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"Walk this way" is a recurrent pun in a number of movies and television shows, most recently in movies by Mel Brooks.〔''Comedy Writing Secrets'', p. 60; Melvin Helitzer, F & W Publications, 1992. ISBN 0-89879-510-9〕 It may be derived from an old vaudeville joke. It refers to the double usage of "way" in English as both a ''direction'' and a ''manner''. One version of the old joke goes like this: A heavy-set woman goes into a drug store and asks for talcum powder. The bowlegged clerk says, "Walk this way," and the woman answers, "If I could walk that way I would not need talcum powder!" Another version adds a visual, not any less vaudevillian, dimension to the joke: One character would say, "Walk this way" and walks off in a limping or waddling or otherwise odd manner, and the second character would follow, mimicking the mannerisms of the first. ==1930s-1960s== * In ''After the Thin Man'' (1936), the butler says "Walk this way" (with stiff, bowed legs) and Nick Charles does. * In the Three Stooges short ''Don't Throw That Knife'', a woman instructs the Stooges to walk this way and saunters off swinging her dress. The Stooges shrug and follow, imitating her. * In the 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon ''The Big Snooze'', while "helping" Elmer Fudd flee his pursuers, Bugs Bunny uses a variant on this line by telling Elmer, "Quick, run 'this way'!" and puts him through some crazy dance steps while they continue to run. * In the 1952 Daffy Duck cartoon ''Super Snooper'', when told to "Walk this way" by a butler, Daffy follows, mimicking the butler's unique walk. He remarks to the audience, "T'ain't easy!" * In ''The Beatles'' cartoon series episode for the song "Rock and Roll Music", aired March 19, 1966, a butler tells The Beatles to "Walk this way", and proceeds to walk in a strange sideways jump, which the Beatles, with a wink, then all imitate. * In ''The Lucy Show'' episode "Lucy and Jack Benny's Account", aired October 16, 1967, Lucy leads Jack out of Mr. Mooney's office, telling him "Walk this way," and sauntering in womanly fashion out the door. After watching her exit, Jack quips, "I always do!" and follows her out with like gait. * "Walk this way" was a running gag on ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Usually, after one character says, "Walk this way," a second character would say, "If I could walk that way-" and then be interrupted and sternly warned against completing the joke. In one sketch, a character played by Eric Idle actually completes the joke, ("If I could walk that way I wouldn't need after-shave!") and is promptly arrested. During the Election Night Special, "If I could walk that way" was part of the ridiculously long name of the "Very Silly Party" candidate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walk this way (humor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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