Trope Workshop:Two to Tango, One to Spin

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For dance scenes in animation, there would be times where the characters would perform a spin move. But usually when it's a dance scene between two characters, one character would turn the other character into a literal tornado during the dance.

Whether it be because the character was trying to be romantic or was trying to show off their moves, they would spin their dance partner around. Whether their dance partner was expecting it or is spun against their will, they would usually end up becoming too dizzy from all the spinning.

The "spinnie" doesn't always have to be spun as a twister, but in any way that turns them into a whirling blur because of how their dance partner is leading.

This is mainly done for comedic purposes in animation, having some connection to Amusing Injuries for not just having the character getting dizzy but also, at times, getting spun off and hitting another person or into an object.

Usually, it would be a male character spinning a female character, other times the roles would get reversed. No matter the case though, it can happen to any gender during a dance scene.

Of course, it doesn't always have to necessarily be a dance, but anything that requires rhythmic movement between two people such as an acrobatic act, skating, or synchronized swimming.

Examples of Two to Tango, One to Spin include:

Advertising

• In a 2000s Cadbury's Picnic ad, a rare live-action example, a DJ was playing the music for a party along with a pair of animated camels. The DJ then suddenly grabs a random girl from the crowd and starts spinning her over his head with just one finger just as the animated camels do the same thing with each other.

Film

• The Mask, featuring Jim Carry, is a rare live-action example, though the spin effects are computer-generated. During the famous dance scene at the Coco Bongo where the Mask dances with Tina, he spins her into a cyclone and flings her up in the sky as a whirling wheel in mid-air. How she didn't get dizzy after she fell back down is a real head-scratcher.
• In the computer animated film, Garfield's Fun Fest, Arlene performs a tango with Ramone, who is really Nermal in a robotic suit, and she gets spun around as a twister a dozen times during the dance due to "Ramone" wanting to show off.
• In Dreamwork's The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf and Diane Foxington dance together at the gala where near the end of the dance, Diane lifts Mr. Wolf over her and spins him over her head.
• In the Dreamwork's sequel, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Puss and Kitty find themselves surrounded by the three bears and the two dance together to fend them off. During the dance, Puss sends Kitty spinning as a twister so he can throw a bowl of porridge in the air and flip Kitty over to have her kick it to one of the bears.
• In the 2016 direct-to-DVD movie, Tom and Jerry: Back To Oz, Tom and Jerry meet a cat girl and a mouse girl and enter a dance contest with them. When the spotlight shines on Jerry and his partner, he swings her around and sends her spinning in the air.
• In the 1998 direct-to-video film, Addams Family Reunion, another rare live-action example, Gomez and Morticia dance at a party where for the big finish, Gomez wraps a robe around Morticia's body and spins her into a literal tornado that creates a hurricane in the room they're in.

Video Games

• In the computer game, Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal", Spy Fox gets a Russian Blue to dance the tango with him on a cruise. She starts the tango by spinning him into a twister.
• In the computer game, Mercer Mayer's Little Monster Private Eye in "The Smelly Mystery", when Little Monster Private Eye and his sidekick, Kerploppus, are investigating on a cruise, a female dancer comes up to Kerploppusa and asks him to dance. The two then perform a small tango where at one point, Kerploppus sends her spinning around until he pulls her back in.

Western Animation

• In The Simpsons episode, "Last Tap Dance in Springfield", Marge and Lisa watch a fictional movie called "Tango de le Muerte" where the main characters in said movie decide perform a deadly tango in order to win the dance contest. During the tango, the male dancer spins his female partner as a red whirling wheel that he rolls around on the floor after spinning around his waist like a hula hoop.
  • In another episode(same season as the one mentioned above), "Take My Wife, Sleaze", Homer and Marge enter a dance contest at a diner so Homer can win a free motorcycle. The two perform some impressive moves and is ends with Homer spinning Marge on her head, well on her hair to be exact, into a whirling twister. She silently, but noticeably, gets dizzy when Homer stands her back up.
• In Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "Prom-ise Her Anything", Babs and Buster bring Monty to the prom against his will just so Elmyra has someone to dance with. She pulls him into a dance where she sends him spinning as a twister throughout.

• A couple examples in Tuff Puppy:
  • In "Chilly Dog", Dudley and Kitty crossdress as skaters at an ice skating competition where they se Keswick's remote skates to skate like pros. During their first time, Dudley spins Kitty around because of the boots, but when he sees he's getting the attention of some of the male audience, due to him dressed a female skater, Dudley continues showing off by spinning Kitty in a couple of other ways, leaving her dizzy and throwing up on the rink. Later, when Dudley and Kitty try dispose of a bomb that ended up in the rink's trophy, the two have no choice but to skate again in order to get it. Since Dudely doesn't have his skates, due him using them to break out of his and Kitty's bonds earlier, Kitty has to put her skates on the highest setting which has her sending Dudley spinning around the rink.
  • In "The Wrong Stuff", Kitty's old partner, Jack Rabbit, comes to Tuff where his way of greeting Kitty includes him dipping her and sending her spinning away in a whirl. Later, after it's revealed that Jack is working for Snaptrap to drain Kitty's head of info of all the Tuff agents, Dudley manages to save Kitty and afterwards he dips like Jack and even sends her spinning away. However, he ends up spinning her too fast as she's now spun as a complete blur and she gets spun out of an open window.
• In The Clang Invasion, "Encounters of the Love Kind" , Robin starts dating his sister's enemy and becomes lovestruck. When he enter his clubhouse, still lovestruck, to meet up with his alien friends, he pulls one of them, Widget, into a brief dance and sends her spinning away as a blurry twister until she makes impact with one of their inventions, leaving her dizzy and still twirling around.
• In the Wayside episode, "My Partner Gets All the Credit", Maurecia is paired with Myron during a sporting event and the last event is synchronized swimming. During the event Marcia gets a leg cramp, so Myron carries her around during their turn and even spins her over his head for the big finish.
• In the The Jetsons episode, " Las Venus", George juggles with a dance contest with Jane and an appointment with a woman named Gigi. As he goes back-and-forth with Jane and Gigi, he leaves one spinning as a twister while he goes to meet up with the other.
• In the The Flintstones episode, "Bowling Ballet", Fred secretly takes ballet to improve his bowling skills. When Wilma finds out, she confronts Fred at his class while he's practicing where he spins her as a twister without knowing its' her at first. Even after being spun around, she still retains her disapproving look at him. Later by the end of the episode, Fred shows Wilma his ballet moves where he spins her again.
• In one Episode of the The Flintstone Comedy Hour,"Beauty and The Beast", Pebbles enters a dance contest with a gorilla, believing it's Bamm-Bamm in a gorilla costume. After the gorilla eats a bowl of fruit, it gains enough energy to pull Pebbles in and spins her over its' head into a blur. This was enough for them to win the dance contest.
• In the TV special Garfield Gets a Life, John is at a disco club where he asks a random at a bar to dance. When he starts dancing, he starts spinning the woman in several ways before sending spinning off as he starts to show off his dance moves solo.
• A few examples from Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats:
  • In Episode "City Slicker Cat", Heathcliff's cousin, Johnathan, arrives and takes Sonja to a dance party. As they dance with each other, Johnathan spins Sonja as a white twister, sparking jealousy from Heathcliff.
  • In Episode "In The Beginning", Heathcliff tells his version on how he and Sonja first met where his story depicts Sonja as a taller and more attractive cat. In his story, a trio of thugs corner Sonja and the leader forces her into dance where he spins her around.
  • In Episode "Trash Dance", Riff Raff and Cleo enter into a dance audition for a talent agent where Cleo does a twirl before Riff Raff spins into a twister for a second.
  • In Episode "The Other Woman", Cleo's cousin Lindsey arrives for a visit and Riff Raff shows her around. When they arrive at a music store, Lindsey pulls Riff Raff into a small dance where she spins him in mid-air as a twister. Later, after Cleo thinks Riff Raff is two-timing her with Lindsey, Riff Raff disguises himself to take Cleo on a date. He takes her to the same music store where he starts dancing with her. During the dance, he places Cleo on her back on the ground and forces her to spin on a ground, much to her dismay.
• In one episode of Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, "Key to My Ed", the Eds try to see if a key they found belongs to case that Rolf was carrying. Rolf reveals that he has an accordion in the case and begins playing it. Eddy proceeds to leave as he can't stand the music but Ed pulls him in for a dance and spins him like a twister.
• A few examples from The Loud House:
  • In Episode "For Bros About to Rock", Luna tells Lincoln how her first rock concert changed her where she got on stage with her idol, Mick Swagger, and he spins her into a twister, which changes her into current look.
  • In Episode "Lock 'n' Loud", Lynn Sr. and Rita arrive back at their house after taking some tango lessons which Lynn Sr. performs on Rita and sends her spinning into the bushes.
• A few examples from Sabrina the Animated Series:
  • In Episode "La Femme Sabrina", Harvey has a dream where he's a secret agent and attends a mascot party where a woman in a blue dress comes up to him for a dance. As they dance, Harvey dips her and sends her spinning into a whirling blue tornado before throwing her up in the air.
  • In Episode "Boogie Shoes", Sabrina gives Harvey a pair of magic shoes that allow him to dance like a professional for the school dance. During their dance, Harvey spins Sabrina into a twirling pink tornado until she jumps on top of his head.
  • In Episode "Saturday Night Furor", Sabrina's uncle goes on a date with Ms. Bleachstain and Sabrina and Salem spy on the two. To make sure the date goes well, Sabrina casts a spell that turns her uncle into a suave dancer and he spins Ms. Bleachstain twice during their dance, leaving her dizzy.
• In one episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "On Your Marks", Applebloom enters into a dance class where the teacher allows her to dance with one of her students to see if she can fit in. Applebloowm starts dancing with her dance partner until he suddenly spins her like a top.
• In one episode of Tom and Jerry(2014), "Toodles Boom", Toodles arrives at Tom's house for a date where he starts to tango with her. During their tango, Tom sends her spinning away as a small twister, the last time was just so she doesn't see Jerry.
• In one episode of Tom and Jerry Kids, "Bride of McWolfenstein", Slick, as McWolfenstein, makes a bride for himself only for her to become attracted to Droopy. When she and Droopy start to dance with each other, McWolfenstein cuts in to dance with the bride just so he can bring her to his lab to modify her. During their dance, he spins her into a twister.
• In one episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot, "Dancing with My Shell", Jenny and Silver Shell/Sheldon, start to slow dance at the Sadie Hawkins Dance. However, when the Space Bikers crash into the gymnasium, Silver Shell/Sheldon changes the song he and Jenny were dancing to into a fast-paced song and he sends Jenny spinning like a twister while he fends off the Space Bikers.
• A couple examples from the French cartoon, The Galactic Agency.
  • In Episode, "The Secret", the characters face against a robot copy of Apple. In order to take her down, Apple's twin brother, Zed, tricks the robot copy into dancing with him where he mostly spins her into a twister throughout just so he can tangle up her arms, leaving her vulnerable to be switched off.
  • In Episode, "Squeaky Dancing", the agency goes to a dance party that Apple isn't thrilled with going to. To get her inside, Zed takes her arm and spins her into a twister to force her inside.
• In the TV special of House of Mouse, "Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse", they retell the Nutcracker story with Minnie as the main character and Mickey as the Nutcracker. During the story, the two dance with each other where Mickey spins Minnie as twister and she does the same thing with him. Near the end of the story, the two dance with each other again where Mickey spins her as a twister yet again.
• A couple examples from Totally Spies!:
  • In Episode, "It's How You Play the Game", Clover enters a skating event during the Winter Olympics where she gains the muscular body of a super athlete. She and her skating partner were performing well until Sam and Alex arrive to take down the coach and things go out of control for Clover where she ends up spinning her partner over her head while still skating.
  • In Episode, "Super Mega Dance Party Yo!", the spies investigate a dance show where after they find the culprit and try to fight him on stage, he dances with each one of them and sends them spinning away off stage as twisters, or in Sam's case as a spinning wheel.
• In one Episode of Ned's Newt, "Saturday Night Fervor", Ned and Rusty McCabe compete against each other at a school dance by dancing with Linda. When Rusty dances with Linda, he spins her into a twister twice.
• In one Episode of The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, "A Rebel Without A Date", Casper plays on stage during his school dance. As every ghost is dancing to the song, one couple can be seen in the background where the male ghost is spinning his female partner as a white whirling twister.
• In one Episode of Recess, "Dance Lessons", Mikey is revealed to be enrolled in ballet class, but due to his size he keeps on making mistakes, one of which includes how he can't spin any of the girls properly, as they always get spun off and fall. When Spinelli gets enrolled into the same dance class, she becomes Mikey's dance partner and they both work on his spinning where the first few attempts ends with Spinelli throwing up. Later, Mikey and Spinelli enter into a dance show where during their dance Mikey juggles Spinelli with his feet and even sends her spinning on stage.
• In one Episode of American Dragon: Jake Long, "Homecoming", Spud and Trixie go to the Homecoming Dance where the two dance together. Spud suggests to Trixie that he should spin like in the movies and she allows it. However, Spud spins her too fast and she spins away and crashes.
• In one Episode of Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, "Last Tango in Buenos Aires", the contestants enter a dane challenge where two of them tango together and one of them has to spin their dance partner in order to pass the challenge.
• A couple examples from The Wacky World of Tex Avery:
  • In Episode 41, the Power Pooch segment, "Presidential Pooch", had Power Pooch look after the date of the President and the First Lady. During their date, Power Pooch plays some music for them to dance to but he plays it very roughly, causing the President to aggressively dance with the First Lady where at one moment he twirls her over his head.
  • In Episode 61, the Pompeii Pete segment, "Dan or Dana", ended with Pete coming across a bride from out of nowhere and he instantly falls for her. He immediately pulls her into a disco dance where he twirls her into a whirling white wheel with his arm.
• In one Episode of Beetlejuice (animation), "Spitting Image", after Beetlejuice is split into copies, they and Lydia head to the Ice Staking Sink where Beetlejuice skates with Lydia first and spins like a twister, then the second Beetlejuice takes Lydia away spins her as a twister again with his hands.
• In one Episode of the 1996 Richie Rich animated show, "The Love Potion", Richie and his friends have a dance his mansion where he dances with Gloria. At one point of their dance, Richie spins Gloria as a twister.