YMMV / The Sing-Off

• Awesome Music: Due to the level of musical skill required to pull off a good a cappella performance, there are many contenders.
  • One highlight from Season 3 is Afro-Blue's jazz reinterpretation of Estelle's "American Boy."
  • And we can't leave out Pentatonix' performance of “Video Killed the Radio Star”, or “Let's Get It On”, which elicited a standing ovation from BEN FOLDS!!!
  • Just when you think Pentatonix couldn't possibly top themselves again, they unleash their secret weapon.
  • According to Sara Bareilles, the best performance of Season 3 was the Dartmouth Aires' Queen medley. One sees her point.
  • Urban Method, for the Christmas Episode, give us their rendition of "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch".
  • Home Free vs. Filharmonic, "dueling" on Caddyshack's "I'm Alright," ended up with a raucous, hilarious and incredibly fun performance.
• Covered Up: Has been known to happen, especially when a good group performs a "Current Pop Hit" or "Guilty Pleasure" . For instance, after hearing North Shore's doo-wop take on Bruno Mars' "Lazy Song," it's tough to recall the original.
  • Pretty much anything Pentatonix has done... seriously.
• Elimination Houdini: Vocal Point in third season, whose survival essentially amounted to pity because the baritone's father died just before filming.
• Funny Moments:
  • On The Rocks' elimination speech, with a love letter to the judges
    "Well Nick, throughout this competition we've all really grown from Boyz II Men and we've shown the nation we're not just a bunch of Pussycats anymore. I'm just really proud we haven't Ben Folding under the pressure and just wish the judges would Give us One More Night, (Una Noche)."
  • For Guilty Pleasure week, the Yellow Jackets, a group of college guys performed “Wannabe” by Spice Girls. The results were amazing.
  • And then they hammed it up for the swan song, with Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping".
    "Shawny boy... Benny boy... Sara boy..."
  • Ben Folds' Piss-Take Rap in honor of Urban Method has to be seen to be believed. So here you are.
  • Ben Folds and Sara Bareilles did a duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside". They have... differing opinions on it.
• Padding: Notable in weeks after the first few eliminations, when it seems like they show more material off-stage about the groups' preparations for their performances than the performances themselves.
• Seasonal Rot:
  • There are accusations, inevitably that "groups in Season X are much weaker than groups in Season X-1."
  • The decision to reduce Season 5 to a single two-hour special (giving each group only one or two performances at most to impress the judges) compounds the accusations of rot for some viewers.
• Shocking Elimination: While this is inevitable for fans of nearly any group, the fairly early elimination of North Shore from Season 3 caught even the reviewer for Rolling Stone magazine off-guard.

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