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Welcome back to "AI Aftermath," where we explore Idol's past. Each week, as one more American Idol hopeful is eliminated from the competition, we take a look back at contestants past who were eliminated in the same week. We'll examine how they did on the show and what they've been up to since their elimination. In honor of Chikezie's elimination last week we'll be looking at other tenthth place finishers.

And for the first time, we'll be able to look back at Season One as well. This week: 10th place finishers, featuring EJay Day (Season 1), Julia DeMato (Season 2), Amy Adams (Season 3), Jessica Sierra (Season 4), Lisa Tucker (Season 5) and Chris Sligh (Season 6).

(S03E22) This was one of those weird episodes where suspension of disbelief is absolutely necessary. Somehow (only with the magic of television), Berkeley and Brown are both having their incoming freshman weekends the same weekend. Weird. Especially weird that they would have an incoming freshman weekend months and months and months before the school semester even starts. But whatever. It's The O.C. and I forgive.

Another spring, another prom on The O.C., but this year there's going to be a special guest. American Idol castoff, and real Orange County, Calif. resident, Lisa Tucker begins work on the set of The O.C. next week.

So far there are no details on her role, but you can bet it'll be relatively small. Like a cameo. Maybe she'll be the prom queen. Or, maybe she'll sing. Yeah, I bet she sings. The episode is called "The Party Favor" and there isn't an air date set for it quite yet.

Daniel Powter probably didn't mean for it to happen, but "Bad Day" will forever be burned into my memory as the American Idol reject song. It has definitely secured its symbolic connotation with being eliminated in my mind. I actually heard it on the radio today, and for a moment, I had a passing sensation that I might get fired when I arrived to work. But I didn't get fired...

Lisa got fired. I'm sorta bummed for her, but we saw it coming. She had been in the bottom three for the past few weeks. If Kevin didn't suck so bad, it probably would have been her last week. When I first saw Lisa during audition week, I actually thought she could make it to the final three, but she just never improved upon that first audition. I don't really feel sorry for her though. I mean, she's still a teen and she's already been on Broadway. Her and Ayla Brown are both in the "forever doin' just fine" club. So, I don't feel too sorry for them.

Ace Young and Katharine McPhee were also in the bottom three...

American Idol isn't just a talent competition, it's also the slowest televised makeover on television. How do they manage to makeover the contestants sooooo slowly? They look better and better every week. And yet, it's not an extreme makeover. It's done so gradually that you barely realize it's happening, but it's happening. A tweeze of the eyebrows here, a push-up bra there. It's really amazing. I think they do it that way so you still recognize the contestants every week. Imagine if they would have done Clay Aiken's makeover all at once? It would have felt like a fraud. It's better this way. Slow and steady wins the race.

One person in need of a makeover is Ryan Seacrest.

Am I the only person in the world who gets really annoyed when the contestants hold up their fingers to tell you what number to dial so you can vote for them? I don't know why that irks me, but it just does. Now that I got that off my chest (she breathes a sigh of relief), I must say that I found tonight absolutely boring. Practically every performance was just boring. I normally sit and watch Idol  with semi-enthusiasm, but tonight I think I got up in the middle of virtually every performance. I helped my roommate make iced tea. I looked for my nail clippers. I put socks on because my feet were cold. I flossed my teeth. Tonight's performances were just plain boring.

Typically, I give my two cents on each of the contestants, but I don't even feel the need to do that. Every performance was so similar in mediocrity that I feel like I would just be repeating myself with every evaluation.

Lisa Tucker, one of the best singers in this year's batch of American Idol contestants, appeared on Star Search in 2003, when she was just 13 years old. She was runner-up to a girl named Tiffany Evans, who signed with Columbia and has an album coming out in June. TMZ has a video clip of her appearance and she has vastly improved since then. Now, only at 16 years old, she has an incredibly mature voice that is clearly trained more than the others.

TMZ also found recent video of Idol reject Becky O'Donohue and her twin sister on Fear Factor, and of Kinnick Sky, who appeared very briefly in a movie called Trois 3: The Escort (I know it sounds like a porno, but it's not).

[Via TMZ]

If tonight's episode of American Idol is any indication of how the entire season is going to be, then I think we're going to see a lot of great female singers and (unfortunately) a lot of gaucho pants. I was prepared for the talent, but I was not prepared for Randy's dawg pound. I hate the dawg pound. I usually hate it when celebrities trademark things unnecessarily, but I really wish that Arsenio Hall would have trademarked that back in the 90s, so we wouldn't have to put up with it now.

But enough of the small talk, let's get to it...

Let's not beat around the bush. The Brittenum twins are jerks. I originally sung their praises when we first saw them in Chicago. And then they got arrested. And then we found out that they've been arrested before. Now, we find out that they are jerks. I don't care how sharp you look in an ascot. If you're a jerk, you're a jerk. And the Brittenum twins are jerkdom times two!