--- --- # Watch Jon Cryer Reprise Duckie's 'Pretty in Pink' Dance With James Corden by [K.C. Blumm / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## K.C. Blumm / People Apr 15, 2015 2:23 PM UTC by [K.C. Blumm / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## K.C. Blumm / People Apr 15, 2015 2:23 PM UTC Oh, Duckie, we’ve missed you! [Jon Cryer](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:JonCryer,00.html) revisited his iconic teen character from 1986’s [_Pretty in Pink_](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,MediaProductsTax:MoviePrettyinPink,00.html) on Tuesday’s _Late Late Show_. Wearing a wig on his head and white winklepickers on his feet, the former _Two and a Half Men_ star lip-synced along with host [James Corden](http://www.people.com/article/james-corden-new-host-late-late-show-sleepless-nights) to Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness.” It’s been 29 years since the film, which also starred [Molly Ringwald](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:MollyRingwald,00.html), [Andrew McCarthy](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:AndrewMcCarthy,00.html) and [Annie Potts](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:AnniePotts,00.html), was released but Cryer, 49, clearly remembered all of his moves from that [well-known scene](https://youtu.be/9rOvNBXxYXk). “What I liked about Duckie was that he thought he was the coolest guy in the room – regardless of the evidence to the contrary,” Cryer [told PEOPLE](http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20060055,00.html) in 2006. And while fans might remember the film fondly, Cryer writes in [his new memoir](http://www.people.com/article/jon-cryer-demi-moore-dated-new-memoir), _So That Happened_, that the movie was originally going to end differently – Duckie was supposed to get the girl. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/jon-cryer-pretty-pink-duckie-dance-james-corden-late-late-show) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com)_._ Watch Jon Cryer Reprise Duckie’s ‘Pretty in Pink’ Dance With James Corden ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3822674/jon-cryer-james-corden-duckie-dance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3822674/jon-cryer-james-corden-duckie-dance/"},"headline":"Watch Jon Cryer Reprise Duckie's 'Pretty in Pink' Dance With James Corden","datePublished":"2015-04-15T14:23:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:46.981Z","description":"29 years later, Duckie still owns it","url":"https://time.com/3822674/jon-cryer-james-corden-duckie-dance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"K.C. Blumm / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3822674/jon-cryer-james-corden-duckie-dance/","name":"Watch Jon Cryer Reprise Duckie's 'Pretty in Pink' Dance With James Corden"}}]}] ```