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[[File:Go-Go dancing.jpg|thumb|350px|Go-go dancing happens on stage in live concerts, too.]]
 
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[[The Other Wiki]] has an article about the history of [[w:Go-go dancing|go-go dancing]], including a mention that as of 1991 there were more go-go boys in gay clubs than there were go-go girls in "straight" clubs.
 
Note that at least on American TV in the 1960s and early 1970s, "go-go dancer" could (and did) serve as a censor-friendly synonym for "stripper".
Compare [[Bikini Bar]] and [[Strip club]].▼
 
▲Compare the [[Bikini Bar]] and [[Strip clubClub]]s.
Not to be confused with [[The Go-Go's]], [[Big Hero 6|Go Go Tomago]], [[Kill Bill|Go-go Yubari]], [[Batfink|Hugo A-Go-Go]] or [[Inspector Gadget|Go-go Gadget ''anything'']]. Or with the subgenre of [[Funk]] music that arose out of [[Washington DC]] in the 1960s-70s.▼
 
▲Not to be confused with [[The Go-Go's]], [[Big Hero 6|Go Go Tomago]], [[Kill Bill|Go-go Yubari]], [[Batfink|Hugo A-Go-Go]] or [[Inspector Gadget|Go-go Go Gadget ''anythingAnything'']]. Or with the subgenre of [[Funk]] music that arose out of [[Washington DC]] in the 1960s-70s.
 
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== [[Advertising]] ==
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
 
== [[Child Ballad|Ballads]] ==
 
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!]]'' is about three go-go dancers who go on a crime spree.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* in ''[[Mrs. Pollifax (franchise)|Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station]]'', one of the members of Mrs. Pollifax's tour group is (former) go-go dancer Iris Damson.
 
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** From the same show, there's the [[w:Batusi|Batusi]], based on typical go-go dance moves of the 1960s (and named for the real-world [[Dance Sensation]] the "Watusi").
* [[Goldie Hawn]] and [[Judy Carne]] were frequently shown go-go dancing on ''[[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In]]'', wearing bikinis with various slogans, [[Catch Phrase]]s and punch lines painted on their bodies.
* In a 1966 episode of ''[[My Three Sons]]'', "Stag at Bay", a go-go dancer<ref>Played by Leslie Parrish, [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Leslie Parrish]], better known as]] Lt. Carolyn Palamas from the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Who Mourns For Adonais?"</ref> shows up as the entertainment for a [[Stag Party|bachelor party]] thrown for one of Steve's older coworkers. When the cops bust the party and she can't get her street clothes back, Steve tries to do the gentlemanly thing, and, well, [[Hilarity Ensues|matters get complicated]].
 
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Pizzicato Five]] has a song titled "Go Go Dancer", sung from the perspective of a go-go girl from the 1960s or 1970s.
* The video for Caravan Place's "[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQgXeY_zi4 Lone Digger]" features a lone gazelle go go dancer in a bar populated by different anthropomorphized animals. She keeps dancing imperturbably when the other animals begin to attack and kill each other, and, in the end, she is the only survivor of the massacre.
 
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
 
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
 
== [[Pinball]] ==
 
== [[Podcast]]s ==
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
 
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
 
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== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[No One Lives Forever]]'' has a go-go lounge populated by a multiracial trio of go-go girls who wereare actually a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] with sniper rifles. Before you encountered them, they lounged around their dressing room moaning about how ''so very bored'' they were.
 
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== [[Web Animation]] ==
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* [[Dr. Steel]]'s live stage shows frequently featured go-go dancers dressed in PVC halters and miniskirts that matched his labcoat.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Robot Rodeo" ends with an extended sequence of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suy0cjbFTgY Isabella go-go dancing to a song about her frizzy hair].
 
== Other Media ==
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
 
 
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