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{{trope|wppage=Walk this way (humor)}}
Old joke setup:
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'''Character 2:''' Walk this way, please. ''(Starts to saunter off)''
'''Character 1:''' If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need the talcum powder. }}
Alternatively, the second character may follow the first character, imitating their [[Sexy Walk]] or [[Silly Walk]]. This is a physical variant of [[Repeat After Me]].
There is [[Older Than They Think|a proud tradition]] of 'walk in the way I do'; one book describes the ''[[wikipedia:Zanni|zanni]]'' of the ''[[Commedia Dell'Arte
Not to be confused with the [[
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Mel Brooks]] loves this particular joke:
** In ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'', Igor says to "walk this way", and Frankenstein follows the hunchbacked, hobbling Igor normally. Igor insists, "THIS way," and even hands Frankenstein his walking stick to help him imitate the walk.
*** It's this particular instance of the joke, by the way, that inspired [[
** Ditto ''[[
** Ditto ''[[History of the World Part One]]''.
** In ''[[
** Done by the mincing Carmen Ghia (with Leo and Max following) in the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] of ''[[The Producers]]''.
* Done in ''[[The Thin Man (
* At least one short (perhaps more) by [[The Three Stooges]] uses this gag; a wealthy society matron who has commissioned the Stooges (or someone for whom she has mistaken them) to do a job of some sort asks them to "Walk this way" to whatever needs fixing, at which point the Stooges shrug and imitate her stereotypically feminine gait.
** In a more elaborate set up, they are being trained to be gentlemen, and are assigned a dancing instructor. She tells them this is the latest dance and do exactly as she does. Of course, at the moment the music starts, a bee flies down the back of her dress. They [[Accidental Dance Craze|follow her contortions]] to get rid of the bee, including all of them jumping out the second floor window into a fountain below.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''First Frontier'':
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* The ''Clue'' book series did this twice; once with the guests merely imitating Mr. Boddy's normal walk, once with Mrs. White getting a pebble in her shoe and the guests all imitating her abnormal walk.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The "less naughty" Chemist Shop sketch in ''[[
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'''Chemist''': Ah, certainly. Walk this way, please.
'''Man''': If I could walk that way I wouldn't need aftershave.
''[POLICEMAN enters and bundles the customer off the set.]'' }}
** Later episodes reference this joke too, with the person delivering the second line being given a meaningful look and apologising before finishing.
** "If I could walk that way" is also part of the [[Overly Long Name]] of the Very Silly candidate in "Election Night Special."
** In another sketch, about the Royal Society of Putting Things On Top of Other Things, when the president instructs the members of the society to "run this way". They begin to say "If we could run that way-" and then apologize and follow him.
* The [[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Are You Being Served?
* ''The Lucy Show'': [[Jack Benny]] guest starred, and answered Lucy's "Walk this way" with "I already do." (Benny had a notoriously swishy hip-swinging gait.)
* On
* [[David Letterman]] was fond of this joke, and would trot it out with the usual followup of "And if I could walk that way, I wouldn't need the talcum powder."
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
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You think to yourself, "If I walked that way, I'd use talcum powder!" }}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an early episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'', Grandpa is told to "walk this way" by a butler who maintains a ridiculously obsequious bowing stance while walking. Grandpa imitates his stride.
* Memorably averted in ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', where a butler does a [[Silly Walk]] and says, "Walk this way," followed by Jon, Odie and Garfield pointedly walking after him in their normal fashions. "Don't worry, we won't do that old joke."
* In the cartoon ''The Itsy Bitsy Spider'', Itsy is told to "walk this way," by a fat waddling ladybug, but gets a smack in the face when he actually does walk that way.
* One episode of ''[[Duckman]]'' had a character say this and prance away. Duckman to his companions: "Do it and you're [[No Fourth Wall|off the show]]."
* Speaking of ducks, [[Looney Tunes|Daffy]] once followed the [[Silly Walk]] of a butler.
* Used and [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[
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* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* Done to death with the Red Guy from [[
* ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' got in on it, too. One episode had Colonel K meet with DM and Penfold, and the Colonel told them to "Step this way" to the meeting room and walking with an odd waddling walk. Penfold starts to imitate him and DM says reproachfully "Penfold...", to which Penfold replies "Ah, you never let me have fun".
** On another occasion DM said "Quick, Penfold! Step this way!" before doing his famous long stride off screen. Penfold replied, "I can't step that way, chief; my legs aren't long enough!"
* An episode of ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' had this joke when visiting Fozzie's imaginary comedy theme restaurant:
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* walks off in a silly pose, which the rest of the group imitates as they follow.* }}
* An episode of ''[[
* A particularly demented variant in [[Bob Clampett]]'s [[Looney Tunes|cartoon]] ''The Big Snooze'': Bugs tells Elmer (who is in drag, trying to escape Hollywood wolves. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. [[Dream Land|Sorta.]]) to "Quick! Run this way!" [https://web.archive.org/web/20120822081323/http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/The-Big-Snooze/x60e8C0xDh/ Has to be seen to be believed.] (Occurs at 5:45)
* "[[Beetlejuice (
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