Presidents Race race still began with an animation on the video board: the four cartoon presidents dashed through Washington, D.C., and headed towards RFK Stadium. Immediately after disappearing from the screen, the costumed live-action presidents emerged from the right field corner as 10-foot-tall (3-meter-tall) men with large caricature foam heads. The presidents bolted out from right field and down the first base line, past the visitors' dugout, and to the finish line by home plate. Beginning in the 2007 season, the animated lead-in was replaced with a taped video of the caricature-headed presidents running from the White House, around various Washington landmarks,
The X-Presidents "X-Men". Their wives are also members of a similar group, "The X-First Ladies", with more flamboyant powers. In the episode "Nixon," Richard Nixon and his dog Checkers are resurrected to aid the group. As of 2018, Ford, Reagan and Bush have become "Ex-X-Presidents" since their deaths, leaving Carter as the only remaining member of the original team. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama attempted to join the group after leaving office but were hindered by their lack of superpowers. The cartoons end with the X-Presidents singing a song that recounts the episode's message. "The Ambiguously Gay Duo",