Fun Fact: The Kennedy kick dance was first performed on November 22, 1963 by President John F. Kennedy. The dance immediately manifested an intense hatred among the attending audience, with two individuals opening fire on the President. Within seconds, Kennedy had been inexplicably killed over his seemingly innocuous dance.
Recognizing the memetic societal threat posed by Kennedy's kick dance, the CIA launched a secret international mission to remove it from public memory. Footage of the event was painstakingly retouched using a government visual manipulation system that would later become known as "Scanimate", and an experimental drug was implanted in food and water supplies across the world to erase the event from people's minds.
It was believed to have been entirely forgotten until TV animator Glen Kennedy seemingly reinvented the dance after suffering a severe concussion in a 1986 car crash. By the time intelligence agencies learned of the Kennedy kick dance's revival, it had already been incorporated into hundreds of cartoon episodes, and the introduction of home video had made it impossible to destroy every recording of the dance.
The CIA's brief attempts to edit the dance out of Tiny Toon Adventures episodes even garnered derision from the show's production staff, with a revised 1993 theme song including the line "we crack up all the censors" as a subtle jab at the CIA's demands to change the show's content.
