Dancing with the Stars/YMMV

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  • Base Breaker: Martina Navratilova's Girliness Upgrade. Many people's reactions were that she looks beautiful, others especially lesbian fans of a certain age rather disliked the look and demanded why she wasn't allowed into a tux.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Marie Osmond's freestyle dance a.k.a. the Dreaded Doll Dance. Makes a grown man cry indeed...
  • Creator's Pet: While there's no denying he's a talented dancer and choreographer, the constant shilling of Derek Hough (to the point where the judges declared that he and his professional dancer partner deserve to win before the other finalists got their last dance) turned off many fans.
    • The shilling, plus that he has, thus far, been given reasonable contenders while even the other "wonder triplets", Julianne Hough (his sister) and Mark Ballas (Mark's parents raised Derek and Julianne), have been handed less-than-stellar partners.
  • Elimination Houdini: Marie Osmond, Master P, Michael Irvin, Cloris Leachman, Billy Ray Cyrus, Bristol Palin, Kendra Wilkinson, Hope Solo, Melissa Gilbert, etc.
  • Ho Yay: Ubiquitous. Lest we not forget Mark Ballas and Valentin Chmerkovskiy going head to head.
    • The recent Madonna dance by Carson Kressley with the Chmerkovskiy brothers is dripping with this. There's no doubt it was intentional.
    • What likely started it was the season with Steve Guttenberg. One week, his partner, Anna Trebunskaya, had to take a day off. To avoid having him fall behind, her husband, Jonathan Roberts, filled in to help Steve. This led to them performing their all-male Tango (which Tom dubbed "The Man-go,") On the results show that week.
  • Large Ham: Bruno Tonioli.

Ten!

  • Tear Jerker
    • Chris Irvine's Rumba dedicated to his late mother.
    • The reaction of Hines Ward after he and Kym Johnson completed their Argentine Tango three days after Kym nearly broke her neck.
    • JR Martinez's rumba to "If You're Reading This." The dance was dedicated to his fellow soldiers who didn't come home from Iraq and Afghanistan. There wasn't a dry eye in the house when the dance was done.
  • The Scrappy: Every season seems to have at least one contestant who serves as the lightning rod for audience hate.
  • What Were You Thinking?: Letting Bristol Palin on, as she was often considered one of the worst dancers on the show. See Elimination Houdini.
    • How is that the producers fault? It's not like they knew she would be bad.
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