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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSaveSummer Phineas and Ferb Save Summer]]", the members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. snap their fingers while kidnapping the O.W.C.A. agents and singing "O.W.C.A.'s Goin' Down".
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* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'': The Mindless Ones who serve Dread Rorkannu arrive in this manner. [[http://ooccomicpages.tumblr.com/post/15672217809/dance-critters-from-nextwave-agents-of "Dance, critters."]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'': The Mindless Ones who serve Dread Rorkannu arrive in this manner. [[http://ooccomicpages.tumblr.com/post/15672217809/dance-critters-from-nextwave-agents-of "Dance, critters."]]
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A group of young hoodlums, typically styled as GreaserDelinquents in street gangs, advance on someone while rhythmically snapping their fingers in unison as an intimidation tactic (Or as an ''attempt'' to appear intimidating). This tends to be combined with a PowerWalk, with the finger-snappers all walking side-by-side in a line.
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* ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'': In episode 34, the students of Sunshine Academy perform a SchoolPlay called "Jewel Side Story" with rival gangs named the Cats and the Dogs. And, yes, they do the finger snapping as well.
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* ''Series/CountArthurStrong'': Parodied in a flashback to Arthur's youth, when he and his friends in the Greenwich Mean Gang (a gang of GreaserDelinquents) walk down one side of an alley snapping their fingers. On the other side appear a gang of [[StreetUrchin Victorain street urchins]] straight out of ''Literature/OliverTwist'', also snapping their fingers. [[InterestingSituationDuel Greasers and urchins end up fighting one another]].
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* ''Series/CountArthurStrong'': Parodied in a flashback to Arthur's youth, when he and his friends in the Greenwich Mean Gang (a gang of GreaserDelinquents) walk down one side of an alley snapping their fingers. On the other side appear a gang of [[StreetUrchin Victorain Victorian street urchins]] straight out of ''Literature/OliverTwist'', also snapping their fingers. [[InterestingSituationDuel Greasers and urchins end up fighting one another]].
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* ''Series/TheGoodies'': The final chase scene in the episode "Saturday Night Grease" features the "Mambo" music as the titular Goodies snap their fingers and pose just the street gangs do in ''West Side Story''.
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* ''Series/TheGoodies'': The final chase scene in the episode "Saturday Night Grease" features the "Mambo" music as the titular Goodies snap their fingers and pose just as the street gangs do in ''West Side Story''.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Parodied in the sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzNeGw8Fmo "Cobras & Panthers"]] where Creator/NormMacdonald plays the StraightMan leader of a gang called "The Cobras" who has to deal with the other gang members breaking out into spontaneous song and dance, complete with them all snapping their fingers, before they are confronted by a rival gang.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Parodied in the sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzNeGw8Fmo "Cobras & Panthers"]] where Creator/NormMacdonald plays the StraightMan leader of a gang called "The Cobras" who has to deal with the other gang members breaking out into spontaneous song and dance, complete with them all snapping their fingers, fingers before they are confronted by a rival gang.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E3ChittyChittyDeathBang Chitty Chitty Death Bang]]", Meg says that she has trouble fitting in with anyone in high school, and Peter says he can relate to that. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] Peter as a part of the Jets from ''West Side Story''; he snaps his fingers out-of-rhythm with everyone else, messes up the dance steps, and falls over a garbage can.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E3ChittyChittyDeathBang Chitty Chitty Death Bang]]", Meg says that she has trouble fitting in with anyone in high school, and Peter says he can relate to that. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] Peter as a part of the Jets from ''West Side Story''; he snaps his fingers out-of-rhythm out of rhythm with everyone else, messes up the dance steps, and falls over a garbage can.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Boyz Crazy]]", Mabel finds herself in the possession of boy band Sev'ral Timez and quickly grows possessive of them. When Grenda and Candy try to intervene, Mabel sics the band on them, and they proceed to AngryDance their way towards the girls, snapping their fingers as they go, before ejecting them from the premises.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Boyz Crazy]]", Mabel finds herself in the possession of boy band Sev'ral Timez and quickly grows possessive of them. When Grenda and Candy try to intervene, Mabel sics the band on them, and they proceed to AngryDance their way towards toward the girls, snapping their fingers as they go, before ejecting them from the premises.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoops}}'': In "Zen", the Lenwood Colts basketball team approach a group of bullies called the "Gay Mafia" while snapping their fingers and walking together like the Jets in ''West Side Story''. They were under the impression that their fight was going to be a CampyCombat, but, instead, the Gay Mafia proceed to deliver them a good, old-fashioned ass-kicking.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoops}}'': In "Zen", the Lenwood Colts basketball team approach approaches a group of bullies called the "Gay Mafia" while snapping their fingers and walking together like the Jets in ''West Side Story''. They were under the impression that their fight was going to be a CampyCombat, but, instead, the Gay Mafia proceed to deliver them a good, old-fashioned ass-kicking.
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* Music/AliceCooper: The album ''School's Out'' contains references to the finger snapping and gang fights, especially the song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets"; moreover, the song includes writing credits for Music/LeonardBernstein and Music/StephenSondheim of ''West Side Story''.
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* Music/AliceCooper: The song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets" on the album ''School's Out'' contains references to the finger snapping and gang fights, especially the song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets"; fights; moreover, the song includes writing credits for Music/LeonardBernstein and Music/StephenSondheim of ''West Side Story''.
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Overall your edits made what I originally posted flow better, but they deleted the reference to the album as a whole, so i added that in-letme knowif you disagree
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* Music/AliceCooper: The song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets" on the album ''School's Out'' contains references to the finger snapping and gang fights; fights, especially the song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets"; moreover, the song includes writing credits for Music/LeonardBernstein and Music/StephenSondheim of ''West Side Story''.
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* The ''School's Out'' album by Music/AliceCooper contains the finger snapping and gang fight aspect of this trope, especially in the song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets", which includes writing credits for Music/LeonardBernstein and Music/StephenSondheim.
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* The ''School's Out'' album by Music/AliceCooper contains the finger snapping and gang fight aspect of this trope, especially in the song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets", which includes writing credits for Music/LeonardBernstein and Music/StephenSondheim.
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* ''School's Out'' by Music/AliceCooper contains the finger snapping and gang fight aspect of this trope, especially in the song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets", which includes writing credits for Music/LeonardBernstein and Music/StephenSondheim.
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* ''School's Out'' by Music/AliceCooper contains the finger snapping and gang fight aspect of this trope, especially in the song "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets", which includes writing credits for Music/LeonardBernstein and Music/StephenSondheim.
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* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody "Eat It" has a video that mirrors Michael Jackson's, including the ''West Side Story'' homage.
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* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and specifically the [[GreaserDelinquents Jets]], are the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier. Walking down the street while snapping their fingers is their signature trait, and they do it repeatedly, most prominently during "Jet Song"--though at that point they're literally just walking down the street, not threatening anyone.
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* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and specifically the [[GreaserDelinquents Jets]], are the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier. Walking down the street while snapping their fingers is their signature trait, and they do it repeatedly, most prominently during "Jet Song"--though at that point they're literally just walking down the street, not threatening anyone.
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* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and specifically the [[GreaserDelinquents Jets]], are the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier. Walking down the street while snapping their fingers is their signature trait, and they do it repeatedly, most prominently during "Jet Song"--though at that point they're literally just walking down the street, not threatening anyone.
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* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and specifically the [[GreaserDelinquents Jets]], are the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier. Walking down the street while snapping their fingers is their signature trait, and they do it repeatedly, most prominently during "Jet Song"--though at that point they're literally just walking down the street, not threatening anyone.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek|1}}'': Towards the end of Robin Hood's song, his Merry Men begin snapping their fingers in time to the beat as they all advance on Shrek.
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* ''WebComic/{{Paranatural}}'': Johnny's gang approaches Max while ominously snapping.
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* ''WebComic/{{Paranatural}}'': ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': Johnny's gang [[https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-4-page-48 approaches Max Max]] while ominously snapping.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In the episode "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS1E10BurgerWars Burger Wars]]", Linda mentions that the situation with their kids and Jimmy Pesto's is similar to 'West Side Story''. She sings and snaps her fingers like the Jets.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In the episode "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS1E10BurgerWars Burger Wars]]", Linda mentions that the situation with their kids and Jimmy Pesto's is similar to 'West ''West Side Story''. She sings and snaps her fingers like the Jets.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E18WhatEverHappenedToSpongeBob What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?]]", the Bubble-Poppin' Boys are a group of GreaserDelinquents clearly modeled on the Jets from ''West Side Story''. They're first seen walking side-by-side and snapping their fingers, and after stopping to introduce themselves to [=SpongeBob=], they start right back up again as they close in on him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E18WhatEverHappenedToSpongeBob What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?]]", the Bubble-Poppin' Bubble Poppin' Boys are a group of GreaserDelinquents clearly modeled on the Jets from ''West Side Story''. They're first seen walking side-by-side and snapping their fingers, and after stopping to introduce themselves to [=SpongeBob=], they start right back up again as they close in on him.
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* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish'' has The Cripes introduce themselves by snapping their fingers, and are the villains of the third day. They're stopped by a Japanese ninja family.
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A group of young hoodlums, typically styled as GreaserDelinquents in street gangs, advance on someone while rhythmically snapping their fingers in unison as an intimidation tactic (Or as an ''attempt'' to appear intimidating). This tends to be combined with a PowerWalk, with the finger-snappers all walking side-by-side in a line.
This is usually done as a {{Stock Shout Out|s}} or [[StockParodies Stock Parody]] of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and as such, the young ruffians also tend to be prone to [[SpontaneousChoreography breaking out into choreographed song or dance]] as they snap to a rhythmic beat.
Because most gangs that engage in this sort of activity are rarely, if ever, seen engaging in acts of crime or violence, they may be viewed as {{Badbutt}}s.
Compare BadassFingersnap, where the finger-snapping serves a more practical purpose.
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* Parodied in the Cravendale "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmJhv6W_URY cats with thumbs]]" milk commercial, where the cats -- having recently developed opposable thumbs and begun plotting world domination -- are seen congregating in an alley, snapping their new digits in sync.
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* ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'': In episode 34, the students of Sunshine Academy perform a SchoolPlay called "Jewel Side Story" with rival gangs named the Cats and the Dogs. And, yes, they do the finger snapping as well.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'': The Minions are sent to prison and form a gang feared by the other inmates. They march into the yard while snapping their fingers, and all the other criminals run for cover.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018'': Early on, the Grinch is harassed by a group of carol-singers performing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". At one point, their singing becomes slower and more sinister, and they begin advancing on the Grinch while snapping their fingers in unison for no apparent reason other than to troll The Grinch, who in this version actually has major PTSD regarding Christmas and is genuinely terrified of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/PawsOfFuryTheLegendOfHank'': The dogs who bully Hank in his flashback approach and snap their fingers like the Jets in ''West Side Story''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': When the Fruit prepare to go into battle, they dance and snap their fingers.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': Towards the end of Robin Hood's song, his Merry Men begin snapping their fingers in time to the beat as they all advance on Shrek.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'': The second song in the movie ("What Do We Care") begins with the five stray cats surrounding Tom from both sides of the alley while snapping their fingers. It ends with Tom temporarily joining them [[ExploitedTrope so that he could get a head start after running away]].
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* ''Film/TheCoolOnes'': The Whiz-Bam Dancers, as well as Patrick and the East Enders, threaten the producers by snapping their fingers as they approach them.
* ''Film/LaGrandeJava'': As the confrontation escalates, Les Charlots start snapping their fingers like the gangs in ''West Side Story''.
* ''Film/{{Saved}}'': Hillary and her friends approach Mary while crouch-walking and snapping in unison.
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* ''Series/CountArthurStrong'': Parodied in a flashback to Arthur's youth, when he and his friends in the Greenwich Mean Gang (a gang of GreaserDelinquents) walk down one side of an alley snapping their fingers. On the other side appear a gang of [[StreetUrchin Victorain street urchins]] straight out of ''Literature/OliverTwist'', also snapping their fingers. [[InterestingSituationDuel Greasers and urchins end up fighting one another]].
* ''Series/DelusionsOfGrandeur'': In "The End: Part 2", the Ghosts snap their fingers as they prepare to fight Evil Alan.
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': The final chase scene in the episode "Saturday Night Grease" features the "Mambo" music as the titular Goodies snap their fingers and pose just the street gangs do in ''West Side Story''.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': In the episode "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS03E07TheGangSellsOut The Gang Sells Out]]", after Frank gets back together his [[{{Delinquents}} childhood gang]] to try to dissuade a restaurant chain from buying a rival property, they are shown snapping their fingers in unison a few times. Rather than making them look intimidating, it's done to highlight how out-of-touch and old the gang members have become, to the point that families mistake them for performers and give them cash.
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': In "[[Recap/TheOfficeUSS2E6TheFight The Fight]]", Michael claims to have been involved in a gang as a youth. Jim snaps his fingers and says, "Once you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way." Later, Michael has to confront Dwight about an issue and Jim follows him, snapping his fingers in rhythm.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Parodied in the sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzNeGw8Fmo "Cobras & Panthers"]] where Creator/NormMacdonald plays the StraightMan leader of a gang called "The Cobras" who has to deal with the other gang members breaking out into spontaneous song and dance, complete with them all snapping their fingers, before they are confronted by a rival gang.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': The episode "My Way or the Highway" depicts the rivalry between surgeons and internists like that between the Sharks and the Jets, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBcWt407iTE complete with the finger-snapping fights.]]
-->'''J.D.''': You see, the surgical and medical interns are kinda like two rival gangs. Not real gangs, more like those cheesy gangs you see in Broadway musicals.
-->''[The interns start to snap their fingers and dance like in West Side Story as the soundtrack goes all brassy]''
* ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'': In the episode "Sweatside Story," after the Sweathogs try to form their own street gang in response to a scare from another gang (who all snap their fingers), Mr. Kotter, Horshack, and Mr. Woodman intervene while snapping their fingers and acting tough enough to scare ''both'' gangs out of any violent activity.
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* ''Literature/HeartsInAtlantis'': Referenced. When Bobby runs into the Blue Devils street gang, he briefly fantasizes that they'll help him save Ted from the low men in yellow coats while "snapping their fingers like the Jets in ''West Side Story''." Reality ensues a moment later when they tell him that there's no way in hell they're tangling with the inhuman low men.
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* Music/MichaelJackson's music video for "Music/BeatIt" is an homage to ''West Side Story'' and features Jackson and others doing the snap walk throughout the video, most notably when Jackson stops the gang war and leads the gangs into the walk, before launching into the video's famous dance routine.
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* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and specifically the [[GreaserDelinquents Jets]], are the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier. Walking down the street while snapping their fingers is their signature trait, and they do it repeatedly, most prominently during "Jet Song"--though at that point they're literally just walking down the street, not threatening anyone.
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* ''VideoGame/ClamMan'': Parodied. Vinnie, Sheamus, and Patrov are a trio of gangsters who [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain aren't nearly as threatening as they think they are]]. They snap their fingers every time they walk ''anywhere''.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'': One of the plays that Mario is roped into acting in during the Shogun Studios arc has as antagonists two rival gangs of Koopa Troopas--one with red shells, one with green--who come on stage while snapping their fingers in time with their steps.
* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'': In the second OVA, there's a trio of [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything gangsters who consider the most important part of being a gangster to be rhythmic snapping and posing in unison]]. Their "patrol" consists solely of performing dance moves on a dock.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'': In the first game, when (Space) Michael Jackson joins Ulala's group after being rescued, she and all of the other dancers will imitate his famous snap walk from "Beat It" (Which, in turn, was also inspired by ''West Side Story'') as they head to the next room.
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* ''WebComic/{{Paranatural}}'': Johnny's gang approaches Max while ominously snapping.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In the episode "I Am the Jeans: The Gina Lavetti Story", The boys club "gang" parodies the finger-snapping prologue from the 1961 film adaptation of ''West Side Story''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In the episode "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS1E10BurgerWars Burger Wars]]", Linda mentions that the situation with their kids and Jimmy Pesto's is similar to 'West Side Story''. She sings and snaps her fingers like the Jets.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': In "Where's Lazlo", when the other campers approach Raj and Clam on their first day at Camp Kidney, Raj is so nervous that he actually imagines the campers as a street gang approaching them while snapping their fingers.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E3ChittyChittyDeathBang Chitty Chitty Death Bang]]", Meg says that she has trouble fitting in with anyone in high school, and Peter says he can relate to that. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] Peter as a part of the Jets from ''West Side Story''; he snaps his fingers out-of-rhythm with everyone else, messes up the dance steps, and falls over a garbage can.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To", the Bloo Superdude (actually a sick Bloo hallucinating) and a rabbit monster (actually a stuffed toy) snap their fingers before fighting each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Boyz Crazy]]", Mabel finds herself in the possession of boy band Sev'ral Timez and quickly grows possessive of them. When Grenda and Candy try to intervene, Mabel sics the band on them, and they proceed to AngryDance their way towards the girls, snapping their fingers as they go, before ejecting them from the premises.
-->'''Grenda''': [[LampshadeHanging Oh no! They're aggressively dancing at us!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoops}}'': In "Zen", the Lenwood Colts basketball team approach a group of bullies called the "Gay Mafia" while snapping their fingers and walking together like the Jets in ''West Side Story''. They were under the impression that their fight was going to be a CampyCombat, but, instead, the Gay Mafia proceed to deliver them a good, old-fashioned ass-kicking.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSaveSummer Phineas and Ferb Save Summer]]", the members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. snap their fingers while kidnapping the O.W.C.A. agents and singing "O.W.C.A.'s Goin' Down".
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiRabbitTheUsagiChronicles'': In the sewers under Neo-Edo, Usagi and friends run into a gang of moles who start snapping their fingers at them, as a build-up to a sonic attack.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E18WhatEverHappenedToSpongeBob What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?]]", the Bubble-Poppin' Boys are a group of GreaserDelinquents clearly modeled on the Jets from ''West Side Story''. They're first seen walking side-by-side and snapping their fingers, and after stopping to introduce themselves to [=SpongeBob=], they start right back up again as they close in on him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'': In "League of Cats", when Tom is recruited into the "cat mafia" to scare mice, Jerry and other mice create the League of Mice. Jerry summons them with a BadassFingersnap, and then all the mice started singing and finger-snapping, scaring cats into submission and beating the crap out of them. In fact, their song is a ShoutOut to aforementioned ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie''.
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A group of young hoodlums, typically styled as GreaserDelinquents in street gangs, advance on someone while rhythmically snapping their fingers in unison as an intimidation tactic (Or as an ''attempt'' to appear intimidating). This tends to be combined with a PowerWalk, with the finger-snappers all walking side-by-side in a line.
This is usually done as a {{Stock Shout Out|s}} or [[StockParodies Stock Parody]] of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and as such, the young ruffians also tend to be prone to [[SpontaneousChoreography breaking out into choreographed song or dance]] as they snap to a rhythmic beat.
Because most gangs that engage in this sort of activity are rarely, if ever, seen engaging in acts of crime or violence, they may be viewed as {{Badbutt}}s.
Compare BadassFingersnap, where the finger-snapping serves a more practical purpose.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Parodied in the Cravendale "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmJhv6W_URY cats with thumbs]]" milk commercial, where the cats -- having recently developed opposable thumbs and begun plotting world domination -- are seen congregating in an alley, snapping their new digits in sync.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'': In episode 34, the students of Sunshine Academy perform a SchoolPlay called "Jewel Side Story" with rival gangs named the Cats and the Dogs. And, yes, they do the finger snapping as well.
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[[folder:Film--Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'': The Minions are sent to prison and form a gang feared by the other inmates. They march into the yard while snapping their fingers, and all the other criminals run for cover.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018'': Early on, the Grinch is harassed by a group of carol-singers performing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". At one point, their singing becomes slower and more sinister, and they begin advancing on the Grinch while snapping their fingers in unison for no apparent reason other than to troll The Grinch, who in this version actually has major PTSD regarding Christmas and is genuinely terrified of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/PawsOfFuryTheLegendOfHank'': The dogs who bully Hank in his flashback approach and snap their fingers like the Jets in ''West Side Story''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': When the Fruit prepare to go into battle, they dance and snap their fingers.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': Towards the end of Robin Hood's song, his Merry Men begin snapping their fingers in time to the beat as they all advance on Shrek.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'': The second song in the movie ("What Do We Care") begins with the five stray cats surrounding Tom from both sides of the alley while snapping their fingers. It ends with Tom temporarily joining them [[ExploitedTrope so that he could get a head start after running away]].
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[[folder:Film--Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheCoolOnes'': The Whiz-Bam Dancers, as well as Patrick and the East Enders, threaten the producers by snapping their fingers as they approach them.
* ''Film/LaGrandeJava'': As the confrontation escalates, Les Charlots start snapping their fingers like the gangs in ''West Side Story''.
* ''Film/{{Saved}}'': Hillary and her friends approach Mary while crouch-walking and snapping in unison.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/CountArthurStrong'': Parodied in a flashback to Arthur's youth, when he and his friends in the Greenwich Mean Gang (a gang of GreaserDelinquents) walk down one side of an alley snapping their fingers. On the other side appear a gang of [[StreetUrchin Victorain street urchins]] straight out of ''Literature/OliverTwist'', also snapping their fingers. [[InterestingSituationDuel Greasers and urchins end up fighting one another]].
* ''Series/DelusionsOfGrandeur'': In "The End: Part 2", the Ghosts snap their fingers as they prepare to fight Evil Alan.
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': The final chase scene in the episode "Saturday Night Grease" features the "Mambo" music as the titular Goodies snap their fingers and pose just the street gangs do in ''West Side Story''.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': In the episode "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS03E07TheGangSellsOut The Gang Sells Out]]", after Frank gets back together his [[{{Delinquents}} childhood gang]] to try to dissuade a restaurant chain from buying a rival property, they are shown snapping their fingers in unison a few times. Rather than making them look intimidating, it's done to highlight how out-of-touch and old the gang members have become, to the point that families mistake them for performers and give them cash.
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': In "[[Recap/TheOfficeUSS2E6TheFight The Fight]]", Michael claims to have been involved in a gang as a youth. Jim snaps his fingers and says, "Once you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way." Later, Michael has to confront Dwight about an issue and Jim follows him, snapping his fingers in rhythm.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Parodied in the sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzNeGw8Fmo "Cobras & Panthers"]] where Creator/NormMacdonald plays the StraightMan leader of a gang called "The Cobras" who has to deal with the other gang members breaking out into spontaneous song and dance, complete with them all snapping their fingers, before they are confronted by a rival gang.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': The episode "My Way or the Highway" depicts the rivalry between surgeons and internists like that between the Sharks and the Jets, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBcWt407iTE complete with the finger-snapping fights.]]
-->'''J.D.''': You see, the surgical and medical interns are kinda like two rival gangs. Not real gangs, more like those cheesy gangs you see in Broadway musicals.
-->''[The interns start to snap their fingers and dance like in West Side Story as the soundtrack goes all brassy]''
* ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'': In the episode "Sweatside Story," after the Sweathogs try to form their own street gang in response to a scare from another gang (who all snap their fingers), Mr. Kotter, Horshack, and Mr. Woodman intervene while snapping their fingers and acting tough enough to scare ''both'' gangs out of any violent activity.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/HeartsInAtlantis'': Referenced. When Bobby runs into the Blue Devils street gang, he briefly fantasizes that they'll help him save Ted from the low men in yellow coats while "snapping their fingers like the Jets in ''West Side Story''." Reality ensues a moment later when they tell him that there's no way in hell they're tangling with the inhuman low men.
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[[folder:Music Video]]
* Music/MichaelJackson's music video for "Music/BeatIt" is an homage to ''West Side Story'' and features Jackson and others doing the snap walk throughout the video, most notably when Jackson stops the gang war and leads the gangs into the walk, before launching into the video's famous dance routine.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and specifically the [[GreaserDelinquents Jets]], are the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier. Walking down the street while snapping their fingers is their signature trait, and they do it repeatedly, most prominently during "Jet Song"--though at that point they're literally just walking down the street, not threatening anyone.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/ClamMan'': Parodied. Vinnie, Sheamus, and Patrov are a trio of gangsters who [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain aren't nearly as threatening as they think they are]]. They snap their fingers every time they walk ''anywhere''.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'': One of the plays that Mario is roped into acting in during the Shogun Studios arc has as antagonists two rival gangs of Koopa Troopas--one with red shells, one with green--who come on stage while snapping their fingers in time with their steps.
* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'': In the second OVA, there's a trio of [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything gangsters who consider the most important part of being a gangster to be rhythmic snapping and posing in unison]]. Their "patrol" consists solely of performing dance moves on a dock.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'': In the first game, when (Space) Michael Jackson joins Ulala's group after being rescued, she and all of the other dancers will imitate his famous snap walk from "Beat It" (Which, in turn, was also inspired by ''West Side Story'') as they head to the next room.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''WebComic/{{Paranatural}}'': Johnny's gang approaches Max while ominously snapping.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In the episode "I Am the Jeans: The Gina Lavetti Story", The boys club "gang" parodies the finger-snapping prologue from the 1961 film adaptation of ''West Side Story''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In the episode "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS1E10BurgerWars Burger Wars]]", Linda mentions that the situation with their kids and Jimmy Pesto's is similar to 'West Side Story''. She sings and snaps her fingers like the Jets.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': In "Where's Lazlo", when the other campers approach Raj and Clam on their first day at Camp Kidney, Raj is so nervous that he actually imagines the campers as a street gang approaching them while snapping their fingers.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E3ChittyChittyDeathBang Chitty Chitty Death Bang]]", Meg says that she has trouble fitting in with anyone in high school, and Peter says he can relate to that. [[CutawayGag Cut to]] Peter as a part of the Jets from ''West Side Story''; he snaps his fingers out-of-rhythm with everyone else, messes up the dance steps, and falls over a garbage can.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To", the Bloo Superdude (actually a sick Bloo hallucinating) and a rabbit monster (actually a stuffed toy) snap their fingers before fighting each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Boyz Crazy]]", Mabel finds herself in the possession of boy band Sev'ral Timez and quickly grows possessive of them. When Grenda and Candy try to intervene, Mabel sics the band on them, and they proceed to AngryDance their way towards the girls, snapping their fingers as they go, before ejecting them from the premises.
-->'''Grenda''': [[LampshadeHanging Oh no! They're aggressively dancing at us!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoops}}'': In "Zen", the Lenwood Colts basketball team approach a group of bullies called the "Gay Mafia" while snapping their fingers and walking together like the Jets in ''West Side Story''. They were under the impression that their fight was going to be a CampyCombat, but, instead, the Gay Mafia proceed to deliver them a good, old-fashioned ass-kicking.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSaveSummer Phineas and Ferb Save Summer]]", the members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. snap their fingers while kidnapping the O.W.C.A. agents and singing "O.W.C.A.'s Goin' Down".
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiRabbitTheUsagiChronicles'': In the sewers under Neo-Edo, Usagi and friends run into a gang of moles who start snapping their fingers at them, as a build-up to a sonic attack.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E18WhatEverHappenedToSpongeBob What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?]]", the Bubble-Poppin' Boys are a group of GreaserDelinquents clearly modeled on the Jets from ''West Side Story''. They're first seen walking side-by-side and snapping their fingers, and after stopping to introduce themselves to [=SpongeBob=], they start right back up again as they close in on him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'': In "League of Cats", when Tom is recruited into the "cat mafia" to scare mice, Jerry and other mice create the League of Mice. Jerry summons them with a BadassFingersnap, and then all the mice started singing and finger-snapping, scaring cats into submission and beating the crap out of them. In fact, their song is a ShoutOut to aforementioned ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie''.
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