page_title: Walk this way (humor)
hierarchical_section_title: Walk this way (humor)
caption_attribution_description: English: "Walk this way" at the start of Station Road. An appropriate invitation to the Holt Foot Clinic at the point where Market Place becomes Station Road. Incidentally, this road does not lead to the location of the present station but the old site, now overlaid by a small bypass. A close inspection of the lowest past of the red brick wall will reveal that it has been repaired more than once, presumably after vehicles had not "walked this way" but had rather inexpertly swung wide while driving into the narrow opening. 618346 is directly behind the photographer.
context_page_description: "Walk this way" is a recurrent pun in a number of comedy films and television shows. It may be derived from an old vaudeville joke. It refers to the double usage of "way" in English as both a direction and a manner.
  One version of this old joke goes like this: A heavy-set woman goes into a drug store and asks for talcum powder. The bowlegged clerk says, "Walk this way," and the woman answers, "If I could walk that way I wouldn't need talcum powder!"
  As a popular visual gag, the joke has appeared in films, perhaps first in After the Thin Man, with William Powell imitating the butler, and by director Mel Brooks, including The Producers, Young Frankenstein and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. According to Gene Wilder, who co-wrote the script of Young Frankenstein and played the title character, Brooks added the joke while shooting the scene, inspired by the old "talcum powder" routine. Marty Feldman, who played the hunchback Igor in Young Frankenstein, later said:
  It's a terribly old music hall joke. I did that to make the crew laugh and Mel Brooks said, "Let's shoot it" ... [Gene Wilder and I] both said, "Mel, please take that out", and he left it in. He said, "I think it's funny".
context_section_description: "Walk this way" is a recurrent pun in a number of comedy films and television shows. It may be derived from an old vaudeville joke. It refers to the double usage of "way" in English as both a direction and a manner.
  One version of this old joke goes like this: A heavy-set woman goes into a drug store and asks for talcum powder. The bowlegged clerk says, "Walk this way," and the woman answers, "If I could walk that way I wouldn't need talcum powder!"
  As a popular visual gag, the joke has appeared in films, perhaps first in After the Thin Man (1936), with William Powell imitating the butler, and by director Mel Brooks, including The Producers, Young Frankenstein and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. According to Gene Wilder, who co-wrote the script of Young Frankenstein and played the title character, Brooks added the joke while shooting the scene, inspired by the old "talcum powder" routine. Marty Feldman, who played the hunchback Igor in Young Frankenstein, later said: 
  It's a terribly old music hall joke. I did that to make the crew laugh and Mel Brooks said, "Let's shoot it" ... [Gene Wilder and I] both said, "Mel, please take that out", and he left it in. He said, "I think it's funny". Audiences laugh at it. Gene and I were both wrong. Mel was right.
  The Aerosmith song "Walk This Way" was inspired after the band went to see "Young Frankenstein" in 1974.
caption: A "Walk this way" sign on a brick building in Holt, Norfolk, indicating the way to the Holt Foot Clinic.
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