History YMMV / SoYouThinkYouCanDance

* JumpingtheShark: Arguably, by introducing the all-stars in Season 7. Doing so changed the show's format and actually made it LESS differentiated from one of its direct competitors, Dancing with the Stars. Though the show's ratings were on a downward trend before this season (particularly because of the show's ill advised and short lived switch from the summer to the fall), the show's viewership fell and never fully recovered after this point on.

* YokoOhNo: While they were both filming ''CampRock 2'', Season 4's Courtney Galiano was occasionally seen in public with [[TheJonasBrothers some dude named Nick Jonas]]. Among other things, this resulted in a slew of "we hate Courtney Galiano!!!" groups popping up on Facebook.

** EllenDegeneres filling in for Alex for his hip-hop piece with Twitch. Doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentofAwesome as well.

** UK season 2: Katie Love and Lee B became "Team LoveLee". Thankfully, Cat's attempted portmanteau of Rithy (pronounced "rich-ee") and Shane as "Shane Richie" (the name of a well-known soap actor and light entertainment host in the UK) didn't last.

* * ShockingElimination: Too many to list.

* ShockingElimination: Will happen at times, with a more recent one being Jasmine Mason in season 10, who had two well liked routines, and just one subpar routine after those two had her be the second girl eliminated.

** Season 11 has rapidly turned into a contest to see who will be runner-up to Ricky.

* ShockingElimination: Will happen at times, with a most recent one being Jasmine Mason in season 10, who had two well liked routines, and just one subpar routine after those two had her be the second girl eliminated.

** Nigel commented that he's had several battles on Twitter defending all the times the judges saved Season 10's Jenna from elimination.

* TheScrappy: Music/JustinBieber hosted the dance crew competition in season 11, and that went over as we'll

** Many accuse Season 11's Casey and Jessica of this. They consistently performed mediocrely and were still praised by the judges. For example, when Nigel found out they were in the bottom, he gave them a contemporary ''Travis Wall'' routine, and they were okay, but the judges treated it like the best thing ever. To elaborate, ''Casey and Jessica are contemporary dancers''. What makes it worse is that Serge and Carly were also in the bottom, and they got the ''quickstep'', which is way out of Serge or Carly's comfort zone, yet [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome they mastered it]]. However, Serge and Carly [[ShockingElimination were eliminated]] and Casey and Jessica were kept.

** Some fans feel Nigel shows favoritism to attractive young blondes, and those contestants, such as season 4's Kherington or season 6's Mollee, can attract a {{Hatedom}} as a result. That doesn't stop Nigel from lauding them. Season 3's Lauren also fits into this territory, as many fans hate her for either her stupid comments, her costing the fans their favorite girl (Jessi, Jaimie, Sara...) or for her [[http://community.livejournal.com/_sytycd_/446778.html reported bitchiness to Lacey]]

*** Even when they do a ''good'' quickstep it can kill them. Vitolio's and Karla's quickstep in season five was praised by the judges, but they were still gone the next night.

** Good News (and another [=CoA=], to boot: After six years, and said judge-smackdown, Cat Deeley got her first Emmy nomination in 2011.

** To clarify, Jenna was saved by the judges after being in the bottom three for the third time in five weeks at that point, forcing Malece (who had never been in the bottom three before) and Amy (who also was never before in the bottom three and the eventual season-winner) to "dance for your life." Did I mention this was the cut for the Top Ten? So Jenna was given a free pass to All Star, with all that entails.

** Season 10: Team Tuna (Jenna and Tucker), Team Pakman (Makenzie and Paul) and Team Jalan (Jasmine M and Alan).

*** Allison and Twitch are a thing now.

** Season 7, after contestant Lauren and All-Star Dominic (known for his crush on hostess Cat Deely) performed a hip-hop piece about abusive relationships,the judges remarked how Lauren had gone to a deeper place emotionally for the routine. Cue Cat turning to Dominic and coyly asking, "Want to head to a deeper place?"

** Katee and Twitch's contemporary dance, wherein Katee was a crazy, psycho, co-dependent girlfriend while Twitch was her calm, accepting boyfriend who simply refused to get angry no matter what she did. Their main prop was a door, and int he dance Twitch had to repeatedly throw her out, walk her out, and there's this priceless moment when he opens the door and she's clinging onto the top of it… and then he slams it.

** Alex's first hip-hop dance ever in season 7 will make you weep the following week.
*** Of course, any routine can be this, depending on the viewer's tastes. This troper for one found that piece to be good, but somewhat overblown while Alex's contemporary routine with Allison fit this trope more. Again, totally subjective.

** Season 10's Jenna and Makenzie. Consistently in the bottom three votes, consistently saved by the judges. Most glaring is that she made the All-Stars (Top Ten) without having had to compete ("Dance For Your Life" against the other bottom three) for a slot. At top 10, both of them landed in the bottom two and Nigel had to make a hard decision. [[spoiler:He chose Jenna.]]

** In Season 10, Makenzie and Paul and Jasmine Harper and Aaron got this the most.