If you've watched just one episode of Fox's dancing competition So You Think You Can Dance — as every member of Jossip HQ has — then you already know the best part of the show is not Cat Deeley's legs, the male dancers' lean and solid torsos, or the female dancers' crotch flashing. It is Mary Murphy, the choreographer and ballroom dancing champion who sits in the judge's chair next to producer Nigel Lithgow. After each performance wraps, Murphy tells the dancers one or more things, which range from, "It just wasn't doing it for me," to, "You've got a ticket on the HOT TAMALE TRAIN!" The number of her shrieks are matched only by the number of times she flashes that toothy smile. Today, she is profiled by the Los Angeles Times, which, according to this graph that charts the paper's coverage of her, is making it her month.

While the hot tamale train used to be Murphy's most esteemed honor bestowed on contestants, her newest top award is "Tra La La," as in, "the Tra La La phase of my heart."

Every notable reality show judge has their "thing." For Donald Trump, it's, "You're fired." For Heidi Klum, it's, "Auf wiedersehen." But those are concocted by producers; they're supposed to stick. Murphy's "hot tamale train" catchphrase, however, seems to have been born organically. It doesn't seem to be an executive producer-coined (in this case, it would've been Lithgow, who created the show) gimmick to deliver each episode. Rather, if our memory serves, she began saying it during Dance's first season, realized how much of a trademark it was, and kept on using it.

What, then, of other reality show judges who have tried to follow her lead? One horrific example sticks in our memory, and MTV's to blame.

It comes by way of Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods, where judge Paul Canaan, who stars in the Broadway production, has created not a Mary Murphy knockoff, but a Mary Murphy Nightmare. Scroll this video to T-0:45 for a peak. This is not what we call a "hit."