Memo to So You Think You Can Dance Australia.
Can we ban the phrase “Comfort Zone” for the rest of the series, please?
Last night it was used by both judges and host. It’s such a TV cliche these days, especially in Reality.
We know the dancers are tackling areas of discipline that are not their speciality. It’s the whole premise of the show.
Last time this issue was raised here was March 2008 in reference to So You Think You Can Dance Australia and It Takes Two.
ps….and preferably the word “yeah?” at the end of sentences too, yeah?
I’m not saying that the dancers are all bad – it’s just that no one is standing out yet. And they admit they select dancers to get a broad range of people and dance styles into the competition. Which is tantamount to admiting that they didn’t actually select the “best” 20 dancers in the competition – just the 20 who fit their criteria.
I really hope that everything mentioned here improves this season – concept, chore, judges and dancing!
Also someone give Matt Lee a Cold Shower…. Lately all the majority of his Comments to the Female Dancers have amounted to is ‘these girls are so beautiful/ youre/she was/ you looked – Hot’… Haha.
i do Love this show, but pleeeeease don’t make me sit through another 2 hour show!
there’s only 15 minutes of actual dancing out of a total 120 minutes! they could really compmress this to a 1-1.5 hour show!
LOL at the ‘yeah’ comment David!
Can we also Ban the phrase “Give it up for….”
How about a round of applause call me old fashioned, but that makes more sense linguistically that “donating someone higher….”
Can we please have people in it who are there for their dancing ability rather than their backstory next time? It seems like everyone on this series has a tragedy or are young parents or something, and have a cry about it. Where are the “yeah, I just like dancing’ people?
@Cairns
They prob did copy David but we were saying the same thing in our house last night during the show so I doubt he was the only one to notice.
Either way who cares… if they did see it here then they put it on tele tonight and it was funny!
I would also add saying that you are out of your comfort zone is stupid by the Top 20. They all had to compete out of said comfort zones in the audition weeks and were judged okay enough to make it through.
I think Nigel in the US show after a few weeks cracked it and said he would no longer tolerate that as an excuse. I think in Season 3, in an era of reality TV, nothing can be deemed:
‘totally unexpected’
‘never expected to feel a connection to these people’
‘My journey has been/is going to be/will be…’
I agree – ban Bonnie from speaking. I’m sure if the air coming out of her mouth had feelings it would claim it was meant for something greater.
Regards,
Shane.
I met Jason Coleman on New Years Eve at a party in the city that I was working at (security) and he was choreographing the performance…he must have called me fella at least 10 times even though I introduced myself using my name!!! Having said that, he’s actually quite a nice ‘fella.’
David, Someone at 7PM project obviously reads here. They picked up on this Exact thing tonight… the did not give you the referance either!
Contestant: You see.. *sniff* ..My journey.. *sniffle* has been so so hard.. *breaks down crying* My cat miffles died three years ago and i never got over it and that’s why i dance. *sobs* dancing helps me get through it all.
Jason: Wow! That was fabulous crying! Here’s a ticket to Sydney!
What about “raising the bar” and “your chance to shine”?! My TV is off this year.
Emotional Rollercoaster….
Don’t we all loath cliches? And also “your top 20″, or however many there are. They don’t belong to us.
Can TEN please move Dance back to Sunday/Monday?
Also can we ban Jason saying “For the people at home” before every comment.
Yes Jason it’s a TV show… we understand that it’s all for “The people at home”.
Shelly, I actually had more issues with the choreography – a couple last night were really shockingly bad concepts or good concepts but not realised in the dance. Two offenders that stick out were the one with the telephone and the pair all in white to the love theme from Romeo and Juliet. Really ordinary choreography. As for the dancers – there were a few shockers, but then, there are always a few at this stage. Will be interesting to see how the results go this evening – it’s always a surprise first round!!
Yes, very good points about the use of cliches, ad nauseam, in reality competitions. Whilst I realise it must be difficult to come up with something new when speaking to contestants who are taking part in a contest week after week, the judges do have to put a bit more thought into it. The word “journey” is so far beyond cliche that it is not funny. The constant “yeah” after every third word (yes, I’m speaking to you, Coleman and Calombaris) is also supremely annoying. I blame Jamie Oliver for popularising that particular vocal quirk. I sometimes wonder how much TV presentation coaching and instruction these guys are given after they take on the judging role. It is not easy to suddenly be thrust into a role like that and there is definitely scope for some of our reality judges to have vocal and TV presentation coaching, that’s for sure
Dancers look pretty darn good to me… but show isn’t taking hold yet.
Can we stop them making excuses for poor performances? “It’s really hard for ballroom dancers to do other styles, it’s really hard for hip-hop dancers not to think, it’s really hard to learn rhumba in such a short amount of time”.
Seriously, dancers in past season have already proved all that is a bunch of lies! Don’t making excuses for choosing bad dancers in the top 20!
Let’s not forget “light and shade”…
agree with peps – everytime jason refers to someone as “fella” I think he’s trying to mimic aborginial colloquialism which he should really try and avoid! and interestingly it typically ends in disappointment for the recipient
I know something else we can ban…reality television!
I also never want to hear the word “journey” on that show ever again!!
journey
comfort zone
yeah
. . . like . . .
yeah but no
Better than Australian Idol – Dicko used to say, after someone’s act:
“What you are is a performer. What you did was a performance. What we saw was you performing.”
Hitting my head against the wall brings less pain than watching that show.
“yeah?” and George Calombaris are synonymous with each other.
I’ve been getting annoyed by the number of time Jason and Matt say that something is ‘ridiculous’ when they mean ‘brilliant’. The way you did that was ridiculous. That performance was rididculous. No, Jason and Matt, you guys sound ridiculous.
Can we ban Jason saying the phrase ‘Dance is my whole life’ as he says it quite a bit and it gets quite annoying
If dance is your whole life then what are you doing as a judge on a tv show.
“You should be dancing, yeah!”
It was actually Matt using “yeah?” last night. It’s infectious, yeah?
I was so thinking exactly the same thing watching the show last night..Coleman always agrees with himself after every sentence by saying “yeah”..A really annoying habit!!
I think the “comfort zone ” statement is so widely over used too..Just by competing in a tv show, they are out of their comfort zone..
I also noticed that two of the judges used the expression “go out there and shine” in the promos leading up to the shows’ premiere. It probably wouldn’t have been as noticable in an hourlong minute programme, but that sort of repetition can be quite grating within such a tight timeframe.
A cliched reality show? No way!
That’s a very British thing to do yeah? Jamie Oliver does it a lot yeah, and it annoys the hell out of me yeah!
It’s kinda like how we put “yeah nah” at the start of sentences.
Yeah nah that was a good dance.
What about “the journey”?
It’s an experience, not a car trip.
When I saw the title of your article, I thought you were going to refer to banning them saying “yeah”…
But they have to keep saying that… What other drinking game would we play?
Can we also stop Jason Coleman continually calling people ‘fella’. It’s a very patronising term and he sounds like a fool everytime he says it.
i just think it’s hilarious they’ve got a team called Will and Grace
Can we ban Bonnie from speaking?
umm, yeah, like, agreed but it’s sooo surreal and relevant !