2001-04-05 - 11:39 a.m.
Anyone else watch "That�s My Bush!" last night? I liked it better than I thought I would--although not quite in a "Wow! That was hilarious! I�ve got to watch this every week!" way. More in a "That was amusing--I�ll be sure to watch it again if I don�t feel like masturbating before bed instead" sort of way.
I do have a few quibbles with it. First of all, the maid needs to be black. No offense to Marcia Wallace, but what�s the point of doing a sendup of �70s sitcom cliches if the wisecracking domestic who�s smarter than her boss isn�t African-American? I�d have cast RuPaul instead. I also would have named the character Florida.
The foulmouthed-Eraserhead-baby-as-antiabortion-spokesman gag didn�t really work for me either. Trey and Matt should have saved that bit for a later episode and spent more time refining it. The baby sounded way too much like Cartman, for one thing.
Finally, I would have liked to see the Dubya-related humor have just a teensy bit more bite to it. Depicting His Shrubness as a loveable dimwit in the McLean Stevenson mold may make well-educated liberals feel all superior, but it�s not particularly subversive or challenging. (In that same vein, if the Democrats have wussied out so thoroughly that they need Barbra Fucking Streisand to tell them to grow a pair, we�re in for an even longer four years than previously feared.)
But then, this is comedy. Inject too much politics into it and you get ninth- or tenth-season M*A*S*H with Alan Alda shrieking, "Why don�t they STOP THIS WAR???" every two minutes. Dear Trey and Matt: Don�t let Alan or Mike Farrell anywhere near this show. Keep Ed Asner at a safe distance, too.
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Congratulations to Badsnake and Deb on 10 fabulous years together. Excuse me for a moment while I don my Grand Poobah hat and clear my throat.
[ahem...]
Happy an-ni-ver-sary
Happy an-ni-ver-sary
Happy an-ni-ver-sary
HAAAAAAAP-pyanniversary!
Pancakes and syrup will be served in the Fellowship Hall.
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