Line #7 Main/DanceLine


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Here, we go 'round the mulberry bush...]]
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4	During the course of the movie, show etc etc... the characters somehow end up being in a crowd with some nice music. Alice wants to dance, and so she does... then pulls Bob. When Bob was being drawn, he pulls Clair. And while doing so, Clair grabs Emely, and so on and so forth, until almost everyone is in the dance.
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6	This is the Dance Line—wherein people who normally weren't dancing earlier dance because they are pulled in, and in doing so pulls another one from the crowd. Singing isn't required, but when it does, it may soon end up with a CrowdSong. Bonus points if Bob or the others [[ICantDance cannot dance]].
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8	Related to CrowdSong. Usually a form of HappyDance. Compare DancesAndBalls; because your typical dance has people watching, talking, resting, or taking refreshments as well as dancing, it can occur at one, but it's rare.
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10	Not to be confused with the RhythmGame of the same name.
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12	!!Examples
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16	* Literature/{{Rapunzel}} does this upon visiting the Kingdom in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', as part of her FallingInLoveMontage.
17	* A villainous version of the classic conga line is done during the “It’s Our House Now!” [[VillainSong musical number]] from ''WesternAnimation/MickeysHouseOfVillains'' when the Disney Villains begin their takeover of the House of Mouse. With [[EvilPuppeteer Stromboli]], [[CatsAreMean Lucifer]], [[TheEvilPrince Prince John]], [[{{Pirates}} Captain Hook’s Crew]], and even [[CrazyJealousGuy Gaston]] joining in on the fun.
18	* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'', the main characters are trying to get all the penguins to dance, over the objections of the elder. They're not forced to dance, per se, but convinced to dance, causing a sort of domino effect.
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21	[[folder: Film — Live Action]]
22	* In ''Film/JustVisiting'', when Andre and the neighbor maid Amber visit a nightclub, they initiate one which [[spoiler:promptly shows Hunter two-timing with another girl]].
23	* The title character does this in "Cuban Pete" sequence in ''Film/TheMask''. He pulls a female police officer out of a crowd of cops and starts dancing with her, and soon everyone's dancing in a conga line.
24	* Jenna does this in the Thriller sequence in ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty''.
25	* In ''Film/TheMuppets2011'', the first song in the movie entitled "I Have Everything That I Need" features this as Gary and Walter sing in their neighborhood.
26	* Although the 1996 Japanese ''Film/{{Shall We Dance\|1996}}'' ended with an actual dance, it still drew in more and more characters who had not actually intended to dance.
27	* The 1971 film ''Film/ProteinSynthesisAnEpicOnTheCellularLevel'', made for Stanford University, illustrates protein synthesis as a delightfully hippy-dippy line dance with balloons and ''[[Creator/LewisCarroll Jabberwocky]]''-inspired narration. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww View it here!]]
28	* ''Film/NeverOnSunday'' is set in Greece and sure enough, [[https://youtu.be/wQht_oEDKTc?t=52s the theme song]] features one of ''those'' Greek dance lines with the inevitable bazouki accompaniment. [[note]]quite possibly the inspiration for the bazouki music used by Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus in a certain sketch about a cheese shop[[/note]]
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32	* A very creepy one in ''[[Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath Seeker's Mask]]'' by PC Hodgell. Most of the priest's college had been in one for days. Not all of the dancing priests are still alive...
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36	* A seriously big one, a couple of hundred men women and children long, emerges in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ETBmGSjg2w Посеяли девки лён ( Maidens Have Sown the Flax)]] by Russian folk-rock band Music/OtavaYo.
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40	* ''Series/FraggleRock'': During [[CrowdSong the Song of Songs, or "The Rock Goes On,"]] the Fraggle Five form a conga line.
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43	[[folder: Theater]]
44	* In ''Theatre/HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying'' (at least the 2011 revival with Creator/DanielRadcliffe; other versions may have had different choreography), J. Pierpont Finch pulls executives from their herd to exemplify problems such as mediocrity and incorporates marshals them into a dance for "Brotherhood of Man."
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48	* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', if you buy the Conga taunt, you are able to have players join in the dance line. This allows players to earn 2 achievements. For one achievement, if there are 10 players joining in the line, it'll let you receive the achievement alongside those who joined in the taunt. On the other hand, there's also an achievement for killing 3 players using the Conga taunt. Friendlies are able to use this taunt to host mini parties and other related events.
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52	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Headband", Aang is trying to teach some Fire Nation kids how to relax and have fun and does this at his secret dance party.
53	* In the very last episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'', the Board of Shadowy Figures has arrived to collect the clones. Due to amnesia, Scudworth forgot about it and is in utter shock, and tries to plead with the leader of the Board to give him more time. His efforts seem futile, until [[ItMakesSenseInContext his old friend, John Stamos, tells them that they can't do that until the prom king has done his conga line dance]]. The line is formed with Scudworth, carrying Stamos in his arms, as the leader, and many of the one-time characters forming the rest of the line, which continues until they reach the meat freezer.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In one of the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, Cosmo and Wanda summon a dance line for Timmy as part of a celebration that he's being left without a babysitter.
55	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Mr. Smithers is sent on vacation, and goes to [[HaveAGayOldTime a gay resort]]. He calls Mr. Burns to check up on him...and a conga line forms behind him at the payphone, [[ClubKid which he proceeds to lead]].
56	-->'''Mr. Smithers:''' Well, I've gotta go. There's a line forming behind me.
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