In Season 8’s “The Little Kicks,” we learn that Elaine is unknowingly an awful, awkward dancer. According to Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s book, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels was the inspiration for Elaine’s horrific moves.

Spike Feresten, the writer of that episode, had previously worked as a receptionist for SNL, and during his time with the show he worked the door at afterparties. In the book, Feresten says that he remembers Michaels “dancing as if he’d never seen another human being dance before. The man heaved and gyrated to a rhythm only he could feel.”

When that episode was being filmed, Feresten said, he taught Julia Louis-Dreyfus the Lorne Michaels dance, which she hilariously imitated.