Dancing with the Stars: Difference between revisions

 

 

In general, it follows the ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]'' celebrity formula: Of the contestants, usually at least one has a bit of controversy around them, at least one is a 50-plus-year-old man with two left feet, at least one is a B- or C- list actor or actress, and at least one is famous in the world of sports (and these are most likely to win it all; seven of the fourteen winners have some sporting experience, with the rest (with the exception of J.R. Martinez) having dancing training beforehand).

 

Oh, the winners! Here are the winners of previous competitions:

* Season 4: Apolo Anton Ohno, beating out [[N Sync|Joey Fatone]] and Laila Ali.

* Season 5: Helio Castroneves, beating out [[Spice Girls|Melanie Brown]] and Marie Osmond.

* Season 6: Kristi Yamaguchi, beating out Jason Taylor and Cristian de la Fuente.

* Season 7: Brooke Burke, beating out Warren Sapp (!!) and [[N Sync|Lance Bass]].

* Season 9: Donny Osmond, beating out Mya and [[The Osbournes|Kelly Osborne]].

* Season 10: Nicole Scherzinger, beating out Evan Lysacek and Erin Andrews.

* Season 13: J.R. Martinez, beating out [[Keeping Up With The Kardashians|Rob Kardashian]] and [[Hairspray|Ricki Lake]] (!!).

* Season 14: Donald Driver, beating out Katherine Jenkins and William Levy.

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* [[Acrofatic]]: Warren Sapp in Season 7 pretty much stunned everyone with the light feet on his hefty frame.

** [[Kirstie Alley]] did better than pretty much anyone would've guessed, especially when you consider her age, too.

* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: Several of the female athlete contestants, such as Laila Ali, Misty May Traynor, Natalie Coughlin, and Hope Solo.

* [[Camp Gay]]: Bruno Tonioli, especially whenever the men are half naked or take their shirts off.

** [[Always Camp]]

** Season 13 Contestant Carson Kressley plays this for all it's worth.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: [[Sports Center|Kenny Mayne]] during the Dancecenter segments. Tom Bergeron pretty much all the time.

* [[Dramatic Pause]]: It wouldn't be a talent show without one...

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Evan Lysacek and Anna Trebunskaya of Season 10, reportedly. Particularly seeing as how she's, you know, married. Anna and Evan had fantastic chemistry and clearly had a blast together, but compare her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxXYyhtqvRA waltz with Evan] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37TMRZUXbwA this dance] with her hubby, and the difference is instantly apparent.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: For a show that requires male participants to wear shiny sparkly outfits and dance, it has attracted a substantial amount of athletes from sports such as MMA, boxing, and football. Almost every season has featured a major name [[American Football]] player. Season 12 alone featured Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward, boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, and [[Chris Jericho]].

** Season 5 runner up [[Spice Girls|Mel B]] parlayed her appearance into several TV gigs. Season 5 champion Helio Castroneves was convicted of tax evasion.

*** This isn't exactly unbelievable, since a large number of the winners have been pro athletes. The athletes simply do the show for fun either during retirement or during the off-season. Many don't have plans to leverage their success into other ventures, whereas the others might.

* [[Shocking Elimination]]: The elimination of Sabrina Bryan in Week 6 of Season 5, which shocked and brought tears to everyone.

** {{spoiler|And in Season 11, Brandy in the Semi-Finals, despite her getting a near-perfect score on her two dances}}

**** {{spoiler|Sherri Shepherd and Jaleel White in Season 14.}}

* [[Showgirl Skirt]]

* [[Take That]]: Guitar Hero once showed a parody of the show called "Washed Up Celebrity Dance-Off"

* [[Technician Versus Performer]]: Season 1. Kelly Monaco (the Performer) won it over John O'Hurley (the Technician). Hotly contested, enough so that the two couples squared off in a TV special which O'Hurley won.

** Many of the seasons start out eliminating the "terrible" performers and then working to the "uninteresting" technicians. Then the [[The Mario|balanced]] dancers and finally to those that have a balanced mix of both.

* [[Throw It In]]: The couples can sometimes have an amazing ability to bounce back during a dance, such as Ralph Macchio catching Karina Smirnoff during a fall after his swinging coat knocked her to the floor.

** Counts as a [[Market-Based Title]] as well.

*** Actually, ''Dancing With The Stars'' is the title for all the non-British versions, since ''Strictly Come Dancing'' is a pun on ''[[Strictly Ballroom]]'' and the old BBC show ''Come Dancing'' (the latter of which didn't export, so no one would get the reference outside Britain).

** In season 14, professional dancer (not celeb) Maria Menounos had an unfortunate malfunction where one of her breasts popped out entirely of her top. Courtesy of the eight second delay, all home viewers saw was the Dancing With The Stars logo for a few seconds while she adjusted her top.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The show has a "wish list" of celebs that they would like to be on the show and have contacted in the past (some have had to decline for various reasons, but did the show later, such as Melissa Joan Hart and Kirstie Alley.) Some of the ones on the list include Bill Clinton, Lindsay Lohan, and having Portia de Rossi in the show's first same-sex couple.

** The same was said for Stacy Kiebler (a member of [[WCW]]'s Nitro Girls dancing troupe and a cheerleader before that) in season 2.

** Same with Sabrina Bryan, who had studied Jazz and Tap most of her childhood, and actually released a Dancing fitness video called ''BYOU,'' and Kristi Yamaguchi, who was a professional figure skater (essentially a professional dancer on skates.)

 

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