If you watched the Super Bowl halftime show, then you know about
Katy Perry and the dancing sharks (and dancing beach balls, and
dancing palm trees). If you didn't watch it, you should hasten
to YouTube and watch immediately. Here is a link that was working
when this was posted, but a bunch of others were taken down in
response to notices from the NFL. So don't tarry.
The breakout star of the show is now known simply as "Left
Shark." It's first visible at about 4:25 into the video
linked above. Keen-eyed watchers noticed that while the
shark-costumed dancer on the right (I'm assuming its name is
"Right Shark") was performing pretty tight dance moves
– considering the shark suit and all – the one on the
left was a bit out of sync and might possibly have forgotten parts
of the routine. Within hours, Left Shark was burning up the
Internet. It was inevitable that people would soon begin selling
Left Shark merchandise.
