History Main / MilkingTheGiantCow

* Itsuki Koizumi has been shown doing this from time to time in the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' anime, perhaps most notably when he's actually cast as Guildenstern in a high school performance of ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''. Kyon also does this at one point during the last episode of the Endless Eight arc.

This also occurs when a character just can't sit still. A character may pump his hands up and down theatrically while speaking... "for emphasis". If played for laughs, he will be holding a beverage (or some sort of blunt object) -- which will, of course, go flying everywhere.

* Parodied in ''Series/{{Glee}}. Blaine's brother Cooper considers himself an accomplished dramatic actor, and he attempts to give a "masterclass" to the Glee club. He advocates for ignoring your scene partner and always pointing to the person you are talking to and shouting your lines.

* Creator/JeremyIrons is having a helluva lot of fun with [[BigBad Profion]] in the first ''[(Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000 Dungeons & Dragons]]'' movie.

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* Creator/JeffGoldblum's gesticulations (on and offscreen) have been affectionately described as "floating hands" by his fanbase, and Sofia Boutella admitted that she was disappointed not to be able to watch his hands in action when shooting their one scene together in ''Film/HotelArtemis'' because his character was strapped to a gurney. He's also admitted to taking any opportunity to smack a table to emphasize a point in a scene (both ''Film/TheFly1986'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'' having him doing this).

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Kamina makes a frequent habit of waving his arms wildly when delivering his bombastic speeches (aside from [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger his heaven-bound dramatic pointing]]), whether in a mecha or not, even disregarding that he's in the middle of a heated battle, completely ignoring the enemy's presence, much to the annoyance of everyone (save Simon, Nia, or Kittan).
* Duke Red often does this while monologuing about his various [[MadScientist mad science]] schemes in various Creator/OsamuTezuka productions, especially ''Anime/Metropolis2001''. It's actually rather effective there since he's supposed to be completely unhinged.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': Vegeta has a tendency to raise his clenched fists and gesticulate when he gets enraged.

* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': BigBad Dr. Hell was prone to make this when he was monologuing, mainly in the original manga and Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}. Especially when night had fallen and he was outdoors. EvilIsHammy, indeed.
* ''Anime/StellviaOfTheUniverse'': The ''Stellvia'''s captain does an epic arm flourish when ordering to fire the last remaining laser shot that can save Earth from imminent destruction in the final episode.
* Itsuki Koizumi has been shown doing this from time to time in the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' anime, perhaps most notably when he's actually cast as Guildenstern in a high school performance of ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''. Kyon also does this at one point during the last episode of the Endless Eight arc.

* Mattis in the anime version of ''Literature/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter'' leaves no giant cow unmilked.

* ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'': IQ, card-carrying ham, has one of these moments in church.

* A common pose for {{Supervillain}}s, given EvilIsHammy. ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} and ComicBook/DoctorDoom in particular stand out, as the former's page image and the latter's illustration [[LargeHam/ComicBooks here]] show.

* Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': LargeHam Honest John waves frantically and points with his walking stick at every opportunity. [[SissyVillain The wrist motions can make one wonder what the artists were going for here.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'':
** Syndrome does this with hilarious results as he wears an ArmCannon shooting a beam of energy that suspends his target in mid-air.
--->'''Syndrome:''' I am '''Syndrome!''' Your '''nemesis!''' And... ''[throws his arms up, hurling Mr. Incredible out of sight]'' Oh, ''brilliant''.
** Later, Syndrome [[EngineeredHeroics stops a fuel truck falling on a woman and her child]]. Once again, he does his dramatic introduction, sending the fuel truck flying over his shoulder where it explodes in a ball of flame.
* Pretty much every character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' uses dramatic arm movements while talking, likely in an attempt to make up for the lack of quality facial animation. Particularly notable when Dex twirls around once like a ballerina during TheReveal for no apparent reason.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree'': Gaea Everfree makes lots of emphatic gestures, especially during her VillainSong. Sometimes it goes along with using her magic, but most often it's completely gratuitous.
* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''[[Recap/AsterixInBritain Asterix in Britain]]'', Julius Caesar is planning the invasion of Britain and calls on the gods for favorable winds to sail his fleet across the English Channel. On doing this trope, said winds promptly [[FailedAttemptAtDrama blow the map into his face]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': During "Let It Go", Elsa makes a lot of grand gestures, some for FullContactMagic, some for kicks. She makes even bigger gestures during "Show Yourself" in the sequel.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', 4*Town tends to do this a lot during their perfomances.

* In ''Film/TheRoom'', Tommy Wiseau wildly throws his arms downward while uttering the film's most famous line, "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!"
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', young Tom Riddle does this.
* Since the actors of ''Film/BitterLake'' performed the entire movie in fursuits with largely immobile faces, they resorted to overacting the body language in a desperate attempt to sell the flat vocal acting.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Darth Vader wears a face mask, his range of body postures is limited to "loom", and his voice is intended to be machine-like (and was added in post-production anyway). About the only remaining means of expressing the character is hand gestures. Creator/DavidProwse (the man in the Darth Vader suit) rises to the challenge, milking the proverbial cow like he's getting a bonus for every hand gesture he makes.
* During his incredible and hilarious speech Arthur Jensen of ''Film/{{Network}}'' milks the giant cow like a cross between Hitler and a television evangelist.

* The movie of ''Film/Dune1984'' is a WorldOfHam, so it's not surprising that there's a bit of this going on. Especially from Piter de Vries.
* Creator/JeremyIrons is having a helluva lot of fun with [[BigBad Profion]] in ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000''.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': The Collector does this while delivering exposition on the MacGuffin, for which he is immediately mocked by Rocket.

* ''Film/TheRightStuff''. The man introducing [[PunctuatedForEmphasis AMERICA'S...MERCURY...ASTRONAUTS!]]

* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. Caymen of the Lambda Zone does this a lot, especially in his [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty introductory scene]]. He's a reptilian humanoid so his actor probably felt his [[RubberForeheadAlien facial features]] weren't [[ActionFigureSpeech articulate enough]], but it also fits his LargeHam nature.
* Parodied in ''Film/HerculesReturns'', an Australian GagDub of an Italian sword-and-sandal movie. Whenever the actor playing Hercules does this, the voice actor pretends he's about to burst into song. In fairness Hercules is usually appealing to the god Zeus at the time, so he at least has an excuse for gesturing upwards.
* ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. Midwinter at the conclusion of his MotiveRant, talking of how he wants to make his country STRONG! STRONG! STRONG!
* ''Film/The39Steps1935''. In the scene where [[MistakenForSpecialGuest he's mistaken for a guest speaker]] while on the run from the police, Richard tries to do this during his RousingSpeech, only to quickly hide his hands because they're handcuffed together.

* Referenced by name in Literature/HarrowTheNinth :
-->"Mercy threw her hands in the air, milking an invisible and gigantic cow in order to assuage her feelings."

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Homelander does this during his BastardlySpeech at the end of "[[Recap/TheBoysS01E04TheFemaleOfTheSpecies The Female of the Species]]". It's played [[BewareTheSuperman more for chills]] than LargeHam, as he's promising America's vengeance on the terrorists who brought down an airliner [[spoiler:when they actually died because of a bungled hostage rescue by Homelander and Queen Maeve]].

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]], Creator/SylvesterMcCoy overclocks the [[LargeHam ham]], making a serious line sound very, very, ''very'' melodramatic:

** Creator/MattSmith delves into this consistently as the Eleventh Doctor, though considering what type of character he's playing, it really, really works. Lampshaded in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]:

** The Twelfth Doctor, as much of a ham as any of his predecessors, gets to do this in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]], while parodying the usual BiggerOnTheInside speech.

* In ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', suited characters often kick the wild gesturing up. It's especially noticeable when still suited characters act outside a fight scene. (When figuring out a device, etc.) In the early years, these gestures would be accompanied [[MundaneMadeAwesome by the same swishing-through-air sound]] as martial arts strikes.

%%* Just pick any HenshinHero series from the Showa era, both heroes and villains love doing this.

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* The video for Music/{{Disturbed}}'s "Indestructible" uses this several times. Hell, every Disturbed video contains a little of this, as do the live shows. The singer is [[LargeHam one great big ham]].

* Music/ShirleyBassey does this every time a song has a big finish. And most of her numbers have big finishes.

* Music/MaryJBlige.
* Creator/KevinHart mocked R&B singers' tendencies to do this when giving "tips" on how to be a singer:
-->'''Kevin''': All you need to know how to do is open your hands, close em, and point.

* If [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4CDLmDx_Y the video for "Ten Thousand Strong"]] by Music/IcedEarth video is any indication, Ripper Owens is a fan of this move.
* When Music/TomJones is not doing a finger snap with the hand not holding the microphone, you bet it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsGh4Amt44 a grand]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxJCKPsj08Q gesture]].
* Music/{{Sabaton}} frontman Joakim Broden does this all the time during shows. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgmzlvUAB2w Example from their 09/19/2016 performance in Atlanta, GA.]]

* In the Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany play ''The Complete History of America (abridged)'', Reed tries to mime steering a car, but his gestures are off enough that Austin tells him, "Stop milking that cow!"

* In tradition Japanese noh theatre the main (usually) actor will pause in exaggeration pose for dramatic effect.
* In ''Theatre/ThePlayThatGoesWrong'', some of the cast of ''The Murder at Havisham Manor'' have a tendency to indulge in this, with Max and Sandra being the worst offenders.

* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'': Stan the Salesman parodies this by flailing his arms wildly no matter what he's saying. It also serves to draw attention to his UnmovingPlaid jacket, making it even more amusing.

* Old Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', complete with SkywardScream. "liquiiid!" Also, [[LargeHam Liquid Snake]] in [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid The Twin Snakes]]. He seems to have graduated top of his class from the [[Creator/WilliamShatner William Shatner School of Acting]]. Also from Metal Gear Solid 4 is Liquid Ocelot, who really enjoys clenching his fist whenever he can.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames'': The cut scenes: "Gee, it sure is boring around here!"

* Cloud's [[CharacterTic signature shrug]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' involves way too much air-clutching for a gesture that's supposed to suggest ''not caring'' -- which is the joke. He does the same gesture in a trailer for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', though it's toned down (not by much).
* The lawyers on the stand of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series are entirely animated in dramatic gestures -- including on the cover art; made all the more hilarious in various "[[GagDub Phoenix Wrong]]" gag dubs.
** This is actually how court cases are handled in Japan. [[RealityIsUnrealistic Guess real life really ''is'' stranger than fiction, huh.]]
* In ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' and ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon'', [[LargeHam Dr.]] [[MadScientist Victor]] is made incredibly awesome by his abuse of this.
* In the in-game cutscenes in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagicV'', the characters have a very small pool of body language expressions, almost all of which are highly overblown and [[LargeHam Hammy]].
* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'', the Lord of the Necromancers spends five minutes pacing around Gabriel and communicating entirely through his hands during his MotiveRant, possibly because his face isn't visible.
* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', Vincent is never able to keep his hands still while talking.
* Ghirahim, the main villain of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', does this to keep in line with his [[EvilIsHammy FABULOUS]] persona while expressing his anger over Zelda being snatched from his grasp.
* The animation for the "Rally" combat action in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is this; Loghain, already a LargeHam, is particularly fond of this action. In [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII the sequel]], loose cannon party member Anders does this while casting [[KillItWithFire Firestorm]], accompanied with "MY MAGIC WILL DESTROY YOU!" or wordless screams of rage for maximum [[LargeHam ham potential]].
* Because player characters in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' may be covered in a wide variety of armors, many of which obscure the face, the gestures made to communicate with others players tend to be extremely broad and flamboyant. The most famous is one exclusive to members of the Warriors of Sunlight called "Praise the Sun", where you raise your arms above your head in a "V" shape.
* Similarly, the Joy gesture from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has you raising your both hands in happiness.
* ''VideoGame/AfterTheWar'': both Dr. Z and Holeman seems to do this a lot. They're both hams after all.
* Megumi Kitaniji of ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has something of a flair for this, as seen in two of [[http://www.spriters-resource.com/resources/sheets/47/50297.png his dialogue sprites]]. [[spoiler:Turns out later he's not just gesturing, he's checking the timer on his palm, just like the one the Players have.]]
* [[GangBangers Team Skull members]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' often gesture wildly when walking or speaking.

* Actual giant cows are involved in ''Webcomic/BotchedSpot'''s [[http://botchedspot.com/2012/10/19/what-i-think-about-whenever-i-see-rybacks-entrance/ explanation]] of {{Wrestling/Ryback}}'s entrance.
* The court messenger Masahiro from ''Webcomic/BeneathTheClouds'' is quite fond of this. It ends badly for him.

* According to Creator/{{Nigahiga}}, hand motions accompanied with ClusterFBomb are the first lesson to being Gangster.
* ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': Captain Hammer does this in [[IncomingHam his first scene]], while standing on top of a moving van.
* Creator/MasakoX, an anime reviewer at Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, does this so often that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8hcDdFZIw&feature=sub there's a dance]].
* Music/DoctorSteel combines this with a SkywardScream in ''The Dr. Steel Show'' Episode 1.

* Rufus Talltales in ''WebVideo/WorldsGreatestAdventures'' is prone to it when boasting of his discoveries.
* When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic expressed his displeasure with Creator/JohnTravolta's [[LargeHam hammy acting]] in ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', Terl (played by [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]) interrupted the review to take umbrage not with the Critic being mad at his performance, but with the ''way'' he expressed his anger. Terl suggests that the Critic ''show'' him how angry he is through exaggerated grimacing and hand gestures, which does its job of making the Critic angry...at Terl for wasting his time and making him look stupid.

-->"I'm wringing my hands... MENACINGLY!"
* In the crossover episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'', everyone celebrates by ''lifting their arms up and down''.
* Daffy Duck in "The Great Piggybank Robbery" and other WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons.
* Hexadecimal in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' very often, though it's justified: her mask changes off-screen with every swipe of her hand.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Katara, while mocking Sokka for his big ears, decides it is necessary to mime "elephant ears" using her hands, along with pointing dramatically as if she has an [[VisualNovel/AceAttorney objection]]. Apparently, this is a genetic trait: later, in season two, Sokka gets a little... intense while cheering and booing during the earthbending tournament.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Rarity is prone to this, as per her LargeHam tendencies.
** Parodied in "Hearts and Hooves Day": when Apple Bloom gets overexcited during an ImagineSpot, [[MemeticMutation her forelegs start flailing all over the place, much to the confusion of her friends.]]
** In "Slice of Life", Dr. Whooves flails his hooves in the air when his "flameless fireworks" go off with ThePowerOfLove.
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': Prime Evil did this pretty much all the time.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. Mal Duncan hamming it up as Guardian to distract Despero; he does this trope while [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull summoning up his non-existent powers]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Canhead}}'': The little claymation protagonist, who is trekking through the desert on foot, does this after opening up his knapsack for food and finding nothing but worms, and the bottom missing from the knapsack.

* Cloud's [[CharacterTic signature shrug]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' involves way too much air-clutching for a gesture that's supposed to suggest ''not caring'' - which is the joke. He does the same gesture in a trailer for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', though it's toned down (not by much).

* Megumi Kitaniji of ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has something of a flair for this, as seen in two of [[http://www.spriters-resource.com/resources/sheets/47/50297.png his dialogue sprites]]. [[spoiler: Turns out later he's not just gesturing, he's checking the timer on his palm, just like the one the Players have.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'':

** Later Syndrome [[EngineeredHeroics stops a fuel truck falling on a woman and her child]]. Once again he does his dramatic introduction, sending the fuel truck flying over his shoulder where it explodes in a ball of flame.

* ''Nobody'' in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' will ever turn down the chance to make an overly dramatic pose when hamming it up. Infamously, Caesar and Joseph from Battle Tendency are very prone to this.

--> '''Tsuyu:''' Those are some interesting moves there.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. In "Fredless", Wesley does this while spoofing the melodrama of the Buffy/Angel romance.

** As a MadScientist, Egrorian from "Orbit" does the appropriate scenery chewing.
--->"[[ThisCannotBe How? HOW?]] There's no ''way'' for them to escape!"

'''Chesku:''' [[IResembleThatRemark Thank you.]]
** In the Season 3 finale "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E13Terminal Terminal]]" Servalan finally gets her hands on the ''Liberator'', so does an open palm version when ordering [[TimTaylorTechnology "Maximum Power!"]] The perils of excessive hamminess are then demonstrated when the ''Liberator'' tears itself apart and blows up.
** In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E3CygnusAlpha Cygnus Alpha]]", Creator/BrianBlessed also explodes after demonstrating this trope, though due to being {{Tele Frag}}ged rather than an overload of ham.
** In "Headhunter", an android [[CranialProcessingUnit loses his head]] and starts [[ActionFigureSpeech gesturing dramatically to compensate]].

* Baron Vladimir Harkonnen of the ''Series/{{Dune}}'' mini-series, also played by [=Ian McNeice=]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay3bCW3F3QU Just watch this.]]

** Along with his oddly placed vocal pauses and emphasis on unusual syllables, this is a key element to the Creator/WilliamShatner acting style, famously perfected as Captain Kirk on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Indeed, one filk song ("Star Trek Rhapsody") even name-checks it:

** This was quite common on [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]] in general. Many of the actors were originally trained for the stage, where overemphasized actions were expected; on screen, this translated to hokey action scenes and sometimes hilariously overdone body language.

--->"I'm losing my ship! I'm losing my crew! And my ability to act!"
** The Doctor on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' does this on occasion, as he's the hammiest character on the ship. It's also seen in guest stars who aren't used to playing RubberForeheadAliens and therefore [[ActionFigureSpeech feel they need to gesture more to compensate]].

* ''Series/TheBoys''. Homelander does this during his BastardlySpeech at the end of "The Female of the Species". It's played [[BewareTheSuperman more for chills]] than LargeHam, as he's promising America's vengeance on the terrorists who brought down an airliner [[spoiler:when they actually died because of a bungled hostage rescue by Homelander and Queen Maeve.]]

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::In the same dialogue: [-Be not too tame neither:... ''[but]'' [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools suit the action to the word, the word to the action]]; with this special o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end ''[is to hold]'' the mirror up to nature... Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve... O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise... ''[that]'' have [[LargeHam so strutted and bellowed]] that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and [[UncannyValley not made them well]], they [[TakeThat imitated humanity so abominably]].-]

* Duke Red often does this while monologuing about his various [[MadScientist mad science]] schemes in various Creator/OsamuTezuka productions, especially ''Anime/{{Metropolis}}''. It's actually rather effective there since he's supposed to be completely unhinged.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''. The Collector does this while delivering exposition on the MacGuffin, for which he is immediately mocked by Rocket.

* Tenya Iida has this ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia''. He never seems to know what to do with his hands, so they always go in every known direction as he makes big speeches, which is often. Even Tsuyu points it out to him.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** Cloud's [[CharacterTic signature shrug]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' involves way too much air-clutching for a gesture that's supposed to suggest ''not caring'' - which is the joke. He does the same gesture in a trailer for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', though it's toned down (not by much).
** The characters of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' indulge in this a fair bit.

** The Twelfth Doctor, as much of a ham as any of his predecessors, gets to do this in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]], while parodying the usual BiggerOnTheInside speech and taking it UpToEleven.

* In ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', suited characters often kick the wild gesturing UpToEleven. It's especially noticeable when still suited characters act outside a fight scene. (When figuring out a device, etc.) In the early years, these gestures would be accompanied [[MundaneMadeAwesome by the same swishing-through-air sound]] as martial arts strikes.

* Vocalist and LargeHam Kamijo has always been [[ChewingTheScenery partial to a nice piece of the stage]], but he takes his wild dramatic gesturing UpToEleven in the last couple of minutes of the music video for Music/{{Versailles}}' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne423XWtjf4 "Ascendead Master"]]. The rest of the band join in as well--if they can get away with taking their hand away from their instrument for a minute, they do just that and make it worth it.

* In the crossover episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'', everyone celebrates by ''lifting their arms up and down''.

* Some people with Asperger's Syndrome who have a difficult time [[PerpetualExpression showing emotion with their face]] may resort to this to convey their emotions to others.

** In the season 3 finale Servalan finally gets her hands on the ''Liberator'', so does an open palm version when ordering [[TimTaylorTechnology "Maximum Power!"]] The perils of excessive hamminess are then demonstrated when the ''Liberator'' tears itself apart and blows up.
** In "Cygnus Alpha", Creator/BrianBlessed also explodes after demonstrating this trope, though due to being {{Tele Frag}}ged rather than an overload of ham.

** In "Rumors of Death", a politician is rehearsing a grandiose speech in honor of President Servalan, with plenty of emphatic gestures.

** Randy Spears naturally does this while playing Captain Quirk in the ''Sex Trek'' parodies.
-->"I'm losing my ship! I'm losing my crew! And my ability to act!"

* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' comic, we get a long series of panels showing Jeremy "dance" by jumping up and down while pumping his fists. Hector says he looks like he's milking a kangaroo.

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