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* ''Literature/TheRoosevelt'': In ''Carry the Ocean'', Emmet, Jeremey, and David agree to start dancing to "[[Music/PharrellWilliams Happy]]" in Target while Sally and Douglass film them. About ten strangers join them in a dance line through the store.

* FlashMob plus SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic equals [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE Food Court Hallelujah Chorus]].

* ''Flashmob - The Opera'' was the title of a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Three]] musical event that took place in Paddington Station, with the audience/chorus being assembled as a flashmob.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', after Hank calls Donna an idiot on his Website/MySpace account, [[DisproportionateRetribution she has all her MySpace friends gather outside Strickland Propane to attack him.]] She even proudly referred to it as a Flashmob. [[spoiler: It spectacularly backfires when the mob mistakes Buck (her boss) for Hank, resulting in the mob assaulting Buck and Donna getting fired.]]

* Combined with another internet phenomenon as hundreds of flashmobbers descended on a London railway station to sing [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} Rick Astley's greatest hit]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Clubbing Mobile Clubbing]]: A bunch of people meet at some street corner with the walkmans and mp3 players, and start dancing each to their own music.

The phenomenon was anticipated in Larry Niven's 1972 short story, "Flash Crowd", in which the spontaneous formation of huge mobs at the site of interesting events was the inevitable consequence of cheap, readily-accessible [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleportation]]. Really, all it took was cheap, readily-accessible ''communications''. The idea has also been used as proof that backward time travel is impossible: if it was, there should ''be'' flashmobs at every major historical event.[[labelnote:*]]They could have been disguised...[[/labelnote]]

* When Music/{{U2}} appeared on ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'' in May of 2017, at one point during the interview, they pushed Jimmy's desk and couch aside, brought out a drum kit and amps and sang [[[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS5oaAsBaGA "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"]]. Several of the audience members turned out to be a gospel choir who joined in after the second verse.

* In ''Film/LoveActually'', Mark flash-mobs Peter and Juliet's wedding by having a small choir and orchestra emerge from the pews after the ceremony to serenade the happy couple with [[Creator/TheBeatles "All You Need is Love".]]

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' wherein one of the characters talks about flashmobs appearing in costume to do scenes from ''LordOfTheRings'', ''StarWars'', ''Literature/HarryPotter'', and so on, and then dispersing, and how you occasionally get Gandalf v. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] fights when people don't coordinate properly.

* Combined with another internet phenomenon as hundreds of flashmobbers descended on a London railway station to sing [[RickRoll Rick Astley's greatest hit]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', after Hank calls Donna an idiot on Website/MySpace page, [[DisproportionateRetribution she had all her MySpace friends gather outside Strickland Propane to attack him.]] She even proudly referred to it as a Flashmob. [[spoiler: It spectacularly backfires when the mob mistakes Buck (her boss) for Hank, resulting in the mob assaulting Buck and Donna getting fired.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', after Hank calls Donna an idiot on Website/MySpace page, she had all her [=MySpace=] friends group up outside Strickland Propane to attack him. She even proudly referred to it as a Flashmob. [[spoiler: It spectacularly backfires when the mob mistakes Buck (her boss) for Hank, resulting in the mob assaulting Buck and Donna getting fired.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', after Donna was fired from Strickland Propane for screwing up their Website/MySpace page, she had all her [=MySpace=] friends attack Enrique. Despite this not being an intentionally silly event, she proudly referred to it as a Flashmob.

* FlashMob plus CrowningMusicOfAwesome equals [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE Food Court Hallelujah Chorus]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', after Donna was fired from Strickland Propane for screwing up their MySpace page, she had all her MySpace friends attack Enrique. Despite this not being an intentionally silly event, she proudly referred to it as a Flashmob.

* In ''Film/LoveActually'', Mark flash-mobs Peter and Juliet's wedding at the beginning of the movie by having a small choir and orchestra emerge from the pews after the ceremony to serenade the happy couple with [[Creator/TheBeatles "All You Need is Love".]]

* The Safety Dance in the mall in ''{{Glee}}''. [[spoiler: it was AllJustADream]]. They do it again in "Born This Way."
* A season 2 episode of ''ModernFamily'' involves [[spoiler:Mitch]] participating in a flash mob.

* In one episode of ''CSIMiami'', the flashmob is intended to help find a body (since the guy who arranged it didn't want to report it himself and implicate a friend).

* The {{Numb3rs}} episode ''Animal Rites'' has a {{subverted}} example: The flashmob was organized ahead of time [[spoiler: by the villain to distract the authorities at a key moment.]]

* ''Flashmob - The Opera'' was the title of a [[TheBBC BBC Three]] musical event that took place in Paddington Station, with the audience/chorus being assembled as a flashmob.

* The entire point of ImprovEverywhere is to set these types of events up.

* Parodied in ''QuestionableContent'' wherein one of the characters talks about flashmobs appearing in costume to do scenes from ''LordOfTheRings'', ''StarWars'', ''Literature/HarryPotter'', and so on, and then dispersing, and how you occasionally get Gandalf v. [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] fights when people don't coordinate properly.

* In ''KingOfTheHill'', after Donna was fired from Strickland Propane for screwing up their MySpace page, she had all her MySpace friends attack Enrique. Despite this not being an intentionally silly event, she proudly referred to it as a Flashmob.

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