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Busby Berkeley Number
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Know all those big, splashy musical numbers with elaborate sets and precise, fancy choreography that are a key memory of The Golden Age of Hollywood? They came largely from the mind of one man. He basically brought the Rule of Cool to musical theater. Busby Berkeley was a former theater actor who served in World War I as an artillery lieutenant. There, he learned how to get large groups of people to move in sync. This helped him when he went to Broadway and set up some of the most elaborate dancing numbers in the history of theater, with only Florenz Ziegfeld coming close. When he went to film, he topped even that, thanks to cameras being able to shoot where people couldn't sit, using more Chorus Girls than could ever fit on an ordinary stage. (In 1971 he was once again credited on Broadway for choreographing the revival of No, No, Nanette, but this was In Name Only.) One of his trademarks was to drill a hole in the ceiling to take direct shots of the dancers from above (before Orson Welles made the camera lower with a hole in the floor) while they moved in intricate patterns. But that's just some of the crazy things he did. Watching his numbers is a visual treat, even for those not into musicals. Naturally, today, musicals are likely to have homages to him, especially in Disney Acid Sequences. There's a subset of Busby Berkeley Numbers that could be called "Esther Williams Numbers" for their most famous star (info at The Other Wiki): scenes done in pools, featuring wonderful examples of synchronized swimming. Usually with several female swimmers standing in a row on the left side of the screen and jumping in the water sideways to the right. Traditionally the camera then follows them swimming under water and then, in bird perspective forming a huge circle with their floating bodies. |
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High School Musical 2 has a shot in "Fabulous" that also homages Busby Berkeley dance maneuvers. | |
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In The Armando Iannucci Shows, a vision of heaven features a Busby Berkeley routine "performed" by corpses. | |
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In That '70s Show, on the episode "That 70's Musical", the number "The Joker" features the lead characters performing a Busby Berkeley Number while high on pot in Fez's head. Disney Acid Sequence indeed. | |
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"Be Our Guest", from the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast. | |
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The Simpsons: Lisa Simpson has one with the other children in a swimming pool, in the episode "Bart Of Darkness". | |
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Paddington 2: A closing credits stinger features a scene where Phoenix performs a Busby Berkeley Number with his fellow prison inmates, and he is clearly delighted while doing so. | |
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The Big Lebowski has a bowling-themed number like this as one of The Dude's dream sequences, which not only references choreography from specific dances, but also Berkeley's distinctive editing style as well. | |
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In one run of the newscasting game in Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Ryan Stiles' role is that he's always wanted to star in a Busby Berkeley musical. The audience is then treated to a dance inspired by the forecast of "sunny days ahead", which includes an overhead shot of Ryan doing snow-angel and running-in-place motions while lying on the floor. Busby Berkeley has come up in multiple episodes of both the American and British versions of the show, particularly (of course) during the musical games. | |
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The music video for The BPA and David Byrne's song "Toe Jam" combines this with Censored for Comedy. A large group of very attractive young people dance naked in a living room and use the censor boxes covering their privates (and occasionally middle fingers) to create humorous images and formations a'la Busby Berkley. | |
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In The Drowsy Chaperone, the Man in Chair refers to "The Bride's Lament" number as "a little Busby Berkeley, a little Jane Goodall". | |
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Karolina Żebrowska's art video s h o e s includes a mirrored Berkeley Number inference, though with shoes in a kaleidoscope effect rather than dancers. | |
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Tank Girl has a parody version of this. Everyone at the Liquid Silver club breaks out into a Crowd Song (and dance) set to Cole Porter's "Let's Do It". | |
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The Scrubs' Musical Episode has the songs Welcome to Sacred Heart and Friends Forever. The first one, in particular, makes good use of overhead shots. | |
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Shaun the Sheep has elements of it. | |
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High School Musical: High School Musical 3: Senior Year, particularly "I Want It All" - which actually makes sense: Sharpay and Ryan Evans rule the theatre club and share a dream of becoming Broadway stars. High School Musical 2 has a shot in "Fabulous" that also homages Busby Berkeley dance maneuvers. |
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There were a few Sesame Street shorts featuring chorus girls doing Busby Berkeley Numbers while teaching the kids at home about numbers. One of them was written to be like a Busby Berkeley number, although the visual elements weren't present. The song was a subtle musical theatre parody called "I Just Adore Four," sung by Big Bird first as a solo, but then by the second chorus becomes a splashy showbizzy number with the assistance of the Tarnish Brothers. The album "The Count Counts" said it came from The Musical "Two Plus Two," but in reality it was the splashy opening to a Sesame Street episode called "The Number Four Show." The "Penguins" episode of Elmo's World had a short musical swim segment. |
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In the Mickey Mouse (2013) episode "Roll 'Em", Mickey and Minnie stumble onto the set of a synchronized swimming number at one point. And their opening credits sequence, though it's by necessity a pretty short example. |
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"Pajama Party" in Rhythm Heaven Megamix is essentially one of these numbers themed on beds, pillows, and sleeping. "Kitties!" is another take on the concept, complete with the Big Band Jazz that would've been popular in Berkeley's time. | |
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The Chemical Brothers' music video, directed by Michel Gondry, for Let Forever Be. Probably the only one to involve a drumming hobo. | |
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The opening credits of Rio show flocks of colorful birds flying in geometrical patterns. | |
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Don't Worry Darling plays with the trope to nightmarish effect, featuring a number of beautifully choreographed and shot Berkeley-esque dance numbers which are actually hallucinations, usually occurring when the protagonist is on the edge of a howling breakdown. | |
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Naturally, the "Star-Spangled Man" sequence in Captain America: The First Avenger runs on this. The montage of Steve Rogers' work for the USO where he goes on stage in his Captain America costume encouraging Americans to buy war bonds is complete with dancing showgirls, tanks that shoot red-white-blue confetti, and choreographed Hitler "punching". | |
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"Princesses on Parade" from The Swan Princess. | |
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The "Penguins" episode of Elmo's World had a short musical swim segment. | |
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"Better Life", the Broadway-esque number by Ansel Beauregard in Arlo the Alligator Boy. | |
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"So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish," the opening song of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Especially strange, as it involves dolphins. | |
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The "Piggy's Fantasy" number from The Great Muppet Caper, with Miss Piggy as the lead swimmer, is a take on the Esther Williams Number. | |
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year, particularly "I Want It All" - which actually makes sense: Sharpay and Ryan Evans rule the theatre club and share a dream of becoming Broadway stars. | |
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Steven Universe: In the episode "Mr. Greg", the title song features Greg and Steven indulging in Greg's newfound wealth with a backup butler chorus until Pearl cuts it short. | |
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The Dalton's dream sequence in the animated Lucky Luke film "La Ballade des Dalton" (1978) also has a Berkeleyesque swimming and dance number. | |
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"In Summer" in Frozen has Olaf dance with cartoon seagulls for one of his verses while fantasizing about summertime. | |
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The Honeybee Inn of Final Fantasy VII Remake has been reimagined as hosting lavish nightclub-style floor shows, and Cloud finds himself roped into performing in one if he is to secure his disguise for getting into Don Corneo's mansion to find Tifa. | |
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Warehouse 13 has the original marquee from the Strand theater which, when triggered, produces a several chorus lines of tapdancing showgirls and compels anyone in the vicinity to dance along to "42nd Street" until they die from exhaustion. Appropriately, Artie uses Busby Berkeley's drinking flask and the original pan from Tin Pan Alley to deactivate the artifact. | |
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The Pool Scene of Caddyshack begins with one of these, a successfully absurd synchronized swimming sequence. | |
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In the Toy Story Toons short "Partysaurus Rex", several of the bath toys dive off the edge of the bathtub one after the other a la Berkeley. | |
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"Venus" has this in a dream sequence in Walking on Sunshine, in which Maddie's harem of swimmers dance around her in the swimming pool. | |
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In the Heights has a little bit of this during "96,000", which in the film is set at the community pool. | |
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Glee has one of those in the proposing number "We Found Love in a Hopeless Place", featuring the Synchronized Swimming team. | |
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The last part of the final stanza of "I Just Can't Wait to Be King", from The Lion King (1994), is intended to invoke a Busby Berkeley Number, even if the visual elements aren't there. The "animal tower" especially is reminiscent of this part of "By A Waterfall". | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_8f8df73b | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_90414259 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_90414259 | comment |
Nayeon features some shots of pool dancers in the last third of the "Pop!" video. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_90414259 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_918c5a7e | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_918c5a7e | comment |
Evil Genius uses a synchronized swimming number performed by scuba diver character models as the background of one of the menus. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_918c5a7e | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_9a6bf4b3 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_9a6bf4b3 | comment |
Hail, Caesar! depicts the filming of one of these on a studio lot. It's a big synchronised swimming number entirely in the pool, with the lead actress dressed as a mermaid. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_9a6bf4b3 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a0262740 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a0262740 | comment |
During the "Augustus Gloop" song in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, several Oompa Loompas dive into the chocolate lake Berkeley-style and then are seen from overhead creating synchronized patterns around the chocolate pipe. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_a0262740 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a5cd7d25 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a5cd7d25 | comment |
In the 1982 film version of Annie, the whole "Let's Go To The Movies" scene with the ushers and Chorus Girlsnote Specifically, the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes is pure Berkeley. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_a5cd7d25 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a6db221e | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a6db221e | comment |
Take That (Band)'s music video for Shine is a three minute long homage/parody of his work. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_a6db221e | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a7aeb689 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a7aeb689 | comment |
The Tigger Movie's "Round my Family Tree" counts as this, at least its end, complete with synchronized Tigger swimmers that dive in a pool and make a circle. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_a7aeb689 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a8ae62a | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_a8ae62a | comment |
In the "Springtime For Hitler" number in The Producers, dancers march in a formation resembling a swastika (but overhead, like the typical Berkeley shot). The stage production (and the newer film) of ''The Producers" even uses a rear wall of mirrors to display the top angle of the dance number, replicating the overhead camera shot. The number "I Want to be a Producer" has a very Busby feel to it, with its elaborate set and chorus girl posing, though it is somewhat minimal. |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_a8ae62a | |
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Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_ab42c63a | comment |
In the Get Smart revival movie The Nude Bomb, Maxwell Smart and the villain make two separate armies of clones of each other and have a battle that includes an injoke of an overhead shot of them fighting in a Busby Berkeley formation. In an episode of the TV series, Max is pushing a baby carriage containing a MacGuffin when he and numerous other agents start switching around their carriages in Berkeley formation. |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_ab42c63a | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_ad04e73b | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_ad04e73b | comment |
The ending of Jackass: Number Two, which involved the cast getting dispatched in various ways. | |
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1.0 | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_ad04e73b | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_af20c2a8 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_af20c2a8 | comment |
The Gang's All Here | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_af20c2a8 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_afca1ea6 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_afca1ea6 | comment |
Gold Diggers of 1933, Gold Diggers of 1935, Gold Diggers of 1937 | |
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1.0 | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_afca1ea6 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_b5929672 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_b5929672 | comment |
Singin' in the Rain had the somewhat more low-key number "Beautiful Girl", which nevertheless featured a flock of Chorus Girls who follow and then form rings around the lead male singer in an overhead shot at the end of the number, following a mini fashion show within the song (featuring some truly ridiculous roaring 20's looks), all of which had nothing to do with the plot. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_b5929672 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_b9c62d04 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_b9c62d04 | comment |
Dames | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_b9c62d04 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_bd54ba07 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_bd54ba07 | comment |
And, of course, in Blazing Saddles, one of the sets they break into is rehearsing one of these. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_bd54ba07 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_be3d233d | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_be3d233d | comment |
In the The Wind in the Willows claymation film, the ducks do this during the "Ducks Ditty" song, overlapping with Disney Acid Sequence. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_be3d233d | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_c4282b71 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_c4282b71 | comment |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has done one or two, such as "Art of the Dress", when Rarity makes the poniquins dance around her with her magic. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_c4282b71 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_c4dc9e01 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_c4dc9e01 | comment |
"Sunny Day Song" from Love Live!: The School Idol Movie features a performance by a huge number of school idols from all over Japan. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_c4dc9e01 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_db034944 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_db034944 | comment |
The Year Without a Santa Claus features Snow Miser and Heat Miser singing their respective character songs before they engage in Ham-to-Ham Combat. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_db034944 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_e461e286 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_e461e286 | comment |
"O", which has a giant pool serving as its stage, features several transitions with Esther Williams-style synchronized swimming. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_e461e286 | |
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Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_ea4f62db | comment |
Family Guy Have one of these every series or two, usually in their "Road To..." episodes, and one regarding the benefits of marijuana in episode "420". | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_ea4f62db | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_ef894e37 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_ef894e37 | comment |
In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the "West Covina" song ends with a giant Busby Berkely Number and the main character sitting on a giant pretzel. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_ef894e37 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_f16c70df | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_f16c70df | comment |
The choreography for "Dirty Laundry" from The Witches of Eastwick musical deliberately invoked Berkeley's style. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_f16c70df | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_f5834e85 | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_f5834e85 | comment |
Parodied in the 1996 film Joe's Apartment. With singing cockroaches. In a toilet bowl. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_f5834e85 | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_f688799b | type |
Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_f688799b | comment |
My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) has "One Small Thing", which quickly morphs into this as Pinkie Pie shows the seaponies a good time. It's an homage to the seaponies' appearance in G-1, which itself invoked this trope. | |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_f688799b | |
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Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_fc7d85d3 | comment |
The "Food, Glorious Food" number in Ice Age: The Meltdown. The related short Gone Nutty plays with this trope when Scrat falls amid hundreds of acorns. |
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Busby Berkeley Number / int_fc7d85d3 | |
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Busby Berkeley Number | |
| Busby Berkeley Number / int_ffbcb90e | comment |
Willie's "Anything Goes" floor show in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (which of course wouldn't work as an actual floor show). | |
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