>>[Terror plane] then veers sharply right, having been
taken over by voodoo by a coven of ancient cajun crones who
are still upset at having been fired ten years ago by the
classified department of the Detroit Free-Press. (The
Zombies heard it through the grapevine.)
The plane then banks sharply left, back toward Detroit. A
group of Angolan refugees, Hoodoo practitioners and adepts,
new hires at the Detroit Free Press, have aetherically
learned of the Voodoo spell and reversed it. They have also
materialized mounds of hotfoot powder in the arches between
coach and business class, causing the Zombies to hop about
in an unintentional recreation of "The Lurch."*
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*
Lurch, The - Dance craze introduced on the October 30,
1965 Halloween episode of SHINDIG, an ABC teen rock music
program. After assisting Boris Karloff with his rendition of
the "Monster Mash," Ted Cassidy, who played the zombie
butler, Lurch on the sitcom THE ADDAMS FAMILY/ABC/1964-66,
debuted a new dance craze called "The Lurch." The dance
steps were nothing more than a lot of shuffling and arm
dangling a la the Frankenstein Monster. "The Lurch" was
released as a single 45 record (Capitol 5503) with the
vocals performed by Ted Cassidy and a background female
chorus and music by Gary Paxton. THE ADDAMS FAMILY episode
No. 33 "Lurch, the Teenage Idol" (5-14-65) predated this
event with a storyline where Lurch records a song at the
harpsichord and soon becomes the idol of screaming teenage
fans.
http://www.tvacres.com/dance_lurch.htm
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