| Suggestion | Comments | Discipline |
| “artistic” camerawork | Weird angles, loses skater, focus on 1 body part, fade-ins/outs | All |
| all guns blazing | | All |
| all to play for | Watch, he won’t say it every again now that it’s on the list | All |
| armography | When the arms (and/or hair) are doing all the work | All |
| battle royal | | All |
| brave/ real courage/ character | | All |
| brilliant/ super | Also Sensational, Superb, etc | All |
| man buns/ ponies | Buns and pony tails on men, fancy braids on women | 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 |
| 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/ perfect start | Great start doesn’t count. It’s not superlative enough | All |
| dropped like a stone | | 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 |
| fine fettle | | All |
| fist pump | after landing a jump or seeing scores | All |
| frosty/ mad coach | In the KnC | All |
| going in the right/ wrong direction | | 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 |
| hang on to your hats | Or anything about hats really | All |
| heart hands/ arms | | All |
| HUUUUGE!/ monster/ humdinger | | All |
| illusion/ tights weird color | Like not matching skin tone or rest of the costume | All |
| 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 |
| mangles name | Or skater’s name or where they train/are from | All |
| Missing from general list | Stuff we took out but shouldn’t have | All |
| molest the judges | Getting in their space during the program; overrides touch the board | All |
| Motoring in | | Singles |
| Music du season | Something very popular right now but will fade in a season or two (unless it becomes a warhorse) | All |
| music from Movie/ TV | Umbrellas, Lion King, Matrix, Game of Thrones, etc. Has to be from the soundtrack. | All |
| music from Musical/ Opera | POTO, Les Mis, etc. Has to be from the cast album | All |
| neon/ highlighter | Any kind, anywhere | All |
| nitty gritty | | All |
| nothing in it | | All |
| nude gloves | | All |
| obvious warhorse | Not from Musical/Movie. Carmen, Nessa Dorum, Swan Lake, Muse, Take 5 | All |
| off to a flyer/ the races | | All |
| on the money | | All |
| out of the top drawer | | All |
| overcooked | | All |
| pack to the gunnels | | All |
| pristine clean | | All |
| Random Chris-ism | IYKYK | All |
| real quality | | All |
| red hot/ hot it up | Anything that’s hot | All |
| right from the off | | All |
| sharp as mustard | Any metaphor with mustard in it | All |
| shooting into the lead/ top | | All |
| shoutouts in KnC | Hi Mom! Showing photos, etc | All |
| superstar artist | Musical superstars only - MJ, ABBA, Louis Prima, etc | All |
| thrown down the gauntlet | | All |
| ticking all the boxes | | 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 | Has to feel like it’s placed over and not part of the 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 |
and I are ready to. Depending on how things go, I might need to break out the Ukrainian vodka or the single malt scotch.
