one of her most famous dance moves is dancing over the table, where she straddles the coffee table and dances from one end to the other. although she does not do it every day, dancing over the table is a recurring theme. as an april fools' day prank in 2009, the show's staff placed a wider table top over her normal table. during the show, when degeneres attempted to dance over it, she barely made it across, being forced on her tip-toes and using the table as leverage. on the seventh-season premiere, degeneres performed a dance segment with the cast of "so you think you can dance".