Scott: I live in Shaker Heights, which is a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. We're the average American family. We don't get along all the time, but the love is there.
Cathy (Scott's Mom): (Cooking) Gonna eat good today!
Eddie (Scott's Dad): Scott's the sympathetic one out of all the kids.
Cathy: He's actually I think...'sensitive', is the word.
Eddie: Sensitive, yeah. He started under the kitchen table singing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus."
Scott: I guess it was a song I liked as a kid, and I would sing it... I'd sit under the table so nobody could see me.
Cathy: He was a great kid. We always thought he'd be a priest... (We see a photo where Scott is dressed as an altar-boy.) ...but...
Eddie: Yeah.
Cathy: I guess being a singer is not so bad. (Laughs)
Cathy: (Now sitting outside the family home, with Scott's son, Brandon on her knee) You going to sing like daddy?
Brandon: (He's a cute kid!) Yeah.
Cathy: Okay!
Scott: My son Brandon is 4 years old and I want to give him the kind of life that... that I didn't have.
Eddie: We never had an abundance of money to give our kids. We pinched and scraped and everything. We gave them what we could. Scott: I didn't have a bad life, but there weren't too many days where we got to get things that we wanted.
Cathy: He's had a lot of curveballs thrown his way over the last ten years.
Eddie: A lot of them.
Cathy: And he manages to just step back and hit it out of the park.
Scott: I feel I represent the people who get up in the morning to go work eight hours a day.
Cathy: He's the average Joe. Scott: I mean, If you went to Cleveland, you'd probably see a million of me walking around.
Cathy: He's the heart and soul of America.
Panel-Bites:
Scott sings...
Randy Jackson: Yo, Scotty. Scotty, what's up, baby?
Scott: What's up, man? What's up?
Randy Jackson: So ahh, for me, dawg, I mean that song man... the song and just the version tonight, dude, I think it's your weakest performance in weeks, dude. For me it was very pitchy all over the place to me. (Groans, Scott nods to acknowledge Randy.)
Paula Abdul: Scott, you sang very... very pleasant. You always have a pleasant voice. I think the song didn't do you justice with... with emotional highs and tapping into the heart strings.
Simon: I'd pack your suitcase tonight. (A few groans) Paula Abdul: Oh, Simon.
Ryan Seacrest: Harsh!... Harsh, harsh from Cowell. Scott Savol!