Dancing on a Bus/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Crowd Song that takes place on a bus or train, usually in a Bollywood film.
 * Played Straight: Everyone on the bus starts singing and someone gets up to dance.
 * Exaggerated: All the others start dancing and playing musical instruments, too.
 * Inverted: The Crowd Song in question takes place at the bus stop, not actually on the bus.
 * Justified:
 * Subverted: The number begins at the bus stop.
 * Double Subverted: But continues on the bus.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied:
 * The song in question is "The Wheels on the Bus," "99 Bottles of Beer," or some other such car song.
 * The number takes place on a school bus, sung by elementary school or Junior High aged kids. (Bonus Points if the song is a really sappy Bollywood-like song one wouldn't expect to hear from kids.)
 * On the subway, someone takes a swing around one of the support poles.
 * Even the bus driver gets into it...but who's driving the bus?
 * In a deconstructive parody of the above, the bus driver's involvement causes the bus to crash.
 * Lampshaded: "No Bollywood musical numbers on the bus!"
 * Averted: Everyone sits quietly on the bus.
 * Enforced: We need a musical number in here...
 * Invoked: Someone starts singing in a typical show tune fashion.
 * Defied: The crowd believes that singing is OK, but dancing would be unsafe, so they all stay in their seats.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed: "Even the bus driver is part of this number...how have they not crashed yet?"

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