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[[File:snoopy_dancesnoopy dance.gif|link=Peanuts|rightframe|SUPPERTIME!]]
 
 
{{quote|''"Scuse me while I do my happy dance!"''|'''Oghren''', ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]''}}
 
This trope is, well... [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|a dance that a character does when they're happy!]] Maybe it's time to celebrate. Maybe it's time to make themselves feel better. Maybe they just want to pat themselves on the back. Whatever the reason may be, they quickly bust a couple of moves. The Happy Dance! Also known as a [[Victory Pose|victory dance]].
 
May even be a signature moment for the character (for example, this picture may seem awfully familiar). See also [[Victory Pose]].
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{{examples}}
 
== Anime and Manga ==
 
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', Captain Ginyu performs a Dance of Joy for Frieza.
** Well, he tried. [[Large Ham|All things considered]] we shouldn't blame Frieza for refusing this *ahem* ''generous'' offer.
* [[Yotsubato|"What's goin' on!? It's the Daddy Dance!"]] Performed when Koiwai finished a big work project (see chapter 11).
* ''[[One Piece]]'''s Chopper has a trademark happy dance which he burst into every time someone gives him a compliment. He tries to act like he doesn't want their praise, and calls them assholes while wiggling his hips and grinning ear-to-ear.
* [[Death Note (Manga)|Ryuk + apple]] = this, in the second intro.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]! Capsule Monsters'', Joey and Tristan do a silly victory dance a couple of times.
* In ''[[Get BackersGetBackers]]'', Ginji occasionally does a happy-happy dance by going chibi and waving victory fans.
* ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'': Ash's Totodile always seemed to be in a Happy Dance sort of mood.
** Not to mention Misty's Togepi.
 
== ComicbooksComic Books ==
 
* From the [[Doug Ten Napel]]'s short comic ''Solomon Fix'': "Happy coupon dance! Happy coupon dance!" ... "Second half of the happy coupon dance! Second half of the happy coupon dance!".
* Example and [[Shout -Out]] in ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table|Fuzzy Knights]]'': [[The Munchkin|Ben]] does a victory dance after a [[Random Number God|successful roll]].
{{quote| '''[[Butt Monkey|Target]]''': Not [[Peanuts|the Snoopy Dance]]!}}
 
== Film ==
 
* Koskov's [[Narm]]-inducing dance in ''[[The Living Daylights (Film)|The Living Daylights]]''.
* Walter Huston's dance from ''Treasure of the Sierra Madre'', echoed and parodied repeatedly in ''City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold''.
* ''[[The Party (Film)|The Party]]'' has an entire group of people do this when the Russian ballet troupe arrives, though [[Peter Sellers]]' character (who has just saved a girl from her creepy Hollywood agent) exhibits the most excellent example.
* Done to very disturbing effect by Mr. Blonde in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''.
* Do the Dance in ''[[Evan Almighty]]''.
* The "Tequila" dance in ''Pee-Wee Herman's Big Adventure''.
* The 2010 ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Filmfilm)|Alice in Wonderland]]'': " I shall [[Accidental Innuendo|futterwacken...]] ''vigorously.''
* The Mamushka from the ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|Addams Family]]'' movie. As crazy as you would expect any tradition of that family to be and utterly awesome.
* Possible [[Trope Namer]] from ''[[BAS EketballBaseketball]]''. Coop is forced to do the happy dance when depressed.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF_vliKV2Lw Les Grossman has one] at the end of ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' after {{spoiler|the documentary of of the making of Tropic Thunder becomes a successful film in its own right.}}
 
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* It's mentioned at the end of ''Isard's Revenge'' that Wedge was so happy to find that Wes Janson hadn't died at around the book's midpoint that he performed an "Ewok dance of joy".
* Nikki does a "Happy Snoopy Dance" in ''The Dork Diaries''.
* Referenced in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' a couple times; Bertie tends to be rather demonstrative when sudden joy hits him.
 
 
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** Elliot has, on two occassions, displayed her "I Told You So" dance.
* [[Two and A Half Men|Five, Six, Seven, Eight! No more alimony! No more alimony! No more alimony! No more alimony!]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycFqzNxiTwY Numfar! Do the Dance of Joy!] (from ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'')
** At the end of "Disharmony", Wesley makes a speech about how time and space are the only things that can fix the recent rifts in Team Angel...only for Cordelia to come bounding in, squeeing over the new clothes Angel bought her. It gets funnier when Angel [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DLz9p6-2vM joins in.]
** And from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]],'' there's Anya's "Dance of Capitalist Superiority." Xander also once does the "Snoopy Dance" for Willow.
* ''[[Maury]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt2i0ts-uck You are NOT the father!]
* [[Ellen De GeneresDeGeneres]] may secretly be the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the [[Happy Dance]].
* Chandler Bing from ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'' has one.
* Martin Short's character Ed Grimley, on ''[[SCTV]]'' and ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', often does one upon receiving good news: "[[Catch Phrase|I'm going mental!]]"
* James May on ''[[Top Gear]]'' does an "ancient victory dance" when he bests the others in a challenge.
* After Kari on ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' finished constructing a pole for an experiment, she celebrated by doing her "pole dance". It turned out to be a Happy Dance.
{{quote| '''Kari''': Not what you expected, huh?}}
** In the episode where the guys tested [[Latex Perfection]], Adam did a lot of Happy Dances while disguised as Jamie in order to have fun with his image as [[The Comically Serious]].
* Parker did a version of this after getting the dagger in "The Rashomon Job" on ''[[Leverage]]''.
* On ''[[The Late Late Show]]'', whenever Craig Ferguson brings out Secretariat, EVERYBODY dances!!!
* ''[[Monk]]'' does the jig after solving the case in "Mr. Monk Gets Fired".[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBhxLL9KRKE\]
* In ''[[Phil of the Future]]'', Phil and Keely each do one of these after they make plans to go to the dance together in "Get Ready To Go Go".
* ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'' -- [[Sarcasm Mode|"Happy dance, happy dance, we love to do the happy dance."]]
** "Happier!!"
* ''[[Lazy TownLazyTown]]'': "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0CHAZJr3OE Bing Bang DIGGARIGGADONG!]"
* ''[[Spaced]]'' has a standard [[Happy Dance]] routine that crops up a few times to the exact same tune -- walktune—walk jauntily down the street, click heels, head a football that flies out of nowhere, hug bewildered stranger. Tim does it, later in the episode Brian tries but manages to mess up every step. [[Call Back|In a later episode]], Tim and Bilbo do it side by side.
* Ba Wool from ''[[Flower Boy Ramyun Shop (TV)|Flower Boy Ramyun Shop]]'' does a happy dance after he gets a kiss on the cheek from Soo Yi. Eun Bi smacks him around the head for being stupid.
 
 
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== Video Games ==
 
* In ''[[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]]'', the Chao combine a Happy Dance with some [[G-Rated Sex]].
* ''[[Kirby]]'' does one of these at least once per game (and often temporarily spawns duplicates during the dance).
* Many characters do this when they make a touchdown in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Football]]''.
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* A Hollow Man in ''[[Fable|Fable 2]]'' yearned to have one of these but got instead the "Hollow Dance of Ur'Cyrandorandorander". Even he can't pronounce it right.
* Some ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games had this upon winning a battle, especially the older ones.
* Whenever your captain in ''[[Spore]]: [[Expansion Pack|Galactic Adventures]]'' completes an adventure succesfully, this is what he'll do. He sometimes even [[Michael Jackson|moon]][[Shout -Out|walks]]. As anyone can create an adventure, this has been [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] more than once in adventures that have been made.
* [[Tales of Legendia (Video Game)|Moses Happy Dance! YEEEHAW!]]
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]'': Link will dance with joy when he beats a boss.
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Luigi]] is known [[Divergent Character Evolution|far more than]] [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] for his [[Happy Dance]], especially in the ''[[Mario and Luigi (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi]]'' series where it reaches hilarious levels of [[Narm Charm]].
* One of [[Dragon Age Origins|Ogh]][[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|ren's]] random battle quotes at the end of a successful battle. ''(He doesn't actually dance though)''
* Raz of ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]'' has one in which he "walks like an Egyptian" while bobbing his head all the while singing a little tune. He got it off a bully, with the first time he does the dance being when he knocks said bully off grind rails.
* Multiple exist in the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series:
** In ''[[Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy]]'' the titular heroes do an elaborate victory dance after they've defeated the [[Big Bad]]. Daxter will do various dances (including the robot, pirouettes and a butt-waggle) after they've collected a powercell.
** In ''[[Jak II Renegade]]'' Daxter ''starts'' to do one after they've completed their first mission, but is interrupted when the place crumbles.
** And at the end of ''[[Jak 3 Wastelander]]'' Daxter does another one when he finds out that {{spoiler|he's a Precursor}}.
 
== Webcomics ==
 
* The captain's Happy Dance in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' was so prevalent, that when he is gone for a while, the team points correctly points out ''when'' he would have been doing the dance.
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' - Grenchka learns from Dominic that the "Butcher", the bogeyman of the orcs, is dead, and asks him to cover his eyes so she can sing "Iakka takka" (happy dance) and do a little jig. The reason she asks him to cover his eyes is because {{spoiler|said butcher was the father of Siegfried, one of his acquaintances}}, and while he does so, he gripes, "I can still ''hear'' you."
* ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'': Hunter's Happy Gun Dance, done upon realising that he's gotten away with buying guns with a fake ID.
* [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001030 Victory Dance!] [[Problem Sleuth]] gained a level!
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has Happy Dances from [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=300 Steve and Ellen], [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=840 Marten (offscreen)], [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=903 Dora and Marten], [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1597 Marigold], and [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1738 Angus] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1888 twice].
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|On the Origin Of PCs]]'', [[The Ditz|Elan]] does one of these after [[Only Sane Man|Roy]] hires him for his adventuring party.
{{quote| '''Elan:''' Yeah, I'm doin' the Gainful Employment Dance! Yeah I am! Look at me! Look at me!<br />
'''Roy:''' Why do I get the feeling that when future historians look back on my life, they'll pinpoint this exact moment as when everything began to really go downhill for me? }}
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172734/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4262 Tangerine does a Hoodie Dance] because she really likes her hoodie.
 
 
== Web Original ==
 
* Both [[John Green|John]] and Hank Green of the ''[[Vlog Brothers]]'' have their own happy dances. They are generally performed when good things happen.
* [[Doctor Steel]] jauntily dances at the end of Episode 1 of ''The Dr. Steel Show''. There is also a section on [http://www.doctorsteel.com his website] where you can make him do several dance moves to some old-timey music. In Caleb Allen's [[Fan Vid]] of "Lament for a Toy Factory", the actor playing Dr. Steel breaks into these dance moves as the helicopter spotlight hits him - and the music from the website begins to play.
* On a Donation Drive video, [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] gleefully victory dances after he got [[Christopher Lloyd]] to say "I was frozen today". It's ridiculously adorable.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] does this too after she decides she enjoys doing movies other than girly ones, and hers is the "frolicking in a field" variety.
* [[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'s Captain Ginyu not only has the Dance of Joy, under orders from King Kold to perform every successful mission, but also the Daddy's Little Princess Dance, under Kooler's orders, the Dance of Cheering You Up for when Frieza's attempt to use the Dragon Balls fails, and finally, the Dance of Solitude!
 
== Western Animation ==
 
* In the episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' where Peter finds out his father has died, Lois and Brian calmly walk outside and break into a quick Happy Dance before coming back inside to console him.
** Lois's (insanely rich) aunt died in an earlier episode, and when he finds out they were left something in her will, Peter ''pulls her corpse out of the casket'' and ballrooms with it.
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'':
{{quote| "Go Beast Boy, go Beast Boy, you're probeless, no probes now, go Beast Boy, go Beast Boy, get funkyyy..."}}
* [[Winnie the Pooh|The most wonderful thing about tiggers...]]
* Andy [[Shout -Out|mimics]] [[Peanuts|the Snoopy dance]] at the end of one ''[[Mission Hill]]'' episode {{spoiler|after Ron's car rolls off a bridge}}.
* Bridgette does a particularly odd one in ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' during her {{spoiler|song to Geoff}}, [[Lampshade Hanging|even calling it her]] "[[Title Drop|happy, happy dance]]".
* [[Ren and Stimpy]] danced to "The Happy Happy Joy Joy Song" in an early episode.
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* [[Mickey Mouse Clubhouse]]: "Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog!"
* [[The Boondocks]]: "Booty dance, unh, booty dance! Booty dance, unh, booty dance!"
{{quote| '''Huey:''' Granddad, Riley's doing the celebratory booty dance.}}
* In the [[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]] episode, "The Mom Attractor", Candace does a victory dance while declaring that she's awesome. Phineas and Ferb join in on the dance as well.
 
== Real Life ==
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** Was that intended to be [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Genocide, unprovoked aggression, and now taking pleasure in military success?]]
*** More to paint him as an immature moron.
* The online community Nerdfighters has a signature happy dance, actually called, "the happy dance." [http://dft.ba/-8GR See it here.]{{Dead link}}
* Rabbits do a happy dance called a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZgsMCRxXnI binky]. They jump into the air, and kick out their legs while in the air, with or without a butt waggle.
** And it looks extremely adorable.
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