You Can Have Your Tv and Your Night Clubs

Nightclubs in fiction are ever much cooler, bigger, and cleaner than the ones yous detect in the downtown of your town (unless your town happens to exist New York Metropolis, Atlanta, Tokyo, Berlin, Ibiza or London). Expect to meet a line effectually the block to arrive whether the club is total or non, though some people demand only flash at the Bouncer or have a spot on the invitee list and in they get (this seldom includes the main protagonist unless they're a sexy adult female). And, equally with the High-School Dance, wait everybody in attendance to be dancing around and having a great time (whereas, in Real Life, yous're likely to meet a lot of Mood Racket among the attendees and more than than a few people who just want to become home). At that place might even exist Dancing Royalty clearing the trip the light fantastic toe-floor with their amazing dance moves or leading a Flash Mob-esque trip the light fantastic toe sequence.

Clubs in fiction also seem to be packed no matter what night of the week it is, and the bouncers seem to take no problem letting teenagers in the forepart doors (again, except the main characters). Furthermore, everyone of relevance to the plot will hang out at the same ane. Despite the crowds, yous can hold an extended conversation in a normal speaking vocalism and have no problem being heard.

Often a Bad-Guy Bar and rarely a Expert-Guy Bar, because Evil Is Cool - ever remember that Vampires Own Night Clubs.

Come across besides Where Everybody Knows Your Flame, for the gay version. The Wacky Startup Workplace often tries to evoke a fun, club-like atmosphere.

For cool "clubs" in the other sense of the word, run into Bear a Large Stick.

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    Anime

• In Serial Experiments Lain there is Cyberia, where Lain and her friends often go at night. It'due south then cool that non only teenagers, merely also children go at that place.
  • The name of the order references Douglas Rushkoff's book Cyberia, published in 1994. It revolved, quite fittingly for Lain, effectually themes of applied science, drugs and social club subcultures.
  • Additionally, information technology's probably no coincidence that ane of the real world'southward first internet cafes was also called Cyberia.

    Comic Books

• The social club/bar where the criminal element makes its home in The Crow is an excellent instance, with far more people than a run-down swoop like that place would expect, and much better live acts...though that could be explained by its existence the home base of the urban center'due south criminal kingpin.
• Scott Pilgrim: Anarchy Theater. The owner may be ane of the worst assholes ever, and Ramona's 7th Evil Ex, but his guild was even so a nice identify, with video games, music, phase for concerts, and a planned, simply scrapped past the author, skate park.
• Adam Warren's Dirty Pair has an interesting justification for nightclubs populated solely by attractive people; they have "hotness scanners" that compare incomers' bodies to a stored "aesthetic profile of torso somatotype and facial symmetry", and only let entrance to those that are "sufficiently hot".
• In Gotham City, this is the case of the Iceberg Lounge which Batman foe The Penguin runs as a legit forepart to cover his illegal activities. As a gimmick it is quite literally cool.

    Films — Alive-Action

• Cool clubs be all over the James Bond franchise, with many besides being casinos. One of the first scenes of the film serial is a casino in 1962's Dr. No where Bail beginning utters his famous, trope-naming greeting. A expert non-casino order is in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me, which features Bail coming together—and practically talking shop with—Soviet agent Maj. Anya "Agent XXX" Amasova.
• The "Finish of Line Guild" from TRON: Legacy. The name too doubles as a Call-Back.
• The "House of Pain" in Blade 2 appeared to be a popular hangout for the young, beautiful Vampire crowd.
• The Matrix: The club where Trinity outset meets Neo confront to face in the original, and the Merovingian's Hel Society in the sequels.
• The "Retinal Fetish" club in Foreign Days features live rock shows, performance fine art, sadomasochism games, mosh pits, crazy lights, smoke machines, and of form an upstairs lounge where villains and thugs hang out. Bonus points for acting like it'southward totally independent — housed in an abased building with exposed cabling everywhere and wire fencing for secure areas.
• The unnamed club where John Travolta's character hung out in Swordfish appeared to be populated exclusively by gorgeous models.
• In The Breakup, Vince Vaughn's brother takes him to a super cool lodge, making him experience intimidated and out of his element.
• A Night at the Roxbury: Exit, which is dreamed up past the main characters, where the inside looks similar the outside, and the outside looks like the inside.
• Hackers features Cyberdelia, an appropriate 'cyber-nightclub that has a full complement of skate ramps, a video game console most equally large every bit a mid-sized room, and of form, techno music. Information technology'southward also by invite only.
• The Ink & Paint Club in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a speakeasy run by cartoon characters.
• One of these appear in The Mask, the Coco Bongo club where Tina is a vocalizer.
• The Devil'due south Earthly HQ is in one of these in the Bedazzled remake (slightly justified due to the gild being in San Francisco). When Elliot is offset brought there, he is excited to accept every social club patron cheering him and knowing his name, being a social outcast of sorts. Naturally, the Devil uses this as an extra button to get Elliot to sell his soul. When he visits the order at the finish of the picture, he sees that everybody is wearied and bored, every bit if they can't leave.
• In Reality, Luciano sees Enzo in a society that fits the beak of this trope.
• The Kit-Kat Society in Cabaret. Christopher Isherwood, writer of the books the film was based on, said that if anything like that had existed in 1930s Berlin people would accept been coming from all over Europe just to visit it.
• In Cold Pursuit, drug dealer Speedo is based in what appears to exist the the coolest order in Denver. Information technology is full of young, beautiful people, which makes the tardily middle-anile, working course Nels Coxman stand up out even more when he comes there seeking Speedo.
• The Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club in Austin Powers looks similar a fun identify to hang out.
• Where Kat meets Phil in White Bird In A Blizzard. Subverted slightly by one of the other characters complaining that the DJ e'er plays the same songs in the aforementioned order.
• Fear Nighttime (1985) has a set of scenes in Society Radio, where they permit teens in, the identify is hopping with good looking trip the light fantastic-happy people, and would not be out of place in LA, except that information technology'southward set in a small city in Iowa. The bouncers practise try to protect young women from predators, though.
• The guild Xibalba located at the fictional city of Helverton, Colorado in Dee Snider'southward 1998 Strangeland. The guild seems to be a metal/fetish club that features the band Snot, is packed full of dancers, still has other patrons waiting to get within while on line exterior in the rain carrying umbrellas (pop plenty that it'south not only packed, but has more patrons waiting to get in in one case some people inside decide to leave), and has onstage fetish acts and burn down breathers as well equally some patrons are being flogged in BDSM acts on the chief flooring of the club and seems to have a back surface area for certain "VIP" patrons to relax in silence. The depicted club was filmed in The Church nightclub of Denver, Colorado, which while the real club does have Gothic nights on Wednesday and Industrial/EBM nights on Sunday (and other themes on other days), it isn't nightly as this film portrays it and not every bit intense on a abiding basis.

    Literature

• Wicked Lovely brings us the Rath and Ruins. If you have read the series, you desire to go there. No exceptions.
• The Dresden Files has a club called 0, run by the White Court. Everywhere one looks, there are couples, threesomes, foursomes and nineteensomes, a diverseness of substances to snort, swallow or inject, and even biohazard bins to dispose of the syringes in. Merely because they're a bunch of evil vampires doesn't mean they're irresponsible.
• Moon Over Soho has quite a diversity of cool clubs, including the Existent Life "Groucho Club", unfortunately they are all murder scenes due to the Monster Of The Volume being a vampire that feeds off of Jazz musicians' brains (Information technology Makes Sense in Context).
• Masquerade of the Red Decease: Prince Vargoss holds court in the "Members Only" section of one of these clubs.

    Live-Activeness TV

• In the fourth season of 24, terrorist leader Habib Marwan records a videotaped message in a nightclub that plays a remixed version of the show's championship theme music, and is still open up, even though the whole city was affected by a blackout from an EMP surge. If that'south not dedication, I don't know what is.
  • Must have been run past an expatriated New Orleanian. A number of our clubs and confined didn't even close for Katrina.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • The Statuary has an unending lineup of acme quality bands, and is full 7 nights a calendar week. It is literally the only society in boondocks though. They managed to score Cibo Matto, which is nice. (How 90's can you get?)
  • Well, Mayor Wilkins spared no expense to brand his town attractive to homeowners so the monsters could eat them. The problem is that information technology'southward still open several years afterward Buffy blows him up. Maybe Willow did it?
  • "Homo, I hate playing vampire towns."
  • The spinoff, Angel, had a Season ane episode fix almost entirely at Diabolique. Lampshaded past Doyle, who dismissed it as one of those "terminally-stuck-in-the-eighties" places.
• P3 from Overjoyed was a vivid way for The WB to promote artists on the Time Warner label. One ep labeled Michelle Branch every bit a "Special Musical Guest" (WB shows her performing 1 of her songs, then they show the three sisters talking at the club).
• CSI: Miami seems to have a new "coolest gild ever" every third episode. The 1 of the more than memorable is the club where hot men poured honey over hot women on stage (and the customers removed it using fruit).
  • The original CSI, beingness set up in Vegas, besides had its share of memorable clubs, as did CSI: NY. Miami just uses the Coolest Club Ever formula more oftentimes then its sister shows.
• Subverted (awesomely) in the How I Met Your Mother episode "Okay Awesome", wherein the primary characters excitedly visit a absurd, new, and exclusive lodge, but to observe that they really hate information technology and tin't savour themselves, with Ted, the main character, somewhen determining that everything 1 is traditionally supposed to similar actually sucks.
• Gossip Girl has the Chuck owned 'Victrola' and dozens of clubs all willing to let in any of the cast, despite them pretty much all being underage, oftentimes by half a decade or more.
• The club on The O.C. has top-tier indie bands playing most nights of the week - more often than not ignored by the cast.
  • Justified by the location.

• Club Zer0 on Smallville, where Lex Luthor supposedly committed his get-go kill (they should erect a plaque), and Morgan Border's nightclub in the Metropolis scenes of Flavour Three.
  • Averted in Smallville equally it's, well, a pocket-size ville. You'll have to settle for the hillbilly bar or the twenty-something coffee hangout.
• The Cirque du Soleil series Solstrom revealed in its Grand Finale that the sun creatures stopped on Globe on their way to a planet that houses the Coolest Club in the Galaxy, and the episode takes place there. The clientle, naturally, is by and large conflicting, but they have the same line at the door and the Running Gag of the episode has an "Inoffensive Crank" trying to go by the doorman and his robot bouncers.
• Ben's aquatic-themed bar, The Deep, on Sunset Embankment.
• Used/parodied in an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, in which Tommy spends the entire episode trying to get past a bouncer and into a trendy new society. He succeeds near the finish, immediately after which it is revealed that it lost its trendiness, and is practically deserted.
• The disco in Kenosha on That '70s Show.
• Castle seems to take ane of these every other week. Granted they are in New York City simply because how elaborate and expensive looking a lot of these clubs seem, it'southward difficult to believe that the chief characters, both beingness locals, had never even heard of these places before they were on the case.
• Sex and the City uses this trope on an almost weekly footing, although maybe due to the historic period of the central characters at that place'south an equal tendency for them to hit supposedly amazing restaurants instead of confined and clubs. It's usually justified as Samantha, who works in PR, is usually promoting the lodge and is able to get her friends in for the opening.
• Lily Langtry's cub, "The Haven" in Kindred: The Embraced.
• Parks and Recreation has the Snakehole Lounge. It's patently the coolest bar in Pawnee, which isn't especially big praise. Information technology'southward big, fashionable, well-appointed and popular. The Bulge is too pretty nice and consistently packed, considering that it's a gay bar in rural Indiana.
• On Arrow Oliver spends about of flavor 1 converting an old warehouse into one of these. It's initially a subversion since he primarily wants information technology as a cover for his activities as a vigilante. He does non care that the construction drags on or that a crazed maniac set fire to it before long before its opening. He even hired his best friend Tommy as the managing director even though Tommy has no business organization experience. Surprisingly, Tommy managed to plow the club into a working business concern and information technology is revealed that the club's lost-and-institute more often than not consists of ladies' underwear.
• Burn Discover is Spy Fiction and fix in Miami. For them not to toss this in—usually when dealing with The Cartel or The Mafia—would practically be blasphemy. Though unusually for this trope, Michael doesn't actually relish them all that much, he sees going to clubs as a strictly business matter, something that oft annoys Fiona.
• On The Nanny episode "Fran Lite", Fran and Val accept Maxwell to a club, on the status that he pretends he's gay and claims he doesn't know them, so that they tin can even so come across guys. This backfires when he gets to become in (being a Broadway producer and all), and takes their communication literally and claims not to know them, leaving them in line.
• An episode of The Inbetweeners sees the lads travel up to London to attend i of these, hoping it will print some girls they know. Naturally everything that could possibly go incorrect, does.
• An episode of Jake20, Jake is sent to Berlin to infiltrate a hacker group as its leader DuMont, who'southward in NSA custody. Himself beingness a Nerd, he fits in perfectly, specially since this is the first time the group has met (or even seen one another). Later on a brief hazing session (where the others pretend to exist German language cops and interrogate him until notices as well many movie references), they take him to a club that fits this trope. Naturally, they are able to bypass the line by handing a bouncer a few large-denomination euro notes. After hanging out, they go under the club, where they have gear up their temporary HQ for a major hack.
• The Neolution nightclub in the first flavor (and flashback scenes in the quaternary flavour) of Orphan Black.
• The downtown Baltimore nightspot where Stringer throws a welcome-home party for Avon afterward the latter gets paroled from jail early on in season iii of The Wire.

    Music

• Well-nigh every trip the light fantastic-pop song about partying by anyone, e'er, will accept a video full of this.
• About half of all dance-pop songs and maybe a quarter of all hip-hop tracks feature lyrics about dancing in a club with the opposite gender.
• Kesha's "Accept It Off" is almost i of these places, and the second video takes this to an extreme by showing a club made upwards entirely of 80s video cliches.
• Elton John'south "Gild At The End Of The Street" and the B-52'due south "Love Shack" also come to mind.
• Subverted by The Smiths' "How Shortly is Now?" The vocaliser is told "at that place's a club if yous'd similar to go / Yous could meet somebody who really loves you ..." But what actually happens is:

  So you go on your ain
  And you lot leave on your own
  And you get abode and yous cry
  And you want to dice

    Tabletop Games

• Polyhymnia in Transhuman Infinite. It's so exclusive that it doesn't have a Wannabe Line, because the Wannabes never know where it is. It'southward constantly moving, and constantly irresolute who information technology'due south aimed at, only clever memetics ensure that the "correct" people go drawn to it seemingly past coincidence.
• The World of Darkness loves this trope. Super-cool nightclubs are pop hangouts for all sorts of supernatural creatures, perhaps virtually notoriously vampires. Vampire: The Masquerade has the Succubus Society in Chicago, probably the most famous and coolest club in the setting.
• Shadowrun is of course overrun with examples of this, being a cyberpunk game, simply the most prominent one in Seattle has to be Dante'south Inferno. A nine-level nighttime club (including Limbo, for the posers), with the ninth level meant for only to nigh exclusive crowds. Noted to be something of a franchise nightclub, to the point that you tin can purchase VR memberships and attend their parties virtually.

    Video Games

• The Asylum is a wonderfully enjoyable club in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines but it's dwarfed by the (human-run) Confession, which is a converted Gothic Church.
• The clubs in 2027 are where you gain the majority of your missions.
• Club Solar in Phone call of Duty: Black Ops Two. Being located on Colossus, a floating city in the Cayman Islands and the wealthiest city in the globe (Bricklayer casually mentions that it would cost Harper more than than he makes "in a yr" for a weekend there), it'south big and make clean and features enough of hallways and lounges before you fifty-fifty reach the trip the light fantastic toe flooring. Skrillex is blaring throughout the unabridged place.
• The Malibu in K Theft Car: Vice City, the near expensive property up for sale. It's a pretty swanky place, apart from the Hamlet People tribute ring on phase.
• Jizzy's Pleasure Domes in 1000 Theft Automobile: San Andreas. Not a guild per se, it'south an illegal brothel sitting at the human foot of the Aureate Gate Bridge (or its gaming equivalent, the Gant). Regardless, this is one of the posher interiors in the game, with a three-story dance floor and mezzanine. There are also a dance club to entertain dates in all iii cities.
• Grand Theft Auto Iv: The Ballad of Gay Tony stars the bouncer, Luis, and the owner, Gay Tony, of the hottest nightclub in Liberty Urban center: Maisonette 9. Most of the game revolves around Luis and Tony trying to pay off loan sharks and so they tin keep the gild open. Gay Tony also owns Hercules, the hottest gay nightclub in Liberty City.
• Deus Ex: Club La Porte de l'Enfer in Paris, and Lucky Coin in Hong Kong.
• The Hive in Deus Ex: Human Revolution which isn't very large but is apparently the become-to identify in Hengsha with even the metropolis elite visiting it in the slums. Oh and if you don't have a membership carte du jour it costs 1000 credits to make it, each time. For reference, a fully-automatic gainsay burglarize costs 1250 credits, and a sidequest found within to collect a year's worth of debt adds up to 5000.
  • In the spin-off, Nightshades Guild in Panama.
• The Devil's Dalliance in DmC: Devil May Weep. It also serves every bit a front for the demons to seduce the clientele into becoming their Quislings. After Dante gets inside (past punching the Bouncer out and "adding" his name to the list), the interior winds upwardly transforming into a Pattern Student's Gladiatorial Arena to entertain the demonic VIPs.
• Hitman iii has Guild Hölle, situated in a decommissioned nuclear power plant on the outskirts of Berlin and where 47 faces off against an entire ICA kill team. It was clearly inspired past Berghain (see Real Life).
• Hitman: Contracts: The Sturrock Bros. meat packing plant (literally named Polio according to the trucks) doubles as a fetish club in commemoration of the elder brother's acquittal on murder charges. Sturrock tin exist found reclining with his molls in a loft above his get-go cages. The second target, the lawyer, is busying himself in the opium den next to the bar.
• Afterlife in Mass Consequence 2 isn't particularly big or glamorous and because of the game engines limitations neither very crowded nor is the line exterior very long (simply it does have one, including people complaining to the bouncers), but it'south probably the Coolest Club In Video Games E'er. Information technology's in fact and so cool that the big crime boss of the sector has her office on a balcony over the chief floor where she receives visitors surrounded by her enforcers and hitmen. Since the entire decor is very industrial and low tech, lots of people keep repeating that someone should build that place for real, including the game's creators.
  • Afterlife is fairly sectional, simply information technology's peanuts to its VIP section, which fifty-fifty Commander Shepard can't get in, even considering that s/he knows Aria herself. In this instance, the VIP department's relatively few customers and modest space makes sense, every bit it is extremely exclusive.
  • Mass Effect 3 brings the states Purgatory, which similar Afterlife, is run past Aria. Given that it is designed to better fit the Citadel's sensibilities than Omega's, and more than chiefly that she just has a order on the Citadel considering she was forced to abandon Omega by Cerberus, Aria considers it her own personal hell.
• Gild Errera in Halo: Reach. As a an Easter Egg, you can discover a hidden switch and start up a Covenant dance party.
• Fifty.A. Noire invokes this trope with a surprisingly realistic twist, combining bodily cultural tropes of the day to make up what would genuinely be the coolest order in a coolest city (at the time). It's an ultra-suave music hall in the middle of Hollywood that features its own imported German chanteuse, a ring of the hottest black jazzmen of the day who have just discovered both bebop and heroin, is protected past the master of the local Vice department itself and caters exclusively to the clientele comprised of pic stars, fat cats and decadent government officials. And has a French-Caribbean area Negro butler.
• Mario Kart 8: Electrodrome is an absolutely enormous i which serves as one of the game'south racecourses, with upbeat rave music playing from every wall of speakers, multiple crowded dance floors, and a behemothic disco brawl with the Mario Kart logo on it.
• Messiah has Club Kyd, a colorful club where Fear Factory music plays and scantily clad girls serve food and dance on tables. Information technology also happens to take a VIP section which connects direct to a summit hole-and-corner military base of operations.
• Dark has the Sanctuary, which is a massive homage to the Old World of Darkness' Succubus Society.
• Max Payne 1 and 2 had Ragnarock (pun intended), a goth bar later bought past Vlad and turned into a Russian-themed restaurant. iii opens the game at Society Moderno, featuring techno music by the existent-life DJ commonage Trouble and Bass.
• Cochise visits two of these during his prowl through Harlem in The Warriors. The level boss, Big Moe, is fought in a discotheque every bit the onlookers toss you lot health.
• Concluding Fantasy Xiii features the NORA house, a popular beach bar which also functions every bit the base of operations for the anti-establishment "NORA" gang led by Snowfall Villiers.
  • In Concluding Fantasy XIII-ii, "NORA" builds an identical bar in the town of New Bodhum since the original boondocks was rendered uninhabitable due to the Purge and later the fall of Cocoon.
• Order Zodiac plays host to a dungeon in Persona 2. In the outset game, Lady Scorpio hangs her hat here along with the rest of the Masquerade doomsday cult. The club was converted into a mob-owned casino in the second chapter.
• Sleeping Dogs has Club Bam Bam in North Point, which becomes your gang's Bad-Guy Bar afterwards you shakedown the manager, seduce the caput hostess and beat the everloving crap out of both the bouncers and the Triad goons from the club's previous protection noise. Subsequently missions take K-bar in Soho fulfill the same purpose.
• The Mile High Club in Merely Crusade two. It's a yacht-like high-form nightclub, floating thousands of feet above ground via zeppelins! It even has its own mini-track and helipad.
• Call of Juarez: The Cartel has two- the Panorama and the El Dorado.
• Non really a club, more like a lounge, but The Fringe in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is a bit like this. In the kickoff game, Fringe Café was a rundown bar where April Ryan worked. In the sequel, Dreamfall, it looks similar a nice, cozy identify where trendy people would hang out. The decoration is sort of futuristic combined with Japanese items (in that location's even a bonsai tree), and the groundwork music that plays when you're visiting is slap-up, either.
• Online virtual earth vSide had some awesome clubs and fifty-fifty a subconscious disco rooftop where you could dance with your avatar. vSide was originally called "The PCD Lounge" and was meant to be a promotional virtual infinite for Pussycat Dolls, merely it later expanded. The virtual earth had iii cities y'all could visit and they were loosely based in real locations such as New York, Tokyo and Hispanic countries. The same lounge was the nigh popular spot in the game. There was a spin-off called "vLES" that was actually based on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and was created for MTV. The admins would play music of different genres, and sometimes yous'd have celebrities appearing on vSide to promote something. There were also virtual bouncers and bartenders, all of which were bots, and you could order drinks that would elapse after some time. It was besides Always Dark, so it made sense for such things to exist.
• Habbo Hotel is some other virtual world with interesting places to visit. Until around 2010 you could get to public rooms that were created by the game admins, and a few these rooms had dancefloors. One was restricted to players who spent real money on membership, so it was fancy. Another was slightly futuristic looking, with a large aquarium. The most visited i was Club Massiva, which also looked pretty cool. And in that location are, of course, player created hangouts, so yous can unleash your creativity and brand your own Coolest Order Ever if y'all want to.
• Cyberpunk 2077 has Afterlife — a bar with a dance flooring that is known equally the hub for the most lucrative (and dangerous) mercenary piece of work in the Night City. Starting out as small-fry street punks, Jackie and V are not fifty-fifty allowed inside at the start of the game — only after they are officially sponsored past the legendary fixer Dexter DeShawn does the bouncer permit them in. After that, Five can enter it whenever, which gives them access to Rogue Amendiares, the Queen of Fixers, who runs and operates out of Afterlife. In the "Path of Glory" catastrophe, 5 tin can fifty-fifty end up taking over Afterlife from her.
• I of the few games to accept place entirely in one, Virtual Nightclub is prepare in Cyberspace and has multiple attractions with existent-life musicians performing, from an art gallery and planetarium, to an inner Hip-hop dance club sponsored past Def Jam Recordings, and a bar and stage featuring Verve. It'southward not all absurd though, as the main plot involves a singer who was presumably murdered on-stage, and some of the patrons aren't exactly friendly.
• Club Shangri-La in Orangeblood is this, being owned past 1 of the playable characters (Machiko), though by the fourth dimension Vanilla arrives it'south been taken over past a rival gang. After clearing the gang out, it becomes a Trauma Inn for the party to use too as serving equally their base. In the end, it manages to get clones of Jesus Christ, Buddha and Eazy-E every bit headliners, cranking its coolness factor upwardly a notch.
• Club Planetarium in No Straight Roads, although information technology is somewhat undermined by the fact that its owner, DJ Subatomic Supernova, happens to exist a Jerkass Lazy Bum who'd much rather lounge near than actually play the music that his audience paid to mind to (at to the lowest degree, until Bunk Bed Junction show upwardly). In fact, it'due south mentioned that his "One Night Only!" rave has been going on for iii years by the fourth dimension the story begins, with him not even bothering to change the affiche exterior and taking advantage of its loose constraints to duck out of having to actually perform. Also, it was once an observatory before he converted it into what information technology is now.

    Visual Novels

• Minotaur Hotel: If you lot picked Luke as your first employee, the hotel's restaurant volition resemble a huge club complete with loud music and stripper poles.

    Web Animation

• Homestar Runner: Parodied in the Strong Bad E-mail "nightlife" with Order Technochocolate, where Strong Mad is the bouncer, the DJ is The Cheat and Bubs tends bar. Bubs's drink creations are, like the rest of his merchandise (and in keeping with the trope) ridiculously overpriced; the "Pink Elephant Pants" is an eyedropper total of green fluid which Strong Bad happily buys for $17.l. Entertainment involves dancing (or in Strong Sad's instance, "not-dancing"), Coach Z trying (and failing) to freestyle, and Strong Bad losing his pants somehow and getting tossed out on his "leopard-print hinders".

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    Web Original

• The society Stage takes Vox to in Miami, in the Whateley Universe. It has a ridiculously high cover charge, and and then information technology'southward one of the only clubs around that tin afford the insurance premiums to let mutants in.
• The oxygen bar from Next Breed of Thief.

  As gaudy as I thought the neon of the streets was, specially at night, the oxygen bar was far worse. It was clean, just every surface was backlit. People giggled, their skin looking bright blue in the ambiance, while drones served drinks every bit bright as the lights. My oculars toned down the low-cal, blocking harmful UVB and other rays, but cast everything in royal hues.

    Spider web Videos

• CollegeHumor: Inverted for laughs in the "Trip the light fantastic Clubs Are the Worst" video. The guy has to bribe the bouncer to get in, fashion likewise many people are packed together in a small space, the drinks are overpriced, his glaze is stolen, and he ends up hooking up with the wrong person because he was too drunk.

    Western Animation

• 1 episode of MTV's Downtown featured the local dive under Alex's flat being turned into a massively trendy, popular guild. Chaka is thrilled, especially since it turns out she tin can sneak in through the dorsum from within the apartment building. Alex, who has to sleep above the pounding techno music, is less so.
  • In Episode four Alex wanders upon the location where the Goth outcome was taking place (that appears to be a rented former meat packing store), that Alex was hired to copy the promotional posters in the opening scene, where Serena is preparing the venue for the club night. The cease result is displayed in the credits where there is graffiti art of candles on the wall as well every bit other art, actual lit candles in the society, everyone apparently is dancing to Serena'due south zither playing despite it appears non to be hooked up to any speakers, Goat is chasing a daughter who's trying to get abroad from him, Alex's normally popular club savvy sister is surprisingly dancing with a Goth guy, and Alex is sleeping under ane of the posters he fabricated. Which if Serena and the other organizers were caught having a guild night at that place, would be facing a large fine for operating a unlicensed trip the light fantastic toe gild in 2000 due to Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the fourth dimension deciding to enforce from 1997 a prohibition era Cabaret License Law prohibiting a commercial venue allowing dancing without the proper license.
• Daria had The Zon, a large alternative club in Downtown Lawndale (according to the video game, located at Degas Street) that in addition to hosting Trent's band Mystik Spiral, has a large amount of Goth and Punk looking patrons, plays bands such as Siouxsie and the Banshees over the PA, and does non appear to exist cramped. Downplayed in that it's a very muddy club and Trent isn't succeeding equally a band despite being brought back multiple nights.
• Spoofed in an episode of Mission Hill. Frustrated at a actually popular club refusing to let them in, Andy and his friends engineer a fake club called The Meter Room and refuse to let in anybody who isn't in on the gag, word of mouth to turning The Meter Room into the most popular club in boondocks. Then they claim the identify was destroyed by fire, causing everyone who didn't become to talk about it wistfully.
• An episode of Family unit Guy featured Stewie converting Brian and Frank Sinatra Jr.'s onetime large band bar into one of these as "identify" ("Little 'p', big '50'"). Brian and Frank initially hate the new direction, but just as they start to enjoy it, Andy Dick shows up to party, causing everyone to run out screaming.

    Real Life

• Studio 54. Information technology was and then cool it fifty-fifty had a movie made about it, years afterwards it airtight.
• CBGB, some other New York gild, had a reputation as a landmark to punk fans. Unfortunately, it closed downwardly after thirty years in 2007. CBGB was a squalid dive rather than a cool guild, but this is punk we're talking well-nigh, so squalid = cool. Merely like Studio 54, it likewise saw a film made well-nigh it.
• Same goes for London's Slimelight, the longest-running alternative/goth/cyber club: It looks like a dingy warehouse, its dimly lit and everything appears worn downward but it sets the atmosphere perfectly.
• Londons' 100 club, Had its heyday either side of and throughout WWII, as a Jazz/Swing venue. And so had its second coming in the 1970s as a punk venue, and was yet much unchanged when information technology closed in 2010. Also might be known for Northern Soul allnighters.
• Other famous nightclubs include Infinite, Amnesia, Pacha (all Ibiza), Watergate, Berghain (both Berlin), Textile, The Cease, the Ministry of Audio (all London), Womb (Tokyo), D-Edge (Sao Paulo).
• Manchester has the Warehouse Project, the largest club in Europe, built from a converted World War 2 air raid shelter. During the "Madchester" scene, it also had the ridiculously famous Hacienda.
• The DNA Lounge of San Francisco is like something out of a '90s cyberpunk moving-picture show. It's got kickass wi-fi (formerly public computers running Fedora), has been played by some of the best-known Industrial bands out there, is an epicenter of elevate culture (many, many famous elevate queens and kings accept gotten their start at Trannyshack), and is frequently getting into problem with the city for raunchy beliefs. It'due south even run by a famous retired hacker.
• While the place isn't exactly the nicest, nearly New Englanders tend to view Ralph's Rock Diner in Worcester, Massachusetts every bit this. The best mode to describe it would exist to say that information technology is something akin to an amalgamation of a Bad-Guy Bar and a kitsch museum; the exterior of the edifice has a huge Narragansett Brewing Company logo (complete with iconic "Hi, Neighbor! Have a 'Gansett" imprint) airbrushed on the side, and the upstairs (where shows take place) is covered in thousands of ring stickers, the stairwell has a drove of Narragansett cans from throughout the years, the support columns have wooden palm fronds fastened, and the posh-looking stage is assorted with mannequin legs jutting from the walls, motorcycles affixed to the ceiling, and the infamous neon-light "Fourth dimension TO FUCK" signs sitting to a higher place both the upstairs and downstairs bars. It has to be seen to be believed, and it'due south globe-famous in spite of its small size for a reason.

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