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Strictly Come Dancing

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Strictly Come Dancing	comment	Now (2023) on its 21st series, Strictly Come Dancing is a Celebrity Talent Show in which 15 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the the final, which is decided by audience vote alone. The final is intended to have 4 couples (3 in earlier series) but sometimes there are less if someone has dropped out.In early 2000s, the BBC hit on the idea of bringing back the competitive ballroom dancing show Come Dancing, except with celebrities. The show was designed so that dancers would be judged partly by professional judges and partly by a public vote. The show debuted in 2004. Two series aired that year; since then it has always aired in the last months of the year with a final in mid-December.Originally hosted by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly until the 2014 series, Brucie's role has been taken overnote He was originally intended to remain as the host of the Christmas special and any charity editions, but ill health prevented this from happening by Tess, with previous Sunday show host Claudia Winkleman taking over Tess' role, becoming the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show.note In the second series Tess was replaced by first series champion Natasha Kaplinsky for the first half due to pregnancy, and in November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball, host of companion show It Takes Two, for three weeks for family reasons.Each dance is marked out of ten by the four judges, who currently consist of:
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_1434e55c	comment	In Season 21, one of the contestants was newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who mentioned that his son Jay was embarrassed at his father taking part in the show, but soon changed his mind and came to watch in the audience each week. This led to Claudia and the pros trying to embarrass him after Krishnan had just danced by greeting him in over-the-top ways.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_1ad42ecd	type	The Glasses Come Off
Strictly Come Dancing / int_1ad42ecd	comment	The Glasses Come Off: Shirley Ballas will do the inverse of this if she has a serious point to make.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Strictly Come Dancing / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Craig can and will tell the contestants just how bad their dancing was in both his comments and markings. The other three use the paddles for less than 5 once or twice a series at best.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_240fd641	type	Long-Runner Cast Turnover
Strictly Come Dancing / int_240fd641	comment	Long-Runner Cast Turnover: The professional lineup; by 2018, Anton was the only original pro dancer left, with the others having appeared in anything between one to eight series (out of sixteen). As of the 2021 series, he is now one of the judges, meaning that there are no professional dancers from the first series still competing in the show.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Strictly Come Dancing / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Now that he's a judge, let Anton tell you. No really, let him tell you.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Strictly Come Dancing / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: One dance in the 2015 season saw a bucket of confetti being thrown over the judges. Shortly after this, Darcey could be seen trying to pick bits of confetti out from her cleavage. Likewise when she was giving her opinion, Craig was picking the confetti out of her hair.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Strictly Come Dancing / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: Having previously done drag in the past in the past, Craig sometimes appears in the themed weeks and pro routines in drag. One notable instance was in Halloween 2022 where he and Shirley were dressed as Morticia and Gomez Addams respectively. Also in Halloween Week 2022, Johannes wore a dress and wig for his Hocus Pocus themed dance with Ellie Taylor. He also wore a wig along with a sparkly jumpsuit that matched Luba's in the Blackpool 2023 opening routine. The 2020 series had a routine where the male pros performed in drag. Movie Week 2023 had Layton Williams dressed as Rizzo from Grease, while Adam Thomas did a routine based on The Super Mario Bros. Movie dressed as Mario - and his partner Luba was dressed not as Princess Peach, but as Luigi. Halloween 2023 had Layton in drag for his Tango with Nikita, who wore a skirt in the pro dance opener of the following results show.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Strictly Come Dancing / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Claudia has a tendency to do lot of puns related to the contestants profession when reading out the numbers for voting.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Strictly Come Dancing / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: The 2010 series onwards introduced "theme nights", starting with this on the weekend closest to Halloween.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
Strictly Come Dancing / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: Craig has grown these in the 2014 and 2015 series for his Pantomime role as Captain Hook in Peter Pan.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_2e77c628	type	The Baby of the Bunch
Strictly Come Dancing / int_2e77c628	comment	The Baby of the Bunch: Among the pros, AJ, and to a lesser extent Chloe when she was still on. It's also common for particularly young, young-looking or youth-appealing celebrities to get this treatment as well, such as Tina O'Brien, Georgia May Foote, Claudia Fragapane, Joe Sugg, and most recently Saffron Barker, accentuated by being paired with AJ. The 2021 series had Tilly Ramsay, who had her 20th birthday during her time on the show. She was paired with newcomer pro Nikita, one of the younger dancers if not the youngest (AJ had left by then and while fellow new pro Cameron was younger, he wasn't partnered). In 2022 there was Molly Rainford, who had her 22nd birthday during her time on the show. The 2023 series had then 20-year-old Bobby Brazier.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Strictly Come Dancing / int_2f62653b	comment	Craig has "Fab-u-lous!" and sometimes "A-ma-zing!", the former of which is occasionally said by the other judges.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_311500f5	type	Breaking Old Trends
Strictly Come Dancing / int_311500f5	comment	Breaking Old Trends: There was a period where the dance off was removed and the elimination would be based purely on the public's vote combined with the judge's earlier scores, with the dance routines and results taking place in the same episode. However, the results show and dance off were soon brought back in order to reduce the chances of the less talented dancers being kept in by bringing back the judge's ability to decide out of the bottom two. Originally, the Launch Show for each series would reveal the contestant's dance partners right then and there in the ballroom. In the 2020 series, to keep with social distancing during the COVID Pandemic, this was changed so that the contestants already knew each other, with their meetings having been filmed in different locations beforehand, which was continued in the following years. From the 2020 series onwards, the lineups have included at least one pairing where both the contestant and the professional are the same gender (Nicola Adams and Katya Jones in 2020, John Whaite and Johannes Radebe in 2021, both Richie Anderson and Giovanni Pernice and Jayde Adams and Karen Hauer in 2022, and Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin in 2023).
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: The support cups are attached to the dresses.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Strictly Come Dancing / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Fleur East ended up in the dance-off in the 2022 series on or near her birthday.note This is ignoring the fact that the results show aired on the following night, as it was still filmed on the previous night. Thankfully, the judges saved her. Jody Cundy wasn't as lucky as Fleur, as he was eliminated from the 2023 series on his birthday.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Strictly Come Dancing / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The 2010 series changed the rules to allow props, leading to a few cases of this: Matt Baker started his Charleston on a unicycle Magician Paul Daniels began a routine by making his partner "appear" from inside a box The opening to Russell Grant's Jive in Wembley Arena: he was "fired" out of a cannon. Bill Bailey's finale performance to "The Show Must Go On" concluded with him pulling out an electric guitar and playing a solo with the show's house band. Layton Williams' Couple's Choice in Blackpool featured pole dancing, albeit fully-clothed. From 2020 onwards, the pairings in the Launch show were filmed in different locations that the celebrities had some sort of connection to, and they would be introduced to their professional partners in interesting ways. For example, in 2021 John Whaite's partner Johannes greeted him by Jumping Out of a Cake, and in 2023 Eddie Kadi and his partner Karen met each other after climbing up the O2 Arena.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_37ddb0bf	type	Not a Mask
Strictly Come Dancing / int_37ddb0bf	comment	Not a Mask: Craig once referred to Anton wearing fake teeth for a dance where he was dressed as Austin Powers, only to discover he wasn't, sending the studio into hysterics for a good minute.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Strictly Come Dancing / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: If a routine can include a reference to what the celebrity is known for, it will. The presenters also love making puns and jokes related to the contestants profession. Matt Baker's countryside-themed cha-cha-cha. Jason Donovan's Priscilla, Queen of the Desert tango. Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton dancing a paso doble to Queen's "Bicycle Race". Tom Fletcher of Mc Fly's routine during Movie Week in the 2021 series was based on Back to the Future; his band is named after the protagonist. 2021 also had John Whaite's bakery-themed Charleston. The 2022 series had one week where the couples danced to songs from various BBC shows as part of the 100th anniversary celebration, which included Helen Skelton dancing to the Blue Peter theme song, and James Bye dancing to the extended version of the EastEnders theme song. There are many dances that are set to songs which reference the contestants' names. Mollie King dancing to "Good Golly, Miss Molly". Jonnie Peacock dancing to "Johnny B. Goode". Also started with him dancing to "Footloose" - subtle given he's a paralympian blade runner! Susan Calman dancing to "If You Knew Susie". Joe Sugg actually had two instances of this during his year, dancing to "Cotton Eye Joe" in Week 2 and a medley of songs from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Musicals Week. Two instances of this in the 2020 season. Jamie Laing performed to the title song of "Everybody's Talking About Jamie", whilst Bill Bailey performed to "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?" In a similar vein to the above, Scott Maslen, who played Jack Branning in EastEnders, did a jive to "Hit The Road, Jack".
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Strictly Come Dancing / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Bruno Tonioli — he wouldn't be able to get away with half of what he says if he didn't have the 'Franc from Father of the Bride (1991)' persona, and thank god he does because he's funny. The comedy training VTs sometimes play this up with the non-English professionals, as do some of Bruce's jokes.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Strictly Come Dancing / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: In one year, there was a Halloween pro dance which featured no less than five of the professional male dancers dancing topless. Artem's "costume" for his paso doble with Fern Britton involved him wearing nothing from the waist up. The comments that this was an attempt to get votes may not have been entirely in jest. During the 2012 season, Artem made several requests to wear even less. In 2021 Nikita took off his shirt during his Samba with Tilly Ramsay when they were in the dance off. It didn't do them any favours, though, and they were still eliminated. Two years later, he recounted the event on It Takes Two, seemingly embarrassed about it, when it was brought up that he'd made it past Week 10 for the first time.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Strictly Come Dancing / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first incarnation of Come Dancing on BBC television might well be viewed this way, such is the popular power of the new show. Beginning as Television Dancing Club in 1949 and renamed Come Dancing in 1950, the show ran to 1995 with few breaks. It took the form of a regional contest between strictly amateur teams and soloists who represented their cities, counties and wider regions. A typical show might have had "Home Counties North" in a formation dance-off against "Northern Counties South", in a variety of styles and disciplines with up to twelve couples per side dancing in unison. This was staid and stuffy television and was much parodied by comedians, such as The Goodies and Rutland Weekend Television. This format was quietly retired in the early part of The '90s. For Strictly itself, there were no themed weeks for the first few series, and the use of props was not allowed until 2010.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_4f4e43cc	type	Always Second Best
Strictly Come Dancing / int_4f4e43cc	comment	Always Second Best: Professional dancer Kevin Clifton finished as runner-up four years running (the only professional to be runner-up more than once without winning, let alone four years in a row), which is almost every year he's been on the show. He was jokingly referred as "always the bridesmaid, never the bride" until he finally lifted the glitterball in 2018 with Stacey Dooley. Pro dancer AJ Pritchard has had it even worse, as he finished as a semifinalist on all three of the years he was on the show.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_532f8e61	type	Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!
Strictly Come Dancing / int_532f8e61	comment	Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: Discussed by Richard Arnold after a disastrous foxtrot where he forgot half the routine: "We're going to be on the Internet forever!"
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_5d6db368	type	Four Eyes, Zero Soul
Strictly Come Dancing / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Shirley Ballas seems to wear glasses purely for this effect. If her specs are on, her gloves are off.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Strictly Come Dancing / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: For years, there was only one female judge on the panel, versus three males. It was at first Arlene Philips, then Alesha Dixon and then Darcey Bussell. Although both presenters have been female since 2014note Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are the first female duo to have ever presented a Saturday evening show, the judging panel didn't gain a second woman until 2017 when Shirley Ballas joined Darcey Bussell as Len's replacement for head judge. When Darcey left after the 2018 series, she was replaced by Motsi Mabuse, retaining the 2-2 male-female judging panel.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_6b353f78	type	Only Known by Initials
Strictly Come Dancing / int_6b353f78	comment	Only Known by Initials: Pro dancer AJ Pritchard (full name Alex Joseph Pritchard) but he goes by AJ, at least within the show. The 2021 series also had AJ Odudu as a contestant, who was only referred to by her initials.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Strictly Come Dancing / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: As the BBC's only really successful light-entertainment show from the New Tens, this rapidly became a staple of the Christmas schedules. Initially this took the format of inviting back past contestants alongside the top three from the most recent series in a standalone competition; in 2010 it was changed to feature new celebrities who didn't have time to do the full series (although a few of them did return for the full series in later years), before reverting to an 'All-Stars' format between 2014 and 2019, before switching back to the 2010-13 style in 2021 (the COVID-19 pandemic caused 2020's special to be a Greatest Hits-style show).
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_74c9cf33	type	Two Girls to a Team
Strictly Come Dancing / int_74c9cf33	comment	Two Girls to a Team: The judging panel became this with the addition of Shirley Ballas and Darcy Bussell (there had previously been strictly one female judge on the panel), and then when Darcy left, she was replaced by Motsi Mabuse.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Strictly Come Dancing / int_76b4b7dd	comment	Craig looking completely deadpan while wearing silly accessories during the opening of the voting lines.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_808324e1	type	The Runner-Up Takes It All
Strictly Come Dancing / int_808324e1	comment	The Runner-Up Takes It All: Kara Tointon's acting career since winning series 8 has been far from poor, but runner-up Matt Baker received a bigger boost in his presenting career (his performance on the show resulted in him getting the job as host of The One Show, a role he had been passed over for before because of doubts as to how popular he was). It's a common occurrence for the more technically-impressive runner-ups to score musical theatre roles, as was the case with Danny Mac, Alexandra Burke, and most recently Faye Tozer. Since being on Strictly, Joe Sugg hosted the show's official podcast, was one of the titular presenters for the 2019 Comic Relief telethon, had a role of Ogie in the West End musical Waitress, recently guest edited The Beano and got a TV acting role in The Syndicate. Fleur East, one of the finalists from the 2022 series, became a co-host for It Takes Two in 2023.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_8135d194	type	Elimination Catchphrase
Strictly Come Dancing / int_8135d194	comment	Elimination Catchphrase: "It's the moment of truth," or "This is it." "Join [x] and [y] for their last dance..."
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Bruno was very flamboyant in episodes he appeared in, and had a habit of Chewing the Scenery and climbing up on the judge's table.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_832c1497	comment	Non-Gameplay Elimination: Several contestants have had to pull out after suffering illness, injury or bereavement (including Robert Webb, Kelly Brook and Tony Adams). John Sergeant is the only competitor to leave of his own volition (as he feared he might end up winning the series). The 2020 series' rules stipulated that either half of a couple testing positive for COVID-19 would automatically result in this trope; Nicola Adams ended up leaving the show after her professional partner Katya tested positive.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_87ce0385	comment	Series Mascot: Anton du Beke, the only professional dancer to take part in the first eighteen series (then transferring to the judging panel), who is the most recognizable of all pro dancers.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_8b6fbb06	comment	Averted for the Saturday show, which has led to more than one embarrassing incident; Bruno used an expletive meaning "nonsense" live on air (the expression in question is usable before the watershed but strongly frowned upon in a show intended as wholesome family entertainment) and later compared a dance to dogs' testicles. The BBC even apologised in 2015 over his comparing of one of Jay McGuiness's dances to 'bull's bollocks'. In another incident, during an argument Len once called Craig a "silly sod".
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_8d4b88e6	comment	Too Qualified to Apply: The show is nominally about celebrities learning to dance, and viewers tend to not take to celebrities they perceive as having had prior experience, who often end up in the dance off multiple times, and who are either eventually eliminated or don't win the final. This perhaps reached its apex with the 2018 series, which featured at least two celebrities predominantly already known for dancing (Ashley Roberts and Danny John-Jules). The stipulation in such cases is that they may have dance backgrounds, but not in Latin or Ballroom, which they have to learn from scratch. It has also been noted that celebrities with ballet training in their background often struggle, especially with the Latin dances, as the training required for good ballet can make Latin dances far too "clean", "prim" or "stiff". One of the few ballet dancers who was able to make the transition to Latin was former ballet dancer and teacher, Debbie McGee, who became a good all-rounder and 2017 finalist once she learned to "undo" her ballet training for the Ballroom and Latin techniques. The 2023 series had Angela Rippon, Angela Scanlon, Layton Williams and Nigel Harman, all of whom have backgrounds in different kinds of dance. It was most obvious with Layton Williams (who stressed along with the judges that he still had to learn the proper techniques of Ballroom and Latin) because he was primarily known as a broadway star, while the rest had other things they were famous for that made it easier for most viewers to overlook. Amanda Abington and Ellie Leach were also said to have had some prior dance experience.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_8eac3f0e	comment	People Fall Off Chairs: Bruno has fallen out of his chair so often it has become a Running Gag. It's got to the point where he and Craig have both lampshaded it several times. When Craig impersonated Bruno in his absence, he deliberately fell out of his chair.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_8f1ec2c5	comment	Joke Character: There will inevitably be a few celebrities each series who actively can't dance. At least one of them will probably turn into a Lethal Joke Character if they get the public vote on side, surviving over several better dancers before going out once there's nobody left they can credibly stay in ahead of.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Sometimes celebrities who had previously taken part in the Christmas special return to compete in the main series years later. After officially leaving the show in 2021, Bruno returned as a guest appearance during the 2022 Christmas special. Amy Dowden had to miss out on taking part in the 2023 series due to undergoing chemotherapy for her breast cancer diagnosis. However, she made a surprise appearance during Week 3 to read the voting terms and conditions, and continued to stand around with the rest of the cast for the remainder of that episode. She would go on to stand with the other pros in the "Clauditorium" in the following weeks.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: The final of each series usually sees the return of the previously eliminated celebrities, and features a group performance with them and their partners.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: Most of the professional dancers have their own specialist field of dancing and can struggle when they have to choreograph, teach and perform in a style they're not used to. Anton Du Beke in particular is a superb ballroom dancer, but his Latin routines are notoriously poor. In special cases, such as with the Salsas, Argentine Tangos, and Charlestons, the routines are choreographed by specialized choreographers. There are exceptions, though, such as Janette Manrara, who is originally a Salsa dancer, and Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace, who were originally brought in as Argentine Tango specialists before being promoted to competing pros.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_a4d6dad2	comment	Live but Delayed: Averted for the Saturday show, which has led to more than one embarrassing incident; Bruno used an expletive meaning "nonsense" live on air (the expression in question is usable before the watershed but strongly frowned upon in a show intended as wholesome family entertainment) and later compared a dance to dogs' testicles. The BBC even apologised in 2015 over his comparing of one of Jay McGuiness's dances to 'bull's bollocks'. In another incident, during an argument Len once called Craig a "silly sod". The Sunday results show from 2007 onwards is pre-recorded on the Saturday night. This means that the elimination is leaked by members of the audience, and in the first year the non-liveness became pretty clear when one of the celebrities appeared thirty minutes after the show had gone out doing live rugby commentary. From France.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: A lot of the professional dancers are now recognised as celebrities in their own right, and the show has capitalised on this by making a big deal of which celebrity gets which pro and pairing them up live in the studio. Iveta Lukosiute first appeared as a reserve pro in Series 10, briefly covering for Aliona Vilani and Ola Jordan in a couple of weeks due to injury and family emergency. She then became a regular in Series 11. During 'The People's Strictly', as Craig was unable to be a judge due to prior commitments, professional Anton du Beke, famous for his disagreements with the judges, took Craig's chair on the judging panel. He also got ascended further from guest judge to permanent judge, taking Bruno Tonioli's chair on the panel permanently. Neil Jones started out as an extra dancer and choreographer during the 2014 and 2015 series, before he and his then-wife Katya were officially ascended to pro status in 2016. However, Katya was partnered more often than Neil was. Downplayed with Luba Mushtuk, who was a recurring extra dancer since 2016 and was promoted to titular pro in 2018, but without getting a celebrity partner. In the following years, she wasn't partnered very often compared to most of the other pros, and was usually eliminated early. Played straighter in the 2023 series, where she was partnered with Adam Thomas and made it to week 7 before they were eliminated. Kai Widdrington also started out as an extra dancer before being promoted to the main pro line-up in 2021, and even got partner that year.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_abb9ebaa	comment	Dramatic Pause: Taken to excess at times. The Reveal of who's safe and who's in the dance off in each episode takes ages. The same goes for the Pro Challenge on It Takes Two, where the reveal of how many of a specific dance move a pro completed and how many were disqualified are both dragged out.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Sir Bruce Forsyth would often tell contestants that "you're my favourite". Brucie's personal catchphrases, usually "Nice to see you". Len Goodman has a particular way of pronouncing "Seven" (Seehhhhvvvvveeeeen!) A scoring catchphrase from Len: "It's a ten from Len", which has evolved into "From Len, the ten!" Craig has "Fab-u-lous!" and sometimes "A-ma-zing!", the former of which is occasionally said by the other judges. In season 8, Bruno's "Sccccccccott!" Shirley Ballas marks her first 10 with "It's never too early for a ten from Shirley!" Closing the show with "Keeeeep dancing!" Let Anton tell you.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Even Craig - who will be the first to point out when someone has done badly and made errors - will admit if someone is good - if they are good, they may even earn a bow, as Debbie McGee did once.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_b4e143c7	comment	Modesty Shorts: Worn by Lauren Steadman for her Jive during the 2018 series. Sometimes the other female dancers wear them depending on which dance they're doing.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Strictly Come Dancing / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The fate of some of the professional dancers who weren't asked to partner celebrities in the 2010 series; those who agreed were put into a "professional dance troupe". The following year the dance troupe was removed, although Ian Waite is apparently too popular to lose altogether as he still regularly appears on It Takes Two and occasionally partners celebrities in special charity or Christmas editions. The same goes for professional dancers who don't get to partner celebrities at all for a series, a few of whom left the show after not having a partner for either of their first two series. There have also been a few pros who have previously had partners but missed out on a series - there was quite an outcry from viewers when Nadiya Bychkova wasn't partnered in the 2023 series. Since their debut in 2016, neither Neil Jones nor Chloe Hewitt have partnered a celebrity on the main show. This has also been true of 2018 additions Luba Mushtuk and Johannes Radebe. Neil has only eventually got a partner in the 2019 season, three years later, again in 2021, (although he was voted out early). Luba and Johannes, though, are very downplayed, as both only sit out 2018, getting partners in 2019 (though Luba and James Cracknell were first eliminated). This also happens to the pros when their partners are eliminated, as their appearances for the rest of the series are reduced to special performances during the results show (and sometimes at the beginning of the main show), and the occasional shot of them in the audience or Clauditorium. Taken even further with those who made it far in the competition one year, only for their next partner to leave early on in the following year. For example, Kai and Giovanni made it to the final in 2021 (though in the former's case, his partner had to miss the final because of an injury) while in 2022, their new partners were eliminated in weeks 2 and 3 respectively. Bruno had to miss his spot on the judging panel in 2020 due to travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. They simply reduced the number of judges to three, although Bruno did show up via videolink on occasion, including during the final. He left the show altogether in 2021, his place being taken by Anton.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_b92a4cd9	type	Splitting Pants
Strictly Come Dancing / int_b92a4cd9	comment	Splitting Pants: Dan Snow's trousers split during his jive, the first competitive dance of the 2023 Christmas special. It's not terribly obvious, but Craig immediately points it out in his judges' comments.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_bc867843	comment	From 2020 onwards, the pairings in the Launch show were filmed in different locations that the celebrities had some sort of connection to, and they would be introduced to their professional partners in interesting ways. For example, in 2021 John Whaite's partner Johannes greeted him by Jumping Out of a Cake, and in 2023 Eddie Kadi and his partner Karen met each other after climbing up the O2 Arena.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_bdb0438e	type	Everything's Better with Sparkles
Strictly Come Dancing / int_bdb0438e	comment	Everything's Better with Sparkles: Most of the outfits will have some sparkles on them... because they're so pretty and look so good on dance floor. Tess Daly noted to it during the 2020 series which was during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that "Even the hand sanitiser has been sparkled up!" The show has even invented its own term for this "strictlify/strictlyfy". When a celebrity has been fully "strictlified", it means they've experienced the full make-up, glamour, glitz, sequins and sparkles of the show. When introducing a new show, it's now common for celebrities who don't typically have much use for glitz and sparkle in their day jobs to talk about how they feel about the impending process of "strictlification" they're about to go through.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The three female professional dancers introduced in the 2017 series, respectively: Nadiya, Amy, and Dianne.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Angela Scanlon in series 21 got as far as Week 10, where she danced to "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor. No she didn't.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_c3c245f2	comment	Squee: In series 21, Nikita let out an excited squeal after being asked to reveal which dances he and Layton Williams would be doing in the semi-final.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_c77e69fc	comment	Confetti Drop: The show loves this trope, especially during the finale of every season.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_cb96e519	comment	Show Stopper: A really entertaining performance will warrant a standing ovation from the audience. And in more recent years, it seems Motsi and Shirley can't stay in their seat for more than 2 consecutive dances.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: The drums that play during the announcement of which couples are in the bottom two, as well as when the judges are deciding who to save, bring to mind a fast-paced heartbeat, likely mimicking how anxious the couples are feeling at this point.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The opening of the voting lines are celebrated with everyone waving props around and wearing accessories (or even full costumes in a few cases), often following the theme of whichever song has been chosen to play for the announcement.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Strictly Come Dancing / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: Matt Baker's romantic Viennese Waltz to a Murder Ballad "Where the Wild Roses Grow" though only the first verse and chorus were used so without knowing the whole song you could be excused for not seeing it as such.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: After Angela Scanlon referred to Carlos as a "Nan" in the 2023 series, Claudia asked him if he was ready to become a Nan, before saying she'd never thought she'd say that.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_e378370c	comment	But Not Too White: Most of the contestants have to go for a spray tan before filming to avoid glowing white under the studio lights.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Strictly Come Dancing / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: Arlene when scoring (not the happiest of phrases perhaps) Mark Ramprakash declared outright on live television: "I just want raw sex!" In the 2018 final, following Stacey Dooley's Showdance, Bruno meant to refer to it as "Stacey's Greatest Hits", but a slip of the tongue resulted in the phrase coming out as "Stacey's Greatest Tits".
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_ed6c3220	comment	Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics: Most viewers are unaware of this, but there are actual lyrics to the Strictly theme song, as demonstrated in the pro number that opened the 2012 series.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Sometimes more than one celebrity taking part in a series has the same first name, (for example, Ellie Simmonds and Ellie Taylor in 2022, and Angela Rippon and Angela Scanlon in 2023). One can only imagine how they must have felt when hearing their name called in the results show, only for the name of the pro partner of the other person to be called next. The 2022 series had 3 celebrities with the same surname; Kaye Adams, Jayde Adams, and Tony Adams. They were even grouped together during the launch show for this reason, with Claudia calling them "The Adams Family". The 2023 series had an example where both a celebrity and a pro had the same first name, those being Nikita Kanda and Nikita Kuzmin respectively (though unlike most examples, they are different genders). Some people even speculated that they'd be paired together before the launch show revealed that was not the case.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician Versus Performer: Quite a lot of dancers fit the trope, and the younger performers often provide a serious challenge for the technicians, as their skill increases over the course of the series, but the technicians never learn to really sell a dance. The case in point in 2009 is Chris Hollins, who started off poorly skilled but a good performer, and by the end was both skilled AND a good performer. Among how the judges make their decisions, Craig tends to make more technical comments, while Bruno tends to focus on the 'feel'. The other judges tended to fall somewhere in between.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_f9cc3ee0	comment	Group Hug: The last dance of an eliminated couple will end with the other couples coming over to hug them. This didn't happen in series 18 and 19 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, but came back in series 20.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Craig's pronunciation of certain words (like "disaaaaastaaaaar", "Ah! May! Zing!" and "Chaaa chaaaa chaaaa") Anton Du Beke being Bruce's "love child". Bruno and chairs Darcey Bussell ending sentences with "Yah". Bruce's introduction of the judges, which would always end with him insulting Craig. Season 10 started a joke about Len and pickled walnuts. "Kevin from Grimsby" Anton getting stuck with older female contestants that can't dance and the subsequent mockery of this; this said, he has got to the final twice, with Katie Derham (2015) and Emma Barton (2019). Craig looking completely deadpan while wearing silly accessories during the opening of the voting lines. On It Takes two, there's Janette pronouncing Dianne's name with an Australian accent. In Season 21, one of the contestants was newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who mentioned that his son Jay was embarrassed at his father taking part in the show, but soon changed his mind and came to watch in the audience each week. This led to Claudia and the pros trying to embarrass him after Krishnan had just danced by greeting him in over-the-top ways.
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Strictly Come Dancing / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: Len Goodman, head judge and on the whole one of the most generous judges. He's warm towards contestants, adding the human touch to technical criticisms.
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Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Let's See YOU Do Better! / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Long Hair Is Feminine / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Non-Gameplay Elimination / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	People Fall Off Chairs / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Popularity Power / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Shocking Elimination / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Talent Show / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Too Quirky to Lose / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Too Sexy for This Timeslot / int_af444f8f
Strictly Come Dancing	hasFeature	Voted Off the Island / int_af444f8f
Switch!	seeAlso	Strictly Come Dancing

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