( CNN ) Duckie 's still got moves . On Tuesday night 's `` Late Late Show '' on CBS , actor Jon Cryer reprised the character 's record-store dance to Otis Redding 's `` Try a Little Tenderness , '' right down to the wall-dancing , the counter-bashing and , of course , the trademark white shoes . In the original scene , one of the best-loved bits from the 1986 John Hughes film , Cryer dances around a record store , lip-syncing the song as he tries to win the affection of Molly Ringwald 's Andie . In Tuesday 's recreation , he dances in tandem with host James Corden , who tweeted that he 'd `` fulfilled a childhood dream '' by re-creating the scene with Cryer -- who turned 50 on Thursday . `` I watched that 'Try a Little Tenderness ' dance routine so many times , the tape on the VHS wore out , '' Corden said on the show . Like Cryer , who has most recently appeared on `` Two and a Half Men , '' many of the film 's original fans are well into middle age . But still some may have squealed like teenagers when they saw the routine .
James Corden revives `` Pretty in Pink 's '' Duckie dance routine for `` The Late Late Show '' Host Jon Cryer tweets that the bit `` fulfilled a childhood dream ''