So out of the 200,000 people who auditioned for this show, these clowns are the best they could come up with?

I'm thinking that the judges are all VFTW fans.

""...Second, the assumption that Gokey himself is necessarily responsible for the dead wife pimpage shows a naivete about how TV works...""

Oh, was that an Industrial Light &; Magic CGI of Gokey singing "What Hurts the Most" last night?

His morbid song choices, providing video footage of Sophia to air on Idol, having the Gokey clan hold photos of the dead wife up in the audience... you honestly think that Gokey is not responsible for any of this???

Yep, if Dorky wanted it to stop - he could stop it.

Any of us who've lost someone close can relate. Some of us, like me, don't think someone's death should be used for personal gain because it cheapens our loss. If people were pimping me on the basis of my dead dad I'd move heaven and earth to stop them doing that, including actually saying live on the show 'don't do that, AI' or pulling out of the show if I felt stopping it was out of my hands. If you really care that much about being respectful then NOTHING should stop you from honouring their memory.

Personally, the LAST thing I would do to honour my dad is to go on a show a month after he passed, cry on camera, choose maudlin songs that practically begged people to think about how I lost my dad and allow the producers or my family to use my grief for any purpose.

But then again I'm not a fat, ass-faced douchebag.

That said, Dorky's fatness and man-boobs turn me on. I really hate myself for that but they do.

Um, you're forgetting that Gokey already makes his living pimping a dead guy for personal gain.

Who do you think paid for his 18 pairs of eyeglasses?

ichy,cookie,vanna.... You guys totally rock!.

Necropimp is in it to win it (By any means). I hate this guys just for the little things he does like:

Having 50 million pairs of glasses but not beinig able to buy a replacement wedding ring in 2yrs with his wife alive.

His crazy church/cult battle for world domination with the Scientologist

Last but not lease pimping his wife out just months after her passing.

With all that said AI is going to make sure he is in it for the long run. Damn

Dave - that vodka button joke made me spit coffee all over my computer and my hamster.

Ramdass - I'm pretty sure I would have disagreed with you, but your post was way too long to read.

kara meant "passenger 57" cuz that movie sucked like adam did.

damn all you posters, now I got nothing. well, I do love that Cookie loves man-boobs.

So Adam really made the place feel like a Jersey salon tonight. You do your thing, Adam.

^ Hilarious!