So You Think You Can Dance Season 2 Contestants

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Flim-flam commissioned this reality/talent contest from the people behind American Idol in 2005 in an attempt to become lightning to strike twice. The show'southward eventual executive producer, Nigel Lythgoe (himself a onetime dancer) thought information technology would never work. And, although the series wasn't the pervasive cultural juggernaut that Idol became, information technology became a pregnant success in its own right.

The bear witness adheres pretty closely to the Idol format, but with some interesting variations. Auditionees who aren't either sent to the next stage of the competition or rejected are asked to stick around and show they tin option upward some basic choreography, and then a final conclusion is fabricated on them. Once contestants make it to the Meridian xx, they're paired upwardly into couples of i guy and one girl. If whatever couple lands in the bottom iii for the votes, each private performs a solo and the judges make the decision of which guy and which girl goes habitation that week. This continues until they have ten contestants remaining, then the couples are determined past the girls picking a guy's name from a hat, or vise-versa. Too, once the Top 10 is established, voters now vote for their favorite private dancers, and the judges go no more say on who goes home. Said Top 10 contestants besides get to perform in a bout following the end of the season, which gives the judges a vested interest in making sure the best qualified dancers don't current of air up voted off too early on. Sometimes some dancers who are popular just didn't make the Acme 10 will also exist on the bout; for example Chelsea Traille, who was eliminated in Week 3 of Flavor 4.

Flavour vii followed a unlike format, where there was but a top x (what actually happened was a pinnacle 11) and instead of beingness paired up with other contestants, the hopefuls were paired with "Allstars": fan favorites from previous seasons. The judges and the fans both seemed to enjoy the format, though injuries wreaked havoc with the flavor.

Season 8 returned to the top twenty formula, but when the competition narrowed down to the top 10, the Allstars were brought back. And even though it was never made a large out of, the judges now continue to brand decisions across the peak 10.

Season nine made some changes to the voting and elimination procedure on the testify. And instead of naming one winner, two were crowned- America's Favorite Boy and America's Favorite Girl.

Flavor eleven returned to crowning a unmarried winner every bit America'southward Favorite Dancer.

Nigel Lythgoe was the sole regular judge for the starting time couple of seasons, as the other 2 spots were filled with a rotating group of choreographers who taught the contestants their dances on weeks they weren't acting as judges. In season three, the histrionics-prone Mary White potato, a ballroom choreographer, became the 2d regular gauge, effectively making her a louder but more sensible version of Paula Abdul to Nigel'due south not nearly equally acerbic (anymore) version of Simon Cowell. Beginning with season 6, Adam Shankman is also a permanent judge. In season 7, Mia Michaels replaced Mary equally a permanent judge. Mary came back as a judge in season 8 with Shankman absent due to working on a Tom Cruise movie.

Season 12 made a considerable deviation from previous seasons' formats. First is the departure once more than of Mary Murphy from the show. Secondly, pop star Jason Derulo and Paula Abdul joined Nigel Lythgoe as permanent judges throughout the audition process and entire flavour, with no guest judges. About notably, the format was referred to as "Stage vs. Street." Team Street consisted of x dancers representing various hip-hop genres (krump, breakdance, animation, etc.); and Squad Phase, which consisted of 10 dancers representing contemporary, ballet, tap, etc. Each team had a returning All Star as a helm, Team Street led by tWitch, and Squad Stage led by Travis Wall.

Moreoever, it was no longer ten guys and x girls, only 10 stage dancers and x street dancers. The lesser three of each genre were appear at the showtime of the episode, and those watching the show's live broadcast (in US Eastern and Central Time Zones), had the power to salvage a dancer from elimination by fashion of voting on Twitter. The bear witness's judges then could save ane of the other bottom three, resulting in one member of each Team, regardless of gender, existence eliminated.

With dance styles ranging from diverse Waltzes to Bollywood, and from Contemporary to Hip-Hop, the prove has become a somewhat unlikely merely welcome showcase for the fine art and culture of dance and has spawned a number of spin-off shows in other nations (curiously, the most successful translations thus far are the Polish, Turkish and Benelux versions - the British ane was axed after 2 seasons).

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"So yous recollect you tin trope":

• Aerith and Bob: Any flavor will have people with ordinary names, people with extraordinary names, people with ordinary names spelt differently, and occasionally someone with a nickname- for example, season 6 had Ryan, Victor, Kathryn, Noelle, Channing, Ellenore and Legacy.
  • Season x partners Amy and Fik-Shun.
• Donkey Kicks Y'all: Katee.

  Nigel: That is a dangerous weapon, y'all should be on the next James Bond moving picture doing that!

• Author Appeal: Mandy Moore (no, not that Mandy Moore) sure does love her some 80s music.
  • Sonya Tayeh has a signature motility where the guy, behind the daughter, wraps his arms around her waist and lifts her, normally with the girl either lifting i leg straight up or lifting both legs but bent at the knee joint. Information technology shows upwards in a LOT of her pieces; some fans call it the "toddler lift."
• Bare Your Midriff: At to the lowest degree once a show.
  • Standard solo outfit for most female person gimmicky dancers.
• Berserk Button: The judges, and specially Nigel, don't tend to like it when someone screws up and they were dancing in their style.
  • Often this can be the response to any abysmally bad trip the light fantastic toe, especially the closer they are to the finale.
  • This is the typical response to an arrogant auditioner.
• Catchphrase: Mary Murphy'southward over-the-elevation "Hot Tamale Train" holler ("WOOOO-HOOOO!") for dances she really likes.
  • Lil C's "That was bucc!"
  • Lampshaded in Flavor 8 with the battle of the catchphrases betwixt Robert, with his signature: "Wooooooooo!" and The Professor, with his "Indubitably."
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Some of Mia Michaels' critiques can get a fiddling odd.
  • According to Nigel, the same tin be said for her choreography.
  • Wade Robson, with his pieces almost a hummingbird and a flower, and a female parent and daughter fox, being some of the best examples.
  • Season x guest choreographer (and All-Star) Marking Kanemura is rapidly earning a reputation as one.
    • One routine cast the dancers as "Siamese twins from the jungles of Saturn."
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Mary, by a mile. She'southward well-nigh e'er screaming and has a very annoying laugh.
• Darker and Edgier: Sonya Tayeh's signature choreography style. Wade Robson, Mia Michaels and Travis Wall also dabble on this side from fourth dimension to time.
  • Flavor ix's Cole was concerned about being typecast as this.
• Determinator: Information technology seems like every season features someone who has overcome serious injury to keep dancing.
  • Flavor viii contestant Marko went the entire season with a bullet lodged in his shoulder.
• Dirty Old Man: Nigel. Just Nigel. He always has some comment to brand, pervy or not, when ladies are scantily clad or routines get... suggestive.
  • Adam Shankman isn't much ameliorate.
    • Nigel is at to the lowest degree peripherally enlightened of this reputation, as of flavor 8. He even refused to comment on 1 dancer'south sexiness "lest [he] be seen as a Dirty Old Man"
• Don't Try This at Domicile: Will's last comment to the camera before his and Katee's pas de deux. The routine is, shall we say, strenuous in the flexibility department.
• Easy-Mode Mockery: Occasionally, dances will be panned by the judges for not being challenging. Quite ofttimes, they're Broadway routines, which oft rely more on personality than power.
• Even the Girls Want Her: True cat Deeley.
• Filler: Less as seasons have gone by, just still some pops upwards on results shows.
• First-Name Basis: Once a dancer reaches the final 20, he/she is always referred to only by his/her first name (and last initial, if two dancers that season accept the aforementioned proper name), even when being announced as the winner. Also, when former finalists are brought back, they are usually referred to by their first names - there tend to be two exceptions; dancers who are now regular choreographers on the prove, and Chelsie Hightower when she came back as an "All-Star" partner.
• Happily Married: Ryan and Ashleigh Di Lello from season half dozen. Made it but a fiddling awkward when the judges were talking about how much chemical science either of them had with their respective partners Ellenore and Jakob.
  • Choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon.
  • And choreographers Jean-Marc Genereux and French republic Mousseau... just watch this clip.
• Hide Your Lesbians: Sasha.
• Hopeless Auditionees: Every season, including 4 (so far) appearances past a gawky fellow insisting he be addressed past the stage proper name "Sex."
  • The number of bad auditions shown in their entirety accept reduced drastically in recent seasons.
• Hotter and Sexier: The Canadian version has been noted serveral times every bit having far more sexual dances, season ii'southward Kim and Emanuel'southward Love Sex activity Magic stand out in particular.
• Hypocrite: Earlier in the show's run, Mia Michaels would come downwards on anyone who couldn't trip the light fantastic toe Contemporary Ballet, frequently referring to such dancers as express or untrained, regardless of any training in other styles they may accept received, while never expecting Contemporary Ballet dancers to have ballroom, jazz, broadway, or hip-hop training/experience.
  • This was particularly visible in Flavour two with Heidi and Benji (both lifetime ballroom dancers) and in Season 3 with Pasha (maybe the best male ballroom dancer the bear witness has seen).
  • Even now, the bear witness patronisingly refers to many hip-hop dancers as 'untrained', ignoring that it takes a lot of training to exist doing what they're doing. Whether they trained in a studio or past themselves doesn't matter at all.
• Humiliation Conga: Poor Janelle from Season 9. Gets dumped by her boyfriend the nighttime before the episode, gets savaged by the judges for her routine (they even criticized her hair), and is voted off the show.
• Kissing Discretion Shot: The cease of Allison and Ivan'south "Sexy Love" routine sees them kissing behind an umbrella silhouette.
• Big Ham: Mary can deed pretty over-the-top, especially when she screams.
• Final-2d Word Swap: From approximate Dan Karaty after Jimmy and Shauna's Broadway routine.

  Dan: Jimmy, I'm shocked! I'm shocked!
  Cat: In a good fashion?
  Dan: You outperformed her!
  Jimmy and Shauna: Whoa!
  Dan: Yous outperformed her, and I didn't recollect yous had a adventure in...yous-know-where!

• Manly Tears: Pretty much any father of a female person dancer.
• The Mean Brit: Nigel played this somewhat close to directly early on, but has eased up considerably. Just don't do terribly in your audition then claim to exist a instructor.
• Well-nigh Common Superpower: Season 5, Elevation vi, girls' superheroine-themed group trip the light fantastic. Blatantly Lampshaded.

  Cat: She'southward got a superpower all her own!

  Nigel: You can't necktie downwardly talent, tin you?

• Mr. Fanservice: The listing might very well be long, but there are many.
  • Nearly of the guys don't tend to wearable shirts very often. Nobody's complaining, though...
• Ms. Fanservice: Many.
  • For a specific contestant, Season 10'southward Haley comes to heed. She attracted a large fandom of teenage boys as a result.
• Murderous Thighs: This is why you lot don't want an acrobatic dancer every bit a deranged girlfriend.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Non so much a proper noun, only a combination: it seems like whoever gets one of Sean Cheesman's African Jazz routines ends upwardly in the lesser 3.
  • One name: Tyce Diorio.
• Nice Guy: Flavor 6's Ryan. It got to the signal that when he and Ellenore did a Lil C hip-hop routine, the judges pointed out that he was just as well nice for hip-hop (and apparently, Lil C was complaining that he got 'the nice ane and the weird funny girl'.)
• No Indoor Vox: Oh boy, Mary sure likes to scream a lot. They don't call her the "Queen of Scream" for zippo.

  Mary: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

• Ominous Latin Chanting: Music of choice for the solos of Season 5 runner-upward, Brandon Bryant.
  • As well as several Paso Dobles, making them seem ridiculously epic.
• Once a Season: The song used for trip the light fantastic callbacks is fast, with a potent beat.
• The Oner: Season 10's top 20 episode kicked off with one of these to "Puttin' On The Ritz".
• Ane Steve Limit: Averted. And so far, there have been four Ryans (Conferido, Season i; Rankine, Season ii, Di Lello, Season 6 and Ramirez, Flavour 8), three Brandons (Bryant, Flavor five; Dumlao, Flavour 6; Mitchell, Season 9), two Laurens (Gottlieb, Flavour 3 and Froderman, Season seven), two Roberts (Roldan, Season 7 and Taylor Jr., Flavour 8), and more people with the proper noun Ashley and its variations than y'all can perchance count (Ashlé Dawson, Season one; Ashlee Niño, Flavour 2; Ashlee Langas, Season 3; Ashley Valerio, Flavor 5; Ashleigh Di Lello, Season 6; Ashley Galvan, Season seven and Ashley Rich, Season 8).
  • Season iv had Chelsea/Chelsie and Kourtni/Courtney. Ironically, it was the only season in the first viii without a girl named Ashley or some variation of the name.
  • Flavor 10 had Jasmine Mason and Jasmine Harper. However, Jasmine Bricklayer got eliminated fairly early.
  • Variation: Flavor 11 has an Emily and an Emilio.
  • There were several choreographers/other non-competitors called Heather, and flavor 2 likewise had Heather Morris.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Season 7 had some very good contestants, just sometimes it was hard to notice them when they were dancing with the likes of Anya, Pasha, Twitch, and Comfort, who were arguably the best in their styles the show had ever seen. Female fans, specially, establish themselves vulnerable to distraction whenever Pasha took the stage.
  • Given this testify's fan base of operations, male person fans oftentimes constitute themselves equally as vulnerable.
  • This sometimes happens when a decent dancer is dancing with a actually exceptional one (like flavor 3's Lacey, season v's Kayla or flavour 6's Jakob), and it'due south unremarkably nobody'due south fault.
    • Invoked and averted by Season 9's Eliana and Cyrus. Eliana expressed concern that she was being overshadowed by Cyrus' popularity, but went on to win Favorite Girl, while Cyrus got 2nd place for Guys.
  • It can besides happen if i dancer isn't exceptional, but steals the show because the dance focuses more on them or because of their outfit (run into Kevin and Karen'south Latin Ballroom dances in season vi- Kevin was continually overlooked in favour of Karen, though the dances weren't that astonishing and Karen wasn't especially great).
  • A really amazing routine (like Kayla and Kupono'due south 'Habit' or Marking and Courtney's 'The Garden') can make all the others that night look standard, even if they were actually good.
    • Speaking of, information technology happened once again in Flavour 9 with "Habit." An entire episode consisted of tributes to the choreographer, and one honesty doesn't remember any dances besides Lindsay and Cole's rendition of "Addiction."
• Plucky Daughter: Many, maybe all, female contestants. They get in knowing they will eventually have to practise a way they don't know in front of millions of people, and give it all they've got.
• Promoted Fanboy: A phenomenon that became noticeable beginning in Season 9 is that dancers who were fans of the show equally children have at present become former enough to exist contestants.
• Rated M for Manly: What happens when you have a Paso Doble with ii men.
• Retcon: Sometimes Nigel doesn't let the facts go in the way of a good story. He brutal in beloved with the idea of an "untrained" dancer winning during flavour four, and talked as if Joshua was this, even though it was pretty clear that Joshua had had a lot of grooming, with choreographers going as far to assign him triple pirouettes, hopping renversés, hopping pirouettes and fouettées-a-la-seconde that would never be given to other strictly hip-hop dancers. (And certainly the judges would have known for sure.) This was peculiarly galling since Joshua already had a heartwarming, inspiring, and truthful story (namely, his perseverence in trip the light fantastic toe despite growing upward in football game-crazed Texas).
  • Russell Ferguson got the exact same treatment in season half-dozen. He admitted in his audition to having some degree of formal training in African, mod, ballet and tap, only due to his focus and specialty in krump, was regarded only as untrained.
  • To a lesser extent, Sarah Von Gillern in Flavor 3 suffered from this. She trained in all styles of trip the light fantastic toe including ballet from a young historic period and competed as a figure skater in her teens. Those with dandy dance eyes may have noticed that Sarah was given just as challenging of choreography as her jazz-trained partner Jésus, just she was all the same billed as a street-trained hip-hop dancer. This may have worked out in her favour, however, since other stiff female contemporary dancers that season such as Lauren and Sabra would have likely overshadowed her if she were billed as the aforementioned kind of dancer.
  • In flavor vi, a big deal was fabricated virtually the tap dancers who made the finals as being the "get-go" when they definitely weren't (Sandra Colton from season 1 was a tap dancer).
    • A bit of discussion trickery on Nigel's function:He was typically careful to say "the first tappers in the Peak 20." Season ane started every bit a Superlative 16.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Lil C has a rather impressive control of the English language language. Doubles as Sophisticated as Hell, equally he'll sometimes only follow a highly erudite and eloquent sentence with "that was bucc."
• Shirtless Scene: The guys aren't scantily clad quite every bit frequently as the women, simply in that location'southward hardly a shortage of skin. Guys who know they're Mr. Fanservice are guaranteed to do it in their solos.
  • Some dancers (Brandon, Will, etc) don't seem to ever actually wear a shirt.
  • Dmitry from season 2 was famous for soloing shirtless.
  • Nigel likes to lampshade the lack of shirts worn by the men on the show and/or the skimpy dresses worn past the women, joking that if they show had a bigger budget, they'd be able to afford consummate costumes for the girls or buttons/a shirt for the boys.
    • In Season iv'south Top 16 episode, Nigel said afterwards the first latin routine, "I'one thousand glad the costuming department could only affort half a dress this calendar week," and and so after the 2nd one, to Katee, "I'm so pleased y'all've institute the other one-half of Courtney'due south wearing apparel!" Fabricated all the more funny when you realize that Courtney's and Katee'due south dresses really cover reverse sides of the trunk!
• Soundtrack Dissonance: Entire routines can be ruined by this alone.
• Special Effects Development: Once tap dancers broke the drinking glass ceiling (During the Season vi finals), the production team figured out how to brand their shoes audible during intros.
• Spell My Name with an "Due south": Among others, Flavor 10'south Makenzie Dustman and Season 9's Witney Carson.
• Stripperiffic: Many of the female person dancers' outfits. Justified, as it makes move easier.
• Take That!: In that location have been so many dancers from this evidence who have gone on to be featured in Dancing with the Stars that Nigel remarked that the show should be renamed Dancing With the Stars of "So You Recollect You lot Tin can Dance".
• Technician Versus Performer: All the time. Also, run across Underdogs Never Lose.
  • Finally, finally averted in Flavor 9, where the male finalists came down to Chehon (technician) and Cyrus (performer). Everyone was sure Cyrus was going to win, only then Chehon did.
  • Averted, inverted, and played straight in Season two, all by Travis Wall and Benji Schwimmer.
    • Averted in that both dancers were highly trained and experienced in their own styles (Gimmicky Ballet for Travis and W Declension Swing/Latin Ballroom for Benji).
    • Inverted in that Travis was meliorate at getting into the required attitude for a given trip the light fantastic where Benji had difficulty shedding his usual happy personality, especially when a given dance would crave a more sensual mien. Benji, on the other hand, was more than consistently able to choice upward direct choreography in multiple styles, including Broadway, Jazz, and Hip-Hop, while Travis struggled, especially with learning ballroom dances.
    • Played (somewhat) directly in their corresponding solos, with Travis' solos focusing on raw technical power with more restrained emotional performance, where Benji's more often than not relied on fun, lighthearted performance and audience connection, to compensate for the absence of a partner limiting his more impressive technical options.
  • Information technology's besides what can brand or break dances, and in more than 1 manner. A couple who dance without putting whatever energy or personality into it won't get much adulation and will get panned by the judges. A couple who put the wrong kind of personality into it will likewise get panned past the judges (for example, a hip hop routine where the couple are cute instead of badass, or a Broadway routine where the woman is tame instead of sexy).
  • Averted in Season 10: Male finalists Fik-shun and Aaron were heavily critcized by the judges for their shortcomings in technique, while female finalists Jasmine and Amy were constantly praised for both their technical skills and personalitiy.
• That Russian Squat Dance: Information technology's chosen Trepak; it forms the basis of a duel between Joshua and Twitch.
• Transatlantic Equivalent: The BBC did the UK version, which was also hosted by the original evidence's presenter Cat Deeley.
• True Companions: For the most part, every flavor's Top 10(ish) patently become this during and subsequently the season. Near of the show'due south alumni come off every bit pretty shut every bit a whole as well, specially on Twitter.
  • Many of the dancers keep to exist associated with the evidence. Two will often exist brought in to teach the choreography in the initial auditions, and during the competition choreographers will often bring people back to help them teach.
    • Though in that location are some jarring omissions. Primary i one can think of is season three winner Sabra, who has all the same to return, even in the audience
    • Annotation also that many contestants across the seasons will frequently end upward working on trip the light fantastic projects together one time they've finished the testify. Many of them also end upwards dancing on Glee at some point or other, then contestants from previous seasons who had never met more recent contestants now go to work with them.
    • Season 3 every bit a whole was allegedly marred by a lot of backstage drama between the dancers, beingness a notable exception to this trope for the series.
  • Season 4 contestants flashed their camaraderie with the phrase "Four Real" (for real).
  • Season 10 showed their camaraderie past making an X (Roman numeral x) with their arms.
• Underdogs Never Lose: When the final two get downward to the technically vivid (and in all but one season) contemporary guy and the other dancer, often with less formal training (if whatsoever) but a effulgent personality, guess who wins.
  • Flavour nine had the technical ballet boy Chehon winning as opposed to the popular animator Cyrus. YMMV equally to which boy y'all believe was more the underdog that flavour.
  • Not actually the case in Season 2; Benji and Travis were both highly trained and technically skilled, but in different styles (Benji in Westward Coast Swing and Latin Ballroom and Travis in Gimmicky).

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