# Weird Dance In MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE ADVERT **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 23, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741 "2002-03-23T20:22:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/1 "2002-03-23T20:22:18Z")
I have seen the ad for the Mitsubishi Eclipse sportscar, and am wodering what kind of dance the girl in the passenger seat is doing! She is either spastic, or is performing a dance which I’ve never seen before-she bobs and weaves her head and arms in some very strange fashion-anybody know what the hell she is doing?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/2 "2002-03-23T20:24:31Z")
Moving to the music. Never heard of it? ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/3 "2002-03-23T20:26:16Z")
Never seen that kind of dance before? You’re making me feel old. Kids these days… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/4 "2002-03-23T20:41:30Z")
It’s an early variant of breakdancing called popping and locking. Here’s a description: [http://www.msu.edu/user/okumurak/styles/pop.html](http://www.msu.edu/user/okumurak/styles/pop.html) ---
**Author:** ![Weeks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/5 "2002-03-23T22:17:55Z")
Well, 10% of my viewing pleasure comes from thinking it looks as though it was shot and then played backwards. Now watch it again and tell me it doesn’t look a little like that. ---
**Author:** ![Stinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Stinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/6 "2002-03-23T22:31:26Z")
I don’t know but she’s kinda cute in an Olive Oil type of way.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![SouprChckn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@SouprChckn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouprChckn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/7 "2002-03-23T23:19:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El\_Kabong \* > **It’s an early variant of breakdancing called popping and locking.** It’s called pop-locking now for short. ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/8 "2002-03-24T01:19:55Z")
## quote: ## \*Originally posted by El\_Kabong \* **It’s an early variant of breakdancing called popping and locking.** > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SouprChckn \* > \*\* > It’s called pop-locking now for short. \*\* So they’re trying to sell a “hot” car, to young people, by using a dance form that is, what, 20+ years old? Anyway, my take on the ad is that I thought this poor woman was having some sort of seizure. In one of the shots that shows the driver’s face, could he be thinking _“If I take this turn just right, and unhook her seat belt, she should fall out… darn, gotta open the door somehow, too.”_ ---
**Author:** ![mighty\_maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@mighty\_maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mighty_maxx)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/9 "2002-03-24T02:48:12Z")
While we are onthe topic of that car commercial, what is the song they play, and who is it by? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/10 "2002-03-24T03:00:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mighty\_maxx \* > \*\*While we are onthe topic of that car commercial, what is the song they play, and who is it by? \*\* “Days go By” by Dirty Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/11 "2002-03-24T03:04:17Z")
Supposedly, they are “a british pop group they made their debut with the TV Commercial on March 11. They felt that it would be better to try the music with the commercial first before releasing their CD in the U.S.”. This was sent by someone to me via PM just now. They have a website, where you can hear the song. [http://www.dirtyvegas.com/](http://www.dirtyvegas.com/) ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/12 "2002-03-24T04:20:57Z")
Since the thread is now about anything…when I first saw the commercial my main thought was “She must be the top half to the bottom half of the guy in the Levi’s commercial.” ---
**Author:** ![SouprChckn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@SouprChckn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouprChckn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/13 "2002-03-24T05:31:08Z")
Well, pop locking may have been “invented” many years ago but people still do it now. It’s more a part of the hip hop scene I suppose. As a young person, I’m hardly persuaded to buy that car because anyone is pop locking in it, though. Maybe they should have gotten a significantly better looking chick to do it. Or made a better car. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dance-in-mitsubishi-eclipse-advert/99741/14 "2002-03-24T05:55:26Z")
I like that commercial. > [@](#): > > when I first saw the commercial my main thought was “She must be the top half to the bottom half of the guy in the Levi’s commercial.” – Funny! 🆒