# 44 Morphing Presidents...Pretty Cool!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 7, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244 "2009-01-07T17:45:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/21 "2009-01-08T03:09:16Z")
Used the wrong song. Should have gone with the Nails.
The McKinley morph seemed pretty creepy to me, the way the face moved. Moreso than the one to Nixon.
mmmm, mmm-mm-mm-mm-mmmm-mmmm
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/22 "2009-01-08T03:24:16Z")
Damn, Grover Cleveland was one fugly bastard!!! Damn. And that was a really unflattering painting of Ike, amiright?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/23 "2009-01-08T03:50:31Z")
Jimmy Carter was the first one to smile.
Change\* can \*happen.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/24 "2009-01-08T03:52:52Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Damn, Grover Cleveland was one fugly bastard!!! Damn. And that was a really unflattering painting of Ike, amiright?
I like Ike.
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/25 "2009-01-08T03:54:46Z")
> [@Lobsang](#):
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> Jimmy Carter was the first one to smile.
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> Change\* can \*happen.
Carter was also the first photograph.
Saying “Cheese” while you get your portrait painted probably gets tiring after the first 90 minutes.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/26 "2009-01-08T04:00:24Z")
C-C-C-Combo Breaker!
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### Author:  [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/27 "2009-01-08T04:03:28Z")
In my opinion the worst transition was McKinley to Teddy Roosevelt.
But what I really enjoyed was seeing Andrew Jackson’s head inflate like a puffer fish to form Martin Van Buren.
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### Author:  [@vintageloveletter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vintageloveletter)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/28 "2009-01-08T05:00:56Z")
> [@Caricci](#):
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> Forgive me, but that was a pretty young-looking Millard Fillmore.
That’s exactly what I thought. I had to wiki him to check his age during the years he served.
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### Author:  [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/29 "2009-01-08T20:41:20Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#):
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> Hmm, I never realized until now that some of those presidents were absolute FOXES! Ulysses S. Grant in particular…
Actually, many of the mutant intermediates are absolute foxes. I think it has to do with the appeal of an averaged face. That said, the Franklin Pierce sequence is a veritable epicenter of hotness. He can create an intermediate morph with me _any time_.
Grover Cleveland, on the other hand, should have had his portraitist assassinated. He looks like a greasy mound of steaming Spam. I wonder why the video didn’t use his [official portrait](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grover_Cleveland_portrait2.jpg).
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/30 "2009-01-08T20:57:16Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Seeing LBJ morph into Dick Nixon was damned creepy. It looked like Nixon was turning to look at me and I was wishing I had a crucifix or holy water for a moment.
I thought the exact same thing! I literally jumped of my chair a bit- that was fucking creepy!
> [@Marley23](#):
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> On the other hand Obama’s hair has gotten noticeably grayer since he started campaigning, so who knows.
His hair changed colors repeatedly during the campaign. I can honestly say I’m surprised the media didn’t latch on to his hair dying habits.
The man clearly colors his hair: one day on the trail it’d be grayish, the next it’d be rich dark dark brown, and a few weeks later it’d be make to grayish.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/31 "2009-01-08T21:45:57Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Seeing LBJ morph into Dick Nixon was damned creepy. It looked like Nixon was turning to look at me and I was wishing I had a crucifix or holy water for a moment.
I couldn’t help thinking about that \*Twilight Zone \*episode in which the man held captive by the monks is released . . . and morphs into the devil.
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### Author:  [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/32 "2009-01-09T00:56:24Z")
Eisenhower kind of looks like Red Forman from That 70’s Show.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/33 "2009-01-09T02:48:05Z")
> [@Queen of Town](#):
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> Eisenhower kind of looks like Red Forman from That 70’s Show.
Would that mean when he was pissed at Nixon, he called him a “dumbass?”
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-morphing-presidents-pretty-cool/480244/34 "2009-01-09T03:01:53Z")
> [@Bosstone](#):
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> Carter was also the first photograph.
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> Saying “Cheese” while you get your portrait painted probably gets tiring after the first 90 minutes.
Nixon’s (3:07) _appears to be_ a photograph. So it must have been one hell of a portrait.
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