Do The Monkey

Cafe Society
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Okay, I give up. How do you do The Monkey? And The Jerk and The Swim? And those other old dances from the ‘Dance Craze’ era?

I thought The Monkey was basically the one where you move your fists up and down in front of you, but a coworker wondered if that was The Jerk. So I looked on YouTube to see if I could find The Monkey. I found a video with a couple of guys diong moves, but they did the Pulp Fiction looking-through-two-fingers move and the holding-the-nose-and-pretending-to-drown move so I wondered if they knew what they were doing.

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Holding the nose and going down is The Swim. The Monkey is like you said, arms up and down (in time) in front of you. The Jerk is something like a hitchikers’ thumb over the shoulder as you jerk your body.

I’m barely old enough to remember these, I swear… :wink:

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I actually remember doing The Twist at an O-Club when I was three, but I looked it up anyway:

When I read ‘wiping your bottom with a towel’, I actually got the image of that butt-flossing thing some people do with towels.

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So this thread isn’t about Portnoy’s Complaint…?

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Courtesy of the Blues Brothers:

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Awesome! You made me grin! I love that movie…

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I can do the Frug. I can do the Robocop. I can do the Freddie. I cannot do the Smurf.

How does one do the Frug, the Robocop, the Freddie, and the Smurf?

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I was going to start a new thread but we might as well continue with this one.
So far the Jerk, the Twist, the Swim and the Monkey has been covered. But how do you do:

the watusi
the skate
the twine
the mashed potato
the boo-ga-loo
the shing-a-ling
the duck
the philly dog

?

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The Mashed Potato is practically impossible for me. You have to move your ankles sideways. My ankles don’t go like that.
I want to learn the shag.

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Remember the Waddle? The Limbo? The Hully Gully?

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The Pony

anybody can do the Pony.