Well, it's more singing than it is dancing, but you get the point.
Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to present a retooling of Friday Night Funkin' that changes the game's style into a the style of The Silent Age of Animation (if not early in The Golden Age of Animation) and adds new remixes to match it up: Elegant Night Dancin'!The plot of this mod is pretty much the same. Old-Timey Boyfriend has a singing battle with Daddy Dearest, who is called Daddy John here, to prove himself worthy of dating Girlfriend. Even if he wins, he will encounter someone else trying to embarrass him, steal his girl, and/or outright kill him. And all of this is retold in a classic monochromatic cartoon style.
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Elegant Night Dancin' provides examples of:
- Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed; unlike Boyfriend being unfazed while riding on Mommy Mearest's limo, Old-Timey Boyfriend has a noticeably worried expression, though he still sings along and beats Girlfriend's mother.
- Adaptation Name Change:
- If the title of their weeks are anything to go by, Daddy Dearest and Pico are referred to as "Daddy John" and "Mr. Pico". Additionally, Senpai now goes by "Darling" according to the name of Week 6's first song.
- A Couch Gag confirms Boyfriend to be named "Old-Timey Boyfriend".
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Both Daddy John and Mommy Mearest seem to be kinder - if not Affably Evil - compared to their Obviously Evil canon counterparts. For example, they aren't holding the Mall Santa at gunpoint, unlike in the original game.
- Adaptation Species Change:
- Girlfriend and her parents appear to be regular humans rather than demons.
- Monster has gone from a shadowy humanoid with a lemon-shaped head to a more ghostly ink blob creature.
- Age Lift: Skid and Pump are either aged up or replaced with new characters entirely, as the duo in Week 2 consists of a fancy gentleman and a worker rather than two kids in Halloween costumes.
- all lowercase letters: Spirit talks with no capitalization to his words, unlike Darling and Old-Timey Boyfriend.
- Anachronism Stew: Video games didn't exist until the 1950s, but the game's art style has it set in the early Golden Age of Animation, about in the '30s, when cartoons were still in black and white. Despite this, Week 6 still has a pixel art style.
- Bowdlerise: Zig-zagged; the "SICK!!", "GOOD!", and "SHIT" ratings for hitting notes have been renamed, with the latter in particular being rewritten as "Ugh...", Darling's dialogue in "Blossoms" is cleaner compared to Senpai's, and Old-Timey Boyfriend will fall into a grave if you get a Game Over instead of getting blueballed. However, Mr. Pico holds a cigar in his mouth.
- The Cameo: Several classic and classic-based cartoon characters show up for Week 5. On the bottom there's Cartoon Cat, Betty Boop, Roadrunner, Yogi Bear, and Fred Flintstone. The crowd atop the balcony also features some notable cartoon characters, including Mickey Mouse, Popeye the Sailor, and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to name a few.
- Cigar Chomper: Mr. Pico has a cigar in his mouth, as befits a Tommy-Gun-toting Prohibition-era gangster.
- Couch Gag: Like the original, END contains multiple gag texts before the title screen, most original to the mod.
- Deliberately Monochrome: To fit with the 1930's cartoon style, everything is rendered in black and white.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Prior to the Week 6 sprites update, there were a few differences to note. For one, the mod was still titled Elegant Night Dancin' but the mod referred to itself as Friday Night Funkin'. Everyone except Monster looked different from how they do in the current version, with Daddy John and Mommy Mearest being the most notable offenders, and Old-Timey Boyfriend actually gets blueballed if you lose instead of falling into a grave. Also, instead of being its own game, Elegant Night Dancin' was initially just custom remixes, charts, and sprites that you had to drag into a pre-existing install of Friday Night Funkin'.
- Eyes Always Shut: Girlfriend's eyes are closed most of the time, with the only time they open at all as whenever she flinched from the thunder in Week 2.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: While the original Monster was also a case of appearing out of nowhere, his appearance in Week 5 was at least foreshadowed by him being among the crowd in the background; END Monster has no such thing.
- Groin Attack: Not this time! Failing a song will show Boyfriend falling into a grave, only climbing out of there if you chose to retry.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Mr. Pico's losing icon depicts steam billowing out of his left ear, in addition to another cross pop next to his chin.
- The Mafia: Mr. Pico dresses like a stereotypical gangster and carries a vaguely Thompson-like SMG.
- Recycled In Space: The mod is basically the entire game and its music redone in the style of a 1930's or 40's cartoon.
- Wingding Eyes:
- Instead of becoming Blue with Shock, Boyfriend will have Xs in his eyes after missing a note.
- Monster's right pose has his eyes change to Xs as he reaches forward.
