This would have been in the late 80's when james Brown was locked up for tax evasion. There was a TV special and it was a sketch comedy type of show. The skit I remember was a bunch of people protesting James Brown being locked up and they were chanting "free james brown" and then one of the protesters would say "do the robot" and they would all start dancing. Nobody I know remebers this and im starting to think its all in my head, lol...