Hollywood Flashback: 'Ally McBeal' Made Meme History With a Dancing Baby in 1998
Big Little Lies), but he's responsible for only one internationally recognized meme: the Dancing Baby.
On Fox's Ally McBeal, this semi-transparent visual effect — aka Baby Cha-Cha — occasionally would appear as a hallucinatory metaphor for the ticking biological clock of the 30ish McBeal (Calista Flockhart, who was 32 when the show first aired). The infant's first appearance was on the show's 12th episode, "Cro-Magnon," in January 1998 when it danced to Blue Swede's cover of...
On Fox's Ally McBeal, this semi-transparent visual effect — aka Baby Cha-Cha — occasionally would appear as a hallucinatory metaphor for the ticking biological clock of the 30ish McBeal (Calista Flockhart, who was 32 when the show first aired). The infant's first appearance was on the show's 12th episode, "Cro-Magnon," in January 1998 when it danced to Blue Swede's cover of...
- 8/10/2017
- by Bill Higgins
- The Hollywood Reporter - TV News
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