Dancing Bad

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Dancing Bad
A frame from the short film
A frame from the short film
Basic Information
  Release date June 10, 2014
  Runtime 8m 3s
  Series PWN shorts
Cast and Crew
  Directed by: Nick Geoghegan
  Written by: Nick Geoghegan
Nik Hoffman
  Edited by: Nick Geoghegan
  Starring: Nick Geoghegan
  Nik Hoffman
Niels Hoffman
Links
Video on YouTube

Dancing Bad is a short film on the PaulWesNick channel. Uploaded on June 10, 2014, it is the first video to be uploaded to the then very young channel. It stars Nick Geoghegan and Nik Hoffman. Like many videos that would follow it, Dancing Bad was a school project, done for a speech assignment. The next video on the channel, Dare, was made for the same project, by Chris Smith and Braiden Hook.

Plot[edit | edit source]

A young boy named Carlos is distraught to find that his mother is dying of some unnamed disease. The mother needs medication, but the family is too poor to afford it. The boy, hopeful to save his mother, decides to raise the money however he can, and declares that he will win it by dancing. Dumbfounded, the mother, tells the son that he "sucks at dancing". Realizing that her son is serious, she gives him hee blessing to dance.

While looking for work, Carlos is spooked by a noise from a nearby alleyway. He decides to investigate, and finds a strange woman named Shaniqua hidden behind a potted plant. It is implied that Tanishqua has some sort of magical powers, as she pushes Carlos into a chair without touching him. The strange sorceress takes an interest in his desire to win a dance contest. She reveals that she was once a professional dancer. The boy asks for her help, and gifts her with a plastic elephant watering can. She agrees, and takes him to the "Mountain of Exile".

They begin to train Carlos how to dance. He does a little jig to show his talents, of which he has no. He is absolutely awful at dancing. Realizing that it will be harder to train Carlos than she expected, Tanishqua decrees that what Carlos needs is a "training montage". And so the two slowly improve the boys dancing skills, until Tanishqua sees that he is fit to join the competition.

An MC announces that the winner of the dance competition will be taking home a grand prize. Carlos is having second thoughts, but Tanishqua reassures him. The first to compete is David DeLaGhetto. The crowd is disgusted by him, and boos him off the stage. Carlos takes the stage, and he begins to square dance. The crowd loves him. He is declared the winner, and he recieves a golden token as his reward.

He purchases meds, and comes home to give them to his mother. But it appears that he is too late. His mother is unresponsive, in critical condition. The young boy weeps over the corpse of his beloved mother. He is losing hope, but he places the bandaid on her forehead in a final desperate act of love. Amazingly, she awakes, rising from her enternal slumber to the sounds of "The Circle of Life".

Cast and Crew[edit | edit source]

  • Nik Hoffman as Carlos
  • Nick Geoghegan as Dying Mother, Tanishqua, Announcer
  • Neils Hoffman as Bad Dancer

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • Although it was the first video posted on the channel, it is not the oldest. Dare, uploaded in October of 2014, was actually filmed and edited in November of 2013, seven months before Dancing Bad. Coincidentally, Dare was a video made for the same speech project.
  • The original title of the film was "Twerking Bad", and the video would have ended with Carlos winning the competition by twerking. This was vetoed by the teacher, and contributed to the twerking joke during the montage sequence.
  • Despite having a script, much of the film was improvised. This included many of Tanishqua's lines, Nik's dance at the end, and the opening dialogue.
  • The line "Halt! Who dare step on my turf?" and the manner in which it is said refer to an inside joke amond the classmates. A girl had improvised the line during a performance in the drama segment of the class.
  • The fact that Carlos wins the competition by square dancing was a reference to the fact that many seventh grade students in PE were doing a unit on square dancing: a unit that many of the students hated.

See Also[edit | edit source]

Preceded by
First video
PWN Videos
June 10, 2014
Succeeded by
Dare
Cast Members
Preceded by
First Appearance
Nick Geoghegan
Dancing Bad
Succeeded by
The Game