Post by lonelyfart on Feb 5, 2023 22:13:42 GMT
Hi! First time posting here, hope this is all the right section for this. I've been on and off looking for a MTV that was about a Captain America-esque superhero murdering George W. Bush. I have not found any info regarding it whenever I google it, and I've posted about it on various other forums to no avail, so I was wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction before I take a more intensive search.
From my recollection, the short looked really well animated. The basic synopsis was that there was some sort of PR event in which the president and the aforementioned Superhero would walk onto stage and answer questions involving the Iraqi war (or possibly Afghan, I admit I'm not too well educated on this stuff.) However, the superhero instead walks onto stage, bloodied and gives the crowd a speech about how he had to kill the POTUS because the POTUS was a murderer responsible for countless deaths.
I believe the short aired between 2003-2007. I'm almost certain that it aired on MTV because at that time, me and my sisters would watch MTV together. Embarrassingly, I just now realized it may've been a music video instead of a traditional short, but the animation I recall didn't include any noticeable music. I guess it could also be VH1, who was running an animated anthology program during called VH1 ILL-ustrated the time I mentioned, however, I distinctly remember the animation being of a higher quality. The short I remember also seemed to be more dramatic and thoughtful whereas VH1 ILL-ustrated seems to more raw comedy.
I don't think I saw the full version, but rather an advertisement or even a 'retrospective' on it, because it seemed to cut from the animation to talking heads discussing the work, meaning if it exists, it might be older than when I watched it, or perhaps never finished.
IF it helps, I was living in North Carolina at the time. My family went through severe periods of poverty so there were entire years when we didn't have cable, 2005-2007 was when we were at our most stable within the relevant years so it may've been specifically in that time.
Hope this was easy to follow. I unfortunately have no hard proof but I was hoping someone here may've remembered a similar production.
From my recollection, the short looked really well animated. The basic synopsis was that there was some sort of PR event in which the president and the aforementioned Superhero would walk onto stage and answer questions involving the Iraqi war (or possibly Afghan, I admit I'm not too well educated on this stuff.) However, the superhero instead walks onto stage, bloodied and gives the crowd a speech about how he had to kill the POTUS because the POTUS was a murderer responsible for countless deaths.
I believe the short aired between 2003-2007. I'm almost certain that it aired on MTV because at that time, me and my sisters would watch MTV together. Embarrassingly, I just now realized it may've been a music video instead of a traditional short, but the animation I recall didn't include any noticeable music. I guess it could also be VH1, who was running an animated anthology program during called VH1 ILL-ustrated the time I mentioned, however, I distinctly remember the animation being of a higher quality. The short I remember also seemed to be more dramatic and thoughtful whereas VH1 ILL-ustrated seems to more raw comedy.
I don't think I saw the full version, but rather an advertisement or even a 'retrospective' on it, because it seemed to cut from the animation to talking heads discussing the work, meaning if it exists, it might be older than when I watched it, or perhaps never finished.
IF it helps, I was living in North Carolina at the time. My family went through severe periods of poverty so there were entire years when we didn't have cable, 2005-2007 was when we were at our most stable within the relevant years so it may've been specifically in that time.
Hope this was easy to follow. I unfortunately have no hard proof but I was hoping someone here may've remembered a similar production.
