| Suggestion | Comments | Discipline |
| “Artistic” camerawork | Weird angles, loses skater, focus on 1 body part, fade-ins/outs | All |
| “Korean” hair bling | Doesn’t have to be a Korean skater but it has to be super-blingy; headbands count | All |
| armography | When the arms (and/or hair) are doing all the work | All |
| badly mangles skater’s name | | All |
| battle royal | | All |
| Big plushie/ cuddly toys | Combined to keep the list down | All |
| brave/ real courage | | All |
| Bubble braid/ Man bun | | All |
| Came out with all guns blazing | | All |
| clean as a whistle | | All |
| coach cam | When they show the coach miming or reacting to the performance | All |
| costume doesn’t match | Either each other or the music; slight color differences don’t count | All |
| could be skating to anything | From an FSUer | All |
| could have cleaned [something] while up there | | Pairs |
| cracker / corker | | All |
| cutouts | It has to look like a piece of the costume is missing - keyhole backs and bare midriffs don’t count | All |
| Deep knee bend | | All |
| Didn’t give an inch | | All |
| didn’t let anything go | | All |
| didn’t put a foot wrong | | All |
| dream start/ perfect start | | All |
| dying on ice | | All |
| elegant pop | | All but Dance |
| emo/ sad girl cover | It doesn’t have to literally be a girl singing to be a sad girl cover | All |
| face touching | | All |
| fall on non-element | | All |
| fist pump | after landing a jump or seeing scores | All |
| Frosty/ mad coach | In the KnC | All |
| got it all/ completely wrong | | All |
| Gymnastics on ice | Cartwheels, roundoff, etc They have to be upside down at one point with no feet on the ice | All |
| Heart hands | | All |
| Humdinger | | All |
| HUUUUGE! | | All |
| illusion/ tights weird color | Like not matching skin tone or rest of the costume | All but usually not Mens |
| Inappropriate smiling | To sad, dreary, angry music; we know it when we see it | All |
| Invalid element | | All |
| jarring music cuts | | All |
| knee slide | | All |
| lip-synching | To skater’s program | All |
| long look at it | | Singles |
| magnificent/ perfect unison | | Pairs & Dance |
| molest the judges | Getting in their space during the program; overrides touch the board | All but especially the FD |
| Music from anime | | All |
| Music from Movie/TV | Umbrellas, Lion King, Matrix, Game of Thrones, etc. Has to be from the soundtrack. | All |
| music from Musical | POTO, Les Mis, etc. Has to be from the cast album | All |
| Neon/ highlighter | Any kind, any where | All |
| nothing wrong with it/ nothing in it | | All |
| nude gloves | | All |
| Obvious warhorse | Not from Musical/Movie. Carmen, Nessa Dorum, Swan Lake, Muse, Take 5 | All |
| only one sleeve | | All but usually not Mens |
| out of the top drawer | | All |
| overcooked | | All |
| packed to the gunnels | | All |
| Pewter medal | Someone remembers there is one | All |
| pristine clean | | All |
| real quality | | All |
| Red hot/ hot it up | | All |
| right from the off | | All |
| shooting into the lead/ top | | All |
| Shoutouts in KnC | Hi Mom! Showing photos, etc | All |
| Superlatives | Sensational, Superb, brilliant, etc | All |
| Superstar artist | Musical superstars only - MJ, ABBA, Louis Prima, etc | All |
| ticking all the boxes | | All |
| Tights over/boot covers | Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is it so they both count | All but usually not Mens |
| Tip top | | All |
| touch the boards | Including punching them! | All |
| Tribute program | i.e., skating to Disturb’s SoS or Red Violin - as determined by FSU - overrides obvious warhorse | All |
| very literal costume | | All |
| voiceovers | Can’t be part of the original music | All |
| whickety-whack | Stuff that is hanging off the costume and could be removed (i.e. not a skirt with shreds) | All |
| wind(ing) up | | All but Dance |
