“American Idol” judge Simon Cowell and show host Ryan Seacrest brought their good-natured feud to Ry’s Los Angeles morning show on Tuesday.

The trouble started when Ryan Seacrest acknowledged that Idol’s ratings, while still atop the Nielsen Ratings and jokingly blamed judge Simon Cowell for the significant slump “Well, the knee-jerk reaction would be Simon.” “Clearly there’s an over-saturation of his character.”

The pair playfully faced off again on Tuesday during Ryan’s KIIS-FM Morning Radio Show.

Dialing up his Brit pal to clear up rumors of a feud, Seacrest argued that Cowell, who co-created Idol, “believe[s] that [he's] created everything for all of us…Everything good goes to you,” Seacrest told the acerbic judge. “If there’s any hiccup along the way, we are obligated to blame you. You want the credit, you get the blame.”

“When I’m allowed more airtime,” Simon countered, “we get 34 million viewers. When I say nothing and you’re talking, we get 12 million less.”