# Your favorite dance from a TV show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804 "2016-12-15T20:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/21 "2016-12-16T16:35:13Z")
I’ve been searching for a clip of it online, but can’t seem to find one. But I did want to throw out there for your consideration: Steve Martin and Gilda Radner’s “romantic fantasy” dream dance parody from an early SNL episode. The day after Radner died, Martin happened to be hosting SNL. In place of an opening monologue, he re-introduced the clip and then looked as if he was fighting back a tear or two as he paid his quick respects to her. Oh Sit! You beat me to it Astorian! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/22 "2016-12-16T17:09:42Z")
When I first saw the thread title I was like “there are dances from tv shows??” But so far there are a lot of great examples that totally slipped my mind! My contribution: [Hal’s epic roller-dances in _Malcolm in the Middle_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rbJP5MnbDU) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/23 "2016-12-16T17:26:53Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Ohmigosh, I forgot about Batusi! :p:p That is freakin’ delightful. Is that where John and Uma got their dance moves for _Pulp Fiction_? Batgirl also got a [dance number](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt6-46g-_9Y) worked into the plot for her. Makes sense since Yvonne Craig was a dancer, and her high-kicks were her signature ‘action’ move. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/24 "2016-12-16T19:36:51Z")
[quote=“astorian, post:20, topic:774804”] Wait a sec… got the greatest of all here! (Astonished all the Trekkers left this one to me!) [/QUOTE] I thought of posting this one, but just couldn’t bring myself to do it! ☹ The title of the Steve Martin/Gilda Radner sketch is “Dancing in the Dark,” BTW. It was in the same episode where Steve performed “King Tut.” Quite possibly the best episode of \*\*\*SNL \*\*\*ever! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/25 "2016-12-16T20:04:58Z")
This one’s easy. And fucking gross, too! [Dexter’s “Pool Boy” dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxjB-zW4YmU) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/26 "2016-12-16T20:20:09Z")
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**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/27 "2016-12-16T20:22:01Z")
[CHRIS ELLIOT IS FUCKING GOD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZdA_Ifov68) (this one I could watch all day) [damn I wish I had it down like this guys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVOTmpB7pE) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/28 "2016-12-16T20:26:35Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Batgirl also got a [dance number](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt6-46g-_9Y) worked into the plot for her. Makes sense since Yvonne Craig was a dancer, and her high-kicks were her signature ‘action’ move. As an aside, she was also Natasha, the Bolshoi ballerina, opposite James Coburn in \*\*\*In Like Flint \*\*\*(1966). (Not to mention Marta, the whacko Orion slave girl, in one of the _ **TOS** _ clips above.) :o ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/29 "2016-12-16T20:37:35Z")
Sorry, but you’ve all got it wrong. HAS to be the Hucklebuck! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/30 "2016-12-16T20:47:35Z")
Short but sweet from [Monty Python](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SSOWORzw4). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/31 "2016-12-16T20:49:33Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Fry and Leela doing “the robot” while Bender stands there amazed wondering how they are doing that. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XtTL0A5nhfk/hqdefault.jpg "Robanukah - Robot Dancing") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtTL0A5nhfk) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/32 "2016-12-17T00:07:02Z")
Ivanova’s “human sex” dance from B5. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/33 "2016-12-17T02:18:49Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > This will be a strange answer for me, because I rarely watched the show, but … > > There was a scene in one of the later seasons of _Glee_ where the guy in the wheelchair (Marty, maybe? I’m blanking on the name) had a dream sequence in which he danced in a mall to the song “Safety Dance.” I loved that song when it first came out, and I knew just enough about the character on the show to appreciate the sequence. > > Plus, it was done as a flash-mob type dance, and the guy who played Marty showed some really cool dance moves. I thought that scene was fantastic. 1 Artie. 2 it was season 1. 3 hi opal (rip) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/34 "2016-12-17T03:11:05Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Second the Batusi and MTM on _ **DvD** _. > > Third: Every dance ever done by a hot space babe on _ **Star Trek** _ (_ **TOS** _): > > Did old Jean-Luc ever get anything like \*\*these \*\*on \*\*\*TNG\*\*\*? Don't think so; he'd rather hang out at Ten-Forward, a real "happening" place! :( Star Trek aliens were all vaguely Middle Eastern, don’t you think? I got one! Ross and Rachel’s [The Routine.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-efYsGoCCg) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/35 "2016-12-17T03:18:15Z")
In an ep of _Everybody Loves Raymond,_ Robert finds himself the only white guy in a black club. [Dancing ensues.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrCVGsAypk) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/36 "2016-12-17T03:24:28Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > In an ep of _Everybody Loves Raymond,_ Robert finds himself the only white guy in a black club. [Dancing ensues.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrCVGsAypk) They’re dancing to Lakeside’s Fantastic Voyage. A song that I watch the video to at least once a year because I like old shit and the absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/37 "2016-12-17T03:39:15Z")
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine! ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/38 "2016-12-17T04:10:40Z")
[Xander and Anya](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooD4mmmYrTg) in Buffy’s _Once More with Feeling_ You need to have watched the whole episode for context, but [The Maya Dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-KC5pQsTDY) from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is pretty brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/39 "2016-12-17T04:35:19Z")
River Tam dancing with the village folks in Firefly. (Couldn’t find a clip, sorry.) ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804/40 "2016-12-17T06:09:32Z")
Ed Grimley [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YvbQKSaYQD8/hqdefault.jpg "Ed Grimley Triangle Solo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvbQKSaYQD8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dance-from-a-tv-show/774804.md?page=3)