By: Michael Slezak
The top 24 contestants of American Idol's seventh season are off and running - even though four of them are basically trapped in the starting gate. In typical inexplicable fashion, the show's producers managed to get through four looong weeks of auditions and three whole hours of Hollywood Week without letting us hear a single note from Jason ''Dreadlocks'' Castro, Luke ''Stubbly'' Menard, Garrett ''Shaggy'' Haley, and Jason ''Blond Patch'' Yeager. Might I suggest that if none of these dudes crack the top 12, they form a vocal quartet and call themselves Cannon Fodder?
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