They're not really making fun of the president, they insist, they're more interested in making fun of sitcoms, which they hate. "'Everybody Loves Raymond' takes a character and makes him into an icon," Parker explained in an interview with the news service Reuters. "We thought it would be so subversive to take someone who's real and maybe a little vilified and try to make everybody love him." If Al Gore had been declared the winner of the 2000 election, claim Parker and Stone, they would have done a sitcom about him. Hey, they didn't even vote last November! But if they had, they might have had Republican leanings.

Yeah, and Eric Cartman is a Rhodes scholar.

"That's My Bush" (the official title has an exclamation point as a shout-out to the short-lived '70s black sitcom "That's My Mama!") is a rude and crude portrayal of Bush as President Dumbass. It made me laugh out loud a few times. But, then, I voted for the other guy. "He's the president in residence/He's sort of in charge/ He's got the whole country sayin'/'That's my Bush!'" goes the swingy theme song, played over a montage of Our Leader in one wacky Lucy mess after another (covered in soap suds, wearing a maid's uniform).

Played by Timothy Bottoms, the George W. Bush of "That's My Bush" is an inept sitcom paterfamilias in the tradition of Ray Barone, Hal from "Malcolm in the Middle" and, yes, Homer Simpson. He's the bumbling head of the household (and country) who has to be rescued from jams by the smarter grown-ups around him, his long-suffering wife Laura (Carrie Quinn Dolin) and his advisor Karl Rove (Kurt Fuller).

In the April 11 episode, for instance, George's college frat buddies come to visit right when he's supposed to witness an execution to show his critics that his support for the death penalty is rock solid. Now, George doesn't want to witness an execution ("That doesn't sound any fun!"), but he doesn't want to look like a wuss in front of his friends, either.

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So he and Karl arrange a fake execution, during which George gets carried away showing off for his pals. He taunts the prisoner ("You have the right to die like a little bitch and have your soul sent to hell!"), jabs him with the lethal injection and threatens him with the "gas chamber" before breaking wind in his direction. But guess what? There's been a zany sitcom mix-up!

"Ah can't believe ah killed that man," George wails to Laura in the obligatory "lessons we have learned" bedtime scene at the end of the episode. "He begged for his life and I farted on him!" To which the wise Laura soothingly replies, "It's no different from those 152 men you put to death in Texas. You just did it yourself this time!"

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