# Why I Hate Ally McBeal **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040 "2000-05-09T20:11:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040/21 "2022-10-24T15:14:43Z")
Welcome to the boards, @Spgphilly! If it makes you feel any better, I never watched a single episode of Ally McBeal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040/22 "2022-10-24T15:16:26Z")
The early seasons of Ally McBeal were very good. I always thought of Ally as an over achiever in high school and she studied very hard in college and law school. She neglected her social life. Ally is a young lawyer and successful. She’s a bit inept at a social activities and relationships. The best part of the show was the music that set the stage for the character interactions. I was disappointed that Ally didn’t become more confident in the later seasons. The writers started a very promising relationship between Ally and Robert Downey Jr. Sadly he relapsed and went back into drug treatment. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040/23 "2022-10-24T15:25:56Z")
Naw, I just had one bumped after 23 years, and with a real answer. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040/24 "2022-10-24T15:26:32Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > All I remember is that weird 3D CGI baby dream 🎶 “Oooh-gah-chacka-oooh-gah chacka.” 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040/25 "2022-10-24T15:27:11Z")
That must have been one of the first viral Internet memes – before we even had vocabulary to describe it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040/26 "2022-10-24T15:43:11Z")
Still makes me smile. There’s a new generation born after 1996 that haven’t seen it. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LlG9yYW6Bi8/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-CYAC0AWKAgwIABABGGUgVyhRMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBCWvDzA-UKipwTjBfEoT7cZ8HsRA "Dancing Baby Screensaver. 1996 (original music)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlG9yYW6Bi8) ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040/27 "2022-10-24T19:51:45Z")
I guess you’re just a type-A personality or something. From my experience some people that seem to have it all can have some surprising insecurities. Some people have a very screwed up self-image. I’ve never seen that show, but a guy that used to sit next to me had her picture on his cubicle wall. Is Calista Flockheart still with Harrison Ford? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040.md?page=1)