“American Idol” discovered megastar Carrie Underwood in St. Louis, Missouri, way back in season four.

It’s the last “American Idol” audition episode before Hollywood Week. “American Idol” rolls archive footage to remind us that eight years ago it found Carrie Underwood at the St. Louis auditions and she went on to become major and now the show’s back in St. Louis. That was then, this is now, and now is the final show of a very dull round of audition cities with hardly any memorable talent we can ...

Fans of quot;American Idolquot; breathed a sigh of relief as the shows devoted to mass auditions ended last night and the program moves on to the winnowing phase in Hollywood next week.

Finally -- the last glacially paced auditions episode of season 11! This time the crew hit St. Louis -- quot;the gateway to American Idol successquot; -- to find the next Carrie Underwood. I don#39;t know if they did, but I#39;m quite certain that Randy Jackson still hasn#39;t found the Arch.

The show closed its run of audition episodes by inaugurating the first annual “Create Your Own Backstory Night.” OK, that’s unofficial. We have no proof of that.