You Said You Couldn't Dance: Difference between revisions

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'''Robert:''' I said I ''don't'' dance. I didn't say I ''couldn't''.|''[[Enchanted]]''}}

== [[Literature]] ==

* In [[The Dresden Files|Death Masks]] by [[Jim Butcher]], Harry sweeps Susan off her feat as a means to get away from some [[Mooks]]. She says, "You told me you couldn't dance," but it turns out Harry moonlighted early in his career as a dance partner for a senior citizen organization. He can't do rock-and-roll-type dancing, but ballroom is another matter.

* Along with the many, many other things he doesn't do, Rudy Miller, the hero of [[Gordon Korman]]'s ''I Want to Go Home'' doesn't dance. And as with everything else, he's very, ''very'' good at it. He just doesn't do it.

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Enchanted]]''

'''Robert:''' I said I didn't. I never said I couldn't. }}

* In the 1998 film ''Dance With Me'', Ruby is at first frustrated at Rafael's inability to do the fancy dance steps that she studies. Later, when she's dancing with him casually at a party, he does the step he tripped up on earlier, and reveals that he can dance quite well, but he just goes with the music and doesn't know the names of the steps.

* A non-dancing example features in ''[[Quigley Down Under]]'', regarding Quigley's apparent disdain for pistols: "I just said I never had much use for one. I didn't say I didn't know how to use it."

* From [[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]], the titular Mr and Mrs do a tango.

"All part of the cover, babe." }}

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''The Lucy Show'' — At the beginning of ''Lucy and the Pool Hustler'', [[The Danza|Lucy]] and Mr. Moody visit a ladies' pool hall. She tells him that she doesn't like pool, and he proposes a friendly game, with a small wager. Lucy lags for break, perfectly.

'''Lucy:''' "I said I didn't like it; that doesn't mean I'm not any good at it!" }}

* In the third season of ''[[Chuck]]'', the upgraded intersect provides several of these moments.

* ''[[Cheers]]'': In ''From Beer to Eternity'', Woody is set up to be a bowling ace, but freezes when he tries to help the gang win a match against Gary's Old Towne Tavern. Diane (who has been making fun of bowling the whole time) steps in and wins it for them. She took bowling as a college PE class, but despises the game.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Doctor Dances", Rose is surprised to learn that the Doctor can dance, he is slightly offended that she just ''assumed'' that he couldn't dance. Before he can show her, though, they are interrupted. But they get to dance at the end with Captain Jack watching. In the ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' it was said that "dancing" meant something else.

* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' the girls take Sheldon to a dance and goad him to dance, assuming he would be an awkward mess. To their astonishment, Sheldon turns out to be an excelent dancer, thanks to the cotillion classes he was forced to take as a kid in Texas.

* In ''[[Ears for Elves]]'', this and [[I Can't Dance]] are played with:

** Tanna protests that she doesn't dance when Luero tries (and succeeds) to drag her into the dancing at the Taurëcuiva Festival, but she's actually rather good...

'''Tanna''': [http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/349 Okay fine], it's not that I can't dance- I mean of course I learned how. I just haven't danced in a while. }}

** ... [[Inverted Trope|unlike Luero]], even though he told her to follow his lead. A few minutes after her reluctant entry to the dance floor:

== [[Western Animation]] ==