Episode Overview: American Inventor heads to the South for a final round of auditions in Tampa, FL and Houston, TX. The judges might ostensibly be looking for the next great American invention, but the producers and the editors of the program seem pretty disinterested in the successes. Let's face it: they know on which side their bread is buttered, and that's a side called “Loons and Tragic Delusions.” So once again, they have served up another heaping helping of those, while seeming to leave the actual viable inventions as mere garnish.
The group of inventors featured on this episode is a nervous bunch. There's quite a bit of stammering and shaking going on, and it really drove home the difference between this and other audition-based reality shows. The hopefuls lined up for hours to appear before the judges don't aspire to being performers…they aspire to being, essentially, engineers. Needless to say, a commanding presence isn't something a lot of them have yet developed. American Inventor is like the American Idol for introverted right-brainers.
