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* [[Bile Fascination]]: Part of the show's charm is listening to [[So Bad It's Good|how bad]] [[Dreadful Musician|the rejects sing]]. This was exploited in later seasons (see [[Seasonal Rot]]).
* [[Creator's Pet]]: The judges of Season 10, especially Randy, who has earned the hate of many for various reasons.
** Danny Gokey in Season 8. Example: the judges gave him ''an A+ for effort''... for ''Dream On''.
** Lee DeWyze in Season 9. The judges love him but he was constantly bashed by critics and had the lowest opening numbers for any winner.
** Lauren Alaina in Season 10.
** Joshua Ledet of Season 11. Most viewers agree that he is talented, but the judges give him a [[Character Shilling|Standing Ovation]] almost every time he sings and act like he's the second coming. [[Hype Backlash|Some think that this may have led to him leaving in third place.]]
*** Steven recently called him one of the best 2 contestants of all time. [[Kelly Clarkson|Fans]] [[Carrie Underwood|disagree.]]
**** And that isn't even going into Jennifer Lopez saying he was one of the best artists she had heard in the last 50 years, period.
* [[Designated Monkey]]: Haley Reinhart in Season 10, who endured a weekly onslaught of negative comments from the judges while everyone else was told how great they were. She also became a [[The Woobie|Woobie]] to those that felt the judges were being unfair.
* [[Ear Worm]]
* [[Elimination Houdini]]: The aforementioned Sanjaya Malakar, among others. Vote For The Worst plays a huge part in this.
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*** And those were exceeded again with Season 4's Anthony Federov and Scott Savol. Both of them were in the Bottom 3 more-often than Sanjaya AND Tim.
** Season 11's Hollie Cavanagh was in the bottom group ''five times'', and on four of those occasions, the result came down to her and the eventual lowest vote-getter: first with [[Funny Foreigner|Heejun Han]], then [[Shocking Elimination|Colton Dixon]], and then [[Competence Zone|Elise Testone]], and then [[Small Girl, Big Gun|Skylar Laine]]. But, [[Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object|she was no match for]] [[Mr. Fanservice|Phillip Phillips]].
*** In a rather pleasant subversion though, Hollie wasn't a terrible singer.
* [[Ethnic Scrappy]]: Before he was eliminated, Heejun Han was devolving into this. There have been others such as Tatiana Del Toro, and Jacob Lusk (who acted like a [[Sassy Black Woman]]).
** Also on the list is Season 10's Karen Rodriguez. She was one for singing parts of her of songs in Spanish; fans did not take well to that.
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* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: American Juniors, created and aired in between ''American Idol'' as a children's version with Gladys Knight and Deborah Gibson, along with a guest every week, as the judges. It was a complete flop, and quickly dismissed from all the traumatized fans who witnessed it.
** To be fair, it did introduce the world to [[Lucy Hale]].
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Jermaine Jones was nicknamed the [[Gentle Giant]]. However, {{spoiler|when he was disqualified for having a criminal record}}, this name became somewhat ironic...
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Filipinos love Jessica Sanchez.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: After he was reinstated as the thirteenth male participant in the top 25, Ryan gave him code number 36 instead of 13 because [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]. Oops.
** Also in Season 11, Elise Testone sang Queen's "I Want It All"; she was eliminated the next night.
** The very next week Skylar Laine sang [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] 's "Fortunate Son," known for its chorus of "It ain't me", and was also eliminated, meaning that the winner wasn't her.
* [[Hate Dumb]] / [[Misplaced Nationalism]]: The American version of ''Idol'' has gotten hate from Britons because "They are Americans, and not Britons...[[Insane Troll Logic|so that means they have no talent!!!]]"
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Season 10 runner up Lauren Alaina's song "Georgia Peaches" uses the line "from [[Alan Jackson]] to Aldean." Lauren was later announced as Jason Aldean's opening act.
** She also later opened for Jackson.
* [[I Knew It!]] / [[Transparent Closet]]: Season 8's flamboyant runner-up [[Adam Lambert]]. While the show was still running, he never outright admitted that he was gay, but he didn't deny it either. At times, he seemed to be ''daring'' interviewers to ask about his sexuality, knowing that they couldn't bring themselves to do it. It was... quite amusing, at times. When he finally came out in an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' after the show ended, he said that he didn't think people should be surprised that he was gay, and that his parents knew about his sexuality since his early teen years.
** The multiple online pictures of him kissing men didn't help, either.
** Season 2's runner-up Clay Aiken, who finally came out after adopting a child, saying that he didn't want to raise a child with a lie. Nobody was surprised, mainly because the guy was in ''[[Spamalot]]''.
* [[Iron Woobie]]: Both Season 10's Haley Reinhart and Season 11's Hollie Cavanagh had to endure numerous trips to the bottom 3 and bashing from the judges and actually got STRONGER because of it.
* [[Just Here for Godzilla]]: Many watch only the audition phase to see the candidates fail.
** Additionally, more than a few people watch the show just to see their favorite judge.
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** William Hung is a shining example of Memetic Mutation gone too far.
* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: For many, Ellen Degeneres for Paula in Season 9, and then again with [[Jennifer Lopez]] and [[Aerosmith|Steven Tyler]] for everyone not named Randy in season 10. Seeing as how J-Lo's contract renewal is still up in the air, it's quite possible that Season 12 might just have [[Department of Redundancy Department|a Replacement Scrappy for a Replacement Scrappy]]!
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* [[Romantic Plot Tumor]]: The [[Strangled by the Red String|unconvincing]] [[UST]] between Simon and Paula, complete with badly-done skits on this subject (see the Season 2 finale).
** [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Your mileage will most definitely vary]]...
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: A lot of people's proclamation now that Simon's jumped ship.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Kara DioGuardi just can't get a break. While there was some reasonable criticism of her judging skills, some haters took it waaay too far, and started acting as though Kara was some kind of wicked [[Femme Fatale]] who was cravenly plotting to sabotage all the female contestants (Siobahn in particular) "out of jealousy", and that she [[Abhorrent Admirer|desperately wanted to hook up with Casey James and that she attempted to "seduce" him by being kind to him during the judging]]. Needless to say, these fan theories were definitely unreasonable and are quite laughable.
** Some thought Paula became this amongst the judges. Whacked-out more often than she was sober, desperate to have everybody like her, and obviously attracted to the (much) younger male contestants, she was less like a judge and more like a bad comedy skit sitting between Randy and Simon.
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*** However, once it was revealed that he had undergone ''eight'' kidney stone-related surgeries during his run on the show, even some of his most hardcore haters became a little more forgiving.
** In Season 11, it was announced in-season that Tommy Hilfiger was going to show up to give the contestants makeovers (read: for the sake of [[Product Placement]] as part of a sponsorship deal) and "help" them pick out clothes every week, and the next episode he and a lackey appeared in segments criticizing the contestants' clothing and re-dressing them in different (i.e. Tommy Hilfiger brand) clothes, and within the first episode was already starting to annoy fans.......
**** [[Take That, Scrappy!]]!:.....and then it was Phillip Phillips's turn to receive the Hilfiger treatment...and he resisted it. Hilfiger started going on about how Phillip's simple working-class clothes were too plain and about how he needed a makeover. Phillip politely replied that he's a simple guy and that he likes the way he dresses just fine, thank you very much. Needless to say, Mr. Hilfiger and his lackey were ''not'' pleased. Then he went on to perform his song wearing his regular clothes--and even seemed to be translating a bit of anger towards Hilfiger as energy for the song--and it ended up being a HUGE [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. Randy applauded him for sticking to his guns, and the audience applause went on for several minutes. The next week, the Hilfiger segments were quietly dropped without comment. Thus Phillip Phillips achieved something long thought impossible on Idol...he defeated a part of the [[Product Placement]].
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Once the producers decided to highlight the [[Dreadful Musician|Dreadful Musicians]] during the audition round and push the contestants that actually make it through off-screen (unless they have an interesting story), everything went downhill. Part of it was because bad singers started to realize that, by pretending to be outraged when they're told just how bad they are, they'll get on television. Made painfully obvious in Season 7, when one of them almost forgot to feign outrage, going from taking it well to perhaps the worst rant ever.
** Then again, that's also about when they split the guys and girls up for the Top 24, reuniting them for the Top 12. Rarely has that worked well, as Season 4 (the first season with this split) should've made obvious -- after initially getting eliminated as the seventh-place male, Nikko Smith got into the Top 12 when Mario Vasquez left the show <s>because he already had a record contract</s> for personal reasons... and proceeded to outlast three of the top six females before again leaving before any of the other males. One week later, it was down to five males and two females. Not that this mattered in the end, as Carrie Underwood won out -- rightfully so.
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** On the other hand, one possible reason for [[Seasonal Rot]] was that they got it right the first time. [[Gone Horribly Right|A bit too well, actually]]; by finding a ''legitimate'' talent in the form of Kelly Clarkson, they had a winner that wasn't going to be indebted to them for very long, and soon started battling against the terms of her contract and going off into her own direction. Hence, the gravitation toward failed artists looking for a second chance (almost everyone from Season 7), and the emergence of sites like VFTW.
** It's heavily agreed upon that Season 9 is the worst season ever.
** The wins of five straight WGWGs, short for White Guys With Guitars (though some people count out Scotty McCreery [[
* [[Ships That Pass in the Night]]: Both Brett Asa "Ace" Young and his wife Diana DeGarmo were former ''American Idol'' finalists, but from different seasons. They only met years later when both were in ''[[Hair]]'' on Broadway.
* [[Shocking Elimination]]: Every season has at least one that angers the fanbase:
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