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That's My Bush!

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That's My Bush!	comment	Short-lived Comedy Central Sitcom parody spoofing the antics of President George W. Bush, from Trey Parker and Matt Stone.The series portrayed the President as a likable buffoon who fell into one "Fawlty Towers" Plot after another, supported by his equally wacky staff and family.Despite expectations for satire on political events, which had become the hallmark of South Park, the show focused more on being a parody of 1980's sitcoms humorously transplanted into the unlikely location of the White House. For example, the "wacky neighbor" stock character was transplanted unchanged, despite the illogical nature of the White House having a next door neighbor who could occasionally drop by unannounced. Parker and Stone planned the show before the 2000 election under the name Family First, planning to use whoever got elected as the main character (for those who are interested, had a few thousand votes in Florida gone the other way this article would probably be titled Everybody Loves Al, the working title in the case of a Gore victory). Once Bush was elected, they took advantage of his suggestive name and changed the title to a sexual pun.Much of the show's humor came from raunchy or shocking humor contrasting or parodying the show's old-fashioned format. The President's Catchphrase, above, spoofs the classic Catchphrase from The Honeymooners, drawing attention to the blase disregard many old sitcoms had for domestic violence (it was played as if he had said something endearing, and was always followed by a cheering and laughing mock-Studio Audience). One episode employs a double Three Is Company plot: George's canker sore prevents him from performing certain husbandly duties, prompting Laura to conclude that age is starting to show on her anatomy, and when George overhears the Zany Scheme she contrives to address this problem, he mistakenly concludes that she wants him to euthanize their cat. There's even An Aesop at the end: Use your mouth, instead of beating around the Bush. As well as the sitcom plots, each episode did touch on a topical issue that was of particular relevance at the time (episodes revolved around the abortion debate, the War on Drugs, the Strategic Defence Initiative and oil drilling in Alaska), but these were usually used to add to the absurdity of the tropes of sitcoms rather than as the focus of satire. Most episodes had An Aesop that compromised on both liberal and conservative ideals, arguing that both sides have valid points and that neither is completely correct.The show achieved solid ratings, but failed to match the success of South Park. Few conservatives gave the show a chance, and liberals were disappointed by the lack of satire or simply didn't get itnote To be fair, Bush had only been in office for about three months at that point, so it was probably far too early for a full-blown spoof of his presidency anyway. Ultimately, the network decided that the ratings didn't justify the show's high production costs, and cancelled it after an eight week run. Parker and Stone admit that the idea didn't have long-term potential, and they were already starting to run out of ideas when the show was cancelled. Contrary to common belief, the show was not cancelled in the wake of 9/11, but a good two months prior. (However, the events of September 2001 pretty much ruined any hope of the show being Un-Cancelled.) For a while there were rumors of an Action-Adventure movie called George W. Bush And The Secret Of The Glass Tiger, but it never came to be. Series star Timothy Bottoms would go on to play Bush in two movies.At the time, a show featuring a sitting president seemed like a novel concept, but it would only be the first of several large productions to feature George W. Bush as the main character. The animated series Lil' Bush re-imagined Bush and his political allies as children similar to The Little Rascals. Oliver Stone went on to make a feature film biopic of Bush before he had even left office. Jon Culshaw took the idea for his short-lived ITV sketch show, which featured a series of sketches titled "My Two Presidents" that parodied sitcom tropes from the 1970's and 1980's.Compare Heil Honey I'm Home!, a similarly short-lived sitcom spoof starring an unpopular leader.
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That's My Bush! / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
That's My Bush! / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: "Cameos" include Dr Jack Kevorkian and Charlton Heston.
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That's My Bush! / int_1759af2f	type	Feghoot
That's My Bush! / int_1759af2f	comment	Feghoot: An episode parodying gun control issues turned out to be the set up to a joke about the right to bear arms but not the right to arm bears!
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That's My Bush! / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
That's My Bush! / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Laura starts to worry that her sex life is going down the drain when she overhears George rant about how revolting "her pussy" is. He was of course, talking about her old and decrepit cat, Pun'kin.
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That's My Bush! / int_2dba7575	type	Wacky Fratboy Hijinx
That's My Bush! / int_2dba7575	comment	Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Parodied to the extreme with A Poorly Executed Plan. In the episode, George's fraternity brothers from Yale come over for a visit. Predictably, chaos ensues. Ending with An Aesop about George having "grown up" while his fraternity brothers haven't.
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That's My Bush! / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
That's My Bush! / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Bizarrely, Dick Cheney (the Vice President) is given this role in "Fare Thee Welfare."
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That's My Bush! / int_405f6f52	type	Recycled Soundtrack
That's My Bush! / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: Long after the show's cancellation, some of its music cues were resurrected for South Park.
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That's My Bush! / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
That's My Bush! / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: The lead actor makes no attempt to sound W. Also, Kurt Fuller makes no attempt at either looking or sounding like Karl Rove.
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That's My Bush! / int_53828c57	type	OopsIDidItAgain
That's My Bush! / int_53828c57	comment	Oops... I Did It Again
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That's My Bush! / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
That's My Bush! / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Played predictably straight, given that this is a spoof of 1980's sitcoms.
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That's My Bush! / int_64e6f231	type	No Matter How Much I Beg
That's My Bush! / int_64e6f231	comment	No Matter How Much I Beg: After George realizes he has taken ecstasy, he tries to avoid disrupting the War on Drugs ceremony by telling Princess to barricade him in his bedroom and not to let him out no matter what he says. Princess tries to follow his instructions, but as soon as the drugs kick in, George tricks her into letting him out by making her think he's a unicorn.
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That's My Bush! / int_7204fa60	type	George Jetson Job Security
That's My Bush! / int_7204fa60	comment	George Jetson Job Security: Spoofed (among other things) in the episode "Fare Thee Welfare."
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That's My Bush! / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
That's My Bush! / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Karl Rove
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That's My Bush! / int_8d08960c	type	Two-Timer Date
That's My Bush! / int_8d08960c	comment	Two-Timer Date: The sitcom plot of the first episode. George tries to keep a dinner date with Laura while at the same time hosting a peace summit for pro-life and pro-choice activists.
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That's My Bush! / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
That's My Bush! / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: In one episode, as George grows increasingly paranoid that someone's going to kill him, he buys a guard bear. Things Go Horribly Wrong when his attempts to root out the would-be murderer in the White House end with the bear acquiring a rifle.
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That's My Bush! / int_92163e88	type	Locked in a Room
That's My Bush! / int_92163e88	comment	Locked in a Room: Very thoroughly deconstructed in "Trapped in a Small Environment".
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That's My Bush! / int_9b178667	type	Broke Episode
That's My Bush! / int_9b178667	comment	Broke Episode: One episode has Dick Cheney take over the White House, leaving Bush destitute and living off macaroni lamp.
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That's My Bush! / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
That's My Bush! / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: Laura
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That's My Bush! / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
That's My Bush! / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The maid, Maggie Karl Rove also has his moments.
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That's My Bush! / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
That's My Bush! / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase
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That's My Bush! / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
That's My Bush! / int_ba236071	comment	Larry's clearly deeply attached to these; he reacts with violent rage when a drug addict who's being arrested at the White House for to a War on Drugs ceremony (yeah...) spoils the joke in one case, and has to be held back from beating the guy up.
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That's My Bush! / int_bc6c6c90	type	Drop-In Character
That's My Bush! / int_bc6c6c90	comment	Drop-In Character: Possibly the most obvious clue of the show's intentions, the White House has a next-door neighbor who's always dropping by. John D'Aquino, who played the Drop-In Character, later went on to play the President of the United States in the Disney Channel series Cory in the House.
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That's My Bush! / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
That's My Bush! / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Maggie and Laura are stunned to learn that "Princess" isn't a cute nickname- it's her actual name.
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That's My Bush! / int_cf16cfa9	type	Golden Mean Fallacy
That's My Bush! / int_cf16cfa9	comment	Golden Mean Fallacy: Invoked on a regular basis, despite having the most prominent partisan in America as a subject. Once again, in keeping with the whole sitcom parody.
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That's My Bush! / int_dc59fb35	type	What's a Henway?
That's My Bush! / int_dc59fb35	comment	What's a Henway?: Larry always greeted George with one of these. And in the last episode, when George has to leave the white house: Larry's clearly deeply attached to these; he reacts with violent rage when a drug addict who's being arrested at the White House for to a War on Drugs ceremony (yeah...) spoils the joke in one case, and has to be held back from beating the guy up. Ironically, when he tries to use the actual "henway" joke, George cuts him off because he's in the middle of something and we never hear it. Subverted in "S.D.I-Aye-Aye!" when some Austrians infiltrate the White House by tunneling directly to George's front doorstep. Larry tells George that there's a hole dug in his front lawn; George asks what a holedug is.
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That's My Bush! / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
That's My Bush! / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Zigzagged in "Mom E. DEA Arrest". After the episode's drug-fueled shenanigans have concluded, the drug dealer concludes that drug addiction is bad, and that drugs are something that should only be enjoyed every so often.
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That's My Bush! / int_e0d20ea6	type	Intentionally Awkward Title
That's My Bush! / int_e0d20ea6	comment	Intentionally Awkward Title: And in the last episode, when Dick Cheney takes over, we get a title sequence that substitutes his name for Bush's to similar effect. One title card near the end calls the show "What a Dick."
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That's My Bush! / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
That's My Bush! / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Princess, Bush's secretary.
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That's My Bush! / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
That's My Bush! / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: When two cops come to the White House to investigate whether Jack Kavorkian is hiding there, George frantically proclaims "if I was going to hide a killer, I certainly wouldn't hide him over there!" while pointing to the very spot Kavorkian is hiding in.
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That's My Bush! / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
That's My Bush! / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: A scene in the White House in the mid-2001 South Park episode "Super Best Friends" confirms that this show takes place in the same universe.
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That's My Bush! / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
That's My Bush! / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: In "Mom E. DEA Arrest", George accidentally takes ecstasy shortly before the War on Drugs ceremony in the White House. He spends most of the rest of the episode high off his gourd.
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That's My Bush! / int_f41b26d	type	Breast Expansion
That's My Bush! / int_f41b26d	comment	Breast Expansion: Princess tries to increase her intelligence with mammary enhancers to a spectacular effect.
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That's My Bush! / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
That's My Bush! / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Karl encounters George and Larry trying to use a feminine hygiene kit to euthanize the Bushes' cat. (It Makes Sense in Context.)
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

That's My Bush!	hasFeature	A Dick in Name / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Breast Expansion / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	College Is "High School, Part 2" / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Drop-In Character / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Excited Show Title! / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	George Jetson Job Security / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Golden Mean Fallacy / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Hostile Show Takeover / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	I Take Offense to That Last One / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Intoxication Ensues / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	No Matter How Much I Beg / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Oh, Cisco! / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Our Presidents Are Different / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Professionals Do It on Desks / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Sentimental Music Cue / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Straw Character / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Summation Gathering / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Tarot Troubles / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Two-Timer Date / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Wacky Fratboy Hijinx / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	What's a Henway? / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	What's Up, King Dude? / int_ba97f0f9
That's My Bush!	hasFeature	Locked in a Room / int_ba97f0f9

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