# Has any group ever recreated The Banzai Strut?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-group-ever-recreated-the-banzai-strut/938627 "2021-03-25T01:37:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-group-ever-recreated-the-banzai-strut/938627/1 "2021-03-25T01:37:01Z")

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As shown in the end credits of \* The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension\*:  
[Buckaroo Banzai End Credits - video Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3k6t2x)

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-group-ever-recreated-the-banzai-strut/938627/2 "2021-03-25T01:47:17Z")

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I’ll defer to film buffs here, but at the time I assumed they were taking some old “heroes walk toward the camera” trope and exaggerating it.

Ahhh, it did come out shortly after _The Right Stuff_ had the slo-mo astronaut walk…

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-group-ever-recreated-the-banzai-strut/938627/3 "2021-03-25T01:51:30Z")

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The end of the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou pays homage to the scene. Both also include Jeff Goldblum.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cJ2x4gtyNPk/hqdefault.jpg "David Bowie - Queen Bitch from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou end credits") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2x4gtyNPk)

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-group-ever-recreated-the-banzai-strut/938627/4 "2021-03-25T01:58:06Z")

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I was thinking about fan groups or conventioneers…but that is _great!_

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-group-ever-recreated-the-banzai-strut/938627/5 "2021-03-25T08:10:46Z")

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The tv show Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955 to 1959) opened with a very similar scene

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/r2F4K7nbcgs/hqdefault.jpg ""Tales Of The Texas Rangers" ~ Intro and Outro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2F4K7nbcgs)