American Idol

13 seasons · 189 episodes · 222 recovered pages

Recapped by Joe

Season 1

• S01E09: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
• S01E12: First Dubya, now this

Season 2

• S02E04: Which show is this, anyway?
• S02E05: Starting off with a blah
• S02E07: Moon Over Miami
• S02E08: Ow. Quit it.
• S02E09: Not so much "wild" as "inexplicable"
• S02E10: Boobies Over Booty
• S02E11: Scream 4
• S02E12: Chicken-fried fake
• S02E13: Macho Man
• S02E14: Please don't feed the goat
• S02E15: Beautiful Disaster
• S02E16: We're Gonna Wash That Girl Right Out Of Our Hair
• S02E17: Throwing The Paybee Out With The Bathwater
• S02E20: An Idol Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich
• S02E21: From Justin To Kelly
• S02E22: Clay Aiken: "Measure of a Man"
• S02E23: An American Idol Christmas
• S02E24: Ruben Studdard: "Soulful"
• S02E25: World Idol , Part I
• S02E26: World Idol , Part II

Season 3

• S03E05: Would You Like A Nice Hawaiian Punch?
• S03E08: You Don't Have To Go Home, But You Can't Fame-Whore Here
• S03E10: The Fall of the Roman Empire
• S03E12: Can I be frank? No, not Sinatra.
• S03E13: Everybody needs somebody to hate
• S03E14: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
• S03E15: Honky Tonk Blahs
• S03E16: Buffoons in a Ten-Cent Motown
• S03E17: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
• S03E18: From Dusk Till Jon
• S03E19: When Will I Scold You Again?
• S03E20: Miami Ow Machine
• S03E21: Don't even think of calling them "fat-bottomed girls"
• S03E22: Footloose and fancy-free

Season 4

• S04E02: Mentally Ill Is The New Hilarious, Part II
• S04E03: Mentally Ill Is The New Hilarious, Part III
• S04E04: "So What Are You Doing Here?"
• S04E05: Knock It Off (The Box)
• S04E07: Compared To What?
• S04E09: Ziggy Played Guitar
• S04E10: "She Had Style! She Had Flair! She Got Tossed!"
• S04E11: One Flea Spare
• S04E15: Rock & Roll Suicide
• S04E19: Some People Wait A Lifetime For Something To Happen
• S04E20: Skeptacular! Skeptacular! Part II
• S04E34: Fake Jesus Can't Be Fooled (Don't Even Think It!)

Season 5

• S05E01: Bo Bice Is The New Clay Aiken, Part I
• S05E02: Bo Bice is the New Clay Aiken, Part II
• S05E03: Bo Bice is the New Clay Aiken, Part III
• S05E04: Hollywouldn't
• S05E05: Hollydidn't
• S05E07: Suck It, Sasha Cohen! Part II
• S05E09: ...Love, Rupert Murdoch, Part I
• S05E10: ...Love, Rupert Murdoch, Part II
• S05E11: ...Love, Rupert Murdoch, Part III
• S05E12: Don't Raise Your Eye
• S05E13: Bull On Parade
• S05E16: Top Nine: You Botoxed Kenny! You Bastards!
• S05E17: Top 8 -- Another One Bites the Dust
• S05E18: Top 7 -- Paula, I Think I've Got Something To Say To You
• S05E21: Top 4 -- The King Is Gone (So Are You)
• S05E24: The Princess & The Basket Case The Criminal Brittenum Twins, Ayla the Jock, and Nadia Turner the Brain all steer clear as yet another pointless winner is crowned after two hours of truly frightening behavior by celebrities, personalities, and the Idols in between. 3-10 Recap The Fall of the Roman Empire 2 Fat 2 Furious - Jesus can't please us, and Noel makes us

Season 6

• S06E01: Act Your Age, Not Your...On Second Thought, Don't Act Your Age
• S06E02: Take Seattle To The Zoo
• S06E03: Don't Cry Out Loud
• S06E04: Auditions: New York
• S06E05: Programmed To Receive
• S06E06: Forget The Alamo
• S06E07: Leftover Pie
• S06E10: The Blake Lewis Show, Guest-Starring: Everybody The Chair takes us down from 40 to 24, while the Camera cuts to Blake and Chris Sligh approximately every ten seconds. It's like they're trying to sell you something. 1-3 Recap This is why I don't watch the Teen Choice Awards Pushing America's Buttons - It's confirmation of everything we've always
• S06E12: Goodbye, Lipless and Shiny-Face
• S06E14: We Never Really Cared Until We Met You
• S06E18: King Jeremy The Wicked Sent You Home
• S06E29: Country Is A Type Of Singing
• S06E34: Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
• S06E36: On That Midnight Train To Michigan
• S06E37: Television City City Limits
• S06E40: Arrival Of A Train At A Station Jordin and Blake do their thing, the judges do an unrelated thing, Ryan knows more than he's saying, and a bunch of famous people get snapped in the audience in unflattering poses. Lots of noise, not a lot of enjoyment: must be finale time. 1-3 Recap This is why I don't watch the Teen Choice Awards Pushing America's Buttons - It's confirmation of eve

Season 7

• S07E01: Yes! You're Going To Hollywood! Whatever!
• S07E02: Dateline Is Watching, Seacrest
• S07E03: Un-American Idol
• S07E04: True Love Waits, Seacrest
• S07E05: Don't Quit Your Day Job(s), Seacrest
• S07E06: Miami, Miami, You've Got...Nothing
• S07E07: Flyin' First Class
• S07E08: Have Circumnavigated Globe. Am Still Unable To Locate My Baby.
• S07E11: Hey Simon, Welcome To The '60s
• S07E29: Season 7: Idol Gives Back
• S07E36: She Was, She Went
• S07E37: Tender Is The Night
• S07E40: Local Radio Gods
• S07E41: In Which Simon Messes With Your Head

Season 8

• S08E01: "Next Time, Just Come Naked"
• S08E02: "These Are My Crazy Pills!"
• S08E04: "Was That A Threat?" "That Was A Threat."
• S08E05: "A Lot Of People Fear Physics."
• S08E06: "Bunny! Hi, Bunny!"
• S08E07: "It Hurts Where You Get Kicked Sometimes."
• S08E08: "I Feel It On My Skin! It Bursts Out Of Me!"
• S08E10: "So That's A No?"
• S08E12: Every Little Thing She Does Is Tragic! Tragic! Tragic!
• S08E16: I Would Do Anything For Love Including That, To Be Honest
• S08E35: Please Stop Believin'
• S08E39: Whoa! Boundaries!
• S08E40: Me You and The Flossy Flossy We Both Already Knew

Season 9

• S09E01: "I Am Now Angry At You. Who I Don't Like. At All."
• S09E02: "If I Didn't Have A Dress On, I'd Throw You A Backflip."
• S09E03: "Once, I Had A Real Bad Asthma Attack"
• S09E04: I've Got To Go Wash The Glitter Off
• S09E05: cul8rboi!
• S09E06: "You're What My Nightmares Look And Sound Like."
• S09E07: "Don't Move Your Hips Like That, Honey."
• S09E08: "If It's Good Enough For Daughtry..."
• S09E15: "You've Mastered The Art Of Conversation?"
• S09E16: "I Have My Own Language Too!"
• S09E20: You Are The Uterus
• S09E24: Farty in the U.S.A.
• S09E33: A Spring Clean For The May Queen
• S09E41: You Look So Deep! It Humbles Me!
• S09E42: Lee Lies When He Cries
• S09E43: Simon Says

Season 10

• S10E01: James Franco in the Mouth Area
• S10E02: NOLA Contendere
• S10E03: Double Dream Hands All The Way
• S10E04: Everybody's All American
• S10E05: Do It Like A Dude
• S10E06: More About The War & The Bloody Changes
• S10E07: Choose Absurdity
• S10E11: Like Pigs From A Gun
• S10E17: When We Tell You That We Hate You
• S10E23: Looking Like A True Survivor/Feeling Like A Little Kid
• S10E27: But He Breaks Just Like a Little Consumptive
• S10E33: Lusk! (Real Savage Like)

Season 11

• S11E01: Savannah Smiles
• S11E02: Steeling the Show
• S11E03: On Deck
• S11E04: Houston, We Have a Large Number of Problems
• S11E06: Portland Pity Party
• S11E07: St. Louis Misery
• S11E12: Define "Final"
• S11E13: The (Almost) Final Cut
• S11E17: Whitney vs. Stevie
• S11E18: Back to the Germ Farm
• S11E19: Jermaine Under the Circumstances
• S11E20: Last Ten Standing
• S11E21: I Will Die on This Hilfiger
• S11E22: The Van Is Leaving
• S11E23: Blindsided
• S11E24: Han's Down
• S11E25: Eight on Eighties
• S11E26: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
• S11E32: Released
• S11E34: Exit Laine
• S11E38: And Then They're Were Two

Season 12

• S12E01: Mimi vs. Nicki
• S12E02: Urban War Zone
• S12E04: Calling Baton Rouge
• S12E05: Putting the "Long" in "Long Beach"
• S12E06: Later, Sooners
• S12E07: Hot Man on Man Action
• S12E11: Sudden Death
• S12E29: Girls' Night, Out
• S12E34: Go Home and Go Big
• S12E35: 99,998 Down, One to Go
• S12E37: Grand Finally

Season 13

• S13E01: Boston to Austin
• S13E02: Stay Away, Fools
• S13E03: Local Heroes
• S13E04: Take Your Mom to Work Day
• S13E05: Utahan to Me?
• S13E06: All Aboard
• S13E07: Hangared Up
• S13E08: Group Dynamics
• S13E09: Judgment Day
• S13E10: Top Almost 30
• S13E11: Not So Fast, Five of You
• S13E12: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
• S13E13: Triskadekaphilia
• S13E14: 65 in 260
• S13E15: Lucky 13th
• S13E16: "Home" Runs… Not
• S13E17: And Then There Were Eleven
• S13E18: Hollywood in Hollywood
• S13E19: Been and Gone
• S13E20: The Top 10's Top 10
• S13E21: The Third Time is Not the Charm
• S13E22: Join Together with the Band

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