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Posted: 2022-12-12 03:30:00

Need some new moves? Tune in to Wednesday, Tim Burton's new Addams Family spinoff on Netflix, and take notes.

It's becoming a trend. 

Netflix GIF by Meara Isenberg/CNET

In episode 4 of the monster hit, Wednesday Addams shows off some iconic moves during a dance at Nevermore Academy, the school for outcasts where she keeps busy being sarcastic and trying to halt a beast on a murder spree. And the internet has taken notice of her movements. 

All over TikTok, people are doing their own versions of the kooky dance, which involves tossing back your head, looking skyward with wide, unblinking eyes and flinging your arms side to side and up and down like an unhinged robot. 

It's part Argentine tango, part spooky shimmy and part C-3PO trying to let loose.   

"This is now I'm gonna dance at every party from now on," writes a TikTok user whose version of the distinctive dance has gotten more than 72 million views. Dressed in all black, as Wednesday Addams always is, the TikTok'er looks remarkably like Jenna Ortega, who plays the morose lead character in the Netflix show and choreographed the dance in real life. 

Ortega's moves clearly pay homage to other classic Addams Family moments, like one where the original Wednesday teaches Lurch to dance in the macabre '60s sitcom and another where matriarch Morticia Addams stiffly cuts the rug in the 1991 movie The Addams Family.  

@heyitsbessma

This is how i'm gonna dance at every party from now on #wednesday #wednesdayaddams

♬ original sound - main account got banned
@entertainmenttonight There's someTHING about Wednesday's iconic dancing scene... we just can't put our *finger* on it.
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