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White White Baby

In Living Color
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The setup

Jim Carrey's Vanilla Ice fumbles his way through a send-up of "Ice Ice Baby" with a full dance crew behind him.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Sporting Vanilla Ice's sculpted hair and a shiny two-tone suit, Jim Carrey performs a rewritten "Ice Ice Baby" backed by the dance crew 2 Four 2. The new verses have the rapper admit he is cashing in on a trend, joke about his real name and inflated street-tough backstory, and boast about his money, while the act keeps falling apart: he stops the show to retie his shoelaces, flails through the choreography and ends up spinning on the floor in a botched breakdance before signing off with his trademark catchphrase.

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A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Wikipedia's episode list and the In Living Color fan wiki note that this sketch was cut from the show's DVD release. The backup dance group 2 Four 2 (also written 242) included Imani, Slimkid3 and Bootie Brown, who later formed the hip-hop group The Pharcyde. Vanilla Ice later posted the clip to his own official YouTube channel.

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