Cocoon Central Dance Team is a New York City-based dance/comedy group consisting of Eleanore Pienta, Tallie Medel, and Sunita Mani. They both perform live and produce a YouTube sketch series called "Rehearsal" which focuses on... a very odd dance team called Cocoon Central Dance Team. Their videos can be seen here
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This group provides examples of:
- Alpha Bitch: "Bitchy Ballerinas" features three at each others' throats.
- Ax-Crazy: Eleanore's overzealous, handsaw-waving hardware store booth babe in "The Sitcom" comes off as this to customers. (Justified when she finally decks Tim at the end.)
- Black Comedy: So much, especially "Blood", "Bloood", and "Bitchy Ballerinas".
- Brown Note: Tallie's lethally targeted funny in "Bloood".
- Butt-Monkey: Neighbor Doug in "The Sitcom". (Although Sunita clearly has a thing for him, so not quite that bad.)
- Character Signature Song: "The Future" by musical collaborator Kenny Pickett.
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: When Eleanore pantses Sunita in "Can I? Part 1", Sunita's less bothered by the pantsing itself than her fear that her butt isn't funny enough to withstand pantsing.
- Deus ex Machina: Parodied by the talent agent in "The Sitcom", who was apparently hiding in someone's gear bag.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Principal Yaffe in "The Sitcom".
- Griefer/The Rival: Tim, aka "MarkMorrisAddict69" in "The Sitcom".
- Large Ham: Tallie irks Sunita and Eleanore by jumping in slow motion in "And Eight".
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Les Yay: So, so much, but especially "I'm Changing" and "Can I? Part 3". - Punny Name: "Jess Messin'", Sunita's character in "Excerpt from the Motion Picture 'Bouncin''".
- Serious Business: "I'm Changing".
- Smurfing: Leslie leslies like this rather a leslie in "The Leslie". Sorry, "The Sitcom."
- Stylistic Suck: "The Sitcom" skewers tropes common to both sitcoms and movies about underdogsnote , mostly by presenting them intentionally poorly written and without context. For example, the "magical burrito" serves no real purpose in the plot, but it's presented as if it's some great revelation.
- Worst Aid: In "Damaged", Eleanore shows up to practice with a relatively minor knee injury, and Sunita and Tallie immediately tend to her entirely uninjured buttocks as if they were a fibrillating heart.
