History Main / ShakingTheRump

* '''Sexual arousal''': A character does this to sexually arouse another character. Note that the sex-appeal of the male body usually comes from the upper body, therefore when a male character invokes this trope for this particular reason, it's seen as being either [[FanDisservice jarring]] or [[PlayedForLaughs humorous]], unless he's MrFanservice (and sometimes even then). Since the female body's sex-appeal often comes from the lower body, female examples of this are commonly intriguing, especially if the female is MsFanservice.

* Grace Jones in ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'' shakes her rear end after emerging from water, to shed droplets from the furry tail that hangs at the back of her "tribal warrior-woman" costume.

* '''Sexual arousal''': A character does this to sexually arouse another character. Note that the sex-appeal of the male body usualy comes from the upper body, therefore when a male character invokes this trope for this particular reason, it's seen as being either [[FanDisservice jarring]] or [[PlayedForLaughs humorous]], unless he's MrFanservice (and sometimes even then). Since the female body's sex-appeal often comes from the lower body, female examples of this are commonly intriguing, especially if the female is MsFanservice.

** Mei does this at the beginning of the movie when the title is displayed and is dancing around it.
** The climactic scene at the end of the movie has Mei doing this to get a rise out of her mother after Ming has [[spoiler:become [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever a raging giant red panda]]]]; her friends cheer her on as she does it.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' has Dragon shaking her rear end while Donkey is singing "Baby Got Back" in the Shrek Karaoke Dance Party.

--->'''Linda:''' No! We don't shake our tushies in Minnesota!
* Scratte from ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'' has a habit of shaking her big butt.
* ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'': During the song "Roll Back the Rock", Rex briefly leans forwards with his butt high in the air and vigorously ''twerks''. At the same time, the kids do the same and effortlessly match his movements.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'': Rarity does this briefly in the first movie during the 'Big Night' scene.
* The titular polar bear from ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'' twerks at least twice in the film. He also lampshades the first time he does so while talking to Socrates the seagull.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012'': During the song "How Bad Can I Be?", the Once-Ler sings, "Shake that bottom line" while his aunt wiggles her butt with a dollar sign painted on the back of her dress.
* Two Creator/{{Disney}} examples in ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' and ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' -- in ''The Aristocats'', Duchess (during the song "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat") briefly (and seductively) shakes her booty at the camera. This animation is recycled for Maid Marian in ''Robin Hood'' due to the studio's budget.
* Ursula from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' does this while explaining to Ariel how she will attract Eric without her voice, exclaiming [[EvilIsHammy "BODY LANGUAGE! HA!"]] as she does it. It's extremely noticeable because of [[FatBastard how much she has to work with]]. This use is an odd combination of Ursula's [[{{Squick}} usual flirtatious mannerisms around Ariel]], cockiness (how confident she is that Ariel will take her deal), and actual explanation.

* In the 2008 adaptation of ''[[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008 Horton Hears a Who!]]'', after Horton finishes crossing the bridge, he proceeds to bounce his butt around while he's observing it. A few moments later, he starts to vigorously twerk to hip hop/techno music while jumping closer and closer to the camera.
* Boog does this in ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' when he and Elliot are going on a bender trashing the store.
** Mrs. Bobbie also does this when teaching Mr. Weenie how to beg.

* Parodied in ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Squeakquel'', where The Chipettes shook their tails.

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* The mail box segment from the first episode of ''WebVideo/MedakaMENT'' has Medaka, who is wearing bra and panties, sings the mail song from ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' while shaking her butt to emphasis herself "waging her tail".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'' episode "It's My Party" Dolly briefly shakes her butt while dinging about her and Destiny winning the bet that they will have the best birthday party.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' shows Sonic shaking his butt on Dr. Robotnik's monitor screen, looking over his shoulder.

* Aang from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' taunts General Zhao by shaking his butt at him, which ends up in Zhao burning his own ship.
---> '''Aang:''' Ahoy! I’m Admiral Zhao!
* One scene from the "Bad Little Boy" episode from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has Cake morphing her body into a voluptuous one and proceeds to shake her butt at the camera for a couple of seconds during Marshall Lee's song.
** Marshall Lee himself also wiggles his bum seductively at Fiona during the same scene. Fiona is not amused and quickly shoves him away.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The S-Word", Granddad tells Huey how "traumatized" Riley is for being called a "nigga" by a third-grade teacher, but what Riley is really doing is what Huey believes to be the "celebratory booty dance" due to the fact Granddad will sue the teacher for restitution.

* The two main characters of ''WesternAnimation/Breadwinners'' do this almost constantly, seemingly for its own sake.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheCrampTwins'' episode "Pantaloonacy", towards the end when Wayne finds out that he is wearing the same kind of yellow pants that Miss Hissy is wearing, Miss Hissy comments on how good they feel while shaking her butt.

* Glomgold does this to Scrooge's casket in order to mock his [[spoiler:pretending to be]] dead enemy as part of his LastDisrespects in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The 87 Cent Solution!"
* ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', the Dragons, along with pretty much every other character in the show, does this during the song "Shake Your Dragon Tail".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', episode "Smarty Pants", A.J. mocks Timmy by doing this after receiving yet another A+, and after wishing to be the smartest kid in the world, Timmy does this in front of A.J. in return after teaching the class about the Alamo and the state of Texas, in which he receives an A+ for it.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter does it as a part of his goofy impression of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, much to the annoyance of Lois and the other flight attendance.

--> '''Kenneth:''' Wiggle your belly - not your bum!
* '' WesternAnimation/FishHooks'':
** Milo does this pretty often as a running gag throughout the series.
*** In "Milo on the Lam", Oscar catches Clamantha's attention by reluctantly shaking his rear as a distraction so Bea could rescue Milo from getting detention.
*** Bea and her friends are seen doing this during the sleepover rap in "Fish Sleepover Party".

** From "Come Sale Away", the sisters (''[[NotSoAboveItAll including Lucy and Lisa]]'') all imitate Lincoln's victory dance as they all proceed to shake their booties right on the spot in the living room, until their parents also join in to show them how it's ''really'' done! Lincoln notes that it's definitely hereditary.
** During her initial round of UnsportsmanlikeGloating in "Lynn-er Takes All", Lynn repeatedly thrusts her ass in Leni's face. As this behavior is [[SmugSuper typical of Lynn]], her sister is just annoyed at having to see this again.

* King Julien in ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' and its spin-off cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' shakes his "royal booty" a lot.
** Gloria from the movies also tends to do this, one notable example being right in the beginning of the second movie (along with the rest of the main characters) and during the DancePartyEnding.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' episode "Tradeshow Showdown" has Jenny Wakeman do this as an insult to several robots chasing her.

** Sweetie does a bit of this during her singing and cleaning up routine in "The Show Stoppers".
** From the season 2 finale "A Canterlot Wedding", this is part of Twilight Sparkle and Cadence's SecretHandshake involving with both ponies shaking their rumps together.
** "Apple Family Reunion" has [[MeaningfulName Apple Bottom]] do a bit of this as dancing.
** The season 4 episode "Filli Vanilli" sees ''[[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]]'' do this a few times, dancing along with the music she's singing.
** In ''Equestria Girls'', we see that Human Rarity is quite fond of this dance.
** In season 4 episode "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies", at one point Fluttershy dresses up like a bee and asks a swarm of them if it "[[AccidentalInnuendo brings to mind any images]]" for them while wiggling her butt at them. [[note]][[TruthInTelevision That's really how bees communicate.]][[/note]]
** In "Baby Cakes", "wiggling your rump" is listed in Pinkie Pie's "Piggy Dance" song.
** Applejack does a bit of this while showing off her fancy outfit in "Simple Ways".
** Part of Sapphire Shores' dance routine in "For Whom the Sweetie Bell Tolls".
** In "Ponyville Confidential", Snips and Snails do it a bit to show of their shaved rears after being stuck together by gum.

** In The Great Collide, Rainbow and Twilight do this in a dog-like way as they prepare to compete in Buckball.
** In Sportacular Spectacular Musak-ular, Twilight pretty much twerks as part of her dancing for the big show.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'': Izzy Moon teaches her friends how to shake their unicorn butts in the song "Fit Right In".
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
** An unintentional example when Candace shakes her rear all because she has [[SquirrelsInMyPants squirrels in her pants]]. The extended version of the song has extra ass-shaking action!
** In "Bee Story", the Fireside Girls learn to communicate with bees by doing the "Waggle Dance".
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Professor Utonium makes fun of HIM and starts taunting him, shaking his rear and everything.

** Blossom and Bubbles do it with Allegro the panda in the episode "Painbow", much to Buttercup's disgust.
** Bubbles also briefly does it in "Somewhere Over The Swingset" with one of Allegro's minions.
** Bubbles shakes her rump at a sabertooth tiger [[ItMakesSenseInContext while turned into a mouse with her aura powers]] in "15 Minutes Of Fame".

* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" Quigley does it when he's trying to adjust his camera to take a picture of his plant.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer walks in on Lisa shaking her butt and is not amused by it, but then sees [[DistractedByTheSexy the girls on TV doing the exact same thing]], which Lisa was copying.

---> '''Homer:''' ''(Mesmerised)'' "Lumber... We need lumber..."
** The StupidSexyFlanders incident in "Little Big Mom", when Ned Flanders shakes his ass as he's wearing a tight ski suit.

'''Homer:''' (''screams, cringes'') Stupid sexy Flanders...
** In "Team Homer", Mrs. Krabappel does this blatantly while adjusting her desk to taunt Bart, who's wearing a uniform that forces him to behave and not shoot her butt with his slingshot.
** This trope was also referenced by Homer in "Brother from the Same Planet", though he wasn't allowed to go through with it.
---> '''Homer:''' Marge, when kids these days say "bad", they mean "good". And to "shake your booty" means to wiggle one's butt. Permit me to demonstrate...\\
'''Marge:''' No.

** Squidward does it on a few occasions, particularly when he mocks [=SpongeBob=]'s mishaps. "Christmas Who?" and "Club [=SpongeBob=]" are common examples.
** [=SpongeBob=] also does it to Sandy when he wants her to chase him to the Krusty Krab in "Texas".
** The earliest example is in "Pizza Delivery" where [=SpongeBob=] jiggles ''both cheeks independently'' while he freestyles his song.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In "School Spirit", Brittney Wong and the other cheerleaders for the Echo Creek Awesome Opossums plan to distract the Silver Hill Warriors with their "booty-shaking dance moves" during the big game. Star, under the impression that football game is an actual battle, is a bit distracted when they throw in a demonstration but still reprimands them for their plan.
-->'''Star:''' Do you know ''nothing'' of combat?! ''No'' warrior is going to be distracted by Chantelle's booty!\\
'''Chantelle:''' (''affronted'') Wha?
** When it's time for the actual game, Star turns out to be right, as that the Warriors aren't distracted whatsoever. Fast-forward a few episodes though, and the joke comes back as a background gag where Chantelle walks by with groupies who are indeed enraptured by her booty.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E12GiantWoman "Giant Woman"]], Amethyst does this during her FusionDance with Pearl, to the latter's disgust.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernoobs}}'': This is one of Roach's dance moves in "Noob Kids on the Block."

* The ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' episode "Lessons In Love" has the infamous "Booty Quake" scene where Kimmy, annoyed by his attempts to make her actually study, tries to get Octus to just do her homework for her by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ZJrPVEkkA doing a enticing dance.]] Octus [[IgnoreTheFanservice isn't impressed]] and glares at her for the attempt.

** In the episode "Legs", Starfire does this in front of Raven, who isn't that keen on joining along to dance with the other Titans. However, Raven, whose cloak was taken away from Robin, does a little hip shaking after renaming herself "Lady Legasus", and later when all of the Titans are dancing again.
** In "Nose Mouth", Cyborg does this which is part of the "You were wrong" dance to Raven, who stated that using her dark magic to stop Robin from disturbing people's sleep can cause some issues.
** In "The Fourth Wall", Beast Boy does this while wearing his underwear [[BreakingTheFourthWall in front of the fourth wall]], only for an annoyed Raven to smash his head on it.
** Robin doing this became a RunningGag for a few seasons. The episodes "Hey You, Don't Neglect Me in Your Memory", "Two Bumble Bees and a Wasp", "Mr. Butt", "Operation Tin Man", and "Arms Race with Legs" are just a handful of the many instances where he twerked his behind for any of the three reasons listed in the trope description.

** The episode "The Hat" has Sylvia shake her rear end to provoke a giant worm.
** Dominator shakes her rump at the beginning of her VillainSong in "My Fair Hatey"; Wander and Hater respond by glancing toward each other uncomfortably.
* While the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G4-_SzBte0 "Yellow"]] by French DJ 20syl plays during the credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Yellowbird}}'', Karl, Sam, Delf, and Anton incorporate some tail feather shaking into their dance routines.