So You Think You Can Dance: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of So You Think You Can Dance Season 3.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Los Angeles Auditions
May 22, 2008 · 43 min
The fourth season of "So You Think You Can Dance" kicked off Thursday night with a two-hour audition show from Los Angeles. Host Cat Deeley and regular judges Mary Murphy and Nigel
Salt Lake City and Dallas
May 28, 2008 · 43 min
It was freezing cold outside in Salt Lake City, site of the first set of auditions in Tuesday's two-hour episode of "So You Think You Can Dance?" Would the dancers heat things up i
Charleston and Washington D.C.
May 29, 2008 · 43 min
Host Cat Deeley whisked fans away to Charleston, S.C., for the third two-hour night of auditions on "So You Think You Can Dance?" on Thursday night. Joining judges Nigel Lythgoe an
Milwaukee Auditions
Jun 4, 2008 · 43 min
It's fair to say that when most Americans think "dance" they think ... Milwaukee? Well, that was where "So You Think You Can Dance?" made its final stop in the auditions for the 20
Las Vegas
Jun 5, 2008 · 43 min
Auditions in six cities brought more than 200 dancers to Las Vegas for the callbacks on "So You Think You Can Dance?" By the end of the two-hour episode, that group would be hacked
The Top 20 Perform
Jun 11, 2008 · 43 min
After five two-hour audition shows, it was down to the final 20 performers who will vie for the title and $250,000 on the fourth season of "So You Think You Can Dance?" After a top
Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated
Jun 12, 2008 · 43 min
The first results show of the season on "So You Think You Can Dance?" started with a bizarre group dance that included judge Nigel Lythgoe getting kidnapped, bound and gagged and l
The Top 18 Perform
Jun 18, 2008 · 43 min
It was down to the final 18 Tuesday on "So You Think You Can Dance?" as Mia Michaels joined judges Mary Murphy and Nigel Lythgoe. She promised that this season is going to be "beno
Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated
Jun 19, 2008 · 43 min
After a slamming hip hop routine to open the show -- it ended with Gev holding a headstand for what seemed like five minutes, and host Cat Deeley couldn't even throw him off by tic
The Top 16 Perform
Jun 25, 2008 · 43 min
It was down to eight couples Wednesday night on So You Think You Can Dance? as choreographer and general friend of the show Adam Shankman joined regular judges Mary Murphy and Nige
Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated
Jun 26, 2008 · 43 min
After some kind of freakish group dance routine that's definitely going to cause some nightmares, it was time to find out which two contestants would be sent home on "So You Think
The Top 14 Perform
Jul 2, 2008 · 43 min
Host Cat Deeley promised at the outset that the final 14 dancers will face some changes and the competition would get more difficult for the final seven couples. She soon explained
Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated
Jul 3, 2008 · 43 min
After a wild opening Broadway routine choreographed by Tice D'Orio, it was time to cut two more contestants on Thursday's episode of "So You Think You Can Dance?" But first, viewer
The Top 12 Perform
Jul 9, 2008 · 43 min
Host Cat Deeley reminds viewers that the final six couples will be competing for a place in "your" Top10. We're introduced to the final 12 dancers, followed by judges Mia Michaels,
Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated
Jul 10, 2008 · 43 min
Host Cat Deeley is decked out ominously in black as she welcomes us to the show and tells us the judges will have to eliminate one more guy and one more girl. We open with a modest
The Top 10 Perform
Jul 16, 2008 · 43 min
"Finally," host Cat Deeley tells us, we're down the final ten. Cat adds that now America's voting will be the only factor in who advances and who is cut.
Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated
Jul 17, 2008 · 43 min
Before we get going, Jessica comes out and informs Cat that she has broken a few of her ribs and is out of the competition. Left with an odd number of female dancers, the show has
The Top Eight Perform
Jul 23, 2008 · 43 min
Just two weeks away from the finale, eight contestants remained on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance?" Four girls and four guys continued in the competition for the title of Americ
Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated
Jul 24, 2008 · 43 min
Thursday night's episode of "So You Think You Can Dance?" spelled the end of the road for two more dancers who pulled in the lowest number of votes. The opening dance was a cool, f
The Top Six Perform
Jul 30, 2008 · 43 min
With just six dancers left, we finally reached the glorious time of the summer when even "So You Think You Can Dance?" couldn't stretch itself to two hours. That meant instead of a
Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated
Jul 31, 2008 · 43 min
Just six contestants remained, but that number on Thursday would be trimmed to the final four dancers still in the running for the title of America's favorite dancer on "So You Thi
The Top Four Perform
Aug 6, 2008 · 43 min
It was the first part of the two-night finale on "So You Think You Can Dance?" and host Cat Deeley threw a curve ball at us from the start. In an effort to change things up -- and
Results Show: Winner Announced
Aug 7, 2008 · 43 min
Kicking off the bloated, two-hour finale of "So You Think You Can Dance?" host Cat Deeley noted that the season had consumed 35 hours of television. Gotta love summer TV. Six judge