History Main / WalkThisWay

* In ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'', the butler at his fiance's mansion instructs the title character to enter her father's trophy room with these exact words. Arthur, being FunPersonified and always up for a joke, obliges him by mimicking his walk behind his back.

Old joke setup:

Not to be confused with the Music/{{Aerosmith}} (and Music/RunDMC) song. That's about, [[IntercourseWithYou well]]...[[note]]Though it is said that the song was named for the ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' example[[/note]]

* ''Anime/RobotCarnival''. In "Franken's Gears", a MadScientist builds a robot which proceeds to copy everything the scientist does. When the scientist trips and falls it does likewise, falling on his creator and crushing him.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' had this joke when visiting Fozzie's imaginary comedy theme restaurant:

Alternatively, the second character may follow the first character, imitating their SexyWalk or SillyWalk. This is a physical variant of RepeatAfterMe.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10555403/14/Legends-of-Potter Legends of Potter]]'' Harry offers to escort Luna to the Ravenclaw entrance and she says "Walk this way" before doing a comically exaggerated SexyWalk which he promptly imitates, getting laughed at by several people in the Gryffindor common room.

* In one of the ''Film/RoadTo'' movies, an attractive woman tells Creator/BobHope and Creator/BingCrosby "Please walk this way.", and does a SexyWalk. Hope comments "Walk that way? I could never pass the physical!"

** Later episodes reference this joke too, with the person delivering the second line being given a meaningful look and apologising before finishing.

** 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.

** A particularly demented variant in Creator/BobClampett's cartoon "WesternAnimation/TheBigSnooze": Bugs tells Elmer (who is in drag, trying to escape Hollywood wolves. ItMakesSenseInContext. [[DreamLand Sorta.]]) to "Quick! Run this way!" [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hjk4p Has to be seen to be believed.]] (Occurs at 5:45)

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* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': During the epilogue of the third story, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', Luna tells Pharynx and Moondancer to do so. Pharynx, walking side by side with his wife, copies her movements exactly, much to Moondancer's amusement, and getting a wry look from Luna when she hears the snicker and notices what Pharynx is doing.

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* In ''Film/EncinoMan'', as the class heads to the museum, Stoney (exaggerately) mimics the way Matt Wilson's cohorts walk, while talking behind them.
* In ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'', the butler at his fiance's mansion instructs the title character to enter her father's trophy room with these exact words. Arthur, being FunPersonified and always up for a joke, obliges him by mimicking his walk behind his back.
* ''[[Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!]]''. The cop takes the tomato expert to investigate a BadGuyBar where the tomatoes hang out, and tells her to do exactly what he does. Cue her copying all his movements until he gets annoyed.
* In one of the Film/RoadTo movies, an attractive woman tells Creator/BobHope and Creator/BingCrosby "Please walk this way.", and does a SexyWalk. Hope comments "Walk that way? I could never pass the physical!"

* In the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresFirstFrontier First Frontier]]'', the Doctor tries to invoke it, but neither of his companions obliges:
-->'Hardly. Walk this way,' the Doctor said mysteriously, and hopped away from the car in a peculiar manner. When he saw that the women were strolling normally after him, he hurrumphed loudly and wandered off towards a low rise just to the left.

* At the end of the ''Literature/CiaphasCain''[[labelnote:*]]'''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM'''[[/labelnote]] novel ''The Emperor's Finest'', a planetary governor's majordomo tells Cain and Jurgen to "Walk this way" to meet the governor. Jurgen mutters, "If I walked that way, I'd be singing soprano."

* In ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus and the Science Fair Expedition'', Ms. Frizzle says, "Walk this way, children." Keesha, Arnold, and Wanda follow her to the science museum and imitate her weird walking style.

%%* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' did this in the episode "Hey, Doc".
* In ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', a visiting Arab sheikh's interpreter after being told to ask his master to "walk this way" stared at [[PetHomosexual Mr Humphries']] mincing walk and replied, "It's more than my job's worth!"
** In another episode Mr Humphries is walking even stranger due to a bad back. When he tells a customer to "walk this way" the customer looks at Captain Peacock in confusion before following.
* ''Series/TheLucyShow'': Creator/JackBenny guest starred, and answered Lucy's "Walk this way" with "I already do." (Benny had a notoriously swishy hip-swinging gait.)
* On "Creator/RuPaul's Drag U", [=RuPaul=] instructs the contestants to "walk this way" and starts to walk in an exaggerated manner. Then, he turns around and tells the contestants he expects them not to merely follow him, but to imitate his gait.
* Naturally, ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' can't stay away from this one. In one Pigs In Space sketch, Link Hogthrob tells First Mate Piggy (Fozzie in a costume) this, and the literal-minded bear does this trope.
** This trope has [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Walk_this_way gotten into]] a few of Creator/JimHenson's other works too.
* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' featured this in "Greece if Burning" with the Widow Twanky (female but played by male Michael Hurst in wonderfully camp style). Asking for help for a group of women she told them to walk this way, marching off with an over the top walk with her palms out and her hands moving up and down. Of course, the women followed with predictable results.

* A jokey car salesman in VideoGame/LANoire's DLC missions does this ad verbatim.

* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{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 ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', where a butler does a SillyWalk 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheItsyBitsySpider'', 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.
* The "Longest Weekend" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' had a character say this and prance away. Duckman to his companions: "Do it and you're [[NoFourthWall off the show]]." Although another episode also played it straight.
* Speaking of ducks, [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy]] once followed the SillyWalk of a butler.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' series' pilot episode, Splinter says "walk this way". Michelangelo begins [[ExactWords the obvious joke]], but cuts the gag off after an unamused Donatello smacks him upside the head with his bo staff.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' had the Warner siblings visiting a vampire's mansion. After their introductory antics left him stunned, he used the line and led them with a wavered stagger, which the Warners happily imitated.
* A particularly demented variant in Creator/BobClampett's [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon]] "WesternAnimation/TheBigSnooze": Bugs tells Elmer (who is in drag, trying to escape Hollywood wolves. ItMakesSenseInContext. [[DreamLand Sorta.]]) to "Quick! Run this way!" [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hjk4p Has to be seen to be believed.]] (Occurs at 5:45)
* WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} did this when he turned into Sherlock Holmes when Doomie was stolen. Lydia just shrugs and crawls on all fours after him. She does humor the bum a lot.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', Steve (the host of the show, who's live-action), is interacting with some [[StylisticSuck crudely-animated]] puppets made out of pieces of felt. When they ask him to follow them by saying, "Walk this way," he imitates their stiff, [[LimitedAnimation two-frame-loop]], sideways-walking style.
* WesternAnimation/TheBeatles are invited to play at a duke's reception in "Rock and Roll Music". The butler greets them at the door, says "Walk this way" and starts walking sideways, back to the camera. The boys follow him in the same manner.
-->'''John:''' We ''can't''!\\
'''Paul:''' We'll just have to do the best we can.
* In the 1969 TV special ''[[WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow Archie and His New Pals]]'', when Archie and his friends enlist Veronica's butler to turn Moose into a sophisticate for the school election, the butler tells Moose to "walk this way", and Moose imitates the butler's gait.
* An old ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} cartoon had Bluto, disguised as a butler, invite Popeye into the house by bowing grandly and uttering the line. Naturally, Popeye bends over double as he enters.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', when Scott the Undergrounder tells them to "Run this way!" Zack starts imitating his run until Melissa yells out that he just meant for them to follow him.

* Done to death with the Red Guy from WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken. Especially remarkable since he has one of the silliest walks imaginable. If you could call jumping on your buttocks 'walking' that is.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''[='=]2003 series' pilot episode, Splinter says "walk this way". Michelangelo begins [[ExactWords the obvious joke]], but cuts the gag off after an unamused Donatello smacks him upside the head with his bo staff.

* At least one short (perhaps more) by Film/TheThreeStooges 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 ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'' (1981), the butler at his fiance's mansion instructs the title character to enter her father's trophy room with these exact words. Arthur, being FunPersonified and always up for a joke, obliges him by mimicking his walk behind his back.

* The "less naughty" Chemist Shop sketch in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
-->'''Man''': Good morning. I'd like some aftershave, please.\\

''[POLICEMAN enters and bundles the customer off the set.]''

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* In ''Film/{{Arthur}}'' (1981), the butler at his fiance's mansion instructs the title character to enter her father's trophy room with these exact words. Arthur, being FunPersonified and always up for a joke, obliges him by mimicking his walk behind his back.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw", when Scott the Undergrounder tells them to "Run this way!" Zack starts imitating his run until Melissa yells out that he just meant for them to follow him.

-->'''George:''' We ''can't''!\\

Not to be confused with the Music/{{Aerosmith}} (and Music/RunDMC) song. That's about, [[IntercourseWithYou well]]...

* ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In one book, Ms. Frizzle says, "Walk this way, children." Keesha, Arnold, and Wanda follow her and imitate her weird walking style.

* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': In chapter 18 of the sequel ''Picking up the Pieces'', a doctor instructs Night Blade, Vix-Lei and Wind Breaker to follow him to another room with the phrase. Vix-Lei takes it to heart (but in a way that makes it clear she’s deliberately joking) and walks with her head at the same angle his is.

* A particularly demented variant in Creator/BobClampett's [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon]] "WesternAnimation/TheBigSnooze": Bugs tells Elmer (who is in drag, trying to escape Hollywood wolves. ItMakesSenseInContext. [[DreamLand Sorta.]]) to "Quick! Run this way!" [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z3ee7 Has to be seen to be believed.]] (Occurs at 5:45)

-->'''Paul:''' We'll just have to do the best we can.

* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' featured this in "Greece if Burning" with the Widow Twanky (female but played by male Michael Hurst in wonderfully camp style). Asking for help for a group of women she told them to walk this way, marching off with an over the top swishy walk with her palms up and her hands moving up and down. Of course, the women followed with predictable results.

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* A ruder (and rather clever) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQDntDN7co variation]] on the joke.
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* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 2'', where a maitre d' of a snooty restaurant is disserving Larry: