While the Harlem Shake meme videos keep piling up on YouTube, here's a look at some of the most popular shake videos including renditions by The Simpsons and the Miami Heat basketball team.

The Harlem Shake consists of a video starting with one person moving to the beat. Once the beat drops, everyone starts shaking.

On Thursday, FOX released a Harlem Shake video featuring Homer Simpson and his animated companions on The Simpsons. "You've seen the rest, now watch the best. It's the Simpson Harlem Shake," FOX said.

TV's first family changed things up a bit by adding a new soundtrack with the voice of Homer on vocals, creating the Homer Shake.


The Miami Heat also joined in on the dance frenzy movement by putting on a show in their team's locker room.

The reigning basketball champions are dressed in different types of costumes and used many props in the team's rendition of the Harlem Shake.

The YouTube clip uploaded on Thursday presented Lebron James and teammates dancing to Baauer's hit tune while dressed in outrageous costumes from "Mario Brothers" to "Phantom of the Opera."

The "shake" is not just a person flailing their body around.

The real Harlem Shake, a much more raw, technical, fluid, frenetic dance, was born in New York City in 1981. During halftime at streetball games held in Rucker Park, a skinny man known in the neighborhood as Al. B. would entertain the crowd with his own brand of moves, a dance that around Harlem became known as "The Al. B."

"He would dance, and twist his shoulders," said his mother, Sandra Boyce, who is 69 and lives in Harlem. Al. B., whose real name was Albert Boyce, died in 2006 at 43.

However this 21st century Harlem Shake is a song by electronic music artist Baauer. The track came out almost a year ago on Grammy nominated producer Diplo's label Mad Decent. The genre that Baauer's Harlem Shake falls into is a newer music genre called Trap. Trap music is a combination of hip-hop, house, and crunk.

It is now a viral Youtube sensation, with the original track clocking up almost 21 million views and inspiring thousands of other videos around the world.

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