Narrator: Tv's best kept secret is back.
Famous masked faces from across the land
are heading west to settle an old singing score
and claim their reward--
the golden mask trophy.
Three teams, the good,
the bad, and the cuddly,
will duke it out in the most epic showdown
in "masked singer" history.
- Yee-haw! - Saddle up.
It's season seven of "the masked singer."
let the guessing game begin.
- Yeah! - ( cheering )
nick cannon! Whoo!
Welcome to the premiere that you've been waiting for--
"the masked singer" season seven!
Pew, pew, pew, pew.
Season seven! Season seven!
- Are you ready? - Bring it!
( shouting )
let's give it up for the good!
♪ good vibrations
prince.
- Who is that? - Oh, oh, oh, oh.
- Nick: Firefly. - Hey!
- Those be some dancer legs. - Oh! She can move.
- Nick: Mcterrier. - ( barking )
- yes! - ( howling )
nick: Armadillo.
Oh, my god! What a character!
- Nick: And ringmaster. - Yes!
- Wow, yes! - Oh, my gosh.
- What? - Who is that?
Nick: But the good won't have it easy.
Bring out the bad.
- Robin: Yeah! - Jenny: Yes!
♪ I'm the bad guy
- nick: Hydra. - Yes!
- Nick: Queen cobra. - Hey!
- Nick: Ram. - Yeah!
- Who is that? - Nick: Jack-in-the-box.
- Oh! - What?
Nick: Panel, watch out for cyclops.
- Ken: So scary! - Nicole: Oh, my gosh.
- Ken, watch out! - What? Oh, my god! No, no!
Nick: And last but not least, we saved the cutest of all.
- Introducing the cuddly. - Yes!
♪ all your hugs and kisses to me ♪
- nick: Space bunny. - Oh, my gosh! He's huge!
- Nick: Lemur. - Those be some dancer legs.
- Whoo! - Nick: Baby mammoth.
- What? Who is that? - Yeah!
- Nick: Miss teddy. - Oh, my god. So cuddly.
- Nick: And thingamabob. - Yes!
Kinda got a youthful energy.
Nick: Get ready for the most bonkers season yet,
"the masked singer: The good, the bad, and the cuddly."
- ♪ who are you? - Ken: Yeah!
- Season seven! - ♪ who, who, who, who
♪ oh, I really wanna know
♪ who are you?
- Robin: Yeah. - Wow.
Now that we have seen our three teams, I'm curious.
Panel, which team would you all be on,
the good, the bad, or the cuddly?
Oh, I'm all team cuddly.
All team cuddly. Yeah!
I mean, someone's gotta represent the baddies.
Robin: Yeah!
And, ken, we can lift you up and be cuddly with you, so...
Team cuddly. Yeah!
And, nicole, what about you?
Well, nick, I would be so proud to represent team good.
- Yeah! - Nick: All right.
All of our teams have gone backstage
to their very own homebases,
where they will live all season.
Now kicking off the premiere is team cuddly!
Robin: Yeah!
Team cuddly, send us your first singing fur monster.
All right, representing team cuddly,
it's thingamabob!
Thingamabob!
- ♪ I believe in miracles - what?
Oh, whoa, look at him! Oh, so cuddly.
♪ you sexy thing
wow. He's tall. He's big.
Nicole: Oh, he's coming out stepping.
- He loves to dance! - Look at him go.
Look at how much bigger he is than nick.
He's like a linebacker.
Like a defensive lineman, actually.
- He is cuddly! - Nick: Thingamabob!
- Nicole: Yeah! - We're in for a treat.
We are kicking off the premiere
with one of the wildest characters yet,
and nothing says wild like our singers taking an opportunity
to sell you a self-endorsed product.
Our singers are taking over the airwaves tonight,
and anything and everything can be a clue.
Let's take a look at the cuddly channel
in little something we in the masked singer universe
call a clue-mercial.
Announcer: The thingamabob is in need of your help.
Being taken from its natural habitat,
it now has to fend for itself.
Hotel california. Maybe it's someone from california.
We're not exactly sure what it is,
but we know it's precious and needs to be protected.
Ooh, a bulldog. Maybe they know nick.
Maybe he's a country boy.
The fish and tackle box, he likes to go fishing.
With a little effort, we all can live in harmony...
Together.
For only a couple quarters a day,
you can watch this creature adapt
and flourish into the future.
Ooh, look, for just a cup of coffee a day,
we can save thingamabob.
You are key to saving this... Thing.
I mean, look at those eyes. How can you say no?
It's one of a kind, so be kind and save the thingamabob.
Donate today.
A portion of the proceeds go to robin thicke's wardrobe.
Let's hear it for thingamabob.
Hey!
- Oh, I love this song! - Yes! Yes!
♪ it's all the same
♪ only the names will change
- whoa! - ♪ every day
he can sing!
♪ it seems we're wasting away
♪ another place
♪ where the faces are so cold
♪ I'd travel all night
♪ just to get back home
♪ 'cause I'm a cowboy
♪ and on a steel horse I ride
♪ I'm wanted, wanted
♪ dead or alive
- ken: Yeah! - Nicole: Wow!
♪ and I walk these streets
♪ got a loaded six-string on my back ♪
whose voice is that?
♪ see I play for keeps
♪ because I might not make it back ♪
♪ I've been everywhere, oh, yeah ♪
♪ but still I'm standing tall
he's a singer.
♪ see, I've seen a million faces ♪
♪ and I've rocked them all
♪ 'cause I'm a cowboy, whoo!
Yeah!
♪ and on a steel horse I ride
♪ I'm wanted, wanted
♪ dead or alive
♪ yeah, I ride, yeah, I ride
♪ dead or alive
- holy cow! - Yeah!
Yeah!
That was epic.
Wow! Wanted indeed.
My man, thingamabob.
Way to kick off season seven premiere.
That was out of control amazing!
All right, thingamabob, how are you feeling about that rocking performance?
Rock music was something that I grew up with,
and it transformed me.
So for me, I want my voice to be the biggest clue.
- Oh. - Ken: Aw, man.
Maybe he's just a recognizable voice.
Maybe he's disguising it up for the song
and playing the game so well.
Jenny: Maybe, maybe.
Real talk, this would be amazing if this was the lead vocalist
of metallica, james hetfield.
Because think about it for a second.
He is huge.
If you look at the clue package,
the bell reminds me of their famous song
"for whom the bell tolls," you know what I mean?
- That's, like... - Do that again.
- I was trying to rock and roll, all right? - Yeah!
That's what I was doing, nick. Are you ready to rock?
Robin: Yeah!
I don't know. Look at that body.
I think this is an athlete.
- Ken: Whoa. - Nicole: Yeah!
Nick: He's shaking his thingama-tail at you.
When I saw the bell, I thought could it be, like, a wrestling bell?
You know what I mean? And there was a bulldog,
and a little wrestling move, bulldogging.
And it made me think of chris jericho, wwe hall of famer.
- He's got that kind of body. - Ken: He's a legend.
- He's a legend. - Good guess, jenny.
To be honest, my gut tells me from the body language
and the way that he performed that he's an athlete.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Team athlete over here.
And that he kills at karaoke.
And I saw hotel california,
so I'm thinking maybe he played on the san francisco 49ers.
Maybe it's, like, a terrell owens doing a rock song.
Nicole: Oh, my gosh!
Thingamabob, clearly you have the panel perplexed.
But you came out here and you flexed.
He did his thingama-thing, right? Keep it going for him.
My man bob! I can call you bob, right?
I can call you bob? My man, bob.
Aw, I love you, thingamabob.
Go ahead and cuddle up with the rest of your team.
Jenny: Season seven!
- Ken: Yeah! - We are off to a good start!
- Nick: Tonight... - Ken: Oh, my god!
"masked singer's" most dramatic season premiere...
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
This will go down in "masked singer" history.
Hey, hey, hey. Somebody go up there.
- Get a medic right now. - Nicole: Now.
Nick: This season's "masked singer" is huge,
but bigger isn't always better.
Head over to tmz.Com to see how the singer/stars
narrowly avoided catastrophe by managing the biggest,
tallest, and heaviest costumes ever.
♪ who, who, who, who, who is that? ♪
welcome back to the season premiere of "the masked singer".
This season we've divided our mystery singers into three teams--
the good, the bad, and the cuddly.
- ( western music plays ) - ( squeaking )
they'll be competing against the biggest names in showbiz
to get their hands, paws, and claws
on the golden mask trophy.
Who's under the mask?
Let's get back to the game and find out.
Now before the break,
the cuddly team sent out their secret weapon thingamabob,
who left our panel wanting more.
It'll be hard to follow that,
but team good knows a thing or two about being winners.
Team good, who's headed to the stage tonight?
Well, run on out here, mcterrier!
Jenny: Oh, my gosh! Look at him!
- Oh, my god! - Whoo!
Robin: Let's go!
Nicole: Oh, my gosh! So cute!
What up, dog? Look at his snout!
Such a good boy. He definitely belongs on team good.
- Hey, how you doing, nick? - All right.
Not too big though. A little shorter than nick,
- it looks like. - Oh, he is short.
I know mcterrier can't see nothing.
- He almost ran right into me. - Nothing!
Now the good network has a clue-mercial
for you to sink your teeth into.
So let's take a look at mcterrier's message. Check it out.
What's up, dogs?
If you're like me,
always on the move and making a mess,
you're gonna love my terry towel.
It's super absorbent,
all-purpose,
and works like a charm.
Does eating out of your bowl have you covered in food?
Cake could symbolize, like, a comedian.
- Yeah. - Like a pie in your face.
Mcterrier: Try terry towel.
Taking a cat nap? Arf, arf, arf!
Oh, sorry. Did I wake you?
Try terry towel.
Gold record, so they're a singer or musician.
Mcterrier: It can clean anything right up to the edge.
Like the edge from u2?
You can't beat it. You need it.
So stop what you're doing and order now.
See? You can teach an old towel new tricks.
The axe could be a politician
who was given the axe and had to leave office.
Well, god, there's a billion of those.
Put your hands together for mcterrier.
- Jenny: Oh! - Is he a drummer?
He's really doing that.
( all shouting )
- oh, my gosh! - Yeah!
♪ everyone's watching
♪ to see what you will do
♪ everyone's looking at you
I don't think he can see anything.
♪ oh
♪ everyone's wondering
♪ will you come out tonight?
♪ everyone's trying to get it right ♪
♪ get it right
♪ everybody's working for the weekend ♪
♪ everybody wants a new romance ♪
♪ everybody's going off the deep end ♪
♪ everybody needs a second chance ♪
♪ you want a piece of my heart? ♪
♪ you better start from the start ♪
♪ you want to be in the show?
♪ c'mon, baby, let's go
♪ do you want a piece of my heart? ♪
♪ you better start from the start ♪
♪ you want to be in the show?
♪ c'mon, baby, let's go
( howling )
that was amazing.
( howling )
- go, dog! Go, dog! Go, dog! - Thank you.
- ( groans ) - oh, god. He's gonna fall.
- Oh! - Oh!
- His mask just fell off. - Oh, my goodness.
Jenny: Turn around, nicole!
Nicole: Oh, my gosh.
What do I do? ( laughs )
thank you.
- ( groans ) - oh, god. He's gonna fall.
Oh!
Oh, my goodness.
Nicole: Oh, my god.
Jenny: Don't look. Don't look.
I told you he was gonna fall off the stage.
- Robin: Yeah! - Oh, my god.
All right.
Thank you!
- This is a first. - I can't believe that just happened!
- I didn't see who it was, did you? - Never.
- No. - Nicole: No.
He's just sang his head off.
You guys didn't see anything, did you?
We didn't see anything.
I mean, mcterrier, are you okay?
Oh, yeah, I'm fine. I was just worried because, you know,
I'm commando under here.
- Oh! - Ken: Got it.
By the way, this will go down in "masked singer" history.
- Right. - And you are, by far,
the top dog because that performance was amazing.
- ( howling ) - nicole: Yeah, yeah.
( all howling )
now we saw you out there rocking it out on the drums.
Is that a clue?
You know, I play many instruments to make my art.
So it's safe to say I'm an artist.
- Oh. - Well, I'm not buying the accent just yet.
What? My accent's perfect!
- That's a mike myers bit. - "it's crap."
dude, I just did a movie with mike myers.
- Oh, here we go. - For real. - Here we go again.
Mike myers is one of my comedy idols.
He would go around set in, like, various different accents,
and if you think about the clue package,
mike myers is a star. It's axe.
Both: "so I married an axe murderer."
and just his s's right now, I--
and his urinary problem.
This definitely mike myers.
All right.
Jenny: That's actually not a bad guess.
That's not bad, but the performance was really giving me
- a little bit more youthful vibes. - Jenny: Yeah.
So I think could be one of my favorite scottish actors.
Oh, you're gonna say it. You're gonna say it.
- Ewan mcgregor. - Yes, I love it.
Nicole: We saw the candle.
He played the candle, lumiere, in "beauty and the beast."
- nicole! - I know.
I want it to be him so bad.
Mr. Robin thicke?
Well, trying to put it all together,
somebody with a great sense of humor,
- can play the drums. - Yeah.
And we saw the flames for red hot chili peppers.
- Flea. - Jenny: Flea!
Ken: Good guess.
Nicole: He's got some flea energy.
- The tongue's out. - Yes.
Nick: Well, you know what? It's exciting.
It's the season premiere. Y'all keep it going for my dog.
- Good job! - Mcterrier, run back to your team good homebase.
Robin: Great job, mcterrier. Great job. You killed it.
Luckily, that's the only time my head is coming off tonight.
So far we have seen a good and a cuddly,
and we're about to do a bad.
Finally, team baddie representing.
Nick: Which baddie is hitting the stage first?
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
here to give you a bad time, it's cyclops.
♪ gotta find new friends to hang with ♪
♪ because you're all afraid of me ♪
- yes! - What?
- Yes! The baddies! - Robin: What the--
one-eyed monster.
What is happening?
- ♪ I've got a cyclops mind - oh, my god.
We can't tell anything from this.
Is he 12 feet tall? Is he four feet tall? I have no idea.
Nick: Okay, cyclops, let's see what he's selling.
Coming at you from bad tv,
and keep your eye peeled because anything can be a clue.
Yclops: Are you tired of always being cast as the villain?
Lumped in with the baddies,
forced to lurk under dusty beds?
Irritated you're hiding in yet another cluttered corner?
It's ridiculous!
Compass. Does it say southeast?
Achoo!
Who wears a cowboy hat? Oh, kid rock.
If you feel like you're already scary enough
without a bloodshot eye, try cydrops.
Fast relief and no more redness.
But don't think I've turned into a goody.
Is that a comic book?
Could be someone who's played a villain.
I'll always be a baddie.
Cydrops, watch your life change before your very eye.
Let's hear it for cyclops.
Oh!
♪ hello, my friend, we meet again ♪
♪ been awhile, where should we begin? ♪
♪ feels like forever
♪ within my heart are memories
♪ of perfect love that you gave to me ♪
♪ oh, I remember
♪ when you are with me
♪ I'm free
♪ I'm careless
- ♪ I believe - wow!
That's amazing!
♪ above all the others
♪ we'll fly
I feel like I know that voice.
- Right? Sounds familiar. - ♪ this brings tears
♪ to my eyes
♪ my sacrifice
- yeah! - He's getting down.
♪ I just want to say
♪ hello again
- ♪ my sacrifice - nicole: Wow.
- Ken: Yeah, yeah, yeah! - Amazing.
All: Cyclops, cyclops,
cyclops, cyclops, cyclops, cyclops!
"masked singer" season premiere!
Rocking out!
- Wow! - Sacrifice.
- Robin: Yeah. - That performance was lit.
Yeah.
Nicole: It took me back to my rocker days.
I can't imagine moving in that thing,
and you were still rocking out. I loved it.
Cyclops, tell us why you chose cyclops.
Growing up, I connected with monsters more than heroes.
Like, I was the kind of kid that was disappointed
at the end of "beauty and the beast"
when he turned handsome.
Are you picking up any clues, team?
So a villain that stuck out in my head,
william zabka, "karate kid."
oh, yeah, "cobra kai."
he played a bad guy, and then I saw the compass.
And in "cobra kai," he's kind of lost
emotionally in this series.
Nick, you're not loving it.
But, you know, there really are no bad guesses in this dojo.
I am gonna go with william zabka.
Nick: All right. Nicole?
I'm thinking that this could be danny mcbride.
- So he said the comic book-- comedian, actor. - I like that.
He's hilarious. We also saw the compass
and it was pointing to southeast,
and I think that's a clue for his show "eastbound and down."
- jenny: I love that guess. - That's a good guess.
Robin: That's a good guess, but I'm gonna have some fun here.
So we saw the turtle.
This guy famously did turtle racing
on his "rob & big" show.
And he has a connection to dc shoes
which is what I think connects to the comic books.
I think this might be rob dyrdek of "ridiculousness."
- oh, my gosh. So smooth. It goes so well together. - Ken: Wow.
Well, whoever you are, you did team bad very proud.
Make it happen for the cyclops.
Now head on back to your team bad homebase.
Jenny: He's gonna hit the top. He's gonna hit the top!
♪ who is that?
Welcome back to the season premiere
of "the masked singer: The good, the bad, and the cuddly."
- ( western music plays ) - ( squeaking )
it's time for our next singer of the evening.
Who will the good team send out?
Find out. Team good, send out the next singer.
- Oh! - Give it up for the firefly.
Oh, firefly!
♪ light it up
robin: Whoa!
Oh, she can work it.
♪ light it up
look at her, y'all. Team good!
Those be some dancer legs.
Firefly's definitely fire and fly.
So let's take a look at her clue-mercial,
brought to you by the good network.
It's not always easy to keep my antennas glowing.
Ow! Even the goodies have bad days.
- Apollo. - Is it stand-up?
And nothing's worse than running on empty with my busy schedule.
An actor that worked with tyler perry?
That's why I trust on the fly,
the only charger compatible
with the good, the bad, and the cuddly.
Not only does this product keep me going when I fade...
...But it makes me shine like the star I am.
- Statue of liberty. - We got some new york.
- We got some comedy. - Put the power your hands
with the on the fly charger.
It's lit.
Nick: Give it up for firefly.
♪ captured effortlessly
♪ that's the way it was
♪ happened so naturally
♪ I did not know it was love
♪ the next thing I felt was you ♪
♪ holding me close
♪ what was I gonna do?
♪ I let myself go
♪ and now we're flying through-- ♪
ooh.
( coughing )
somebody needs to help her. Someone needs to help her!
- ( coughing ) - somebody get up there. Ay, ay, ay!
- Someone help her. - Somebody go up there!
She's choking. Get a medic right now.
Now!
Watch your back. Watch your back.
( choking )
I'm right here to take it off.
- ( coughing ) - ay, ay, ay!
- Someone help her. - Somebody go up there!
- She's choking. - Watch your back. Watch your back.
Get a medic right now.
Welcome back to "the masked singer."
before we had the break, firefly had to suddenly stop her performance.
She's backstage right now being looked after by our set medic.
Her wellbeing is our top priority.
But for now, the show must go on.
Team bad, you're up.
Who are you sending out?
Jenny: Yeah! Another baddie!
Robin: Who's a bad one?
All right, get ready for the ram!
- Ram! - Robin: The ram.
Oh!
- Jenny: What? - Wow.
Oh, my god. He's enormous.
Nick: Ram looks serious.
He got attitude.
Ram came to play.
Russell crowe, finally.
Yeah, yes! Look at those abs.
The most gangster ram I've ever seen in my life.
Jenny: Yeah, you get it, ram! You baddie!
- Definitely a baddie. - Nicole: He is. He's intimidating.
All right, well, I'm gonna let the world see what he's selling.
Take a look at a clue-mercial by bad tv.
Bad tv? Oh, they don't pay well. They don't.
Hey, girl.
Is your man as scruffy as a billy goat before his yearly shearing?
- Hmm? - Do you wish he was sporting
the smooth look of a real ram?
- Rams. - Touchdown.
Say hello the ramscaper,
the secret to keeping my head in the game
and my presentation on point.
Papa ram taught me everything I know,
including the art of ramscaping,
and I've been following in his hoofprints my whole life.
- Aw, a piggy bank. - Quarterback.
Quarter in the piggy back.
It's turned me from small young buck
to real deal ram.
There's a lot of football.
Ramscaper. Don't be a sheep.
Be a ram.
( bleats )
put your hands together for the ram.
♪ I want you to want me
♪ I need you to need me
♪ I'd love you to love me
♪ I'm begging you to beg me
♪ I'll shine up my old brown shoes ♪
who is this?
♪ put on a brand new shirt
♪ get home early from work
♪ if you say
♪ that you love me
♪ didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying? ♪
- yeah! - ♪ oh, didn't I, didn't I
♪ didn't I see you crying?
♪ feeling all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dying ♪
♪ oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying? ♪
♪ I want you to want me
♪ I need you to need me
♪ I'd love you to love me
♪ I'm begging you to beg me
- ( laughs ) - ken: Nice!
Pow!
- Wow. - What did he do?
- He goes, "pow!" - pow!
Keep it going for the ram.
Yes! Going ham ninja on season seven.
I love it. I love the commitment,
the conviction, and the confidence!
Ken: Oh!
You came out here as a baddie, but after that performance,
you know, you're not so bad.
Robin: Yeah!
Nick: Well, you guys wanna hear from the ram himself?
You know, my entire life I've heard boos,
- I've heard cheers. - Uh-oh.
But I'm used to telling stories under these lights,
and I've worked my whole life to get to where I am today.
- Ken: Oh, man. - Nicole: Wow.
That makes me feel like it's even more a sports figure.
We had so many football clues.
And he had to deal with a lot of boos, you know?
We saw a quarterback clue,
there was a small pony.
He played for the colts,
and he followed his father's footsteps
and became a coach.
Could it be jim harbaugh?
- Yeah! - Ken: Yep.
Nick: The audience loved that one.
But the macbeth by hamlet clue,
I have not figured out how to connect that with ram.
Ken: To me, this has gotta be an nfl star.
This has gotta be an nfl quarterback,
and I think this is so on the nose.
Men in black touchdown signal, lot of football,
this is l.A. Ram, matthew stafford, super bowl champ!
But, jenny, I think you were onto something there.
I mean, with the colts and the broncos
and "following in my father's footsteps." - dude.
That right there would be peyton manning. - Bro.
It's a good non-matthew stafford guess.
You'd be closer body type.
- Jenny: Hey, peyton. - Ken: Hey, matthew.
Robin: Eli.
You guys are dead freaking wrong.
Oh!
Listen, even though we have no idea who you are,
we do know that that was an awesome performance.
- Ken: Exactly. - There it is.
- Keep it going for the ram who rocked the stage. - Ram: Thank you.
Go ahead and push it on backstage to your team bad homebase.
We've got an update on firefly's progress
which we'll share when we come back.
Don't go anywhere.
♪ who is that?
Welcome back to the season premiere of "the masked singer,"
and honestly, it's the most dramatic one yet.
Earlier tonight, we saw mcterrier sing his head off.
And not long after that, firefly had a scare onstage
had to abruptly stop her performance.
But the good news is this firefly is one heck of a fighter.
She's onstage right now.
Firefly!
- Whoo! - Firefly: All right, come on.
Let's get it. Let's get it.
Nick: Give it up for firefly.
♪ captured effortlessly
♪ that's the way it was
♪ happened so naturally
♪ I did not know it was love
♪ the next thing I felt was you ♪
♪ holding me close
♪ what was I gonna do?
♪ I let myself go
♪ and now we're flying through the stars ♪
♪ hope this night will last forever ♪
wow, wow!
♪ I've been waiting for you
♪ it's been so long
♪ I knew just what I would do
♪ when I heard your song
♪ you fill my heart with your kiss ♪
♪ you gave me freedom
♪ you knew I could not resist
♪ I needed someone
♪ and now we're flying through the stars ♪
♪ hope this night will last forever ♪
oh, yeah!
♪ oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ ain't nobody
♪ loves me better
♪ can make me happy
♪ can make me feel this way
♪ ain't nobody
♪ loves me better than you
- oh, my god! - Whoa!
Yes!
( cheering )
amazing.
Wow, everybody was on their feet.
You had the panel standing on the desk.
Wow. I mean, it's gotta be hard enough just to walk out here
and sing and put on these costumes.
Then you have to go through that type of a challenge.
To be able to go backstage, regroup that quickly,
and come out here and put on the best performance of the night,
I mean, I think she's gonna be hard to stop all season.
Nicole: Oh, my gosh.
I am so proud that you represent team good,
that you just pulled through it.
You're a fighter.
Thank you so much.
I've been performing all my life,
and it feels amazing every time I step onstage.
Oh.
Panel, y'all picking up on any clues?
Well, that's the thing, 'cause I think all of us right now,
we're thinking of iconic voices.
Facts.
All the clues point to new york.
You have the statue of liberty.
You have apollo theater.
I'm thinking this might be alicia keys
because she was born in hell's kitchen.
Just November, she did an amazing one-night show
at the apollo theater
to rave reviews.
That's a great guess.
Jenny: That's not bad, but could it be, like,
a stand-up comedian like aisha tyler?
We saw the apollo theater.
She's got a "new york times" best-seller.
That could be the statue of liberty connection.
And, hello, tyler perry picture.
Aisha "tyler."
but I was also hearing a lot of monica in that voice.
( cheering )
the audience is feeling that.
I'm just gonna leave it in that bucket.
Robin: Well, whoever you are, you are one of the best singers we've had.
- Amazing. - We're so excited to have you.
Ladies and gentlemen, one more time for the amazing firefly.
You lit up the stage for sure!
- Gorgeous. - But you stay right here. Don't move.
The good, the bad, and the cuddly,
come on back out here.
It's time to face the music.
We did it, everybody.
The first week of "the masked singer"
- is on its way to greatness. - Yeah!
But someone from the good, the bad, or the cuddly
will lose a member of their team tonight.
Not the cuddly!
Panel, audience, you know what to do.
- No. - Vote for your favorite.
The top four will advance to next week.
The mystery singer with the fewest votes will be forced to unmask
- and catch the next railroad car out of here. - ( ken groaning )
and the votes are in.
The first singer to get eliminated and head home is...
Jenny: I don't like this.
- Mcterrier. - Oh, man!
- Oh, no! - Nick: Clap it up. Show some love.
- Nicole: Oh, no! - Nick: The rest of you have made it to another day
in the race for the golden mask trophy.
Head back to your homebases.
- Oh, my god. He's so cute. - Mcterrier is not taking this well,
- ladies and gentlemen. - He's not taking it well at all.
- Oh, no! - Someone rub his belly. Rub his belly.
- It's okay. - No!
We're sorry, mcterrier.
- Ken: We're sorry! - Robin: Give a dog a bone.
All right, I thought I was great.
- "I was great!" - we thought you were great too, pup.
But you know what? Before we get to our first unmasking of the season,
I want to talk to the panel and see who you believe
this wild mystery celebrity singer actually is.
Panel, give me some final guesses. Who wants to start?
You remind me of a dear friend
who also can do a great scottish accent,
mike myers.
- This is sir mike myers. - Jenny: Mcmyers.
Well, I'm thinking in a different direction.
I think this is a musician
because he played the drums in the beginning.
Flame or fire I think represents
the red hot of the chili peppers.
- Ken: Wow. - Robin: I think this is flea.
Ken: Good guess. Oh, my-- look.
- Dude, he's got-- - that's such a good--
- jenny: He likes it. He likes it a lot. - Bro. Bro. Bro.
Nick: Nicole, who do you think it is?
Okay, listen, with that scottish accent,
I think this could be one of my favorite actors.
I think this could be ewan mcgregor, y'all.
- There it is. - Ken: Good guess.
I love that guess, nicole. Yes! Come what may!
Our clue expert, I need a final guess.
You know, mcterrier, you made me laugh a lot.
And I was thinking possibly someone like a jeff ross.
You know, he's the roastmaster general,
and we saw that flame.
Fire, roast. Get it?
Gold records, he had several comedy albums.
- Yep. - And is comedy is kind of, you know, cutting,
like an axe.
This could be jeff ross.
- All right. - Nicole: Wow, jenny.
- Bring it home, jenny. - Thanks, nicole.
Bunch of very different but very good guesses.
Let's see if any of you are right.
Who is behind the mask?
- Audience, join in with me. - I can't wait to see who this is.
- All: Take it off! - Come on.
All: Take it off! Take it off!
- Take it off! - Ken: Come on, myers!
- Here. Here. - Come on, flea!
All: Take it off! Take it off!
♪ I really wanna know
- it already fell off once. - Come on, mcterrier!
♪ tell me, who are you?
- Mike myers! - ♪ you, you, you
- who is it? - ♪ are you?
Pastry chef, author, and tv star duff goldman!
Duff goldman!
- Nicole: Oh, my god! - Jenny: No way!
- Yay! - Robin: Wow.
- Duff, you came to play. - I did. I did.
Now we gotta talk-- before we talk to the panel, you sang your mask off.
Tell me what was going through your mind in that moment.
I thought-- I was like, I didn't wanna get sued.
I thought, like, "aw, no, you can't do that!"
and then, like, you know, the mask--
I was really worried I messed it up for everybody.
Well, no one-- you guys didn't see it, right?
- Nicole: Oh, you were amazing. - You had a great recovery.
You were incredible, dude.
And you made this a great premiere, man.
- Keep it going for duff. - Nicole: Yes.
- Robin: It was great. - Yes.
You're a classy dude. I'm a fan.
My wife and kids love you.
And I tell you, man, it is just an honor to meet you in person, brother, for real.
Oh, that's good. Thank you, thank you.
Nick: But what made you even want to do "masked singer?"
I have daughter, and she just turned one two days ago.
- Oh, my god! Happy birthday! - Congratulations!
- So awesome. - She's gonna love this someday.
All right, well, y'all give it up for duff goldman one more time.
- Yes! - All right!
- Yeah, duff! - We love you.
Nick: Thank you for being such a great sport.
- Thank you for being here. - My pleasure, man.
Right now, here to perform unmasked once and for all,
the artist formerly known as mcterrier,
- give it up for duff goldman! - Duff!
♪ you want a piece of my heart? ♪
♪ you better start from the start ♪
♪ you want a piece of the show? ♪
♪ c'mon, baby, let's go
yes!
♪ you want a piece of my heart? ♪
♪ you better start from the start ♪
♪ you wanna be in the show? C'mon baby let's go ♪