Coolest Club Ever: Difference between revisions

Night clubs in television are always much cooler, bigger, and cleaner than the ones you find in the downtown of your town (unless your town happens to be [[Big Applesauce|New York City]], [[Tokyo]], Ibiza or [[London]]). Expect to see a [[Wannabe Line|line around the block to get in]] whether the club is full or not, though some people need only wink at the [[Bouncer]] or have a spot on the guest list and in they go (this seldom includes the main protagonist unless they're a sexy female).

 

 

Often a [[Bad Guy Bar]] and rarely a [[Good Guy Bar]] (because [[Evil Is Cool]] and [[Good Is Boring]]).

 

See also [[Where Everybody Knows Your Flame]], for the gay version.

 

 

 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdo21YrGfn8 Carlsberg don't do nightclubs...]

 

== Comic Books ==

== Film ==

 

* The "House of Pain" in ''Blade 2'' appeared to be a popular hangout for the young, beautiful Vampire crowd.

* ''[[The Matrix]]'': The Merovingian's Hel Club.

* The unnamed club where John Travolta's character hung out in ''[[Swordfish]]'' appeared to be populated exclusively by gorgeous models.

* In ''[[The Breakup]]'', Vince Vaughn's brother takes him to a super cool club, making him feel intimidated and out of his element.

* ''[[Hackers]]'' features ''Cyberdelia'', an appropriate 'cyber-nightclub that has a full complement of skate ramps, a video game console about as large as a mid-sized room, and of course, [[Cyberpunk Is Techno|techno music]]. It's also by invite only.

 

== Literature ==

== Live Action TV ==

 

** Must have been run by an expatriated New Orleanian. A number of our clubs and bars didn't even close for Katrina.

* The Bronze in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has an unending lineup of top quality bands, and is full seven nights a week.

** Well, Mayor Wilkins spared no expense to make his town attractive to homeowners so the monsters could eat them. The problem is that it's still open several years after Buffy blows him up. Maybe [[A Wizard Did It|Willow did it?]]

** "Man, I hate playing vampire towns."

* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' seems to have a new "coolest club ever" every third episode. The one that I remember most starkly is the club where hot men poured honey over hot women on stage (and the customers removed it using fruit).

* Subverted (awesomely) in the ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' episode "Okay Awesome", wherein the main characters excitedly visit a cool, new, and exclusive club, only to find that they really hate it and can't enjoy themselves, with Ted, the main character, eventually determining that ''everything'' one is traditionally supposed to like actually sucks.

* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' has the Chuck owned 'Victrola' and dozens of clubs all willing to let in any of the cast, despite them pretty much all being underage, often by half a decade or more.

* The club on ''[[The OC]]'' has top-tier indie bands playing most nights of the week - mostly ignored by the cast.

** Justified by the location.

* Averted in ''[[Smallville]]'', since it's, well, a small ville. The closest thing to a club nearby is a dingy redneck bar. When the scenes shift to Metropolis, a few Cool Clubs make brief appearances.

* The [[Cirque Du Soleil]] series ''Solstrom'' revealed in its [[Grand Finale]] that the sun creatures stopped on Earth on their way to a planet that houses the Coolest Club in the ''Galaxy'', and the episode takes place there. The clientle, naturally, is mostly alien, but they have the same line at the door and the [[Running Gag]] of the episode has an "Inoffensive Crank" trying to get past the doorman and his robot bouncers.

* ''[[Castle]]'' seems to have one of these every other week. Granted they are in [[New York]] but considering how elaborate and expensive looking a lot of these clubs seem, it's hard to believe that the main characters, both being locals, had never even heard of these places before they were on the case.

 

== Music ==

== Real Life ==

 

* CBGB, another New York club, had a reputation as a landmark to punk fans. Unfortunately, it closed down after thirty years in 2007. CBGB was a squalid dive rather than a cool club, but this is punk we're talking about, so squalid = cool.

** Same goes for London's ''Slimelight'', the longest running alternative/goth/cyber club: It looks like a dingy warehouse, its dimly lit and everything appears worn down but it sets the atmosphere perfectly.

== Video Games ==

 

* Afterlife in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' isn't particularly big or glamorous and because of the game engines limitations neither very crowded nor is the line outside very long (but it does have one, including people complaining to the bouncers), but it's probably the Coolest Club In Video Games Ever. It's in fact so cool that the big crime boss of the sector has her office on a balcony over the main floor where she receives visitors surrounded by her enforcers and hitmen. Since the entire decor is very industrial and low tech, lots of people keep repeating that someone should build that place for real, including the game's creators.

** Afterlife is fairly exclusive, but it's peanuts to its VIP section, which even Commander Shepard can't get in, even considering that she knows Aria herself. In this case, the VIP section's relatively few customers and small space makes sense, as it is extremely exclusive.

 

 

== Webcomics ==

* The [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/doyoustilltrustus/ Cerberus Dance Club] in ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' is a rather cool place. Especially for Minnesota.

 

== Western Animation ==

* One episode of MTV's ''Downtown'' featured the local dive under Alex's apartment being turned into a massively trendy, popular club. Chaka is thrilled, especially since it turns out she can sneak in through the back from within the apartment building. Alex, who has to sleep above the pounding techno music, is less so.

* An episode of [[Family Guy]] featured Stewie converting Brian and Frank Sinatra Jr.'s old big band bar into one of these as "pLace" ("Little 'p', big 'l'"). But eventually Brian and Frank changed it back, after realizing they hated the new direction.