When Cartoon Characters speak with Politicians in REAL LIFE-Marge Simpson and Barbara Bush

As the 40th ANNIVERSARY of THE SIMPSONS approaches in APRIL 2027,

Let's take a step back in time to when THE SIMPSONS was just about to start it's 2nd Season in fall 1990.

The Then-FIRST LADY of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BARBARA BUSH

A remarkable first lady who was known for her GRANDMOTHERLY CHARM,

Published on an article for PEOPLE MAGAZINE where she called 

THE SIMPSONS as "the dumbest thing she saw on television."

This provoked the anger from the writers who'd went out of their way to even make a Second season of their show after the hurdles they went through in the first season.

But they also had a plan,

That plan was to write a letter to BARBARA but instead of using their names or the names of anybody who produced the series,

They instead used the name of one MARGE SIMPSON

And here's what the...... er..... SHE wrote

Almost immediately after the writers sent MARGE's letter to the WHITE HOUSE,

BARBARA BUSH sent a letter back to FOX.

Quite the apology.

And nice compliment to HOMER SIMPSON there.

But then 16 months later on JANUARY 30 1992 in the build-up for the re-election campaign of BARABARA's husband GEORGE H.W. BUSH,

There came his speech

"WE ARE GOING TO STRENGTHEN THE AMERICAN FAMILY!

TO MAKE AMERICAN FAMILIES 

A LOT MORE LIKE THE WALTONS,

AND A LOT LESS LIKE THE SIMPSONS"

It got to the point that the letter that was sent had no effect.....

Well it had an effect on BARBARA but not to her husband GEORGE who was unfazed...

so to bite back, 

The writers told FOX to they're going to have a little surprise for the viewers during a rerun of the now banned STARK RAVING DAD but this time, it was a little different.

It now opened with THE SIMPSON FAMILY watching BUSH's re-election speech, though reusing animation from the HAIR TONIC episode where an edit of the speech was overlaid on the TV.

Well..... as predicted by SIDESHOW BOB in BLACK WIDOWER, also from 1992,

"YOU CAN'T KEEP THE DEMOCRATS 

OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE FOREVER!!!"

BUSH lost the election to ARKANSAS Governor BILL CLINTON

but it wouldn't be the last time the SIMPSONS WRITERS got the last laugh.

Later on in 1996, FOX aired the episode TWO BAD NEIGHBORS where the SIMPSON FAMILY have the Elder Bush Family move into SPRINGFIELD for their retirement as well as get away from POLITICS.

While MARGE and BARBARA still remained on GOOD TERMS

The same unfortunately could not be said about HOMER and GEORGE

But I don't want to spoil the episode for you.

Go watch it on your own time either through your SEASON 7 DVDs 

or on your DISNEY+ Accounts.

Both BARBARA and GEORGE H.W BUSH passed away back in 2018.

I remember reading on APPLE NEWS on my iPhone 6S that year reading about the loss of the ELDER BUSH's.

I think both times, I read the news of their passing while I was eating at McDonald's at 41st and Victoria St.

I should have been saving this post for 2027 but I got impatient.

And besides, it's MID-TERM season so it's all the more fitting.

Speaking about mid-terms, 

When the U.S had their 2006 midterms, MATT GROENING briefly changed the name of his comic from LIFE IN HELL into LIFE IS SWELL

He later reverted the comic back to it's original name before he decided to drop the comic from NEWSPAPERS in 2012.

Why I like Large Monitors Better 05-To show off, or not to show off? That is the question.

When it comes to monitors,

I just like having a large monitor.

Why?

Because I like the idea of ENCOMPASSING YOUR POV with IMMERSION.

Like I said, I remember how exhilarating it was to have a large CRT Monitor like my old 21" KDS Monitor I had with my VOBIS HIGHSCREEN....

So it felt like a downgrade when I got my MDG HORIZON in 2005, we got stuck with using a 17" SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER

If it had been possible for me at the time to carry a POCKET PC like....

this HP IPAQ from 2005

alongside it's SD CAMERA Add-On

I would have had an easier way to show off to my friends some photos I transferred from the COMPUTER to the device.

I don't know....

Maybe it might come off as SHOWING OFF your tech and being considered bless but that's like having this kid from THE COMPUTER CHRONICLES show off his bigass monitor while demonstrating the BRYCE 3D CGI Software

Seriously, this kid's parents must have paid a fortune for that large 21" Display which is enough to make CGI Artists blush

All while us AVERAGE SHMUCKS are stuck with the smaller monitors

Sure, even a 17" display looks large but that's only because of the bezel holding it all together.

The viewable area is actually less than that though how much you view depends on the resolution you set CRT Monitors being DISPLAY RESOLUTION-AGNOSTIC.

Nowadays, it all depends on your own use case for how you use your monitor.

For me when it comes to work or gaming, I prefer to use my 34" ULTRAWIDE Monitor that I currently use due to it's sheer size, ability to fit entire CINEMASCOPE movies if encoded correctly, etc.

Though I've run into some people who won't contend with the larger displays due to alleged SPACE LIMITATIONS in their homes so that's why I sometimes see people go for the 27" displays

LGR's WOODGRAIN 9800x3D Build running 

WINDOWS 11 PRO

LGR's Minisforum AI X1 Pro-370 Running

STEAMOS 3.8

I myself did use a 27" display for a short while

But since late May 2025, 

I've moved on the my ULTRAWIDE....

I still have my 27" display, just that it's now overhead above my ULTRAWIDE and that's for watching YOUTUBE VIDEOs or putting my MAYA GRAPH Editor as seen above.

Oh how times have changed for me.

Who would have thought I go from using just one MONITOR

To now using TRIPLE MONITORS

But I'm not bragging about my setup because with space concerns in my BASEMENT SUITE, even my setup feels inadequate compared to these other setups I found from other people:

But I'm not complaining.

I like my setup for what it is.

I'm not here to encourage bragging but rather to discuss the topics.

30 years of a Dancing Infant and Premonitions of an artist in WASHINGTON STATE+ I'VE GOT AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Nowadays, 

AUTODESK is known for their MAYA Software for CGI Animation in the Industry while AUTOCAD is known in the MANUFACTURING industry for it's use in...... CAD work.

But before AUTODESK acquired ALIAS SOFTWARE,

AUTODESK had their own CGI software that is often overlooked when compared to MAYA or BLENDER nowadays.

Nowadays 3DS MAX,

3D Studio was the principal CGI software for AUTODESK until they bought ALIAS though 3DS and MAYA coexisted.

Anyway, what does this have to do with what I'm talking about?

Well, A Sample Animation was created by ROBERT LURYE who was hired by UNREAL PICTURES animate samples of a dance to demonstrate animation on WINDOWS NT computers running their software without holding back the hardware in any way imaginable.

To demonstrate further compatibility, he scanned a plastic baby doll, rigged it,

And let it boogie..

Little did AUTODESK or even ROBERT LURYE know that when they shared their low-res renders through EMAIL and through the 1995 Software Conference at SIGGRAPH that they inadvertently created one of the first(Probably not the very first) viral INTERNET MEMES that could spread as quickly as.........

Anyway.

The GIFs got spread across COMPUSERVE INTERNET FORUMS

alongside videos which often paired the baby with 

The 1973 BLUE SWEDE song HOOKED ON A FEELING

(Better known by it's Caveman sounding starting lyrics OOGA-CHAKA)

North of CALIFORNIA where AUTODESK is located,

A 17 year old High School Student in BELLVUE, WASHINGTON

who goes by the name of ROB SHERIDAN

Decided to take the BABY through storm after finding himself enamored by the Dancing Infant's antics.

 

Using his pride and joy of a COMPUTER:

A COMPAQ PRESARIO 

He created a HOME PAGE to share the BABY's antics on the INTERNET:

THE UNOFFICIAL HOMEPAGE OF THE AMAZING DANCING BABY

Not only did ROB wanted to share clips he got on his WEB SEARCHES but he also encouraged other CGI Artists(Mostly Freelance) to share their creations to him via EMAIL so that he can share them on his HOME PAGE.

Under the proviso that they're up to his standards that is considered AGE APPROPRIATE as He got in trouble with his HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERs over some of the clips he's shared.

So that meant videos like a...

DRUNKEN NAKED BABY

(WHAT... THEY'RE CENSORED HERE!!!! )

or THE BABY GETTING HIT BY A CAR

 are refused entry into his homepage.

While others like the psychedelic CHILD PRODIGY

or the Horror infused BABY FRANKENSTEIN

are allowed to be in his website.

Due to the fact that pretty much everybody who wanted to get on the internet in the late 90s were limited to DIAL-UP for their INTERNET,

And the fact that ROB SHERIDAN'S own DIAL UP Internet wasn't particularly great even back in the day,

Web traffic was pretty tame....

That was until DAVID E. KELLEY's  decided to contact AUTODESK buy software from them, just to feature the BABY in his show ALLY MCBEAL

The idea of the DANCING BABY appearing in ALLY MCBEAL was that he was meant to symbolize the title character's TICKING BIOLOGICAL CLOCK.

And ALLY eventually danced with the BABY in one episode

And with that, SHERIDAN's website soon SKYROCKETED in WEB TRAFFIC,

More than ROB's own INTERNET SETUP was willing to allow.

One a side note but still related to the baby:

A parody was also featured in the SIMPSONS via the DANCING JESUS WEBSITE

That was until HOMER stole the GIF and used it for his Home Page.

The later years were not kind for the baby and LITTLE BABY CHACHA soon faded into obscurity while other MEMES flourished.

In 2020, 

An artist named JACK ARMSTRONG decided to revive the BABY for the new decade by TRACKING THE OLD FILES for the baby and....

Well I was under the impression he used BLENDER but as it turns out, he just used AUTODESK 3DS MAX which is.... rather fitting considering THE BABY's origins.

It's documented here: 

Dancing Baby in HD is the ultimate '90s revival

ROB SHERIDAN has since moved on from the DANCING BABY meme that made him famous as he's since ventured on into other endevours

Such as is work with NINE INCH NAILS & PEARL JAM.

As for why I mentioned that I've got an Important Announcement:

Yesterday, I just purchased 2 tickets for a round trip to ATLANTA, GEORGIA 

(The second ticket is for my mother)

So I've got the travel plans for FEBRUARY 2027 taken care of.