From April 4 to May 23, 2001, Comedy Central released eight episodes of the 30-minute sitcom called "That's My Bush!", Sending the then active administration of George W. Bush. The premise of the show was as wider as possible. George W. Bush (Timothy Botoms) was in the White House, but his life was more like an old-fashioned Sitkom since the 1980s than the current president. There was a noisy, unpleasant laughter song associated with strong, even TV lighting, making the show look deliberately old -fashioned and artificial. Kurt Fuller played the tense killer Carl Rove, while Carrie Quinn played Laura Bush.

However, more than being a cheat of the Bush administration (and there was a lot of fraud), "That's my bush!" It was satire on all American sithoms. Show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker (from South Park fame) He only used the White House as a background to ridicule the outdated sitcom-trops that Gen-Xers deeply interned. The stories included modern policy (there were episodes devoted to the death penalty, abortion, etc.), but it was the stylized, satirical reporting.

For that purpose, "that's my bush!" Make wide use of "stunned" characters from Sitkom. There was a lazy neighbor named Larry (John D'Akino), an angry secretary named Princess (Kristen Miller) and a maid named Maggie (Marcia Wallace of the "Simpsons"). The c was also given the phrase: "One of these days, Laura, I'll hit you in the face!" When Botoms read the replica, he delivered it with theatrical expression, and "Live Studio audiences usually chanted together before he broke out in applause. This was, of course, a parody of Jackie Glyison's joke with family -being in the "honeymoon" in which the Great chanted "One of these days, Pau! Exactly in the kisser! "Or" Pau! Direct to the Moon! "

It is worth remembering that, politically, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are well -known nihilists. Their work tends to hit right and left in order to ridicule anyone who believes in anything. They may have felt George W. Bush is a clown and incompetent, but they also had no warm feelings reserved for Al Gore, Bush's democratic opponent in the fiercely contested presidential election in 2000. Indeed, according to DVD's commentary track for "It's my Bush!", Parker revealed that he and Stone had developed two situ The winner of the elections were announced in 2000.

At that time, Parker thought Gore would win (he said he was 95% confident in that), and that Al Gore's show would be called "Everyone Loves Al!" The characters' characters seem to be the same. For those who remember the extensive process of counting the election votes in 2000, they will not be shocked when they find out that production either of "That's my Bush! or "Everyone loves Al!" was suppressed for a month. Bush lost the popular vote, but won the Election College. It was the point of a national scandal at the time. Since then, Republicans have only won the People's Voting twice in 2004 and 2024.

Their agreement with Comedy Central, Stone and Parker says they are working on a sitcom called "Family First", though it is unclear whether that title will be used. Another DVD commentator was Parker describing his and Stone's writing process. They had a double -sided drying board, with one side boasting political issues with hot buttons and the other side with parcels extracted from the episodes of "the other of three".. They would then mix both sides, extrapolating stupid stories from sensitive topics.

Was largely successful.

Botoms gave a first -class performance as George W. Bush, replicating his meaningless expressions and dragging home perfectly. Botoms, Stone and Parker also gave the character w a special person ... even gave him some liberal values. The satire was equally dead, making an open mocking of "healthy" shows that grew up watching. Of course, deconstructing American sitcom was nothing new until 2001; "Married ... with children", "Simpsons" and "Seinfeld" have been pretty much open to that door for more than a decade earlier.

As you can predict, "it's my bush!" It was wonderful without taste. In the abortion episode, the audience was introduced to the puppet character named Felix Fetus. Felix, after surviving abortion, came to pass an abortion law. The strange fetus doll was created by the Chyodo brothers, the monsters' commissioners in "Killers Clowns of Space", "Critters" and "Ernest scared stupid". It was hardly the most subtle thing.

"That's my bush!" He received pretty positive reviews and a lot of publicity for his Romanian premise. In the end, however, "it's my bush!" It was canceled because, according to Parker, it was just too expensive. He and Stone became very ambitious, and the price was incredible $ 1 million per episode.

This may have been a good thing; Just four months after "It's my bush!" It was shut down, the buildings of the World Trade Center were demolished. It would be difficult to continue showing Bush as "loving oatmeal" in such an environment of national tragedy. Stone and Parker will later mock George W.'s gingerism. Bush after 11 September The 2004 feature film "Tim America: World Police", Film for ultra-nationalist military defenders ... played by dolls.