I need the name of a certain dance to aid me in my search to find pictures of women doing it.
It was a dance that I think was done in the 60’s. It actually might be 2 types of dances. The first move(/dance?) is a person, (usually women) pinching their noses with one hand, and waving their arm above their head as if they were diving in water. The second move(/dance?) is a person “punching” the air one arm at a time bending over each time they do so. I’m not sure if I’m exact on the second dance move.
On The Simpsons they showed Homer fantising he was sitting and relaxing outside of his house with Marge and a few (1 or 2 or 3) other women doing these dances.
Anyone know what the names are of these? Anyone, by big chance, know where I can find pics of women doing this dance?
I’m thinking that the second dance you’re describing is the “Monkey,” but I’m having trouble finding pictures. Is the dance in question the same as from Season 4, “Duffless?”
The “mashed potato” involves kinda crouching while alternately raising and lowering your arms - not quite the same as your description, but certainly fits given the context and era. Fists are closed, as opposed to the swimming portion of “the swim”, when hands are definitely flat. For whatever that’s worth.
I’ll bet the episode was Duffless which starts with a dream sequence: Bart imagining he wins the school’s science fair by inventing “The Go-Go Ray.” The victims, once zapped, are compelled to dance. The settings, and victims, were as follows:
Off
The Jerk (Mr. Largo)
Monkey (Mrs. Krabappel)
Mashed Potato (Skinner)
The Swim (Mrs. Hoover)
The Freddie (J. Loren Pryor)
Hoover’s “Swim” is as you described. Krabappel gasps “Can’t…stop…doing…the Monkey!” when she is zapped. The “punching” you describe is supposed to symbolize climbing a vine.
No … I THINK it was of Homer, sitting out by the front door… I think he was in formal wear and women were (Marge and another… maybe more than two) were dancing. I thought at first it was him dreaming about what it would be like to work at home if he got to fat to go out, but that’s not it… now I’m thinking it might be him dreaming about what it would be like he had two wives or something. I don’t know. I really may be way, WAY off. I think that was the beginning of his fantasy though.
It might be “Viva Ned Flanders.” Synopsis: After Ned realizes he’s never really lived, he asks Homer to show him how to be irresponsible. Homer takes Ned to Vegas where, after a night of gambling and white wine spritzers, the two wake up to discover that they have two new wives. At one point, Homer fantasizes about the advantages of having two wives; this consists of him sitting on his fat a** while the wives work. I don’t recall what (or if) they danced in this day dream.
no, they weren’t dancing in the las vegas one… one was chopping wood, and the other was (i think) digging:
Homer: Chop, Chop, Dig, Dig
Marge: You know, there’s so much more that 2 women could do for you…
Homer: I hear chopping but I don’t hear digging… (or possibly vice versa)