So I'm going with dame lillard.
- Wow.
- A good guess.
- You can see dame lillard backstage
putting that on right now
before he came out here?
He has the same
eyeball as dame lillard.
- All right?
- Well, what do you got, robin?
Nothing better.
You know what?
I think this is the wordiest
clue package we've ever seen.
There was "dancing with the stars,"
"surfing candy bars,"
"hair today, gone tomorrow."
so I started
thinking of a lyricist
and who would put
on something like this
and feel very natural
and very comfortable in it.
There was turntables.
He's know as dj stank daddy.
There was some orange slices.
He worked on "channel
orange" with frank ocean.
I think it might be tyler,
the creator.
Wow. - I like that.
That's good. High-five,
high-five.
Obviously we have no idea who you are,
whatchamacallit.
- No idea.
- But we know you are amazing.
Ladies and gentlemen,
keep in going for whatchamacallit.
Whatchama-think
about our panel's
whatchamacallit guesses?
♪ Who is that? ♪
Welcome back to
"the masked singer,"
the show with pyrotechnics,
explosive performances,
crazy costumes,
and that's just in ken
jeong's dressing room.
Our next singer is full
of venom and vigor.
Let's all collectively
hiss for the serpent.
♪ He's a coldhearted snake ♪
♪ look into his eyes ♪
- oh, my god! - Whoa!
Oh, my god.
- Wow.
- ♪ He don't play by rules ♪
- - whoa! That
is a venomous serpent!
I think we got
an athlete on our hands.
- ♪ cold-hearted snake ♪ - whoa! Dude,
it's moving!
- It's moving!
- Oh, my god. That is crazy!
So, just who is behind the sly,
scaly skin of this snake?
It's the loveable,
kind of scary tale
of the serpent.
'sssup, friends?
It took an insane chain of
miraculous events to get here,
starting when I was young.
Musicology and medicine.
It's neil patrick harris.
Mischievous and devious,
a trouble-making snakeling.
Troublemaker. Oh,
my god. Is it johnny knoxville again?
I was slithering furiously down
a path towards destruction.
But my pops saved me,
buying me a one-way ticket
away from the wrong crowd
and onto a path
towards success...
Serpent sr.? Maybe
he's a "junior."
...Lighting a fire inside me
to "asp-ire" to new heights.
I didn't want to cause pain,
but heal pain.
And I hope to lift everyone's
spirits tonight, all right.
♪ When I wake up, well,
I know I'm gonna be ♪
♪ I'm gonna be the man
who wakes up next you ♪
- whoa! - ♪ and when I go out ♪
♪ well, I know I'm gonna be ♪
♪ I'm gonna be the man
who goes along with you ♪
♪ but I would walk 500 miles ♪
♪ and I would walk 500 more ♪
♪ just to be the man who
walked a thousand miles ♪
♪ to fall down at your door ♪
♪ and I would walk 500 miles ♪
♪ and I would walk 500 more ♪
♪ to be the man who
walked a thousand miles ♪
♪ to fall down at your door ♪
yeah!
♪ But I would walk 500 miles ♪
♪ and I would walk 500 more ♪
oh, my god.
- Wow.
- I mean, what the heck?
Once again,
we are in the presence of greatness.
I know that voice. Talk to me,
nicole.
- What language is that?
- Right?
That's how I feel right now,
nick.
- He's amazing though, right?
- He's amazing.
He has, like, the most beautiful,
delicate voice.
And then he came in with
all that power in the chorus.
First of all,
it's one of my favorite songs ever,
- and that is the most beautiful rendition.
- Yes.
- Thank you so much for that.
- Oh, my god.
Wow. All right.
It's time for the first
impression guesses.
Panel,
drop your guess into the vault train.
♪ People all over the world ♪
I feel like I know
that voice for sure.
Oh, yeah. If I'm wrong,
then maybe you're right.
♪ People all over the world ♪
♪ join hands ♪
Ken, you missed the train!
♪ Love train ♪
ken, what song are you dancing to,
ken?
- Sit your ass down, man.
- All right, all right.
Well, let's talk to him. All right,
mr. Serpent, how are you feeling?
It's so surreal
to be on this
stage as a serpent.
Music has the power
to heal the world,
and I love to be able to
share this gift with you.
Ah! You okay?
He is definitely in
character as the serpent.
Right? You know,
we heard "pops,"
so I immediately
think pop singer.
- Yeah.
- And then there was a book
"how to be a good serpent,"
and this artist has an amazing
song called "good morning,"
and he's got that voice
that john legend has.
So I'm thinking
it's john legend.
Ah, that's a good one.
You made some good points,
but "hiss-tory" manual
for "hamilton" maybe.
Won a tony and a grammy for it,
you know?
And the clue "dig
yourself out of debt."
last name diggs. Maybe like daveed diggs,
huh? Maybe?
That's actually a good guess.
I,
My brother from another mother over here,
is kind of on his tip
with the "hamilton" vibes.
Now I know there was serpent,
sr., in there,
so maybe this is serpent, jr.
And I know that he
played a doctor in a movie.
"murder on the orient express."
so, I'm going with leslie odom,
jr., guys.
- That's that confidence.
- Because I love him so much
and I want him
to be on this show.
- Come on, leslie. Let's go!
- Yeah!
Well,
one thing we're confident about
is that was an
amazing performance.
Give it up for the
sensational serpent!
That was great.
Are you charmed by the
panel's guesses for the serpent?
Tell us what you think.
- This is our strongest season yet.
- Oh, yeah.
And group b? It's unpredictable.
Just when you think
it's going one way,
they throw another
curveball at us.
I think group b stands for boom!
♪ Who is that? ♪
Welcome back to
"the masked singer"!
Now it's time to introduce
our final singer of the night.
Ladies and gentlemen,
let's say hello to the gremlin.
Hey! Come on, gremlin!
♪ And dance till
you feel better ♪
- ♪ get up offa that thing ♪ - oh,
that's awesome!
- ♪ and dance till you sing
it now ♪ - robin: Wow! Yeah!
♪ Get up offa that thing ♪
- oh.
- ♪ And try to release that pressure ♪
- ♪ get up offa that
thing ♪ - nick: Gremlin.
- So cute!
- ♪ And try to release that pressure ♪
I like this guy.
I like the vibes.
Now, who could be under
this mask? We never know.
Here are some clues that
may help you figure it out.
Greetings.
I'm gremlin.
Despite my checkered history,
I can actually be
quite charming.
A true romantic.
"true romance."
christopher walken?
You may have heard I
can be a bit combative.
But I have a fluffy side, too.
I adore all animals...
So many animals. Jack hanna?
...Long spins on the beach,
a little feng shui,
and bashing worthy opponents
with foreign objects
for maximum impact.
- I also love to cook.
- Cooking? Chopping carrots?
Carrot top?
If you like what you see,
I'd love to have you for dinner.
I mean,
have you over for dinner.
But first,
let's snuggle up as I serenade you.
♪ When the night has come ♪
♪ and the land is dark ♪
♪ and the moon ♪
♪ is the only light we'll see ♪
♪ if the sky we look upon ♪
♪ should tumble and fall ♪
♪ and the mountains ♪
♪ could crumble to the sea ♪
whoo!
♪ I won't cry ♪
♪ I won't cry ♪
♪ no, I won't shed a tear ♪
♪ just as long ♪
♪ just as long as
you stand by me ♪
♪ and darling, darling ♪
♪ stand by me ♪
♪ oh, darling ♪
♪ stand by me ♪
♪ oh, darling ♪
♪ won't you stand by ♪
♪ stand by me ♪
yeah!
Gremlin!
Is he, like,
a hundred years old?
I... I don't know.
I don't know where the gremlin's going,
but keep it going for him.
Hey! Hey, gremlin,
we're over here.
Now, brother, hey.
I'ma stand by you,
player. I'm with you.
- Right?
- I love gremlin. I loved his voice.
It had so many different layers
and it was, like,
at the texture in it.
- It was yummy. That's some seasoning.
- It's seasoned.
That's somebody who's seasoned.
That's why I said it was yummy,
all them seasonings.
All right, panel,
it's time for the first
impression guesses.
- Man.
- You know what to do. Drop it in the vault train.
- Can I put two names on here?
- Write it down and remember.
We're gonna hold
you to these guesses.
I need a name. I need a
name. I don't have anyone.
Robin missed the chance.
You know what to do. Drop it in,
jenny.
♪ Love train ♪
♪ people all over the world ♪
- ♪ start a love train ♪ - time's up,
panel.
- ♪ love train ♪ - all right,
the guesses are in the love train.
Tell us, gremlin,
what did it truly mean to you
to be here performing that song?
Well,
it meant a lot because this song was sang
by one of my best friends ever.
His name was willy deville.
Willy passed away years ago,
and I've missed him for a long,
long time.
- Oh.
- And I think the other night for some reason
willy sent me down this song,
so it...
- yeah.
- There was real emotion in that.
He did this for willy.
Robin, you look... you look
a little perplexed over there.
You deep in thought
for the gremlin.
That's because I
definitely know that voice.
It's reminding me of, like,
a chicken noodle soup.
- It's just... it's warm.
- Soothing to the soul.
Yeah, it's warm and...
He said he liked you,
gremlin. I gotta hold the gremlin back.
No, I'm saying, like,
it's something that...
It's a voice that I
know and I can't put
my finger on it just yet,
but if I'm going off the clues...
Checkered past,
and he's definitely been through a lot,
I think it might be one
of the great rock
and rollers of all time,
- jerry lee lewis.
- Jerry lee lewis?
That's actually a pretty good guess,
but other clues
in the package were,
like, a fighter, a wrestler,
and that kind of growly voice.
Maybe I was thinking
sylvester stallone.
And then I remembered
on my radio show
we played some
audio of an actor,
and his voice sounds
very much like this.
He was also in the
movie "the wrestler."
and to me it sounds
like mickey rourke.
That's not bad, jenny,
but in my opinion this
has gotta be an athlete.
Just off the clue package was,
like, a wrestler,
people think he's combative.
I think maybe this could
be stone cold steve austin.
- Oh! - And I'll tell you why.
Because he does, and I quote,
enjoy long spins on the beach.
Look it up. And he had a
legendary feud with vince mcmahon.
- I think he's saying hurry up.
- Okay, all right, all right.
Stone cold steve austin.
All right, that's a good one.
Wait, gremlin,
what are you doing?
- Gremlin?
- No, I want to take this off right now.
What's happening?
The gremlin's telling me
he wants to take this off.
- It's too damn hot. - What?
Gremlin, you can't do...
That's not part of the show.
Hold on. Hold on. You can't...
- No, no.
- But we haven't even voted!
It's not that part
of the show yet.
You can't take your mask off.
- We have to vote.
- What is happening?
I don't know what
happened to the vote.
He's just gonna
take it off right now?
- No!
- No, you can't do that.
- He's ready to go! - No, no!
- Men in black, I need some help!
- What is happening?
We've lost control.
It's the gremlin's show!
No! No!
Oh, my god! Wow.
Wait, gremlin,
what are you doing?
- No, I want to take this off right now.
- What is happening?
The gremlin's telling me
he wants to take this off.
It's too damn hot.
- What?
- It's not that part of the show yet!
- You can't do that.
- Men in black, I need some help!
- What is happening?
- I say let's go for it.
We've lost control.
It's the gremlin's show.
- No! No! - Do it!
Oh, my god! Mickey rourke!
Oh, my god!
Legendary actor,
oscar nominee, the one and only!
- My friend mickey rourke!
- I can't believe it.
Jenny! You were right!
- I cannot believe it.
- Mickey rourke!
- There's our oscar nominee.
- Yes!
- Wow.
- Jenny mccarthy wahlberg guessed you.
I don't know what's happening,
ladies and gentlemen.
This is a "masked singer"
first. We didn't get to vote.
The other people
didn't get to come out.
Mickey said, "damn it,
it's hot. I'm taking it off."
- I love it.
- No one has ever done this.
Man, you're such a legend.
What would make you
do "the masked singer"
and come have fun with us?
I was in the neighborhood.
"had my gremlin costume. I was like,
'I'm pulling up.'"
I do like the show. I watched,
like, four episodes
you know, when they asked me,
"would you be interested?"
so I watched, like,
from the very beginning
- and all that, you know?
- And all that, yeah.
Mickey,
you thought robin knew who you were, huh?
- I should have.
- I had to hold him back.
He was like,
"I'm about to go whoop his ass."
I was like, "no,
no. Gremlin, calm down."
we've hung out a few times
together down in miami.
I bet you have.
The legendary icon
mickey rourke in the building.
- Taking over "the masked singer."
- he took it over.
All the other characters,
you guys are safe because
he unmasked himself.
Our very first ever
self-elimination.
The artist formerly
known as the gremlin!
Make some noise for the
one and only mickey rourke!
I'm with you,
baby. Let's do it. I got you.
♪ If the sky ♪
♪ that we look upon ♪
♪ should tumble and fall ♪
- there we go.
- ♪ and the mountain ♪
♪ should crumble to the sea ♪
this is the part where we get
emotional. You know, for willy.
♪ I won't cry, I won't cry ♪
- ♪ no, I won't ♪ - whoo!
- ♪ shed a tear ♪ - come on!
♪ Just as long ♪
- ♪ as you stand ♪ - here we go.
♪ Stand by me ♪
mickey rourke,
ladies and gentlemen!
Whoo!
You have been watching
"mickey rourke presents
the masked singer."
thank you!
And he's out!
- I don't know what just happened.
- That's it.
That was it.
Top that, ken jeong!