History Main / HappyDance

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', getting Goron Chief Darunia to do one of these is a requirement to progress. By playing Saria's Song for him, he will break into dancing and be roused from his bad mood, allowing Link access into [[LethalLavaLand Dodongo's Cavern]].
** The spin-off ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', where Darunia is playable, will have him break into the famous happy dance in his victory animation. [[ContinuityNod With a remix of Saria's Song, no less]]!
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Link will dance with joy when he beats a boss. Also when he's winning an {{auction}}.

* ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}'': [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-999]] "fights" by using moves that [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul fill a happiness meter above the opponent]] instead of dealing damage. Once this fills up, the opponent is forced into dancing for the rest of the round while "[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Happy Happy Joy Joy]]" plays, which counts as a KO.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': Monk [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBhxLL9KRKE does the jig]] after solving the case in "Mr. Monk Gets Fired".

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'': Bowser had a happy dance in the first three games, commonly used just as he was done screwing the poor player out of money and/or stars [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown as a way to twist the knife]]. ''Jerk.''

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' does one of these at least once per game when he accomplished something (and often temporarily spawns duplicates during the dance).

* Near the end of ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', George Cohan (Creator/JamesCagney) breaks into an impromptu tap-dance as he descends the staircase from the second floor of the White House, after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Franklin Roosevelt.

* In ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'', Celestia and Luna start doing "the happy hoofy dance" when they are in the presence of the six Mane Six newly-reborn as alicorns.

* In ''Film/{{Annie}}'', Warbucks and Grace do a dance after the former adopts Annie, all the while singing about how great Annie is.

* Creator/BongRevilla pulled this off in what went down in Filipino pop culture as the [[{{Narm}} cringiest]], most tasteless [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Kzi1Yu9QY election advertisement]] in recent memory. It didn't help that he was (suspiciously) acquitted for embezzlement not long after he was tried guilty for stealing public funds, and to make matters worse, people actually ''[[ViewersAreMorons voted for him]]''. MemeticMutation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X0qV4RwuGE ensues]].

** In ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/mrtyedye/art/Peeking-Through-the-Fourth-Wall-AD-Ep-5-797050822 Tongue Tied]]'', Lisa does a little dance when she finds out her invention will be used.
** In ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/mrtyedye/art/Fanfic-Peeking-Through-the-Fourth-Wall-Ep-27-824445119 A Town Hates a Boy]]'', Lisa (again) does a little dance upon finding she's created a HatePlague (she was [[CharacterExaggeration even more of a mad scientist than in canon]]).

* In the picture book ''[[https://smile.amazon.com/Kat-Juju-Kataneh-Vahdani/dp/154204328X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Kat and Juju]]'', Kat tells Juju that sometimes you just have to let go and do a happy dance. She wishes that she could, but worries that everyone will laugh at her. Finally, at the end of the book, [[spoiler:she gives in and does one after she and Kat successfully nurse a baby bird back to health. Nobody laughs at her.]]

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': Monk does the jig after solving the case in "Mr. Monk Gets Fired".[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBhxLL9KRKE]]

** And in any case, she takes it a step further on [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-07-28 the next page]].

** After finally succeeding at something and ''forcing Vriska to admit that he did'', Tavros launches into [[OverlyLongGag four pages]] of [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=009760 increasingly silly victory dances]].

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has Happy Dances from [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=300 Steve and Ellen]], [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=840 Marten (offscreen)]], [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=903 Dora and Marten]], [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1597 Marigold]], and [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1738 Angus]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1888 twice]].

* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Jane is doing a happy dance — mainly waving her arms — when she tells her viewers that she's got a reply from a prospective employer, Grace Poole. See it [[http://youtu.be/evJd6A2tUKE?t=1m31s here]].

* Rabbits do a happy dance called a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZgsMCRxXnI binky]]. They jump into the air, and kick out their legs while in the air, with or without a butt waggle.

* Raz of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has one in which he "walks like an Egyptian" while bobbing his head all the while singing a little tune. He got it off a bully, with the first time he does the dance being when he knocks said bully off grind rails.

* ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'':
** At the beginning, Lincoln is excitedly hopping up and down while waiting for the results of a raffle.
** Lana is said to do a "victory dance" when she wins the mud wrestling match.

* In the ''Literature/BerenstainBears'' book "Lose a Friend", Goldie does a little dance whenever she gets fed.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXjj0lNi48 Numfar! Do the Dance of Joy!]]

* Riki, ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles''' resident RidiculouslyCuteCritter, has a ridiculously cute happy dance to go with it. He not only talks about it in some of his dialogue, but it's both his IdleAnimation and one of his battle aura moves.

** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaThreeZonesAndABaby Three Zones and a Baby]]", Sugar does a victory dance in her own honor when Wanihtam Maskwak makes it past the lions and snakes. It comes to an end when Shawn points out she lost her baby amidst the carnivores.

** In the episode where Peter finds out his father has died, Lois and Brian calmly walk outside and break into a quick Happy Dance before coming back inside to console him.
** Lois's (insanely rich) aunt died, and when he finds out they were left something in her will, Peter ''pulls her corpse out of the casket'' and ballrooms with it.

** Manjula went to see a divorce lawyer who danced happily on his desk after she told him she had eight kids.
** In one episode, sport stars discovered that Homer had talent for inventing the craziest of dancing routines. They kept paying him for ideas because it was magnet for attention.

** At the end of "Disharmony", Wesley makes a speech about how time and space are the only things that can fix the recent rifts in Team Angel...only for Cordelia to come bounding in, squeeing over the [[ApologyGift new clothes Angel bought her]]. It gets funnier when Angel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DLz9p6-2vM joins in.]]

** There's Anya's "Dance of Capitalist Superiority."
** Xander once does the "Snoopy Dance" for Willow.

** Bridgette does a particularly odd one in "[[Recap/TotalDramaAftermathIBridgetteOverTroubledWaters Aftermath I: Bridgette Over Troubled Waters]]" during her song to Geoff, [[LampshadeHanging even calling it her]] "[[TitleDrop happy, happy dance]]".
** DJ does one in "[[Recap/TotalDramaCantHelpFallingInLouvre Can't Help Falling in Louvre]]" when he thinks he's lost the challenge.

** DJ does one in "[[Recap/TotalDramaCantHelpFallingInLouvre Can't Help Falling in Louvre]]" when he thinks he's lost the challenge.
** In [[Recap/TotalDramaThreeZonesAndABaby Three Zones and a Baby]]", Sugar does a victory dance in her own honor when Wanihtam Maskwak makes it past the lions and snakes. It comes to an end when Shawn points out she lost her baby amidst the carnivores.

* Bridgette does a particularly odd one in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'' during her [[spoiler:song to Geoff]], [[LampshadeHanging even calling it her]] "[[TitleDrop happy, happy dance]]".