Basic Trope: A character thinks they're good at dancing, but they're not.
- Straight: Chris's favorite song comes on at a dance party, and he begins to dance to it. Everyone around him thinks he's doing a terrible job.
- Exaggerated: Nobody is good at dancing. At all.
- Downplayed: Chris is a decent dancer, but thinks he's a lot better than he really is.
- Justified:
- Truth in Television
- Chris doesn't have any practice with dancing.
- Chris has some sort of mobility issues that prevent him from dancing well.
- Chris is only dancing because he likes the song that's playing and wants to express his enjoyment; he doesn't really care that he's doing terribly.
- Inverted: You Said You Couldn't Dance
- Subverted: Chris seems like the person who can't dance, but he's later seen dancing and it's actually quite impressive.
- Double Subverted: That wasn't Chris, that was his twin brother Dean.
- Parodied: Chris's dancing is so bad, everyone around him believes he's having a seizure and calls 911.
- Zig-Zagged: (Continued from Double Subverted) However, Chris dances and it ends up being decent.
- Averted: Nobody dances.
- Enforced:
- To add Cringe Comedy.
- Charles, Chris' actor, Sucks at Dancing.
- Lampshaded: "That Chris is a really bad dancer."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Spencer doesn't like Mary, and a dance party is coming up. He sets her up with Chris, a notoriously bad dancer, in the hopes that they'll embarrass themselves.
- Defied:
- Chris realizes he's not good at dancing, and refuses to do it.
- Chris gets better at dancing.
- Discussed: "Dancing's pretty hard. I don't think anyone is good at it right off the bat."
- Conversed: "Do you think Chris is bad at dancing, or is his actor just not very good?"
- Implied:
- Chris refuses to dance for unspecified reasons.
- Alice says that Chris' dancing is terrible, but doesn't elaborate.
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