recently put together an EW.com gallery looking at Simon Cowell's 12 meanest critiques from the first seven seasons of American Idol's semifinals/finals. But while I was recounting Simon's best zingers -- ones that conjured up images of sinking cruise ships and teenagers locked in their bedrooms and poodles in leather jackets -- a funny thing struck me: Somewhere between David Cook's confetti shower in May 2008 and the Rise and Fall of Bikini Girl earlier this year, the cranky British judge seems to have lost a lot of his mojo.
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