In Your Endo! - That's My Bush (2001)

A little brake from the films to talk about telly. After the recent election in America, I thought that it was only fair to have one last look at that old, strangely lovably, idiot who was in charge of the United States of America, questionably the worlds most powerful country, for eight years. There is many cartoons, films etc that portray him, but this lost beauty of a comedy series got it just right, made by Trey Parker & Matt Stone, its That's My Bush, absolutely no pun intended...seriously!
The entire series centres on the fictitious personal life of lovably oaf George W. Bush, as played by Timothy Bottoms, who looks pretty much like him and also plays him in many different American shows after That's My Bush. The show itself is a lampoon of classic American sitcoms, with characters such as loving wife, Linda Bush, klutzy bimbo secretary named really cleverly, or stupidly, Princess, the know-it-all maid Maggie and Bush's agony uncle, but not really his uncle, wacky next-door neighbor Larry.

Parker & Stone waited three months to see if the show would be called That's My Bush or Everybody Loves Al, all depending on who won the election in 2000. The final episode is also called That's My Dick, due to Dick Cheney taking over the White House!

The series covers real topics that the real George W. Bush, attempted and failed, to tackle such as abortion, gun control, drugs and of course the biggie for Bush, oil. Fans expected Parker & Stone to absolutely rip into the Bush administration, however the series is more of a spoof of old American 70's and 80's sitcoms like Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners, it actually takes the famous line,

"One of these days Alice...bang, zoom! Right to the moon!"

And replaces it with a similar, but more front and forward one,

"One of these days Laura...I'm gonna punch you in the face!"

Ah, entertaining domestic violence in the White House, who would have dreamt of it. The whole series is just a string of well structured gimmicks, slightly toned down from the usually South Park style humour.

However, the series was cancelled after the first series. (Eight episodes) It received a great deal of publicity and was well enjoyed but the series was just far too expensive. To date, it is Comedy Central's most expensive produced sitcom. Also, according to Comedy Central, the series was cancelled because the cost per ratings point was just too expensive. Parker & Stone made the series just to get back to there early roots of creating live action comedy instead of animation.

If you can find it, or want to borrow it from me, give it a go. Its easy, entertaining and its great to laugh at that old Republican fool.

"He stole the election, now he'll steal your hearts!"

For the intro - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6l-WyTV-kig