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a b "New Companion Makes Doctor Who A Different Show, Says Moffat". SFX. 30 May 2012 . Retrieved 2 September 2012. Known as the "hokey cokey" or the "hokey kokey", the song and accompanying dance peaked in popularity as a music hall song and novelty dance in the mid-1940s in Britain. Sagers, Aaron (18 December 2012). "Actress Jenna-Louise Coleman talks 'Doctor Who' ". CNN . Retrieved 7 January 2013. In 2017, Jimmy Buffett released "What If the Hokey Pokey Is All It Really Is About?", on his album Far Side of the World. After listing all the ills and mysteries to which our modern world is prey, he imagines the solution in its simplest form: The Hokey Pokey.

Larry LaPrise, Charles Macak, and Tafit Baker of the musical group the Ram Trio, better known as the Sun Valley Trio, recorded the song in 1948 and it was released in 1950. [24] They have generally been credited with creating this novelty dance as entertainment for the ski crowd at the Sun Valley, Idaho resort.

Andrews, Edward (1960) [First published 1940]. The Gift to be Simple: Songs, Dances and Rituals of the American Shakers. p.42. ISBN 978-0-486-20022-4. a b Synnot, Siobhan (23 December 2013). "Interview: Saul Metzstein on the Doctor Who Christmas special". The Scotsman . Retrieved 4 January 2013.

In 1981, a band of uncredited musicians known as The Snowmen had a #18 UK hit with the song; there have been persistent unsubstantiated rumours that the vocalist was Ian Dury, [32] yet it was session guitarist and singer Martin Kershaw, as revealed by author Richard Balls in 2015. [33] Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is also played during the break. Brew, Simon (25 December 2012). "Doctor Who: The Snowmen review". Den of Geek . Retrieved 29 March 2013. In 2008, an Anglican cleric, Canon Matthew Damon, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire, claimed that the dance movements were a parody of the traditional Catholic Latin Mass. [11] Up until the reforms of Vatican II, the priest performed his movements facing the altar rather than the congregation, who could not hear the words very well, nor understand the Latin, nor clearly see his movements. At one point the priest would say " Hoc est corpus meum" Latin for "This is My body" (a phrase that has also been suggested as the origin of the similar-sounding stereotypical magician's phrase " hocus-pocus"). That theory led Scottish politician Michael Matheson in 2008 to urge police action "against individuals who use it [the song and dance] to taunt Catholics". Matheson's claim was deemed ridiculous by fans from both sides of the Old Firm (the rival Glasgow football teams Celtic and Rangers) and calls were made on fans' forums for both sides to join together to sing the song on 27 December 2008 at Ibrox Stadium. [12] Close relatives of Jimmy Kennedy and Al Tabor have publicly stated their recollections of the origin and meaning of the Hokey Cokey, and have denied its connection to the Mass. [13] [14] Those accounts differ, but they are all contradicted by the fact that the song existed and was published decades before its supposed composition in the 1940s.

Lewis, David (25 December 2012). " 'Doctor Who': 'The Snowmen' review". CultBox . Retrieved 29 March 2013. McAlpine, Fraser (March 2012). "Fraser's Phrases: The Curious History of the 'Hokey Cokey' ". BBC America . Retrieved 29 November 2018. Collins, Clark (28 November 2012). " 'Doctor Who': Jenna-Louise Coleman talks about becoming the Doctor's new companion". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 28 December 2012. In the Full House episode " Greek Week", Papouli says that according to Pompadoras tradition, getting married consists of "giving a girl flowers, walking around the table, and that's what it's all about". Danny Tanner replies to this comment by saying, "That's not a wedding. That's the Hokey-Pokey."

Doctor Who to Return with 'The Bells of St John' – First Official Picture!". BBC. 1 March 2013 . Retrieved 29 March 2013. In the 1973 Thames Television documentary, May I Have the Pleasure?, about the Hammersmith Palais de Danse, Lou Preager comments on how his was the first band to record the 'Okey Cokey'. The horror-themed heavy metal band Haunted Garage recorded a humorous hardcore punk version of the hokey pokey on their album Possession Park (1991).Jeffery, Morgan (4 December 2012). " 'Doctor Who' Christmas special airdate confirmed by BBC". Digital Spy . Retrieved 27 December 2012. a b Martin, Dan (29 September 2012). "Doctor Who: The Snowmen – Christmas special 2012". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 December 2012. Jeffery, Morgan (21 March 2012). " 'Doctor Who': Jenna-Louise Coleman – The press conference in full". Digital Spy . Retrieved 25 June 2012. In the Babylon 5 episode " A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I", the Centauri Ambassador, Londo Mollari refers to the song as further evidence of the incomprehensible nature of human culture. Mostly performed in the British style of the dance, it is known as the "boogie woogie" (pronounced / ˌ b ʊ ɡ iː ˈ w ʊ ɡ iː/). [17] Germany [ edit ]

There is a joke about when Larry LaPrise died, his family had trouble getting him into his coffin ("they put his left leg in, and that's where the tragedy began…"). [ citation needed]Coleman previously played Oswin in " Asylum of the Daleks", [10] though the connection between the two characters is not clarified until Clara reveals she has an interest in soufflés, a trait that Oswin's character also had. [11] [12] The Doctor, after meeting Clara, wistfully replies "those were the days" when she asks why he isn't staying to get acquainted with her, which are the same words he tells Craig Owens (" Closing Time") when Craig comments that the Doctor always wins. [13] The final scenes at the graveyard establish that Clara shares the same name as Oswin, leading the Doctor to surmise they are the same person. As seen on her gravestone, Clara's birthdate is 23 November, the date Doctor Who was first transmitted in 1963. [13] Production [ edit ] Writing and design changes [ edit ]