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* The Red Hot Chili Pepper's video for "Aeroplane".

* The Magnetic Fields' song "Busby Berkeley Dreams"

!Homages:

* ''{{Singing In The Rain}}'' had the somewhat more low-key number "Beautiful Girl," which nevertheless featured a flock of ChorusGirls 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 [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06HZ7AosrA (featuring some truly ridiculous roaring 20's looks)]], all of which [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment had nothing to do with the plot]].

There's a subset of Busby Berkeley Numbers that could be called "Esther Williams Numbers" for their most famous star ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Williams info]] at TheOtherWiki): scenes done in pools, featuring wonderful examples of synchronized swimming. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGMoRHq_pMY Here's]] a great one from ''Bathing Beauty'' (1944).

* In the film version of ''{{Annie}}'', the whole "Let's Go To The Movies" scene with the ushers and ChorusGirls is pure Berkeley.

* {{Singing In The Rain}} had the somewhat more low-key number Beautiful Girl, which nevertheless featured a flock of ChorusGirls 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 [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06HZ7AosrA (featuring some truly ridiculous roaring 20's looks)]], all of which had nothing to do with the plot.

* The choreography for "Dirty Laundry" from ''The Witches of Eastwick'' deliberately invoked Berkeley's style.

* During the newscasting game in ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', 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.

**** This being [[NoFourthWall Mel Brooks]] that is entirelly possible.

* ''Footlight Parade''

* ''[=~42nd Street~=]''

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** Er, not to mention their opening credits sequence, though it's by necessity a pretty short example.

* ''Family Guy'' Have on eof these every series or two, usually in their "Road To..." episodes, and one regarding the benifits of marijuana in episode "420".

One of his trademarks was to drill a hole in the ceiling to take direct shots of the dancers from above ([[OlderThanTheyThink before Orson Welles did it]] by making a hole in the floor) while they moved in intricate patterns.

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* In the ''GetSmart'' revival movie, ''The Nude Bomb'', Maxwell Smart and the villain make two separate armies of clones of each other and battle each other that includes an injoke of an overhead shot of them fighting in a Busby Berkeley formation.

* There were a few SesameStreet 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, [[SummonBackupDancers but then by the second chorus becomes a splashy showbizzy number with the assistance of the]] [[LargeHam Tarnish Brothers]]. The album "The Count Counts" said it came from [[TheMusical the musical]] "Two Plus Two," but in reality it was the splashy opening to a SesameStreet episode called "The Number Four Show."

* Believe it or not, [[HighSchoolMusical High School Musical 3]], 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.

* ''{{Gold Diggers of 1933}}'', ''{{Gold Diggers of 1935}}'', ''{{Gold Diggers of 1937}}''
* ''FootlightParade''
* ''{{Dames}}''
* ''{{The Gangs All Here}}''
* ''MillionDollarMermaid'' (Berkeley only worked on two EstherWilliams films; this is one of them.)