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Electric boogaloo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ5357558 ↗
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Electric boogaloo may refer to:

Electric boogaloo (dance), a dance style involving popping techniques

The Electric Boogaloos, a street dance crew founded in Fresno, California in 1977

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, a 1984 American dance musical film directed by Sam Firstenberg

"Electric Boogaloo" (song), lead single from the 1984 film soundtrack recorded by Ollie & Jerry

Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo, a 2001 album by the band Five Iron Frenzy

Danza II: Electric Boogaloo, a 2007 album by the Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, a 2014 Australian documentary about The Cannon Group

"Chardee MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo", a 2016 episode from the eleventh season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Electric Boogaloo, a zombie hero in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes

Electric Boogaloo, the third level of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Episode 3: Flashback

See also

All pages with titles containing Electric boogaloo

"Electric Boogie", a 1983 song

Boogaloo (disambiguation)

Boogaloo (funk dance), a freestyle, improvisational street dance movement

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