Alternative lifestyle robots

Funny things can happen when you are animating in one perspective and then switch to another. I was animating a proxy of my robot for a walk cycle animation and had done most of the work in in the side view perspective. As you can see below the cycle looked fine from that view:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5517211941104625190

But then I checked it out from perspective, (or in this case 3/4) view:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2904131566354068889