Other dub names: Face the Music (4Kids), Disco Dancing Champion! (Studio 100)
KikoRiki participate in disco dancing. Wally watches his friends, but he can't dance himself. Olga announces a contest for the best disco dance. Everyone is wondering why they should do this, because everyone knows that Barry is the best disco dancer, but Rosa assures everyone that he doesn't dance disco anymore. Wally asks Rosa what the point of these dances is. Rosa says that if Wally was a famous dancer, then everyone would have his photos hanging, and everyone would like to meet him. Olga thinks that Wally wants to take part in the competition, but he refuses and runs away.
Barry is working in his garden as usual. Wally requests disco lessons from him, but he flatly refuses and advises Wally to avoid disco. Wally helps Barry with the housework while he watches him from the window. When Wally digs up the garden, Barry comes out of the house with glasses and a gramophone in his paws and begins training the poet. Wally struggles with exercises, so Barry teaches him how to breathe properly. When he finishes his training, Barry tells him that he can now go to the dance floor.
Wally stands in the center of the playground and demands that they turn on the music. Olga fulfills his request, but suddenly it turns out that while Wally was training, disco had gone out of fashion and now everyone is dancing a waltz. Frustrated, Wally watches the dance floor with Barry. Wally asks the bear if the same thing happened to him. Barry replies that fashion is changing, but his heart beats only to the rhythm of disco.
Tropes:
- Cultural Cross-Reference: This Russian television episode is named after the Indian film
of the same name. - Disco Sucks: Parodied. Characters have a disco-dancing contest, and Wally decides to take training lessons from Barry, a retired champion. When he's ready and asks Olga to turn on the music, he's told that disco went out of fashion and everyone is into waltz right now. Barry implies that this is exactly why he stopped dancing.
- Shout-Out: Barry wears glasses in the shape of five-pointed stars, the same as in the movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: This episode has Wally taking lessons from Barry who used to be a disco dancer before he retired. When after several days of training he finally comes to the dance floor and is ready to start dancing, he learns that disco has fallen out of favor and been replaced by waltz. He then finds out this was the exact reason Barry stopped liking disco in the first place (and tried to warn Wally to not get into it). After all, the musical culture does not stagnate.
- Training Montage: Happens when Barry starts training Wally. In trope's most common fashion, it doesn't start out great, but Wally eventually gets better at the tasks and proves himself ready.
