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* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' has some enemies in the Oregano Desert level do this around totems, which will conjure thunderclouds that Peppino must steer clear from. One Chef Task also tasks the player to reactivate a totem via the mach dash.

* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' has some enemies in the Oregano Desert do this around totems, which will conjure thunderclouds that Peppino must steer clear from. One Chef Task also tasks the player to reactivate a totem via the mach dash.

* ''Music/HamptonTheHamster''. The Hamster Dance is shown to be this in the music video. Everyone's sweltering in the ThirstyDesert until some {{Personal Raincloud}}s turn up to watch the dance, and start laughing at the sight, causing it to rain.

* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon "WesternAnimation/GrandCanyonscope", Donald fools around with a genuine raindancing costume and manages to summon a PersonalRainCloud before the ranger catches him. Note that when Donald dances a traditional dance, nothing happens. But when he [[RuleOfFunny switches over to the Charleston...]] instant rain!
* Alluded to in the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} cartoon short "How to Dance." A crowd of characters are dancing to tribal drumming music, and it rains [[PersonalRaincloud on just them]], and they all unfurl umbrellas as they continue dancing.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'': One episode revolved around the attempted theft of sacred Native American relics. At the end of the episode, Scooby tried putting them on and dancing around, which caused a rain of eggbeaters to fall on him.

** "Sioux Me" has a group of generic American Indians singing "Weeeee waaaant rainnnnn" and dancing around. It doesn't work at first, but a helpful traveling salesman and a small Indian boy save the day for them, especially for their shaman, who's been threatened with decapitation by the chief.
** Foghorn Leghorn does this in attempt to trick Egghead Jr. in "Crockett-Doodle-Do". Foghorn actually succeeds in getting rain- [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and lightning struck onto himself]].
** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]]'' episode "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner", Wile E. does a rain dance in attempt to strike lightning on Road Runner by rigging a lightning rod disguised as a female roadrunner. The lightning instead redirects to the umbrella Wile E. was holding.

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* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] attempts a snow dance to get school canceled. (It doesn't work.)

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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "[[HorribleCampingTrip Camp Keep a Good Mac Down]]", Bloo practices one. Later, Mac starts a campfire [[ShaggyDogStory only to lose it to a downpour]].

* In a ''[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]]'' episode, Wile E. Coyote creates a thunderstorm by using the rain dance. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption It doesn't help.]]

* The Warners short "Sioux Me" has a group of generic American Indians singing "Weeeee waaaant rainnnnn" and dancing around. It doesn't work at first, but a helpful traveling salesman and a small Indian boy save the day for them, especially for their shaman, who's been threatened with decapitation by the chief.

According to Wiki/ThatOtherWiki, the Native American version was actually another dance altogether, that got its name changed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_dancing for political reasons]].

* Parodied in one ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon where the Indian chief is consulting a book called "101 Rain Dances" to figure out what the hell kind of dance he was doing ... while it's raining eggbeaters. ''The [=PreHistory=] of The Far Side'' also includes a rough draft of this cartoon which instead depicts an "Early American [[EverythingsBetterWithCows Cow]] Dance."

* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon "Grand Canyonscope", Donald fools around with a genuine raindancing costume and manages to summon a PersonalRainCloud before the ranger catches him. Note that when Donald dances a traditional dance, nothing happens. But when he [[RuleOfFunny switches over to the Charleston...]] instant rain!

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Sports are Fun'' episode 15, the gang is in a dry desert and can't have a dragon boat race as a result. To solve this problem, Wolffy does a rain dance; it doesn't work, with the one cloud that appears afterwards producing nothing.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series, "Rain Dance" causes it to rain for five turns in battle. This boosts the strength of Water-type moves by 50%, cuts Fire-type moves by 50%, and has a [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rain variety of other effects]] on certain moves and abilities.

* One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had several characters in a restaurant complaining about various inconveniences, and then cutting to a closeup of the guilty party nervously glancing from side-to-side. On the way out, they notice it's suddenly raining when there wasn't a cloud in the sky when they arrived. Cut to an Indian chieftain sitting in a corner booth, nervously shifting his gaze.

And no, this doesn't allude to ''Film/SinginInTheRain!'' May be followed by RedemptionInTheRain, or possibly BattleInTheRain. One comedic result can be a PersonalRaincloud.

* In {{Deadlands}}, a shaman who knows the appropriate favour can cause rain, and one way to earn the needed "credit" with the spirits is by dancing.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''. The Water Dance is basically this, as the townsfolk of Dirt make a CargoCult appeal for water to come out of a pipe faucet. It's actually [[UncannyVillage somewhat creepy]].

* In an episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolGuidanceSurvivalGuide'' a ''reverse'' rain dance is performed by [[CloudCuckoolander Coconut Head]] and the other boys to get it to be sunny (after several days of rain, and therefore students cooped up indoors).

* In an episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassified'' a ''reverse'' rain dance is performed by [[CloudCuckoolander Coconut Head]] and the other boys to get it to be sunny (after several days of rain, and therefore students cooped up indoors).

* Parodied in one ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon where the Indian chief is consulting a book called "101 Rain Dances" to figure out what the hell kind of dance he was doing ... while it's raining eggbeaters.