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* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Captain Jack Sparrow has a rather odd gait based on that of Keith Richards. He also has a silly ''run'', known as "The Lizard Run" because he waves his hands around while he does it.
* [[Robin Williams]] in ''[[The Birdcage]]'' and other times he's playing a homosexual character does a rather exaggerated mincing walk. Compared to Nathan Lane it's downright manly though.
* Torgo in ''[[Manos: theThe Hands of Fate]]'' has an odd gait meant to imply that he's a satyr with goat-like legs whose knees bend the wrong way.
* Pretty much anyone playing [[The Igor|Igor]] in a work based on ''[[Frankenstein]]'' does this, notably Marty Feldman in ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''.
* [[The Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]] had a distinctive walk, slightly too low to the ground.
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* ''Mickey Blue Eyes'' has a scene where the eponymous protagonist and his [[Mafia Princess]] love interest are running; she collapses in laughter, telling him to "stop doing the funny run" and he's embarrassed to admit that he wasn't doing it for comic effect; that's just how he runs.
** For the record, that's how Hugh Grant ''actually runs''.
* Discussed, but not shown, in ''[[Grizzly Man (Film)|Grizzly Man]]'' when one of the interviewees mentions how Timothy Treadwell got into trouble at the restaurant he once worked at for doing one of these in front of customers.
 
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': The [[Trope Namer]] is the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.
* [[Frank Zappa]] has a memorable role as a hunchback in "The Boy Who Left Home to Learn About the Shivers," an episode of ''[[Faerie Tale Theatre]]''. His bizarre walk has to be seen to be believed.
* Kryten of [[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]] is particularly strange, but not lampshaded till Series 7.
** Robert Llewlyn, Kryten's actor, came up with the walk during the audition... and when he learned Doug Naylor has a false leg, left the audition lamenting about how he'd blown his chance.
* ''[[Lazy TownLazyTown]]'''s Robbie Rotten's trademark walk involves flailing his arms and swaying his hips far harder than any person should deem necessary.
* ''[[One Foot in Thethe Grave]]'': "Oh no, here it comes, the Ministry of Silly Walks!"
* The serial killer Sqweegel, from ''CSI'', employs an extremely '''creepy''' style of walk while sneaking around his intended victims' homes, going on all fours and alternately moving one hand and the opposite foot. Together with his black leather bodysuit and lithe build, it creates the visual impression of a crawling spider.
* ''[[Pitagora Suicchi]]'': [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/253567/the_algorithm_march/ The Algorithm March.]
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== Manga ==
 
* In ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'', L Lawliet's distinctive way of walking while slouching forward with his knees slightly bent is another one of the traits that Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba incorporated to his design(along with other strange quirks like sitting in a crouched position and holding objects with only his thumb and index)in order to make him the perfect rival of Light: As brilliant as him but the total opposite of his perfect image.
 
== Radio ==
* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in the ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (Radio)|I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again]]'' 25th aniversary [[Reunion Show]], which portrayed the post-''Python'' [[John Cleese (Creator)|John Cleese]] as obsessed with silly walks, and constantly attempting to work them into his film roles. ("In ''[[Silverado]]'' they wouldn't even let me hop! The part of the sheriff was crying out for it, but they wouldn't even let the horse do it!") He agrees to rejoin the Prune gang on condition he is allowed to use "the comedy legs", only for this to prove terrible radio.
 
 
== Video Games ==
 
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'': [[The Joker]] in the DLC has a ''very'' unusual default walk -- [[Milking the Giant Cow]] upstairs, [[Saturday Night Fever]] pimp-strut downstairs with more than a hint of [[Mary Poppins|Cockney]]/[[Oasis|Madchester]] swagger thrown in. [[Large Ham|All part of the plan, of course.]]
* Wario in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''.
* Inspector Cabanela of ''[[Ghost Trick]]''.
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* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': Marvin the Martian's distinctive shuffling walk.
* ''[[Classic Disney Shorts]]'': Goofy had a distinctive walk in the 1930s, with his knees bending backward and his feet swiveling nearly all the way around. It carried over into ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. It's particularly noticeable in the Timeless River.
* ''[[Cow and Chicken (Animation)|Cow and Chicken]]'': The Red Guy often 'walks' on his buttocks when crossing large distances. When he's in a hurry, he's just rolling.
* Zoidberg from ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''. Justified in that he's basically a crab with an octopus for a face.
* The [[Cold Open]] of the ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly" pulls a shameless [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] in which SpongeBob walks in very silly ways down a [[Conspicuous CGI]] street.
 
== Professional Wrestling ==
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== Real Life ==
* The guards at the Government Palace in Lima have a rather bizarre walk, as seen during the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7BcEwGISi0 changing of the guards]. Having them march in time to "[[Carmina Burana (Music)|O Fortuna]]" makes it all the more surreal.
 
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