On January 27, 1998, MTV premiered "Virtual Bill", a collaboration between writers of "The Onion" and 3-D character studio Protozoa. The titular "Virtual Bill" character was a quasi-realistic CGI version of Bill Clinton created by studio Protozoa who introduced music videos and told jokes written by the staff of "The Onion". The voice of "Virtual Bill" was provided by then editor Dikkers. After the initial premiere, "Virtual Bill" returned to MTV on December 17, 1998, with another TV special and an interactive web special produced by Pulse that ported the 3D data into a web compatible format using Pulse's proprietary plug-in.