# Lil' Bush--This Show Sucks! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945 "2007-06-14T02:43:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/21 "2007-06-18T03:22:05Z")
I couldn’t wait for this show to start, because that meant I wouldn’t be subjected to the promos anymore. I was mistaken. I would rather watch a Day in the Life of W than this show. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/22 "2007-06-18T03:31:50Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Good grief, learn the meaning of an “analogy” mate. 🙂 [/QUOTE] 😕 You said that anamnesis called the POTUS a retarded kid. But what anamnesis in fact said that making fun of the POTUS is like making fun of a retarded kid. This indicates you failed to understand what “like” meant in anamnesis’s post. Now you tell me to learn what an analogy is. Anamnesis made an analogy. You are the one who failed to understand that it was an analogy, or else failed to understand how it was supposed to work as an analogy. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/23 "2007-06-18T04:00:33Z")
[QUOTE=Malodorous] Aw, I really liked the live action _That’s my Bush_ from back in 2000ish. I was wishing they’d just bring that back instead. [/QUOTE] I liked it too. My favorite was when they were teaching him how to come up with good comeback joke/insults… and when he gets the opportunity to try it out, he stares blankly for a moment, then just shouts “WHORE!!!” ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/24 "2007-06-19T00:05:41Z")
I liked “That’s My Bush” too; it wasn’t brilliant, but it did have a lot of fun with the usual sitcom cliches, especially the smart & sassy maid and the next-door neighbor who keeps barging in without knocking. My favorite episode was the one where Dr. Kevorkian was brought in to assist the euthanasia of the Bush family cat. Though the one where the next-door neighbor persuaded Bush to bootleg cable TV wasn’t bad either. As for why it was canceled, it was dropped immediately after 9/11. I always understood the cancellation was part of a common feeling that it was no longer “appropriate” to ridicule the President, or anything else really, after that crime. (Remember the “irony is dead” meme?) If “Lil’ Bush” serves no other purpose (and I don’t think it does) it proves that feeling is stone dead. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/25 "2007-06-19T11:47:12Z")
> [@Operation Ripper](#): > > I’m sorry, are you saying this as a retarded kid or what? Moderator Inquiry: **Ripper** , if you’re intending this as a personal insult, it’s out of bounds in this forum. Cease and desist at once, please. (It can be read in a couple of different ways, so I’m not sure and thus not recording this as Official Warning.) ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/26 "2007-06-19T14:06:49Z")
I’ve never thought Bush actually had a low IQ; I think he’s just intellectually lazy. When he was running for the House in 1978, and later when running for Governor of Texas in 1992, he spoke in fairly complex sentences and coherent paragraphs. (It was all bullshit, but at least it sounded like educated bullshit.) But I think he cultivated a good ol’ boy persona that’s stuck with him; we may also be seeing the long-term effects of serious alcohol abuse. The most worrisome mental characteristic he’s shown is a lack of curiosity about, and lack of willingness to consider, other points of view. I’d agree that a parody of Bush seems superfluous. Why does Comedy Central produce so much unfunny stuff? If it weren’t for “The Daily Show” and “South Park” there wouldn’t be much reason to have the channel on my cable. ETA: I didn’t actually see “Li’l Bush”. On a scale of lameness, how does it compare to “Mind of Mencia”? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/27 "2007-06-19T14:09:37Z")
While not at all funny, I don’t think it sank to the depths of either Mind of Mencia or Dane Cook, but I could only watched for about five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/28 "2007-06-19T15:20:42Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] And also, you do know there have been many exposes about **illeterate** people (literal not figurative) graduating high school, and rarely college? [/QUOTE] I propose a collorary to Guadere’s Law. ---
**Author:** ![Flea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d78d45/32.png) [@Flea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flea)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945/29 "2007-06-19T15:29:41Z")
Never saw it, and glad I didn’t. The fiancé and I would alternately groan in pain or growl in anger at the commercials. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lil-bush-this-show-sucks/407945.md?page=1)