Watch Alfonso Ribeiro's stellar 1985 video advertisement for his book on breaking and popping

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He’s always been able to dance well.

Also, I must:

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alfonso ribeiro dancing GIF

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Shit, I only wish I could do the Carlton to Tom Jones that well.

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It sounds like a lot of bang for your buck there until you calculate for inflation. It ends up being $54.30 (if I did it right) for a book, fancy cardboard, LP, and poster that a kid is likely to lose interest in quickly.

He taught Ricky Schroeder everything he knows about breakdancing.

I remember seeing those commercials and going, “The kid from the Pepsi thing with Michael Jackson?”

I actually owned this. This must have been a later airing of this ad, because it was the only thing I ever purchased C.O.D. (cash-on-delivery)

The double album, Rap Attack—on cassette, obviously, because boombox—was fantastic. The poster was great too. To this day, I can easily identify a B-Boy based on that poster.

I prefer to not comment on how good I was at breakdancing.

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