Boogie Knights
Dancing in a suit of armour. An amusing sight, in part due to the inherent clumsiness and difficulty in moving glibly in such attire. Furthermore, a suit of armor has connotations of knightly bravery and honor--hence the humorous whiplash stemming from dancing in full plate (see also The Comically Serious).
Not to be confused with Dance Battler.
Examples of Boogie Knights include:
Card Games
- Knight of the Hokey Pokey, from the Unglued joke set of Magic: The Gathering.
Eastern European Animation
- Semi-example: in one of the episodes of Nu Pogodi (in a museum), Wolf disguises himself as a suit of armor and soon afterwards slides across a slippery floor, doing figure skating maneouvers to the tune of a classical melody.
Film
- The "Knights of the Round Table" song from Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
- In Spamalot, Robin would rather sing and dance than fight, and eventually pursues a career in musical theater. Lancelot, a Straight Gay, is also revealed as loving to dance.
- The end of Ella Enchanted sees the armored castle guards dance along to the Crowd Song (since they never even speak, let alone sing).
- The original 1963 version of The Pink Panther included a costume party in which Inspector Clouseau attempted to remain incognito wearing a suit of armour, complete with clanging faceplate. He spends some of the evening dancing.
- Iron Man 2: Tony Stark, drunk as hell, fully suited up in Iron Man armor. And its one of the most hilarious moments in the movie.
- In The Three Stooges short "Squareheads of the Round Table", Larry, Moe, and Shemp noisily dance in full armor to an "ancient" radio playing "Swanee River".
- This behind-the-scenes clip from the set of Predator 2 is dripping with this trope.
- Not dancing per se, but the Mel Brooks movie Silent Movie has a hilarious scene where the main characters, in full plate armor, try to eat lunch at a cafeteria.
Live Action TV
- One contestant on Britain's Got Talent did a Michael Jackson dance dressed as Darth Vader.
- Canadian comedy duo Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster once had a TV special that parodied fairy tales - they star as a court jester and royal physician, breaking into an impromptu softshoe dance in the dining hall, followed by a knight in armor doing a more vigorous tapdance.
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- Tokumei Sentai Gobusters features the Red Buster's Humongous Mecha dancing to the ending song.
- Predated by Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, where a bored Yabaiba (no, it's not For the Evulz) holds Tetomu hostage so the Gaorangers would make Gao King dance.
- In Myth Busters, Adam Savage sometimes dances in their fire suit.
Music
- A very non-humorous example is Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights, which may count as Crowning Music of Awesome.
Video Games
- In Runescape, if you pay some money and pull a lever at the party room (formerly in Camelot), a group of knights would dance and sing on a table. Probably inspired by the Monty Python and the Holy Grail scene. Also, there are multiple dance emotes, which players can do in full armor.
- World of Warcraft. The dance command is never affected by whatever your character is equipped with.
- Both Mass Effect and its sequel allow the protagonist some dance steps in full combat gear.
- In The Sims Medieval, when a musician plays a lute, most people in the room start to dance; this includes any knights in full armor, and occasionally even golems.
Music
- Adam Ant dances in a very shiny suit of armor in "Ant Rap".
Web Comics
- The "Dancing Knights" spell in Order of the Stick, a pun on the "Dancing Lights" spell found in Dungeons and Dragons.
Real Life
- Longsword instructor Guy Windsor once explained the versatility of armour by stating that an armoured knight can "run, jump, ride and even dance techno. I have seen this with my own eyes."