2020年10月9日 · As an animated diaper-clad baby who runs in front of her and dares her to take notice until they dance it out in her bedroom to Blue Swede’s cover of “Hooked on a Feeling.” It was this scene,...

Ally struggles to get her biological clock under control when she starts having strange hallucinations.

The "Dancing Baby", also called "Baby Cha-Cha" or "the Oogachacka Baby", is an internet meme of a 3D-rendered animation of a baby performing a cha-cha type dance. It quickly became a media phenomenon in the United States and one of the first viral videos in the mid-late 1990s.

2024年8月15日 · In the show’s first season, Ally worries that her biological window to have a kid is closing. In the midst of her concern, she experiences a kind of hallucination—the dancing baby.

2014年9月23日 · Watch Ally McBeal's iconic dancing baby scene, a humorous take on her biological clock hallucinations.

2017年9月5日 · The cast of that show, “Ally McBeal,” recently spoke with the Hollywood Reporter about how the show was developed, behind-the-scenes antics, and one very memorable dancing baby: Gil Bellows (Billy Thomas): And then there was the Dancing Baby.

2017年8月10日 · Immediately after its primetime debut, "Baby Cha-Cha," which represented Ally's ticking biological clock, gave birth to Kung Fu Babies, Rasta Babies and Samurai Babies across the internet —...

2018年1月15日 · When Ally McBeal tanked, the baby didn’t get thrown out with the bathwater. In fact, to this day, Baby Cha-Cha holds a revered place in Internet history. Called “the granddaddy of memes,” the dancing baby was one of the first ever …

After being set to the song “Hooked on a Feeling” by Blue Swede during a 1997 episode of the TV show Ally McBeal, the animation forever cemented its place among the halls of internet fame.

2022年1月28日 · The iconic scene—meant to convey Ally’s concerns about her biological clock—not only propelled the show into a hit but also birthed the digital meme. Alternately creepy and cute, the Dancing Baby was already a cult hit prior to Ally McBeal.