Two things yesterday reminded me of this short lived but brilliant TV series. It was the second inauguration of Bush The Younger as president, and I watched the movie "The Girl Next Door." That may sound like a strange combination, to remind me of this TV series, but it isn't when one examines a bit closer. In the movie, Timothy Bottoms plays the dad of Matty, the boy who befriends the porn star. Bottoms plays that role with quiet understatement, which is an immediate contrast with the role he played in this TV series, "That's My Bush."
The title itself is an indirect reference, for gross humor, to a part of the female anatomy, in common slang among young boys. I suspect that was intended. Timothy Bottoms plays President George Walker Bush so well, that I suspect those watching who were not living in the USA might really think that they were seeing the real President. That is, until it became obvious that the whole show was satire. It works so well because the real President Bush is such an easy target. I suspect he really isn't very bright, as played by Bottoms, and the President's propensity for either saying the wrong thing, or using very unusual sentence construction, provided much food for the writers. I only wish that it had lasted longer into the President's tenure in office. Carrie Quinn Dolin also does a fine turn as First Lady Laura Bush.
The title itself is an indirect reference, for gross humor, to a part of the female anatomy, in common slang among young boys. I suspect that was intended. Timothy Bottoms plays President George Walker Bush so well, that I suspect those watching who were not living in the USA might really think that they were seeing the real President. That is, until it became obvious that the whole show was satire. It works so well because the real President Bush is such an easy target. I suspect he really isn't very bright, as played by Bottoms, and the President's propensity for either saying the wrong thing, or using very unusual sentence construction, provided much food for the writers. I only wish that it had lasted longer into the President's tenure in office. Carrie Quinn Dolin also does a fine turn as First Lady Laura Bush.