Here’s everything you need to know about the Carlton Dance. Hit it, Tom Jones.
Most dance crazes of the '80s and '90s were created with good intentions. And while that might seem impossible now, things like the Macarena, Vogue-dancing, and the Running Man — these were originally created to make you look cool. Of course, there's one dance of the '90s that is based in 100 percent pure dork. It is none other than the Carlton Dance — the signature move of Carlton Banks of The Fresh Prince — and it looks like this:
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But, what most people don't know, says Alfonso Ribeiro, the actor who played Carlton, is that it isn't a completely random spasm of dad-dancing. BuzzFeed got the legend himself to tell us about the fabled Carlton Dance, and here's the tale:
There was a video of Bruce Springsteen and Courteney Cox called Dancing in the Dark, and Bruce Springsteen pulls her up onto the stage and she basically does that dance.
