History Main / DancingOnABus

* A commercial used in the movie theaters from ATT shows a genre switch commercial where a bus is about to fall from a cliff, but in the cliffhanging moment, someone begin to sing, and the rest of the passengers literally goes to this trope escaping successfully from the bus while a complete musical number is done.

The vehicle needn't be a bus; it could be on any vehicle. Trains are just as likely.

* In the Hindi movie ''Film/RabNeBanaDiJodi'' Surinder dances on top of a little yellow car while singing his signature song, Haule Haule. He also sings and dances on top of a bed.
* Not a UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film, but a variant of this does happen in ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007''
* A non-Bollywood example: ''Film/Hairspray2007'' features a musical number sang and danced, in part, on a school bus.

* The music video for Music/{{Bjork}}'s Big Time Sensuality films Bjork singing and dancing in the bed of a truck slowly driving in New York City.
* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', "Hello, Hello There" builds into a big dance number on a subway car, involving acrobats.
* The video for the Music/PussycatDolls' "Wait a Minute" starts by doing this on a subway train.
* For a video game example, the opening video to the original ''VideoGame/RockBand'' had a generic band performing on top of a car - appropriately, to the song "[[Music/DeepPurple Highway Star]]."
** ''Rock Band 2'' has two bands playing on top cars.
** ''Lego Rock Band'' has the generic Lego band playing on top of a series of vehicles, including a plane.

and everybody's jumping"
* ''Film/TeenWolf'': Scott and his buddy Stiles will occasionally go "surfing" by driving around town with one of them dancing on the roof of a van to a Beach Boys song. Stiles does it in the first act, and Scott does it later as a wolf, even doing handstands on the moving vehicle.

* A non-Bollywood example: The film of the musical of the film ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' features a musical number sang and danced, in part, on a school bus.

* Music/{{Vengaboys}}' SignatureSong "We Like to Party!" [[RepurposedPopSong Also known for its usage in a Six Flags commercial.]]

* ''Film/AustinPowers'': The title character dances with Miss Kensington on a double-decker bus as Burt Bacharach plays the piano.

* Not a UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film, but a variant of this does happen in ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse''

* Not Bollywood, but the music video for Music/{{Psy}}'s "Gangnam Style" has a few clip of bus dancing.

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* A notable example is the "Chaiyya Chaiyya" opening song from ''Bollywood/DilSe'', where the characters dance on top of [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome a moving train]].
* Makes an appearance in ''{{Salaam-E-Ishq}}'', in the song "Dil Kya Kare".
* Shows up in ''{{Veer-Zaara}}'', when Veer sings "Aisa Des Hai Mera".
* In the Hindi movie ''Bollywood/RabNeBanaDiJodi'' Surinder dances on top of a little yellow car while singing his signature song, Haule Haule. He also sings and dances on top of a bed.

* Film/AustinPowers dances with Miss Kensington on a double-decker bus as Burt Bacharach plays the piano.

* Not Bollywood, but the music video for Psy's "Gangnam Style" has a few clip of bus dancing.
* Vengaboys' SignatureSong "We Like to Party!" [[RepurposedPopSong Also known for its usage in a Six Flags commercial.]]

* The Literature/DiogenesClub story "[[http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/summer_2009/moon_moon_moon_by_kim_newman Moon Moon Moon]]".

* Vengaboys' SignatureSong "We Like to Party!". [[RepurposedPopSong Also known for its usage in a Six Flags commercial.]]

-->'''Jeperson''': I didn’t say we’re going ''in a bus'' to a party, I said we’re going to ''a party in a bus''.

-->"The Vengabus is coming,
-->and everybody's jumping"

* A notable example is the "Chaiyya Chaiyya" opening song from ''Bollywood/DilSe'', where the characters dance on top of [[CrowningMomentofAwesome a moving train]].

* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', "Hello, Hello There" builds into a big dance number on a subway car.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do]] with [[TropesOnABus missing cast members]].

* AustinPowers dances with Miss Kensington on a double-decker bus as Burt Bacharach plays the piano.

* A non-Bollywood example: The film of the musical of the film ''{{Hairspray}}'' features a musical number sang and danced, in part, on a school bus.

* For a video game example, the opening video to the original RockBand had a generic band performing on top of a car - appropriately, to the song "[[Music/DeepPurple Highway Star]]."
** Rock Band 2 has two bands playing on top cars.
** Lego Rock Band has the generic Lego band playing on top of a series of vehicles, including a plane.

-->'''Jeperson'': I didn’t say we’re going ''in a bus'' to a party, I said we’re going to ''a party in a bus''.
* The Geordie folk song ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaydon_Races Blaydon Races]]'', about a group of people traveling by bus to see the Blaydon races has one verse talking about the people on the bus singing and dancing.

* In [[MarxBrothers At The Circus]], Groucho sings "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" in a train car.
* In AHardDaysNight, Music/TheBeatles sing "I Should Have Known Better" in a baggage car on a train.