Whether you find `That's My Bush' funny or not, irreverent or over-the-line, it seems to me that some people miss the point. The show is peppered with stale sitcom conventions, i.e. the jackass audience whooping like idiots every time a reasonably nubile female strikes a pose or says something sexually provocative, the repeated catch phrases, characters and situations that are so stereotypical and hackneyed that they could have been created by computer software, etc. Of course these things are awful they're meant to be. That's what you would expect from a show satirizing sitcoms, and it seems to me the promotional ads made it clear enough that this is a spoof of sitcoms first and foremost.
The fact that it's set in the White House certainly gives it more scope to take on current issues, but at least on the evidence of this first show, I think they handled George W. Bush with kid gloves. It didn't seem to me that they tried to make Bush lovable, as one commentator suggested, nor that they attacked him, as another one asserted. People who see it in such terms may be filtering it through their own political biases. The crux of it all, at least in this first show, seems to be bad sitcoms and their tiresome conventions. If you look at the show again, you will note that G.W. Bush is portrayed as very neutral on the hot-button abortion issue more neutral than I believe the real president is. Anyway I too half-expected a scathing attack on Republican policy in general and Bush in particular, but this certainly wasn't it.
As a spoof of sitcoms, I think they did a very good job, and I got some good laughs out of it. However, it may be difficult to keep on that same note week after week and stay fresh and funny. Maybe in time the show will become more politically-oriented and/or critical of the president, if only out of a need to find something more to spoof than sitcom conventions.
The fact that it's set in the White House certainly gives it more scope to take on current issues, but at least on the evidence of this first show, I think they handled George W. Bush with kid gloves. It didn't seem to me that they tried to make Bush lovable, as one commentator suggested, nor that they attacked him, as another one asserted. People who see it in such terms may be filtering it through their own political biases. The crux of it all, at least in this first show, seems to be bad sitcoms and their tiresome conventions. If you look at the show again, you will note that G.W. Bush is portrayed as very neutral on the hot-button abortion issue more neutral than I believe the real president is. Anyway I too half-expected a scathing attack on Republican policy in general and Bush in particular, but this certainly wasn't it.
As a spoof of sitcoms, I think they did a very good job, and I got some good laughs out of it. However, it may be difficult to keep on that same note week after week and stay fresh and funny. Maybe in time the show will become more politically-oriented and/or critical of the president, if only out of a need to find something more to spoof than sitcom conventions.