Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Seinfeld character Elaine Benes showed us how to dance in 1996, but her horribly awkward dancing became a meme decades later. The dance was first seen in the Seinfeld episode “Little Kicks,” and Elaine was quite proud of the dance she invented. Since then it’s become the subject of a meme, tributes, and even dance contests. It’s appealing because for one thing, it illustrates the character so well, but more importantly it gave all of us an example of someone who actually dances worse than we do.
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Now The Bell Bros. have liberated dancing Elaine from Seinfeld entirely and have her dancing in pop culture’s most iconic dance scenes from West Side Story to The Office to Dirty Dancing (a list of the scenes are posted in a comment at YouTube). What’s weird is how well her bizarre dance moves fit in, whether the dancers around her are competent or not. (via Boing Boing)
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