Finalists are revealed. Also: The judges add their wild-card choices to the final group.
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The female semifinalists perform.
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The male semifinalists perform. Viewer voting begins.
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The judges unveil the remaining semifinalists.
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The contestants must bring it and sing it in one final performance opportunity to win over the judges, who then reveal the first group of semifinalists.
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A performance round is held in Las Vegas.
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The Hollywood round continues.
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Hollywood week continues and — spoiler alert! — 16-year-old Symone Black lives. After she was last seen falling off the stage in what has to be the worst cliff-hanger in reality TV history, Symone regains consciousness and is quickly attended to by the medics. J. Lo and Randy <strike>rush</strike> slowly saunder to her side and J. Lo asks her if she's OK while Steven sits idly (Idol-ly!) by at the judges table. Hasn't he fallen on stage before? Can't he offer some helpful recovery tips to Symone?
Symone sips some soda and goes to the hospital while the judges reconvene to decide who from her group will move forward. Lucky for Symone, falling off the stage on Idol equals a get-pushed-to-the-next-round-free card. But will she be able to compete in the group rounds?
Aside from Symone, Lauren Mink and Ethan Jones are sent home, and Jeremy Rosado and Nikko Starr make it through to the groups round. 185...
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It's been a long and arduous journey, but we've finally made it to Hollywood! Now is when things actually start getting good. So let's hop to it!
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Hey, kids! It's American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, but she's 15 pounds heavier and workin' on a farm! You, too, can go from modest farm-livin' to Hollywood superstardom — Carrie's livin' proof, ya hear?
We happen to be in St. Louis, the city in which Carrie was discovered. At first I got confused, because I didn't realize there were farms in St. Louis, but then I remembered that only approximately 5 percent of the people who try out in each state are actually from that state (Carrie's from Oklahoma. It all makes sense now).
It is here that we meet Johnny Keyser, a 22-year-old raised on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by a...
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Welcome to Portland, the city that's known for its cloudy skies... and now, also known for its insufferably terrible singers! Are you just dying to go to Oregon, or what?
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You thought we were going to be in Texas, didn't you? Joke's on you, fool! We're actually in space with a real, live astronaut and a floating microphone.
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Aspen. Doesn't it make you just feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Or maybe that's just Ryan Seacrest. In any event, we're here for another round of auditions featuring questionably talented people, very few of which will actually be from Aspen.
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Congratulations to you for hanging in there and watching the (hour-delayed) San Diego auditions episode tonight — you're a real hardcore American Idol enthusiast.
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Ahhhh, Pittsburgh! Can you believe this is the first time they've held Idol auditions here? The audacity of location scouts to diss a city with so much to offer.
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It's time to cozy up on the couch and break out your ice-cold can of Coca-Cola... because Idol. Is. Back. (Those were dramatic Ryan Seacrest-esque pauses.) Throughout the season, there will be highs (a la Kelly Clarkson's "Respect"), and more often than not, there will be lows (William Hung's "She Bangs"), but the important thing to remember here is that we're in this together. OK?
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