Simpson were wild in the day, bro. Don’t have a cow man. Eat my shorts. Hell, mom’s even got them to ban the best one that i got a poster of “underachiever and proud of it.”
Keep in mind HW's VP (Dan Quayle) made a public speech and called out Murphy Brown (a TV show character) for having a child out of marriage. Quayle said the character was “mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ‘lifestyle choice.’”
@@phillipwiles5581 funny how Quayle is now seen as a hero for talking down Mike Pence from committing treason. Quayle was also famous for mispelling Potato once and Murphy Brown had an episode where the main characters dumped a truckload of Potatoes at his house and The Simpsons had an alternate couch gag that said "Potato not "Potatoe"
That's always the case. Like Gone with the Wind was considered shocking for saying "damn". Have you seen the 70s slasher movies? They pretty tame by today's standard. In the 1st Halloween 3 people get killed. These days on GOT 50 people get hacked to bits and no one bats an eye
@@nifralo2752 , the show "Turn-On" was considered so scandalous and offensive that it was cancelled during its first airing in 1969! Watching both episodes, I'd say I only counted two jokes that would register as even remotely edgy today. But, yes, it's interesting that the Simpsons went from a show that Millennial kids were initially forbidden to watch, to a show that the family enjoyed watching together!
The Simpsons golden era is even more impressive when you remember they didn't need to be as crude or adult themed as the likes of family guy and south park
Maybe it's just because I was a kid during the golden age of the Simpsons, but I still remember that episode fondly and don't really feel like they strongly endorsed or overly hated anyone back then. I credit John Swartzwelder, as the token lolbert writer during that period, for keeping balance and sanity. One of the most blunt illustrations is the Stampy the Elephant episode where Bart's belligerent pet walks through both the DNC and RNC conventions and both have banners that shit on their respective tentacles of the uniparty. That was pure Swartzwelder.
In the George bush episode where he had a feud with homer Barbra was actually like the nicest character in the episode treating bart very nicely even making him cookies and was a pleasant house guest in the simpson's house
I remember how strange it was seeing how positively Bush was depicted in his first appearance. Even Clinton was never shown in a positive way. I also find it interesting that his son George W (apart from a quick cardboard cutout gag) was never on the show for his 8 years in office. You’d think they’d go all out on him.
Back then as a kid i knew nothing about politics and i thought it was that bush, since he was basically the punching bag for politician jokes. I was surprised there was another one before him
Funny story- allegedly, at the time, they had no idea that "George Bush Jr" even existed, and it was meant to be an example of Homer being dumb and Bush Sr being old and not thinking clearly.
Probably my favourite George Bush centric joke wasn't from the classic seasons, but from Season 17, Episode 20. Homer: "Here's me fighting with former President Bush, Me fighting with current President Bush, and here's me showing a bag of apples who's boss!"
To be honest, watching Two Bad Neighbors, i definitely sided with Bush. Bart destroying his memoirs and not even apologizing totally made me side with him.
Supermarket scanners were actually rare in the 70s and still considered a novelty in many grocery stores, particularly rural ones, until the late 80s. Bush came from a rich family and was employed in government working long days. He likely had servants, delivery service, or his wife shopped without him.
The shows late-90's/early-00's became known as the "Our Enemies Must Be Punished" phase, as the show went on sophomoric fratboy feud-jihads against ANYONE who dared look at them cross-eyed. Their long feud with Mad Magazine, for ex., may have been not only because Mad joked about Simpsons' writing decline, but even tried doing a Mad parody of Disney's Lion King with the Simpsons characters in a theater delivering MST3K commentary.
There was another episode I remember where George Bush was mentioned. I think it was called "The Trouble With Trillions." Moe: You mean like the time Barney beat up George Bush. Homer: Barney? That was me! (Menacing) And I'd do it again.
@@GarkKahn He's the guy who at a yard sale serendipitously came across a rhinestone jacket Homer made that was intended to read "Disco Stud" but he ran out of room or rhinestones and it read "Disco Stu" instead. Stu's friend suggests that he buy the jacket, but Stu rebuffs him by telling him that "Disco Stu does not advertise."
Good context. I still find it hard to hate the Waltons though. I don't remember politics coming up much. Like most people, I mostly remember the wholesome family values and helping out neighbors in need part. Nothing wrong with that, unless it's compulsory by government decree.....then it's full evil.
Or the fact he gave the speech at a Christian Seminar when the Walton’s father was portrayed as an atheist who never went to church with the rest of the family.
14:00 oh wow this exact line about revolving door prisons was used on the Sideshow Bob Roberts episode. I thought it was gag but I had no idea it was used in an actual campaign broadcast. Just wow... 😂
I’m kinda in a similar situation. My great grandfather was something like 2nd cousins with Huey Long, the governor of Louisiana. My grandmother even corresponded with his son at one point.
Bush sr. Also commemorated the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on September 7, 1991. This had a lot of people scratching their heads. The media had a field day.
Interesting how they never did an episode with W Bush given what happened. They could have even done the opposite and have the simpsons hate him but eventually they become friends
From what i've heard they resisted doing political jokes for a couple of seasons after 9/11 happened because they had no idea what was going to happen in politics with how unstable everything seemed and didn't want to date themselves. They may not have directly featured a cartoon version of Bush, but Bart Mangled Banner was a direct attack on the Patriot Act(and rightfully so) which did feature Nash Castor-an expy of Tucker Carlson(who was well known for Crossfire at the time)which makes that episode age surprisingly well given how infamous Carlson has become for his insane nazi rants.
There was an episode where Marge lost her memory, so Homer tried to jog it by showing her photos from a photo album. One picture shows the famous scene of Bush and Homer going at it in the sewer, and another shows Homer punching W in the Oval Office. That's about as much as we got in terms of portrayals.
Missed one: You referenced Bush's infamous "Willie Horton Ad," but it's worth pointing out that "Sideshow Bob Roberts" had a direct parody of that ad, in which Bob accuses Quimby of running "Revolving Door Prisons." Good video, I didn't know about the Barbara Bush letter writing. I do find Bush's original complaint kind of odd. The showrunners would probably agree that people shouldn't act like The Simpsons, they were never intended to be role models, and yet the tone of Bush's comment somehow reads as an attack on the show.
The bush familly was from a different era that's why they couldn't understand those yellow little ppl in the tv,which they were trying to satirise the new america! Simple as that i believe,i do love the fact that they somehow managed to solve it in their animated arena at one point! 😅 For the bush familly simpsons was something like a person from the 60s knowing Internet for instance!
Great video. Thanks for sharing all this important information. Two Bad Neighbors will always be a favorite episode of mine! I certainly appreciate all your research and hard work you put into your videos.
Had they known about the groping when they were writing two bad neighbors, the feud wouldn't have started from bush spanking bart. Instead the simpson family would have invited bush to dinner only for him to tell his cop a feel joke to Marge. "Don't spank my wife!" Homer would have shouted and tackled the old perv.
Great video as always. Love these breakdowns. Any concerns about negative portrayal were accurate (at least in my case): as a kid I always hated George Bush without knowing anything about his politics. The same for many of my friend's on the playground. Obviously this has changed as an adult: now I know why I actually hate him.
I remember retrospective where one of the writers commented on Barbara's "dumbest thing I've sever seen" remark by asking "Well, what about your son?" Speaking of George W. Bush, I'll always think of his "cameo" in "Two Bad Neighbors" where Homer paints crude cardboard cutouts of men in business suits and places them at Bush's doorstep and trying to convince him that they're his sons "George Bush Jr. and Jeb Bush." Apparently, the writers didn't even know Bush had a son also named George and were just trying to make Homer look stupid. In actuality, it made it seem like Homer did his research. (Although Dubya wouldn't be a junior on account of having a different middle name.) Also, that scene with Mr. Burns wandering around the supermarket in "The Old Man and the Lisa" was supposedly based on Bush's scanner incident. He was even going to appear in the scene being depicted as lost as Burns, but I guess that would have been overexploiting the joke.
The Simpsons were never meant to be the perfect family they were just meant to be real also George Bush should’ve understood that saying that family should be less like the Simpsons was just giving the Simpsons another badge of honor 😂 and in a word way is disrespectful to every family
I always sympathise with Bush in the episode when he moves to Evergreen Tce. He was grumpy, but Bart was more of a brat than ever in that episode! I gotta admit though, Homer really is a terrible role-model. I grew up with him and now I'm a fat, lazy drunk!
I just clicked on this video because it was in my recommended. Then it starts out with Hookah Bar playing as background music and pulls me in because of the familiarity, due to it being a song on of my favourite RUclipsrs has used a lot in the past.
Funnily enough, I saw the Two Bad Neighbors episode on FX while onboard the USS George H.W. Bush. I am surprised they did bring up the bit where he bailed on his crew in WW2 without even checking to see if they were still alive.
It wasn't Barbara who started beef with The Simpsons, it was the people behind the show getting so butthurt they sent a crybaby letter and couldn't even put their own names on it. All over an old ladies opinion, which basically amounted to "it's not for me". lmao
I am confounded about the leaps made for that conclusion and welcome the explaination that makes that make sense to my accidental ludite mind, which is riddled with the inequities of constantly being a decade or 2 behind the modern world. I was a wee baby when Reagan was prez and almost a man when Hoobastank had that one hit. What the heck do those 2 things have in common?
TIL: That George HW Bush DIDN'T actually express astonishment at a simple supermarket scanner in the 90s. I saw that old, distorted news coverage and assumed it to be true. The truth wouldn't have changed my vote, but still...
It’s funny cuz I’ve literally been rewatching the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons recently and I just saw the episode where George and Barbara move across the street from them.
I hate the Bushes and love the Simpsons, but they had it coming. Getting angry at GHB aying Americans should be less like the Simpsons is so stupid, that's the point of the Simpsons, that you WOULDN'T want to be like them.
Bush was right... People should not strive to be like the Simpsons, at all (or the Bundys)... I don't think Groening ever intended the Simpsons to be something to strive for; but, unfortunately, children DO emulate what they see. I was a child when the Simpsons took off, and kids absolutely did emulate Bart Simpson.
After watching so much of the Simpsons commentary tracks on the DVD sets, one thing I have learned is the writers of the show have THE THINNEST SKIN when it comes to criticism and their own self worth, because I kid you not, they are constantly going on about how brilliant they are and when its an episode with any degree of backlash they all get extremely defensive (Groaning too but he is the only one of the group who seems more willing to admit fault in his judgements) especially Matt Selman and as a result, the writers often directly attack the fans through Comic book guy + Poochie, they attack critics through snide call backs to Armin Tamzarian and Who Should have shot Mr burns, and of course, starting a petty feud with the president both contemporary and former over his wife not liking the show. The shows writers have always had a very childish "if your not with us, your against us" attitude towards constructive criticism and it sucks that some of the funniest writers in this world have the fattest heads as a result of it
Conan O'Brien seemed pretty cool, but he didn't work there long. John Swartzwelder didn't appear on any of the commentary tracks of the editions I have that he wrote on, but everyone seemed to hold that lolbert in a positive light. I'd have loved to hear his take on shit.
@@MaynardCrow yes, that's a really good point, I should state that not EVERY Simpsons writer came off as childishly egotistic, Conan for the handful of times he did commentary was more keen to yuk it up over the good times on the show and the pressure he went through when was still doing the Simpsons when he was offered the Tonight Show and Swartzwelder got tricked to do commentary over the phone briefly (I think it was the Cartridge family episode) and he seemed pretty even keeled though that might have been because he was busy grilling a steak XD. But yeah, the main writers of the show were all very keen on fluffing their egos and rationalizing why the fans are dumb for criticizing anything, constructive or otherwise
LOL no they don't, some of the nerds criticizing the show back in the 90s were really obnoxious nitpickers, read some of the old episodes capsules on the website SNPP and you'll see what I mean, especially that loser Matthew Kurtz who took the Poochie episode absurdly personally with one of the most pathetic simpering rants i've ever read in the history of the internet which only validated the writers points. It's not childish at all, if you had to deal with obnoxious fanboys screaming "worst episode ever!" for years(which Comic Book Guy was a parody of) you'd get sick of them too. The Armin and Mr Burns jokes felt more like self-deprecating humor then actual jabs at fans. At least it's not dedicating entire episodes to mocking fans like Teen Titans Go did with The Fourth Wall and Return of Slade which were both basically huge middle fingers to fans of the original show.
@@Gojiro7 if you actually read some of the old "reviews" fans did in the 90s you'd see why the writers are that way, some of those fans sure were entitled whiny jackasses.
@@jadedheartsz I get that some of the fans really were that obnoxious and very hateable to wanna poke fun at, but were not talking about Snowflake fan fiction writers getting in twitter beefs with their detractors, were talking about Grown men within their profession who went the extra mile on several occasions to vent their frustration at a few bad apples even if it means giving the middle finger to everyone in the process (including the president). I can't say from experience on the old simpson reviews of their time, I'll take your word that they were utter cringe that made fans looked bad, but I still expect better from professionals to not act like butt hurt children over it, ontop of how they act in regards of fanning their own egos which they A LOT in the commentary tracks (some more then others)
I don't mean to be rude... your videos on the Simpsons are cool and interesting... but there is one thing you could work on... and that is using a proper full-stop to finish each sentence... because right now your narration sounds like this comment reads...
Ok, straight away I recognized your voice from Balludicrous, and more or less straight away, I again noticed your somewhat unusual pronunciation of certain words... What part of the US are you from, my man?
7:15 how many presidents were still alive then? Regan was but what about Nixon? Was Ford still alive? I Kennedy was murdered and Johnson died a few years after being president. Where any of the pre Kennedy ones still alive? Surely not
Did they? I really didn't keep track of the show after all the good writers left. Probably about a decade and a half into the show is when it became unwatchable.
@@MaynardCrow LOL "unwatchable" my ass, the show has never had a truly bad season. I've seen every episode but can't remember if they featured a cartoon version of him, Bart Mangled Banner however did directly go after the Patriot Act(and rightfully so)and did feature an expy of Tucker Carlson in Nastor Cash, which has helped the episode age well since Carlson is more well known now then he was back then.
@@jadedheartsz I'm not anywhere near the most elitist fans, however, I'd propose a more gentle assessment of the timeline that sets the tapering off point into complete trash about season 10. Anyone saying season 20 is as good as season 5 has bad taste, regardless of how subjective taste is.
I think they should have addressed criticism the way Family Guy and Teen Titans Go does. Poke fun at the haters and be self deprecating. The way they went about it feels egotistical.
If Bush had an issue with The Simpsons then God knows what he would've thought about South Park and Family Guy
There was also Beavis and Butt-Head.
Simpson were wild in the day, bro. Don’t have a cow man. Eat my shorts. Hell, mom’s even got them to ban the best one that i got a poster of “underachiever and proud of it.”
@@davidthedeaf Yeah, it was much different world in the early '90s.
Love south park
He only died a few years ago I'm sure he was aware of those shows as well
Its hilarious that relatively speaking, compared to the likes of family guy and American dad, the simpsons is now considered wholesome
Keep in mind HW's VP (Dan Quayle) made a public speech and called out Murphy Brown (a TV show character) for having a child out of marriage. Quayle said the character was “mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ‘lifestyle choice.’”
@@phillipwiles5581 funny how Quayle is now seen as a hero for talking down Mike Pence from committing treason.
Quayle was also famous for mispelling Potato once and Murphy Brown had an episode where the main characters dumped a truckload of Potatoes at his house and The Simpsons had an alternate couch gag that said "Potato not "Potatoe"
That's always the case. Like Gone with the Wind was considered shocking for saying "damn". Have you seen the 70s slasher movies? They pretty tame by today's standard. In the 1st Halloween 3 people get killed. These days on GOT 50 people get hacked to bits and no one bats an eye
@@nifralo2752 , the show "Turn-On" was considered so scandalous and offensive that it was cancelled during its first airing in 1969! Watching both episodes, I'd say I only counted two jokes that would register as even remotely edgy today.
But, yes, it's interesting that the Simpsons went from a show that Millennial kids were initially forbidden to watch, to a show that the family enjoyed watching together!
The Simpsons golden era is even more impressive when you remember they didn't need to be as crude or adult themed as the likes of family guy and south park
Homer Simpson vs George HW Bush will always be a thousand times more entertaining than Peter Griffin vs Donald Trump could ever be
Out of curiosity, I just watched that clip. Really wish I hadn't.
Okay boomer
Okay boomer? You're defending modern Family Guy over Simpson in it's first ten year run. What planet are you on, son? @@kayzeaza
Maybe it's just because I was a kid during the golden age of the Simpsons, but I still remember that episode fondly and don't really feel like they strongly endorsed or overly hated anyone back then. I credit John Swartzwelder, as the token lolbert writer during that period, for keeping balance and sanity.
One of the most blunt illustrations is the Stampy the Elephant episode where Bart's belligerent pet walks through both the DNC and RNC conventions and both have banners that shit on their respective tentacles of the uniparty. That was pure Swartzwelder.
@@fshoaps Simpsons sucks old man, never funny
In the George bush episode where he had a feud with homer Barbra was actually like the nicest character in the episode treating bart very nicely even making him cookies and was a pleasant house guest in the simpson's house
Probably based on the letter she gave to marge
I remember how strange it was seeing how positively Bush was depicted in his first appearance. Even Clinton was never shown in a positive way. I also find it interesting that his son George W (apart from a quick cardboard cutout gag) was never on the show for his 8 years in office. You’d think they’d go all out on him.
Back then as a kid i knew nothing about politics and i thought it was that bush, since he was basically the punching bag for politician jokes. I was surprised there was another one before him
Funny story- allegedly, at the time, they had no idea that "George Bush Jr" even existed, and it was meant to be an example of Homer being dumb and Bush Sr being old and not thinking clearly.
There wasn't an appetite for that much political crap back then.
They don't believe in sins of the father??
@@MilwaukeeF40C quiet troll
I always found it weird how well they portrayed Barbara in Two Bad Neighbours. She said far more about The Simpsons than George ever did.
She did also take the time to write them a very wholesome letter, to be fair.
I really don’t think he cared. Man was a war hero, like Lenny.
George H Bush and Barbara Bush were to the Simpsons what Barbara Streisand was to South Park.
Probably my favourite George Bush centric joke wasn't from the classic seasons, but from Season 17, Episode 20.
Homer: "Here's me fighting with former President Bush, Me fighting with current President Bush, and here's me showing a bag of apples who's boss!"
Are the new seasons even worth watching?
@@decem_sagittae Depends on if you're prepared to sit through hours of trash for a handful of genuinely good jokes...
@@decem_sagittae yes
@@MLennholm hours of trash my ass troll, new episodes are still good.
I don't get it
George: "Barb! What's the name of the man?" Barbara: "I'm not getting involved, George."
As a gen Z in high school who loved this episode but doesn’t understand the jokes, this was helpful
Finally a gen z who has something admirable. ❤
You're a dull boy, Billy
This looks so innocent and wholesome looking back . The writers really were pulling their punches. Or maybe ppl in the 90s were just less cynical
I think it's the latter lol
You missed the spanking line from Bart. “He spanked me. Said it was for the good of the nation’.
To be honest, watching Two Bad Neighbors, i definitely sided with Bush. Bart destroying his memoirs and not even apologizing totally made me side with him.
I mean maybe if bush was a human and not an american politician
Supermarket scanners were actually rare in the 70s and still considered a novelty in many grocery stores, particularly rural ones, until the late 80s. Bush came from a rich family and was employed in government working long days. He likely had servants, delivery service, or his wife shopped without him.
The shows late-90's/early-00's became known as the "Our Enemies Must Be Punished" phase, as the show went on sophomoric fratboy feud-jihads against ANYONE who dared look at them cross-eyed.
Their long feud with Mad Magazine, for ex., may have been not only because Mad joked about Simpsons' writing decline, but even tried doing a Mad parody of Disney's Lion King with the Simpsons characters in a theater delivering MST3K commentary.
wrong nazi troll, the MAD jabs were in good fun.
Lmao.
AKA the Mike Scully stuff. He must've been the one with the Mad beef.
There was another episode I remember where George Bush was mentioned. I think it was called "The Trouble With Trillions."
Moe: You mean like the time Barney beat up George Bush.
Homer: Barney? That was me! (Menacing) And I'd do it again.
How do you only have 2k subscribers? There are a ton of old school Simpsons fans who would love these videos
because the ba ba ba ba baaaa ba ba ba ba baaaa ba ba ba ba baaaa cadence of every sentence is really weird.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who heard that. Drove me crazy, almost like Burger King foot lettuce
The Marge letter is so on point character wise.
I believe Disco Stu first appeared in the episode "Two Bad Neighbors".
Hey, Disco Stu doesn't advertise
@@ProjectStarLIGHTS I'm aware. That's why I do it for him.
Who's disco stu?
@@GarkKahn He's the guy who at a yard sale serendipitously came across a rhinestone jacket Homer made that was intended to read "Disco Stud" but he ran out of room or rhinestones and it read "Disco Stu" instead. Stu's friend suggests that he buy the jacket, but Stu rebuffs him by telling him that "Disco Stu does not advertise."
@@GarkKahn Back away, not today, disco lady.
Bush in his 'I want the Walton's not the Simpsons' speech seemed to forget that the Walton's were 'New Deal' Democrats.
Good context. I still find it hard to hate the Waltons though. I don't remember politics coming up much. Like most people, I mostly remember the wholesome family values and helping out neighbors in need part. Nothing wrong with that, unless it's compulsory by government decree.....then it's full evil.
Or the fact he gave the speech at a Christian Seminar when the Walton’s father was portrayed as an atheist who never went to church with the rest of the family.
Bush was an extreme Liberal...
You heard that term from Oppenheimer. I hate that movie
@@MaynardCrow oh shut up troll, spare me your anti-vaxxer garbage
14:00 oh wow this exact line about revolving door prisons was used on the Sideshow Bob Roberts episode. I thought it was gag but I had no idea it was used in an actual campaign broadcast. Just wow... 😂
"More like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons". Makes you wonder if he truly meant the CBS drama or the super-rich Walton family?
Weird fact about me: H. W. Bush is my grandpa's third cousin. No, we've never met. We're the poor side lol
Fun fact bro. I'm related to a famous pirate who got hung.
@@MaynardCrow *hanged
@@Assimandeli Why not both?
@@TufteMotorsport lol
I’m kinda in a similar situation. My great grandfather was something like 2nd cousins with Huey Long, the governor of Louisiana. My grandmother even corresponded with his son at one point.
Bush sr. Also commemorated the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on September 7, 1991. This had a lot of people scratching their heads. The media had a field day.
Interesting how they never did an episode with W Bush given what happened. They could have even done the opposite and have the simpsons hate him but eventually they become friends
From what i've heard they resisted doing political jokes for a couple of seasons after 9/11 happened because they had no idea what was going to happen in politics with how unstable everything seemed and didn't want to date themselves.
They may not have directly featured a cartoon version of Bush, but Bart Mangled Banner was a direct attack on the Patriot Act(and rightfully so) which did feature Nash Castor-an expy of Tucker Carlson(who was well known for Crossfire at the time)which makes that episode age surprisingly well given how infamous Carlson has become for his insane nazi rants.
There was an episode where Marge lost her memory, so Homer tried to jog it by showing her photos from a photo album. One picture shows the famous scene of Bush and Homer going at it in the sewer, and another shows Homer punching W in the Oval Office. That's about as much as we got in terms of portrayals.
Bush was meant to be Mr Wilson while Bart was meant to be Dennis in the Two Bad Neighbors episode of season 7
Forgot another subliminal reference. Homer saying "It's pronounced NUKEELAR"
That might have been directed at Bush Jr lol
This is reaching times one hundred. The joke has nothing to do with Bush, just ignorant pronunciation in general.
Missed one: You referenced Bush's infamous "Willie Horton Ad," but it's worth pointing out that "Sideshow Bob Roberts" had a direct parody of that ad, in which Bob accuses Quimby of running "Revolving Door Prisons."
Good video, I didn't know about the Barbara Bush letter writing. I do find Bush's original complaint kind of odd. The showrunners would probably agree that people shouldn't act like The Simpsons, they were never intended to be role models, and yet the tone of Bush's comment somehow reads as an attack on the show.
The bush familly was from a different era that's why they couldn't understand those yellow little ppl in the tv,which they were trying to satirise the new america! Simple as that i believe,i do love the fact that they somehow managed to solve it in their animated arena at one point! 😅 For the bush familly simpsons was something like a person from the 60s knowing Internet for instance!
In Bush's defense, a Krusty Burger doesn't sound very appetizing
I suppose you’d prefer a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?!
Go back to Shlebyville, traitor!😡
When I was a kid I thought Bush was the actual voice actor for Bush. Though it was part of the shtick.
You were not alone.
I thought so too 😂
Great video. Thanks for sharing all this important information. Two Bad Neighbors will always be a favorite episode of mine! I certainly appreciate all your research and hard work you put into your videos.
Had they known about the groping when they were writing two bad neighbors, the feud wouldn't have started from bush spanking bart. Instead the simpson family would have invited bush to dinner only for him to tell his cop a feel joke to Marge. "Don't spank my wife!" Homer would have shouted and tackled the old perv.
The "groping" was when he had dementia in his final years.
Great video as always. Love these breakdowns. Any concerns about negative portrayal were accurate (at least in my case): as a kid I always hated George Bush without knowing anything about his politics. The same for many of my friend's on the playground. Obviously this has changed as an adult: now I know why I actually hate him.
I almost became a W supporter, I cringe just thinking about it.
I remember retrospective where one of the writers commented on Barbara's "dumbest thing I've sever seen" remark by asking "Well, what about your son?"
Speaking of George W. Bush, I'll always think of his "cameo" in "Two Bad Neighbors" where Homer paints crude cardboard cutouts of men in business suits and places them at Bush's doorstep and trying to convince him that they're his sons "George Bush Jr. and Jeb Bush." Apparently, the writers didn't even know Bush had a son also named George and were just trying to make Homer look stupid. In actuality, it made it seem like Homer did his research. (Although Dubya wouldn't be a junior on account of having a different middle name.)
Also, that scene with Mr. Burns wandering around the supermarket in "The Old Man and the Lisa" was supposedly based on Bush's scanner incident. He was even going to appear in the scene being depicted as lost as Burns, but I guess that would have been overexploiting the joke.
The feud would not have been possible without the incompetence of Jimmy Carter when he was president.
LOL "incompetence" my ass troll, he did a lot of good, BTW your hero Drumpf is going to prison so suck on that.
The Simpsons were never meant to be the perfect family they were just meant to be real also George Bush should’ve understood that saying that family should be less like the Simpsons was just giving the Simpsons another badge of honor 😂 and in a word way is disrespectful to every family
Fascinating. Now I need one of these on the Family Guy/Simpsons back and forth.
Great vid as always. Cheers
I always sympathise with Bush in the episode when he moves to Evergreen Tce. He was grumpy, but Bart was more of a brat than ever in that episode!
I gotta admit though, Homer really is a terrible role-model. I grew up with him and now I'm a fat, lazy drunk!
I think the golden era was from 1991 to like 2005
Simpsons should make fun of more war criminals
😂😂
Don't forget the son of a drug lord!
The feud might explain why the Simpson's connection to their church activities was less and less apparent
And seeing as I've already accomplished everything I set out to do in my first term, there was no need for a second. The... End...
I just clicked on this video because it was in my recommended. Then it starts out with Hookah Bar playing as background music and pulls me in because of the familiarity, due to it being a song on of my favourite RUclipsrs has used a lot in the past.
Had no idea George Bush vomited on the Japanese prime minister. Lmao
Funnily enough, I saw the Two Bad Neighbors episode on FX while onboard the USS George H.W. Bush. I am surprised they did bring up the bit where he bailed on his crew in WW2 without even checking to see if they were still alive.
"Family Values" Now we know what that means.
“Living our lives to serve an exceptional man.” Damn, find yourself a Marge.
Don't start a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel load.
I bet W has a box set.
This makes me feel old.
It wasn't Barbara who started beef with The Simpsons, it was the people behind the show getting so butthurt they sent a crybaby letter and couldn't even put their own names on it. All over an old ladies opinion, which basically amounted to "it's not for me". lmao
Evangelicals. L Brent bozell and those wackos. The same ones that went after married with children and beavis and butthead.
no troll
I guess you say he’s breaking up the wrong bush
Let's be real Bart deserved to be spanked by President Bush.
I really enjoyed this video.
11:44 I always remember how in civ 5 dan Quayle was the lowest rank you could get
These days I doubt the show has the teeth to get under leader's skin.
Simpler times......
i feel like im one click away from finding out this guy loves ronald reagan and hoobastank
I am confounded about the leaps made for that conclusion and welcome the explaination that makes that make sense to my accidental ludite mind, which is riddled with the inequities of constantly being a decade or 2 behind the modern world. I was a wee baby when Reagan was prez and almost a man when Hoobastank had that one hit. What the heck do those 2 things have in common?
Bushes were fighting a cartoon?
Leave it Crowley's daughter to start a war with a cartoon, lol. Having a dead baby in a jar is just fine, but cartoons....oh gawd!!!
I like Marge's letter to Barbara Bush 6:😂 I don't understand why George Bush hated the show so much.
Much like the Griffin family from Family Guy having a feud with Donald Trump.
AH. AH. AH. AH.
TABLE FIVE. TABLE FIVE.
4:46 What's up with that font? Just a common one for the time?
The Simpsons went pretty easy on him compared to how evil he was
Ugh
Grow up
The guy bailed on his crew in WW2 without even checking to see if they were even dead.
TIL: That George HW Bush DIDN'T actually express astonishment at a simple supermarket scanner in the 90s. I saw that old, distorted news coverage and assumed it to be true. The truth wouldn't have changed my vote, but still...
Did Nixon live to see himself portrayed on Futurama tho?
Nope, he died in 1994.
@@raywallacefan7786 😥
It’s funny cuz I’ve literally been rewatching the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons recently and I just saw the episode where George and Barbara move across the street from them.
I hate the Bushes and love the Simpsons, but they had it coming. Getting angry at GHB aying Americans should be less like the Simpsons is so stupid, that's the point of the Simpsons, that you WOULDN'T want to be like them.
"a lot more like the Waltons and less like The Simpsons" is just such a boring ass, buzzkill of a line. Whoever wrote that speech should be fired.
Bush was right... People should not strive to be like the Simpsons, at all (or the Bundys)... I don't think Groening ever intended the Simpsons to be something to strive for; but, unfortunately, children DO emulate what they see. I was a child when the Simpsons took off, and kids absolutely did emulate Bart Simpson.
Granted, the Bush family are not exactly the pinnacle of a
role model family themselves.
@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 They may not be, internally, but the face they presented was... and that's really all that's important in this context.
@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 Especially H.W. The guy bailed from his plane without even checking to see if his crew was alive.
I had no idea there was an actual "feud" with the Bushes. I figured they were making fun of him because of the way he talked lol..
Yes me and Homer been rivals for years
Look who got the last laugh. Ha! Buck fush.
Lore of The Simpsons' Long-Running Feud with The Bush Family Explained momentum 100
18:56 LOL
Really? Presidents aren't allowed to openly dislike a TV show?
I think the statements were just light hearted jokes based on a gamble that the show would never become as popular as it ended up being.
After watching so much of the Simpsons commentary tracks on the DVD sets, one thing I have learned is the writers of the show have THE THINNEST SKIN when it comes to criticism and their own self worth, because I kid you not, they are constantly going on about how brilliant they are and when its an episode with any degree of backlash they all get extremely defensive (Groaning too but he is the only one of the group who seems more willing to admit fault in his judgements) especially Matt Selman and as a result, the writers often directly attack the fans through Comic book guy + Poochie, they attack critics through snide call backs to Armin Tamzarian and Who Should have shot Mr burns, and of course, starting a petty feud with the president both contemporary and former over his wife not liking the show. The shows writers have always had a very childish "if your not with us, your against us" attitude towards constructive criticism and it sucks that some of the funniest writers in this world have the fattest heads as a result of it
Conan O'Brien seemed pretty cool, but he didn't work there long. John Swartzwelder didn't appear on any of the commentary tracks of the editions I have that he wrote on, but everyone seemed to hold that lolbert in a positive light. I'd have loved to hear his take on shit.
@@MaynardCrow yes, that's a really good point, I should state that not EVERY Simpsons writer came off as childishly egotistic, Conan for the handful of times he did commentary was more keen to yuk it up over the good times on the show and the pressure he went through when was still doing the Simpsons when he was offered the Tonight Show and Swartzwelder got tricked to do commentary over the phone briefly (I think it was the Cartridge family episode) and he seemed pretty even keeled though that might have been because he was busy grilling a steak XD. But yeah, the main writers of the show were all very keen on fluffing their egos and rationalizing why the fans are dumb for criticizing anything, constructive or otherwise
LOL no they don't, some of the nerds criticizing the show back in the 90s were really obnoxious nitpickers, read some of the old episodes capsules on the website SNPP and you'll see what I mean, especially that loser Matthew Kurtz who took the Poochie episode absurdly personally with one of the most pathetic simpering rants i've ever read in the history of the internet which only validated the writers points.
It's not childish at all, if you had to deal with obnoxious fanboys screaming "worst episode ever!" for years(which Comic Book Guy was a parody of) you'd get sick of them too.
The Armin and Mr Burns jokes felt more like self-deprecating humor then actual jabs at fans. At least it's not dedicating entire episodes to mocking fans like Teen Titans Go did with The Fourth Wall and Return of Slade which were both basically huge middle fingers to fans of the original show.
@@Gojiro7 if you actually read some of the old "reviews" fans did in the 90s you'd see why the writers are that way, some of those fans sure were entitled whiny jackasses.
@@jadedheartsz I get that some of the fans really were that obnoxious and very hateable to wanna poke fun at, but were not talking about Snowflake fan fiction writers getting in twitter beefs with their detractors, were talking about Grown men within their profession who went the extra mile on several occasions to vent their frustration at a few bad apples even if it means giving the middle finger to everyone in the process (including the president). I can't say from experience on the old simpson reviews of their time, I'll take your word that they were utter cringe that made fans looked bad, but I still expect better from professionals to not act like butt hurt children over it, ontop of how they act in regards of fanning their own egos which they A LOT in the commentary tracks (some more then others)
Man the simpsons was probably my fav show especially in the early 10s or 2012? Or 2011 to 2013s particularly
I don't mean to be rude... your videos on the Simpsons are cool and interesting... but there is one thing you could work on... and that is using a proper full-stop to finish each sentence... because right now your narration sounds like this comment reads...
Perhaps if they had done a better job of pointing out the real crimes of the Bush's and Raygun, I might have watched the show?🤔
George H.W. Bush should leave The Simpsons alone in the first place.
Poor bush his wife started a duel that he didn’t wanted to be in there
Barbara didn't type that letter.
"no one turners" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ok, straight away I recognized your voice from Balludicrous, and more or less straight away, I again noticed your somewhat unusual pronunciation of certain words... What part of the US are you from, my man?
Where did you get the audio for those letter reads? I would think it was ai but ai isn’t that good
Bush- The Wimp...
Bush lost to Clinton because he started a beef with the Simpsons
6:35 Why did you bother editing about 2 seconds out of this clip? It doesnt shorten it that much.
why did the intro say the dumbest thing
It's always wives that screw things up for the husband
7:15 how many presidents were still alive then? Regan was but what about Nixon? Was Ford still alive? I Kennedy was murdered and Johnson died a few years after being president. Where any of the pre Kennedy ones still alive? Surely not
Jimmy carter
@@coypandora0795 cool I take it all the pre Kennedy presidents where dead
Was W ever in the simpsons? I mostly quit watching by about season 10
The loud jazz music ruins this.
They also got W a few times too.
Did they? I really didn't keep track of the show after all the good writers left. Probably about a decade and a half into the show is when it became unwatchable.
@@MaynardCrow LOL "unwatchable" my ass, the show has never had a truly bad season. I've seen every episode but can't remember if they featured a cartoon version of him, Bart Mangled Banner however did directly go after the Patriot Act(and rightfully so)and did feature an expy of Tucker Carlson in Nastor Cash, which has helped the episode age well since Carlson is more well known now then he was back then.
@@jadedheartsz I'm not anywhere near the most elitist fans, however, I'd propose a more gentle assessment of the timeline that sets the tapering off point into complete trash about season 10. Anyone saying season 20 is as good as season 5 has bad taste, regardless of how subjective taste is.
@@MaynardCrow you don't have a clue what you are saying. That's about as elitist as you can get.
I think they should have addressed criticism the way Family Guy and Teen Titans Go does. Poke fun at the haters and be self deprecating. The way they went about it feels egotistical.
disagree