Lil' Bush - Resident of United States - Season One

The animated series Lil' Bush isn't the first television comedy to center its gags on the words and deeds of George W.

Bush's presidency (that distinction belongs to Trey Parker and Matt Stone's short-lived That's My Bush!), but its premise, which envisions Bush and his cabinet as ill-mannered grade schoolers, enlivens its broad comic approach.

Creator Donick Cary (who also voices the unintelligible and bloodthirsty Lil' Cheney) spins his kid-sized Bush staff according to popular opinion about their personalities--Lil' Bush is dense but craft, Lil' Condi pines for Bush, Lil' Rummy (voiced by Iggy Pop, of all people) is the scapegoat for their misadventures, and so on-- and the 30-minute episodes manage to skewer not only the Bush administration but American politics as a whole (the Clintons, Barack Obama, and Al Gore are not immune to Cary's hazing), toss about pop culture references and gross-out jokes and even squeeze in a musical number (by the Lil' Bush band).