The Blue Oyster Bar is a recurring gag from the Police Academy comedy films, first released in the 1980s. Cadets and officers are tricked into entering the bar and are then forced by its leather clad patrons to tango dance. The scene became one of the series most remembered running jokes and was repeated in later sequels. Online, clips and the music are shared in Russian and English speaking communities as a shorthand for an embarrassing trap, an unwanted dance, or walking into completely the wrong place.