History Main / HuddlePower

* The Supreme Court goes into a football-style huddle in ''OfTheeISing'' when asked to decide between corn muffins and justice.

* The New Directions on ''Series/Glee'' do this before a competition.

May be accompanied by a TeamHandStack and a [[WhoaBundy "Whoa, Bundy!"]]

->-- '''Marshie''', ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/puppetmation.html "The Animated Adventures of Puppet Homestar"]]

* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Moe]] and his GangOfBullies do this in the rewritten version of ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheMovie''.

* FinalFantasyVIII: Rinoa and the Forest Owls have a variation where they squat down on the floor while constructing plans. Lampshaded by [[DeadpanSnarker Squall]].

* ThePowerpuffGirls do this on occasion.
* SpongebobSquarepants subverted this in the episode where Plankton plans to take over Bikini Bottom... err, Gulch. First it looks like the citizens huddling together, only to reveal that [[spoiler: it was just Spongebob making whispering sounds because he didn't really have a plan.]]
* Also spoofed on TheSimpsons, when the family huddles to think of a plan to get their counselor out of a tree. (Long story.) Homer begins whispering, while Lisa talks in her normal voice...

** Fun fact: the huddle was invented by a football team from a college for deaf students, allowing the players to plan the next play without telegraphing it to the other team via hand signals.

--->'''Homer:''' ''It's a huddle. You have to talk like this.''
--->'''Lisa:''' ''Fine, I'll talk like this.'''
--->'''Homer:''' WHAAAT?!

* ''{{Bleach}}'' anime episode 146. When Nel and her friends think that Ichigo and the others are bad guys, they go into a huddle to decide what to do.

->-- '''Marshie''', ''HomestarRunner'', [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/puppetmation.html "The Animated Adventures of Puppet Homestar"]]

* ''ABugsLife'' featured a "Royal Huddle" between Atta and her court, in the middle of a trial that she's judging.

* The audience-participation version appears in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]", when the Apple family gets into a huddle to discuss whether or not to accept the Flim/Flam brothers' partnership deal. The camera whips around to each member in turn, and ends to reveal that Flim and Flam have ''also'' joined in their huddle.

* ''SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs'': When the Dwarfs manhandle Grumpy into washing his hands.

* In the classic ''MorkAndMindy'' episode, "Mork's Mixed Emotions," as a inversion of it. Mork, whose emotions are each presenting themselves as separate personalities, confers with them in a ''one person huddle''.

* Used in ''RedTails'', in which dozens of pilots form a massive huddle, praying and chanting, to psych themselves up before a crucial mission.

* Used in ''RedTails'', in which dozens of pilots form a massive huddle, and chant to psych themselves up, before a crucial mission.

* ''FlashGordon'' (1980). When Flash is beating Ming's warriors at "football", Klytus calls them together into a huddle and instructs them on how to beat him. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNUcpXKiNZo here, starting at 1:30]].

* ''TheMightyDucks'' used this.

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[[caption-width:350:"Whose hand is that?"]]

-->-- '''Marshie''', ''HomestarRunner'', [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/puppetmation.html "The Animated Adventures of Puppet Homestar"]]

Need to plan an [[TheInfiltration infiltration]]? Huddle! Have to get your team [[RousingSpeech fired up]] for the game-winning Hail Mary toss? Huddle! Want to discuss [[WelcomeBackTraitor whether or not]] you should let TheMole back on the team? Huddle! Huddles solve everything!

The huddle comes in two variations, where either the audience is part of it, or the audience isn't. If the audience is, there will be a HuddleShot, and we will hear everyone's concerns as they whisper back and forth.

If the audience isn't privy to the huddle, we will instead see a long shot of everyone squished together. There will be [[AudienceMurmurs indecipherable whispering]]. Occasionally, one person will look up at whoever/whatever it is they're all talking about, before being dragged down by a fellow huddler (this happens mostly in old cartoons). This version of the huddle follows the UnspokenPlanGuarantee-- that is, because the audience doesn't know what's about to happen, the plans will go smoothly.

Sometimes, huddlers may accompany it with a TeamHandStack and a [[WhoaBundy "Whoa, Bundy!"]]

Sometimes, huddlers may accompany it with a TeamHandStack and a [["WhoaBundy Whoa, Bundy!"]]

* Rinoa and the Forest Owls have a variation where they squat down on the floor while constructing plans. Lampshaded by [[DeadpanSnarker Squall]].