Top Ten | Artistic Dancing Characters

Have you seen the lineup for the newest season of "Dancing with the Stars?!" Besides having that overexposed hag Kate Gosselin in there (see our Open Letter), we love, love, LOVE everything about this cast. Hopefully Shannen Doherty will punch Kate in the face, or maybe Buzz Aldrin will drop dead on the floor. Who knows what could happen with this cast? Our excitement has led us to consider our Top 10 favorite artsy dancing people (and animals):

10. The penguins from "Happy Feet" (2006): They're cute, they're cuddly AND they can dance. Who doesn't want to see a bunch of tap-dancing penguins like Mumble bust a move?

9. Tom Cruise in "Risky Business" (1983): Need we say more?

8. Turk from "Scrubs:" Remember that time Turk danced to Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison" (1990) in order to get into the janitor's air band? No? YouTube it. Dude's got slick moves, you can't deny it. And when he points to his wrist when the singer says "time?" Squeal!

7. Jake Blues from "The Blues Brothers" (1980): Few moments in film rival the agile epiphany of Jake Blues (John Belushi) during a gospel sermon delivered by the Reverend Cleophus James (James Brown). Possessed with the Holy Spirit, the roguish and rotund Belushi begins to tremor, then launches into a nimble series of flips and tumbles. And all without losing his stylish Ray-Ban's. You gotta give it up for that.

6. Elaine from "Seinfeld" (1990-1998): We're not really sure how to describe Elaine's iconic dance, which may have been one of the funniest moments of the famed television series. What we do know is that she's got moves.

5. Hugh Grant in "Love Actually" (2003): Grant proves that the Brits can break it down, too with some hip shaking and disco style finger pointing.

4. John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever" (1977) and "Pulp Fiction" (1994): Travolta has always had the dancing bug, and there is no other actor in Hollywood who can pull off skin tight white leather in one film and long, luscious locks in the next. We will have some Royale with that cheese.

3. Carlton Banks from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990-1996): Probably the most amazing thing about actor Alfonso Ribeiro's ode to lame white dancers and Tom Jones is how his shoulders and his butt seem to be moving completely independent of each other. Also how he's using a candlestick as a microphone.

2. Jon Heder in "Napoleon Dynamite" (2004): This lanky ginger rocked the stage with a dance so funky we couldn't help but vote for Pedro.

1. Christopher Walken in the "Weapon of Choice" (2003) music video: Perhaps inspired by a feverish need for more cowbell, Christopher Walken dances, prances, jumps and jives through an empty hotel in this Fatboy Slim music video. Without losing his impeccable composure, Mr. Walken abruptly leaps off of a balcony to display his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-esque abilities. Let's see the celebrities on "Dancing with the Stars" do that!

—compiled by the Daily Arts Department