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Origin of the Carlton Dance:
"I get asked to do the [Carlton] dance every day of my life," the actor told Billy Bush and Access Hollywood Live guest co-host Holly Robinson Peete on Wednesday. "It's been the pleasure and the bane of my existence, all in the same."
Alfonso was tasked with creating the snappy dance, as the actor said the initial script simply stated, "Carlton dances" - without any further detail.
Using moves he'd seen in a music video starring a former "Friends" star, the Carlton dance was born.
"I had seen the Bruce Springsteen 'Dancing in the Dark' video where Courtney Cox gets pulled up onto the stage and she does that dance," he explained, when asked how the famous dance came to be. "Then it's also from Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious' video where they call it The White Man Dance...
"Altogether, that inspired this dance," he added. "And I tried to make it my own, in terms of the Carlton character's version of it - him being so excited and happy every time. I added a little flair to it - I get a little wave-thing going on."
That's really hilarious, I never realized he was imitating Courtney Cox's dance in the Bruce Springsteen video.
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Great excuse to go home early. Too bad pieces of the smashed mike didn't splatter back and embed into his flesh. That would have been hilarious. 
