Season: 3
Episode: Tapping a Hero
Length: 2:01
Cast: Seth Green (George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Ching Chong, Gremlins, Jenna Bush), Breckin Meyer (Barbara Pierce Bush, Advisor), Chad Morgan (Laura Bush)
Characters: George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Jenna Bush, Barbara Pierce Bush, Dick Cheney, "Froot-loop"
Segment Summary: Surely the President of the United States can be trusted to properly care for a Mogwai...right?
Themes: Animals, Death, Film, Food & Drink, Games, Monsters, Nudity, Politics, Sexuality, Television, Bleeped
Allusions:
- This segment is a parody of the film Gremlins.
- Bush mentions the name of TV's Pants-Off Dance-Off.
- Upon hearing the title Armageddon, Bush proclaims his love for the film.
- The "piss on a spark plug" line is taken from the film WarGames.
Trivia / Info:
- This episode has one of the most unusual censorships when bleeping out "Jesus" in the sentence "Sweet baby Jesus" - given that the practice of the words "Jesus" and "Christ" as an oath being bleeped had been phased out by the beginning of Season 3. This instance of these words being bleeped occurred only three times more in the sketches In Memoriam, It's the Gifts That I Hate, and The Cabbage Patch, and as of now, has never happened again.
Goofs / Nitpicks:
- Sunlight kills Gremlins in the movie, yet they are in it various times.
- Gizmos care taker in the gremlins films was Sam wing, ching Chong has no resemblance to Sam
- Gizmos caretaker passed away off screen in “gremlins 2 the new batch” with Billy taking over that role.
- The whole sketch just screams “we only made two normal gremlin puppets”
- George refers to gizmo as a gremlin when in reality he’s a Mogwai.
- Gizmo spawned six Mogwai and only three of them appear as gremlins, one of them being stripe.
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