History Main / EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'': The animation is overall excellent; if it does use a few loops, it's mostly for background characters, and too short to be noticeable. The exception is the distant shot of Trixie and the Illusions at the final concert, whose moves are a bit repetitive.

* The opening to ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' [[UpdatedRerelease Golden.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron''. Careless use of a certain helmet, invented in a phase of genius-hating, will cause the wearer to intentionally break into an endless loop of dancing, while proclaiming the joys of being "loopy".

* All ''Creator/DingoPictures''-movies are extremely prone to this.

Animation is hard work. The advent of computers in the hands of professionals have given cartoon characters more lifelike movements and mannerisms than we had ever seen before, but that's not the way they had it in the good old days, when each individual twitch on [[ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey's]] eyelid had to be put in motion one frame at a time. Besides, animation is ''expensive'', meaning that if you've completed this one sequence, and it looks good enough, you're going to see the characters behave in ''exactly'' the same way whenever the story demands that particular action, [[GoingThroughTheMotions to the point that it looks jarringly obvious]].

* ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ifiCH3J5jM&t=15m40s "Bad Rap."]]

* ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3I96hwqlg#t=4m16s "Bad Rap."]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': "Do the Koopa!"

* The [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100206.html dance scene]] from ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' actually has accompanying animation on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlI7sKjRgOU You Tube (admittedly just pencil tests.)]] Molly's dance is a loop, while [[spoiler: Bob & Voluptua's dance]] is not.

* ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3I96hwqlg#t=4m16s Bad Rap]]".

** Replicated in live action [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL2T619kkmA here]].

* This is the basic idea behind the late-nineties fad of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hampster_Dance dance pages]].

This trope was very widespread in TheSilentAgeOfAnimation. It continued to show up a lot in most of Creator/WaltDisney's and Creator/FleischerStudios work in the early '30s too. It had a big comeback when animation got cheap again in TheDarkAgeOfAnimation.

* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'', another TV CGI animated cartoon, beautifully subverts this, as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lttLC4KlR2k#t=0m36s every]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRifQxcBKMU#t=10m12s single]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyC7rtlkRFY dance]] in the series is unique.

* Shawn and Gus do the Charlie Brown looped dances in one of the ''Psych'' Christmas episodes.

And so, when the story calls for our {{Toon}}s to show off their stuff on the dance floor, you'll see that MichaelJackson had not a thing to worry about. Their movements are stiff, twitchy, and repetitive; often, no two characters will dance to the same beat, and none of them will pay any mind to the kind of music that's actually playing. If a series features more than one dance scene, for example, you'll notice that all the characters waltz the same way they tango. Finally, there are one or two distinct moves per character, which they will repeat over and over and over again. One really must wonder whether this is a dance at all; for all we know, the characters have just finished watching that one episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' that gave a bunch of people [[ConvulsiveSeizures epileptic fits]].

->''"That's right, Princess, move that one leg! Pull off the drowning geriatric look!"''

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'': The animation is overall excellent and use few loops (mostly for background characters, and too short to be noticeable). The exception is the distant shot of Trixie and the Illusions at the final concert, whose moves are a bit repetitive.

* The [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100206.html dance scene]] from ''WebcomicTheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' actually has accompanying animation on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlI7sKjRgOU You Tube (admittedly just pencil tests.)]] Molly's dance is a loop, while [[spoiler: Bob & Voluptua's dance]] is not.

Of course, this trope is a veritable gold mine of NarmCharm. No work that pays homage to the ''{{Peanuts}}'' animated series will fail to mention the piano-accompanied dance scene from ''ACharlieBrownChristmas'', for instance. The Internet has really taken a liking to it, too, the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" dancing banana avatars (and all variations thereof) and [[CaramelldansenVid Caramelldansen videos]] being the two most noticeable memes.

!!Examples

* The first ''UruseiYatsura'' ED is a prime example of this. Just [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtlfnNg3-TY see]] for yourself.
* Part of the reason hentai is animated: Sex scenes are ''all about'' repetitive movements.

[[folder: Film: Live Action]]
* In the film ''Lovelines'' about a inter-high school BattleOfTheBands, crowd reaction shots show the audience dancing or air-guitaring or otherwise reacting to the music but not in a way that at all reflects the beat or instrumentation of the music being played (such as doing air guitar during a drum solo).

* ''EatLeadTheReturnOfMattHazard'' [[DiscussedTrope mentions]] that the dancers in the nightclub are just robots to save memory, explaining their bad dancing.

* ''Scarface'': Even Tony Montana will get in on the looping if he gets too close to the dancers.

* The ''WeaponBrown'' comic, a DarkerAndEdgier parody of ''Peanuts'', refers to the scene from ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' with the neuromuscular syndrome simply called "The jigs". It is explained to be caused by overexposure to chemicals, and the symptom is violent physical seizures that that are reminiscent of the dance moves from the Christmas special. And the seizures will continue until the sufferer dies from it, usually by a broken spine.
* The [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100206.html dance scene]] from ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' actually has accompanying animation on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlI7sKjRgOU You Tube (admittedly just pencil tests.)]] Molly's dance is a loop, while [[spoiler: Bob & Voluptua's dance]] is not.

* On his website, DoctorSteel had a page where you could animate him doing loops of various dance moves (the monkey, the sprinkler, the cabbage patch, the robot, etc.) by pressing buttons underneath him.

* This trope was very widespread in TheSilentAgeOfAnimation. It continued to show up a lot in most of WaltDisney's and FleischerStudios work in the early '30s too. It had a big comeback when animation got cheap again in TheDarkAgeOfAnimation.
* The aforementioned ''ACharlieBrownChristmas''.

** Spoofed in a ''RobotChicken'' sketch crossing ''{{Footloose}}'' with ''Peanuts'', where Kevin Bacon's character [[LampshadeHanging remarks]] on the terrible dancing. He singles out the kid in the blue shirt, who seems to be doing some kind of zombie walk; the kid responds "I couldn't think of a dance! I panicked!"
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''
** Done by the Scooby gang in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' during the big chase scene [[OnceAnEpisode in each episode]], often against plain color backgrounds.
** It goes all the way back to ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou!'', episodes "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair", "Scooby's Night With a Frozen Fright" and "Don't Fool With a Phantom".

** ''The SuperMarioBros Super Show''. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3I96hwqlg#t=4m16s Bad Rap]]".
** ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': "Do the Koopa!"
* Actually averted in the little know animated film ''The Scarecrow'' about a dancing... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a scarecrow]]. The movie isn't great but the dance sequences are crisp, smooth and imaginative. In the final dance near the end there's even a well-animated swing dance number.

* CGI doesn't mean the end of the Endless Loop -- witness the Hot Dog Dance at the end of every episode of ''MickeyMouseClubhouse''.

* Any time there is dancing in ''TeamoSupremo''.

* ''ScoobyDoo''

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': Done deliberately at the end of "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!"; being a homage to the ''New Scooby-Doo Movies'' from the 1970s.

* All of the songs in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'' episode "Octopede Sailors" are this, especially "The Octopede Shuffle".

* The song "If The Water Weren't So Wet" from TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin episode "Octopede Sailors" is this, expecially the part where Xena and two other octopedes come on screen, and the part at the end.