That's My Bush!

(thing) by LordOmar (1.7 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Apr 05 2001 at 17:17:22

After much hype from the Comedy Central marketing department, the newest production from the minds of South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker premiered last night. The show? That's My Bush.

That's My Bush stars Timothy Bottoms as President George W. Bush and Carrie Quinn Dolin as the First Lady. Rounding out the cast are Marcia Wallace as Maggie the White House Maid, Kristen Miller as "Princess", a White House Secretary, John D'Aquino as Larry, the "Next door Neighbor" and Kurt Fuller as the president's Top Advisor.

Timothy Bottom's has our newly elected president down pat. As the bumbling head of state we can't help but sympathize slightly with Bottom's dubya. He's a caring, bumbling, moronic husband and inept leader, trying desperately to balance his marriage and the most important job in the country. In this first episode we watch desperately as Stone and Parker lampoon Bush's "Uniter not a Divider" stance as he holds an "Abortion Summit" sitting down the leaders of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice stances for a formal dinner. The object being, of course, to have a photo-op of dubya standing behind the two leaders as they shake hands.

Carrie Quinn Dolin portrays Laura Bush as an all too typical housewife trying to handle herself in the topsy-turvy realm of the White House. She's trying desperately to keep the attention of her husband as he deals with important issues of state. Guiding her is Wallace's no-nonsense character of Maggie, the Maid in the White House who has been through several presidential administrations. She knows it all, and isn't afraid to tell it like it is. Wallace brilliantly lampoons her previous work on The Bob Newheart Show, and is easily the source of some of the most humorous lines in the first episode.

Bush's staff is made up of the Sensible Kurt Fuller, who plays the straight man beautifully. He flabbergasted by Bush's antics and overwhelmed by some of the moronic suggestions of the president. Bush's secretary "Princess" is the typical Stone and Partner bimbo character, 36-24-36 any of which would outdo the character's IQ by several orders of magnitude.

That's My Bush in not only a lampoon of the president, but also of the American Sitcom, complete with canned laughter, and the requisite "Awwww" during moments of tenderness between dubya and the First Lady. Each character is a parody in it's own right, complete with the aforementioned "Wacky Neighbor" who pops in with an out of place smile to deliver a few lines and have a beer (indeed the thought of the White House having a neighbor is the source of a little amusement). The plot of the first episode is also one of standard Sitcom fare, where George W. has to juggle a romantic dinner with his wife with the Abortion Summit dinner, we watch as he races between the two, changing jacket and tie each time (although both outfits are identical). Indeed the Bumbling Husband, the somewhat clueless but optimistic wife, the maid full of sass and the wisdom of experience, the straight laced advisor and the blonde bimbo secretary all have roots in sitcoms of the past.

But where's the offense? No venture of Stone & Parker would be complete without the trademark offensive humor. The Comedy Central veterans have perfected the art of attacking sensitive issues in a way that makes us laugh so hard we forget to be offended. In the premiere of That's My Bush we are assaulted with a leader of the pro-life movement being represented by a puppet of a 30 year old undeveloped fetus that survived an abortion attempt, and a leader of the pro-choice movement represented by a masculine female sporting a mullet. Somehow Stone and Parker pull it off.

All in all I enjoyed the show, although I admit it was not entirely what I expected, this is not a witty satire on the presidency, but an assault on the American Sitcom. It uses the president as a source for storylines, and as a vessel to take on American sensibilities (which has been a hallmark of South Park's popularity), in that it is a success.

(thing) by Profoundly_Slack (1.4 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Jun 30 2001 at 15:44:33

A brilliant man deserves a brilliant sitcom.

That's my bush! is a superb new Comedy Central show by the guys behind South Park, Matt Parker and Trey Stone. Nobody else could have made this show. The show makes fun of George W. Bush while simultaneously being a parody of your usual cliche filled TV sitcom, for instance the oft-repeated catch phrase of George W. Bush is One of these days I'm going to punch you in the face.

Characters include George & Laura Bush, Karl Rove the presidental advisor, Princess, Maggie (a parody of Alice from The Brady Bunch) and Larry (a parody of the wacky neighbor type, eg from Married with Children). That's my bush is on at 10pm Saturday on Comedy Central or 8:30pm Saturday on SBS in Australia.

The theme song:

He's the president in resident,
he's kind of in charge.
He's got the whole world saying...
That's my bush!

Life is hard, that's the price of fame;
When you're President everyone knows your name.
Hey, what's happ'nin'? It's my Bush!

I can't believe he's actually in the Whitehouse.
That's our MAN!
That's my Bush!

Website: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/tmb//index.jhtml

(thing) by NothingLasts4ever (9.6 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Aug 03 2001 at 9:18:00

After only 8 episodes That's My Bush is being canceled. According to Trey Parker and Matt Stone it's an economic thing.

"It's not really the ratings. It has to do with how expensive the show was. ... a super-expensive show on a small cable network, the economics of it were just not gonna work out," Stone said.

There are plans for a That's My Bush film however. It will be called "George W. Bush and the Secret of the Glass Tiger" they plan on working on this summer.

The plot would have something to do with a Chinese invasion of America foiled by the president.

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Nostradamus on George W. Bush	Karl Rove	If George Bush played Civilization III	Does "All Natural" mean "No Side Effects"?
The West Wing	George W. Bush	The time a thug punched my friend in the face because he could	DVDA
It will be a hot day and these two ice cubes. We will melt, become one.	On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned	Timothy Bottoms	Undertow
This Diamond Ring	South Park	bundu-bash	Puffy Punkachu punched my pretty face
Bimbo	That's My Bush!, Episode 2	Trey Parker	Invasive
George W. Bush's address to the UN General Assembly: September 12, 2002	Schlumpf	Lord Voldemort	Comedy Central

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