Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 12, 2022

Oh…kayyy …??

White boy dancing. Avert your eyes.

Is that the Buck-and-Wing?

Do that Funky Chicken.

Arlo has never seen the movie “Hitch” or if he has chooses to ignore the good advice.

He’s a dancing machine. Or a flapping bird. Bird is the word.

♪♫ Can’t stop dancin’

Just because the music’s gone

Hey hey hey, can’t stop dancin’, no – just because the band

Has packed up and gone-ah home ♪♫

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♪♫ Can’t stop dancin’ just because the music’s gone

‘Cause if you keep on dancin’

If you keep on dancin’, hey if you keep on dancin’

You’re gonna turn the music back on ♪♫

“The Funky Chicken” would be the obvious song call here. But in my head, I’m hearing “Shake Your Rump” by the Beastie Boys.

Cock-a-doodle doo!

This is what I heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZlw4O1qzk

Jerry and Gene Kelly

It’s a good thing that he doesn’t know we’re watching.

Im a Dancin Fool!

Arlo must now send his Man Card back to the home office

He’s a maniac! Maniac, that’s all. And he’s dancin’ like he’s never danced before!

So can Elaine Benes!

Maybe Arlo has “St. Vitus Dance”?

Quack quack…he’s the Discoooo duuuuck !

Reminds me of Snoopy dancing and Lucy criticizing him because of the condition of the world…

♫♪ When me and my friends go out on the town

We can’t sit still and we can’t sit down

We don’t like to fight and we don’t like to scuffle

But we dance all night doing the Curly shuffle ♪♫

— Jump ’N the Saddle Band, The Curly Shuffle, 1984

The Quack Quack dance?

This is why the Chicken Dance is regarded as a mere trifle—it was only ever a novelty—and even Charlie Brown tried it for a funny little moment in “The Peanuts Movie” . .

Arlo is showing his age. https://youtu.be/8lCI63H1neY https://youtu.be/BwafG-QvEFc

Nobody does the chicken wing anymore.

Leo Sayer.

Chicken Dance!

I think he’s doing the Bird dance from the 80s by Morris Day.

I remember that from American Bandstand, it’s called the “Flustered Chicken Dance”.

doing the funky chicken

Perhaps the St. Vitus dance ??

Nyuk nyuk nkuk….

Looks like the funky chicken.

The Funky Chicken?

He’s doin the “Shimmy she wobble and the Elephant squabble” aka the Elaine Bennis dance! ;o}

If you say so…..

one of those things open to interpretation

great form of exercise you can do inside, being as silly as you want on a cold winter day!

I thought he was pretending to be Gertrude & Heathcliff…

Looks like Arlo took some bad acid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZlw4O1qzk

The Chicken

Lay down that boogie and play that funky music til you die. Wild Cherry

looks like a little kid trying to fly

You should be dancing! Yeah!

He’s burning some calories. Other than that, who knows what he is doing? He doesn’t even seem to be having fun any more. They dance together now and then for fun and exercise.

Oh great, now I have an ear worm.

Careful, you might become airborne.

I’m dancing, dancing… isn’t that from a Bee Gee’s song?

Macarena?

Ah, a fan of the funky Chicken.

Dancing without music looks stupid!

The crazy chicken.

Some of us know our limitations.

I do NOT dance unless I am drunk.

I have not picked up a drink for 37 years.

The world is a much better place.

it’s the chicken dance

How did Janis gain so much weight from the third panel to the fourth?

Nice rendition of the Funky Chicken

Conjures up an image of Boris Yeltsin….. NOT a good one.