Yes. And the next episode.
A certain era of Family Guy was rather cringy parody, where the conservative jokes were mean spirited even if you agreed with the criticism, and the liberal protagonists (mainly Brian) were insufferable douches. American Dad in the same era had the same creator (though not identical crews) and was much funnier when politics came up. They since realized that and Brian’s smugness has been a topic multiple times.
It seemed more like they weren’t making fun of her politics as much as they were making fun of the fact that she never followed through on anything (politically). In the first or second episode (the one with the silent protest), the writers made it pretty clear she’s all talk.
Showing my age but All in the Family, while being predicated on making fun of conservative Archie, made as much fun of Meathead who was as much of a jerk as Archie was, just a different kind.
Yeah, Mike was real quick to bite the hand that fed him.
I note that the Simpsons has a lot of sly jabs directed at liberals. Conservatives are either over-the-top comic villains (Monty Burns) or decent if flawed good eggs (Ned Flanders, whoever the preacher is).
Reverend Timothy Lovejoy
I mean, pretty much every character is a flawed good egg. Other exceptions might be the conservative Mrs. Lovejoy, who has few redeeming qualities. Other portrayed conservatives are Dr. Hibbert and Krusty. And Rainier Wolfcastle, but that came later, say around 2003.
Greg Gutfeld’s show is fairly funny if you’re willing to watch fox news.
Portlandia and King of hte Hill as have been mentioned also lampoon them quite a bit. Usually for different reasons. Portlandia more lampoons hipsterism while King of the Hill tends to lampoon government regulations now and again.
The most obvious parody of a liberal (or rather, of a Democratic politician) of course is Mayor Quimby. Corrupt, having a trophy wife, always horny, hypocritical and so on and on.
Specifically, I think he is a parody of The Kennedys down to his accent.
I didn’t know this before reading the wiki page about Mayor Quimby today that it was foremost a dig on Ted Kennedy. I only mostly saw the Simpsons in the German dub, where such subtleties of course don’t translate. I had thought he was modeled after Jack Kennedy.
I think he is a mashup of JFK and Teddy Kennedy. But nothing at all like RFK. The Simpsons did an excellent job of parodying the USA.
Portlandia was my first thought.
I think I once read somewhere that when liberals watch Parks and Recreation they see Leslie as the hero of the show and Ron Swanson’s as character as making fun of Libertarians. Whereas when conservatives watch it they view Ron Swanson as the hero and Leslie Knope as making fun of liberals. Of course at various times both characters’ political views were taken to extremes for laughs.
What I always thought about Parks and Recreation is that the show respected Leslie’s liberal views and Ron’s libertarian views, and, more importantly, the characters respected and liked each other. It was almost as if the show was asking us, the audience, to find some common ground with those with whom we disagree.
This article from the Chicago Tribune has a quote from Michael Schur at a PaleyFest panel about the show, “‘In very broad strokes, Republicans and Democrats in this country simply don’t talk to each other and they don’t try to fix problems,’ said Schur. ‘The sort of cynicism of government, I think in my opinion, is worse than it’s ever been. And we just wanted to say one guy could have a set of extremely fervent beliefs that run completely counter to the beliefs of his coworker and they can still just get along and respect each other and admire each other and find things in common and they can sit down and have a glass of whiskey together at the end of a long night.’”
Wow! That is digging into the wayback machine for one episode out of 274.
Rick and Morty takes the occasional shot
Real video starts after that dumb song at 0:08
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30 Rock often poked fun at Liz Lemon’s liberal sensitivities.
[/QUOTE]I just saw one last night where she wanted to know why women are under-represented in serial killer totals. “Is this sexism of some sort?”
Made me laugh.
If it is the character I think it is (played by Zelda from Dobie Gillis) she was in a whole arc of episodes.
I don’t think you can describe Sheila James (Kuehl) as being in a whole arc of episodes. She was in S02E34 and S0235 as one character. She was in S05E19, supposedly as the same character, but there doesn’t seem to be any connection in plot.