History Main / SillyWalk

* In ''Videogame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', Mela of Team Star walks in an awkward goose-step due to wearing boots that reach all the way past her knees.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The TropeNamer is the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.

* Kryten of ''Series/RedDwarf'' is particularly strange, but not lampshaded till Series 7.
** Robert Llewellyn, 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.

* Satotz from ''Anime/HunterXHunter'' can seemingly run long distances and climb stairs with his knees and elbows locked.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Outrageous character designs are a noticeable part of Creator/EiichiroOda's style, so silly walking isn't a rare phenomenon.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Syndrome's walk was based on a person's deliberate attempt to cure a strange walk.

* Inspector Cabanela (and quite a few other characters) of ''VideoGame/GhostTrick''.

* Bonne Jenet of ''[[VideoGame/FatalFury Mark of the Wolves]]'' walks with hands on her hips, swaying her ass. She runs more normally, except for the part where she ''waves''. All part of being an AttentionWhore.

* Wario in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Irrelevator}}'': [[http://i.imgur.com/ljTwR26.gif Better seen than explained.]]
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* Music/{{Madness}}:The band members on the album cover of ''Music/OneStepBeyond'', where they walk directly behind each other. They also mimick this in the music video of "One Step Beyond".

** Eddy runs at a 90 degree angle like Edd, except leaning forward.

* Wrestling/SantinoMarella speed walks to the ring as a parody of the GroupPowerWalk.

* Wrestling/SantinoMarella speed walks to the ring as a parody of the PowerWalk.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: All the other ponies will trot or gallop. Pinkie will bounce, complete with unique sound effect. The name for this gait is "pronking" and there arguably could not be a better word for how Pinkie Pie travels.

* Creator/RobinWilliams in ''Film/TheBirdcage'' and other times he's playing a homosexual character does a rather exaggerated mincing walk. Compared to Nathan Lane it's downright manly though.

* ''Film/GrampsIsInTheResistance'': Ludwig von Apfelstrudel has a weird way of walking, part goosestepping and part "legs giving way at the knees without warning". Explained in-universe by him having survived a bombing attempt and gone through physical therapy.

* [[Film/TheThreeStooges Curly Howard]] had a limp caused by an accident as a child in which he shot himself in the foot. It did add comedic effect during scenes where he walked or ran, to whoever doesn't know the reason behind the silly walk.

* ''Literature/MakingMoney'': The AmbiguouslyHuman accountant Mr. Bent has a unique walk, raising his feet high and setting them down flat like a slow goosestep. It {{foreshadow|ing}}s that he's actually [[spoiler:a clown by birth.]]

* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': In the 'record the highest number of steps on this pedometer' task in 'The 75th Question', Bridget Christie appears to not understand how pedometers work, and intially tries a ridiculous high-kicking motion. In 'The House Queens', Christie's titular song has her dancing in a very similar way to her walk, which is immediately pointed out. Later in the episode, all five contestants perform Christie's walk/dance together during the credits.

** Similarly, in ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' while most characters either charge, jump attack or fly into a clash, the Joker instead does an exaggerated stride with a crowbar in hand.

** Ed runs with his body bent 90 degrees to the ground and leaning backward.
*** Edd attempts it while imitating him but just falls backwards.
** Edd runs with bolt upright posture, with his arm hooked inward.
*** One would assume, with Edd's scientific mind, he does this to lower wind resistance. But this posture actually would ''maximize'' his wind resistance.

** Similarly, in VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs while most characters either charge, jump attack or fly into a clash, the Joker instead does an exaggerated stride with a crowbar in hand.

* Edward from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' seems incapable of walking normally, she will get around by either dancing, sauntering, rolling, crawling, or anything else. Heck, even when she does walk around ''somewhat'' normally, she tends to kick her feet forward in her stride while noodily waving her arms before her body.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Outrageous character designs are a noticeable part of Creator/EiichiroOda’s style, so silly walking isn’t a rare phenomenon. There are [[HypnoFool Jango]] (moonwalk à la Michael Jackson), [[SlasherSmile Doflamingo]] (who walks like a flamingo), Perona (who seemingly has pigeon toes), Miss Doublefinger (who sways her hips so hard that her legs zigzag in front of one another as she walks), and everyone from Long Leg Tribe.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Syndrome's walk was based on a person's deliberate attempt to cure a strange walk.

* ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful'': Guido, the hero, often performs a comically exaggerated and slowed-down goose-step as a mockery of Mussolini's Fascists and the Nazis. Used to poignant effect when Guido says good-bye to his son as [[spoiler: the death camp guards lead him off to be shot]].

* [[Film/TheThreeStooges Curly Howard]] had a limp caused by an accident as a child in which he shot himself in the foot. It did add comedic effect during scenes where he walked or ran, to whoever doesn’t know the reason behind the silly walk.

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* In one of stand-up routines on ''Film/BillCosbyHimself'', Creator/BillCosby talks about how every boy in his neighbourhood had to have their own "cool walk". He demonstrates his and, while the full effect is lost on the recorded version, the audience's reaction gives a good indication of exactly what this looked like.
* One routine by Creator/LarryTheCableGuy, when he talks about visiting Wal-Mart late at night and comments on the peculiar ambulation of the people found there, "It looked like the Department of Silly Walks in there!"
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* Music/FrankZappa has a memorable role as a hunchback in "The Boy Who Left Home to Learn About the Shivers," an episode of ''Series/FaerieTaleTheatre''. His bizarre walk has to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOysZiMmh0 seen]] to be believed.[[note]]The video has a small ShoutOut to ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' for good measure.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' mostly has sensible walk cycles. However, when enacting one of her zanier schemes, [[FriendlyEnemy Queen]] has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScvZif3dzU a comically grotesque walk cycle]] that is seen for all of three seconds. Creator/TobyFox admitted that he created Queen's exaggerated running animation for the gag because he thought it was funny.

->''[[HypocriticalHumor "Funny walk that kid has."]]''

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Outrageous character designs are a noticeable part of Creator/EiichiroOda’s style, so silly walking isn’t a rare phenomenon. There are [[HypnoFool Jango]] (moonwalk à la Michael Jackson), [[SlasherSmile Doflamingo]] (who walks like a flamingo), Perona (who seemingly has pigeon toes), Miss Doublefinger (who sways her hips so hard that her legs zigzag in front of one another as she walks) and everyone from Long Leg Tribe.
** Brook can run on water by wildly flailing his legs.
* Edward from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' seems incapable of walking normally, she will get around by either dancing, sauntering, rolling, crawling, or anything else. Heck, even when she does walk around ''somewhat'' normally, she tends to kick her feet forward in her stride while noodily waving her arms before her body.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': 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.

* Torgo in ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'' has an odd gait meant to imply that he's a satyr with goat-like legs whose knees bend the wrong way.
* Anyone playing [[TheIgor Igor]] in a work based on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' does this, notably Marty Feldman in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''.

* [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] has a distinctive walk, bending down low at the knees and taking large steps. This was an exaggeration of an outdated fad at the time. Groucho's walk was so distinctive that any gait requiring a low stance, such as for exercising or shooting, is called a "Groucho Walk" or similar term.
* At the end of ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'' Scott Evil had one of these.
-->'''Dr. Evil:''' I'd just like to point out that no one else in my gene pool runs like a girl.
* ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful'': Guido, the hero, often performs a comically exaggerated and slowed-down goose-step as a mockery of Mussolini's Fascists and the Nazis. Used to poignant effect when Guido says good-bye to his son as [[spoiler: the death camp guards lead him off to be shot]].

* ''Film/MickeyBlueEyes'' has a scene where the eponymous protagonist and his MafiaPrincess 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.
* Discussed, but not shown, in ''Film/GrizzlyMan'' 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.

* [[Film/TheThreeStooges Curly Howard]] had a limp caused by an accident as a child in which he shot himself in the foot. It did add comedic effect during scenes where he walked or ran, to whoever doesn’t know the reason behind the silly walk.

* In one of the Otto Stahl novels, our German anti-hero is being trained to [[DressingAsTheEnemy impersonate a US soldier]] prior to the Battle of the Bulge. His instructor apparently believes that AmericansAreCowboys and encourages Stahl to adopt a hip-swinging saunter, causing Stahl to gripe that he feels like a male prostitute selling his ass on the [[RedLightDistrict Reeperbahn]].
* ''Literature/MakingMoney'': The AmbiguouslyHuman accountant Mr. Bent has a unique walk, raising his feet high and setting them down flat like a slow goosestep. It {{foreshadow|ing}}s that he's actually [[spoiler:a clown by birth.]]

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The TropeNamer is the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.
** Because of the sketch's extreme popularity among fans, it's been requested of Creator/JohnCleese so many times that he's reportedly entirely sick of it and has started to politely refuse. In an episode of the miniseries ''The Human Face'' talking about fame, he has an IndulgentFantasySegue of ''shooting'' a fan who requests it.
*** Even if he ''wanted'' to do it, he can't anymore due to age and hip replacement surgery.
*** In the Monty Python [[ThatsAllFolks farewell show]], the entire sketch was turned into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXA260DSS8 a dance routine]], but lacked John Cleese.
* In ''Series/FawltyTowers'', Basil, played by John Cleese, evokes part of it and calls it "a funny walk" when he infamously tries to stop mentioning the war but performs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0 a goose step in front of some German guests.]]

* Kryten of ''Series/RedDwarf'' is particularly strange, but not lampshaded till Series 7.
** Robert Llewellyn, 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.
* ''Series/LazyTown'''s Robbie Rotten's trademark walk involves slouching heavily while flailing his arms and swaying his hips far harder than any person should deem necessary.
* ''Series/OneFootInTheGrave'': "Oh no, here it comes, the Ministry of Silly Walks!"

* ''Series/PythagoraSwitch'': [[http://www.metacafe.com/watch/253567/the_algorithm_march/ The Algorithm March.]]
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': Bob has the most peculiar shuffling walk that is his character's signature trait.
* Arby the assassin from ''Series/{{Utopia}}'' has a very peculiar, waddling gait, usually with his gun hanging carelessly at his side.
* In Cycle 2 of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' Camille was criticized for her weird wobbly runway walk. She insisted it was her "signature walk" and that she would not change it.

* Wario in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''.
* Amy Rose from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' is pigeon-toed, giving her a short stride and bouncy run which make her the least agile of the hedgehogs.
* Inspector Cabanela (and quite a few other characters) of ''VideoGame/GhostTrick''.
* The runner in ''VideoGame/{{QWOP}}'' runs like he has spasms. This is because the player is controlling his leg muscles individually, and likely not very well.

* In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', Deadpool has a sliding shuffle when walking forward (he looks like he's walking backwards) and moonwalks backward.
* Bonne Jenet of ''[[VideoGame/FatalFury Mark of the Wolves]]'' walks with hands on her hips, swaying her ass. She runs more normally, except for the part where she ''waves''. All part of being an AttentionWhore.

* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', crouching interacts with the standard animation cycle in strange ways, resulting in very silly walks. To wit:
** [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:Spytaunt05.PNG Spy Crabbing]] - as Spy, take out your disguise kit. Crouch, aim upwards, and walk. While you won't be able to see anything except the ceiling, to everyone else it looks like you're imitating a crab.
** Pimp walk: As Demoman, have your melee weapon out, crouch, and look up. This gives the Demoman a very silly looking strut.
** Disco Sniper: Crouch and then zoom in and out rapidly on your rifle. Sniper will then proceed to gyrate his hips rapidly.
* The protagonist of ''Treasure Master'' doesn't walk so much as [[http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/files/treasurekidbig.gif exaggeratedly strut everywhere.]]

* All playable characters in ''VideoGame/RogueLegacy'' walk by goosestepping around with their sword over their head.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManV'': Venus the Stardroid, due to his crab design, cannot walk forward, but he can walk sideways. This forces him to turn about 90 degrees perpendicular to the desired direction in order to walk in the desired direction.

* [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Spy]] [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/bc50b575c93bc5aee04eddfe71e9a038/tumblr_n41gc4uDC11trxw56o1_500.gif is makin his way downtown.]]

* Agent Martinez from ''Series/TheCryOfMann'' walks ''very'' stiffly, and moves forward by moving her entire body side-to-side and shuffling ahead.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Marvin the Martian's distinctive shuffling walk.

* Zoidberg from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' does a kind of scuttle, albeit during his more quirky moments. Justified in that he's basically a crab with an octopus for a face.
* TheTeaser of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly" pulls a trolling moment on Patchy, passing off an animation in which [=SpongeBob=] walks in very silly ways down a [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects CG-rendered]] street as a complete new episode, before letting him know and moving on to the episode proper.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingRollo'' never goes anywhere without flailing his arms wildly.

* Alejandro in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama All Stars'' moves by using his hands[[spoiler:, until it's revealed that his legs are healed after all, although he still does that in order to keep Heather's guard down and to avoid letting his fellow villians see him as a threat in order to vote him off as part of a WoundedGazelleGambit up until Nobody Egg-spects the Spanish Opposition]].