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* Mercilessly parodied in ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]'', where the entire cast has a musical number all singing about the coincidence of everyone's respective plotlines all leading up to the big dance.
** 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]].)
* Appears in ''[[Ten Things I Hate About You|10 Things I Hate About You]]'' as the climactic end point. Secrets are revealed, tempers flare, and someone gets punched in the face. Good times.
* 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.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The big Halloween dance, complete with costumes, at Whateley Academy in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. Although the invasion by dozens of Syndicate dropships and the attempted assassinations make it a bit more messy.
** There's another one a couple of weeks later, in "Dreams and Awakenings," which goes a bit better. We also get to see what a [[High School Dance]] might be like at a [[Super -Hero School]]; flyers with sparklers putting on Blue Angels-style performances and three different conga lines: one on the ground, one on the wall, and one in the air. There's also a "stomp stage," a special mosh pit area for the super-dense types who might otherwise cause earthquakes with their dancing.
* ''[[The Descendants]]'' had one of these. On the way there, they had to fight cyborg nerds.
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', the lead up to and eventual event of the [[High School Dance]] in v4 is ultimately what takes up most of the [[Developing Doomed Characters|Pre-Game]].
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