The explanation made us jump up and down in excitement.
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He will, however, jump up and down on the beds.
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I jump up and down eight times into a landing position.
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They're not making you jump up and down for a job.
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds jump up and down at Taylor Swift's concert.
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It also doubles as a makeshift tambourine if I jump up and down.
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She began to jump up and down, her bells clanging, her horn blaring.
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I rarely do cardio, because it feels annoying to jump up and down.
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"First, you need to jump up and down this mat barefoot," a bridesmaid announces.
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"I'll jump up and down when he breaks the top 100," Ernesto Jr. said.
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It's hard to jump up and down when it happens that regularly and frequently.
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"This time it was strong, but it did not jump up and down," she said.
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"The couch feels luxurious, but kids actually jump up and down on it," she says.
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Great. Get out of your chair, jump up and down, drop your pen or pencil.
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You could make up your own steps and jump up and down like a child.
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Cade also began to "jump up and down" after hearing his score, Elias told Fox News.
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In one particularly intense video, two girls shriek, spit, and jump up and down in pain.
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Oh, also when the chorus kicked back in she wanted everyone to jump up and down.
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Some employees were asked to jump up and down after they were stripped naked, she claims.
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He would jump up and down with excitement when it was clear that an idea was working.
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"We were both so excited that we almost did the jump-up-and-down thing," Wainwright grinned.
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I'm not gonna, like, you know, jump up and down about it, but it is a good company.
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Like the dog in the 1980s commercial, we as a nation collectively jump up and down for bacon.
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Reince, you don't have to nod wildly and jump up and down; the raised hand alone will do.
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Are we really going to jump up and down with joy that someone said murder is "no good"?
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It seems too many people will jump up and down about the fact that someone might say something wrong.
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"I didn't jump up and down cheering, I can tell you that," Mr. Bloomberg told a biographer years later.
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Sometimes when Abergel tells young dancers that they have a role, they jump up and down and scream excitedly.
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"At the end of this, will some people jump up and down and say there's an obstructing offense?" asks another source.
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"So many people have said to me, you need to scream and jump up and down like everybody else," Carson said.
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I mean, there are a lot of legal reasons she can't jump up and down in the courtroom and claim remorse.
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Mr. Leahy, who is quiet but not shy (at least he doesn't jump up and down upon meeting people), was mesmerized.
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We have news that might make even a die-hard caffeine addict à la Lorelai Gilmore jump up and down in excitement.
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"Wall Street will jump up and down and scream all they want, but Puerto Rico can't repay it right now anyway," Kyle said.
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I'm not the type of person who is going to stand on a street corner with a sign and jump up and down.
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"You could make the police jump up and down," said Robert Geis, a retired New York police detective and an amateur radio enthusiast.
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While I wouldn't jump up and down cheering about student loans, the FAFSA and my student debt were critical in making my MBA happen.
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"It's a shame when some people jump up and down on a platform," the judge said, "and their followers, their soldiers, get in trouble."
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Still, you can get the same effects by having a bunch of kids jump up and down, as he often does when visiting local schools.
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I want to add one thing about stock prices, because we've seen them jump up and down and the markets are gyrating at this point.
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These songs aim to inspire large masses of people to jump up and down and scream in unison about how good it is to be alive.
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"The Sanders plan, in a different universe, I would jump up and down and say this is a great way to start from scratch," Wherry said.
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In their first TV challenge, veep hopefuls could compete with Fallin to see who could jump up and down hard enough to make the room shake.
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Not to mention it still makes everyone on the dance floor jump up and down and sing at the top of their lungs, just like Taylor did.
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That's largely due to the Croatians, who have taken over several sections behind their goal and are, at times, simply pulsating as they jump up and down.
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" Years before, Woodfox had said that if he was ever released he would "unleash the little man inside of me and let it jump up and down.
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There are actually names for the different kinds of dances people do: Here, three-time Women's Champion Sonya Thomas does the "Carlene Pop," when people jump up and down.
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During CNN's visit, young girls in pastel-colored prairie dresses jump up and down in the bed of a white pickup parked in the driveway of a big house.
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" He continued, "I wish I could just jump up and down about how funny it is, but obviously there's an element of it that's intertwined with some terrible beliefs.
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The telescope was not yet finished, with only a quarter of its light-capturing capacity up and running, yet already the image made him jump up and down with excitement.
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Many users complained that their iPhone's battery meter would jump up and down seemingly at random, while others reported unexpected shutdowns when there was seemingly plenty of battery power left.
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If the baby is actively moving, hold the child underneath the arms, allowing the infant an opportunity to jump up and down on your lap, strengthening leg and arm muscles.
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The behavior you see has been created by watching the "Hopper" bot jump up and down, and telling it "well done" when it gets a bit closer to doing a backflip.
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So there was one where we'd jump up and down and scream "YES YES YES YES YES," and then be like "NO NO NO NO NO" and stomp on the ground.
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Like the Iraqi celebrants who attacked Saddam Hussein's toppled statue in Firdos Square, in 2003, the Nicaraguan protesters scrambled onto the fallen trees to jump up and down in momentary triumph.
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Suddenly, they jump up and down, yell, make a spectacle of themselves, get a clip that goes viral on YouTube and then Twitter, and suddenly they find themselves with cable contracts.
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"When I started thinking about the most distracting things, the things that caused me to lose perspective and my emotions to jump up and down, it was the news," Visker said.
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The 44-year-old actress was watching the nominations from bed, wearing a gray bathrobe, when the exciting news broke, prompting the Bombshell star to jump up and down in delight.
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And while a coach can observe what your body does when you jump up and down on the ground, he won't gather the same information as a force plate measuring that same jump.
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As seen in fan-recorded videos, Adele, 28, holds the microphone for the duo, then proceeds to jump up and down before saying "that's amazing, I'm going to cry" and giving congratulatory hugs.
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"The question is whether that board member would be able to do anything other than jump up and down at meetings," said Paul Gillis, a professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. video
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Speaking to The Globe and Mail, Pelto said he doesn't "want to jump up and down and say it's the absolute biggest," but he says it's the largest iceberg he's ever seen in North America.
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Diesel asks his kids whether they'd love to see a spin-off movie with Groot and Rocket, and they nod their enthusiasm — in fact, Similce can't help but jump up and down at the idea.
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Victory being an effective anesthetic, Hicks was able to jump up and down at home plate with his teammates and join in the Champagne celebration in the clubhouse briefly before being taken for X-rays.
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Those are the folks in their 40s and early 50s, and they're always getting ignored because boomers are taking up all the space while the millennials jump up and down and whine outside the door.
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That's exactly how I react when someone hands me a tip at work; of course I'm appreciative of the tip, but I'm not about to jump up and down because I'm literally getting paid to work there.
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As we discovered in the "Grasslands" episode, Willowbirds have a fairly unorthodox method of attracting a mate: they repeatedly jump up and down, as high as they can possibly go, until they're the only male left jumping.
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The veteran Baltimore safety Eric Weddle, meanwhile, is purposefully trying to avoid a different longstanding pregame ritual — the on-field scrum where players jump up and down in a circle and ceremoniously, usually violently, bang into each other.
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At one point in the video, perhaps anticipating the excitement to come, Vivian began to jump up and down while holding onto her mom's hand, right before her father Tom Brady called out to his wife from the backyard.
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In since-released footage, you can see one of the teachers jump up and down, like some kind of weird, fucked-up corner man at an MMA match, while the other sets up two tiny fighters with a glove apiece.
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Try "Housequake," a goofy funk showpiece in which Prince, disguised as Bugs Bunny, exhorts us to jump up and down to the brand new groove going round, having artificially sped-up his voice to sound higher, dinkier, and more androgynous.
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For those who don't have young children, Sky Zone is a place where people of all ages, races, creeds and political persuasions jump up and down on trampolines, as they play dodgeball, dunk basketballs or just bounce to their heart's content.
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After an hour of Frisbee, the kids and teenaged volunteers gather in a circle and jump up and down, shouting "Cameron is a star!" and "Britney is a star!" until everyone has had his or her moment in the spotlight.
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In the meantime, it will scream for carbs, and (speaking from personal experience) will punish you by sending a zombie to suck out your brains, a vampire to drain your blood and a giant troll to jump up and down on your body.
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"I guess when I get excited that's how I end up processing it, or when something feels like it's the right direction, I start to jump up and down," she said the next morning, between bites of a bagel at an East Village diner.
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We can build a solid-looking bridge, jump up and down on it a few times, and call it safe—but this isn't nearly the same thing as going through the bridge piece by piece and testing every possible (excessive) force on every one of them individually.
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If you happen to have an image of the British Parliament as a place of impenetrable ritual, where men with sharp accents jump up and down, shout, guffaw, and wave around pieces of paper, Prime Minister's Questions, or P.M.Q.s, as it is known, is just like that.
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For a half-hour, the album breaks the mold and proves that there's still some fight left in that creaky old punk warhorse, tossing in a few golden-era Weezeresque guitar licks, squeaky voiced screams, and jump-up-and-down choruses about being off your meds.
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" "Any time y'all ever heard me scream or jump up and down or whatever it was, it's because I wanted to bring the people something to a higher potential than what the powers — that control the money, control the image, control the media, control the perception — wanted me to.
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When I came back to the UK, I worked for a community arts organization in Liverpool that wanted to make them for children to jump up and down on—and I was like, "Oh I've done a bit of that," so I got the job and started making play structures.
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Walking trails lead guest to Canopy Park, a separate section opening in June 2019, which features activities like a 160-feet suspended bridge with glass floor, a bouncing net (to jump up and down on), a walking net (82 feet high above the greenery), a hedge maze, a mirror maze and slides.
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They remind my husband and me of that brief time in our family's life when there was still someone at home small enough to jump up and down, clapping with glee, when the Christmas tree lights came on for the first time, even if it was only a test and the lights were spread out across the floor or still tangled together at the bottom of a cardboard box.
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"Our finding that the meteorites contain a wide diversity of organic compounds is exciting, but what made me jump up and down was that we were able to investigate the soluble -- such as amino acids, the building blocks of life -- and insoluble organic compounds contain within the tiny salt crystals which are only about 2 mm in size each, and which are the hosts to liquid water -- another crucial ingredient for life to occur," Chan said.
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Everywhere I went, gays from all walks of life would react so warmly to me. Some get giggle and jump up and down in excitement. Some want me to adopt them [laughs].
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Sending aircraft into the slipstream of another aircraft at such close intervals could cause the plane to jump up and down, possibly causing it to flip over. More than once, aircraft have crashed on takeoff after encountering such turbulence.
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They start their cheering as soon as warm-ups begin. Throughout the game, the Crazies jump up and down when the opposing team has possession of the ball and yell cheers in unison at focal points of the game.
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This play area's theme is a fairy-tale world. Children can go barefoot to explore Cinderella's Castle, Alice in Wonderland, and other fairy-tale stories. Treeble's Hopper A children's ride. The children are taken up towards a tree house as they jump up and down over 6 meters.
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Hippocrates (c. 460 – c. 370 BCE), the Greek physician, would advise a prostitute who became pregnant to jump up and down, touching her buttocks with her heels at each leap, so as to induce miscarriage. Other writings attributed to him describe instruments fashioned to dilate the cervix and curette inside of the uterus.
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Females and juveniles are olive-green with paler underparts. At breeding time, males are involved in a cooperative behaviour during which they jump up and down alternately. This is a fairly common species with a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern".
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The host then asks general questions about the show. Number 5 (Leroy) was given the pizza he wanted. At one point, the host, Todd Newton, brought out the bed of nails from the first episode and has Phu stand on it barefoot. He was able not only to talk but also to jump up and down on the nails.
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Answers Corporation, 2006. Retrieved September 25, 2008. The book is aimed at 4-7 year olds and written in humorous rhyming prose, similar in style to that of Dr. Seuss whom Arnold acknowledges as a major influence on his work. It tells the story of Walter, a little boy whose father has told not to jump up and down on his bed.
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It has a reputation for being difficult to prepare, so in many households superstitions and special customs are attached to the baking process. When making vánočka, it is said that one must think of everyone dear to you. Another custom is to avoid touching the vánočka with metal. Finally, the person who is making the vánočka should jump up and down while the dough rises.
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Speaking about the video, drummer Gary "Harry" James explained that the video "never saw the light of day, and it never will. They wanted me to jump up and down in Doc Martens boots and a fairy outfit. We went with it for some reason, rather than telling them to fuck off." The Thrill of It All was originally released in Japan by Victor Entertainment on 1 September 1996.
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The pogo is a dance in which the dancers jump up and down, while either remaining on the spot or moving around; the dance takes its name from its resemblance to the use of a pogo stick, especially in a common version of the dance, where an individual keeps their torso stiff, their arms rigid, and their legs close together. Pogo dancing is most associated with punk rock, and is a precursor to moshing.
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Contraceptive techniques used by the Greeks are not as well known as those of the Romans. Nevertheless, in a treatise attributed to Hippocrates (Of the Seed, 13), he describes in detail the case of a dancer "who had the habit of going with the men"; he recommends that she "jump up and down, touching her buttocks with her heels at each leap"Hippocrates. De semine/natura pueri trans. Iain Lonie, in David Halperin.
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Like Mattingly, Maas was a left- handed batter. As a result, many of his home runs went into the right field stands. About halfway through the season a group of a dozen or so young ladies began wearing "Maas-tops" to Yankees home games and sitting in the right field stands. Whenever Maas hit a home run to right, the girls would get up, remove their tops and jump up and down until Maas finished circling the bases.
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On 1 or 2 July, Mengele returned to the camp and began to conduct a selection. The prisoners stripped to the waist and passed one-by-one past SS doctors. Healthy individuals between the ages of 16 and 45 were selected to live and removed to other parts of the camp. SS men forced girls and women to undress and jump up and down to prove their fitness; many claimed to possess useful skills such as gardening or sewing.
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French jump racing is similar to British and Irish National Hunt races, with a few notable differences. Hurdles are not collapsible, being more akin to small brush fences. Chases often have large fences called bullfinches, a large hedge up to tall that horses have to jump through rather than over. There are also a larger number of cross-country chases where horses have to jump up and down banks, gallop through water, jump over stone walls as well as jump normal chasing fences.
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The male lance-tailed manakin has an interesting breeding display, unusual in that it is cooperative rather than competitive. Two males perch next to each other on a bare stick and jump up and down alternately, sometimes giving short flights. Groups of birds may perform together, with a different stick for each pair of displaying males. The female builds a cup nest in a tree; two brown-mottled cream eggs are laid, and incubated entirely by the female for about 20 days.
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The male blue-backed manakin has a fascinating breeding display, unusual in that it is a cooperative display rather than competitive. Two males perch next to each other on a bare stick and jump up and down alternately, giving a buzzing call. When a female approaches, the perched bird moves backwards under the jumping bird, so the two perform a vertical circling movement. Groups of up to eight birds may perform together, with a different stick for each pair of displaying males.
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Different zones were located around one central roll-call area, the size of which was later reduced as the SS created a neighbouring vegetable patch. A mast stood in the centre of the roll-call area bearing loudspeakers through which orders were delivered. Prisoners sometimes had to stand still for hours facing the mast as punishment. The roll call area was also used as a drill and exercise area, where prisoners had to jump up and down at 4.30 am to the sound of a drum.
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This was firmly established in 1937 when Tex Avery directed Porky's Duck Hunt. During production of the short, lead animator Bob Clampett elaborated the exit of the Duck character by having him jump up and down on his head, flip around and holler off into the sunset.The Man from Wackyland: The art of Bob Clampett Looney Tunes Golden Collection: The Best of Tweety and Sylvester, 2010 DVD This created the character of Daffy Duck. After Daffy was created, he would add even more success to Warner Bros.
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Giant shock absorbers were installed under the east upper deck for the 1987 season, however, during the 1988 season, many spectators reported seeing a ripple effect across the east upper deck when the marching band played the song "Louie Louie." The university indicated that the sway or ripple was safe. To this day, the east upper deck still sways when fans jump up and down. In addition, several parts of the stadium have been known to vibrate due to the decibel levels generated during a typical game.
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The college tradition and superstition holds that any student who passes beneath the campanile will fail their exams, causing some to never pass under it until they finish their time at Trinity College.. There is another student legend that the bell will ring automatically when a virgin stands underneath it. This was the subject of a cartoon in Trinity News c. 1966, by Nick Robinson, which showed a forlorn student couple standing under the Campanile while the bell remained silent. The boy says to the girl "Maybe if you jump up and down a little".
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In his review for Record Mirror, Simon Ludgate says that "this is a real corker. Completely over the top, stupid lyrics, Cozy Powell bashes away in what sounds like a large biscuit tin" and "imperative to play it loud and jump up and down, preferably smashing yourself over the head with a metal tea tray at the same time." The song also came in for some criticism due to its overtly sexist lyrics. This prompted a double-page spread on sexism in music in a Sounds issue that September.
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Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand describes how jumping to conclusions, along with the techniques of slapstick humour, can be used to create comedy. The example provided by the book (called The Gerbil-Caused Accident) involves a woman driving to her son's show and tell lesson, with a pet gerbil in a box by her side. It escapes and begins to crawl up her pant leg. She pulls over, gets out of the car, and proceeds to jump up and down and shake her leg in order to get rid of the animal.
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Wile E. attempts to make it drop, but it still does not move. Sylvester comes to help and they both jump up and down on it, then the rock finally drops the two of them off the cliff. 5\. The duo decide to blow up the bridge as the racers are coming, but as Wile E. is placing the dynamite it explodes. 6\. Finally, they use a rocket car to chase Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner, but they zoom past them and finish first to win the race, however, nobody gets the trophy.
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Rhys has stated that he feels quite pleased that young children can jump up and down to the song, singing "Gandhi lyrics". "Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)" is a comic, but also quite sinister, song about the possible effects of mobile phone radiation on people's health. Both "Night Vision" and "Keep the Cosmic Trigger Happy" have lyrics inspired by the band's nights out in Cardiff. The former addresses bouncers who caused problems for the group by throwing them out of nightclubs, and the aggression that the band frequently witnessed on Saturday nights in the city.
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And if that non-specific rabble-rousery is a little on the vague side, the likes of "Stomp, push, shove, mush/Fuck Bush until they bring our troops home" should make it crystal clear. On a more base level, it's fucking fantastic to jump up and down and bang your head to, which is the level where politics and pop most effectively connect." Steve Jones of USA Today said that the song "[lambastes] President Bush and his war policies." The A.V. Club wrote of the song: "[Eminem] stops attacking scapegoats and straw men and finally goes after the people who actually wield power.
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Mac Randall of The New York Observer hypothesized that the band decided to work with Burns because it was "too off- the-wall to resist." Burns stated of recording with members of the Flaming Lips that "There were definitely moments when I would run into the next room so I could giggle maniacally, jump up and down and clap my hands", calling the experience "a dream come true". According to Burns, "he and Fridmann gave [him] a lot of help in understanding the studio process, how it all works, how to take a musical idea and shine it up into a song". Ed Buller wrote to Burns, "sort of in disbelief".
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In the arcade game's first stage, players start out as a regular police officer. The gameplay is very similar to Sega's own Shinobi, as the player has the ability to jump up and down between planes where possible. The goal of each of the game's 15 stages is to find and arrest a specific wanted criminal, who is usually fought at the end of the stage as a boss. Duke is initially armed with only a single-shot pistol, but upon arresting the first three criminals and being promoted to ESWAT, Duke is equipped with a Power Suit with a mounted machine gun for the rest of the game.
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Prior to his triumph in Los Angeles, Weaver had won six national freestyle championships, two FILA World Cup gold medals, two World Cup silver medals, gold medals in tournaments in Germany, Poland and Cuba and a silver medal at the demand freestyle tournament in Tbilisi. Weaver was a flamboyant winner, especially when he won by pin. He was known to jump up and down and do somersaults in the air, particularly when he pinned 1976 Olympian William Rosado for the 1980 team berth and when he pinned Takashi Irie in the 1984 48 kg Olympic finals. Following his win in 1984, he circled the arena several times with his young son, Bobby Jr., in his arms.
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Kramer's desperation to get the water out of his ears causes him to jump up and down on the plane and, as a result, he stumbles and falls into the cockpit, which causes the pilots to lose control. While the plane is nosediving, the four prepare for death. George, momentarily feeling the need to confess, reveals he cheated in "The Contest", and Elaine begins to tell Jerry that she always loved him; but the plane steadies itself and they make a safe emergency landing in the fictional small town of Latham, Massachusetts. While waiting for the airplane to be repaired, they witness an overweight man named Howie (John Pinette) getting carjacked at gunpoint by a criminal (Jeffery Thomas Johnson).
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A crowd of fans at a punk show Two dance styles associated with punk are pogo dancing and moshing. The pogo is a dance in which the dancers jump up and down, while either remaining on the spot or moving around; the dance takes its name from its resemblance to the use of a pogo stick, especially in a common version of the dance, where an individual keeps their torso stiff, their arms rigid, and their legs close together. Pogo dancing is closely associated with punk rock and is a precursor to moshing. Moshing or slamdancing is a style of dance where participants push or slam into each other, typically during a live music show.
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He was demoted from Signalman 3rd class to Seaman 1st class when his commanding officer told him to hop to it and Bob proceeded to jump up and down on the deck of the USS Brush. At the train station in Atwater Village (Glendale), upon his return from the south pacific theater, he saw the coffins of many of his classmates from Marshall High who had died, and did not live to see a world without war. When the war ended, he attended Los Angeles City College and then the University of Arizona on the GI bill. A radio program director from WHB in Kansas City heard Arbogast's nighttime show on the university's radio station and hired him immediately.
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Eastwood introduced Reynolds to De Laurentiis, who was looking for an actor who could do his own stunts. Reynolds went to Italy in April 1966. He later spoke about his time in Europe, explaining that "... the only thing today for an American actor is to go to Europe for $350,000, crinkle up the film, jump up and down a couple of times and you've got it made." De Laurentiis announced that the film would be part of a six-picture deal that he had with United Artists, which included films titled Absurd Universe, Matchless, A River of Dollars (with Reynolds and Henry Silva, later filmed as The Hills Run Red with Thomas Hunter replacing Reynolds), The Bandit (with Clint Eastwood) and Waterloo.
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Sung during the last two minutes of every home football game, the members of the Longhorn Band place their arms around each other, begin swaying from side to side and then jump up-and-down as they sing their own colorful take on a traditional state song: > Home, home on the range, > where the deer and the antelope play [shout: with themselves!] > Where seldom is heard, > a discouraging word, > and the skies are not cloudy all day. [Hey, hey, hey] The tradition started in the 1970s when the band would often sing dirty songs in the stands. The director at the time yelled at the band to sing something nice like "Home on the Range", and so the version now sung was created.
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Brandwein was known as much for his colorful personality as for his musical talent, sometimes playing with a neon sign, reading "Naftule Brandwein Orchestra", around his neck, and with his back facing the audience, to conceal his fingering tricks. He also wore plugged-in Christmas lights as part of his costume on several occasions, which once shorted out when he perspired too much, almost electrocuting him. His wild style incorporated the many strands of Eastern European Jewish music which was influenced by Greek, Turkish, Hungarian and Gypsy music. His warm and lively playing style would constantly jump up and down the scale and express itself in trills, slides and other ornamentation; he is often contrasted to the other famous klezmer clarinettist of his time, Dave Tarras, who had a different style of sound and phrasing.
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Quantock starred in a series of television advertisements for bed retailer Capt'n Snooze from the '80s to the late '90s for which he has become most well known. In a working relationship spanning 18 years, Quantock explains that there were "a lot of things about Capt'n Snooze that were good and a lot of things that were bad" but concedes that his main reason for continuing to be the face of Capt'n Snooze was financial: > They said, "All you've got to do is wear a little nightshirt and put a hat > on and jump up and down on beds and you can have that semi-trailer full of > money". But I think it made me a bit less ambitious in terms of comedy. I > mean I won’t go into the details, but we’ve had a lot of medical problems in > our family, so that money took a lot of pressure off working professionally > as a comedian.
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Modern indoor rowing machines While with the T.I. Group Dolphin invented and patented a 'Jumping apparatus' consisting of a tubular post with footrests supported by a spring on a post, mounted on a three-wheeled carriage. The user would have to jump up and down to 'establish a forward drive to wheels through a free- wheel device'. More successful was his invention of an exercising machine consisting of 'a flywheel rotatably mounted in fixed bearings, a winding spool fixed to rotate with the flywheel and a cable one end of which is connected to the core of the spool in such a way that on rotation of the flywheel with the cable fully unwound, the cable winds onto the spool in one or other direction depending on the direction of rotation of the flywheel.' From the patent it can be seen that this was the principle used for rowing machines and exercise equipment.
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According to Gruff Rhys "Do or Die" has a "ridiculously positive outlook" and was written in an attempt to "kickstart [the band] back into gear" after a bad period in the singer's life. The track is a "driving song" and features sampled car noises so that "even if you're not in a car it feels like you are". Although Rhys has called the track a "dumb pop song" with "really daft" lyrics, he has also claimed that the title was inspired by the Quit India speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank in Bombay in which Gandhi called for his countrymen to "Do or Die" and use non-violent resistance to end British Imperial rule in India. Rhys has stated that he feels the fact that "five-year-olds" can jump up and down to the song, singing "Gandhi lyrics", is important, as it contrasts with the "self-important ... pompous" lyrics of singers such as Jim Morrison and Robert Plant.
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Liz tells Jack that he should find out who his real father is, explaining "If I have learned anything from my Sims family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself." The Sims is a video game in which players create virtual people called "Sims" and places them in houses and helps direct their moods and satisfy their desires. Liz and Pete learn from James "Toofer" Spurlock (Keith Powell) that Tracy's favorite television show is NCIS, a CBS police drama series revolving around special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), who conduct criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Later, Liz and Pete sing the song "It Takes Two" by hip-hop duo Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock to see if Tracy is familiar with the song as they have doubts about the age Tracy claims to be.
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