Fight Fur Your Right to Party

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Parties are a classic choice for music videos - after all, nothing says that a band is fun like having them turn a house full of dullards into bacchanalian pleasure seekers. But only the most awesome gatherings turn the phrase "party animal" into a literal description, so any music video director worth his salt knows that if you're filming a drunken party you have to put at least one person in an animal suit. Bonus points if they start a fight with some ordinary revellers.

Note that this doesn't have to be based around house parties. As the number of people having fun in a non-club area increases, so does the probability that someone will somehow turn up in a fuzzy costume.

Examples of Fight Fur Your Right to Party include:

Music Videos

• Metallica's video for their cover of "Whiskey in the Jar" features the band performing in a destructive house party, as two women dressed as snakes rip up a bedroom.
  • You saw two women dressed as snakes? I couldn't see anything for all the lesbians...
• Sexy women wearing giant rabbit heads in Marilyn Manson's "Tainted Love".
• A man in an animal suit gets punched in Christina Aguilera's "Dirrrty".
• Moby's "Beautiful" takes this to the logical extreme by having the entire party be composed of people in animal suits.
• DJ Format's "We Know Something You Don't Know" is a true classic of the genre.
• Teletubby-like costumes in "Sour Girl" by the Stone Temple Pilots.
• "Clothes Off" by Gym Class Heroes. This one features a dance-off with the suitors, who turn out to be Panic! at the Disco.
• "I Could Be An Angle" by The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster has animal-suited entertainers at a kids' party, while the band rock out in front of a 10-year old audience
• Wig Wam's (the Alex James/Betty Boo collab, not the old Finnish prog band) video for their title song and its band/party composed of animal costumers.
• "Dear Maria, Count Me In" by All Time Low has two animal-suited people in a strip club (along with a chimp and a guy in what appears to be a clown suit.)
• The video for Groove Armada's "Song 4 Mutya" features a British music festival with about a half dozen people dressed in various animal costumes, one of which ends up hooking up with one of the main charecters.
• German band OOMPH! have a man in a creepy rabbit suit in their video "Labyrinth".
• In Michaël Youn's parody rap music video "Trankillement", there is a guy in a white rabbit suit. Youn punches him in the end with boxing gloves.
• Arcturus' live DVD Shipwrecked in Oslo has a gaggle of weird backup dancers as part of the band's circus-of-the-damned atmosphere, including a man in a polar bear suit. The singer of the band dances with him at one point.
• Cobra Starship's "The Church of Hot Addiction" has the lead singer falling in love with the dude (well, girl) in a rabbit suit. They eventually get married and have little bunnies.
• Subverted in Lady Gaga's "Just Dance": the fursuiter at the party is never seen moving for the duration of the video.
• Jamie Foxx appears in a panda costume in his "Blame It" video.
• Master P's video for "Make 'em Say Uhh" involves someone on a basketball court in a gorilla costume.
• BrokeNCYDE's pig mascot, Bree.
• The video for Micro Pop's "I Smell Your Bacon" involves someone in an owl mask.
• Beck's "1000 BPM" video has people in bear costumes. And a rather bizarre concert performance of "High Five" has people in horse masks.
• Wiley's "Wearing My Rolex" is a fairly strange example: The whole video consists of female dancers in fox costumes roving the city streets at night... and, at one point, raiding trash cans for food. Supposedly the artist himself was supposed to be in there somewhere, but he hated the concept so much that they had to film it without him.
• The video for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's "Higher than the Stars" features a woman who gets invited to a party that turns out to be full of fursuiters.
• The video for "Savior" by Rise Against has a mosh pit filled with people in animal suits, and a heartwarming-ish scene on a bus late at night with a couple of the participants.
• "Hey Baby, Here's That Song You Wanted" by Blessthefall has a video that's kind of a take off of The Hangover, and has a guy in a moose costume who doesn't speak English.
• Related - LMFAO's videos always include a guy in a cardboard box robot costume, called The Shuffle Bot.

Examples outside music videos

Film

• The dog suit from the novel and movie The Shining.
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has a wonderful scene where Raoul Duke has an LSD hallucination, in which the people in the bar of his hotel all turn into lizards.
  • "Hey, look. There's two women fucking a polar bear."
    • Later on, that polar bear hits a party in San Andreas.
• In the Eddie Murphy/Dan Aykroyd movie Trading Places, there's a guy in a gorilla suit at the New Year's Eve Party on the train.
• In Hot Tub Time Machine, a music-driven montage showing the main characters enjoying the titual hot tub while getting hammered. At some point the increasingly fragmented and spinning shots start showing a guy in a large bear suit partying with them.

Live-Action TV

• In adverts for UK teen drama Skins, a house party featured people in animal suits.
• Promos for comedian George Lopez's new series consist of hordes of people gathering when they hear he's having a party. Among the crowds are someone in a bunny suit, and a man with feathered wings strapped to his back (who flies to the rumored party!).
• In the Nickelodeon crossover special iParty with Victorious, there is a man in a panda suit smacking people on the butt with a tennis racket at a party.

Web Original

• Furry Fandom: Kinda goes without saying, but...

Video Games

• The Sims 2: University actually has guys running in llama suits at parties. If someone in a cow suit shows up, they're there to cause a ruckus.
  • The llama and cow are referenced in other places as school mascots - the ruckus is implied to be college sports rivalry.