I'm currently nearing the end of the of glorious podcast Lois & Clark'd: The New Podcasts of Superman. Last night I was listening to the AKA Superman episode, and Matt (the host) and the guests were confused about the "dance" Lois & Penny do while trying to escape.
I was 16 when this episode aired, and I (like the podcasters) had no idea what this tune/dance was. I only learned about it later, as an educator, when a fellow teacher had her class perform it as part of a skit or something.
The dance is called The Bunny Hop, and here is a video of it from 1953.
Recently, I asked my mom, who was born in 1952, if she knew what The Bunny Hop was, and she said yes; they used to do it in gym class in school.
Lois, however, was born in 1967. We don't know how old Penny is; but maybe 22? (Kristanna Loken, the actress, was 17!) Would they really have been as familiar with it?
That got me thinking... maybe the writer of this episode was a grandpa or something. BUT NO! It was thirtysomething Jeffrey Vlaming (1959-2023; RIP.)
All that said, as I recall, the scene in the episode uses the song weirdly and IT'S JUST ALL WEIRD, OKAY?
I remember when AKA Superman aired and how delighted the fans were that Lois's humorous self was "back." (I should mention that "the fans" were the follow FOLCs over on the Compuserve message boards that I frequented. As the show's ratings dropped, so did the number of people on the forums. I was never entirely sure if they stopped being fans or if they'd merely migrated over to AOL.)
Throwing stuff on the floor in a restaurant, going underneath a table, and hitting your invulnerable husband in the head with chopsticks are apparently all very funny things.
