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Street Performer

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37 feature instances
26 referencing feature instances

Street Performer	type	FeatureClass
Street Performer	label	Street Performer
Street Performer	page	StreetPerformer
Street Performer	comment	People performing music, skits, juggling, magic, or stunts in public in order to get money from spectators, often seen at Renaissance fairs or during outdoor festivals. Also known as "buskers" in Ireland (a word ultimately of Celtic and Iberian origin). Some street performers are a solo act, such as a One-Man Band, or an individual magician or juggler. Other street performers perform in small groups. For example, two jugglers may work together or a magician may have an assistant. One common element is having a hat, open guitar case or some other container out in front in which passersby can toss money into. Some street performers have an assistant who brings the container to audience members to encourage them to give tips. In Real Life, street performances are subject to regulations. Performers may have to apply for permission and follow municipal rules on the location (to ensure they don't hold up traffic), hours of operation (to avoid disturbing residents), and/or duration of performance (to ensure one performer doesn't monopolize a street corner all day). Some street performers also get hired to perform in circus shows or festivals, in which case they often get a fee rather than ask for tips. Likely to be stigmatized either as New-Age Retro Hippie or "wannabe performer with no talent". However, a small number of these artists have become successful and even world-famous. Street Musician and Organ Grinder are Sub Tropes. "Fire Breathers" are also possible roles for this.
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Street Performer	processingUnknown	MrBean
Street Performer	isPartOf	DBTropes
Street Performer / int_14f9297e	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_14f9297e	comment	Gary Larson spoofed the concept in an installment of The Far Side. A doctor is shown performing risky surgery on a patient on a street corner before an appreciative audience. His profession? "Street physician."
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Street Performer / int_14f9297e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Far Side (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_14f9297e
Street Performer / int_1dbcebc5	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_1dbcebc5	comment	Ragi from The Snow Queen (2005) performs his poems in the streets he goes to make a living.
Street Performer / int_1dbcebc5	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_1dbcebc5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Snow Queen (2005)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_1dbcebc5
Street Performer / int_1ec30ce7	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_1ec30ce7	comment	The Ghost And Molly Mcgee: While Molly tries to be friendly with all the people of Brighton, one of the few people she can't stand is Irving the Illusionist, a clumsy and incompetent street magician. Though this is less because of Irving's lack of skill and more because Molly has a distaste in general for stage magic.
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Street Performer / int_1ec30ce7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Ghost and Molly McGee	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_1ec30ce7
Street Performer / int_20663f23	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_20663f23	comment	Cute Knight series: In the first game, Cute Knight, one of the careers your character can end up as in is a street dancer in the market. In the second game, Cute Knight Kingdom, the player character can dance on the beach for money when it's not winter.
Street Performer / int_20663f23	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_20663f23	featureConfidence	1.0
Cute Knight (Video Game)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_20663f23
Street Performer / int_211aa42	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_211aa42	comment	Yukito tries it again Kaginado, but he's outdone by every other street performer, especially Kotori from Rewrite, who can basically do the same as him, but much better and more spectacularly.
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Street Performer / int_211aa42	featureConfidence	1.0
Kaginado	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_211aa42
Street Performer / int_22211d68	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_22211d68	comment	Once on Bones, they investigated the death of a dancer who we learn was a busker and meet some other buskers who knew the victim. Bones pontificates (as she often does) on the anthropological significance of the busker lifestyle.
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Street Performer / int_22211d68	featureConfidence	1.0
Bones	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_22211d68
Street Performer / int_2221ecbd	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: The guy who commits the misdemeanor in "Crime and Misdemeanor" is an unemployed man who earns money for food by posing as a Living Statue for tips outside a subway exit.
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Street Performer / int_2221ecbd	featureConfidence	1.0
CSI: NY	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_2221ecbd
Street Performer / int_22dfb2a	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_22dfb2a	comment	In All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Charlie attempts to help a boy make it as a professional street magician. The boy had to compete against several other street performers for the attention of the pedestrians.
Street Performer / int_22dfb2a	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_22dfb2a	featureConfidence	1.0
All Dogs Go to Heaven	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_22dfb2a
Street Performer / int_23fb60e6	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_23fb60e6	comment	Yukito from AIR tries to make a living by performing tricks with his magically controlled doll. His level of success varies wildly, though. Yukito tries it again Kaginado, but he's outdone by every other street performer, especially Kotori from Rewrite, who can basically do the same as him, but much better and more spectacularly.
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Street Performer / int_23fb60e6	featureConfidence	1.0
AIR (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_23fb60e6
Street Performer / int_2d0735c6	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_2d0735c6	comment	Broad City: In "What a Wonderful World," Abbi and Ilana drum on buckets and rap in the hopes of making enough money to buy Lil Wayne tickets. They don't make any money, but a woman who starts breakdancing to their drumming makes lots of money. When Abbi and Ilana quit in frustration, everyone boos. In "2016," Ilana takes up tap dancing on the subway after she's fired from Deals Deals Deals.
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Street Performer / int_2f9afae7	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_2f9afae7	comment	2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. The Complete Bard's Handbook had a kit called the Jongleur that sometimes performed this way.
Street Performer / int_2f9afae7	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_2f9afae7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_2f9afae7
Street Performer / int_370f6f37	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_370f6f37	comment	In Zorro's Fighting Legion, one of the baddies is a Dreadful Musician mariachi who poses as a busker so he can receive and pass on secret messages hidden inside coins tossed into his hat.
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Street Performer / int_370f6f37	featureConfidence	1.0
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Street Performer / int_45193258	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_45193258	comment	Best and Bester: In "Sing for Your Supper", when Best and Bester get suspended from their jobs at the mini-golf course, Bester convinces Best to become a busker to raise money after hearing him play the banjo. He becomes even more successful after Bester's growling stomach causes the sounds of his playing to reverb (she turned herself into a subwoofer to project Best's music more loudly). He then starts force-feeding Bester jalapenos until she quits and starts busking against him.
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Street Performer / int_45193258	featureConfidence	1.0
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Street Performer / int_468bebb0	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is (in)famous for rarely, if ever, being known to have innocent people just dragged off to dungeons without a trial: The notable exception to this rule are mime artists, whom Vetinari despises. Vetinari banned all mime performances from Ankh-Morpork shortly after taking power. Mime artists who violate the ban usually find themselves hanging upside down in Vetinari's scorpion pit whilst reading a sign saying ' learn the words '. He's also said to hold Views on modern art. These are considered his good points.
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Street Performer / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_468bebb0
Street Performer / int_4cc06582	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_4cc06582	comment	In Hot Fuzz, a "living statue" is seen a few times pestering people in Sanford's town square. The town council regards him as such a nuisance that he ends up dead.
Street Performer / int_4cc06582	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_4cc06582	featureConfidence	1.0
Hot Fuzz	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_4cc06582
Street Performer / int_5319ce6c	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family: Anya's quick thinking convinces people on a cruise that a fight between Yor and an assassin is really a street performance so Yor doesn't have to worry about blowing her cover in public.
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Street Performer / int_5319ce6c	featureConfidence	1.0
SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_5319ce6c
Street Performer / int_53be6039	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_53be6039	comment	Hina from Hinamatsuri briefly becomes a performer after being kicked out of her home, using her telekinesis to impress passerbys who think she's just a genius illusionist. A rock group notice that she's stealing the show and invite her to combine their talents, which attracts such a huge crowd that the police has to intervene.
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Street Performer / int_5a6bf64e	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_5a6bf64e	comment	Madame Rosa: When Madame Rosa's home orphanage business starts failing, the oldest orphan, Momo, starts a little puppetry act on the street to earn some extra money.
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Street Performer / int_6b49466	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_6b49466	comment	In Baskets, Chip is befriended by a group of street clowns in Paris, who also eventually come to visit him in America. All of them are accomplished jugglers, dancers, and tumblers. During his stint as a hobo, Chip takes up busking himself and is surprisingly good at it.
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Baskets	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_6b49466
Street Performer / int_75ec9ef5	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_75ec9ef5	comment	Mask (2020): The San Francisco area has a lot of street performers. They tend to be part of Side-Splitter's army.
Street Performer / int_75ec9ef5	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_75ec9ef5	featureConfidence	1.0
Mask (2020)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_75ec9ef5
Street Performer / int_7c038c18	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_7c038c18	comment	Ferb does this in the Phineas and Ferb episode "Ain't No Kiddie Ride" so he can get a quarter to slingshot into the souped-up mall kiddie ride Candace is riding on before she falls to her death.
Street Performer / int_7c038c18	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_7c038c18	featureConfidence	1.0
Phineas and Ferb	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_7c038c18
Street Performer / int_7c60fb0f	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_7c60fb0f	comment	One issue of Simpsons Comics shows Sideshow Bob unemployed after being released from prison. He briefly considers making money by performing Shakespearean soliloquies on the street, and we then see an Imagine Spot of Bob reenacting the "dagger scene" from Macbeth - and Comic Book Guy, assuming that he's seeing a poor imitation of a comic-book story, throwing tomatoes at Bob.
Street Performer / int_7c60fb0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_7c60fb0f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_7c60fb0f
Street Performer / int_8281aef3	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_8281aef3	comment	KonoSuba: Kazuma notes that Aqua's use of Nature's Beauty, a showy but useless skills, to impress crowds could make her a good street performer.
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Street Performer / int_8281aef3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Street Performer / int_903d6567	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_903d6567	comment	Goof Troop: In "Close Encounters of the Weird Mime", Goofy tries to start up a career as a street mime. After graduating from mime school, he decides to try his hand at performance but can't find a good costume. He finally decides to just wrap his body in aluminum foil - inspiring Max and his friend, who have to make a video for a school project, to also wrap themselves in foil and pretend to be invaders from outer space. The boys accidentally broadcast their video all throughout Spoonerville - so when the local police see Goofy performing, they assume he's an alien and have him captured by the military!
Street Performer / int_903d6567	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_903d6567	featureConfidence	1.0
Goof Troop	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_903d6567
Street Performer / int_978ca9a8	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_978ca9a8	comment	In the second game, Cute Knight Kingdom, the player character can dance on the beach for money when it's not winter.
Street Performer / int_978ca9a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_978ca9a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Cute Knight Kingdom (Video Game)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_978ca9a8
Street Performer / int_9e84c324	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_9e84c324	comment	Batman Returns features the Red Triangle Circus Gang - many of whose members seem to be right out of the European busker tradition, especially an Organ Grinder played by Vincent Schiavelli. Other members of the gang include a "Native American" woman who throws knives.... ....a not-too-bright Tattooed Strongman.... ....and a "Poodle Lady" (a woman in pink clothes with curly light blonde hair) and her matching poodle, although it's never made clear exactly what their "act" would have been.
Street Performer / int_9e84c324	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_9e84c324	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman Returns	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_9e84c324
Street Performer / int_ac4b6a62	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_ac4b6a62	comment	In Questionable Content, when Pintsize wants to demonstrate that women hate a 'voice of reason', he gives Faye the following spiel: "Hey, Faye, you're NOT too fat to eat nothing but ice-cream all day! 500 dollars is a perfectly reasonable price for a pair of shoes! And you should totally kill that mime!" She admits that, while all of his propositions seems highly tempting, the bit about the mime in particular speaks to her. "It's like honey in my ears. I LOATHE mimes!"
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Street Performer / int_b36fd9d5	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_b36fd9d5	comment	Rags: To try and make enough money to buy-back his mother's old piano from a local pawn shop, Charlie plays music in the street with some other performers, always drawing an eager crowd and getting a decent amount of cash in his hat. When trying to help Kadee play her own music, he takes her to do their own street performance, which gets cut short by a cop.
Street Performer / int_b36fd9d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_b36fd9d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Rags	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_b36fd9d5
Street Performer / int_b4fe32c9	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim: Zim and Gir resort to this in order to get bus money.
Street Performer / int_b4fe32c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Street Performer / int_b4fe32c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Invader Zim	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_b4fe32c9
Street Performer / int_ba7861f4	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_ba7861f4	comment	Gak-seol and Min-gu from Punch! used to have a dance act in a a cabaret, but after the cabaret closes, they're forced to resort to street performances in open-air markets. It's a hard life.
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Punch	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_ba7861f4
Street Performer / int_bc848d30	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Life of Crime", SpongeBob and Patrick are mistaken for these when they try to "act naturally" after stealing a balloon.
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SpongeBob SquarePants	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_bc848d30
Street Performer / int_c01688c8	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_c01688c8	comment	Also in Tim Burton's Batman, the Joker disguises himself and his Mooks as street mimes to kill one of the dissenting mob bosses.
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_c01688c8
Street Performer / int_c9cd78c2	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_c9cd78c2	comment	In Die Hard with a Vengeance, when they're tearing through Central Park in a stolen Taxi, barely missing several picnickers, Samuel L. Jackson asks Bruce Willis "Are you AIMING for those people?" "No, no... well, maybe that mime."
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Street Performer / int_d4f9ccf	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_d4f9ccf	comment	A number of scenes in Aladdin, in particular the "One Jump Ahead" sequence, where several Arabic buskers (inadvertently) help Aladdin escape from the palace guards.
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Street Performer / int_d4f9ccf	featureConfidence	1.0
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Street Performer / int_e08fec3a	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_e08fec3a	comment	Bert in Mary Poppins was a One-Man Band busker, pavement artist, chimney sweep, and kite salesman.
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Street Performer / int_e08fec3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Mary Poppins	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_e08fec3a
Street Performer / int_e4578280	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_e4578280	comment	Unicorn: Warriors Eternal: Dmitri Dynamo was a street magician prior to becoming the current host for Edred.
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Street Performer / int_ec61a56e	type	Street Performer
Street Performer / int_ec61a56e	comment	In the first game, Cute Knight, one of the careers your character can end up as in is a street dancer in the market.
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Street Performer / int_ec61a56e	featureConfidence	1.0
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