Garrison now the spray-tanned winner of the Presidential election, the show offers little optimism about the incoming regime. There’s still hope though – South Park’s writers were caught off guard enough by the result that their post-election episode “The Very First Gentleman” had to be rewritten (and renamed “Oh Jeez”) after initially predicting a Clinton victory. John O’Farrell, writer of Spitting Image, described in a Guardian interview last month how satire now seems to pale in comparison to the reality of modern politicians. The bezel between the screen and reality appears to be narrowing. From Bart to the Future to Back to the Future Part II: last year writer Bob Gale confirmed to the The Daily Beast that the film’s antagonist, casino mogul Biff Tannen, whose reach into the Republican Party eventually brings him his own political power, was indeed based on Trump. Worryingly, this is not the only example of film and television elevating Trump to the Oval Office ahead of time. In a vision granted to him by a Native American casino manager, Bart sees his sister Lisa become President, and she warns her team of the state of things with disturbing prescience: “As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.” Now the plot seems almost idealistic.īack in 2000, The Simpsons offered an irreverent warning for the political future.
This is reality.” Co-creator Charlie Brooker initially worried that 2013 episode “The Waldo Moment,” which shows a cartoon bear’s rise to political prominence, hadn’t quite hit the mark.
“This isn’t an episode,” they tweeted, “This isn’t marketing. Last week, Black Mirror’s creators took to Twitter to deny rumours that the American election was merely an extension of the show.
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