Worst MST3K Movie Dance Number Ever?

[zombiewhacker]

Re-watching The Creeping Terror the other night, I think I was probably more appalled by the so-called "dancing" at the town hall than by endless scenes of the man-eating alien on the rampage.

And then it struck me that the obligatory pointless dance number, often involving characters we know nothing about -- and care about even less -- is probably the single-most recurring trope in any MST3K movie.

Which means that choosing the single worst dance number of all time is no mean feat. After all, consider the countless possibilities:

Yipe stripe.  Catalina catastrophe.  The real horror of Party Beach.  The Batwoman soup dance.

Yipes indeed.

[foreign object]

Any one of the dance numbers out of "The Incredibly Strange...." would definitely be up there. It's one of the reasons I love the movie so much. It leaves me "Shook Out of Shape" every time.

[crowschmo]

Colossus and the Headhunters.

"This is history's first really awkward moment."

"For the first time, people don't know where to look."

Hilarious.

[kansas]

Real Africa - fake Africa. They should have picked one and stuck with it. The moon beast's frug after being shot by Johnny Stew Recipe had better rhythm than the Creeping Terror dancers.

[Lar]

Gotta go with The Incredibly Strange Creatures etc. All of the dance numbers are cringeworthy (at best.)

"You know what I'm looking at? That exit sign!"

Against any kind of reasonable judgment though, I find the dance hall, erm, dancing in The Creeping Terror, as bad as it is, pretty amusing. It's too goofy to hate!

[crawlinghand]

Hobgoblins. Its less than twenty seconds long, but the situation is so awkward and goofy. However, it does give way to one of the best riffs in the entire films.

"Its the eighties. Do a lot coke and vote for Ronald Regan!"

[sol-survivor]

Mr. B Natural prancing around has probably scarred many a MSTie for life.

[continosbuckle]

Aug 15, 2014 22:49:54 GMT -5 crawlinghand said:

Hobgoblins. Its less than twenty seconds long, but the situation is so awkward and goofy. However, it does give way to one of the best riffs in the entire films.

"Its the eighties. Do a lot coke and vote for Ronald Regan!"

And here I first thought you were talking about Amy's striptease, which was every bit as bad.

Space Mutiny was bad, both for Lea's presenting like a mandrill and the half-hearted extra swaying in the background.

[Mike Flugennock]

I seem to recall starting a "Worst Dancing" thread here myself a while back, but, hey, what the hell:

The dance number with the women in the striped dresses in The Incredibly Strange Creatures. Dear god, that was so delightfully bad. The rock-bottom worst dance number in a movie packed to the gills with shoddy dance numbers.

The guy in the gray jacket thrashing spastically in the dance hall scene in Creeping Terror, and who has Crow riffing over him in his Jerry Lewis voice.

The endless "chicken dance" during the wedding scene in Colossus And The Headhunters. I'm cracking up non-stop from the moment that woman appears on the screen -- even before Mike'n'the Bots start riffing on her -- and can't stop until the scene ends.

[Mike Flugennock]

Aug 16, 2014 2:22:49 GMT -5 continosbuckle said:

Aug 15, 2014 22:49:54 GMT -5 crawlinghand said:

Hobgoblins. Its less than twenty seconds long, but the situation is so awkward and goofy. However, it does give way to one of the best riffs in the entire films.

"Its the eighties. Do a lot coke and vote for Ronald Regan!"

And here I first thought you were talking about Amy's striptease, which was every bit as bad.

Space Mutiny was bad, both for Lea's presenting like a mandrill and the half-hearted extra swaying in the background.

Oh, jeezus, yeah. Hell, everybody's dancing in that scene sucks on toast.

[Monophylos]

All the dancing and partying in Space Mutiny ends up creating a kind of accidental subtext to the movie: the regular officers are all shown as incompetent hedonists who spend all their time drinking and jigging with hula-hoops while Kalgan's Enforcers are down in the bowels of the ship doing the dirty work.

More bad dancing: Wild Wild World of Batwoman. Even Batwoman herself gets tired of it.

[Mike Flugennock]

Aug 16, 2014 16:10:06 GMT -5 Monophylos said:

All the dancing and partying in Space Mutiny ends up creating a kind of accidental subtext to the movie: the regular officers are all shown as incompetent hedonists who spend all their time drinking and jigging with hula-hoops while Kalgan's Enforcers are down in the bowels of the ship doing the dirty work.

More bad dancing: Wild Wild World of Batwoman. Even Batwoman herself gets tired of it.

Oh, I don't know... I kinda dug the dancing in that nightclub scene early in the movie, especially that tall black girl. Man, could she ever work it.

"That's forty pounds of butt in thirty-pound butt-capacity pants!"
--Mike Nelson.

[Prime Minister Jim J. Bullock]

Girl in Gold Boots had some really bad dancing. Michelle was particularly bad.

[Mike Flugennock]

Aug 17, 2014 17:38:31 GMT -5 Prime Minister Jim J. Bullock said:

Girl in Gold Boots had some really bad dancing. Michelle was particularly bad.

That wasn't dancing; she was having an episode.

[RedTom]

I would say in Invasion of the Neptune Men when the record player starts turning backward was a pretty bad scene, but not NEARLY AS BAD as....

The Giant Gila Monster's dance scene when the monster trashed the whole party at the end of it. Those kids just... no. I'm not a good dancer, but I can't believe they didn't hire at least one guy or girl who could at least do a two step.

Honorable Mentions are Outlaw of Gor at Cabbit's return party. Then there comes Undead when the devil just has some stupid... dancers? At the graveyard.