TV Review: Children don't play nice in animated 'Lil' Bush' (Spoiler Warning)

[RamboLiberal]

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But in Comedy Central's latest animated series, "Lil' Bush" (10:30 tonight), spoofing the president and his policies is the raison d'etre. Imagine the "Muppet Babies" concept -- the Muppets as toddlers -- and apply it to the Bush administration. Thus we have Lil' George (voice of Chris Parson), Lil' Cheney (series creator Donick Cary), Lil' Condi (Anne Villella) and Lil' Rummy (Iggy Pop) getting into all sorts of scrapes and occasionally singing pop songs a la The Archies.

Each of the six episodes produced contains two brief stories. In the first, "The One Where I Go to Iraq for Some Reason," Lil' George visits Iraq to get good news as a gift for his father, who, in the "Lil' Bush" universe, still occupies the White House. When Lil' Condi suggests Iraq may be dangerous, Lil' George replies, "Quit usin' that fuzzy math on me, Condi."

Lil' George eventually concedes, "This gift shopping is turning into a quagmire," but he ultimately selects a war orphan as his Father's Day gift; Lil' George nicknames the child "Lamey."

Lil' Cheney is a cross between two "South Park" characters, mumbling Kenny and sociopath Cartman. Lil' Cheney doesn't say much -- he usually just squawks like The Penguin from "Batman," similar to Jon Stewart's Cheney imitation -- but he's the toughest of the kids, dressing as Rambo and tearing the heads off chickens with his teeth and sucking out their innards.


In "Lil' Bush," the main characters are, from left, Lil' Rummy, Lil' George, Lil' Condi and Lil' Cheney.


Lil' Bill Clinton spends lunch hour with the Lewinsky twins on "Lil' Bush."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07164/793511-237.stm

[RamboLiberal]

1. Giving this a shameless kick for the day crowd

Since the show premieres tonight.

[wicket]

2. I've got my tivo set

:D

[deutsey]

3. If I wrote for this I'd have an episode about Li'l Bush stealing the SGA election

There would be lots of satirical grist in that storyline...