# So You Think You Can Dance -- SYTYCD -- Summer 2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261 "2012-05-17T23:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/42 "2012-06-14T17:12:26Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > As always, I’m impressed by the manners of all the dancers and the audience. > > Especially by how kind they were to the crazy space lady. Keep in mind that Nigel is the director of the audition episodes (although I’m not sure about Vegas Week). Any adverse reaction would almost certainly result in Nigel stopping the tape, a warning (if not an outright disqualification, and yes, Nigel has the authority to do that - the contract says that a contestant may be disqualified “for any reason or no reason whatsoever”), and either the audition would be restarted or simply not aired. Also note that, for the broadcast, the music is probably “replayed” on a separate track (this also allows the music to be replaced for broadcast if it can’t be cleared), so any crowd reaction during a routine could be erased. However, I think the main reason is, they’re all dancers - there’s probably a “but for the grace of God” and “judge not lest ye be judged” mentality involved. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/43 "2012-06-14T18:15:24Z")
I love Crump Girl. She seemed to be doing well in choreography too. The fact that the judges tend to be so kind, and so unabashedly enthusiastic about dance, is what sets it apart from other reality shows, IMO. It just shines with heart and passion. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/44 "2012-06-18T13:03:28Z")
I loved the editing during the sequence of ballroom dancers: “What are you dancing for us today?” “Ballroom.” “What are you dancing for us today?” “Ballroom.” “What are you dancing for us today?” “Ballroom.” “What are you dancing for us today?” “Crump.” Cue Adam’s spit take. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/45 "2012-06-19T17:10:35Z")
I can’t wait until Vegas - for me that could almost be a series unto itself! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/46 "2012-06-19T18:19:43Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > I can’t wait until Vegas - for me that could almost be a series unto itself! Yeah, they could do a full episode just of the “here’s your team, choreograph a dance for yourselves” segment, which never gets more than 5 or 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/47 "2012-06-21T12:42:38Z")
Good episode – I like the lack of soap-operaness in how they’re handling the preseason story. (Less so than previous years, or does it just feel that way to me?) “Okay, here’s someone we saw five minutes of in the original audition – they didn’t make it past this point – oh well.” This is some seriously good editing. That said, I do not want to see another closeup of Alexa’s brimming eyeballs. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/48 "2012-06-21T13:00:25Z")
A lot of quitters! Some, I completely understand. Out of my element, need serious training, etc… Others are big drama queens. And the reactions when getting cut are always interesting. From “I’ll be back next year, better!” to “They don’t know what they’re missing” and “Bleep this bleepin show and bleep Nigel and his bleepin bleep bleep!” Attitude is important. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/49 "2012-06-21T13:02:44Z")
I didn’t liike the flapper girl at first, but now I hope she makes it to the top 20. She’s a beautiful dancer, but I also love the color of her skin. Pale girls represent! We are also seriously rooting for Dragon House boy. He has had the best attitude out of anyone I think I’ve ever seen on this show. The way he has committed himself to learning despite the difficulty and unfamiliarity is inspiring. And I loved his comment - something like ‘‘Apparently there’s a whole new level of hard that I haven’t been working, so I’m going to figure out a way to get there.’’ We like Alexa too. She’s demonstrated that she can take critique and learn from it. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/50 "2012-06-21T13:16:06Z")
I’m also reconsidering flapper girl – still think she’s a little too into herself, but would be curious to see how she did if she made it to the top 20, so I hope she does. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/51 "2012-06-21T14:28:30Z")
I was disappointed they cut the krumper girl - she definitely brought something different to the table AND she seemed to be handling the contemporary just fine. Flapper girl’s hair annoys me so much I can barely stand to watch her. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/52 "2012-06-21T15:23:46Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Actually, I was surprised at how many hiphop dancers they sent straight to Vegas – ISTM that prior years they pretty much always went to choreography. Which makes sense, since so many of them are self-taught, and thus have little or no idea about any other style. Considering that two of the “specialty” dancers that got sent through to Vegas dropped out the minute they realized they couldn’t pick up others’ choreography, I expect very few hip-hoppers to be sent through to Vegas in future seasons (and yes, I expect there to be “future seasons” - this is one of Fox’s highest-rated summer shows.) I’ve said this everywhere else, so I might as well say it here: why do I have the feeling the last two dancers “competing” for the final spot will be the two ballroom roommate girls? (And one of these seasons, this is going to backfire on them, when one of the top 20 gets disqualified just before the “live” shows begin and ends up being replaced by someone who wasn’t the last person cut. This nearly happened in, I think, Season 3, but they had time to record a new scene with the first male alternate being told that he had made it, and when they aired a group shot of the top 20 that included the disqualified dancer and left out the alternate, they pretended that the goof never happened.) I’m still wondering how they are going to handle early eliminations. Why do I have the feeling they’re going to end up eliminating couples this year, rather than splitting them up and then wondering how anybody can vote for the new couple created from the “survivors”? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/53 "2012-06-21T15:55:19Z")
Has anyone heard anything about how they’re going to organize the competition this year? Will they be using all-stars again? I liked the all-stars. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/54 "2012-06-21T16:08:42Z")
Seeing Twitch and Comfort choreographing made my night. I hope to see more of their stuff this season. That one guy that was so pissed about being publicly criticized, didn’t he look a little like Pasha? . ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/55 "2012-06-21T17:37:45Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Has anyone heard anything about how they’re going to organize the competition this year? Will they be using all-stars again? I liked the all-stars. Yes…sort of. Here’s what we do know: After the announcement of the Top 20 next week, there will be a week off (I assume they figure that too many people will be out watching fireworks rather than home watching the show and then voting). On 7/11, the top 20 dancers compete as couples. Remember, there is no “results show” each week this year. On 7/18, the top 20 dancers compete again, but after each dance, they will be told if they were in the bottom three in the previous week’s voting. Supposedly, the judges will use that night’s routine in place of the “dance for your life” solos to eliminate two dancers, although they do have the option to make one or more dancers do a solo anyway. They have not said whether or not the two dancers eliminated each week would always be Once they get down to the last 10, the all-stars will return. Note that, according to TheFutonCritic, there will also be no new episodes in the two weeks that NBC is airing the Olympics; because of this, and the fact that The X Factor has to start on 9/12 in order to finish on time, the last two SYTYCD episodes will be on Tuesday 9/11 and 9/18. Don’t forget the other big change this year: there will be two winners, one male and one female. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/56 "2012-06-22T00:36:41Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > …there will also be no new episodes in the two weeks that NBC is airing the Olympics… Good. I’m on vacation one of those weeks, sharing a house with a bunch of people who would outnumber me on an Olympics vs. SYTYCD vote. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/57 "2012-06-22T10:52:19Z")
I felt so bad for Aubrey. I sure hope she can find work. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/58 "2012-06-22T15:36:06Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > I was disappointed they cut the krumper girl - she definitely brought something different to the table AND she seemed to be handling the contemporary just fine. I agree. And, she had such a gorgeous figure after she took off her baggy crumper clothes, I was hoping to see more of her. She looked like she might have been a gymnast. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/59 "2012-06-22T15:42:59Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I felt so bad for Aubrey. I sure hope she can find work. I hear that Vocal Adrenaline is always looking for people with SYTYCD experience 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/60 "2012-06-22T19:07:30Z")
> [@FlyingDragonFan](#): > > I agree. And, she had such a gorgeous figure after she took off her baggy crumper clothes, I was hoping to see more of her. She looked like she might have been a gymnast. Yeah. Maybe it was the form-fitting shorts, but I was sad to see her go, but didn’t mind watching her walk away. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261/61 "2012-06-22T19:39:05Z")
I wanted to see the crumper girl make it, too. I wanted Alexa kicked off. I get that she’s a good dancer and she very nearly made it this time, but like Adam said, they’ve been carrying her, letting her slide on her lack of personality nearly all of Vegas. There are so many other dancers with personality that I didn’t think they should be letting her slide all this time just because she “almost” made it last time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-think-you-can-dance-sytycd-summer-2012/622261.md?page=4)