YMMV / The Masked Dancer (UK)

• Awesome Moments:
  • Scarecrow doing a handstand during her second performance.
  • In Episode 4, Carwash does a few backflips in succession across the stage.
  • Squirrel doing the splits during some of her performances, most notably in the final. Even more so when it’s revealed that she’s Bonnie Langford, who was 56 at the time.
  • Just the fact that the majority of the dancers in the first series were actually in their 40's or 50's. It shows that you can still be a good dancer despite your age.
  • In the semi-final of the second series, Onomatopoeia impresses the audience with his tap dancing skills, with the music even stopping at one point to show it off. And then he does it again for his finale reprise.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: At the end of Carwash's performance of "Singing in the Rain", someone in a pigeon costume comes onto the stage and offers Carwash a cone of chips. This is never brought up again, nor is it mentioned when he gets unmasked.
• Broken Base: Viewers are divided on whether this show is as good as Masked Singer or not; some people think Singer is better because the contestant’s singing voices are often enough of a clue while Dancer relies on more hints in the form of games, but others enjoy watching the contestants show off some rather impressive moves.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: As soon as the possibility of Knickerbocker Glory being Craig Revel Horwood was brought up, it became obvious with their clue packages, especially in the semi-final. In fact, several viewers even guessed it from the first few episodes. It’s probably why they ended up the first to be unmasked in the semi-final. And even for those who didn't guess correctly, it didn't take long for it to become apparent that he was actually a man Disguised in Drag.
• Elimination Houdini: Pearly King in the second series wasn't as good a dancer as the reactions and votes to stay in the competition from both the audience and the judges would have you believe. Similar to Doughnuts in the third series of Singer, he was chosen more for the character he brought to his performances rather than his actual skills, though unlike Doughnuts he made it all the way to the final. While his performances in the last two episodes were considerably better, some people thought it was too little too late. He was eventually unmasked as Bruno Tonioli, a professional dancer and choreographer, suggesting his earlier performances may have been him holding back.
• Growing the Beard: The second series saw an improvement due to actually being able to have a studio audience this time as opposed to the online audience of the previous series, as well as airing weekly like Singer does instead of daily like the first series did.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One that happened within the same episode: In Episode 5, Jonathan Ross guessed that Squirrel could be Zoe Ball, only for Llama to get unmasked and revealed to be Zoe Ball instead. He even lampshades this.
  • During the first few episodes, a popular guess from the viewers for Knickerbocker Glory was David Walliams... and then he appeared as a guest judge in Episode 5, shutting that down.
  • One of the panel's guesses for Carwash was Howard Donald. Then in the final, it turned out that he was in the competition, but as Zip.
• I Knew It!:
  • For the first series, many people guessed that Llama, Knickerbocker Glory, Zip and Carwash were Zoe Ball, Craig Revel Horwood, Howard Donald and Louis Smith, respectively. And while no one on the panel guessed their identities, several viewers correctly guessed that Beagle was Christopher Dean and Squirrel was Bonnie Langford.
  • For the second series, most people correctly guessed that Pillar and Post were Frankie Seaman and David Seaman, respectively.
• Memetic Mutation: In one episode, Davina wears some kind of white feather pressed against her hair, leading to people joking that a bird did something unpleasant in her hair.
• Shocking Elimination:
  • In the first episode, Viper (Jordan Banjo, a professional dancer) was voted out after not only ending up in the bottom three, but also having the judges choose Beetroot, whom the viewers felt didn't really dance, over him.
  • Episode 6 of the second series has Candlestick (Liam Charles), who, while not a professional dancer, was still better than other contestants such as Sea Slug and Pearly King, who did not end up in the bottom two for that episode. And while Onomatopoeia, the other person in the bottom two, was still fairly good, most people agreed that Candlestick was the better dancer (even the studio audience seemed to agree, but it was the judge's decision).
• So Okay, It's Average: While this show does still have its fans, most people agree that Singer is better.
• Tearjerker: In the second series, the show's first pairing, Pillar and Post, had to drop out due to Pillar getting injured during their rehearsals.