History Main / StayingAliveDancePose

* [[spoiler:Rowan]] [[PeoplePuppets subjects]] a large group of police and soldiers to this at one point during ''Film/{{Ghostbusters[2016}}'' (2016). The credits revisit the scene and turn into a dance number while [[CreativeClosingCredits he knocks them out of alignment with his moves]].

!! Examples:

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* In ''Film/{{Airplane}},'' during Ted Stryker's flashback about how he first met Elaine, before dancing with her, he throws his jacket off and strikes the pose, only for someone to throw the jacket back at him.

* [[spoiler:Rowan]] [[PeoplePuppets subjects]] a large group of police and soldiers to this at one point during ''Film/Ghostbusters2016''. The credits revisit the scene and turn into a dance number while [[CreativeClosingCredits he knocks them out of alignment with his moves]].
* {{Bigfoot|SasquatchAndYeti}} is seen doing it [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background]] on ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie,'' listening to "Staying Alive" on a Walkman, no less.
** In the sequel, ''everyone'' does it during the disco scene.
* Tony P. does the move in ''Film/MysteryMen,'' while dancing the Hustle in the Disco room. A couple of the other Disco Boys do it while fighting the Mystery Men; it seems to be not just a dance for them but also a part of their martial arts style.

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* Newspaper comics: There's a ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip where Jon does this at a party. The disco ball then falls on his head.
-->'''Jon''': *strikes pose* BOOGIE! BOOGIE! BOOGIE! *ball falls on head*
-->'''Garfield''': Let's boogie on home. I'll lead.

* In one of his ''Franchise/StarTrek'' memoirs, Creator/WilliamShatner included a picture of himself as Captain Kirk inadvertently striking this pose, with a [[SelfDeprecation snarky]] caption.

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* [[Wrestling/GlennGilbertti Disco Inferno]], of course.
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* On ''Series/MarriedWithChildren,'' Al's LetsGetDangerous CatchPhrase was "Let's rock." When the show moved to Saturday nights for its final season, Al was in commercials saying "let's disco" and doing this.

* The cats and dogs representing the player's lives in the Jimmy T. and Jimmy P. stages in ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare Wario Ware: Smooth Moves]]''.

Related to the GratuitousDiscoSequence. Compare RiskyBusinessDance.

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* Tony P. does the move in ''Film/MysteryMen,'' while dancing the Hustle in the Disco room. A couple of the other Disco Boys do it while fighting the Mystery Men; it seems to be not just a dance for them but also a part of their martial arts style.
* {{Bigfoot|SasquatchAndYeti}} is seen doing it [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background]] on ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie,'' listening to "Staying Alive" on a Walkman, no less.
** In the sequel, ''everyone'' does it during the disco scene.

* In a game of "Superheroes" on the American edition of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway,'' Colin Mochrie does this while playing "Disco Boy."

* The Jason Alexander episode of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' included a clip of him with Miss Piggy on ''Muppet Bandstand''. At one point he throws her into the air and has time to do an elaborate solo routine before she comes down, including the ''Staying Alive'' pose and drenching himself with water in a ''Film/{{Flashdance}}'' parody.
* Kelso, Fez, and Eric do this at various times in ''Series/That70sShow''.
* In ''Series/TheGoodies'' parody of ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'', Tim Brooke-Taylor adopts this pose, then admits he doesn't know what dance move comes next.

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': Alfred E. Neuman strikes the pose on the cover of an issue spoofing ''Saturday Night Fever''.

* The cats and dogs representing the player's lives in the Jimmy T. and Jimmy P. stages in ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare Wario Ware: Smooth Moves]]''.

* Junpei Iori of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' fame performs this exact pose when he finishes the last shadow in an enemy party.
* The cover for ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'' shows the Investigation Team, minus Rise, pulling this pose.
* The "I Will Survive" dancer from ''VideoGame/JustDance'' 2014 does a version of the pose.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': the dance animation for the male human is this dance, for reasons known only to Blizzard. Of course it does kind of fit with the overall derpiness of the male humans in the game (one of the few games that violates the general principle that male characters always look better than female ones). It often features prominently in machinima productions due to being so iconic and adorkable. As many of the villains either are humans, or have a human form (such as Deathwing, a dragon): there is much comedic potential for this dance in machinimas. It's particularly funny given the propensity of armor models to clip through each other due to this being a game made in the early 2000s. The large shoulder pads that male humans have, usually go through their head when they go for the pointing pose. Hilarity Ensues.

* ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'': Ami's hologram in Slide Coliseum does this move.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': [[DiscoDan Disco Stu]], as his name implies, does this often, even during a Civil War reenactment.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In the episode "Less Than Hero", Fry adopts this pose when he becomes the retro-themed superhero Captain Yesterday.
* The California Raisins: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuiM9Z4yMGg Stand up everybody, it's the Disco Polka Man!]]''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E21MoonCircusEveryDayIsEarthDay Moon Circus]]”, Carrot assumes this pose when he does his famous flip.