FRUI

Sam Showers, Hour 3

FRUI: "to enjoy, to harvest"

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These contestants trained and traveled to audition for the chance to be in American Idol. Clearly, all of their effort was fruitless because they were rejected by the judges and not allowed to move on to the Hollywood round. One could argue that even the people who were chosen to be on the show ended up with fruitless results, since only one person can win the whole show. One could also say that some of these people never wanted to win American Idol, they only wanted to be on television. With this logic, these people did not have fruitless results, considering they made it on screen (and even on Youtube).

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These people are on a different show (Pyramid), and they are attempting to win 10,000 dollars. The man explains what he is trying to do at the beginning, describing his plan to the viewers and to the host. When they achieve this goal, when the plan comes to fruition, it means that the effort the team put in paid off and they realize their job-well-done with a huge sum of money. If the plan had not come to fruition, they would not get the money, and their efforts would be fruitless (bam!).