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If you didn't know by now, David Harbour loves to set retweet contests on his Twitter [3]. The Stranger Things [4] star has officiated a wedding [5], taken a senior portrait with a high school fan [6], and can now add hanging out with penguins in Antarctica to his list of accomplishments. It all started when David tweeted at the environmental organization Greenpeace [7] asking to send him "someplace to tell emperor penguins couples I think they have terrific parenting ideologies" and to "perhaps hone the Hopper dance [8] with the males . . ." Greenpeace [9] responded and told him he needed 200,000 retweets to make it happen [10]. Just like that, the 42-year-old asked his followers, and they came through. He posted about his experience all over his social media [11].
"Thank you guys for sending me here. I am on a rock in Antarctica with a colony of gentoo penguins [12]," he said on Twitter with a huge smile on his face. "I thought this was going to be like a silly thing. I thought I was just going to dance with penguins but ultimately . . . it has turned into kind of another thing about protecting the Arctic waters . . . It sort of humbled me and my narcissism."
Even though David got a bit of stage fright at first, he gave us what we've been waiting for: watching him do the Hopper dance surrounded by the beautiful penguins, who looked like they couldn't be bothered. Watch it all go down in the video ahead.
https://t.co/29mTHvLYOA [13]
here's a petition to create the largest protected area in the world.@Greenpeace [14] has 1M sigs.
let's give them 1.8.
1.8 million.
1 for every proposed square km
for the 'guins.
here's me dancing with them,
as promised.
they don't have netflix.@Greenpeace [15] ? pic.twitter.com/jjLBk2XOIr [16]— David Harbour (@DavidKHarbour) February 20, 2018 [17]