# Shabba Doo RIP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabba-doo-rip/929296>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [December 30, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabba-doo-rip/929296 "2020-12-30T22:46:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabba-doo-rip/929296/1 "2020-12-30T22:46:01Z")

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Adolfo “Shabba Doo” Quinones has died on the same day as Dawn Wells!

Reading about him on Wikipedia, he was born and raised in Chicago. A fellow Chicagoan!

I remember him from the original movie _Breakin’_. I really enjoyed it, but I never really remember seeing him in anything else.

Okay, 2020, we get it. You hate humanity.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabba-doo-rip/929296/2 "2020-12-31T01:06:51Z")

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I certainly recognize the name; he was often on TV a lot in the late '70s and early '80s. I associate him with Fred “Rerun” Berry, as I seem to recall that they appeared together a few times (and they were both members of the Lockers dance group).

I also now see that he was a dancer in _Xanadu_, and a successful choreographer.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabba-doo-rip/929296/3 "2020-12-31T02:02:31Z")

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aw man

RIP brother; you done good

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**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabba-doo-rip/929296/4 "2020-12-31T02:11:01Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#):
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> Okay, 2020, we get it. You hate humanity.

But, who doesn’t, outside humanity?

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**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabba-doo-rip/929296/5 "2020-12-31T18:51:28Z")

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RIP, Ozone ☹