If you liked Breakin', you may be happy to see that it will be an Olympic sport in Paris this summer. If you want to see some amazing stuff, Look up the Olympic Breakdancing Qualifiers.
This is one of my earliest memories of TV as a 4 or 5 year old. I remember this Threes Company, Different Strokes and Magnum PI. Lol I am 44 today. Lol
I loved this show. Alice was awesome. Breakdancing was unreal seeing it as a kid. These are legends. All of them. From the cast of Alice to Rerun, to That whole troop. To better times than now
Man alive, this takes me back! Watching Alice with my parents, trying to learn to breakdance....I was happy, but had no idea how happy I was till I grew up. I'll never forget it. Such great memories.
@@russellgrimes3491 Are you a Fortune Teller or Can you see the Future!! Or maybe their's a Broom in your Closet witches usually keep those around !! Or perhaps Your Racist either way your Madness is Insane while lmao 🤣🤣🤣
In the summer of '80 my mom got a job & my older sister (5 yrs my age) used to take care of me during the day & she'd make me a tomato & cheese sandwich....times was ruff ....& wed watch Alice & all those 70 shows until my mom & dad got home. She probably think I don't , BUT I love my big sister Mechelle😊💯...best tomato sandwich maker in the world.🌹💯
Hopefully you've shared that with her at some point. I'm sure she'd be tickled to know that small simple thing created such good memories for you toward her...
Aside from Fred Berry (RIP), the two other dancers I recognize in this scene are Suga Pop (the one in the black and pink top doing windmills), and Hugo Huizar aka: "Mista Smooth" (the one at 1:23).
That’s definitely true. Most TV sitcoms celebrated a lot of of what was going on in the 80s, whether it was breakdancing, video games, Ghostbusters, and music videos.
The Break Dancer in yellow is Donovan Leitch probably best known for the horror b-film "Cutting Class" starring Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowell, & Jill Scholeon. He played Brian Woods in that film. He's the son of the singer Donovan from the 60s. He was also in a film called "The In Crowd" before he did "Cutting Class".
"hip to the latest trends in music of the times " made me laugh so hard because I too never realized this about Mel. He definitely seems like a Frank Sinatra/Tony Bennett / Mel Tormé kinda guy ,who knew he was so down with break dancing !? I love Vic Tayback He passed away far too young ..just 60 years old
Really made my day. One reason, rap music, break dancing’,… just hip hop use to be fun. Freestyling use to be fun. Now,… it’ll never be the way it was. Now, they have to put sex and violence into everything. I ask myself. How did we go from HipHop to $#💩T-Hop? 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🧔🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
I loved hip hop culture back in the 80s it was fun and innovative now everything is oversexualized, sleepy and just plain trash except for a tiny few who still sing about social issues etc.
the same people who control the movies control the music. They have an agenda and part of it is promoting degeneracy. Unfortunately, they also control the internet and ban those who name them and convince others it is all just a conspiracy theory.
@@chicagorainbow8935rap is no longer music. I gotta believe rap was ruined on purpose. On one hand I get the concept of putting an average guy like Kendrick Lamar out there so other kids can dream of being rap superstars. But when they strip a genre of talent, there is nothing to listen to. Auto tune should never be used on a studio recording. The drum machines sound terrible as backing. It’s a sad state of affairs
I thought Alice was a real person when i was a kid. RIP Linda Lavin. No Roger No Rerun No Rent! RIP Fred Berry “Rerun” Where was Phil McKeon in this episode? Would have been perfect for him. RIP Phil McKeon
People forget how big breakdancing really was came from the Bronx went to Hollywood traveled around the world, and even for a short time became an Olympic sport who would’ve guessed
it was pretty cool. My senior year was 84-85. Life was pretty simple back then. No cell phones, apps or personal computers at home. But we had fun! Cruising, dancing and real music on MTV..LOL.
jeffy john the internet killed everything lol. Seriously I agree with you. When I was young I wrote letters, went to movies, talked on a rotary phone which was landline, and didn't have wastebook to air people's dirty laundry or brag about their child going to potty.
my favorite kind of dancing when I was younger I was with a group called electrify fuck bouncers! From Sweetwater Texas from 1976 to 1978 I was known as kid funk!
December 1984, that's when breakdancings popularity was on the decline. That's when I was in the 5th grade and it wasn't as cool anymore to breakdance. Still cool though.
Back in better times! Breakdancing and old school rap was/is awesome. RIP Fred Berry and also an RIP to Shirley Hemphill while I’m at it.
If you liked Breakin', you may be happy to see that it will be an Olympic sport in Paris this summer. If you want to see some amazing stuff, Look up the Olympic Breakdancing Qualifiers.
RIP Also, legendary actress Mabel King.
And shabadoo
Better times? Turn your brain on haha
There’s no old school rap in this video.
R.I.P Mel, Vera, Rerun & Now Alice!! 😢.
Tommy died a couple years ago too
@@r3tr0actiongamer24 Damn aint none of them left
RIP Shabba Doo and Poppin' Taco.. also dancers here
@@paisteplayer1040, Polly Holliday (“Flo”), Diane Ladd (“Belle”), and Celia Weston (“Jolene”) are still among the living.
@@willieholmes1483Flo looks old when she in Alice, WTF? She’s like 200 now?
This is one of my earliest memories of TV as a 4 or 5 year old. I remember this Threes Company, Different Strokes and Magnum PI. Lol I am 44 today. Lol
48 here!
Knight Rider, Small Wonder and Buck Rogers.
Sitcoms were stacked every night of the week!!!! FACTS,,!!!👍SMH!!!!
The A team, incredible Hulk and V!
@@niceguy999918 Back when you didn't need cable
Remembering Fred Berry
(March 19, 1951 - October 21, 2003)
[03/19/2020]
RIP Linda Lavin 🙏👼
Word. Man, she tore it down singing the intro…”There's a new girl in town, 'cause I'm feelin good…” R.I.P., mama 🙏🏾
I had really liked this one when it came out..so much fun! Fred Berry (Re-run) great dancer. Thanks for the video.
This was a great episode , great scene !
BOTH "ALICE" & "WHAT'S HAPPENING" PREMIERED IN 1976!! 😃.
@@josephcraig3116 I was born in 1976! Saturday 9.4.1976!
Are they spinoffs of each other?
@@jasonbuttler2644 not that I am aware of.
@@jasonbuttler2644 No
Damn, Rerun was on an episode of Alice?! As Jeff Spicoli would say - “Awesome totally Awesome!!”
I loved this show. Alice was awesome. Breakdancing was unreal seeing it as a kid. These are legends. All of them. From the cast of Alice to Rerun, to That whole troop.
To better times than now
Man alive, this takes me back! Watching Alice with my parents, trying to learn to breakdance....I was happy, but had no idea how happy I was till I grew up. I'll never forget it. Such great memories.
Lol
This was truly was 1 of the Best shows back then!! I'll always remember Flo and her famous say: Mel kiss my grits hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
It’s a good thing Alice didn’t air in the same time slot as Diff’rent Strokes, Webster, or Cosby Show or you would have never seen it.
@@russellgrimes3491 Are you a Fortune Teller or Can you see the Future!! Or maybe their's a Broom in your Closet witches usually keep those around !! Or perhaps Your Racist either way your Madness is Insane while lmao 🤣🤣🤣
She had her own spin-off show
On that note Flo is the reason why I say "When Donkey Fly"😂😂
In the summer of '80 my mom got a job & my older sister (5 yrs my age) used to take care of me during the day & she'd make me a tomato & cheese sandwich....times was ruff ....& wed watch Alice & all those 70 shows until my mom & dad got home. She probably think I don't , BUT I love my big sister Mechelle😊💯...best tomato sandwich maker in the world.🌹💯
Good ole days
That's real
Good ol days; don't forget the Government PB and Cheese neither!
Thanks for sharing that. Life is short, and time flies. It's best to get as much enjoyment as possible out of every moment.
Hopefully you've shared that with her at some point. I'm sure she'd be tickled to know that small simple thing created such good memories for you toward her...
This is giving me What's Happening vibes RIP to Mel, Vera ,Rerun❤💋
And r I p Tommy
Vera's husband on the show also died, Charles Levin, who played police officer Elliot Novak
Now Alice has joined them (RIP)
Henry and Earl too
and Poppin Taco as well 🙏🏾
Mel,Rerun,Vera Rip to the three of you! 🌹
Yes, #RIP great actors
Phillip died last year. 😔
Also the man who played the police officer passed away, too...
@@a.rosesrbleu9580 oh wow definitely Rest in peace to him as well indeed! 🌹
Now add Shabadoo to that list
Sad that most of the cast are dead including the young son!
Damn were getting old !!
most of these dancers have passed away too.. SMH
I know. It feels really weird doesn't it?
Most of the Jefferson cast as well as the Gilligans Island cast are gone
Philip McKeon died? I never knew that..
@ yes .. so young
Hard to belive i watched this as a teenager!😂 The 70s and 80s were the Greatest Decades!
Aside from Fred Berry (RIP), the two other dancers I recognize in this scene are Suga Pop (the one in the black and pink top doing windmills), and Hugo Huizar aka: "Mista Smooth" (the one at 1:23).
THAT EPISODE OF "ALICE" AIRED IN 1984 41 YEARS AGO!! SEASONS 8 OR 9!! 😃.
Yes! Season 9😉🫡✌️
EVERY show had to have their break dance episode
Isn’t that the truth!!!
That’s definitely true. Most TV sitcoms celebrated a lot of of what was going on in the 80s, whether it was breakdancing, video games, Ghostbusters, and music videos.
And Rerun was on all of them 🤣🤣
Awkward seeing them on 'Alice', that's for sure. Doesn't fit for the show.
The Break Dancer in yellow is Donovan Leitch probably best known for the horror b-film "Cutting Class" starring Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowell, & Jill Scholeon. He played Brian Woods in that film. He's the son of the singer Donovan from the 60s. He was also in a film called "The In Crowd" before he did "Cutting Class".
Here's an interesting fact, Donovan Leitch's sister is actress Ione Skye from Say Anything
@@Richdeau Ione Skye was absolutely *GORGEOUS !!!* ua-cam.com/video/XlljhoQH5HU/v-deo.html (music video for "In Your Eyes" from "Say Anything")
He was supposed to play Christian Slater's character in "Heathers", but passed to do the remake of "The Blob".
ok go on Alice! I see you getting down!!! i must had miss this WOW those were the 80's
Same here! I never knew this episode existed
Rest In Peace Beth Howland who played Vera, she passed away December 31 2015 out of respect to her family her passing wasn't announced until 5/24/16.
Rip Viv TayBack aka Mel
R.I.P. Beth Howland! Loved her beautiful blue eyes. ♥️
This must have been some episode to watch. Also, I never knew Mel was hip to the latest trends in music of the time.
😂
He's lovin it
@@LisaMitchellGD Imagine what Mel would have thought of trap music?
@@BallparkHunter
😂 Oh he woulda been all over it like a cheap suit ! 😂
I can't stop watching this video
"hip to the latest trends in music of the times " made me laugh so hard because I too never realized this about Mel. He definitely seems like a Frank Sinatra/Tony Bennett /
Mel Tormé kinda guy ,who knew he was so down with break dancing !?
I love Vic Tayback
He passed away far too young ..just 60 years old
The windmill will always be the coolest breakdance move when done perfect like here. 👍👌💪
Yea he had it down good
Impressive breakin......brings back good times in the 80's.
Reminds me of the movies, Breakin' and Beat Street... I miss the 80s... life was never better.
2020's suck.
Hilarious show from my childhood. The breakdancing was excellent! Some of the worst clapping I’ve ever heard, though. 😂
Really made my day. One reason, rap music, break dancing’,… just hip hop use to be fun. Freestyling use to be fun. Now,… it’ll never be the way it was. Now, they have to put sex and violence into everything. I ask myself. How did we go from HipHop to $#💩T-Hop? 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🧔🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
I loved hip hop culture back in the 80s it was fun and innovative now everything is oversexualized, sleepy and just plain trash except for a tiny few who still sing about social issues etc.
the same people who control the movies control the music. They have an agenda and part of it is promoting degeneracy. Unfortunately, they also control the internet and ban those who name them and convince others it is all just a conspiracy theory.
Unfortunately, I'm 43 and I have to stop listening to so much of the rap music that I used to love!!
@@chicagorainbow8935rap is no longer music. I gotta believe rap was ruined on purpose. On one hand I get the concept of putting an average guy like Kendrick Lamar out there so other kids can dream of being rap superstars. But when they strip a genre of talent, there is nothing to listen to. Auto tune should never be used on a studio recording. The drum machines sound terrible as backing. It’s a sad state of affairs
Corporate influence...
Poppin Taco performing here too 😎
RIP Mel. Vera. ReRun, Bookaloo Shrimp (famous break dancer guy in the back ground) Tommy, and Alice.
Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers didn't pass. It was Adolfo "Shabba Doo" Quinones who passed in 2020.
I love how whenever someone dances on sitcoms, they always dance facing the studio audience and not the characters watching
Yeah, the phrase "Dance like no one is watching" always had a competing phrase, which is "Dance like there's a studio audience".
😂 kinda like in every sitcom no couch was against the walls but it the middle of the living room. 😂
Can you say crossover episode? ALICE meets What's Happening!
The fat breakdancers name was Rerun- from " Whats Happening " a show from the late 1970s
No, this is a rerun of Alice if jt was from a syndicated broadcast
@U_cant_argue_so_you_dont_reply i mistakenly thought he was on good times, fred berry was on "whats happening "
Wow....I never saw this Episode! I'd love to see the entire Episode! RIP to all those we have lost, and most recently to The Great Mrs. Linda Lavin.
Ray Gunn should have watched this video and then she would have known that she can’t break dance worth a shit.
That is so cool. Love Alice. Great cast.
WOW, i never seen this before
Me either or maybe I just don't remember 😮
One of those things you black out,like when Alice and Mel's mom sang "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" 😮
Talk about jumping the shark 🦈
Loved both of these shows and to see Rerun on Alice was fire asf!
One of my favorite shows growing up :)
C'mon now, Alice had some skills, here. And Rerun, being able to keep up with the breakdance kids, a decade after LA pop locking, gets props.
Is that ReRun from What’s Happening?
Yesssss!
Hey hey hey!🤭
Who else looks like that?
Rip rerun my dude i loved rerun
I watched Alice all the time. Don't remember this episode.
So used to love this show when I was a kid! Stow it FLO!! 🤣
Hey, that's ReRun. That man could kick it.
Someone call 911. Alice looks like she's having a seizure at 2:06 and 2:13. This is definitely one of those jump the shark moments.
😭😭😭😭😭
😆
😆
When your mom tries to be cool.
Lmao!!
Love to see these guys react this scene again today, that would be good humor.
The dancer at 1:05 just about knocked himself out on that bar stool leg.
Suga Pop😊
I saw that lol
Ironically some of the best break dancing in the 80s came from this episode! Great times!
I thought Alice was a real person when i was a kid. RIP Linda Lavin.
No Roger No Rerun No Rent! RIP Fred Berry “Rerun”
Where was Phil McKeon in this episode? Would have been perfect for him. RIP Phil McKeon
I think his character was in college
What's up!, #Rerun!?
Linda Lavin had some moves!!
May she forever rest in peace.
AntennaTV just showed this last week.
I dont remember seeing this or i just dont remember 🤔 TFS memories of my youth ❤
Is that ReRun ?
Yes that was ReRun. R.I.P. to ReRun and most of the cast.
Thanks 🙏 for sharing
Is that Ozone???
In pink n black
Classic. Suga Pop Hugo Dono D Elf(R.I.P) Penguin(R.I.P).
+curtgetdown ReRun....RIP
+IceManLikeGervin his real Street Dancing name was The Penguin before he was known as the tv show character. He was The Penguin not ReRun.
+curtgetdown Yes, he is also, Freddy 'Rerun'Stubbs in, #WhatsHappening & $WhatHappeningNow
I miss these days
Not only ReRun there's Shabba Doo also RIP
Wow. How much stuff/ music changed back then from the mid 70s to the mid 80s.....
lol Rerun!
I’ve never seen this episode let alone any Black visiting Mel’s Diner WOW!
Shavar Ross, known for playing Dudley on different strokes was on a few episodes
I remember this. They gave a nod to hip hop early on.
This is a little grainy and IMDB couldn't confirm but is that Adolfo Quinones aka Ozone in the b&w vest?!?!?
So badass even 50 years later.
I was 16. We actually loved this stuff at the time. I cringe hard now, but smile hard too.
I watched this every Sunday night. I do not remember. I was a late teen in 84, so maybe I was not at home when it came on at that point.
Was that Rerun?
The #1 Break dancing group in all of Pheonix.....& the ONLY break dancing group there also lol
🤣right
Ha Ha ! 🔥💯😂 Especially back then. That crew would destroy that entire state in a battle at that time.
Yeah when I think break dancing , Phoenix immediately comes to mind
We had some crews that could get down were not all hicks out here
Just wish the music was played louder but awesome scene 👏🏽
R.I.P. Linda Lavin. 😐
How is this TV sitcom still not on the air?
👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Interesting that they are all dancing and facing away from the people watching as if Mel's Diner had some sort of stage on it.
i like when mel and the break-dancers jump over a shark...that was great
Lmfao...nice.
Breakdancing is still cool to this day!!! I’m 54 and can still bust a move.
They had Fred “Rerun” Berry with them. He was an original Locker. And on the sitcom “What’s Happening”!
I don't remember this 1
Raygun should have watched this clip before the Olympics.
🤫 she might hear you and make a comeback
I was thinking the same thing but now she can tour and call it " Raygun and ReRun" ! 😂
@ Ha. Good one.
I’m just trying to figure out how they went from clapping on 2+4 to 1+3 🤷🏾♂️🙄
People forget how big breakdancing really was came from the Bronx went to Hollywood traveled around the world, and even for a short time became an Olympic sport who would’ve guessed
wow did not know this show ran until 84. I was doing other things in HS by then.
jeffy john what was it like t be in high school at that time
it was pretty cool. My senior year was 84-85. Life was pretty simple back then. No cell phones, apps or personal computers at home. But we had fun! Cruising, dancing and real music on MTV..LOL.
jeffy john wow. Sounds like a great time.
jeffy john the internet killed everything lol. Seriously I agree with you. When I was young I wrote letters, went to movies, talked on a rotary phone which was landline, and didn't have wastebook to air people's dirty laundry or brag about their child going to potty.
jeffy john I miss thoses days 😥
I remember seeing the movie Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo after seeing this episode. Fun times
I never realised how much the 1980s were open to street culture
They thought it was a fad, and corporate America was trying to capitalize on it before it disappeared.
Despite the lies from democrats?
Hip hop culture will live on for years
They did some uprocking too, which was more NYC breakin
Rerun and Raj and Duane would make great friends.
Good thing Flo wasn’t there.
She wasn’t down with “rap culture”.
She had posters of David Duke in her trailer.
Rerun could get it for his size. Wasn't the dude in the red cap actually in the movie Breakin?
Re run
I hope the ones that passed are still dancing.Wasnt life better before internet
Love it, even though the clapping off beat was throwing me off lol
my favorite kind of dancing when I was younger I was with a group called electrify fuck bouncers! From Sweetwater Texas from 1976 to 1978 I was known as kid funk!
I feel bad for people who did not live in the 80’s. You seriously don’t have any idea what you missed
So much fun!
Who is the breakdancer guy in pink and black..?
December 1984, that's when breakdancings popularity was on the decline. That's when I was in the 5th grade and it wasn't as cool anymore to breakdance. Still cool though.
I think the big guy was ReRun from what's happening
Rerun was awesome.
They didn’t use the correct music?