Vote For Your 13th Idol at…Hot Horny Girls?

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Jim, the behind the Idol prediction site, DialIdol.com, made an interesting discovery as he was testing the Idol phone numbers 1-866-436-5701-5412 for this Tuesday’s performance show.

The 13th number is NOT owned by Idol:

We all know the phone numbers to vote : 1-866-436-5701 through 5712.

Usually if you call these numbers outside a voting window they are busy and that is the case today.

However… This year there are 13 contestants. It appears that American Idol does not own 1-866-436-5713 (or 1-866-436-5700 for that matter). I’d advise you not to call either number as the content is not rated G.

This raises the question – what the heck are they going to do for the 13th contestant? Has anything heard anything? New numbers? New voting system entirely? A lone non-contiguous number? Are they frantically trying to buy the number? Am I just dialing wrong?

That 13th number leads to a porno chat line, inviting the caller to punch in their credit card numbers to chat with “hot horny girls.”

What will the producers do?   Order up a whole new set of phone numbers for this year?   Or use an odd number for that last number that will only be used for one week anyway?

Using an off-number would not only be really confusing, but would would result in confused people mistakenly calling the porno line–including lots of kids.   So my vote goes with the former–TPTB will have to order a brand new set of numbers.

 
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  • lovegoodmusic

    Victoria:

    Yikes, I hope not. What if they paired Danny with Adam?! I swore I wouldnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t vote for Danny, but I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think I could not vote for Adam.

    Oh I understand how you feel because Adam is one of my favorites. And I would hate to see him paired with some of the other off key singers.

    I still think they might bring in another cast member, because they showed an unknown female contestant’s audition in between the commercial break.

    Does anyone recognize her? Could it be this contestant to shake up the living quarters in the mansion? I heard she had a makeover, and this might be her.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyimcFym6_I

  • primeminister

    I agree that immunity is probably the way they will go, however the issue I see with the last method is that ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s pretty likely one contestant will be the highest vote getter multiple weeks. In theory, someone like Danny or Adam could go the entire season and never actually be up for elimination, and that just seems un-Idolish.

    It won’t be possible for someone to go through the entire season without being up for elimination.

    The most frequent a contestant can gain immunity through this method is every other week. You can’t be the “highest vote getter” on a week you receive immunity because essentially, you will receive no votes.

    On a side note, if Idol hasn’t realized this 13th number problem by now, watch someone like Scott get the pimp spot and be the 13th contestant. All the grannies calling in for him will be SHOCKED!

  • Natasha

    Maybe we can log our votes for Danny directly with God?

    Bwahaha.

    I think they’re going to have to get new numbers. They can’t have one odd number or run the risk that some kid will dial the porn line. Pairing people up? I would stop watching. Talk about random and unfair. I really shudder to think what else they have up their sleeve this season.

  • snuffles

    Even if someone gets this so called “immunity”, they still should perform. I mean, that’s why the contestants are there. Not only to win but to get the chance to perform on a NATIONAL STAGE every week. I can’t imagine ANY of them would want to miss a chance to perform, even if it meant they’d be safe.

  • Victoria

    Rickey has a video of what 1-866-IDOLS-13 sounds like if anyone’s interested, haha: http://www.rickey.org/?p=12544

  • progression

    Maybe we can log our votes for Danny directly with God?

    Awesome.

    The extra person is going to make the show pretty rushed (wouldn’t want any singing eating into judges/product placement/commercials time), they need to get rid of them early on. Maybe they’ll do a sing off next week and have the judges vote one off, then kick the remaining 12 to the voters.

  • Victoria

    I still think they might bring in another cast member, because they showed an unknown female contestantà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s audition in between the commercial break.

    I think you might be right about the bringing-someone-back thing, but I don’t think it will be her…

  • snuffles

    WHY would they bring in another cast member!? They’re already up sh!ts creek with the IDOLS 13 debacle. Plus they DO have a SCHEDULE to maintain. The show has to be done by May 20th.

  • Victoria

    WHY would they bring in another cast member!? Theyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢re already up sh!ts creek with the IDOLS 13 debacle. Plus they DO have a SCHEDULE to maintain. The show has to be done by May 20th.

    Go look at MJ’s new post. Michael Castro’s coming back, for some reason. It could be him.

  • lovegoodmusic

    snuffles:

    WHY would they bring in another cast member!? Theyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢re already up sh!ts creek with the IDOLS 13 debacle. Plus they DO have a SCHEDULE to maintain. The show has to be done by May 20th.

    They can still keep their schedule by eliminating two contestants for the first two weeks. But they will have to cut down on the judges talk time and the Idols back stories in order to make it work.

    I personally wouldn’t mind seeing another contestant added to the cast.

    And there has to be a reason why they are showing an unknown person’s audition.

  • ettacandy

    Maybe the person selected to lead off the show now has immunity. Instead of being the “death spot” it is not the only spot guaranteed to get you through to the next round!!

    Can you imagine?

    Well, at this point I guess anything is possible. Liek many, my money is on the producers wither “buying back” IDOLS-13 for one week, or buying 13 new numbers in sequence.

    Should be interesting.

  • New York Avon Lady

    Internet voting would solve the problem.

  • temkanoe

    Or Maybe Or maybe they’ll choose a bottom three at the end of the program and we will have to vote on who gets to say out of the three contestants!!!!

    Ah!!! HMmmm…..??

    I actually can’t wait to find out, only I won’t watch because Idol 08 sucks this year… I will await for MJ spoilers. YAY!!!

  • hypertwink

    Maybe, they’ll play for immunity. Imagine contestants with oversized foam mikes beating each other to death… :laugh_tb:

  • CathyMK

    So, if Hot Horny Girls gets enough votes, will one of them get to come on the show and sing the following week? Simon would probably be fine with it.

  • bjames

    oh SNAP. either way, a lot of people are going to call that number on tuesday night. loves it.

  • Joanna S.

    If what has already been mentioned does not happen, this is the only way I could see it going:

    1 – FOX runs around like headless chickens to rearrange their schedule next week, and have 7 contestants sing one night, 6 the following night, and have the results show the third night. The singers with the lowest scores for both nights get sent home.

    2 – When the Top 13 finishes performing, they ask the LIVE audience to vote for their favorite during the last commercial break a la America’s Funniest Home Videos. That contestant gets immunity. I think this scenario would be more likely.

  • Tony

    God damn this season is chock full of failure.

    And what’s up with this immunity talk? That sounds like a terrible idea.

  • sunchick

    Maybe we can log our votes for Danny directly with God?

    :lol_tb: I’m sure God wouldn’t mind giving him his own private line. To vote for Danny, call I 866 JESUS01. And remember, every time the phone rings, an angel gets their wings…

    Seriously though, couldn’t they strike a deal with the hot and horny girls and “rent” the extra phone number for a limited time? Kinda like in Pretty Woman, when Richard Gere paid Julia Roberts for her services for a week, so she didn’t take any calls from other johns. :innocent1_tb:

  • lifeisfun

    This idea would solve the itunes problem, the voting problem, and the issue of voting for a current idol!

    how about instead of calling to vote, you can only vote by buying the song? this way itunes makes millions of dollars, and it would be like the real world where an artist is only as good as the number of songs they sell!!!! plus itunes wouldnt need the phone lines w/ the porn (which cracks me up)

    the problem: people would complain that not everyone has a computer/ computer w/ an itunes account, but then itunes would make money getting more and more people to get accounts. Plus wouldnt ryan love one more thing to talk about on idol! he could explain how to download itunes and make an account, how to by music, etc!!!!

    the only problem w/ immunity is idol doesnt like giving out who’s ahead in the race! which i always thought was dumb because it would inspire more people to vote all night if they knew their favorite was behind someone like Gokey!

    maybe in order to pay off Horny girls idol could let them say the little speech “you voted for so and so,” and then add “to talk to horny girls please press 1″ that would be the biggest scandal on idol yet! ha ha

  • idolkiwi

    I’m so confused… :glurps_tb:
    …a singing competition where competitors are granted immunity so they don’t have to sing…Top50 -14=Top36-27=9 *WILDCARD*=3 1=Top13and now -2 to avoid calling God or the porn girls…

  • bean99

    I don’t see them bringing anyone back or granting immunity but don’t have a clue what they’ll do about the phone #s. There doesn’t seem to be a fair way to do it except for getting all new #s.

  • http://www.myspace.com/wn780 k4dc

    Well, no matter what they do, it’s definitely got people talking! I’ll bet that was all part of their evil plan to begin with….bwahahahaha!

  • dante

    I don’t know why I find this so funny……..but somehow it just fits with this whole mess of Season 8 so far!!!

  • sidewalk

    It wonà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t be possible for someone to go through the entire season without being up for elimination.

    The most frequent a contestant can gain immunity through this method is every other week. You canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t be the à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“highest vote getterà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  on a week you receive immunity because essentially, you will receive no votes.

    Ah, true. However, I think it’s very likely it could flip between two people. Like last season had they used this method, I doubt there was a single week from top 12 on(except maybe Idol Gives Back w/ Jason) where a David wasn’t the top vote getter.

    I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t know why I find this so funnyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦..but somehow it just fits with this whole mess of Season 8 so far!!!

    Amen. This season is going down in flames.

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