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Barre Tab: Abby-Phobic (S4, E24)

  • For sure! Hey! They even got their own show!! 344
  • Meh. Give me allll the Candy Apples 200
  • 2025-06-11
  • 544 votes
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Was Studio Bleu a worthy rival to the ALDC? Sound off in the comments! Best one will get read on the pod.

Comments

BlueMuppetFurVest

they were very good dance wise but candy apple was a thousand percent more entertaining, nobody beats queen cathy

HollyJolly

Okay but a lot of those girls definitely looked much older so of course it’s easy to be a rival and win when you have extra years of training!! I understand that it’s all about average age, but we know how easy it is to throw in one or two dancers just to bring the age down so it never felt like a fair fight

AndWhatAboutIt

Yea Candy Apples were more entertaining to me tbh

Pia

Bda really gave them a run for their money in season 5. They had a losing streak for weeks even maddie hadn’t won place… Melissa and Abby were losing their minds lmao

Kay

It’s not a fair comparison. They were good but it was obvious their dancers were a lot older than ALDC and they were doing their routines for the whole season. If they were doing a new one each week and the same age group then it would be easier to compare

William Grubbs

Um so circa 2014 studio blea was good but a decade later they completely fell flat. I’m not being mean I’m being honest Love you Bitches!!!!

Julia Rodriguez

I always loved seeing studios that genuinely gave Abby a challenge. I’d much rather see the girls compete against another team than amongst themselves!

Brianna Burton

I think studio blue was the perfect addition to the story line. They already had familiar faces on their team since they came in season 3 so it made sense for them to be included on the show at competitions. I wish they could’ve done more of that instead of always driving the same story lines with candy apples. I think Abby was more afraid of Kailey (glos daughter) because she was a fabulous dancer!

Laura

Back then- 100%. the people who danced with kaeli ware and Bella were UNBELIEVABLE. You can tell that group of dancers were connected, which is why they were able to beat the jr elites. Today? No comparison. The new era of dance moms would be repeatedly trounced by the jr elites. Even light my fire would beat their dances (ok maybe not light my fire but you get my drift).

Joshua Dabney

I think Studio Bleu was incredible dance wise back then! Like Kaeli was STUNNING! I think it would’ve been fun to see you guys compete with them more often, but they weren’t very entertaining. An episode with the. ALDC, CADC, and studio Bleu would’ve been fire!

Jacqueline Paige

They were great dancers but Cathy was something else nobody can script what she said in some of the episodes

Alyssa Wallace

I think they were certainly a “worthy rival” but maybe not the most interesting for TV. I think their dances were BEAUTIFUL but there’s such a clear advantage by having a normal competition season with a group dance and solos that are perfected over time. You’re girls are so incredible for pulling off the dances they did week after week and there are so many choreographers, outside she who shall not be named, who recognized their drive and uncanny ability to recall. Both groups have amazing dancers but unless they were at least part time cast members with some of the same handicaps that Cathy had it doesn’t feel fair to feature them as prominently just to put your girls down

Kayla O'Brien

I think if the show wasn’t as produced studio bleu would have been on more. But I genuinely don’t think they could justify the girls technically beating studio bleu because their technique wasn’t up to the same standards

Steven Kaufman

They didn’t make for great TV and really didn’t have the build up like Cathy. Cathy storyline was all of season 1 and the grew over the early season to make the rivalry big. Studio Bleh was only in 1 episode in S3 as the replacement but before they went up against ALDC and it wasn’t as good for TV. The technique rivalry would have been amazing to see for the girls. But let’s be real, it would have just been Maddie. Though now, I’d love to see this rivalry in The New Era.

emi

dance wise absolutely! but i laugh more at a 45 second cathy/vivi lunch than i did in 10 episodes of new era. for s2 bryan could get cathy to show up to a comp with a purse and a water bottle and watch that episode’s ratings spike before she’s even swung

the ant at the picnic

they are an amazing dance company just like studio larken and project 21 i mean studio bleu had kaeli and bella that joined to "replace" u guys i definitely think brian knew what he was doing when he picked that studio but the new era is not interesting

taylor smith (not swift)

I feel like strictly dance mom fans are going to answer no, and actual dancers who double as fans are going to say yes

Leona

I think that for the show no, their dance teacher was way too calm to take Cathy’s role but had potential because Abby looked really threatened and they had good dancers and would be a better competition than CADC

Tiffany Bourgeois

Maybe Cathy could of taught all those farm animals they always showed to dance.

The cookie in abby’s purse

Studio Bleu is extremely amazing and challenging competition for your kids, but fuck it. Give me Cathy and Candy Apples. I want purses swinging, abby crying, and Jill losing her mind!!!!

Brianna Nicole

If CADC was treated fairly like studio blu, then yeah. It's not that studio blu was that much better than ALDC or CADC, it's that they were allowed to be scored fairly aka not deemed unbeatable like ALDC always was or deemed trash like CADC always was

Kelly’s screenshots!

I think if they were the same age they would have been since they were students from their own studio unlike Candy Apples. However, I think the results could have gone either way. The girls stepped up considering Abby didn’t have a plan for that week.

Blue Jai

This is a TV show, I really don’t think Studio Bleu brought as much interest compared to Cathy’s unhinged shenanigans

JJ Hart

Wait...Studio Bleu had a show? How did I miss this? Is it avalaibel to watch?

The cookie in abby’s purse

Dance moms new era! Available on Hulu. TBH it flops compared to og dance moms, but might be worth the watch for you

Ava Rea

I think their technique is amazing, but I would take the Cathy and Vivi moments over studio blu, I remember after watching cathy scrape chocolate off of vivis teeth, i was so afraid to eat anything with chocolate for fear my mom would pull a cathy

Saige

Dance wise studio bleu was amazing and gave the Aldc a run for their money at least soloist wise. But Cathy and the candy apples made wayyyy better tv

Leona

you didn’t miss anything, they’re all wanna be ogs 🤣

Megan

Dance wise = yes! But by the point they were introduced us as fans were already invested in the rivalry between Candy Apples and the ALDC. Plus we didn’t really know anything/much about Studio Bleu, other than the two moms and girls who joined the team when you guys were fighting for better contracts. Plus I think there was much more real feelings involved with the likes of Cathy, Jill Abby etc that most of the time it didn’t feel scripted or produced.

Ryan Buckby

dance wise absolutely gave the ALDC a run for there money because they had some great dancers but i would probably rather see candy apples because of cathy gave some gold moments