The Dancing Baby - who will also answer to Baby Cha or the Oogachaka Baby, given its proclivity for the musical stylings of Björn Skifs - was not born on a Hollywood backlot but from the minds of Silicon Valley creatives. ‘It Was Kind of the Birth of the Internet’ But where do dancing babies come from? The creative team behind it explains how it was born. It was this scene, from the season-one episode “Cro-Magnon,” that catapulted the show from cult hit to an office water-cooler sensation. How would Ally’s concerns about her biological clock metaphorize? 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.” ![]() How nervous was Ally about giving a eulogy at her college professor’s funeral, especially since they’d had an affair? Like she might put a giant foot in her mouth. How does Ally feel when she learns her ex-boyfriend, Billy (Gil Bellows) - the one she never really got over - not only works at her new law firm but is now happily married? Like she’s been hit with multiple arrows through the heart. What made her so relatable was the way the show used imagery as a sort of fast-paced shorthand to explain her neuroses. Kelley’s Fox dramedy, Ally McBeal, appeared on TV screens in the fall of 1997 as a nervous, overly educated-yet-still-unsure-of-herself mess. Before Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rebecca Bunch used song-and-dance numbers to interpret her inner monologues, and before Jane the Virgin’s Jane Villanueva saw telenovela tropes everywhere she turned, there was Ally.Ĭalista Flockhart’s titular 20-something attorney from David E.
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