"Yeahhhhh," said Summer, a little awkwardly, but not exactly just for all the huge loss of life, though she wasn't about to get into that, "it was a whole mess, and if you heard the song that wound up saving Earth, the Cromulons had some seriously questionable taste, even if Ice-T did help write it."

A considering pause.

"Ice-T's totally an alien in my dimension, by the way," she added, "and American Idol's not that bad. I mean, The Voice is obviously better, and the genre as a whole has way overstayed its welcome, but still."