Everything Dances
When inanimate objects dances about, often to the beat or rhythm of the music.
How much stuff dances can vary. Sometimes only small objects, such as furniture, bushes, trees, or street lights, dance. But then there are other times when larger objects such as buildings dance. And then there are rare examples of everything, including the very ground itself, moves and dances, often up and down.
Subtrope of Animate Inanimate Object. Compare Music Soothes the Savage Beast.
Examples of Everything Dances include:
Advertising
- Aired in the UK, this advert for Radio 1's Big Weekend in Preston 2007 has a miniature model of a park where the concerts are taking place. Then the whole thing literally starts bouncing up and down to the music, making the miniature figures of the people bounce. Now imagine that happening in real life...
- This old Fiat Grande Punto advert from 2007, also aired in the UK, had a colourful city where every building bounces up and down to the music like bars on a equaliser. We even get to see what happens to the people inside two of them.
Anime
- The ending to Tokyo Godfathers, with the dancing buildings.
Film
- "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and The Beast features dancing plates and candles.
- At the end of the "Baia" sequence in The Three Caballeros, the entire city, even the moon as well, is bouncing to the music.
- In Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, When Eddie Valiant enters Toontown, all the trees are singing and dancing to "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile", as well as the sun itself.
- In Knick Knack, the various knickknacks alongside the "Sunny Miami" girl are dancing.
- In Shrek 2, the Fairy Godmother brings Fiona's furniture to life and makes them dance in her musical number.
Video Games
- Super Mario Bros 3 has dancing hills on the World 1 map.
- In Audiosurf, the road the player is traveling down sometimes bumps and bounces to the beat. This varies depending on the song the player is playing, though.
- Samba De Amigo has dancing backgrounds depending on how well the player is doing.
- Def Jam: Icon also varies depending on the stage and how intense the fighting is.
- In Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch, there's a Game Mod called "Chaos Generator" that provides three crazy effects randomly chosen during a match. One effect, appropriately called "Jelly World", causes every floor in the level to sway up and down.
- Then there's "Chaos Generator Upgraded", which takes Jelly World Up to Eleven by moving the floors and ceilings up and down violently, which even causes players and items to bounce about.
- Rock Band Blitz, if the recent trailers are to be believed, will feature buildings in the background that bump to the music.
- In Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside, the furniture in the living room in Darkness’ house dance until Sam enters the room.
Western Animation
- Frequently happens in Phineas and Ferb.
- The Platy-posterior in "Mother Nature"
- The All Terrain vehicle in "We're Talkin' All Terrain"
- "Moon Farm" has ice cream cones dancing during the Moon Ice Cream song.
- One of Doofenschmirtz's inators does this. The boys did an animation studio which got hit with the ray from same.
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- Parodied in the "Colorama" segment of the Futurama Three Shorts episode "Reincarnation". As the segment in question is based on the works of Max and Dave Fleischer, everyone and everything dances except for Farnsworth and a telescope he is looking through. When Leela looks through the telescope, he adjusts it "to [her] eye level" so it dances as well.
- The flowers in the House of Mouse short "Li'l Bad Wolf."
- This closing credits sequence from Sesame Street.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: "I'm ready! I'm ready to go to work!"