# Best Harlem Shake Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201 "2013-03-06T16:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/1 "2013-03-06T16:57:06Z")
[Minnesota Timberwolves finally do something about this nonsense.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/timberwolves-harlem-shake-video-heat-lebron_n_2813025.html?utm_hp_ref=sports) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/2 "2013-03-06T18:40:29Z")
Anti-Harlem Shake videos are the new Harlem Shake videos ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/3 "2013-03-06T22:38:58Z")
And it [seems](http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/06/harlem-shaking-the-arab-world/?hpt=hp_t3) that the Egyptians and Tunisians may start playing this out in real life…perhaps they will hire the wolf guy and some of his furry minions to do it with real bats in the near future. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/4 "2013-03-06T22:48:07Z")
The [FBI](http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/confused-fbi-agent-continues-search-for-harlem-sheikh/) is currently looking for the Harlem Sheikh for terrorist activities. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/5 "2013-03-06T22:55:57Z")
No, this is the best one. Snoopy rocks! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wqZc2dyClko/hqdefault.jpg "Harlem Shake (Peanuts Edition)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZc2dyClko) ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/6 "2013-03-06T23:10:50Z")
Sorry but that was terrible. Also they got their asses whoopped by the Miami Heat ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/7 "2013-03-06T23:10:51Z")
> [@XT](#): > > And it [seems](http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/06/harlem-shaking-the-arab-world/?hpt=hp_t3) that the Egyptians and Tunisians may start playing this out in real life…perhaps they will hire the wolf guy and some of his furry minions to do it with real bats in the near future. :eek: Subversive use of the Harlem Shake is certainly allowable. But what I’ve seen in this country deserves the bat. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/8 "2013-03-06T23:16:15Z")
Too bad they’re about 3 weeks too late. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/9 "2013-03-07T09:53:05Z")
In the future every internet meme will be fashionable for 15 seconds. I’m a curmudgeon and simply start off by ignoring every one these things and thinking them worthless shit from the get-go. Saves time. In fact I’m ahead of the curve by hating the next one even before it has been conceived. I haven’t seen the “Harlem Shake” but would I be right in assuming it is a bunch of gurning gits dancing “ironically”? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/10 "2013-03-07T10:59:04Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I’m a curmudgeon and simply start off by ignoring every one these things and thinking them worthless shit from the get-go. Saves time. In fact I’m ahead of the curve by hating the next one even before it has been conceived. Oh, you hipsters, always “I was irritated by them before anybody”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/11 "2013-03-07T12:07:40Z")
I wouldn’t mind so much if the music didn’t sound like a hard drive malfunctioning. Even Psy managed to put together something musically catchy. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/12 "2013-03-07T15:19:00Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Oh, you hipsters, always “I was irritated by them before anybody”. **Bobble** hated hating hipsters before hipster hating happened. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/13 "2013-03-07T16:17:08Z")
I’m certainly no Harlem Shake authority but this video seems to be popular among my facebook friends: [Melissa Harris-Perry straightens white America out on the Harlem Shake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIgzzHOQWiA) I don’t perceive it as anti-Harlem Shake as much as “Hey Everybody, You’re doing it wrong” You know, fighting ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/14 "2013-03-07T16:19:09Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Oh, you hipsters, always “I was irritated by them before anybody”. Seriously though, you guys weren’t already sick of Harlem Shake by the middle of February? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/15 "2013-03-07T16:57:11Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > In the future every internet meme will be fashionable for 15 seconds. > > I’m a curmudgeon and simply start off by ignoring every one these things and thinking them worthless shit from the get-go. Saves time. In fact I’m ahead of the curve by hating the next one even before it has been conceived. > > I haven’t seen the “Harlem Shake” but would I be right in assuming it is a bunch of gurning gits dancing “ironically”? I guess I’m the opposite I still like the Hat Dance and All you base belongs to us as well as other internet memes even though nobody thinks there hip anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/16 "2013-03-07T17:04:16Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I guess I’m the opposite I still like the Hat Dance and All you base belongs to us as well as other internet memes even though nobody thinks there hip anymore. I feel somewhat vindicated by the fact that I have not the slightest idea what you are talking about. And I hate them anyway, and myself for feeling so smug and superior. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/17 "2013-03-07T19:49:41Z")
> [@gwendee](#): > > I’m certainly no Harlem Shake authority but this video seems to be popular among my facebook friends: > > [Melissa Harris-Perry straightens white America out on the Harlem Shake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIgzzHOQWiA) > > I don’t perceive it as anti-Harlem Shake as much as “Hey Everybody, You’re doing it wrong” You know, fighting ignorance. I’ll make you a deal: if any of the authentic Harlem Shake dancers she praises for doing it on the subway can even find Queensland (where the five kids who started the Internet meme chose that song almost at random live) on a map, I’ll join her in blaming those same five kids for “cultural theft.” Or, better yet, I’ll just commit some cultural theft here: “sheeet!” Time was it was always white people scolding Black people for enjoying themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/18 "2013-03-07T20:30:46Z")
[quote=“PunditLisa, post:5, topic:652201”] No, this is the best one. Snoopy rocks! [/QUOTE] you reminded me of [this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brpub0hTbjs) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-harlem-shake-ever/652201/19 "2013-03-07T23:01:08Z")
> [@gwendee](#): > > I’m certainly no Harlem Shake authority but this video seems to be popular among my facebook friends: > > [Melissa Harris-Perry straightens white America out on the Harlem Shake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIgzzHOQWiA) > > I don’t perceive it as anti-Harlem Shake as much as “Hey Everybody, You’re doing it wrong” You know, fighting ignorance. I think she’s missing the point. Those videos aren’t really about doing a particular dance, they’re just about being goofy. I think most people in these “Harlem Shake” videos aren’t under the impression that they’re doing an actual dance. Whether they know that there really is a Harlem Shake doesn’t matter. They’re called Harlem Shake videos because the song they all use has that line in it. It would be like going on television and presenting a rational argument (with a straight face) that [this isn’t a link to Harlem Shake video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)