The creators of South Park removed the forgotten political sets live

From April 4 to May 23, 2001, the Comedy Central showed eight 30-minute sets called “Here’s my Bush!”, Which was created at the time of the current George W. Bush administration. Comprehending the show was as wide as possible. George W. Bush (Timothy Botams) was in the White House, but his life was more reminiscent of the old-fashioned 1980s in the workplace than the life of the incumbent. There was a noisy, unpleasant laughter combined with bright flat television lighting, which made the show intentionally old -fashioned and artificial. Kurt Fuel played a fastened killer Carl Rowe, and Carey Quin Vallets played Laura Bush.

More than being fake Bush administration, however (and there was a lot of fakes), “It’s my Bush!” It was a satire of general American sites. Show the creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker (Southern Park Glory) Just used the White House as a background to mock the old tropes of the Sitcoms that Gen-Mers have mastered. The plots touched upon contemporary politics (there were episodes dedicated to the deadly punishment, abortion, etc.), but the real star was stylized, satirical artificiality.

To this end, “This is my bush!” Widely used the “boring” characters of the Sitcoms. There was a sloppy neighbor named Larry (John D’Akin), a stupid secretary named Princess (Kristen Miller) and a brazen maid named Maggie (Martia Wallace of Simpsons). W also got a winged phrase: “The other day, Laura, I’ll beat you on the face!” When Botams read the line, he spoke it with the theater aplomb, and “Living Studio” usually chanted the unison before exploding. Of course, it was a parody of Jackie Glesson’s joke about domestic violence from the movie “Honey Moon”, in which he sang great “the other day! Or “PAPE! Right to the Moon!”

It should be remembered that, from the political point of view, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are known to nihilists. Their work tends to punch the right and left, for the purpose of mocking all who believe in anything. Perhaps they considered George W. Bush Bush and incompetent, but they also did not have warm feelings for Ella grief, the opponent of Bush from the 2000 presidential election, which caused the hot struggle. Indeed, according to a comment on DVD to “That’s My Bush!”, Parker said that they had developed two Sitkoms at the same time – one for Bush and the other for the grief – and agreed that they would start producing one of them as soon as the winner. The 2000 elections were announced

At the time, Parker thought the mountain would win (he said that he was 95%confident) and that Ella’s show will be called “Everyone loves Ella!” The standard characters seem to remain the same. Those who remember the prolonged process of the 2000 election vote will not be shocked when they find out that the production is “here’s my bush!” Or “Everyone loves Ella!” was pushed to the moon. Bush lost popular voting, but won the Voter College. At the time, it was a point of national scandal. Since then, Republicans only twice won the 2004 and 2024 elections.

According to the contract with Comedy Central, Stone and Parker had to work on a Sitcom called “Family first”, although it is unclear whether the name would be used. In another track with the comments on the DVD Parker described his and the scones the writing process. They had a two -sided erasure board, on one side of which there were sharp political topics, and on the other – plots Taken from the episodes of the three.. Then they mixed both sides, extrapolating stupid stories from delicate themes.

It was basically successful.

Botams showed the first -class game George W. Bush, perfectly repeating his inexperienced expressions and incomprehensible silence. Botams, Stone and Parker also gave the character W a clear personality … Even by giving it some liberal values. Satire was equally stiff, openly ridiculed by the “useful” shows on which the generation grew. Of course, the deconstruction of American Sitcoms was not new until 2001; “Married … with children”, “Simpsons” and “Sinfeld” almost ten years ago opened this door.

As you could foresee, “This is my bush!” It was beautifully tasteless. In the episode dedicated to abortion, the audience got acquainted with the puppet character named Felix. Felix, having experienced abortion, opposed the legislation on abortion. The strange puppet-fruit was created by the brothers, the ideological monsters in the films “Clovon killers from space”, “Beasts” and “frightened Ernest, stupid”. It is unlikely that it was the thinnest thing.

“This is my bush!” He received pretty positive reviews and great advertising for his new prerequisites. After all, however, “this is my bush!” It was canceled because, according to Parker, it was too expensive. He and Stone became very ambitious, and ultimately the price tag made a tremendous $ 1 million per episode.

It could be good; Only four months after “Here’s my bush!” It was aired, the buildings of the World Trade Center were fallen. It would be difficult to continue drawing Bush as a “cute fool” in such an environment of the national tragedy. Stone and Parker later ridiculed the chauvinism of the George W. Bush administration after September 11. The 2004 feature film “Team America: World Police”, A film about ultra -nationalist military defenders … in the role of dolls.