We movin like berney

October 29, 2010 8:57 AM

Hot New Dance Craze Hits the South (Via)

Based on the 'popular' 1990s 'comedy' Weekend At Bernie's (II?)

'Official' Song

posted by Potomac Avenue (39 comments total)

It looks like they're doing the Newt from the first season of Jeeves and Wooster.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 9:01 AM on October 29, 2010 [3 favorites]

Finally a dance I can do!
posted by InfidelZombie at 9:02 AM on October 29, 2010 [4 favorites]

I understand people are dying to to this!
posted by Mike D at 9:02 AM on October 29, 2010

Better than daggering.
posted by empath at 9:03 AM on October 29, 2010

Looks like we're well on our way to the WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE dance.
posted by chambers at 9:08 AM on October 29, 2010 [5 favorites]

I have to object to a lyric: "hold ya head back like a nosebleed comin' through"

Don't do that.

Alright, now go back to your zombie dancing, crazy kids.
posted by ghharr at 9:09 AM on October 29, 2010

I definitely don't understand that 'hold your head back when you have a nosebleed' advice. I get nosebleeds all the damn time, and the last thing I want is a belly full of blood. Ugh. Just use a tissue.
posted by echo target at 9:16 AM on October 29, 2010

Looks like we're well on our way to the WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE dance

Oho, do I have a song for (and video) you.

I have to object to a lyric: "hold ya head back like a nosebleed comin' through"

Don't do that.

Related pop song lyrics vs. real-life best practices: Polaroid warns buyers not to 'shake it'
posted by filthy light thief at 9:16 AM on October 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

hold your head back when you have a nosebleed

It's in the same way that Outkast states shake it like a Polaroid picture. It is indicative of the genre by using a commonly held false belief to instruct the listeners to dance in a way that is ingrained in their common understanding.
posted by wcfields at 9:22 AM on October 29, 2010

God damn it, filthy light thief!
posted by wcfields at 9:22 AM on October 29, 2010

Dead people dance like this.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:23 AM on October 29, 2010 [3 favorites]

the last thing I want is a belly full of blood.

Sir, I served with Edward Cullen. I worked with Edward Cullen. Edward Cullen was a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Edward Cullen.
posted by Greg Nog at 9:24 AM on October 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

Excellent! Glad to hear it.
posted by echo target at 9:27 AM on October 29, 2010

It is indicative of the genre by using a commonly held false belief to instruct the listeners to dance in a way that is ingrained in their common understanding.

I can't wait for the homeopathy dance. "Time to get down! Move your hips .01mm to the left!"
posted by ghharr at 9:30 AM on October 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

I'm convinced black people make stuff like this up to troll white people.

- the Reddit title to this video
posted by christonabike at 9:34 AM on October 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

I can't wait for the homeopathy dance. "Time to get down! Move your hips .01mm to the left!"

More like, "Move your hips 100X to the left!"

[stands still; drinks very large glass of water]
posted by uncleozzy at 9:36 AM on October 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

I almost posted this yesterday. I love it. I LOVE IT. I will be dancing like this until I am dead, and then afterwards, too.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:39 AM on October 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Oho, do I have a song for (and video) you.

!!!!

filthy light thief, you just made my day! in a good way. Not in a Dirty Harry kind of way.
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 9:42 AM on October 29, 2010

I alwayz do dis shit while ghost ridin' mah whip while it go
WOO WOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo
posted by Debaser626 at 9:57 AM on October 29, 2010

There is only one style of new dance worth speaking of in the last 25 years of popular music. And that is... dick slangin'.
posted by FatherDagon at 10:05 AM on October 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Weekend at Bernie's is the only movie I have ever walked out on in my entire life. I didn't need two hours to get the gist: Bernie was dead.

Wait! So I never saw the end. Does it turn out that Bernie was actually alive the whole time? That would be awesome--an anti-Sixth Sense. Honestly, if that's not the way it ended, don't tell me. In my head, that film suddenly became genius.
posted by etc. at 10:06 AM on October 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Make it slightly less rhythmic, and this is pretty much how I'd dance to Skinny Puppy in my early 20's.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 10:07 AM on October 29, 2010

I am disappointed that this isn't a dance for three people! Where are the Larry Wilson and Richard Parker dancers to hold up Bernie?
posted by orme at 10:13 AM on October 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

I liked the stiff white boy dancing on the porch.

Better than daggering.

Daggering has its issues (including penis breakage), but the weird part in that link wasn't the daggering -- it was how he walked off with the woman slung over his shoulder, leaving everyone just sort of standing there confused.
posted by Forktine at 10:16 AM on October 29, 2010

I wish I liked this, I really do.
posted by Evernix at 10:40 AM on October 29, 2010

I am disappointed that this isn't a dance for three people! Where are the Larry Wilson and Richard Parker dancers to hold up Bernie?

No, it's based off of Bernie's voodoo "zombie" dance from the sequel.
posted by dgaicun at 11:05 AM on October 29, 2010

Oho, do I have a song for (and video) you.

In a similar vein, this was featured on a recent episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
posted by JauntyFedora at 11:23 AM on October 29, 2010

Wwwwwwwwwwwaitaminnit, Forktine, the headline from your link is "Penis breakage incidents triple as a result of..." Triple???? Please tell me that means they're still at zero!!

Because the alternative is .. gulp ... too horrible to contemplate.
posted by Michael Roberts at 11:25 AM on October 29, 2010

echo target: I get nosebleeds all the damn time, and the last thing I want is a belly full of blood. Ugh.

I dunno. Once, during travels in Portugal I had a rice dish prepared with a fresh rabbit blood sauce. It was positively delicious.

Then again I also lick up the blood when I cut my finger or something...
posted by Hairy Lobster at 11:45 AM on October 29, 2010

Who else is embaressed to be a black person besides me

top comment on YouTube

I am not black, so this complicates my assent to the above in various and sundry ways, but I empathize with their position.
posted by randomkeystrike at 12:08 PM on October 29, 2010

Easier on the knees than crabcore. Will definitely teach it to the seniors the next time I play down at the rehab center.
posted by fungible at 12:12 PM on October 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Who else is embaressed to be a black person besides me
top comment on YouTube

...And the next several are, of course, white folks noting that they're embarrassed to be black, too.
posted by me3dia at 1:12 PM on October 29, 2010

I thought he said "like Barney"...
posted by wierdo at 2:33 PM on October 29, 2010

empath, that clip makes me think I am probably past my dance hall days ... or at least at any Major Lazer events. For an even more impressive display of daggering by Skerrit Bwoy, there is (nsfw?) Pon de Floor.
posted by madamjujujive at 3:56 PM on October 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Weirdly, what this post mostly makes me think of is that people who are "natural" dancers, who really have control over their bodies, can make ANYTHING look good. Seriously, I can't get my body to do a lot of the stuff that some of those dancers are doing. The guy in red in his living room is great.
posted by Polyhymnia at 7:15 PM on October 29, 2010

I kinda want to see a few dozen costumed zombies all dancing like this at tomorrow night's big Halloween party. Does that make me a bad person?
posted by LordSludge at 8:02 PM on October 29, 2010

I don't even know what to make of this. I know dance crazes come and go but wow, what an obscure and odd subject to choose? It's not like Weekend at Bernie's is constantly rolling around in our collective subconscious 24/7...
posted by EricGjerde at 9:24 AM on October 30, 2010

When that red carpet dancer walked into the door, stopped for a moment, than started dancing again I started laughing until my eyes leaked.

I love this movie, but I cannot explain why. I am happy to see it live on in a trendy, dance format.
posted by chemoboy at 3:58 PM on October 30, 2010

Hah, the first comment I'm seeing on the Youtube page is:

"God damnit, token white guy. How do you manage to fuck up the Berney!??"

I have to admit I'm amused by a Youtube comment. This is a nice change.
posted by formless at 4:56 PM on October 30, 2010