My picks:
• The closing calypso number in episode 112- UNTAMED YOUTH. Mamie really sells it.
• The film-padding dance in episode 416- FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE. You start to really hope for that monster attack.
• The grapefruit dance in episode 502- HERCULES. What could they symbolize?
• “Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo” from episode 809- I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF. Made me want to throw some milk.
• “Schick outta Shape” from 812- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES. Hey, the cleaning ladies seem to like it!
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Weekend Discussion Thread: Memorable Dance NumbersI didn’t want to call this “best” dance number because I’m not necessarily looking for quality here. Just a routine that sticks in the memory, either for quality or goofiness or whatever.
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The goofy dude in the malt shop from Teenage Strangler!
The Zombie Stomp from Horror Of Party Beach
Arch Hall Jr. & Roxy cutting a mean rug in Eegah!
Don’t forget “Hobgoblins”…dance dance fever!
Hmmm…
Well, there’s the “delay the marriage until the hero shows up” ceremonial dance from “Colossus and the Headhunters”. And the “incredibly pale girls celebrate the sacrifice of John Agar” ceremonial dance in “The Mole People”.
Do Mr. B Natural’s disturbing routines count as a dance number?
from “Hercules Unchained” — “her (dancer’s) skin has a zipper!”
the first dancing that sprang to mind were the unsettling gyrations in the short ‘Design For Dreaming’ that preceded episode 524, ’12 to the Moon.’ the woman’s frenetic, then slow-motion, then inexplicable exertions are indeed nightmare fuel, especially in her ‘kitchen of tomorrow’ scene.
I find Bridget Jones-Nelson’s ‘Nuveena- Woman of the Future’ dancing to be beguiling and much more– human- by contrast.
Dr. Forrester’s and Frank’s voodoo number in episode 604 ‘Zombie Nightmare’ was a lot fun to watch, and I love the Poopie out-take where Frank becomes so absorbed in his witch-doctor dance that he forgets his line.
1. Steve (A)laimo in “The Wild Rebels.” He defines “doing the dork.”
2. _Anybody_ who dances in “Catalina Caper.”
3. The Beat chick in “The Rebel Set.” “A-ga-da-a-ga-da-a-ga-da.”
4. The teens getting down in Marty’s shop in “Teenage Strangler,” especially the kid who sticks his butt out.
oh! and by the way:
‘No dancing- not allowed.’
The heavy-set couple dancing from “Ring Of Terror”.
Nuveena of course! The drugged-out pseudo dancing that serves as nothing but filler in Village of the Giants is very disturbing. See also Hellcats.
The African dancing from “The Leech Woman” was memorable for the, um, subtle and well-edited dance sequence. :shock:
How can you all forget all the dancing in Horrors of Spider Island? First the padding at the beginning with the stupid tryout thing and then the dancing at the end with about a dozen girls and two guys.
Any song from THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES, however, ARE YOU HAPPY IN YOUR WORK from I Accuse My Parents rocks!
CATALINA CAPER is the first one to my mind. Especially that one spazzy guy who starts the number where the boys & girls make up.
I have nightmares about the big blonde girl in the dance scene from THE SKYDIVERS.
And can we count THE WILD WOMEN OF WONGO? Bill, Mike & Kevin are wonderful in the end skit. DANCE! DANCE!! DANCE!!?! So BE it!
(And since I’m on a Film Crew kick, HOLLYWOOD AFTER DARK has some memorable dance scenes, too).
Jimmy Bryant’s performance from THE SKYDIVERS. Of course, any actual talent in a Coleman Francis film has to be diluted by nonsense, such as a Scotsman, a manly woman and a racist song.
I second the dancing in ‘Wild Rebels,’ if only for the “Ronald McDonald shakin’ his McBootie” riff from Tom! :smile:
“The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman,” episode 515, has some memorable dancing. Convulsive dancing, but dancing nonetheless.
Skydivers is hands down one of the most disturbing dance in film history.
jon (#16) Thanks for reminding me. BATWOMAN has some of my favorite riffs during the dance sequences:
“Woah! Turn down the highbeams!”
“That’s 40 pounds of butt in 30-pound butt capacity pants.”
“She’s wearing a gown-less evening strap.”
“Now this is how the NRA wants the world to look. And frankly, hey.”
1. – Doin’ the butt in Teenage Strangler
2. – The sort-of hot amazon tossing Iggy Pop around in Skydivers (go check out Jimmy Bryant’s music if you haven’t already. It’s AMAZING!!!)
3. – Any of the tryouts for Gary’s dance troupe in Horrors of Spider Island, especially the drunk aunt at the wedding dance.
4. – Shine Your Love from Angel’s Revenge, especially when the singer makes the horse face and somebody whinnies.
5. – The pixie-like homemaker from the Design for Dreaming short. Kind of hot, but kind of high-maintenance, too…
Design for Dreaming is one of my favorites – “Cindy Williams is Twyla Tharp as Isadora Duncan in The Meredith Monk Story!”,
but the winner has to be “Shick Out Of Shape”. All the numbers in The Incredibly Strange Creatures are in the running (like the Egoiste number), but there’s just a wonderful dementia around Shick Out Of Shape.
How about the dancing in “Space Mutiny?”
“Shake it Ralph Macchio!”
“You know, without metrocal this would not be possible.”
“Doin’ the butt, uh uh, doin’ the butt, uh uh” from Teenage Strangler
While I love Nuveena, I laughed out loud during The Day the Earth Froze. Leminkainen returns having failed his quest. Everyone, bots included, starts dancing around the theatre singing about Leminkainen the failure. Love it!
* The creepy ghoul girls who rise from the grave in The Undead;
* The “sacrifice dance” in The Mole People (“ha ha, Sherry, I’m not getting sacrificed!”);
* The beach dancing in Wild World of Batwoman, which seems to last forever, though I love the guy falling off the surfboard in the background;
* The odd “Atlantean” club dance in Alien from L.A.;
* The Club Scum dance number, mostly because of the very spastic white chick waving her arms around in wild abandon. Wow, Club Scum rocks!
I also like the Wild Rebels dancing, the Village of the Giants duck dance (a fowl spectacle), all the dancing in Catalina Caper, and of course The Creeping Terror dance scene…oh, and Skydivers’s night jump party.
And Space Mutiny’s nightclub.
And the Hercules routine.
And all the less-than-synchronized dancing from The Incredibly Strange Creatures….
1. “Scuba Party” from Catalina Caper: “Is this right Mr. Richard?” and Little Richard tripped up on goofballs.
2. The sacrifice soloist from “Mole People”: “Ishtar’s gonna fry somebody’s ass for booking her!”
3. The twist-happy dancers in “The Creeping Terror”, especially the Jerry Lewis spazz guy and the woman with the lumpy butt in tight gold lame pants.
4. Joan or Michelle as the “erotic” star dancers in the nightclub in “Girl In Gold Boots”- that was considered sexy back then?
5. Along the same lines as #4, the bar dancer in “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”- totally dull and uninspired.
6. The saloon dancers in “Gunslinger”- but then again, I don’t think dancing was the primary function of their job description, know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink?
And I totally agree with any of the mentions of the dance scenes from “Horror of Party Beach”, “Horrors of Spider Island”, “The Incredibly Strange etc.”, and “Skydivers”.
How about the dancing in “Space Mutiny?”
“Shake it Ralph Macchio!”
“You know, without metrocal this would not be possible.”
That was sooooo funny! Good one!! I love Space Mutiny! And I love this site, too!!!!
Sorry– I was quoting panther3k!! Sorry dude!
I’ll second Mamie in UNTAMED YOUTH.
Give me Mamie over Marilyn any day, and I don’t even like blondes.
I don’t know if it counts, but let’s consider “Jack Frost.”
“Mike Nelson *IS* Lord Of The Dance!”
You know, the mere fact that characters in Space Mutiny happen to dance in a scene doesn’t make it interesting or remarkable. The Brains did over 150 interesting episodes, and to have people bring up the same one or two all the time is very tiresome.
Hmm, let’s see…
Godzilla vs Megalon – “These klan meetings have gotten a lot more festive!”
Hobgoblins – Dance number, or bizarre Freemason ritual? Either way, the choreographers(?) found a way to make Skull Woman even MORE unappealing.
Space Mutiny – “Did you see my butt?”
Girl in Gold Boots – And…convulse!-2-3-4 and twitch!-2-3-4…
Teenage Strangler – Action torsos everywhere!
Horror at Party Beach – If ever there were a case to outlaw dancing…
Forgot to mention the Japanese version of “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” from Godzilla vs the Sea Monster.
A great host segment, the “Manly Beach Dance” with Mike in really short shorts from “Party Beach.”
How about — “A move, a move, he just made a little move…” or something to that effect, when the dancers are trying to distract not Sinbad from playing a decent game of chess. That was pretty lame.
I can’t remember what dances went with what movies, they all seem to blend…
“Oh, no — not liturgical dance!!”
fishbulb sayed “You know, the mere fact that characters in Space Mutiny happen to dance in a scene doesn’t make it interesting or remarkable. The Brains did over 150 interesting episodes, and to have people bring up the same one or two all the time is very tiresome.”
That scene with the dancing was memorable becuz of Dr. Lea Jansen, who was played by the sexy Cisse Cameron… I remember that!!!!
I’m surprised it took until #25 for someone to mention “The Creeping Terror.” Spastic Man is a highlight, as is the woman (not Gold Lame’ Butt Woman) who seems to be having the time of her life.
The square dance host segment from “Bloodlust!”: “No future! Anarchy! Anarchy! Now promenade.”
And the aforementioned Calypso dance from “Untamed Youth,” which I like to call The Panty Dance, since both costume and dance seem expressly designed to let Mamie show off her skivvies with most every movement.
I always love Joel and Crow’s background dance during Servo’s “Creepy Girl” song in “Catalina Caper.”
And I guess I’ll throw in the also aforementioned dance from “The Skydivers,” if only for Polka-Dot Butt Woman, who inspires one of my favorite bits of MST3K wordplay: “It won the Palme de Butt at Cannes.”
I’m not at all surprised “Girl in Gold Boots” has only two mentions so far.
All the scenes of white people dancing so lamely made me wonder — my folks knew all sorts of great dances in the 1940s and early 1950s. What societal cataclysm took place, oh, about 1956 or so, when we just kinda stood in place and danced, like the poor dope at the Haunted House in Girl with Golden Boots? When did we stop cha-chaing and merengue’ing and all those cool moves? Just wondering.
And speaking of GWGB, don’t forget Joanie’s pill-popping dance of the veils at Sleazy Guy’s party. Kills me when Tom says as the drummers drum, “Whatever, white people.”
the dancing at the “night club” in i was a teenage werewolf… that weird guy on the drums and the 50 year old teenagers! priceless
I always thought it was “Schick out of Shave”. :???:
fishbulb: “You know, the mere fact that characters in Space Mutiny happen to dance in a scene doesn’t make it interesting or remarkable. The Brains did over 150 interesting episodes, and to have people bring up the same one or two all the time is very tiresome.”
what i find tiresome is that there’s always one know it all who must come down on anyone who doesn’t make the most obscure of references.
As others have said before me, the stage show from Incredibly-Zombies.
Special Mention for the ‘exotic’ dances in Film Crew’s ‘Hollywood After Dark’ ( If you haven’t seen it, you should ).
Did anyone already say “Yikes Stripes” from Teenage Strangler? I still have that song in my head, get it out! Get it out!
That woman wasn’t dancing in “Space Mutiny”– she was presenting. :grin:
The kids hopping around and dancing in the house in Hobgoblins. And Mike and the bots singing some song about the 80’s with Reagan and crack.
You know, seeing office temps cutting loose in “Zombie Nightmare” might be not be on par with real “dance numbers” per se, but damn was it fashionable to see a woman with HUGE shoulder pads tearing up the dance floor.
However, for me, the absolutely goofball dance in the court in “The Magical Voyage of Sinbad” does make me giddy.
But if we’re looking for true dance that can break through and touch the soul, then Kim Milford’s silent “pow-pow-pow”, Frampton Comes Alive-esque movements from “Laserblast” are true poetry written with the human body. And of course, as Mike put it, the death scene is just like Neil Diamond’s Hot August Nights. Just with less dance ability.
The jiggling butt woman from The Creeping Terror. If I had access to time machine geared only for frivolous errands I would go back to the CT set and pinch that ass, then slap the crap out of the director, writer and producers for using shots of a great butt in such an awful movie.
Randy
Pixie’s dancing and cleaning the acoustic tile with her beehive from Hobgoblins. Then there’s Carmelita’s ‘walking around’ striptease from The Incredibly Strange Creatures. She took off a WHOLE GLOVE!!
“You know, the mere fact that characters in Space Mutiny happen to dance in a scene doesn’t make it interesting or remarkable. The Brains did over 150 interesting episodes, and to have people bring up the same one or two all the time is very tiresome.”
Repeat to yourself: “it’s just a show. I should really just relax.”
All the mention of butts reminds me of Vorelli hypnotizing the girl into doing the Twist in Devil Doll (my tape of which is sadly wearing out; Give us a DVD already, ShoutFactory!).
What about the guy with “action hips” in “Monster A Go-Go”? There was NO monster, but there WAS “A Go-Go,” if only for thirty seconds or so. (He would have made a great stinger, too.)