The Boss Baby began as Marla Frazee's 2010 picture book before DreamWorks Animation turned it into a 2017 feature film starring Alec Baldwin as the briefcase-carrying infant, with music by Hans Zimmer and Steve Mazzaro. The film's cheeky corporate-baby concept spawned a Netflix series and sequels, keeping its brassy theme in circulation. Online, the theme became shorthand for mock professionalism, soundtracking memes about babies, pets and friends acting like tiny CEOs, and it still pops up in parenting humor and glow-up edits.