"Pull Shapes" is a single from The Pipettes

The Pipettes

The Pipettes are a British indie pop girl group formed in 2003 in Brighton by "svengali" Robert "Monster Bobby" Barry. The group has released two albums, We Are the Pipettes, and Earth vs...

 and was released on 3 July 2006. It is available on CD, double 7" vinyl, and digital download from Memphis Industries

Memphis Industries

Memphis Industries is a British independent record label.Memphis Industries was established as a record label in 1998 by the brothers Ollie and Matt Jacob with the first release being Blue States' Forever EP...

. The video for "Pull Shapes" is a reference to a scene from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian...

in which a character sings "Sweet Talking Candyman".

The song was also featured in The L Word

The L Word

The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...

, Season 5 Episode 6 ("Lights! Camera! Action!") when Jenny and Adele go shopping.

The expression "pull shapes" is a British (en-UK)

British English

British English, or English , is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere...

 colloqualism

Colloquialism

A colloquialism is a word or phrase that is common in everyday, unconstrained conversation rather than in formal speech, academic writing, or paralinguistics. Dictionaries often display colloquial words and phrases with the abbreviation colloq. as an identifier...

 that refers to the act of dancing.

Chart positions

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Chart (2006)	Peak position