American Idol

13 seasons · 241 episodes · 5034 recovered pages

Recapped by Shack, Joe, Baby Jebus, and 2 more

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Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Season 8

Season 9

Season 10

Season 11

Season 12

Season 13

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525,600 Minutes
Television Without Pity | Photo Gallery
Sits Like A Man, But He Smiles Like A Reptile (2005-03-09)
Top 13: Revealed! (2011-03-03)
Top 24: Men (2010-02-24)
Top 6: Performances (2010-04-27)
Top 6: Results (2010-04-28)
Top 13: Performances (2009-03-10)
The Chair (2008-02-13)
Top 3: Results (2007-05-16)
Top 9: You Botoxed Kenny! You Bastards! (2006-04-04)
Top Eight: Songs of the Cinema Films (2011-04-13)
Top Five: Results (2010-05-05)
Top 5 (2006-05-02)
Top 8: Results (2009-04-08)
Top Three Revealed (2011-05-12)
One of Seven Voted Off (2012-04-12)
Results Show (2012-05-10)
Winner Announced (2012-05-23)
Hollywood Round, Part 2 (2013-02-07)
Semifinalist Round, Part 2 (2013-02-21)
Season 12: Top 8 (2013-03-28)
Season 12: 8 Finalists Compete
Season 12 (2013-04-24)
Girl on Girl on Girl on Girl on Girl Action (04-17-2013)
Idol Gives Something (04-24-2007)
Tuck Nipped (03-27-2006)
Everybody Hurts (03-11-2010)
The Blake Lewis Show, Guest (02-13-2007)
Te Quiero, Mi Amor! (04-10-2007)
Love Is A Doing Word (05-04-2011)
All The Good That Won't Come Out (02-10-2011)
Turn It Up, Turn It Up, Turn It Upside Down! (04-09-2007)
The Top 40 of Top 40 (02-14-2013)
May the Best Woman Win (04-11-2013)
"Paula Had A Very Hit Song... When I Was A Child."
Hometown Heroes (05-16-2012)
Yellow Flag (01-23-2013)
Sausage Party (02-28-2012)
Why'd You Come In Here Looking Like That? (04-01-2008)
I've Grown Accustomed To Their Fates (05-12-2003)
Good Karma doesn't always come back (06-11-2002)
Ryan Wants Muscles! (03-12-2007)
Dereliction of Doody (05-06-2003)
Take This Sinking Boat & Point It Home (05-11-2010)
I Believe I Can Cry (06-25-2002)
You, too (12-31-2003)
A Lofty Roach Soufflé (05-04-2010)
If I vote for you, will you just calm down? (02-09-2004)
Some Came Running, Others Limped (04-28-2009)
Speculum Of The Other America (05-11-2011)
Caring Is Creepy (04-23-2007)
"What's a 'Swan Song'?" (04-24-2006)
Top 9: Results (04-03-2007)
Generation Loss, Or: Continual Nuisances In Your Own House (05-24-2011)
There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway (01-18-2004)
Where's Olive? (03-19-2007)
Faint Praise (02-15-2012)
Who's Afraid of the Play About the Ladies (03-02-2011)
Gaye is good. Gay, not so much. (07-15-2002)
It's Barely Rock & Roll, But I Like It (03-16-2010)
The Contestants That Editing Forgot (02-01-2004)
Sorry, I Don't Pray That Way (03-05-2008)
Baby, You're Much Too Fast (03-23-2005)
I Could Have Danced All Night, But I Was Bored (04-05-2005)
Hate Accompli (05-22-2006)
What Isn't What Should Ever Be (05-18-2011)
When It Rains It Pours
Take The J (07-09-2002)
Please Attempt To Scintillate (02-26-2007)
This is why I don't watch the Teen Choice Awards (06-17-2002)
Meet the Beaten (03-21-2013)
Watching the Sausage Party Get Made (03-06-2013)
Whatever Makes Randy Shut Up (03-09-2010)
The Smelly Throes Of Texas (01-20-2004)
The Greatest Self (02-02-2004)
Hot Off the Charts (04-11-2012)
One (03-01-2011)
He's Dancing As Fast As He Can (04-14-2004)
Disco Nap (04-22-2009)
Waterloo (08-27-2002)
To Steph, With Insufficient Love (03-20-2007)
"He Has His Hair Down For Ya." (02-16-2010)
Season 7: Top 9 Performances (03-31-2008)
"Yeah, But I Make More Sense, Paula" (04-07-2009)
When pretty waif girls make bad song choices (02-10-2003)
This Show's Been Too Long For Too Long (03-04-2009)
Jesus wept (12-24-2003)
All Four One (04-25-2013)
Top 9: Performances (04-02-2007)
Garble, Garble, Hey! (04-10-2006)
I Bet You Think This Song Choice Is About You (02-26-2008)
America Don't Care For Jazz (02-28-2007)
And Then There Were Ten (03-07-2013)
HAVE A NICE DAY! (04-30-2007)
Gotta Get Through This (01-18-2005)
Achtung, Maybe (05-12-2009)
T > D > Y When y = t; x = â™¥ (03-13-2007)
One Tin Uterus Rides Away (04-07-2010)
"Just Try, For Once, Not To Be Annoying." (02-11-2009)
Night of the Queen (04-25-2012)
Then It's Just Wigs, All The Way Down (04-15-2009)
Double or Nothing (04-18-2012)
Season 7: Top 7 Performances (04-15-2008)
Finding the Exits (05-25-2011)
"Shame"? Sorry, we don't stock any of that here. (01-20-2003)
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Blues (08-05-2002)
Once More, With Squealing (01-13-2003)
One on One (05-22-2012)
I will always wave my booty in your face! (02-17-2003)
Call it Even (05-02-2013)
Just A Girl (05-06-2009)
If You Liked It Then You Should Have Put A Bird On It (04-06-2011)
God Bless the Broken Show That Brought Her Here To Us (05-24-2005)
Season 7: Top 10 Results (03-25-2008)
Reheat the Beatles
Top 10: Results (03-27-2007)
Contagion (02-09-2012)
When You Say "That's All" (04-17-2006)
Moulin Rude (06-10-2002)
The Year You Were Awful (03-24-2008)
The Joy Of Rediscovering You (03-04-2008)
Wishin', and hopin', and screechin', and borin' (08-13-2002)
"Must You Sing Directly In My Face?" (01-19-2004)
Semper Fie (02-24-2003)
Goodbye Baby V (05-17-2005)
Do You Feel Inspired? (04-20-2010)
More sucking than a vacuum cleaner expo (01-21-2003)
A Lousy Candle's All I Found (02-20-2007)
California Screamin' (01-26-2004)
America Still Don't Care For Jazz (04-28-2011)
Go, Gaga, Go (04-19-2012)
Your American Idol (09-03-2002)
Chairmen Of The Bored (04-29-2009)
No Alarms/No Surprises
Take a Good Look at My Face (03-23-2011)
Planet Seacrest (03-04-2010)
"I Think I Know What Her Word Bubble Was." (02-23-2010)
Two! "Full"! Hours! (02-11-2008)
In the Zoan (02-27-2013)
We Learn To Respect The Power Of Pandering (05-07-2007)
Try It With The Sound Off Next Time (04-01-2009)
He'll Never Dance With Another (03-11-2008)
Wasn't there something about singing once? (01-20-2003)
Ahoy, Polloi! (05-12-2010)
Vote Rocked (04-04-2013)
Remember that one time? (04-20-2003)
"What Sucks The Most?" (03-31-2009)
Manic! At The Disco (04-21-2009)
Suck It, Sasha Cohen! Part I (02-20-2006)
Names and Numbers (03-15-2013)
Who Sucked Out The Feeling? (03-24-2010)
Take Your Records Off (03-06-2007)
Arrival Of A Train At A Station (05-21-2007)
Why Ask Y? (03-28-2013)
No, you cannot get my attention (12-25-2003)
Dishonorable discharge (04-28-2003)
The Farmers and Adele (02-29-2012)
More Talk, Less Rock (04-04-2013)
Male Call (02-21-2013)
I Know It's Everybody's Sin (05-13-2009)
(10-30-2002)
She sang her song like a candle in the wind (04-06-2004)
Turns Out I Can Say Goodbye, Actually (03-11-2009)
Stand (05-01-2013)
Turbanated (02-28-2013)
But Isn't She Pretty In Pink? (02-12-2007)
The Last Days Of Disco (Stu) (04-21-2011)
Jacob Lusk Can Still Suck It (04-07-2011)
Season 7: Top Eight Performances (04-08-2008)
So...Now What? (04-17-2007)
Vegas, Baby (02-16-2012)
Back in Bacharach (04-10-2013)
She's A Snarl (03-31-2010)
Please Don't Talk About Love Tonight (04-19-2005)
On the Ass with Ryan Seacrest (05-02-2004)
Find some new shtick, Bic (02-24-2004)
For The Love Of Money (And Vonzell's Daddy) (05-10-2005)
Guess That's Why They Call It The Creeps (03-16-2011)
Too Close to Call (05-15-2013)
Good Times Never Seemed So Sad (04-29-2008)
Don't Talk Back (05-03-2005)
Black Velvet Inability To Smile (05-08-2006)
"I Saw An Evil! In Her Eyes!" (02-04-2009)
It Burns! Burns! Burns! (03-17-2009)
Hold Me Closer, Katherine Helmond (03-30-2011)
Season 7: Top 11 Results (03-18-2008)
The Competition Begins... Now?! (03-13-2013)
Bring Out The Gimps (04-14-2009)
The Man Who Cried (05-15-2006)
Too many men on the field (03-23-2004)
Lucky 13 (03-01-2012)
Cuban Fizzle Crisis (04-27-2004)
Top 10: Performances (03-26-2007)
Another Day In The Life (03-17-2008)
Wizard People, Dear Reader (03-17-2011)
Music and passion were always the fashion (04-20-2004)
Sometimes We Cannot Work It Out (03-10-2008)
Hollyweird (02-13-2013)
The Prime Of Miss Paula Abdul (03-05-2007)
Mood: Relieved (05-18-2004)
This show cost $12 to produce (05-16-2004)
Screw all that peace and love stuff (07-23-2002)
Over the Edge (02-08-2012)
Suck It, Sasha Cohen! Part III (02-22-2006)
Too Chicken Little, Too Chicken Late (03-20-2006)
That's Some Bad Hat, Haley (05-19-2011)
Theme Malfunction (04-24-2013)
Smackdown (07-01-2002)
Last Hired, First Fired (02-20-2008)
I don't think I'm ready for this Jelly (06-26-2003)
Atlanta vs. Nashville (01-24-2003)
Stacking the Deck (03-05-2013)
Mockingjays & Gwyneth Days (02-17-2011)
Filler Filler (05-09-2012)
The Major Lift (05-18-2010)
Oldies and the Old Country (05-02-2012)
Season 7: Top 7 Results (04-16-2008)
Vote For Luke! Before He Go (03-03-2008)
The Muuuuuusic Of Your Nightmares (04-22-2008)
"It's Steven Tyler meets Fall Out Boy meets Robert Pattinson!" (02-25-2009)
Something Inside Has Died (04-27-2011)
Please Don't Dump Me Just Because You Can (03-18-2009)
With Apocalypse Descending, Who Demands More Life? (03-24-2011)
A Dingo Ate Your Gokey (04-06-2010)
"It Was Surreal, Is What It Was." (02-10-2010)
Come On, Baby, And Rescue Me...Or Whatever (02-19-2008)
Without Hype, Where Would You Be Right Now? (02-25-2008)
The David We Deserve (05-21-2008)
What It Feels Like For A Man (04-20-2011)
In The Jingle (05-07-2008)
Through The Fire & Right Into The Frying Pan (03-30-2010)
Shaken Up In Vegas (04-14-2010)
"Sexy And Scary: It's A Fine Line." (02-09-2010)
Recaps & Reviews
The Yard Of Blonde Girls (02-27-2008)
"We're Not Allowed To Show That!" (03-25-2009)
Season 7 Idol Gives Back: Results (04-10-2008)
How To Lose Friends & Alienate People (02-18-2009)
Caught In A Trap (04-13-2010)
"Truth Is Reality... Right?" (03-03-2010)
"If I Were Bikini Kill I Would ______ You Right Now!" (02-17-2010)
"That Teapot's Spreadin' Lies About Me!" (02-16-2011)
"I'm Like A Big Destiny Person." (02-26-2009)
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing. Except Syesha. (05-13-2008)
She'll Play The Wild Rover No Never, No More (04-23-2008)
Two Inches Or A Yard (03-26-2009)
American Idol (03-26-2014)