History Main / DanceSensation

* ''"Baila en tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena, que tu cuerpo es pa' dar alegría, cosa buena..."''

** Wrestling/VinceMcMahon ''loves'' giving people dancing gimmicks. Often to the popular detriment of the poor performer saddled with it. Wrestling/BrodusClay, Wrestling/Rikishi and his friends Wrestling/TooCool and Wrestling/MattBloom all suffered under the dancing gimmick.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has [[PottyDance "The Pee-Pee Dance"]], which the other Titans use to help Robin deal with his plight. [[PottyFailure It's implied in the lyrics that it didn't work]].

->'''Narrator:''' It's just a jump to the left.\\

'''Narrator:''' Put your hand on your hips.\\

** In "The Lost Mattress" when Mr. Krabs throws his back out opening the front door to the Krusty Krab and [=SpongeBob=] asks if he's okay he sarcastically retorts "I'm just doubled over in pain, fightin' back tears in me eyes ''because it's a new dance craze''!"

One thing is required: the rhythm [[EarWorm has to be catchy]].

* The DancingTheme to ''The Melancholy Of LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', "Hare Hare Yukai", is one of these for anime fans. When the series was at the prime of its popularity in the mid-to-late 2000s, it was common to see cosplayers do it at conventions or on Website/YouTube. Konata from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is fond of the anime and has done the dance (a reference to how she's voiced by Haruhi's voice actress). The dance itself has caused many memes such as "Is this a dancing anime?"

* "Do The Urkel" from ''Series/FamilyMatters''.

* The song "The Dino Dance" from the ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' franchise.

* Rufus Thomas was prolific in this field, many of his records are about his new dances and how to do them including "Do the Funky Chicken", "(Do The) Push and Pull", "The Breakdown", "Do the Funky Penguin" and "Itch and Scratch".[[note]]That's just a selection of his releases from 1969 to 1972.[[/note]]

* One of [[Magazine/{{Mad}} MAD Magazine]]'s early 1960's parody albums featured a track about a dance called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppu1A8HlOic The Pretzel]]", whose moves were pretty much impossible to do without dislocating a few limbs:

* "The Chicken Song" from ''Series/SpittingImage'' parodies this

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':

** This happened twice in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': One segment had a song about doing "the Frog", while the other had one as part of a plot point; both the song and segment are called "Do the Koopa".

* From the Franchise/{{Peanuts}} special, ''It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown!":
-->When you're doing the Pig-Pen hoe down\\

He really kicks up some dust

* Wrestling/{{Chikara}} derivative Wrestling Is Art, WOW Puerto Rico, Shine, [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]], Wrestling/{{WWE}} and even Hungarian Championship Wrestling all contracted The Harlem Shake, usually starting with one wrestler or tag team doing so with others trying to make sense of it then cutting to the half the roster doing so (or the entire arena in Impact's case). Jervis Cottonbelly, Wrestling/SuYung, El Local and [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] among those who decided not to call in sick, Wrestling/MikeQuackenbush, Wrestling/ColtCabana, [[Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers Titus O'Neill]], [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Amazing Kong]] and Wrestling/JamesStorm among the later afflicted.

* The "Hora Loca" costume in Latin American parties, basically the people dancing to a remix made half of these, half EarWorms.

* "{{Caramelldansen|Vid}}" is pure this (though the dance described in the lyrics has nothing in common with the "dance" from the [[MemeticMutation looped video clip]] that made it popular). Translated, it goes something like this:

* One of [[Magazine/{{Mad}} MAD Magazine]]'s early 1960's parody albums featured a track about a dance called "The Pretzel", whose moves were pretty much impossible to do without dislocating a few limbs:

* Wrestling/{{Chikara}} derivative Wrestling Is Art, WOW Puerto Rico, Shine, Wrestling/{{TNA}}, WWE and even Hungarian Championship Wrestling all contracted The Harlem Shake, usually starting with one wrestler or tag team doing so with others trying to make sense of it then cutting to the half the roster doing so (or the entire arena in Impact's case). Jervis Cottonbelly, Su Yung, El Local and [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] among those who decided not to call in sick, Wrestling/MikeQuackenbush, Wrestling/ColtCabana, [[Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers Titus O'Niel]], [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Amazing Kong]] and Wrestling/JamesStorm among the later afflicted.

* "There's a [[WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock great new craze]] that's sweeping the nation! Come on! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tTkxYeNF9Q Do the Circulation!]]"

** Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion McCall's "Juju Juju On The Beat" associated dance

** "The Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.

* "Do The Reggay" by Toots & The Maytals. Possibly the most successful one of all, since instead of popularizing a dance, it wound up naming a genre of music (with a minor change in spelling).

They really drive you insane.\\

* Another parody is "The Toxic Waltz" by Music/{{Exodus}}, in which the dance is just violent moshing. Good friendly violent fun in store for all!

* The Franchise/{{Cabbage Patch|Kids}}. Actually there were ''two'' competing versions of the Cabbage Patch: One came from the West Coast via the World Class Wreckin' Cru (featuring a pre-Music/{{NWA}} Music/DrDre), and the other originated in {{Miami|Bass}} with a single from Gucci Crew II.

* Parodied in [[http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/old-fashioned-line-dance-or-square/ this]] SongsToWearPantsTo song.

* On "Do the Roo" from ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh The Book of Pooh]]'', Roo creates one with the help of his mama Kanga called "The Roo," which can basically be done any way you want. "Any which way, throw out your compass! Swing your partner, do a wild rompus! How you move is up to you, when you're doin' the Roo!"