Predictable. Boring. Like this season. Laaaaaaaame. Looks like the producers really don't care about ratings this year. What to do now? Well, we've gotta keep making fun of this terrible show.

Simon- This was like a first round audition massacre. I don't know what you were thinking.
Jason- I was thinking Bob Marley!!!

VFTW Victory! Dial 1-866-IDOLS-03 and 1-866-IDOLS-07 as much as you can, or you can text 'VOTE' to 5703. Simon wants Jason out bad and he has resorted to calling Jason as bad as the bad audition performances. He even told him to pack his suitcase and has written Jason off completely. Well, we love it, and we have to try to keep him around. It's gonna take a LOT of work though. Don't you want to see Simon's head explode? Buck the system and vote for Jason as much as you can tonight, because Jason is finally getting to fully unleash the stoner inside, and the results are great. You tell em, Castro!

This video of Jason has been going around the internet for a while, and now that he's an official VFTW pick, we can totally embrace it. Jason is just having a blast, playing his guitar and messing up while feeling pretty good. At around 1:00 in, he talks about being sauced. Did you just have a pasta dinner, Jason? Well we urge you to bring this to your performances this week and just give us an entertaining show. You know you want to! Can some of his fans ship him some extra strong "oregano" for his sauce this week? Thanks much.

You knew it was coming. Everyone's favorite pothead is our new pick. The way that he doesn't seem to care what happens on the show is so refreshing, and his "I don't care" attitude must be annoying the others by now. Which of course makes us cheer. And of course, Paula and the gang tried to get him out this week with the scripted comments. Could it be any more obvious that he's supposed to go home next? So we say, let's give it the old college try. Pizza pockets and beer pong for all!

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When American Idol debuted in 2002, its supposed goal was to find the best undiscovered talent in America. Singers like Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken, who had dreams of stardom but never had the connections, were catapulted to megastardom. The producers found diamonds in the rough and launched their careers. But a disturbing trend has surfaced with the spoiled contestants of American Idol 7 – they’re no longer even remotely undiscovered talent. A large percentage of them are failed singers and entertainers who have already had their shot at fame. Yet Idol thinks that repackaging these failures is a good idea to make us watch their show. Gone are the days where you or your friends could try out for Idol and make it big. Now you have to already have connections. Read on to find out more about how this year’s show will just be a boring hash of recycled pseudo-celebrities who weren’t good enough to make it the first time around. And keep checking back as this article is updated almost every day with new information.

(Last updated 1/26/08 with the top 24)