YMMV / Make It or Break It

• Anvilicious: In season two Kaylie's eating disorder lands her in rehab where she befriends Maeve, a model with a similar condition; the model tutors her in telling The Powers That Be what they want to hear so that she can leave. They both get to leave but Maeve drops dead of heart failure.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Take the canon pairing Summer/Sasha's 12 fanfictions to the 107 fanfictions shipping Payson/Sasha.
• Heartwarming Moments: After spending the beginning of the second season annoying/flirting with Kaylie, Austin realizes why she Took a Level in Jerkass to her teammates and gives her a very nice pep talk, telling her how he can empathize with the pressure she's under as a gymnastics champion and how she's being a great leader just in how she's wanting the rest of the group to be at the top too.
  • In that same episode, Kaylie apologizing to the group for how she's been acting.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Jordan's Season 3 storyline of being a talented black gymnast with a trick named for her, who was in foster care, and who was molested by her coach is reminiscent of Simone Biles' experience^note though in Biles' case it wasn't her longtime coach Aimee Boorman, but national team doctor Larry Nassar who was responsible.
• Ho Yay: Payson and Emily seem to be... close. Incredibly close.
• Moment of Awesome: Sasha punching out Marty when he finds out about his affair with Kaylie's mother.
  • Marty gets one too when he calls Ellen Beals out for her antagonistic treatment towards Emily and for encouraging Kaylie's (unknown to the adults at the time) eating disorder.
  • Payson gets one as well in "Worlds Apart" when she does her vault with an injured foot - topping it off with a little wink to Russian rival Glinka who she's just owned. You'd expect Lauren to wink, but from Payson... Team USA deserves to win gold after that. And they do.
  • Lauren's grandmother gets a huge one for giving Lauren a devastating yet much deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech after she tried humiliating Emily and her mother at the dinner the Tanner's were hosting.
• Narm: the gas station scene.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: "Kaylicky" is clearly one of the worst ever. Even "Nickaylie" would have been less awful.
• Shout-Out: Possibly? I just started watching this show, but in the episode I saw, I noticed that Summer's ex is named Steve Tanner. Hmmmm.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Though it sadly doesn't happen often, many fans rejoice any time karma catches up to Lauren. Such times include:
  • Lauren being completely shunned at both Denver Elite and on the National Team while they're at a meet in China.
  • Kaylie scathingly calling Lauren a "two-faced slut" and ending their friendship for having sex with Carter and then lying about it (and that's after she exposed Kaylie and Carter's relationship to Marty, her mother, and her father).
  • Lauren's grandmother giving her the above mentioned smack-down in Season 2.
  • And finally, Carter getting fed up with Lauren's horrible behavior (after numerous unsuccessful attempts of calling her out on it) and breaking up with her.
• Tear Jerker: Max coming out as bisexual to Austin and his subsequent venting about how scared he is to tell Payson out of fear that she'll break up with him because she'll think he'll cheat on her or that he's gay and just won't admit it. A sadly relatable moment for many real life bi and pansexual people.
  Max: I wish I was just gay. Life would be a lot simpler.
  • Becomes Harsher in Hindsight when Payson finally does find out. She reacts about as well as Max expected her to — that is to say, by assuming the worst of him.
• Wangst: Sorry, Lauren, but having a drug addict for a mother doesn't excuse your atrocious behavior towards the people around you, no matter what you may think.
  • Emily isn't immune to this either. It's one thing to have abandonment issues. It's another thing entirely to constantly break the rules and then whine that everyone's holding you back and has it out for you.

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