Talk:Trip the light fantastic (phrase)

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[edit] Second paragraph of article: doubts

The paragraph describing a bicyclist changing a traffic light sounds to me like a very localized or individual usage. The dance reference is well supported in the article; the traffic light not at all. I'd like to see some support for the bicycle usage. Bealevideo (talk) 05:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] General Comments

The phrase is spoken in Stalag 17, when Animal thinks his friend, Harry Shapiro, is Betty Grable. It is also the title of Sophie Ellis-Bextors third album.

"tripping the light fantastic" is also the name of a track on electronica album IMA, by BT

also in Mel Brooks' musical The Producers, there is a lyric and to trip the light fantastic we picked dancers who were spastic

[edit] Book references

"The Light Fantastic" is a book bt Terry Pratchett. I haven't read it (yet), but does this have anything to do with "tripping the light fantastic? Or is it irrelevant? --Fantasylover12 20:43, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

For what it's worth: "trip the light fantastic" is used in a poem by Tennessee Williams I read many years ago (can't remember which one). And the phrase "trip along on a light, fantastic foot" is found in a poem by Sir Walter Scott (which I also can't remember).