The Dancing Baby is a video file of an animated, 3D computer graphics baby dancing for several seconds, with dance moves that are humorously unlike a typical baby, that was widely popular in 1996/1997, being distributed widely over the Internet. The dancing baby originated as a motion capture demo file for the 3D modeling program 3D Studio Max; it usually dances to the intro of Blue Swede s cover of the song Hooked on a Feeling . Several edited versions and parodies were created shortly after, including a drunken baby.

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After making the rounds on the Internet, it was featured as a recurring hallucination on the television program Ally McBeal . On the series, the baby was meant to signify the ticking of the lead character s biological clock.

In the television series Millennium (television series) , the episode Somehow Satan Got Behind Me features a demon that looks and moves like the Dancing Baby.

The Dancing Baby is a recurring feature on VH1 s I Love the 90s series, and it also appeared on Best Week Ever .

Iowa State University basketball games frequently feature the dancing baby on the scoreboard during timeouts.

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