High School Dance: Difference between revisions

** And lampshaded by [[How I Met Your Mother|Ted Mosby!]]

* The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance from ''[[Back to The Future]]'', or the [[Expospeak Gag|"rythmic ceremonial ritual"]] as Doc calls it. The lack of inappropriate dress and dance is pretty well justified, seeing how the dance takes place in [[The Fifties|1955]]. On the other hand, [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl|Lorraine]] does clandestinely smoke and drink in one scene. (Again, it's [[Everybody Smokes|1955]].)

* Subverted in, of all places, ''[[High School Musical]] 3'', where there is a graduation dance and at least one of the big song and dance numbers relates to picking out the perfect costumes and how much it sucks/is great, only to completely skip actually showing the school dance when Troy decides to visit his love interest halfway across country. Of course this being ''High School Musical'' there's still tons of dancing happening all over the place.

* The plot of ''[[Mean Girls]]'' is wrapped up at the Prom.

* ''[[Grease]]'' takes the trope [[Up to Eleven]] with all the expected cliches, including a scheming [[Alpha Bitch]], cheesy decor, and a hoodlum who spikes the punch. Quite unusually (for 1950s or any era), the dance is broadcast live on television, with Vince Fontaine and Johnny Casino & The Gamblers (the [[Kayfabe]] identities of Sha-Na-Na) on hand to entertain. Also unusually for [[The Fifties]], there is some decidedly "dirty dancing" on the floor - and it's implied to be commonplace, because the principal even warns the students not to do any vulgar dances before the show begins (and, of course, everyone ignores her).

* In ''[[The Rose Tattoo]]'', Rosa meets Jack at her high school dance and, misinterpreting her mother's advice, dances too closely with him. (This is only mentioned in the play, but shown in the film.)

 

 

 

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